Energy, Not Bombs…

by MyBaconPress

I didn’t know this, did you? In Iran, the now-dead Ayatollah had issued a fatwa against building, storing, or using nuclear weapons – in 2004. A fatwa is a legally recognized religious ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a qualified Islamic jurist in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge, or government. The fatwa still stands. By the way, my source for that is Tulsi Gabbard, under oath, testifying before Congress.

According to the Ayatollah Trump just killed because Trump pretended the Ayatollah was pursuing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons were a violation of Islam. This is not a he-said, she-said. There was a fatwa in place. Unlike Christians, Muslims take Islam VERY seriously. It’s a safe statement, if there was a fatwa in place banning nuclear weapons – and there was – Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons.

Iran has always maintained they’re trying to build nuclear power plants for energy, not bombs. Now I learn there’s a fatwa in place banning nuclear weapons. Even if I wasn’t inclined to believe the Iranians, I know they take fatwas seriously. I believe Iran was not building nuclear bombs, nor have they been trying to. Donny’s lying. Probably, Israel is lying.

Not only was Iran NOT pursuing nuclear weapons when Donny started this most recent bombing, they weren’t pursuing nuclear weapons when Donny bombed them before. In fairness, it should be mentioned that if said fatwa was issued in 2004, and it was, then Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons during Biden, Trump 45, Obama, or most of Bush 43, either. Since 2004 that we can prove, ‘Iranian nuclear bombs’ have been a boogeyman.

But now that the old guy, who opposed nuclear weapons as a violation of Islam, is dead, nobody knows how the new guy will react to that question. So, to recap, Trump killed the guy known to be opposed to nuclear weapons and put in place a guy nobody can say for sure, one way or the other. Nice work, Dumbass…

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Meanwhile, our delusional dotard has declared his war-that’s-not-a-war over, nearly over, and just behind us in a little while. Iran said, “Wanna bet?” He has claimed he’s negotiating with Iran. Iran says, “No he’s not.” He says Iran’s military is obliterated. You know, like he “obliterated” their nuclear capability last June. The results must be the same because Iran’s “obliterated” military keeps attacking various sites.

His war is over but he needs $200 BILLION dollars for it. Also, he needs boots on the ground. Cons are actually trying to make the case the “boots on the ground” doesn’t “count” in Iran because they won’t be in cities. So the war is very definitely over, kind of, but he needs $200 billion dollars and more soldiers. Got it. Sometimes it seems like even HE doesn’t understand what he’s doing.

He DOES seem desperate. His lies are simply of lower quality, these days. He seems to be just pitching stuff out there in a blind panic. His now-debunked claims about the talks were in response to the crashing stock market. It worked for a minute. Then all of the investors realized he seems to be talking to himself and nobody else so they started pulling back again.

His “Tales of Success” seem to crash and burn before they even finish leaving his lying mouth these days. He doesn’t seem like the large-and-in-charge, silver-tongued misleader so much as a desperado trying to find an out. Think of Butch and Sundance in that little Bolivian town – just as the Bolivian army moved in. I could be wrong. Satan clearly takes care of his own and Donny has survived a LOT.

But I’m not sure he’ll be able to get even MAGA onboard with his stories on this one. Every time they pull up to a gas pump, they’ll remember why they’re paying so damn much of their limited incomes to gas companies and no, it’s not Biden’s nor Obama’s fault. And that doesn’t even mention what happens if they have to, gods forfend, go to an airport…

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Democrats want the ICEholes to take off their masks and use body cameras when they’re “working,” so they held up funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans are fighting back. The thing is, in this fight about ICE, the TSA has also been captured and there aren’t enough TSA agents working to keep people moving through airports.

Democrats keep trying to pass a bill that funds all of DHS except ICE, meaning TSA agents would get paid, so they would get back to work. Republicans won’t agree to the partial funding so they keep voting no. No, that’s not quite right. According to John Kennedy, not the great one, the crappy one from Louisiana, the GOP was onboard with the plan to fund everything BUT ICE. Trump said no. Trump said.

Republicans keep blaming Democrats because Dems won’t vote for total funding without ICE reforms and Democrats keep blaming Republicans because cons won’t agree to the partial funding bill because The Felon told them not to. Meanwhile, people are still stuck at airports – and it’s ALL because Donald Trump won’t let his toadies pass a partial bill…

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Donny being the whiz-bang of a “thinker” that he is, has deployed ICEholes to airports to pretend they’re TSA. Qualifications? Pshaw! Since when have qualifications been important to this regime? But here’s the thing: in sending ICE to work TSA, 47 has also ordered the ICEholes to remove their masks while working TSA!

So, two things. One, the entire point of the funding battle is to get ICEholes to remove their masks. It’s a whole thing, with the end result being that ICEholes are removing their masks anyway. ALSO, since ICEholes are removing their masks in airports, people moving through with their phones should take photos of the agents, while their faces are uncovered. Then, later, when the masks go back up, we can match the photos with masks to the photos without masks and more easily identify killers…

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Mail in ballots are a fraud? He says this as he takes his own mail-in ballot to the post and mails it. Yet again, Donny has found something that HE gets that YOU don’t. Like, health care. Gasoline. A place to live. Decent food…

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Well, this should be interesting. President Pedo has set up an energy embargo against Cuba. Because he attacked Iran, the world is suffering oil disruptions like the world has never seen before. Big disruptions. Huge disruptions. Donny thought he would address that problem he made by lifting sanctions on Russian oil, thereby helping Russia in it’s fight against Ukraine with a sudden infusion of cash.

Now one of the tankers full of oil Russia is suddenly allowed to sell, despite sanctions, is on it’s way to Cuba to help alleviate their energy crisis. You remember, the one caused by Donny being a dumbass. It’s expected to arrive in Cuba in the next five or six days. The world is wondering how the White House is going to respond.

