An End-Run Around Congress…

by MyBaconPress

To be clear, I have NOT been elected speaker for the left. But many on that side of the aisle don’t really trust the response we’re seeing from Trump. He’s too…calm. I’ve never met the guy, but from what I know of him from his public behavior historically, something ain’t right. The Demented Don simply does not accept defeat with grace and dignity. I’m not sure it’s possible for him, lacking all grace and dignity.

What we’re used to is screaming, yelling, crying, and whining that the elections were “rigged.” Somebody somewhere is always out to get this guy in his own twisted mind. What we’re used to is him rushing soon-to-be-disbarred “lawyers” into courts trying to get the courts to overturn the election just because he doesn’t like the results. What we’re used to is him whipping his supporters into a frenzy of hatred and fear and then siccing them on the Congress. What we’re used to is poor form from a sore loser. And what a loser he is.

He DID go through a day or two where he looked shell-shocked. One could almost see him realizing his new situation in real time. Instead of whining, crying, or attacking Congress, Our National Shame turned his full attention to his decorating projects. People complain about that but I’d rather he spend his days working on color swatches. At least he’s doing less harm, and we can undo anything he does.

But then the social media posts started trickling in. The anger became apparent. Susie Wiley was out, replaced by the evil Stephen Miller. Reports came in that he’s angry with Whiskey Pete, too. Based on everything I’ve seen, something is definitely afoot. We’re not out of this yet. But what’s left?

Decrees and proclamations. Ruling without mandate or law. Seizing power, sidelining Congress, and just trying to dictate, the way dictators do. The thinking is, Democrats in Congress don’t have enough power to override his vetoes, so Congress won’t be able to get anything done. For certain things, maybe most things, that may be the case.

But it might also be the case that when he tries to do an end-run around Congress, Congress can flex it’s long-unused muscles and push back. It might even prove to be true that when he tries to seize power some Republicans will join Democrats in overriding vetoes. Particularly in the House, many of his loyalists and the candidates of his preference lost. They’ll be replaced by Democrats. The Republicans that are left? Those are largely the Republicans that never quite went to the MAGA extreme.

It’s been easy to lose sight of the fact, but there are Republicans that still love America more than they love the Drumpfster. More importantly, Trump doesn’t have nearly as much pull as he used to. He’s a lame duck. Republicans who went along to get along won’t necessarily have to do that anymore. It’s not a bridge too far to think some Republicans will cross the aisle and work with Democrats if Trump starts trying to take more than he has a right to.

But all of that means the fight continues. The country dodged a bullet with this last election but if Trump has his way, more bullets will follow. It reminds me of the scene in which a prospective sheriff sees a dent in the tin star and says, “This looks like it saved someone’s life.” The response? “Well, it sure would have, if it hadn’t been for all of those other bullets coming in.” The mid-term was the tin star. Now we have to wait and see what additional bullets Trump has in store. But the Congress CAN respond and I think they will, for a change…

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Now President Pedo is saying he was only kidding about naming UFC’s Dana White to the job of Press Secretary. It says something that he’s been saying such outrageous things for so long, nobody knows when he’s serious anymore and when he’s only joking. In fairness, I’m not sure HE knows when he’s serious anymore and when he’s joking…

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When the Democrats take control of Congress, I hope they’ll at least take a look at the idea of impeaching Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and John Roberts. I know the Dems don’t intend to impeach too many of the Drumpfster’s failure appointees, nor even Trump, himself. But these “Justices” have been allegedly taking huge bribes to rule badly and have done, over and over. Left alone, they WILL do it more.

If the Dems do decide to protect the court by removing the most dishonest, corrupt members, it will be important for them to observe the McConnell Rule. You remember. That’s the one where the majority party decides, randomly, that it’s “too close to an election” to seat a replacement, unless the replacement aligns with your own views. That’s the one that says the Congress won’t even hold a hearing for a nominee that doesn’t align with their own values. I can’t say if what went around will go around again. But it should…

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I asked AI to define a persecution complex. This is the response I received: “A persecution complex is a psychological state in which someone feels, without valid reason, that others are trying to harm them. It is often linked to delusional disorders and can lead to distress or dysfunction in daily life.” That’s an awful lot of words when one could just say, “MAGA” and have done with it.

These guys always think someone is out to get them. Usually, that’s not the case. It’s not entirely their fault. Conservative media feeds them that drivel every single day. It’s no wonder they’re deceived. But I’m here to tell you right now, when the Dems start investigating corrupt members of the GOP, it won’t be a witch hunt. Sure, it will be CALLED a witch hunt, but that’s just the persecution complex talking. It turns out, one cannot go around disregarding the law and never have anybody take a closer look.

For any interested parties out there, an investigation that leads to charges that do NOT get thrown out by corrupt judges – I’m looking at YOU Aileen Cannon – is usually based in factual evidence that can be supported in court. A random assertion that worms it’s way into a courtroom only to be summarily dismissed due to the lack of any supporting evidence whatsoever? Political hit job.

That’s why none of the trumped up charges against people 47 doesn’t like have stuck – AND why he knows he’s facing charges that WILL stand up in court after his term ends. It’s WHY he intends to try and pardon himself. He’s a criminal and he knows it, even if MAGA doesn’t. Imagine how bad it’s going to be if the Trump/Epstein files that were improperly redacted to protect him get released with proper redactions, showing him to be the monster he is…

Dumbass (with a ‘b’)…

by MyBaconPress

This morning, I think we need to start with this. Our National Shame has asked Dana White to serve as White House Press Secretary. Dana White is the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the group that staged a cage match at the White House because… classy. The Dotard wants White because White is “a violent Fighter and Warrior.”

Demented Donald also asked White to bring six UFC fighters to serve as press aides. He thinks he needs them to – Donny’s words – “defend us against the Lunatic Left.” Apparently, a reporter asks a question someone in the regime doesn’t like and goons pounce on the reporter and kick the ever-lovin’ crap out of them. Is that the vision?

I haven’t heard that White has any special qualifications for the job beyond maybe being able to beat people up – a skill that has not been needed in the briefing room in the past. Desired, from time to time, sure – but not needed. If he takes the job, his tenure might well challenge the longevity record of Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted ten days, or Katie Zacharia, who could only manage five.

Many people don’t think White will take the job. First, what kind of rats jump ONTO a sinking ship? Also, he has a VERY lucrative position with the UFC. Why would he leave that for a job that pays $195,000 a year? By the way, did you know the Press Secretary makes $195,000 dollars a year? Of course, I couldn’t even guess at the grift amounts White might take. Then again, we know the Democrats intend to impose oversight in a way the GOP simply refused to do.

Really, it’s classic Dumbass (with a ‘b’). Qualifications never seem important to the Drumpfster. He surrounds himself with people he admires on television, making him just as gullible as the people who admire him because he was on TV. He chooses people based on how well they pretend to like him. Donny’s ego won’t let him see that nobody who knows him likes him – they pander to him. They want to exploit his weaknesses, and this dude is nothing but quivering weakness…

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Okay, so the left got it’s much needed “revolution” against the rising tides of fascism and now control Congress. Well, they will in a couple of months. (More on that in a moment.) Now I think we need a second revolution – this one in the ranks of the Democrats. The Old Guard Democrats – heavy emphasis on the “old” part – intend to remain in the leadership positions.

