Flatlining the Economy – Again…

by MyBaconPress

So, Kevin Hassett goes on Fox Not-News and says, “People are spending more on gas but they’re also spending more on everything else. Not just groceries, but restaurants and so on. I think that’s a sign you see when people are optimistic about the future.”

Peculiar. *I* think that’s a sign you see when inflation is out of control and the day-to-day cost of living is harder and harder to keep up with. In the same “interview,” he agreed that people are falling behind on their credit card payments, but because defaults haven’t started – yet – he thinks everything is just fine. “It’s just people taking a little bit longer.”

The economy is crashing, folks. Team Evil is lying about it but 47 is taking it right back to where he left it the LAST time he infested the Oval Office – flatlined. Cons love to quote metrics that did, actually, exist during Biden’s administration. They just leave out the part where Biden had to fix all the damage Dumb Donald did with his horrific mishandling of Covid-19. They also leave out the part about how strong the economy was when Biden left. No, it wasn’t perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than anything the Drumpfster has done. Someone put together a helpful chart. Have a look:

Chart comparing key prices under Biden vs Trump.

Yes, the numbers under the ‘Today’ column change. ALL of them are worse than when Biden left office. I have come to genuinely believe the United States is not going to survive two-and-a-half more years of 47…

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Donny goes to Walter Reed for his fourth “annual” physical this year. Afterwards, he disappears. This guy’s ego is so fragile, he needs daily input from fawning admirers just to function. Disappearing from public view by choice is simply NOT an option for the old coot. So, people began to wonder, where the hell is he? Apparently, if you’re on the right, that question represents a left-wing conspiracy.

The Corrupt White House tried to quell the question with a statement that ended with, “Anyone using the President’s schedule to push left-wing conspiracies is a grade-A moron.” The grade-A MAGA morons lapped that up. Everyone else – thinking people – kept asking the question.

In my opinion, his dementia is getting worse and the treatment he’s been undergoing is becoming less effective. After the infusion, he seems to need some recovery time. Now we’ll get to hear about his great success taking his, what, fourth dementia test? And he STILL seems to think it’s an IQ test…

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There’s a company out there called Doroni. They build “flying cars.” Well, they plan to. They haven’t delivered yet. Apparently, they’re getting ready to go public and you can buy stock, if you’re of a mind. I’m not sure. Flying cars add a dimension to driving. Literally. It’s not just forward/backward, left/right anymore. Flying cars add up/down.

Um, have you SEEN your fellow motorists? Have you driven recently? I drive a LOT. It looks, to me, like two dimensions is an extreme challenge for many of these people. What happens when there’s a third dimension? If I may paraphrase an infamous moron, nothing good can happen, it can only bad happen.

Like many people, I find the concept of a flying car intriguing. But the minute I think about practical application and the clueless drivers who zip down the road with no intention of turning, but their signals steadily blinking, people making right turns from left lanes – or left turns from right lanes, they’re not particular, people putting on their makeup or checking texts or reading something else? Let’s just say I get concerned.

I can’t speak to the rest of the world, but I can say with some sad certainty, too many Americans are FAR too stupid for flying cars. At BEST, I think buying Doroni stock is a long-term investment. They’re not just battling technological and regulatory challenges. They’ll have to increase the general intelligence of this once-great nation’s overall population by several points. And there’s something like 34% of the population working as hard as they can to guarantee they don’t learn a single thing, ever…

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Remember when 47 encouraged his minions to attack the US Capitol building on January 6th, 2021, in an effort to disrupt the political process in hope of staying in power after losing the election because he’s a whiny, little bitch? I do. It was a horrifying moment in American history and it was orchestrated by Lying Donny. But when he gave the order, he spoke in a kind of code. Dog whistles. Memes. Tough-guy talk.

His intention was clear. Video exists of some of his minions saying so. They did what they knew he wanted them to do. “…they knew” somehow. But he never actually uttered the sentences “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell,” together. Those two sentences were spliced together by the BBC to make the code more clear to the uninitiated. That particular broadcast wasn’t shown in the US, only the UK.

Still, while the BBC accurately portrayed his message, they distorted his actual words. They’ve apologized and promised never to air that clip again. Donny sued anyway. He claimed “defamation.” (Pro tip, when simply describing the actual actions you actually took might constitute “defamation,” one should more carefully consider the action one is about to take, yes?)

Anyway, Donny claimed the truth about him damaged his reputation and cost him money. Frankly, I agree with Rupert Murdoch’s position on the topic of 47’s reputation: it’s so bad, SO deplorable, it’s not possible to defame him. Like it or not, President Pedo really DOES fit the Biblical description of the Antichrist. So, no-go on the defamed part. What about the money?

As part of the lawsuit, the BBC has asked for financial information to prove Lying Donny lost money because of the BBC broadcast. In a not-so-surprising twist, the Drumpfster has refused. So…what? Are we supposed to believe Lying Donny lost money because one of the lyingist liars in the history of lying made an assertion? If he claims financial damage but won’t offer any evidence of financial damage, shouldn’t the suit be dismissed?

More importantly, 47 filed the suit in a Florida court. The BBC is a British company and the segment in question was never broadcast in Florida nor anywhere else in the US. How does a Florida court have jurisdiction? I suspect Loser Don is about to lose again…

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Since he IS the Antichrist, at this point, it’s pretty clear that 47 has unleashed The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on the Earth. The White Horse is sometimes considered pestilence. Disease. And, as it happens, not just in humans. Officials have found a screwworm in cows for the first time since the 1960’s. Oh, AND the first time since Team Evil cut the funding for battling screwworms in cows. It’s similar to the sudden upsurge in childhood illnesses that are reappearing as Team Evil cuts funding for, or availability of, vaccines.

Why, it’s almost as if “governing” by “feels” is a bad, bad idea. And there’s something like 34% of the population working as hard as they can to guarantee they don’t learn a single thing, ever…

He’s SUCH A Loser…

by MyBaconPress

I suspect it might finally be dawning on 47 that Netanyahu has his own agenda, isn’t interested in Donny’s agenda, and is going to do what he’s going to do. Word is, Netanyahu tried to get other Presidents to attack Iran. None of them were foolish enough to bite. Then came trump, an amazingly stupid person who believes he’s the smartest person in any room. All anyone has to do is praise his intelligence and you can get pretty much anything you want. Like airstrikes on Iran, for example.

But Dumb Donald effed around and now he’s finding out. Iran isn’t the pushover Israel pretended. Iran DOES have some fighting capability AND the ability to hurt the US, as they’re proving. Sustained, near-record levels of gas prices are hurting Joe Sixpack and the economy. Oh, AND, Iran is hurting the chances of Republicans in elections as the economy spins out of control.