My guess? Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil. In order to stop the oil, Donny would have to cross Putin. Donny never crosses Putin. What 47 needs now is an excuse, a story to tell. He needs a way to explain why, even though it goes against everything he’s been saying publicly, it’s okay that Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil. But either way, Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil…

Mueller Did NOT Clear Trump…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, thank goodness. It appears our brain-drained, national embarrassment has a plan after all. He told Iran that if they don’t open the Strait of Hormuz, he was going to bomb things. Why didn’t he think of that earlier? I’m sure the idea that bombs might drop will cause the Iranians to stand down and apologize for their “offense” of reacting to having been bombed without cause before.

Well, no, of course that’s not what the Iranians are saying. THEY seem to be taking a page from Donny’s “clever and cagey” book. Why would they tell you what they’re really going to do, right? So they say they’ll bomb US assets in the region, where ever they may be. But that’s probably just clever and cagey talk, right? Iran probably wouldn’t bomb things just because somebody bombed Iran, right?

That was Donny’s clever and cagey strategy with Hormuz in the first place. A General told him not to bomb Iran because Iran could close the strait so easily. Donny, instead, listened to his “gut.” That’s the same “gut” that’s going to tell him when the war is over, by the way. His “gut” told him Iran wouldn’t close the Strait. That was all the evidence he needed. He went ahead with his plan and discovered his “gut” is a lying son-of-a-bitch…

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Hey, I think this is related to the “Israel” portion of Donny’s stupid, illegal war. There has been an uptick in attacks on synagogues. It’s hard to say, for sure, living in such a blatantly racist nation like we do, but I suspect at least some of the attacks are in protest against the actions of the Israeli government. If you think attacking a synagogue is an appropriate response to the actions of a government, stop it.

I know what politicians say. They say what they need to say to appease their voters. But the Israeli government is no more loyal to Judaism than the US government is loyal to Christianity. That is, not at all. Lip service is required. Actual practice is not. Blowing up – or driving into – synagogues is not sending a message. It’s just killing innocent people who have no more control over what’s happening in their name than you have over control of what’s happening in your name…

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Robert Mueller has died. Mueller discovered that the Russians did, in fact, interfere in the 2016 “election.” The second line of Mueller’s report read: “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” That’s pretty clear. So, obviously, Donny effing hated Mueller.

Mueller also reported this: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state.” He added, “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Mueller added that the only reason he didn’t bring criminal charges against The Felon is because he thought he couldn’t because of a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel. That suggests that if there had been no memo, there would have been charges.

Mueller also noted that Donny tried really hard to obstruct his investigation. The primary reason he wasn’t as successful as he wanted to be is because many of his staff at the time were still more loyal to the law, the country, and their own futures than to him, unlike the staff of toadies merrily destroying things today. The result was, they often declined his requests, resigning instead.

Trump told White House Counsel Don McGhan to tell Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Special Counsel Mueller, then lie about his recollection of the President’s request. That’s probably completely unrelated to Trump, when answering written questions, claiming HE couldn’t recall things more than thirty times.

By the time the Mueller Report came out, Donny had a loyal toady in control of the DOJ. Bill Barr stashed the report – illegally, mind you – on a stand-alone computer and put out a “summary” that declared Trump cleared of all charges. Mueller gave a presser in which he insisted that was NOT what his report concluded but MAGA media ran with Barr’s false message and to this day, MAGA believes Donny was exonerated. He wasn’t.

But see, that was Donny getting away with it – again. (Satan really does take care of his own.) I see it, in part, as the reason Donny is so smugly certain he’ll get away with this Trump/Epstein cover-up, too…

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Remember when Texas said they were going to redistrict to make sure Texas turned red permanently? Remember when California, in response, said, “Okay, we’ll redistrict, too, to make California blue.” Republicans really loved the ‘cheat for red’ concept but felt tricked by the ‘cheat for blue’ response. And, yes, gerrymandering IS cheating, blue or red.

Texas’s map was challenged in court and shot down as likely illegal in lower courts but finally, the corrupt Supremely Kangaroo Court stepped in and saved them. California used a careful, well-thought-out process. We had an election and passed Proposition 50. The majority approved. The new maps were put in place. Lawsuits were filed but the process was found legal so it’s going forward.

Now there’s a sheriff in Riverside, California, Chad Bianco, who is “investigating” Prop 50. He has seized 650,000 ballots. He’s trying to prove that Democrats cheated in the election by adding votes. Sure, it’s a stupid position but it’s near and dear to the MAGA heart. They’re constantly amazed that their hate-filled, horrifying, failed and irrational positions don’t resonate with more voters. The only thing their microscopic minds can imagine is that Democrats must cheat.

Democrats don’t need to cheat for things like this. Proposition 50 was a rational and predictable response to an irrational attack from red states. California didn’t start this, Texas did. I don’t even like gerrymandering. I think both gerrymandering AND the winner-take-all electoral distribution corrupt elections and disenfranchise voters. Both should be barred by law.

I don’t care who counts votes, so long as the process is transparent and repeatable. Have at it. But it turns out, Chad is a Republican and is running for Governor of the state. That seems like something of a conflict of interest, to me. It’s to his personal advantage to find some “problem” with the voting. Some people have enough integrity to pull something like that off, but I haven’t seen it from a Republican in a long, long time…

I Would LOVE To Have A Dance Party…

by MyBaconPress

One of the things that happened in the immediate aftermath of 47 illegally killing Iran’s Ayatollah in 47’s illegal war was video of Iranians dancing in happiness that the Ayatollah is gone. That was supposed to “justify” his illegal invasion. “See? The Iranian people are happy we did this,” we were told, “so it’s okay.”

If the message is that it’s okay to eliminate a nation’s leader – or even their “leader” – if some people would come out into the streets and dance, I can think of at least one nation in which about 300 million people would hit the streets dancing, if only some foreign nation would do them that favor.