Bear in mind, this is the same crowd that confidently led Democrats to obscurity for most of the last 10 years or so. When they DID run things, they didn’t do a very impressive job. Chuck Schumer might be a skilled politician, but he’s not a very inspirational guy. He wants to continue in his leadership role as Senate Majority Leader. Others are not so sure. I think I’m with ‘others.’

Democrats need new, effective leadership. The Old Guard plays it safe far too often. I feel like I’m watching a remake of a movie I’ve seen before. The Dems are all giddy about their awesome win – and it was awesome – but they don’t seem aware that they (Democrats) were the only available option to the insanity and criminal behavior from the White House. Once again, people mostly did NOT vote FOR the Democrats. They voted against the GOP and the Dumbass (with a ‘b’).

It’s rather an important distinction. If the Dems had been doing things well, people wouldn’t be so frustrated with them. In several places, people didn’t elect Democrats, they elected Democratic Socialists. The masses are looking for people to do things that help work-a-day Americans, not the filthy rich. Establishment Democrats, DO, occasionally, do things to help work-a-day Joes, but only if such help doesn’t inconvenience their One Percent paymasters.

I’m ready for a youth movement. ‘Youth,’ in this case, indicating people up to forty or fifty years old. It’s all relative. Our current leadership runs closer to seventy and eighty years old. Their thinking is seventy to eighty years old, too. That’s not their fault. That’s just what happens when one doesn’t die. But this is a new world and younger people are more qualified to understand it. Sure, keep the elder statesmen around for experience, wisdom, and guidance, but let the younger people have a chance.

The Old Guard has not be inspirational, nor have they been particularly effective. Dems only seem to win when people just can’t stand the GOP anymore. That’s not, “We love you.” That’s, “RATS! Oh, alright.” That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement – and you just KNOW the person who settled keeps looking for a better opportunity. Let’s try something different, k? It would be hard for the Democrat’s esteem to tank much further, so there’s really nothing to lose…

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I saw some video the day after the mid-terms. It consisted of cons insisting that with the Dems winning Congress on November 3rd, the price of gas should be down by November 4th. Now how silly is that? Dems don’t even get seated until January 3rd, assuming cons don’t stage another insurrection. Even when they do, they’re not going to have much power to change certain things.

The price of gas at the pump is up because of two things: Donny’s moronic war in Iran and corporate greed. Congress CAN address the gouging, but they don’t have much power over the war. They control the purse strings, yes. But the game is this: the President (or in this case, Trump) sends the troops into a war zone and then DARES Congress to withhold funding, leaving the troops in danger and exposed.

Whoever controls Congress, Democrat or Republican, folds right away because they can all see the future campaign ads where they’re accused of turning their backs on the troops. The concept that they were actually trying to get the troops out of harm’s way completely is just too nuanced for FAR too many Americans, a sad commentary on the intelligence of FAR too many Americans.

So what Congress has left is inquiries and investigations. Inquiries and investigations tend to be slow moving obstructions at best. The GOP had a unified government and used it to quickly destroy the US in pretty much every area anyone can think of. Now the country is operating under a divided government. Divided governments aren’t great at moving initiatives forward. Their primary strength is blocking unsavory things.

They’ll be able to interfere with the corruption and they’ll be able to investigate the activities of the Trump Crime Family, possibly putting an end to it – or at least slowing it down. They will not be able to legislate any large, sweeping corrections so long as the Dumbass (with a ‘b’) infests the Oval Office, so temper your expectations…

Blocking Paths…

by MyBaconPress

Whew. This is one of those days when it’s very, very good that the stock market is not the economy. The Dow plunged 1,800 points on Thursday and another 237 points on Friday. Official word is that a good jobs report means there won’t be any interest rate cuts any time soon. I tend to doubt the official stories. Corporations have been on a roll since 47 took office, gouging hell out of their customers. Now that the Dems are coming back, corporations will, likely, have to stop doing that so much.

More importantly, the Artificial Intelligence boom has been making great – and greatly dangerous – strides with no government intervention or oversight. Theses AI data centers were very likely to go forward with little to no intervention from the government. Locals are a different story, but the government wasn’t going to be a problem. Then the bought-and-paid-for Republicans got swept aside in an historic election. Now? Likely oversight. Likely controls. Likely, the AI data centers don’t move forward quite so easily. I suspect that has FAR more to do with the impending oversight than the jobs report…

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I think his focus has been wrong for a long time, but ever since the mid-terms, The Drumpfster has thrown himself into his work. No, not his job, don’t be ridiculous. His design work. I think he’s terrible at it. I mean, really terrible, but he seems to love it. He certainly loves doing that far more than he cares about doing his actual job. Now that he’s made his horrific and gaudy changes to the White House, he’s trying to sign a proclamation declaring future changes off limits.

Ironic, isn’t it? NOW he thinks the White House is a landmark and he doesn’t want anybody to do to it what HE did to it – just when it most needs someone to do something. More accurately, he doesn’t want anybody to UNDO what he did to it. He wants his proclamation to ensure that the West Wing rooms would not be “touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape. I just thought it was very important that nobody be allowed to come and take it down and try and do something with it,” he said.

Yeah, Dumbass, that’s how WE all felt about the East Wing and, frankly, I MUCH preferred the Oval Office without all the gold-painted baubles glued to the walls. It doesn’t look “real classy-like.” It looks garish. Specifically, it’s what a tacky person thinks classy looks like. Do you know he has spent at least $1.6 billion of our tax dollars on his fever dream renovations? And now he means to force every subsequent President to work in that environment, so he signed a proclamation. Fortunately, future Presidents can sign proclamations, too…

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It looks at though production of the Tesla Cybertruck is coming to an end. You know the Cybertruck. They look like self-propelled dumpsters and they’re rolling crematoriums, as likely to lock you inside the burning vehicle in an accident as get you from point A to point B. AND, you get to pay six figures just to be thought a douche by all of your neighbors and anybody else who ever sees you driving one. Good riddance…

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On Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom, in one of his final acts as Governor, commuted the death sentences of 548 people in California to life sentences without parole. Meanwhile, Floriduh, Alabama, and Indiana each killed someone on the same day. Quite the contrast…

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It looks like the shock of his stunning rebuke is passing and his natural, basic tendencies are about to come out all over everybody. Trump is nothing but anger and revenge and I suspect he’s eager to show us what punishment we deserve for voting against him. To that end, he has removed Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff and replaced her with Stephen Miller, the Nosferatu of our time. Apparently, nobody but the Dumbass (and a few MAGA) likes that choice.

Miller gets the blame for creating the immigration mess. He’s also an author of Project 2025, which has proved to be a national blueprint for treason. You would not be surprised to hear that the Democrats have blasted the move, nor that the few remaining MAGA think it’s a great idea. You might be MORE surprised to hear that many Republicans think it’s yet another in a long line of dangerously bad moves.