Lying Donny needs his ill-advised war to end. Now. Part of the peace deal is a requirement that Israel stop killing Palestinians. But Netanyahu seems hell-bent on taking ALL of the land in that region that once was NOT Israel. There are still illegal settlements. Bombs are still falling. People are still dying at war-like rates – and Bibi ain’t stopping.

So Sleepy Don needs Bibi to stop in Beirut in order to settle his war with Iran, and Bibi isn’t inclined to stop as he has goals of his own. THAT means President Pedo can’t stop his war with Iran, which means gas and other prices keep soaring higher and higher. The latest talks on a peace agreement included a demand in which Israel leaves Arabs alone. Lying Donny agreed, because he’s lost this war and has no choice. He has to accept conditions handed to him because he’s a loser.

So when Netanyahu went ahead and dropped a bunch more bombs on Lebanon, Donny got angry. 47 said Netanyahu was “f*cking crazy!” (I don’t think he said it with an asterisk.) He got Netanyahu on the phone and shouted at him in what people described as an “expletive-laden” call.

“You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me,” trump reportedly said to the Israeli leader. “I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. What the f*ck are you doing?” The answer, apparently, is ignoring Dumb Donald’s rant. 47 told us what a terrible negotiator he was during the campaign when he suggested he could solve the Russia/Ukraine war just by picking up the phone and saying to Putin, “Look, you son-of-a-bitch…” No more. Just that. That would end the war in what’s left of the Drumpfster’s mind.

After 47 straightened Netanyahu out, Israel released their own statement, showing the exact effect the tongue-lashing had on Netanyahu’s resolve. Their statement read that “Israeli forces will continue to operate “as planned” in southern Lebanon, and that he told Trump “if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens—Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut.”

That translates to, “Shut Up, Donald.” So the great negotiator can’t negotiate his way out of the war he started and he can’t shout his way to taming Netanyahu. It looks very much like Donald is NOT the master in charge he pretends to be. In fact, 47 is looking pretty impotent, to me. Donny got himself caught in a trap Netanyahu sprung – you know, the one the other, better Presidents were all too smart to get caught in.

It should be noted, MAGA has not turned away from the Drumpfster. I guess that means they like the higher gas prices and regime-change, war-of-choice 47 launched for no reason. This must be what MAGA wants, right? And here I thought they were against all of those things…

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47 has named Bill Pulte to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence, a fitting choice from the no-nothing regime – a guy to run intelligence with no known history of intelligence. I mean the field, of course. Pulte currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and apparently, the plan is to have him continue in that role, too. I guess splitting his time between agencies won’t be all that tough, considering the people in charge aren’t doing anything but blowing smoke for Donny, these days…

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Scott Pelley, of ’60 Minutes’ fame, said of Bari Weiss, the hitperson brought in to sabotage ’60 Minutes’ to death, “She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.” Then, as if to prove his point, Weiss fired him. It’s probably a relief, more of a liberation than a dismissal. I would not want to be contractually obligated to a program that was being dismantled and distorted like is happening to ’60 Minutes,’ and getting fired might be the only way out of his contract. It’s a real shame. Team Evil is destroying everything, large and small…

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Tom Steyer said Xavier Becerra might not be a good choice for governor because he is backed by “corporations and billionaires.” That’s a bit of weird argument to make. Steyer is a billionaire and he got that way by running a corporation. So Becerra is backed by corporations and billionaires – bad. But Steyer IS a corporate billionaire and that’s somehow better? I’m confused…

Meanwhile, the primary was two days ago and we still don’t know who won. That’s okay with me. I’d rather get it right than fast. It’s down to Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra, and Tom Steyer. Hilton leads the pack which probably makes cons happy. He’s a trump toady. BUT…it must be remembered, there were only TWO candidates on the Republican ballot. On the Democratic side? Hell, the ballot looked like a phone book. (Ask your parents, kids.)

That means the Democratic vote was split between a bunch of candidates, many not even in the race anymore. Accused sexual assailant Eric Swalwell drew something like 18,000 votes. But the general election will be between only two, in this case (it doesn’t have to be that way), it looks like a Democrat and a Republican. In California, when each side focuses their hopes on their guy, Democrats win…

The Benevolent Employer…

by MyBaconPress

I’m surprised people are surprised. Big Tech is pushing AI into everything. The developers have been pretty open about the notion that their fabulous new invention will put people out of work, possibly by the millions. People, as it happens, aren’t as impressed with that idea as the billionaire tech bosses. People are looking forward to getting jobs and living their lives. Every job AI replaces is one less for a person to do, and, obviously, that’s the whole point.

That’s why I’m surprised people are surprised. It’s as if people are just now discovering that “employers” don’t like employees and have wanted to eliminate them going back as far as time. If employers can get the benefits of the work without having to pay someone to do the work, they will. Previously, the best business model for “employers” was slavery, where the master got to keep all the surplus the slaves produced. He had to maintain them (kind of) but he didn’t have to pay him.

People seem to think employers employ people out of some altruistic impulse. That IS a story, of sorts, that gets sold in America. It’s called ‘The Benevolent Employer.’ It’s a fictional story about how people hire others for the good of the community and to do beneficial things in society. I don’t know why people cling to the story.

Everything we’ve seen in this world says otherwise. Capitalists hire because they have no choice. They don’t LIKE employees. Capitalists want profit, period. If they can increase profit with employees, that’s what they’ll do. If they can increase profit without employees, they’ll do that, too. And AI has them licking their chops they may have finally found a way to get revenues without suffering employees to do the work.

I mention it because college commencements are taking place around the country and people have noticed a phenomenon. Every time someone mentions AI, the crowd erupts into boos and cat-calls. The masters want us all to embrace AI as it destroys our futures. We’re not properly enthusiastic about it. In fact, it turns out we’re all a little angry about the implications. I think that, alone, is a good reason to pump the brakes a little. But I also think that ain’t gonna happen…

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Well, like everything else he touches, 47 seems to have put his curse on the World Cup. In fairness, it’s not ALL him. FIFA is a greedy and corrupt organization, trying to squeeze every nickle out of every penny regardless of what that might do to their product. Trump is a greedy and corrupt individual. Between the two allegedly criminal entities, people either can’t afford to go to the games or they don’t feel safe showing up.

The truth is, the masses WILL pay big bucks to attend a sporting event like this one. We see it at the Stupid Bowl every year. As long as people have credit cards, they’ll show up to these things. Well, unless the economy is struggling and everyone is worried about what happens tomorrow. THEN they tend to close their wallets. The point is, I think the high prices are having LESS impact on the World Cup.