Yeah, I only mentioned 300 million people dancing in a nation of about 340 million. Some of the MAGA wouldn’t be happy. (Some would.) That happened in Iran, too. Yes, there was video of people dancing. There were also protest rallies. Oh, and it turns out, people who don’t even like their horrible leaders might react badly to having their countries bombed anyway.

But I’ll tell you this: if “dance party” is the criteria for acceptability of eliminating leaders someone doesn’t like, we could have the greatest dance party in history – and it would last a long, long time…

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CBS is being gutted. They’ve taken the saying, “No news is good news” to a ridiculous extreme. Paramount is working overtime to dismantle any credibility CBS ever had. That’s their plan for CNN and Warner Brothers, too: convert useful information into fawning coverage of Dim Leader.

This merger shouldn’t be allowed. It WILL be, of course. Not only did we abandon good rules about media monopolies, Dim Leader LIKES the idea of controlling the media and the message. On the up side, it should save many of us money in monthly subscriptions…

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Oh, crap, NOW that idiot is floating the idea of putting ICEholes in airports in place of TSA. Can you imagine that? “You tried to bring this oversized shampoo onto one of our planes?” Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! (Reloads) Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! “Uh, I feared for my life.”

Incels working TSA? Hell, the groping, alone, is reason enough not to go there. Donny will never think of that, though. To him, groping is just something one does to pass the time. It won’t be his concern. Oh, look, yet another area of life Donny is sticking his nose into and messing up. That guy destroys everything he touches. Everything.

I’ll tell you the truth. Sometimes, I don’t believe his magical ability to destroy anything and everything is accidental. It’s not even down to incompetence. After a while, his destructive runs go on for SO long and are so completely consistent, I begin to suspect he might have a team of people around him, working day and night, coming up with new and better ways to undermine the US of A. I actually and honestly start to believe failure – or the appearance of failure – is the goal.

I say, “the appearance of failure” because normal people assume he has normal goals. But with Donny, his only goal is to get rich while staying out of jail. He does things people pay him to do. He doesn’t care if his actions directly contradict earlier positions or about the outcome so long as he, personally, gets to pocket lots and lots of money…

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Speaking of money, hold on to yours. Or not. I suspect it’s about to become worthless. Okay, ‘worthless’ might be a bit hyperbolic. Then again, it might not. Because he’s stupid, Donny has been trying to get rid of Jerome Powell, the Chairperson of the Federal Reserve Board. The Felon wants Powell out because Powell keeps doing his job properly and won’t just do whatever some dumbass tells him to do.

I point to the “stupid” part because Donny is SO impatient to get rid of Powell he has been attacking him in any way, in every way, he can think of. The stupid part? Powell’s term ends in May. Donny doesn’t have to take any action to get rid of Powell. Powell is gone no matter what. Donny attacked anyway.

Donny wants a toady. Donny thinks he needs a toady. Donny doesn’t realize that Powell has been saving his bacon by keeping the economy even somewhat stable in the face of near-felonious recklessness on Donny’s part by making solid determinations about our situation and responding accordingly.

Donny wants lower interest rates, making it easier for rich people to get their hands on more borrowed money, and he doesn’t care about the fallout. Likely, he doesn’t understand the fallout. But when Donny posts a toady to the Fed, a guy who does as he’s told, when he’s told, the dollar becomes an unstable investment and investors will flee. Ultimately, this could lead to wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread – and it starts in May…

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A guy named Mark Robinson ran for governor of North Carolina. During the campaign, he was accused by CNN of inflammatory and racist posts on a porn site. He denied the charges, then went on to get his ass kicked in the election. Now, he’s out there confessing: “I lied.”

He says he lied about the CNN report to protect those around him, including President Donald Trump, because it was “the most expedient thing to do.” Then he added, just to make sure we understand about the Republican way, “If I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do.” Lying. He felt like lying was “the right thing to do.”

There have been some attempts at teaching morality in the past. I wonder what they say about lying and whether it’s “the right thing to do.” Oh, look, here’s one now. Proverbs 6:12 says, “A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord.”

‘Winking with the eye’ is a Biblical term for “lying because you think it’s the right thing to do.” There aren’t any examples where ‘winking with the eye’ is presented as a good thing…

Saying Everything Means Nothing…

by MyBaconPress

On Thursday, I posted this: “The dumbass is forever claiming that he talked with this hidden person or that unnamed group and got exactly the answers – and support – he wants. Then when asked for the identities of the people or groups involved always, always, ALWAYS says, “I’m not going to tell you that.”

I’m starting to suspect he might be making stuff up…”

I wrote that because Donny had claimed he had spoken to “one of our ex-Presidents.” He said the unnamed ex-President told him he thought the war was a great idea and that said unnamed ex-President wished HE had done the same. “There,” Donny thought, “Now they’ll think it was good idea.” The press asked him which ex-President and that’s when Donny whipped out his, “I’m not going to tell you that” lie, er, line.

It’s weird he does stuff like that. I mean, the press knows where ALL of the living ex-Presidents are. I assume the trumpster was referring to a living ex-President. So did the press, so they went to each of the living ex-Presidents and asked if they had spoken to any Dumbasses recently. They ALL said no.

It was such an easy lie to debunk. He just pitches stuff out there and expects people to believe him based on, what, his long record of honesty? But, see, MAGA won’t check. His claim that he talked to an ex-President who approved of the action will be put on a loop and broadcast into MAGA minds all day. MAGA media will, simply, not mention the fact-check. After a couple of days of that, MAGA will wholeheartedly approve of his illegal war…

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Speaking of which, Donny has now said that he’s thinking about ‘winding down’ his war. Well, awesome. Quick question: do you think Israel is ready to wind down, too? Do you expect Iran to just… accept that it’s time to ‘wind down’ their response to your illegal attack? I won’t spend too much time on those questions, since The Felon is ALSO saying it’s time for American boots on the ground.