Things are going to get ugly with Miller as Chief of Staff. There will be no voices for restraint, however mild, remaining. That part is definitely going to suck. On the other hand, with no restraint, it’s most likely we’ll see the true Trump – the deeply corrupted, deeply furious, deeply, deeply damaged Trump – in the upcoming months. Even MAGA might not be able to ignore all of that.

But even with Team Evil becoming Team More Evil, the Democrats finally have the power to interfere with his program and I suspect they’ll use it. At this point, I don’t think they plan to impeach Trump, and they don’t have the votes to do it. They would need some Republicans to cross the aisle. But as Team More Evil gets rolling, some Republicans might well agree the need is real…

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I read a story this morning about a woman named Carolyn Marvin. She’s a semi-retired professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Like me, she has concerns about the rapid, seemingly unrestrained rollout of Artificial Intelligence (AI). She expresses her concerns by standing in front of food delivery robots to disrupt their deliveries in Philadelphia. It’s something of an avocation for her.

I’m not sure how to feel about that. It’s a protest against AI. I’m okay with protesting, but I don’t understand the protest. I’m not sure what it accomplishes except that somebody, somewhere, is left wondering where their lunch is. By the time she gets out of the way and the food shows up, it’s cold.

I guess it’s about job loss. If a robot delivers your food, a human doesn’t. The human was getting paid. The robot does not. It’s something of a Luddite movement. The Luddites were a 19th century protest against at-the-time modern machinery that was taking people’s jobs. The word has since become synonymous with people who aren’t comfortable with modern technology, but at the time, the Luddites broke up the machines they despised.

The machines took hold anyway. Some “advances” just can’t be stopped. I suspect automated food delivery is one of those. People keep acting surprised as we find other, new areas where AI and robotics are putting people out of work. Low paid, menial tasks are the low-hanging fruit of the work world but as AI replaces white collar jobs – like what’s happening at Microsuck with 20,000 jobs right now – people are starting to take notice with a bit more focus.

In some cases, jobs nobody has even conceived of yet will show up. Robot repairman, anyone? In most cases, more and more people are going to be idled. Do you know what makes up a national economy? It sure as shootin’ ain’t the Dow. In simplest terms, it’s your spending and mine. My spending is your income and vice-versa. As more and more workers are idled due to AI and robotics, who’s left to spend? What will that mean to the economy?

Professor Marvin is having a private little battle against that circling-of-the-drain failure but she’s going to lose. People will embrace the convenience and won’t much care about HOW the food is delivered. But for now, it’s kind of fun to see her standing in front of the robots, blocking their paths…

It Shall Be Hope…

by MyBaconPress

By now you’ve heard. The Democrats took back control of Congress. The House looked like a sure thing. The Senate was more of a long-shot. But then? Oh, MAN did the blue votes just keep coming. The House flipped. The Senate flipped. Lovely. Then we started hearing about down ballot races. Texas flipped! The Governor. The newest Senator. The state house. The only Republican national politician left in Texas is Ted Cruz. Red candidates in deep red states were defeated by blue candidates across the land.

James Talarico won. Abdul El-Sayed won. Amy Acton won. Those three were particularly satisfying, after all the garbage the GOP spewed at them. I was equally pleased that some of the worst cons lost. Susan Collins lost. She’s been a soft-spoken nightmare for humanity. I enjoyed all of those developments and from my interactions with people yesterday, I wasn’t alone. My favorite bit? Donald Trump lost. Remember? He told us to pretend he was on the ballot. Oh, we did, Donny. (You didn’t even really have to tell us.) We looked at the ballot, saw Trump, looked at the wreckage he caused (and is), and said, “No more!”

It was part of his stump speech. “Pretend I’m on the ballot because, in a way, I am!” He knew, and in an exceedingly rare moment, I agree with him. He WAS on the ballot even if his name didn’t appear. Then, after the loss, suddenly he was sure he wasn’t the cause because his name wasn’t on the ballot. The drubbing was so complete the GOP has little left but blame and finger-pointing. Hey, GOP, I can make this simple for you: you’ve behaved as terrible human beings and you finally pissed off enough decent Americans that even your gerrymandering games couldn’t stop Team Blue.

Congress can reassert itself. Much of what Trump has gotten away with has happened because Congress simply refused to stand up for itself. The GOP just let 47 steal their powers and MAGA Mike, the Johnson didn’t care. He never lifted a finger to stop Trump. When people asked him about some of the more egregious outrages, Johnson’s position was always “Oh, I haven’t heard about that.” Third in line for the White House and Johnson knew nothing. Ever. Except, we all know he did. He just was not inclined to do anything about it. But this Congress? I expect them to take their power back.

Votes are still being counted, as of this writing. It doesn’t look like the Dems will have enough power in Congress to impeach Trump unless some of the remaining cons cross the aisle. In fact, I doubt they’ll impeach anybody. Trump still gets to name people to those posts and he’s an incompetent who surrounds himself with incompetents. Getting rid of, say, Pete Hegseth or JFK, Jr won’t fix anything. Trump will just find another brain-dead moron to do his bidding. The Senate won’t confirm anymore rubber-stamp fools, but that means the job is left vacant or with an “acting” director, which could be worse.

Congress controls the purse strings. Maybe the Dems can force an end to Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Maybe they can stop him from diverting money authorized for various things into his pockets instead. Trump diverted $6 billion dollars from the Pentagon to his stupid wall. Congress can claw that back. Not for the Pentagon. They clearly don’t need it. Maybe we can put it toward helping people rather than killing them, instead.

There’s another fight that’s been raging that can be settled now that Congress isn’t made up of spineless cowards toadying up to The Pedo President. Congress can complete the release of the Trump/Epstein files. You know the ones. Those are the files that were improperly redacted to protect Trump. Let’s see those. Let’s show the world exactly who Donald J. Trump really is.

Trump said on Fox Not-News that he would accept the results of the election. We’ll see. But that’s what he said. Then, naturally, he started blaming everyone but himself. It’s fair to say this was a referendum on the GOP in general, but it was much more focused on Trump. It’s not honest to say he’s the only reason for the blue wave, but he’s certainly the primary reason for it – and he simply can NOT accept that. The day after the election, all he was willing to talk about was his stupid ballroom. He looks shell-shocked. He reminded me of a person who has lost a loved one, as that person realizes, in stages, what’s going to change in their lives.

We do need to temper our expectations about what the Dems can do and exactly how much. For one thing, 47 has already indicated he plans to veto any legislation the Congress passes and the Dems don’t have a veto-proof majority. Not quite. It will only take a handful of Republicans to flip, though, so some things might get done. The strength right now, though? Stopping him. Investigate all of that corruption, especially from his family. Publicize it. Shine a light on it.

There’s going to be a lot of talk about Musk spending half a billion dollars in an effort to buy the election and losing anyway. “See? Money doesn’t influence politics,” we’ll be told. But it does. It absolutely does and it needs to be eliminated from American elections. It didn’t THIS time, but look how close we had to come to the brink, how furious the electorate had to get, and honestly, how despicable the GOP candidates themselves had become, to beat the money.