But deploying ICEholes to the games? The thing we know is that the story about rounding up dangerous illegals is now and always has been bunk. They’re rounding up brown people, legal and otherwise. Would you spend all the money FIFA is asking just to show up and be detained by ICE? People have televisions. They can watch the matches in the comfort and safety of their homes without ever once being hassled by ICEholes. There was a lot of economic investment for this event and now it looks more and more like it’s going to be a bust…

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They’re calling it the ‘Great American State Fair.’ It was supposed to have a bunch of musical acts but as the acts realized they were being recruited to sing at a trump event, they cancelled. Whiny little bitch trump said he’d just give an epic speech, instead. He is, after all, more famous than Elvis – at least according to him and his overactive ego.

In an effort to suck up to the object of his affection, a Tennessee Representative named Tim Burchett has come up with a plan, an effort to “save” the ‘Great American State Fair.’ Burchett’s idea is to bring in unknowns, has-beens, and never-weres. If they sing patriotic songs, they should be in, whether anybody has ever heard of them or not. Also, there’s always Kid Rock, who I was a little surprised wasn’t on the original bill in the first place.

Burchett might be on to something. People already understand this is a political event. Team Evil tried to downplay that idea and it didn’t work, largely because most people aren’t as stupid as Team Evil thinks. But MAGA? Well, as we know, they can’t be fixed. So embrace the MAGA angle. Get Lee Greenwood to come in and croak out that song he has. Good thinking, Burchett. If they can’t get anybody good, get somebody MAGA…

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The LAST time 47 infested the White House, some contractor stole a bunch of records from the IRS and released them to the public. Donny’s tax returns were among them. So, Donny decided to sue the irresponsible government that allowed such a thing to happen, his own. That is, Donny sued himself over his own failure. He thinks that might be worth $10 billion dollars.

The whole thing came down to a settlement in which the trump family would be protected from prosecution for all time and a fund to pay off J6 rioters would be established, instead. Now the judge in the case, Judge Kathleen Williams, has decided to reopen the case. She said she wants to investigate some “grievous allegations,” suggesting that the hasty deal to resolve the case was “premised on deception.” She ordered Trump’s lawyers to tell her by June 12 whether the lawsuit should be formally reopened because “the court was the victim of a fraud.”

Thirty-five former federal judges urged Williams to reopen the case so she could examine the details of the settlement. They pointed out that the basic suit doesn’t represent an issue of controversy since The Drumpfster is at both ends of it. THAT, they conclude, constitutes a fraud on the court. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

Donny may slither out of legal danger – after all, Satan takes care of his own – but he may not get to sue himself and he might not even get his J6 slush fund. That would be a nice change, something decent…

The Obsessive, Old Man…

by MyBaconPress

Very old, Lying Donny spent two hours obsession-posting yesterday. Two hours. Twenty-five posts. That means he posted an average of every 4.8 minutes. He’s upset that seven of the nine musical acts his team had announced for a concert backed out as they realized who was involved. These musical acts don’t want to be associated with trump because trump sucks. So, he got a better idea. He’ll give a speech! Ooh, ah.

So, obviously, if people are staying away in droves because of how badly 47 sucks, he has to claim people love him. He described himself as, “(T)he Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else…” Like his speeches, none of that is true. Not even close.

He also wrote: “So, by copy of this TRUTH,” (A nonsense sentence, if ever there was one), “I am ordering my Representatives to look at the feasibility of doing an AMERICA IS BACK Rally on Wednesday, Washington, DC, same time, same location. Only Great Patriots invited — It will be a Wild and Beautiful Celebration of America!”

Oh, crap. The LAST time he promised “Will be wild!” an army of his deluded, devotion-blinded supporters attacked the United States Capitol, injuring and killing police officers, defacing the building, and threatening to capture and hang the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, in what they later called their “day of love.”

So now I’m left to wonder if our National Embarrassment is holding a rally or a riot. With this guy, it could go either way…

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Here’s one from the weird file. A coach/teacher named Paige Adams (35) got “caught” having sex with an 18-year-old, a legal adult. The case is being presented as “sex with a student” and, apparently, the 18-year-old IS a “student.” But he’s not HER student. He’s not on any of her teams. Hell, he doesn’t even go to the school she worked at, Cold Springs High School.

Conservative media is trying to whip up a frenzy about it by focusing on the fact that she’s married and he’s a “student.” For her part, she has pointed out (in court) that he is a legal adult and he doesn’t go to the school she worked at and never did. She had no educational association or authority over him, so it was, basically, just two people who got caught up in an affair.

Her husband is divorcing her. I can see that. But what’s the crime? Why is she facing 30 charges? Conservative media is focused on the salacious. These two people in a consensual, legal, sexual relationship sent sexually related texts to each other. There’s a lot of focus on that. It’s a great excuse to publish some of that sex talk while pretending to be outraged by it. But I’m of the opinion that it’s common for two people in consensual, legal, sexual relationships to be sexual with each other. I’m not sure why Adams in in legal trouble…

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So, bear this in mind. Do NOT try to use the mail to return your mail-in ballot. Conservative toady and previous Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sabotaged the mail system to slow things down. Now the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court is considering a ruling that says states can’t count the ballot if it’s not received by election day.

Currently, if the ballot is postmarked by election day, it gets counted. But cons know they can’t win a fair and honest election so they do everything they can to make sure it’s as difficult as possible to vote. The goal is to dilute the vote by making it hard to do. Yes, it does affect some Reds, too, but more Dems use the mail-in process and cons know it, so they attack the mail-in process. In typical conservative fashion, they attack the process by lying about it. Hand carry your ballot to a drop point…

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On the left, many are on a death watch for the lost old dotard. As far as I know, nobody is planning on doing anything to bring that about, and nothing I write here should be construed to the contrary. It’s just that by looking at what’s left of the man, we think he’s getting closer to being called home every day – and it’s a day we look forward to. And yes, I AM aware he recently had a physical and was reported to be the healthiest man in the history of healthy men. I’ve got to confess: I suspect this White House lies from time to time.

But WHEN the topic of his inglorious passing comes up, one of the first responses is, “But then we’d have JD Vance.” Uh-huh. That’s true. Do you know who else thinks Vance would be a terrible president? President Pedo, himself, if reports are to be believed. Now, to be fair, when the White House was asked about it, they issued exactly the propaganda one might expect. “Oh, no,” they claim, “The President loves Vice President Vance.”

But this all came up because of leaks from the White House that suggest otherwise. Donny doesn’t like JD any more than anybody else. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Vance is the threat 47 is. He doesn’t have the “rizz.” More, he doesn’t have the support. He’s a weirdo, and everyone knows it…

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Just for fun, there’s a wing of conservatives out there SO obsessed with trans-sexuality, they’re starting to see transsexuals everywhere. In fact, they’re looking for transsexuals. They really want to find as many as possible. They want transsexuals badly. If they decide someone is – MUST BE – transsexual, but can’t find any evidence, they make the evidence up. It’s much easier to be “right” that way. It has gotten SO out of control on the right, there’s now a name for searching out the trans – ‘Transvestigation.’