So to recap, we’ve won, we’re winning, and we’re about to win. We’re done so we’re leaving but there’s more to do so we’re putting boots on the ground. Iran’s military capability is decimated but we need help in the Strait of Hormuz because of all that military capability Iran is bringing, and the whole thing started in the first place because we had to stop them from getting a bomb we stopped them from getting six months ago.

Pick a preference. Donny has proclaimed it so you can choose that statement from his word salad and feel comforted. But Donny has said everything, which means nothing…

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Since stealing his way back into office, trump has been working overtime to hook the US on fossil fuels again and move away from renewables and electric vehicles (EVs). At least, that’s what he has said. But I can’t think of a better way to encourage people to buy EVs or install solar panels than raising the cost of a gallon of gas to $7 dollars or a barrel of oil to $200 dollars. I know people who have already traded in their gas cars for hybrids or EVs.

Now if we can just get the powers that be to allow the sale of Chinese EVs in the US. Word is, they’re better than other EVs in just about every way. Capitalism being what it is, that’s a better mousetrap, right? The world wants to beat a path to China’s EV door. So, Capitalism being what it is, tariffs keep Chinese EVs out of the US pretty much entirely.

Competition in markets is good, right? Well, unless the competition is good. Quality competition is, it appears, problematic and “unfair.” Capitalism being what it is…

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The World Happiness Report was released! I’ve been waiting and waiting. The happiest country on Earth? For the Ninth year running? Finland. The least happy is Afghanistan. The US ranked 23rd. I suspect our ranking is a bit high, these days. I don’t know ANYBODY who’s happy. Yeah, sure, we all have happy moments or even good days, but, overall? People aren’t happy right now…

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Remember the kerfuffle over 47 going to the dignified transfer of remains wearing a baseball cap? It turns out, when it comes to disrespecting fallen soldiers, that was nothing. He used photos of himself at the dignified transfer wearing his baseball cap in a fundraising message.

That seems kind of counter-intuitive, to me. He’s asking for money using imagery around American soldiers HE got killed by his own stupid actions. How is that NOT, “Send me money and I’ll give you more of this?” So, have at it, MAGA. Send your money AND your children. Donny sure as hell ain’t sending his…

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Alright, Fetterman, your cover is blown. You might as well fess up, officially switch to Team Evil, and announce your MAGA loyalties. I shouldn’t be surprised. Fetterman has had several heart attacks. Heart attacks often affect the brain. Brain damage is a key element of MAGA. But he ought to stop hiding behind the ‘D’ after his name and claim his true loyalty, ‘T.’ I hope Pennsylvania will vote in a Democrat soon…

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Yes, this war IS a distraction, but none of us have forgotten that Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein were best friends, and likely in cahoots in a sex-trafficking ring, for years. There’s LOTS of evidence in the files – even as Team Evil tries to hide any evidence that implicates 47. Now there are even suggestions of bodies being buried at Epstein’s old ranch. Nothing has been proven, yet, so bear that in mind.

But it turns out, the DOJ wanted to search that ranch based on charges and evidence before. Guess who intervened to stop that from happening? No, go ahead, guess. You’ll never– Oh, yeah, that’s right, Donald Trump. It was 2019. New Mexico was looking into Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s ranch nicknamed “Playboy Ranch” among the locals. Trump’s DOJ demanded the case be handed to the Feds, then shut the case down.

There are several whispers of odd deaths around the trumpster through the years. Nothing proven, of course. But even with his first wife, Ivana, there are whispers. Now, I remember the ‘Clintons killed all these people’ scam so I’m very aware of how easy it is to whisper. I’ve mostly ignored those charges as noise until now. But now?

I’ve wondered why the now-women in the sex trafficking ring don’t just come out publicly and start naming names. But if ‘death’ is a real possibility for them if they talk, I can see wanting to remain in the shadows. Even with strength in numbers, there might be a risk. DID Virginia Giuffre commit suicide?

So anyway, New Mexico is searching the Zorro Ranch property. People can whisper and point fingers and make suggestions, assertions, and outright accusations all they want to, but authorities aren’t going to expend precious resources on gossip. Something has them interested in taking a closer look. I’m not saying guilty or not guilty. The facts get to determine that, not me.

But it’s just weird, isn’t it? At every turn, if at all possible, Donald Trump has been impeding and/or blocking this investigation going back years, now. He made special arrangements to ensure one of his co-conspirators, Ghislaine, is more comfortable in prison for her part in the scheme. His other one-time best friend and likely partner died under mysterious circumstances and can no longer squeal.

It begs the question: why would Donald Trump work SO hard to quell an investigation into a crime that he insists doesn’t touch him at all? If he’s not doing that with EVERY investigation, why the attention on this one? What is Trump’s connection with this case that makes him so determined to make sure the facts never see the light of day? Why would an innocent man do that? Inquiring minds want to know…

Donny’s Damn, Dirty War…

by MyBaconPress

I saw a headline that read: ‘Trump relied on unverified intelligence to blame Iran for deadly school strike.’ Quick question, isn’t ALL “intelligence” trump “relies on” unverified? I mean, I haven’t seen any evidence of intelligence, have you?

Ego? Hell yes. He has that in spades. When General Dan Caine warned him that attacking Iran would likely result in Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, 47 just randomly decided that Iran wouldn’t do that. He also talked all puffy chested about how the US military would handle it. The General has been studying war for his entire career. Donny likes boobies. The General’s opinion on war has higher value in my mind. Oh, and if you feel like debating the point, you lose. The General was right, the dumbass was wrong. Experts vs boobs. Same as it ever was.

The problem is this: if you get in a row with a bee, one bee, you can likely win that “fight.” If you smack an entire beehive, you aren’t going to beat them. You’re going to run – if you can. Donny smacked a beehive based on some of that unverified intelligence. Now he’s surrounded by drones and mines, flailing but failing. He’s gone so far as to ask Ukraine for anti-drone technology.