Speaking of money, did you notice? Gas prices have already started dropping a bit. I accept that the vast majority of the costs have been the result of Trump’s monstrous, disastrous choices in Iran. But if you think the corporations didn’t avail themselves of an opportunity – just because – you don’t know the free market. Gouging is the name of the game. Trump just agreed not to do anything about it. So the war caused some increase in the price, but corporate greed caused the rest. Blue hasn’t even been seated yet and already, improvement shown, however minimally.

I’ve heard some pundits suggesting this is the end of MAGA. It isn’t. Don’t fool yourself. Consider this: To this day, there are STILL Nazis running around and the racist Ku Klux Klan still has regular meetings. These dark-hearted, evil movements rarely go away once started. There’s always some dark-hearted son-of-a-bitch out there ready to embrace the worst impulses of humanity. MAGA may have been slapped down. It may be pushed to the fringes of political discourse. But it ain’t goin’ anywhere.

Still, I honestly don’t think it’s hyperbole to say this election was existential. If we hadn’t stopped the GOP, we most likely would not have survived as a nation to get another chance. The entire planet would have suffered that fate. Also, I’ve long understood that national Democrats are beholden to the same paymasters as the GOP. That, too, will limit the impact the Democrats can have. But for now, the Republic has done what it needed to do to give itself a chance.

Our choice was not between guaranteed nightmares or guaranteed success. It was between guaranteed nightmares and the hope of success. We still have a chance. I’m VERY happy to report, it shall be hope…

Trying to Buy The Election…

by MyBaconPress

What do you suppose Evil Musk is hoping to buy with his $446 million dollar “investment” into various Republican candidates? (You might want to remember that number for the next time you hear some con blowhard bitching about George Soros. Soros and Michael Bloomberg, combined, gave roughly $186.2 million…) After spending the last two years watching rampant corruption from politicians and policies that seem to benefit only the One Percent, and rich corporations gouging every penny they can out of your pockets, Musk likes what he sees. Musk benefits from the status quo.

Thanks to horrific rulings of the Way High Supremely Corrupt Court led by Cheat Justice John Roberts, Musk has put enough money into this campaign (so far) to fund a half dozen SpaceX rocket launches or buy thousands of his death-trap Cybertrucks – or a handful of well-placed politicians. Musk’s life is not my life nor yours. I’m pretty sure that what’s good for Musk is bad for me AND you.

After watching the abuses of those with vast fortunes, I’ve become quite clear that no person should have the wealth and/or power to buy an election despite the best efforts and intentions of the masses. Unregulated, so-called “free market” capitalism is literally on the verge of destroying our Democratic Republic…

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So, there’s yet another one. Trump is the ultimate loser, isn’t he? He lost again. He sued the Wall Street Journal because the Journal published his “card” to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein. You remember. He drew an outline of a young girl, then wrote sexually suggestive things inside and signed his name where her pubic hair will be when it grows in. Funny stuff, if you’re a pedophile.

Trump thought it would make him look bad if people thought that was real, so he declared it fake and sued the Journal for publishing it. Turns out, he was unable to support his lawsuit because the drawing IS real. And of COURSE the drawing is real. Trump is a pervert who regularly hangs around perverts. (No. Save it. I’m not saying EVERY person he associates with is a pervert.)

The judge has dismissed his case with prejudice. Sure, he can appeal this turkey, but he can never file it or amend it again. He lied, then tried to punish people for saying he lied. Donald Trump is a pervert and he can sue me for saying he’s a pervert, but the first thing I’m asking for in discovery is a deposition because he’s ALSO a coward and WILL NOT sit for depositions. He can’t. He’s a liar…

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Well, the election is upon us. In Michigan, a DINO (Democrat in name only) who ran against El-Sayed and lost in the primary, Haley Stevens, showed her pique by endorsing the Republican in the race. After her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers, The Dumbass invited her to join the Republican party. She should do it. I would hope the Democratic party would never support her again for anything after such a betrayal and the Republican party is the party of traitors and backstabbers anyway, so she’d fit right in. Don’t let the door hit you, Haley…

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I’ve already cast my ballot. I heard an election expert on the radio say that many Californians use mail-in ballots and hand-deliver them. Good. But she ALSO said that, for some reason, many Californians fill out their ballots, and then hang onto them until election day. Why the hell would anybody do that? There must be a reason. I just don’t see it. I get mine done and get it back. That leaves me time to “cure” any problems should something come up. It’s too late for all of that anyway, at this point. I just think it’s weird to hang on to them.

One reason, though, might be that one is vexed by some proposition or candidate. Take Proposition 40. I’ve spoken to people who don’t so much oppose Prop 40 as fear the unintended consequences. They support a wealth tax. Anybody not walking about in a zombie-like delusional state supports taxing the very rich more. They just prefer a national tax so there’s no place for the greedy rich to run to.

The fear is that the richest rich people will pull up stakes and flee to some other state. I’ve confessed the same concern in these pages, so I definitely get it. But the best evidence shows they don’t actually DO that. They threaten. They just don’t go. Mostly. Any that do? Well, they have to live in some other state. Ha, ha! (I don’t actually have anything against any other states. I’ve lived in some. But your climate doesn’t match California’s climate. Period.)

Prop 40 is currently leading in the polls but not by a landslide margin. It’ll be close. I voted for it. (Don’t tell anybody. It’s a secret ballot.) The thing about Prop 40 is not this election. The richest rich people are afraid Prop 40 might open the door to future, similar actions. They haven’t been paying their fair share for going on fifty years and they don’t want to start now.

It’s hard to blame them. People often don’t like giving up some benefit, even when they know the benefit they receive is unfair. But their failure to pay starves the government of much-needed resources and, I’m going to say this out loud, allows them to keep too much money – enough to buy and corrupt our government. That’s not speculation. Just look at our corrupted, bought-and-paid-for government. They’re not doing anything for you, but they do a LOT for the richest rich people and I’m pretty much over it. It’s time for the One Percent to participate…

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Bill Maher has a thing he does after his show. It’s called ‘Overtime.’ I’ve given up on Maher as he has moved further and further right, but I tuned in to an Overtime for old time sake. I heard Ted Cruz say that when James Talarico was asked about what he loves besides family and friends he said, “I love trans kids.” Maher looked at Cruz, surprised, and Cruz said, “He said it. You can look it up!”

I was sitting at a computer that supports multiple tabs. Cruz said I could look it up. So, I did. Guess what? That’s not what Talarico said! Talarico was saying he loves the bravery of the trans kids who came to the Capitol city to demand their rights. He loved their bravery. Cruz is a liar…

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So this is it. I’m consumed with, well, it’s not excitement so much as fearful anticipation. The next time I publish, we’ll either have a chance at saving our Constitutional Republic, or the Republicans will have successfully cheated their way back to power and the nation will be doomed. It’s going to be a hell of a fight. We all know the Democrats and progressives are coming out in force and there are FAR more of us than MAGA. Democrats will win the election. But the election is only the opening move to these clowns.