Clever, right? They’re going to do an “investigation,” see, on who is transsexual, right? So? ‘Transvestigation.’ I mean, obvs. They very cleverly sussed out Michele Obama after a photo of her in a dress was altered to include a “bulge” where a “bulge” would indicate masculinity. Total proof, since nobody has ever heard of an altered photo before. Clever sods, they are.

And now they’ve found their latest and greatest. TWO of them, in fact. That’s how these things work. Once you know HOW to identify them, anybody you want can suddenly be transsexual. For example, quality “thinker” Candace Owens found some elementary school photos of Erika Kirk with a short haircut and wearing what looks like boy’s clothes. That’s all the evidence needed, let me tell you. Now, “he” is Erik Kirk to the transvestigators. Got him!

The other transsexual hiding in plain sight? Well, that would be Sydney Sweeney, obviously. I mean, just LOOK at those girls – I mean, that girl. She’s clearly a dude. You can tell, according to the transvestigators, because her “neck is so much wider than her head.” (I’ve done a very thorough, comprehensive review. It isn’t.) She did a short stint as a darling of the right but now that she has clearly been identified as born male, she’s dead to them.

It’s a good thing these transvestigators sussed out these to men/women now, before meeting them in person. Now these shut-in incels know better than to ever have sex with Erika Kirk or Sydney Sweeney having sussed them out as born male. Assuming, that is, they ever, EVER found themselves with the opportunity to sleep with Erika Kirk or Sydney Sweeney, that is…

Corruption Du Jour…

by MyBaconPress

So, do you suppose E. Jean Carroll will be eligible to receive a payment from 47’s thieving “victim of government weaponization” fund? After all, Lying Donny’s DO”J” is opening a criminal investigation of her for the crime of…um…well, they’re hoping to find something.

I mean, they have a story, of course. They always have a story. Often, the story is stupid, but they have one. In this case, they’re checking to see if she committed perjury even though the courts have already ruled that she did not. (I suspect that will be her defense when 47’s corrupt DO”J” finds that “investigations are warranted.”) She said something in a deposition she apparently believed was true that later turned out to be different than her understanding. At worst, she misspoke.

When you hear about this in the media, they often refer to E. Jean Carroll as having “accused Trump of sexual assault.” In fact, Carroll is the adjudicated victim of his sexual assault, right? I mean, the case went to trial and was heard by a jury, who agreed he had sexually assaulted her. He has a judgement against him right now. He hasn’t paid it, yet, but the verdict came in and the punishment has been handed down.

E. Jean Carroll shouldn’t be described as a “woman who accused trump.” She should be described as “a victim of trump’s sexual assault.” It’s more accurate…

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Hey, speaking of that slush fund I suspect trump plans to rob? The one he’s trying to set up as a compensation fund for individuals who were unfairly targeted by the federal government? Couldn’t he just STOP targeting individuals for unfair treatment by the federal government? THAT would solve the problem, too.

NONE of the people HE thinks of as targets (primarily himself, of course) were targets of unfair treatment. (He’s just a liar.) But HE keeps pursuing illegal investigation after illegal investigation against anybody he perceives to be an enemy. (He’s a thin-skinned liar.) He loses them all. They’re just for harassment purposes. The targets keep showing the “investigations” to be vindictive and selective prosecutions, not based in facts, and judges keep throwing out the charges. Donny’s a loser.

If he’s going to pay out for unfair targeting, so far, he owes (as a partial list): E. Jean Carroll (of course), James Comey, Jerome Powell, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, former Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh, John Bolton, Adam Schiff, former CIA director John O. Brennan, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Sen. Alex Padilla, SEIU California President David Huerta, Hillary Clinton (obviously), New York Attorney General Letitia James, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS Chris Krebs, Former Chief of Staff of DHS Miles Taylor, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Then again, their compensation, though deserved, shouldn’t come from a taxpayer supported fund. THEIR compensation should come directly from Lying Donny’s pocket…

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Well, the so-called “trump accounts” are launching. Those are accounts seeded with $1,000 for your new baby. Both Scott Bessent and Ted Cruz have described the accounts as a backdoor to “privatizing” Social Security, which, long-term means ending Social Security. Are YOU willing to sell YOUR child’s future for $1,000? I think I’d pass on the 530A, tax-preferred investment accounts…

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Team Evil tried to get a bunch of musical acts to come and perform for his 250th birthday celebration. No, not the dotard’s 250th, though it seems like it, in his case. The country. The thing is, Team Evil had to deceive their target performers. They were less than honest about what the show was and who might be supported. As performers found out, they’ve dropped out.

One act that was listed as booked and performing said they were surprised to see their name on the handbill. Truth be told, I was surprised to see that band name, too. I mean, Milli Vanilli? The Milli Vanilli I knew included Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus. They won a Best New Artist Grammy. Then, after getting caught lip-syncing during a performance, it turned out they weren’t singing on their new album, either. They had to give their Grammy back.

The new iteration of Milli Vanilli is a pair of sisters, Jodie and Linda Rocco, along with some of the original lineup. I’m not sure I’d go with that band name, if I were them, Milli Vanilli. The NAME is scandal-plagued. It’s hard enough getting somewhere in that business but taking a name already associated with “We’re faking it” can’t help at all…

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This is one of those moments I look forward to. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., has ordered Lying Donny to take his name OFF of the Kennedy Center within two weeks. More, he has to stop with his gaudy “renovations.” It turns out, only Congress can change the name of the national institution, having given it a name already.

President Pedo, always gracious in defeat, cried, “Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND.” I challenge his baseless assertion that he “brings institutions back, physically, financially, and artistically.” That boy is a destroyer of institutions.

Besides, I’ve seen his “decorating” work. I don’t like it. More than anything, the Drumpfster lacks class. His changes always seem gaudy, to me. Tacky. I preferred quiet dignity to his boorish ostentation…

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Pam Bondi shows up to a “deposition.” She refuses the oath, she refuses to answer any questions about Lying Donny, and she throws Todd Blanche under the bus by blaming him for all of her failures. Then she leaves. If I showed up at a deposition and refused the oath, I suspect I would be held in contempt until I complied. Why isn’t Blondi? I think she should be sitting in jail until she decides to cooperate…

That Which Is Foretold…

by MyBaconPress

It’s odd, isn’t it? For decades, we’ve listened to cons clamoring for “state’s rights” over Federal government. They use it, mostly, when they want to do some evil or crappy thing. But suddenly, state’s rights don’t seem as important. I wonder what happened to change the stance? I suspect it was when they discovered they could do those same evil and crappy things more effectively with the power of the Federal government.