The irony is so palpable one could pick it up and snuggle with it. 47 betrayed Ukraine. His loyalty to Putin FAR outweighed his obligation under a treaty. He once told Ukrainian President Zelenskyy that he – Zelenskyy – “doesn’t have the cards.” Zelenskyy has some cards now, doesn’t he?

The US NEEDS Ukrainian drone intercept technology – ironically, technology Ukraine was forced to develop because the US betrayed their obligation to Ukraine. Yeah, it looks like Zelenskyy might be holding a winning hand, after all.

So, even though the US can do everything alone and better than anyone and doesn’t need any of YOUR stupid help, Donny asked for help from countries he has spent the last fourteen months castigating and insulting. They were sort of, “Nah. Your war, your problem.” The press reported the whole thing and our Fearful Misleader ended up looking like a moron, so, you know, accurate.

Trump keeps messing things up, then bitching that reporting his errors and failures is treason. Ah, I see. It’s the reporting that’s the problem. But if nobody can talk about him when he messes up, nobody can talk about him. I guess rather than reporting that our one-time allies refused his request, the press should have said they thought it was a great idea and they really wanted to help but they had to, uh, wash their hair that night…

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Holy crap, is this Donny’s latest plan to manipulate the 2026 midterms? Destroy the entire planet and wipe out humanity before November? More of that unverified intelligence. Sadly, he seems on track. He can’t lose in the midterms if there are no people left to vote…

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Chris Murphy wrote, “Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.” The thing is, The First Felon’s ego controls Donny, not his tiny, little intellect. His ego won’t let him stop.

Dear MAGA, you were saying something about Kamala starting WW III?

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Pay attention, MAGA. One of your own, Joe Kent – and, yes, he was, too, one of your own – stepped down from his position as Director of the National Counter-terrorism Center where he had overseen the analysis of terrorist threats. He said in his resignation that he didn’t think Iran was an imminent threat. He was in a position to know.

My understanding is that Kent is a terrible person in exactly the way a good MAGA is supposed to be. But he was a Green Beret. He saw combat in eleven deployments, fercrissakes. He understands threats AND he understands what it means to be in combat. He came into conflict with official MAGA policy over his lived experience. He didn’t directly criticize 47. That’s not allowed. But he DID say he disagreed with Donny’s determination that Iran was an imminent threat.

And there it is. One, momentary, accidental attack of conscience and he’s out. Not just out, though. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a report that the FBI is investigating Kent for allegedly leaking classified information. No, we’re assured, the investigation started LONG before Kent bent the knee to reality, even for a moment. It’s just a coincidence that we’re only hearing about it now, for the first time, after he stepped down.

No amount of loyalty with protect you, MAGA. Sooner or later, the Mad Despot might well cross something YOU understand and believe in. I know it’s hard to imagine. MAGA already supports him in killing their parents and in raping their kids, so I have no idea where a “line” might be, but neither did Kent. And when it DID happen to him, his previous faith didn’t – doesn’t – help him…

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The dumbass is forever claiming that he talked with this hidden person or that unnamed group and got exactly the answers – and support – he wants. Then when asked for the identities of the people or groups involved always, always, ALWAYS says, “I’m not going to tell you that.”

I’m starting to suspect he might be making stuff up…

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Speaking of making stuff up, this is a photo of a burial site being prepared for the bodies of all of those kids killed when the US bombed a school in Iran:

Grave sites being prepared after US bombed a school in Iran.

But if you ask AI, and that’s apparently any of the AI models out there, they’ll each tell you the photo is being misrepresented. They’ll each tell you the photo is from some other disaster in some other part of the world. They’ll tell you authoritatively, like the AI Model in question looked into it and “discovered” the photo elsewhere – but the AI model is making it up.

Industry best guess is that it’s downplaying the photo just as a measure of messing up, so you can feel good about the fact that “they” are putting AI into everything, everywhere, just as fast as they can and your life is being increasingly governed by computers that don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

BUT…I can’t help but wonder if AI is misdirecting information in support of the regime. I’m increasingly less convinced of the left vs right paradigm and more convinced that it’s actually upper vs lower. It could be the One Percent deflecting criticism by telling their AI to misdirect. That is, lie. The US bombing a school is a bad look. It might make people feel badly about a war-that’s-not-a-war and reduce already non-existent support.

To add to the confusion, photos DO get repurposed, purporting to show something that actually happened elsewhere. In truth, I see that more from the right than the left, but maybe I’m supposed to. Just know, this is a photo of a burial site being prepared for the bodies of all of those kids killed when the US bombed a school in Iran…

Wreckage…

by MyBaconPress

So, did you notice how many times the US has insisted they can go it alone and don’t need anybody and we’re Number One and you’re Number Who Cares and leave us alone because we’re the best and we can do anything and we don’t need you or anyone else? It turns out, that may have been idle blather.

Now Donny’s out there, begging other countries to join in on his damn dirty war. “We can’t do it alone.” Really? What happened to ‘America first’ and ‘we don’t need anybody else?’ Does anything he says turn out to be correct? Anything at all? As it happens, Europe is resisting calls to get involved. Sure, they want the oil but they don’t want to get caught up in an illegal war.

It turns out, unlike the US, Europe still has some competent leadership and they prefer to stay out of this mess. Donny is doing what he can. He’s having a proper temper tantrum and he’s making wild-eyed threats. Europe remains “cautious.” I think Europe has the correct position. Donny thinks he can do this alone? Let him do it alone…

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It looks like Team Evil is trying to bring their lying “two week” doctrine to his stupid and illegal war. You know the one. 47 has been promising for YEARS now that he has plans for various things. His big brilliant plan for – whatever the topic – will be revealed in “about two weeks.” Whenever he wants something to go away, he tells everyone the solution will be revealed in “about two weeks.”