They will NOT accept their defeat in grace and concede. They’ll cry, whine, bitch, and moan about how they were cheated. That idiot infesting the Oval Office actually filed a lawsuit in Alaska claiming that if HIS candidate doesn’t win, the election shouldn’t count. The case was dismissed but that’s still his attitude. Republicans win, or it’s cheating.

They’ll have every claim in the book. We’ve all been watching as this thing approaches and we’ve SEEN the Republicans doing everything they can to rig the election in their favor. They’re going to do more. But it won’t matter how much cheating the Republicans actually do. They’ll just keep shouting about the Democrats, who don’t even need to cheat.

The biggest threat, now, is chicanery regarding seating the incoming Democrats. There can be no doubt the Republicans won’t want to seat winning Dems, and will do everything in their power to keep from doing that. Hopefully, the Dems are ready for that. It’s a complex scenario. It will take court battles and time to straighten it all out.

But the first step is voting. Get out there. Cast your ballot. Let’s bring a Blue Tsunami so there can be no question. (There will be anyway. Cons can always pretend ignorance.) I honestly believe, if we don’t stop this right now, with this election, we’ll never get the chance again. And remember, they’ve only completed 55% of Project 2025. As a nation, we literally cannot afford for Republicans to win…

Divine Retribution Or Superpower Suicide?

by MyBaconPress

This is kind of wild. I wrote these two pieces at different times. They both take the position that the Empire of the United States is in it’s death throes, but they point to different reasons for that death. One bit points to Divine Retribution, from a God infuriated by our failure to follow His really very basic rule: “Don’t be a jerk.” It shouldn’t have been that hard. The other suggests human intervention – a plan conceived and implemented by selfish and evil people for selfish and evil purposes.

Then I spent a good deal of time trying to decide which should come first and which follows. One can read them in either order. In each case, one leads to the other. According to believers, God uses Earthly tools to carry out Divine desires and there is no greater tool than Donald Trump, especially when it comes to destruction. But we also know there are people and forces out there working daily to undermine the health of our nation for their own evil purposes, with or without any gods involved. The end result is the same, either way…

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When it comes to moral failure, there’s a hell of an argument to be made for slavery and for what invaders did to the First Nations. America’s original sin is slavery, to be sure. We followed that up with a “war” on people who didn’t understand what we were about and who were ill-equipped to fight us – then we just TOOK what they had. But IF those two things don’t represent the lowest depths of moral collapse, a very solid case can be made that the dubious honor belongs to the Sandy Hook shooting.

More accurately, it belongs to the reaction in this country to the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. From a moral standpoint, our collective reaction was absolute rock bottom. Americans allowed – widely enough, if not universally – the idea that an “acceptable” response to a madman with easy access to guns, who used a high-powered, military-style weapon to randomly cut six- and seven-year-olds in half, was “thoughts and prayers.”

One could readily point to that as the moment God decided to send angels again, to see if there was anybody left in the United States worth saving. Sadly, for us, it looks like the angels reported back that, no, they couldn’t find even one. Instead, the angels found MAGA. The angels found the NRA. The angels found Fox Not-News and Alex Jones. The angels found “Christian Nationalists” and all of their hatred.

The angels found people pretending the grieving parents were secretly crisis actors and the whole thing was faked. “As you have done for the least of these…” The angels found complacency and resignation. They didn’t find anybody who took any sensible action. Americans seem to have acquiesced to the idea that from time to time, children are just going to get murdered at school. The kids, the suggestion goes, should have been better armed.

So God withdrew His protection and He was right to do so. When God withdrew His protection in Sodom and Gomorrah, He wiped those cities off the face of the Earth. After Sandy Hook? God seems to have condemned us to the anti-Christ, Donald Trump, who stands poised to destroy not just a couple of cities, but an entire nation. And the same people who defended the shooting – defended the shooting – now defend Donald Trump…

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I read an article the other day in which the writer observed that the Untied States is currently engaged in what he called “superpower suicide.” He pointed out that no superpower in all of history has ever voluntarily destroyed themselves – until now. I agree. ALL superpowers fall eventually, but none has ever failed by it’s own design – again, until now.

There are plenty of people who might try to argue that the US isn’t committing suicide. It’s easy enough to believe these WAY out-of-their-depth fools don’t MEAN to destroy the nation, that it’s just the inevitable result of putting complete incompetents in charge. It’s a tempting position because it’s so easy to defend. We are, after all, currently governed by fools.

Oh, but then? Then I remember. I remember these guys have a playbook and a game plan. Do you remember? It’s called ‘Project 2025.’ Project 2025 is a political manifesto published in 2023 by the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a conservative stink tank founded with the specific intention of disseminating false and misleading information into the world for the benefit of the One Percent.

They pretend to focus on conservative issues, but their “conservatism” somehow always benefits the One Percent the most. Look around you. Work-a-day conservatives are suffering every day, every bit as much as the “libtards” they deride. But the One Percent? They’re doing just fine, thank you very much. Superpower suicide. Project 2025. They’ve gone hand-in-glove ever since the One Percent found people dumb (with a b) enough to actually implement the sinister plan.

According to the website ‘Project 2025 Tracker’ (click here), the Heritage Foundation, through Trump and with MAGA’s support, have completed 55% of the stated goals of Project 2025 and the state of our nation already stinks. They’ve completed 141 specific objectives and they’re in-progress on 70 more. There are 110 they haven’t even started yet. Think about THAT. Their plan calls for making things worse, not better. Well, worse for the working class. The parasite class is so rich they can’t even count their effing money – and they want more, anyway.

None of what goes on in this once-great nation is an accident or the outcome of incompetence. Nor is it Divine Retribution. It’s the plan. We have millions and millions of people in this, ‘The Richest Country on Earth™,’ struggling every day with desperate poverty. Thousands more are falling every day, and the pressure is on from sunrise to sunset to keep from become the latest statistic. Yet we’re told it’s a great economy because we’ve crowned ONE trillionaire.

We’ve suddenly become untrustworthy trading partners. We betray our allies. We’ve cozied up to the worst of the worst. We’ve become an extremely powerful, extremely unstable nation voluntarily surrendering our leads in technology and science. We’ve embraced tribalism and superstition instead. A full third of this once-great nation is lost in some kind of effing “culture war.” In less than two years, Donald Trump has turned us from world leaders into world pariahs, and ALL of it is organized and defined in Project 2025…

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So there you go. Take your pick. Obviously, it could be both, but I think I prefer the second possibility – basic human evil – for one reason: who can stand against a god? If it’s a “God’s will” that we fail as a nation, then fail we shall. But if it’s just a design of evil people, well, pitchforks, torches, and guillotines go a LONG way toward solutions…

Changing landscapes…

by MyBaconPress

Is it really relevant where the Drumpfster “won” in the last election? He managed to fool a LOT of people into voting for him. These were, by and large, people who don’t pay much attention to politics. They tuned in late. They didn’t have the proper background on the candidates to make a good decision. They were deceived by the campaign rhetoric. They chose badly.