Minnesota banned “prediction markets.” A prediction market is like any other gambling site, but often without the gambling. The person placing the “bet” might well have insider information that makes it less of a “bet” and more like a no-risk investment. Say, for example, you (somehow) knew the US government was about to set back negotiations in a trumped up war with an unexpected bombing. You could make a prediction market “bet” and clean up.

Our Inglorious Misleader has said he “was never much in favor” of prediction markets. Of course that’s what he says. Meanwhile, he and his family are involved in the industry and according to the New York Times, Dumbass Jr has ties to two top prediction market companies. (Remember how angry the right was when they just thought Hunter Biden might be trading on Daddy’s name? Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA.)

And of course the Drumpfsters are involved. Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, described the markets as, “designed to be addictive and prey especially on young people and low-income folks.” He said they, “help the ultra-rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer.” I suspect the Drumpfsters are the kinds of people who would gleefully get rich with pay-day loans, too.

So, state’s rights be damned. The National Embarrassment wrote that it’s “critically important” that the federal government retain control over the multi-billion dollar prediction market industry. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit to stop Minnesota and other states from protecting their citizens from this, particular scourge.

It might just be me, but I think the Federal government should NOT have the power to FORCE states to allow their citizens to be victimized by gambling sites…

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Well, whaddaya know and who coulda guessed? 47 bombed Iran again, just as the now-infamous and obviously-better-than-Obama’s deal was just about to be set. Oh, so close. Now we don’t get the deal that was better than Obama’s after all. I wonder which markets paid off on that one – and to whom? And now he has added a new poison pill: all the Arab nations need to sign on to the so-called Abraham Accords.

The Abraham Accords created a framework for Arab nations to recognize Israel. The Arab nations that haven’t signed it, don’t sign it because Israel has never been open to the idea of creating an independent Palestine. Those nations are not going to sign the thing until that changes. So? Poison pill. He gets to claim he’s working to end his stupid war while keeping the thing going with unworkable demands. I suspect there’s profit in it – for him, anyway.

I’m thinking that next comes more threats and tough talk from a weak guy before an “unexpected announcement” of being THIS CLOSE to a deal, a great deal, the best deal, a deal like no other deal, a big deal, a strong deal, a deal with tears in it’s eyes as it says “Sir, nobody could have negotiated a better deal than this deal.”

Then? Why, more bombs and another payout. It IS a pretty sweet arrangement if you just happen to have access to all of the beautiful insider information…

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I’m writing this early Tuesday morning. Lying Donny has a physical scheduled for today at Walter Reed Hospital. It’s his regularly scheduled, quarterly, “annual physical.” The increased visits seem to support the notion that doctors are monitoring the progress of his dementia. But the announcement, I expect, will be that he’s the healthiest human being ever to walk the planet.

Update: Yep. Word is, he’s in great shape. Oh, AND, he can still identify an elephant, too…

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London in a heat dome? On Tuesday, London hit 95.2 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time record. All of Europe is said to be sweltering. The heat is expected to hang around for the rest of the week. Lovely. London isn’t built for heat. I suspect it might want to start getting ready.

It’s a good thing all of that talk of climate change is fake news or I’d be thinking we, the species, might be in trouble…

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Where ever conservatives hold sway, life gets crappier for the working class every single day. Have you noticed that? I mean, the cons will TELL you things are great. They’ll insist on it, in fact. But metrics are metrics and it’s measurable that where ever conservatives hold sway, life gets crappier for the working class, every single day.

It’s disheartening to discover that people will ignore the mountains and mountains of evidence that the conservative way is NOT the better way. But that’s what the evidence shows…

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Chalk up yet another successful “prediction” from Mike Judge in his unintentional documentary ‘Idiocracy.’ In the movie, the President of the United States is a clown named, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. He’s every bit as qualified for the job as the clown we have now. He turns the White House into a spectacle.

Now Donald “Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho” Trump is building an Ultimate fighting Champion (UFC) arena – on the White House lawn. Real classy-like, you know? He’s hosting a cage fight next month to celebrate his birthday – on the White House lawn. Apparently, he likes watching fit men in short-shorts grappling with each other…

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Megyn Kelly said “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been.” How is that NOT the same as, “Oh, I KNOW he’s corrupt. I just thought he would be more discreet about it.” The idea that they KNEW he’s corrupt and voted for him anyway fits into another point of view I’ve recently heard.

That idea suggests that MAGA doesn’t like what Lying Donny does, either, but they DO like that it irritates “Libtards” so they stay in line. Does MAGA really hate progressives SO much, they’ll celebrate 47 harming them, so long as it harms lefties, too? “Hey, Donald Trump burned your house down?”
“Nah, he burned down the house of that libtard, next door. Mine just got caught up in the blaze.”
“But your house burned down, too.”
“Did you HEAR the part about him burning down the libtard’s house?”
“But YOUR house?!?”
“Small price to pay to own a libtard!”
“Well, where are you going to live now?”
“Hey, what did Joe Biden do to my house?”

I don’t mean to be unkind, but, honestly, in many of these exchanges, MAGA – as a group – does not come off looking any too…um…intellectually sophisticated…

Deal Or No Deal?

by MyBaconPress

I wonder what he means. I wonder if HE knows what he means. He wrote that a deal he gets with Iran will be the “exact opposite of the JCPOA disaster negotiated by the failed Obama Administration.” The JCPOA is the ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ Obama negotiated with Iran. Donny didn’t like it because Barack did it and Donny is the most petty of petty individuals. Then 47 goes on to claim the JCPOA was a direct path to nuclear weapons for Iran, but that’s because he lies about everything.

In fact, it was a solid arrangement that kept Iran from developing nuclear weapons for a long time to come. It was probably easier to negotiate than one might imagine, since Iran issued a fatwa against “building, maintaining, or using” nuclear weapons as contrary to Islam in 2004. The negotiations sounded like, “Will you promise not to do that which you have already said you don’t want to do?”
“Um, sure.”
“Okay, then, here’s some of your money back.”

Of course, now Lying Donny has killed the people behind that fatwa so he may have opened the very doors he says he wants closed. He does that a lot, the exact opposite of what he says he wants. Mr. ‘Make America Great Again’ has brought this once-great nation to it’s knees and to the brink of insolvency, for example. Nothing great about that. Really, when you get right down to it, he sucks at this ‘President’ stuff.

There are people out there suggesting he’s getting ready to surrender in Iran. I’m not sure he’s smart enough, even for that. Every day that passes, energy prices rise, costs for everything go up, in fact. It’s becoming burdensome and will move on to unsustainable very quickly. His whole oil war is a great reminder of one of the best reasons to move away from fossil fuels in the first place: nobody fights over sunshine. That stuff is everywhere.