So far, though, nothing. Nada. Zip. ‘Infrastructure Week’ became a running joke. We’re STILL waiting to hear his concepts of a plan for health care. (I think it’s: “Die!”) On issue after issue we get the same: in two weeks. Because this is war, he seems to have built in a third week. We were told this would be a quick little excursion. I can’t think of a war that wasn’t sold, in part, with the claim that it would be easy and fast.

We heard a few days, then “about three weeks.” Well, we’re three weeks in and guess what? Israel just announced they’ve got a LOT more bombs to drop and it’s going to take them about, wait for it, three more weeks to get ‘er done. “Three weeks” becomes months becomes years…

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One of the things Team Evil did when they first took over was start slashing offices and budgets. You remember. They did it without regard to any considerations at all. They just saw a department and slashed it. The thinking was, if we overdid it somewhere, we’ll just bring that select group back. Since then, they’ve had to go back and bring back huge numbers of the people who had been laid off because, as it happens, they did important jobs.

I know what Lyin’ President Pedo said, but it turns out that the US government, large as it was, was actually a rather lean, mean machine. The population kept getting larger but the government remained essentially the same size. That’s better efficiency. And even THAT happened while conservatives were actively working to undermine the government. So, as it happens, the whole waste, fraud, and abuse crap was, itself, an abusive fraud. But they slashed away anyway.

Whiskey Pete did that at the Pentagon but the office HE slashed was the one that made sure the military was using current information. Hegseth was warned by professionals who know what they’re talking about. He was told it was a mistake to cut the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence and other similar initiatives at American command posts. But, of course, these fools think experts know nothing and the Know-Nothings are experts.

That’s why they bombed the girls school, killing so many. Outdated information. They used outdated information in February 2026 because they randomly attacked the office that would have prevented that in 2025. I guess they’d better bring back that staff. I wonder what their plan is to bring back all of those innocent children…

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I’ll tell you this: WW III has certainly dropped the Trump/Epstein Files off the front page. Now seems like an excellent time to remind everyone that Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein were best friends, and likely in cahoots in a sex-trafficking ring, for years…

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Well, it’s fair to say he conquered morally stupid people. He did it bloodlessly, through silver-tongued promises. That’s the White Horse. Next comes the Red Horse, War and Bloodshed. Check. The Black Horse is Famine. It’s on the way. I mean, if you don’t think his loyal dedication to fossil fuels is going to have any effect, you’re not paying attention.

American farmers are already having troubles because of his stupid tariffs. They can’t get the fertilizers they need. They don’t have markets to sell to. American farming is in extreme upheaval – all because of “decisions” and choices made by Donald J. Trump. If crops don’t even go into the ground because farmers can’t get or afford what they need to grow things, what do we eat after what should have been the harvest?

The Pale Rider, Pestilence and Death has already been unleashed, as well. If you’re unaware, pestilence is disease and illness. You know, along the lines of what RFK, Jr is unleashing on our once great nation through a campaign of misinformation and outright lies. Measles or Polio anyone?

Donald Trump has unleashed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I’ve noticed. One would imagine those “Christians” might have noticed. I guess they’re just Christian-ish…

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The largest ever single day drop of the stock market happened on this day in 2020. Remember who was President in 2020? Now he’s crashing the market again. Standard GOP stuff, crashed economy and foreign wars. Republican presidents do it every time. Oh, man, I hope 47’s not trying to beat his previous personal best/worst. It was pretty bad…

Who Hurts And Who Doesn’t…

by MyBaconPress

You don’t get health care. It’s too expensive. You don’t get housing relief. It’s too expensive. You don’t get any services or support whatsoever. It’s too expensive. But Whiskey Pete Hegseth gets to spend $93 BILLION dollars – in one month – on lobster, crab, and a Grand Piano…

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Insufficient information. It’s a hallmark of conservative “thought.” They keep prattling on about a 47 year war with Iran. That’s because Iranians captured the American embassy in 1979 and held the workers hostage for over a year. It turned out, the Reagan campaign had (allegedly) made an illegal deal with the hostage takers to hold them until after the election when he would reward them with weapons. They did and he did. Really, that was treason.

BUT… that wasn’t the first shot in our troubled history with Iran. That was a response to our first shot in Iran. During the 1950’s, one of the very first foreign entanglements of the at-the-time nascent CIA was to overthrow the Democratic Republic the Iranians had just installed and return the Shah – a king – to power. It was deemed better for the oil markets if Iran stayed tied to the Shah so the Democratic Republic had to go.

THAT is what led to the current political structure in Iran. THAT is what led the Iranians to capture the embassy in the first place…

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On March 7th, trump characterized his illegal war in Iran as an “excursion.” Some people think he recently learned the word “incursion” and tried to use it like a big boy, only to mess it up like a trump. So, quick question: if you’re the parent of one of the soldiers who have died because of Donny’s damn dirty war, how do you feel about hearing your beloved child died during a quick little excursion?

It’s okay, though, because on March 9th, he declared the war “very complete.” What a relief. Gas prices were spiking in the way he was warned but didn’t believe. By the 10th, Whiskey Pete was simultaneously bragging about all that great bombing we’re doing but assuring everyone we can stop whenever we want.

Oh, but then the 11th got here. Trump insisted there was “practically nothing left to target,” and declared that “we won,” but then changed “we won” to “we still have to win this thing.” By the 12th he was back to tough talk and focused on bombing – in an illegal war HE started and that, according to him, we had already won. It could just be me, but I’m of the opinion that if a war is won, one can stop with the bombing, right?

On the 13th, Whiskey Pete again highlighted some damage done by the US/Israeli assault and declared Iran’s leaders desperate and in hiding. Iran responded by pointing out that OUR leaders all seem to be on Epstein Island. Then the trumpster insisted his record oil prices are a temporary blip and the war will be over when he feels it in his bones. Meanwhile, Iran doesn’t seem to know it’s over since they keep firing weapons we’re assured they don’t have at ships in the Strait of Hormuz, choking off the oil supply in exactly the way trump was sure they would not.