These people are NOT MAGA. Nothing dissuades MAGA, as we’ve seen. He told MAGA to their faces at a recent rally how stupid he thinks they are and they just laughed like the whole thing was a huge joke. He’s not joking. They just don’t realize it. Feel free to define that for yourselves.

But the point is, the people who tuned in late and were deceived by a slick message? They know better now. They’ve seen the results of their vote. They’re not tuned in regularly so they’re not being conditioned on an ongoing basis, like MAGA is. The landscape has changed. I think a LOT of people who supported the Pedo in the last election have seen the light and won’t vote for him or his agenda again…

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Hey, MAGA, your Pedo President gave cash handouts to roughly half of all of the coal plants to help them keep operating. Do you know what that is? That’s socialism! SO, have you been conditioned to freak out when corporations receive socialist benefits? No, you haven’t. Not at all. You’re ONLY conditioned to freak out if socialism helps working class people. You might want to think about that…

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Boy, the Dumbass sure hates Norway, doesn’t he? The guy who murders people in boats on the Caribbean, invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their leader, then invaded Iran and continues to threaten to eliminate Iran from the planet is really, really irritated that he doesn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s like the committee doesn’t even take into account the somewhere between eight and eighteen thousand pretend wars he has settled in his brainsick mind. (The number depends upon the day.)

Oh, but that’s a clue, isn’t it? “The committee.” You see, the Nobel Peace Prize he covets isn’t issued by Norway, the country. It’s issued by a committee that happens to meet in Norway, the country. This has been explained before but it appears the Demented Dotard is too feeble to take on new information so he stays furious at Norway, the country. My guess? Norway doesn’t care. It would be foolish to react too broadly to what a demented moron thinks…

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Judges, even trump appointed judges, keep smacking down his efforts to stick his ugly mug into elections around the country. The guy has lost lawsuit after lawsuit. He keeps filing them, to set up his claims of fraud, then judges smack them down because he’s the world’s biggest and worst liar. I suspect this will be like the 2020 election in which he lost and then filed lawsuit after lawsuit. Sixty-one of them.

He lost them all, except the one that asked if observers could observe from a little bit closer. He lost them because there was no basis for them. Hell, Rudy Giuliani lost his law license because he kept bringing the frivolous suits. Now he’s losing again and for the same reason. His “concerns” are nothing but the fever dreams of a tortured mind. His tortured mind is NOT evidence of voter fraud.

Having lost ALL sixty because there was no evidence, MAGA got loud, then attacked the US Capitol, killing several police officers in the bargain. I presume MAGA will be shouting it’s ass off after this election, too. “We didn’t win and we don’t like that!” I’ll tell you this: so far, the ONLY cheating I’ve seen regarding this mid-term election is coming from the GOP with Donny the Dumbass at the helm…

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James O’Keefe is a dark-hearted son of a bitch who has made a name for himself distributing false information. That is, he’s a professional liar. He decided to “test” the system he just KNOWS allows people to vote who shouldn’t. He and a guy named Cam Higby went to several voting places, pretending to be other registered voters and attempted to vote. They recorded themselves doing it – then posted the video online.

I’m sure O’Keefe thought it was going to be a blockbuster. Instead, it’s a criminal offense. O’Keefe and Higby are charged with unlawful voting and identity theft, both felonies. Despite the lies of MAGA and the Drumpfster, it looks like voting protections work. Maybe he can think about that while he spends some time in prison…

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Trump went to a rally and told the attendees that the economy is great. He said work-a-day Americans can suffer high gas prices because the companies are making hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars. His rich friends are getting richer while you struggle and suffer and he calls that a great economy. He’s not working for regular Americans.

I’ve said this before: the Dow is NOT the economy. The Dow is a CEO happiness indicator, nothing else. If the Dow is up, it’s because large corporations are doing just fine, thank you very much. Every single tick UP in the Dow? It’s a tick DOWN in your lifestyle. It’s a nearly direct correlation. Every time your life gets harder and more expensive, the Dow ticks up. Watch it. See for yourself.

But yesterday, the Dow took a nosedive. The whole stock market did. The Dow dumped nearly 600 points. So now, the “economy” is struggling, even for him and his rich friends. (Fear not, they’ll be fine.) Sadly, there’s no similar correlation to a downturn in the Dow and lives of work-a-day Joes getting better. The stock market crashing just a few days before the mid-terms seems like a metaphor, though, presented by fate to remind everybody what a crappy, crappy job he’s doing as “President…”

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Have you seen the Drumpfster on the campaign trail? He was hitting deep red areas to shore up support for deep red candidates preferred by deep red voters. In short, he was mostly not going to places where the election is in question. I feel certain that’s so he can claim later that the candidates won where he went and didn’t win where he didn’t go, ignoring the fact that those particular candidates were likely to win in the first place…

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I don’t know which I feel worse about. We lost both Patrick Stewart (86) and Walter Koenig (90) from the Star Trek world and Susan Saint James (80) this week. I was a fan of all three. James hasn’t worked much in recent years. Nor have I seen much of Koenig, but he lives forever as OG Chekov. Stewart seemed never to stop until he had to. They all left behind bodies of work that speak well of them and their talents. What a drag…

TACO date, December 10…

by MyBaconPress

Our story, so far. After losing in 2020 (you’ll remember this) the Petulant Pipsqueak whipped his armed, weak-thinking followers into a frenzy, convincing them the election had been stolen and encouraging them to go to the Capitol building and attack. He denies any of that – but there’s so much evidence. Later, the BBC edited some footage to make the point that he had whipped his armed, weak-thinking followers into a frenzy, convincing them the election had been stolen and encouraging them to go to the Capitol building and attack.

The Embarrassment didn’t like that, so he filed a $10 billion dollar defamation suit, because of course he did. He got used to broadcasters bowing to his demands for no reason other than he holds the key to their futures via the FCC. But the FCC has no authority over the BBC and the BBC chose to fight the charges. That starts with discovery and specifically a deposition. The dotard doesn’t sit for depositions because they make him look so very, very bad.

The BBC is trying to depose him right now, but he keeps avoiding it. He has been ordered to undergo the deposition by December 11, 2026 or the suit will be dismissed. The rule, of course, is that Trump Always Chickens Out and I’m putting the TACO date at December 10. This is nothing but a vexatious lawsuit and he knows he’s going to lose but he’ll drag it out as long as possible.

But, waiting in the wings, also slated to be deposed in favor of the BBC? Jack Smith. Jack Smith is the prosecutor who was preparing to put Trump in prison before his case was derailed by a series of unfortunate events that let a corrupt DOiJ take control. Jack Smith has ALL of the details. Jack Smith recently testified to Congress that he felt sure he was going to convict Trump on the charges. The very LAST thing Trump wants is for Jack Smith to be deposed in the case. December 10. You mark my words…

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Okay, so, honestly? I think it’s kind of funny. I don’t accept the ‘New York Times’ as a trustworthy news source. I haven’t since they helped 43 start his criminal war in Iraq. Remember the Yellowcake lies? But the Times has reported that the Democrats DID, indeed, recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent Dan Sullivan as a way to draw votes away from the incumbent.