For some reason, the price of a barrel of oil has dropped below $100. The story given is ‘hope of peace with Iran.’ Are these Wall Street types really so stupid as to keep being at the end of his yo-yo string? How many times can he claim peace is just around the corner and then start bombing things – or threatening to – before Wall Street realizes it’s more market manipulation than successful peace strategy?

In the end, that part doesn’t matter to me. The price at the pump is steady. It doesn’t fluctuate up and down like the barrel price is doing so their costs go up and down but their revenues are as strong as ever. Record highs, in fact. MY wallet is hurting, though, as, I suspect, is yours…

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Yeah, that will probably work. The Team Evil DOJ website is quietly removing references to the J6 attack. Do you think that will work to get us all to forget it? I suspect the removal has something to do with the fact that he’s planning to give them money for their treachery. It sort of increases the need to minimize the “treachery” part. One can almost hear the wheels turning in their twisted little brains – if we remove the reference, nobody will know what happened.

Do you know what? We all know what happened. Records exist. More, the internet gets backed up on a regular basis. A lot of people don’t know that, but it’s true. It’s possible, if you know how, to go back and read things in the archived web that were once posted and have since been removed – like all of the information they’re hiding…

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Is it a conspiracy theory, or an actual conspiracy? The term ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is, essentially, belittling an idea. It’s intended to make the person suggesting a conspiracy sound paranoid, perhaps slightly around the bend. If I suggest Donald Trump and his friends are making money by manipulating the stock market with comments and tweets, one can dismiss that as a ‘conspiracy theory’ easily enough.

But look at a definition of ‘Conspiracy.’ “An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.” If Donald Trump and his friends are making money by manipulating the stock market with comments and tweets, that’s likely an actual conspiracy, not just a conspiracy theory.

Just because I have a theory that Trump and Co is a criminal enterprise robbing the entire nation blind as fast as they can doesn’t mean I’m riddled with “conspiracy theories.” Really, it just means I’m paying attention…

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So how long do you think it will take Kevin Warsh to start dropping interest rates? Of course, he promised he was going to be independent and do only what was called for according to economic conditions. But my guess is the only “economic condition” he plans to respond to is whatever Lying Donny tells him. Worse, I suspect Warsh will start dropping the rates at oversized clips.

Commonly, the rates move in eighth or quarter points. That leaves room for response in case of error. I suspect that when Warsh starts fulfilling the Drumpfster’s dreams, rates will drop a point at at time, maybe more.

I’m not the only one thinking we’re facing a world-wide financial crisis and I’m not alone in thinking the US is particularly ill-prepared for such an event. We’re currently led by a bunch of clowns pretending to know what they’re doing. Clearly, the nation can coast for awhile but sooner or later, an actual and honest crisis is going to hit – or be caused directly by the Dumbass, himself.

The Keystone Kops might be fun to watch but when you have an actual emergency, if the Keystone department is all that shows up? You’ve got a real problem…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He’s trying very hard to distract people because he wants people to forget that. People are not forgetting that. Don’t you forget that…

Tactic Or Trumpery?

by MyBaconPress

Look, I don’t know what’s real when it comes to these “shooters.” On the one hand, their “attacks” are about the most useless, impotent charges they might possibly plan. I mean, ‘just run through the checkpoint?’ What the hell is THAT? Killing a President is hard. It’s supposed to be hard. The days of the unprotected booth at the theater are long gone, largely because of that ONE unprotected booth at that ONE theater.

People work really hard to protect Presidents – even this one. (Sidebar: could you imagine laying down your life to protect that fat, old, lying, cheating, grifting weasel?) If you want to try to kill the President, make a plan. Take your time. Wait for your moment. Grabbing your gun and charging security checkpoints isn’t going to work. They have guns, too. They’ll use them. So far, in direct charges, security is 1 for 2 when it comes to hitting (and killing) the “attackers.”

It’s possible these are what might be called “leading edge” would-be assassins. These are people attacking blindly, in fury. They represent the fringe of humanity. These are not deep thinkers. These are not careful, meticulous planners. That’s WHY ‘grab-your-gun-and-charge’ feels like a possible answer to them. As the attempts continue – and I believe they will – they’ll become more sophisticated.

But every time one of his supporters (or some other patriotic American) decides it’s time for him to die, it’s an opportunity for the White House to tout the ballroom. That gives it a “staged” feel. The “attempts” are ridiculous. They have zero chance of affecting Our National Embarrassment. Oh, but we’ve got to have a ballroom. For clarity, I’m not saying they ARE staged. It’s just that the always-the-same immediate response leaves the impression that the attempts are an effort to help get the ballroom more than any real effort to get the Dumbass…

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So, have you heard that it took an extra long time to get a handle on battling the Ebola outbreak because the first samples sent to the lab traveled at the wrong temperature? That used to be a task USAID handled because they knew what they were doing. 47 doesn’t understand things so he didn’t know what USAID did in the world. When Evil Elon decided it was only wasting money, Lying Donny shuttered the thing. I guess some people (MAGA) think Elon did a good thing. I think Elon is killing a lot of people…

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The US has indicted Raul Castro for an official act he took something like thirty years ago. He shot down a couple of airplanes the government considered a threat. He did it without warning and without evidence that the planes were, in fact, a threat. Now Castro stands indicted.

So what does that say about the boats Lying Donny keeps blowing up in the Caribbean? You know the ones. They’re the boats he blows up without warning and without any evidence that the boats, are, in fact, a threat. I think Lying Donny has now, accidentally, made the case against himself for his boat murders…

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He “does not know what he is doing. You have this damaged individual that you have now thrust into a position of power with no skills, no background, nothing but this damaged psyche who you have now given all the power in the world to, and ask them to behave properly.”

We all know who that references, don’t we? I mean, isn’t it obvious from the description, the words? You didn’t have to stop and think about it. You didn’t even hesitate. You knew it as you were reading it. You KNOW who the “he” is in that description. Hell, even MAGA knows. They won’t admit it, of course. Stubborn is stubborn, but they know. We ALL know who that’s about.

Only, it isn’t. That’s a quote from an historian who was talking about the third Roman Emperor, Caligula. It’s hard to describe some of the worst characters in history without accidentally describing 47 as well. That’s quite the crowd he matches up with…

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Okay, so this time they’ve trotted out Little Marco Rubio to claim Lying Donny’s stupid war of choice – Lying Donny being the only President stupid enough to fall for Netanyahu’s pitch – is nearly over. I guess that means we should expect a late nite post from the Dumbass himself, threatening to bomb Iran some more.

How does one strike a bargain with a person or group when that person or group is doing everything in their power to convince you that they have no intention of honoring the bargain? That’s Iran’s dilemma, today. They’re trying to negotiate peace with a crowd that’s not dealing with reality. How can one trust anything they say?