Today, word is -according to the most dishonest regime in US history – Iran wants to make a deal but the US isn’t ready because the terms aren’t good enough. Meanwhile, weapons Iran doesn’t have continue to wreak havoc and we’re still bombing despite his war being “very complete” days ago and, of course, people are still dying. That doesn’t sound over, to me.

Trump sure does look like a buffoon doesn’t he? So, you will not be surprised to notice, MAGA is coming to terms with his illegal forever-war of regime change and they’re increasingly on board, if polling is to be believed. No, it doesn’t make sense to me, either. The dumber that guy looks the more aggressively MAGA defends him – and, boy, are they having to be aggressive right now…

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Trump: “If I didn’t terminate the Iran Nuclear deal, this world, right now, would be a different place.” Sometimes, he tells the truth by accident…

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That moron has never said anything other than high energy prices are bad and destructive – until his damn, dirty war increased energy prices higher than most people can even remember. Now, all of a sudden, high energy prices are good for the US. Why? Because we produce more oil than any other country so more expensive energy means more money for us. “US,” he says, knowing full well it means more money for oil companies, not Joe Sixpack.

So, not only has he completely flipped on high energy prices, he has ALSO just discredited his own “drill, baby, drill” message by pointing that we already produce more oil than anybody. Why the hell would we need to produce even more? He’s just stupid on stupid…

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Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the Straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.” Well, duh. Except, you know, Iran IS doing that and they intend to KEEP doing that in response to Donny’s damn, dirty war…

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“…people have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is. But over the last year, the world has witnessed the supreme power of the United States. We’re the most powerful military country in the world.” That’s trump, during a speech. It’s unclear how the “supreme power of the United States” relates to a “good interpreter.”

I CAN tell you this, though. Being “the most powerful military country in the world” is often the very last “most” empires get. In fact, HAVING the most powerful military in the world is often the very thing that puts the final nail in an empire’s coffin. It’s very expensive. The US has been working feverishly, day and night, to reduce revenues to the state but increase output to the Pentagon for 46 years. Donny wants to add billions more – to well over a trillion dollars of the US budget.

It’s a last gasp. Of course Donny was running the show when it ran into the ground. It’s what he does…

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Speaking of which, his website for deplorables, so-called ‘Truth Social,’ is crashing and burning financially. The company that owns it, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has burned through a rather stunning amount of cash. $712.1 million dollars, in fact, on revenues of $3.7 million. At one point, shares of TMTG went for nearly $80 dollars/share. Now it’s down to $9.73 and dropping.

Fear not, most of the executives managed to enrich themselves by selling off their shares before the plunge got too bad. Now the shareholders are his day-to-day, rank-and-file loyalists. The little guys will be the only people hurt in the crash – just the way Donny likes it…

Narcissism On Steroids…

by MyBaconPress

Team Evil is invoking Jimmy Carter’s name in their battle against mail-in ballots. There’s a word for what they’re doing: lying. According to Carter’s family, he supported mail-in ballots and voted by mail himself, so of course Team Evil will say the exact opposite. It’s what they do.

Trump appears nearly desperate to get his vote-shaving SAVE Act passed. He needs to get rid of mail-in ballots because he’ll lose if people use them. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe that. HE believes that. He KNOWS it. He CAN rig voting machines. He can NOT rig mail-in ballots as easily.

MAGA Mike, the Johnson tried to get 47 to pay attention to something other than himself for a moment and, according to Johnson, the result was not good. Johnson tried to get 47 to support a housing bill purportedly intended to help average American afford housing. According to Johnson, Old Man Drumpfster shouted at Johnson, “Nobody gives a ‘bleep’ about housing.” The ‘bleep’ was Johnson, self-censoring the actual word used. Frankly, I think Donny is wrong. I think everybody cares about housing. In fact, I would suggest that people care MORE about housing than they do about eliminating mail-in ballots.

But Donny doesn’t know or care what people think, need, or want. He cares what HE wants – and what HE wants is to stay President and keep his cash cow delivering forever. I’ve come to realize something. As a dedicated malignant narcissist, trump doesn’t care about anything or anyone other than himself. That’s ever, about anything. So when he says, “Nobody cares…” he means HE doesn’t care. And when he says “Everybody’s saying?” Those are the voices in his head. That is, HE is saying.

So, as an example, when he said, “Nobody gives a ‘bleep’ about housing,” he meant HE doesn’t give a bleep about housing, see? Your housing problems, see, the ones caused by him and his rich friends? Yeah, those are YOUR problems. HIS problem is rigging the election to ensure victory for himself so he gets to stay in the White House and he gets to avoid prison. Your problems are your problems. His problems are “important.”

Remember, he said, “It will guarantee the mid-terms.” He added, “You will win the mid-terms and you will win every election for a long time.” So tell me, how is that NOT confessing that he’s rigging the vote? How can he guarantee wins for the GOP in a fair and honest election? Hey, if the GOP thinks the game should be to rig the outcome to ensure victory for one party, shouldn’t the DEMS try to do that, too? I still prefer fair and honest elections, but, apparently, I’m in the minority in the US today. I’m still on the right side of history, though…

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“For reasons of ‘decency,'” he said, “I have chosen NOT to wipe out the oil infrastructure…” More disingenuous trump-speak. What he means is, his handlers told him not to hurt the oil infrastructure. Oil, they think, has value. Compare that to, say, bombing a school and killing a couple of hundred children. I HAVE noticed that he hasn’t expressed any remorse over that. Apparently, they had no value to him.