Now the question: is that dirty or clever? Both, it seems. MAGA will be focusing, today, on the “dirty” side, outraged and furious that the Dems would stoop so low. They are less vocal about THEIR backing a Democratic candidate, Eric Hafner, in a House race. Hafner is running from a prison cell and drawing votes away from the main progressive candidate against Republican incumbent Rep. Nick Begich. Oh, yeah, the cell he’s campaigning from is in New York state! Hafner has never set foot in Alaska.

THAT one was a-okay with the cons. I thought I should mention it because you KNOW the cons aren’t going to. Our National Shame filed a preemptive lawsuit asking the court to rule that nobody is allowed to win but the Republican 47 prefers. No, those were not his exact words, but that’s the effect. The Dumbass didn’t file any lawsuits about Hafner running and drawing votes. It seems the Demented Don doesn’t think that’s rigging. It’s only rigging when the Dems to it to the cons, see. It’s clever when the cons do it to the Dems. In fairness to the GOP, Hafner wasn’t recruited. He filed his own paperwork. He’s just being backed by cons.

Our National Embarrassment is going to lose his suit. You see, in Alaska, the practice is legal. I DO believe that a guy running from a prison cell in a different state demonstrates a certain failure in the interpretation of the rules. Hafner is running in a House race. The Constitution says that one of the requirements is that the candidate must be an “inhabitant” of the state they seek to represent at the time of the election. Alaska’s Supreme Court, likely after smoking a HUGE blunt, decided that means the candidate doesn’t have to be an inhabitant of the state until they’re elected.

There’s no word on how Hafner becomes an inhabitant of Alaska while incarcerated in New York, but the court let him run because “anything might happen.” Hafner – a dangerous threat to society, by the way – says he expects a compassionate release if he wins. I’ll be more comfortable if the prison system has him serve his entire sentence.

Ancient history, right? Well, no. Hafner’s success will be judged this November 3rd, the same as Dan Sullivan’s. That means that right now, Alaska has two candidates on the ballot backed by one party to draw votes from the biggest threat in the other party. At least Dan Sullivan is an honest to gods resident of Alaska. But The Pedo is only complaining about one. Curious…

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Hey, yet another example of a legal action based on nothing but pique. A judge has ruled that Maureen Comey was fired illegally and her job must be returned along with full back pay and benefits. So, Evil Don’s DOiJ has file yet another indictment against her father, James Comey. James once led the FBI. James understands trump is a criminal, so the right hates him.

Maureen brought a little heat of her own. She is a prosecutor. She was investigating the links between Trump and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein, two of the three leaders in what is proving to be an international child sex-trafficking ring. That’s why she was fired. The LAST thing Trump wants is a competent prosecutor looking into his child sex trafficking ring…

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In response to Prop 40, rich people have gone out and hired a crew of work-a-day looking people to tell you why taxing rich people is probably a bad thing. They show, for example, an Hispanic woman dressed in a housekeeping outfit saying rich people shouldn’t have to pay taxes. Maybe she believes that. There are plenty of MAGA out there, not understanding things. Then again, maybe she’s an actress who wanted the acting job. Perhaps she needed the pay.

But the One Percent certainly can’t portray Jay Gatsby saying he doesn’t think he and his rich friends should have to pay. That’s too obvious. So they put out a working-class looking type. It seems more likely the people in the ads are the heirs to the fortunes, playing dress-up, trying to convince the poors to keep suffering so the rich never have to. It’s rather a sorry comment on the electorate that it works…

Well, THAT Seems…Desperate…

by MyBaconPress

A commercial came on during the Niner game. It took the position that Democrats hate America and are racists. One person – in silhouette, for drama – whined, “I can’t show my face because I’m white.” I really felt for her. I’m white, you see, so I can tell you, the struggle is real. White people only get most of the benefits of this once-great nation, not all of them. How is that fair?

The ad didn’t work in my mind. It came across as sour grapes. It felt more like, “Oh, you call us racists? We’re going to call YOU racists, see how you like it.” Well? It made me laugh. MAGA doesn’t like it when someone says their behavior is reminiscent of (exactly like) the Nazis. Rather than examine their Nazi behavior, though, they feel like whining should achieve the desired effect.

They’ve got the same thing going with racism. They’re cheering on a LOT of racist things and then bristle when someone says, “Hey, that’s racist.” But nobody is just lobbing charges without basis, like that ad attempts to do. Yes, I’m guessing one could find a racist or two in the Democratic party, but it’s not the left’s thing. By and large, far and away, racists find a welcoming home in the Republican party.

It should also be noted that it’s not the left that has been systematically attacking and destroying the Constitution for the last fifty years, all the while bitching and moaning about this aspect of America or that aspect of America they can’t stand. RIGHT NOW, even as you read this, conservatives across the land are working feverishly to destroy our Constitutional Republic and replace it with an authoritarian dictatorship and rule by the rich – and liberals hate America?

Truth be told, I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Someone actually spent money to make that drivel, then spent more money to air that drivel. The worst part? MAGA actually believes that drivel…

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory!” That was Barack Hussein Obama. (See? His middle name isn’t all that scary.) I think it’s a funny line. I think it’s funny because it’s true. Several conservative talking heads took issue with that comment. One conservative talking head called it “elitist garbage.” The charge, see, is that Obama has never been in a Cheesecake Factory.

Elitist?!? The word elitist can be defined as someone who believes in rule by an ‘elite’ group. Elitism looks FAR more like a guy trying to seize power for himself and on behalf of the One Percent to rule over the masses than a guy saying the Pervert President’s taste is all in his mouth. It’s not a charge that’s going to land.

In fact, they couldn’t really land anything. Insisting that was not a nice thing to say because you like the Cheesecake Factory really misses the point. Obama’s line was not a dig at the Cheesecake Factory. Do you really not understand that? (Of course you understand that.) He was making a dig at The Demented Dotard’s decor choices. In truth, 47’s changes look less like a Cheesecake Factory and more like a cheap whorehouse trying to look “real classy-like, you know?”

Scott Jennings of CNN said that Obama “Will always be known for a presidency that ushered in the Trump era to begin with.” Really? And tell me, Scott, what one specific thing do you think set the right on so determined a course? Thinking people continue to see that Obama’s skin color gave rise to the overt racism and hatred the left sees from the right every day. It’s not some big mystery and MAGA has nobody fooled.

Barack Obama was a better President on his worst day than trump is on his best. I suspect that’s a main hate point on the right. Well, that and the fact that the better President was not the whitest President. It turns out, Donald Trump is the DEI hire. I support hiring mentally disabled people and giving them a chance. I’m not sure putting one in the White House was a good move, though, and so far, ALL of the evidence supports me.