Now there will be hype and tons of speculation about what might be in the promised, pending “agreement.” The Strait of Hormuz will re-open and they’ll have talks about limiting Iran’s nuclear capability. More importantly, the prediction markets will pay out some big money to some “anonymous bettors” because private profits are always an awesome look during very public wars.

The only question in my mind, will 47 get as good a deal as Barack had negotiated oh, so long ago. You remember, the one the Drumpfster tore up because he was so stupidly certain he could negotiate a better deal – which he clearly can not. So far, he can’t even get AS GOOD of a deal as Barack. That’s because Barack was a much, much better president and a much, much smarter man…

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I hope it works. In southern California, there’s a huge tank of highly toxic chemicals threatening to explode or at least leak. This is highly toxic stuff. If/when it gets out, it looks like it will directly affect some 40,000 people, long-term. Officials have evacuated as many as 78,000 people. A large swath of Orange County looks like a ghost town.

Somehow, a chemical reaction started in the tank. A bunch of liquid monomers – essentially a bunch of single molecules – are reacting with each other and becoming polymers, forming a solid. Oh, AND, generating heat. The current hope is that cooling the tank while the chemical reaction plays out can keep it from exploding. No one knows if that will work, though.

Right now, officials have deluge guns flooding the tank 24/7 in an effort to keep it cool – only to discover the temperature is still going up. But it’s going up slower, so they keep spraying. Maybe, just maybe, they can contain the temperature increase until the reaction stops. Then again, maybe not, at which time… BOOM!

It seems weird, to me, that a tank that dangerous could be stored where so many people live, but that seems to be the price of a modern society…

A Moment Of Clarity…

by MyBaconPress

Listen, I don’t want to be all depressing, here, but I’m going to be. Sorry. Sometimes, I get these moments of clarity. Here’s one now. We’re all on pins and needles, waiting around for the next election. We all know the stakes. Democrats take back Congress and maybe save the Constitutional Republic, or Democrats do NOT take back Congress and our once-great nation devolves fully into shithole dictatorship, run by the One Percent, FOR the One Percent. But let’s wind back to that ‘We all know the stakes’ bit.

This coup has been in the works for fifty years. The planning started in the 70’s. The execution began with Ronald Reagan, forty-six years ago. Loyal toadies have been inserted into every aspect of our government. Judges loyal to conservatism and not necessarily the law, have been installed. The One Percent didn’t much bother with lower courts. They infested appellate courts with toadies to overturn otherwise proper decisions of the lower courts. The “check” of the courts is severely weakened.

Enough loyalist Congress critters have been put in place to paralyze Congress and if something DOES get close to happening, the “leader” of that institution just closes the doors and runs away. The only things that actually get through seem to be inexorable (like the trump/Epstein files), or often by surprise, but if MAGA Mike, the Johnson can stop things from happening, he will. The “check” of Congress doesn’t even exist anymore.

Election oversight officials – as many as possible, anyway, have been chosen based on their loyalty to conservatism, not the Constitution. These are people like that anti-American Tina Peters, who allowed a team in to tamper with voting machines after the 2020 election, hoping for a different outcome – or hoping to create one.

Our last line of defense? The Fourth Estate, the public press, the “news.” News outlets have been purchased and corrupted to broadcast propaganda, not information. The One Percent have spent billions buying, controlling, and corrupting the free flow of information here in this once great nation. In short, it has been a very careful, very comprehensive plan to corrupt every aspect of American governance. The GOAL was to leave us no place to turn for rescue.

As I’ve mentioned (twice, now), we all know the stakes. THEY know the stakes, too. Do you really, honestly think they’ve gone to all of that trouble, all of that expense, over all of that time, just to watch the whole thing crash and burn in a single election? Or should I say, “election?” Would they have done that without some kind of fail-safe?

We all know, ONE general election remains to try and save ourselves. THEY know it, too. They are but ONE general election away from consolidating their control and completing the coup. After all of that time, money, planning, troubleshooting, and effort, does it make sense that we’re looking at anything LIKE a free and fair election?

Once again, I remind you, JFK said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” I think we’d better keep our powder dry…

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I saw a snarky opinion piece from the ‘USA Today,’ celebrating the end of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’ He repeated all the old lies about the show’s cancellation. Well, they may not be completely false. They might just be misleading or misdirections. The main point of the column was that Stephen had only himself to blame because he made jokes about the Inglorious Moron and some people (mostly, the Inglorious Moron himself) didn’t think those jokes were funny.

This is really simple. Lying Donny has thinner skin than an onion. He didn’t like jokes Colbert made on his network show. He kept watching, though. Finally, he got his chance. The parent company that owned Colbert’s show wanted to merge with another company and they needed regulatory approval from Lying Donny’s corrupt government for the merger to take place. There was a condition: Colbert had to go.

See their BS (CBS) said the show cost too much. ‘The Late Show’ was the number one rated, left-leaning late-night talk show. The opinion piece pointed out that ‘Gutfeld!’ on Fox NotNews averages 3.3 million viewers. THAT, he says, proves that moronic conservative opinion is more popular than the liberal position. Classic twisted “thinking” from the right.

If you’re going to compare popularity of positions, you have to add up the lefties. See, there are four major broadcast networks. Three of them broadcast liberal hosts. One of them broadcasts Gutfeld. That means the liberal viewership is divided between three networks while the cons are all focused on one. So, yeah, ‘Gutfeld!’ gets 3.3 million viewers. The hosts from the left? 6.56 million viewers. Well, RATS! Facts usually thwart MAGA.

As it happens, television in general is declining in viewership. Really, they don’t seem to be even trying to produce anything watchable these days. And now the move to make is to cancel your number one show and replace it with pablum? THAT ought to help viewership, right? At this point, in my not-so-humble opinion, NONE of the networks are worth watching anymore. Oh, sure, I’ll still tune in football games on See their BS but other than that, I’ll be moving away from Paramount products in general. They’re just putting out crap anyway…

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Here’s a thing to remember: you know the slush fund that dumbass is trying to create so he can steal even more of your money and give a bunch of it to J6 traitors? That results from a lawsuit about Lying Donny’s taxes being released, just like he promised he would but never did because he lies about everything. The theft fund is supposed to be a “settlement.” So, who infested the Oval Office when Donny’s taxes were reveled? Why, that would be Donny, himself.

It seems 47 was suing himself over his own incompetence and now wants a settlement of your tax dollars to he can give your money to people who assaulted police and attacked the Capitol. Go ahead, try to tell me we don’t live in Bizzaro America…

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$174,000 dollars each year. That’s how much we pay – entry level – Congress critters. And what do they do for that money? Not much, it seems. Every time they get faced with a vote the GOP might lose, MAGA Mike the Johnson shuts down the House. I’d LOVE to be able to shut down the office and take a paid, month-long vacation every time my boss gave me an unpleasant task, wouldn’t you?