Jon Lovett, one time speech writer for Obama, said, “The decor is famously and purposefully over the top – that is part of the fun!” The thing is, the Pedo doesn’t see it as over-the-top. He thinks it looks just great. He’s proud of his gaudy changes. He shows them off to people. He brags about them.

Snowflakes. Snowflakes all. If you’re more upset Obama made a joke than you are trump has devastated the US economy, destroyed US standing in the world, betrayed our allies, brought diesel to over $9.00/gallon here in California, plundered the treasury to his own benefit, unleashed overt racism, protects criminals instead of victims, rapes children, murders boaters in the Caribbean, and plunged us into yet another unnecessary foreign war of choice, your priorities are screwed up. Badly…

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All this talk about how beautiful he finds this guy or that guy? That’s kind of new from 47. But I suspect it’s a deep truth he has kept buried for most of his life. I have long suspected his over-the-top bravado about being so successful with women was a kind of beard – overcompensation to combat secret feelings he didn’t want anybody else to know about.

I think gay would not have flown in the cruel and aggressive Drumpf family. It would be seen as weakness. So? He compensates. Perhaps it’s WHY he’s so aggressive with women. But now? Now dementia is setting in. He is losing his inhibitions as the process progresses. He’s FAR more likely to say what he thinks and he’s far LESS likely to be able to mask his true feelings.

That’s kind of sad, isn’t it? He never got to live his truth because it would have made him outcast in his own family. And the reason he finally DOES get to be the man he’s always wanted to be is because he’s losing his mind? Maybe his lifetime of self-denial is why he’s such a putrid human being to begin with…

The Dirtiest of Dirty Politics…

by MyBaconPress

Amy Acton. Have you heard of her? She’s running for Governor of Ohio. Her opponent is Vivek Ramaswampy, a brown man with a funny name who is nonetheless “acceptable” (that is, ‘one of the good ones) because he supports stupidity. Rampaswampy hired Acton’s mother to star in an attack ad against Acton. Acton’s mother says in the ad that Acton is a liar and should not be trusted. I presume this ad will hurt Acton’s campaign. I mean, her own mother?

The thing Ramaswampy and Acton’s evil mom left out? What Amy supposedly lies about. The details have come out, though. They kind of had to. Acton’s mom once married a pedophile. I know, that’s no big deal to cons, but decent people still have moral issues with it. Acton’s mom allowed her pedophile husband access to her young daughter, Amy, for a couple of years. He took advantage of said access and raped the young Amy on an ongoing basis.

Amy finally went to the cops and told them that the pedophile husband was molesting her regularly. An investigation ensued and charges were filed, not only against the pedo pervert, but against the mom as well. Amy’s mom and the pervert ran. They fled to another state because mom just knew the right thing to do in this case was protect the pedophile pervert instead of her own child.

The ad caused immediate outrage on the left. Once the background details came out, even some Republicans started questioning the ad and telling Ramaswampy to pull the thing. In steps the most infamous living pedophile in modern history, Donald J. Trump. We all know he has nothing against raping underage girls. He ran a child sex trafficking ring with his best friend Jeffrey Epstein for years.

47 says Ramaswampy should continue running the ad despite the fact that the ad mostly reflects the mom’s willingness to offer up her child daughter to a pervert in exchange for, what, a credit card? “Let me have a credit card and I’ll let you have my daughter.” Pretty sweet deal. Unless one is a decent person with a moral compass, which, pedos are not.

But there’s today’s GOP in a nutshell. Raping children is a nothing-burger. Ask them. They’ll tell you. Telling the cops you’ve been raped? Yeah, THAT’S the real crime in MAGA eyes. THAT makes you a “liar” and disqualifies you from office. The moral decline of the self-proclaimed moral majority hit the rocky bottom years ago – but the GOP gave them a shovel and they’ve just continued digging. They’re digging themselves straight to Hell, but at least they owned a lib for a moment…

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Neil Bush, brother to 43, has come out publicly as voting for Democrat James Talarico in Texas. He said he has issues with Paxton’s record and he likes the character of Talarico. It seems like he’s voting for the person he thinks best qualified for the job rather than sticking to loyalist party politics. That’s a fairly brave and definitely unusual thing in this day and age.

He’s not the only Bush to jump party ship, either. Barbara, daughter to 43, not the mom (who’s dead), contributed money to a PAC supporting Talarico, too. The Bushes once represented something of a dynasty in Republican politics. Moving to the Dems is a big deal. It says more about the failings of the GOP than it does about the Dems, but the failings of the GOP are legion and that leaves many voters with little choice…

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Okay, look. I know that these man-on-the-street interviews pick and choose to show the worst responses. That’s not a left game or a right game. That’s the man-on-the-street game. Ask 100 people how many states there are in the US. 97 of them say, “Fifty.” Show the other three. Aren’t they funny? Pretend those are the only answers you got.

But what if you ask 100 people how many states there are and only three of them say, “Fifty?” That really would indicate serious lack of knowledge, wouldn’t it? Recently, I’ve seen a spate of videos in which the interviewer asks the subjects to define communism. Person after person, they can’t do it. They know it’s bad, they just don’t know what it is. When the question is adjusted to define socialism, there’s still just crickets. They know to be afraid. They just can’t say what they’re afraid of.

Even Jarringly Dumb (JD) Vance tried to define communism as, “You want to replace American workers with foreign workers and you want boys to play in girls sports.” There’s even some truth to the part about replacing American workers with foreign workers. It’s just that the group doing that is the corporations that rely on H1B visas to bring in foreigners who will do jobs for less money. And, honestly, I’m not familiar with ANY definition of communism that includes sports on any level.

In the end, they tend to point to freedumb. After stammering a bit, that’s the best they can come up with. “I been free my whole life.” Uh-huh. Did you know? We live in the LEAST free, “free society” on the planet, largely because of widespread poverty and financial desperation, here in the “richest country on Earth™.”

They will eventually get to “free handouts.” Jordan Klepper from the Daily Show asks them about “free handouts” which they disavow, then asks if they’re looking forward to their free $5,000 checks 47 promised them but will never deliver. Oh, yeah, THAT free money is okay. It’s the socialist stuff that bothers them. Apparently, the “socialist stuff” is money that helps “THOSE people.”

The funniest part about this communism that they’re SO afraid of but can’t define? Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about bringing communism to America. Communism is as failed an idea as Free Market Capitalism. Neither system is the best for the largest number of people and both systems fail for the same reason: an inability to address greed.

But socialism? Socialism does just great, here in the US. Our best systems are our socialist bits. They’re SO successful, the One Percent has been attacking them for ninety years. The One Percent are scared the masses might eventually figure out there IS a better way and then act on it. Having seen my American brethren over the last, say, fifty years, I doubt there’s much chance American masses will ever figure out they’re being played by the One Percent.

I know plenty of smart individuals, but, as a group? Americans are dumber than a box of rocks. It really was news to me, how dumb we are as a group. I didn’t know. But MAGA has laid us bare. Exposed us. It’s rather embarrassing to be an American, these days. No smarts, no morals, no decency. That’s the long-term legacy of this once-great nation the GOP would have you leave behind and, dammit, they’re succeeding…