Like the GOP-controlled Congress, I would, likely, spend a LOT of time doing what I want to do and not what I’m paid to do. THIS time, the Johnson shut down the House because he feared there was enough support to pass a war powers resolution requiring our National Embarrassment to end his stupid, costly, war of choice in Iran. But the GOP knows they can’t have Congress functioning well or they might interfere with this amazing money grab that’s going so well for Lying Donny and his richest associates.

This is the eighth time the House has avoided doing their jobs on this subject. They’re taking their salaries, I’ve noticed. I was taught that if you’re mucking about on company time, you’re essentially stealing from the boss. Well the House is definitely mucking about on company time, and we, the people are the boss, so they’re stealing from us. (Again!) Let’s fire them and get some people in who will do the job…

Losses That Look Like Wins…

by MyBaconPress

It says a LOT to me that Thomas Massie became a focus for Lying Donny’s wrath for the “crime” of doing the right thing. In this case, “doing the right thing” always meant standing against Lying Donny. Here’s a puzzle for you, MAGA: if Massie did the right thing and was against Lying Donny on those issues, who was NOT doing the right thing? Take your time.

Meanwhile, Massie earned Lying Donny’s wrath by standing against his budget-busting tax cuts. He was instrumental in forcing Lying Donny’s corrupt DOJ to release the Trump/Epstein files. He also supports the Constitution in demanding Congressional oversight of Lying Donny’s stupid foreign wars of choice. Massie thinks the government should get a warrant before spying on Americans. Again, standing against Team Evil.

Massie’s actual “crime” is that he supported the Constitution of the United States over the whims of a self-indulgent madman…

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As of Tuesday, Lying Donny’s approval rating fell to roughly 37%. That’s ’cause he sucks. The 37% approval kind of surprises me. A THIRD of this once-great nation still approves? Of what?!? No, they’re just MAGA. They don’t even KNOW what he’s doing and they certainly aren’t going to hold him responsible. The thing that shocks me the most about this entire movement is the number of Americans who completely lack discernment, critical thinking skills, and morality…

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It’s not just Massie getting bumped for doing the right thing. MAGA is having quite a good time, tossing out decent people in favor of other MAGA Lying Donny likes better. It seems a little scary until one remembers MAGA, alone, isn’t enough to carry a general election, and most of the trump supporters who are NOT MAGA have fallen away by now. MAGA gets their extremist trump-loving bootlickers, but is that person going to carry the general election? I’m not so sure.

What looks like something of a banner day for trump endorsed candidates in these primaries might well prove to be weakening the GOP’s chances in the general. Fingers crossed…

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MAGA insists, stubbornly, that Lying Donny isn’t racist. I say actions speak louder than words. He’s actively working to remove or keep out any people who appear slightly darker in their skin color. Sometimes it seems like a good tan might get you deported. Somehow, he can tell they’re “bad” just by looking at them. Meanwhile, he’s bringing in white Afrikaners from South Africa – and he’s spending $100 million dollars to do it.

Somehow – and it seems to be the same magical power – he seems able to see the white guys are all a-okay – just by looking at them! Lying Donny has made up stories about why the white guys need the help. He pretends they’re under attack. In fact, he commonly refers to a “white genocide,” a long-standing fringe conspiracy theory that has been debunked over and over.

South Africa IS an unstable country with a high crime rate. It’s just that there’s no special focus on white people. But it wouldn’t matter if there was. Many of the brown people he’s exiling also come from countries in upheaval. Many are here because they fled from there. He doesn’t give two figs about that. The really, really important part seems to be white versus not-so-white. That’s racist, whether you acknowledge it or not…

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It’s looking more and more like billionaire Tom Steyer is going to do well in the California governor’s race. A populist billionaire. Uh-huh. Wasn’t Lying Donny a populist billionaire? It’s easy to say the right thing on the campaign trail and once you’re in office, there’s precious little the population can do to remove you. That is to say, all they’ve got to do is get in. THEN you find out about the real agenda, which, magically, seems to be helping billionaires.

ALL of the candidates promise to “address” (not solve) the housing crisis. California is becoming unlivable for most median income earners and nearly ALL of it is caused by the housing crisis. And the housing crisis is caused by Wall Street (and other investors) buying up single family homes. The fix is easy and obvious: stop Wall Street (and other investors) buying up single family homes and force them to divest their current holdings. (More on that in a moment.)

Ro Khanna has called for that but he’s not running for governor. I haven’t heard any of the candidates call for that. It would not be painless. Everybody who owns a house has benefited from artificial equity, caused by the relentless buying from endlessly deep pockets. If the buying spree is stopped and reversed, the artificial equity disappears. That is to say, people see their home values drop. They don’t want that.

But there are only two choices: a careful reduction or a hard crash. And because we, apparently, will not engage the careful reduction, we should brace for a hard crash…

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I don’t think Lying Donny’s lawsuit “settlement” will hold up. I desperately hope Lying Donny’s lawsuit “settlement” doesn’t hold up. Not only does it create a slush fund Lying Donny can… whatever, say, give to J6 insurrectionists, give to other criminals, pocket himself, it protects him from any investigations of his and his families taxes – ever.

The Sackler family tried that over intentionally addicting so many people Oxycontin. Judges struck down that provision. Apparently, one cannot use a settlement to indemnify themselves from any and all related and unrelated crimes. But our world is upside down, these days. 47 shouldn’t get such a break, but somehow (the devil takes care of his own) he gets things he shouldn’t all the time.

It’s a bit startling, how quickly he has decimated this once-great nation…

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Okay, back to the housing crisis. It IS a start. I guess. Or is it? The Senate has passed a law limiting Wall Street investors buying single family homes! That approaches what they actually need to do: stopping Wall Street investors from buying single family homes altogether and divesting their current holdings. The way this bill is written (for clarity, I read an article about it, not the bill) corporate investors can still buy up to 350 houses. Then, once a corporation owns that many, they can’t buy more. Oh, shoot, NOW what are they gonna do?

How about if the parent corporation sets up a subsidiary that owns it’s OWN 350 houses? Would that work? Landlord Corporation owns Our Houses, Inc 1, which owns 350 houses. They also own Our Houses, Inc 2, which also owns 350 houses. Our Houses, Inc 3 only owns about 227 houses, to date, but they’re still buying. Meanwhile, Landlord Corporation is setting up Our Houses, Inc 4, in anticipation of OH3 filling it’s quota by month’s end.

I’m pretty sure no corporation would or could ever think of that. Hell, it took ME seconds and seconds to come up with it. Fortunately, the rest of the bill deregulates the house-building process so houses can go up faster for Wall Street to buy, slot into the correct subsidiary, and own forever. Hmm. Not much of a start after all…