He didn’t display any reasons of decency when he was killing those kids. He didn’t display any reasons of decency when he was raping those other kids. He didn’t display any reasons of decency when he was raping E Jean Carroll or any of the other women. He didn’t display any reasons of decency when he was committing his business fraud. He didn’t display any reasons of decency when he was mocking a disabled reporter.

I’ll tell you this: I’m pretty much of the opinion that Donald J. Trump doesn’t ever get to talk to me about “decency.” Ever…

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I saw a headline in the Guardian that read, “Seven in ten Americans say Trump tariffs caused higher prices.” The other three know it, too, but they’re loyalist MAGA and they believe that if they never say it, it can’t be true. It turns out, though, it’s true anyway…

So far, he has crashed the economy exactly how he said Kamala would have done and he seems to be starting WW III, exactly how he said Kamala would have done. He’s unleashing dreaded illnesses to wreak havoc once again and he’s doing ALL of it while defending his “right” to rape our children. Some of us think all of that is wrong. MAGA just loves their Precious…

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Netflix has a new movie out called ‘Nuremberg.’ It’s VERY good and I highly recommend it. I’m about to write about it, including the end. I figure, you all know what happened to Hermann Göring after WWII, or you should. You DID take high school history and they cover the war and it’s aftermath. But consider this a spoiler alert. If you plan to watch the movie, you don’t know about Göring after the war, and/or you don’t want to “spoil the surprise,” stop here.

The movie focuses on the Nuremberg Trials that took place after WW II in an effort to hold the remaining officials of the Nazi party to account, the highest-ranking remaining of which was Hermann Göring. Transcripts of that trial exist to this day and the movie makers used the actual dialogue from the trial in the movie. Fascinating stuff. As I listened to Göring talk, I was struck by how much it sounded exactly like the trumpster.

I mean, DURING the movie, I was thinking, “Oh, MAGA isn’t going to like this. They’re going to think the movie was made to take a dig at Donny.” Hell, I thought so. But I went back and verified the dialogue was taken directly from the transcripts, like MAGA won’t do. Nuremberg has nothing to do with Donny and yet, it sounds exactly like Donny. Freakishly so, I would say.

Now, truthfully, I suspect Göring was FAR smarter than Donny, though that’s not saying much. But the two men are clearly and absolutely damaged in exactly the same way with very similar outcomes as “human beings” (sic). Göring, too, believed he was omniscient and omnipotent, just like Trump. Göring believed he was just a better person than others, except Hitler, of course.

There’s an interesting footnote in the movie, at the end. A couple of characters are talking, one of them a born German, who told the other one that the Nazis were able to rise in Germany for one reason: the German people let them. They didn’t try to stand up until it was too late. Simple as that.

The Germans rallied around Hitler because he promised to save the day. He promised to make Germans proud to be German again. He promised to solve their problems. He ordered the VW bug and built the Autobahn as evidence of his intentions. He even knew who was causing the problems in the first place: Jews – and then anybody who disagreed with him. It wasn’t until later that everyone discovered he didn’t really have any plans to benefit Germany. He intended to benefit himself. Does ANY of that sound familiar?

Look around you. We’re living though the resurrection of the Nazi party here in the US. Different name, of course. Different uniforms. Different “leaders.” But the same hateful, destructive rhetoric. Trump has the plan. Trump will save the day. Trump even knows who is causing the problems in the first place: brown people. Trump will Make German, er, America Great Again. And the worst part is, the American people are just letting it happen.

The German people had an excuse we don’t get. They had never seen anything like the Nazis before. Americans don’t have that excuse. We HAVE seen this before. Hell, we’ve made movies about it. It leaves me wondering how we’re going to explain to the world what we did – or didn’t do – after the smoke clears and the dust settles…

SAVE And The Shiny Shoes…

by MyBaconPress

So… he’s just straight up, flat-out insane, isn’t he? He has these delusions. He believes things that aren’t real. THEN, he wants us all to live our lives according to his delusions. That’s crazy. Totally effing crazy. Right now, I’m talking about his delusions regarding voter fraud but it could be anything. He says he’s not going to sign any more legislation until he gets his stupid, whiny way on voting. He thinks it’s very important to protect the vote from the failures he made up in his own weak-ass mind.

He’s looking for his base to pass the SAVE act, so called because it’s the only way he’s going to SAVE his ass from prosecution. If he can’t corrupt elections, he’ll be impeached and removed. Everyone – EVERYONE – knows it. It’s a laundry list of made up stuff. Well, except for one thing. He wants mail-in ballots banned for most people. That’s because he CAN manipulate the machines but he can NOT manipulate mail-in ballots. If we vote on paper, like we should, he loses, like he should.

For reasons that make no sense, whatsoever, he also wants his SAVE act to attack trans people. The assault has nothing to do with elections. Nothing whatsoever. Yet there it is, and he insists on it. Dems are refusing to participate and for my part, I hope the Dems hold the line. THEN, President Pedo came right out – as he does – and spilled the beans. The SAVE Act will, he assures everyone, “guarantee the midterms.”

To my ear that sounds like he’s confessing to the rigging of the election. How else might one “guarantee” elections? Putin can guarantee elections. Kim Jung Un can guarantee elections. A US President shouldn’t be able to guarantee elections, but the trumpster has just done it. The thing is, they would have to start again to get all of the provisions he’s demanding.

The House sent over a bill with fewer of the things Donny wants. The Senate hasn’t even passed that bill but Donny is demanding more. The Dems said they would not support the SAVE Act and I hope they don’t. I fear that the Dems are paid to lose to the GOP, though, so we’ll have to wait and see. But then, the GOP in the Senate isn’t working on the SAVE Act either.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he won’t move it because the Dems won’t support it. Felon 47 told them to lift the filibuster but Thune hasn’t made any move in that direction, instead saying he needs the House to send him a new bill. MAGA Mike the Johnson hasn’t made any move in THAT direction, either. Now, with trump openly boasting that the SAVE act will permanently rig elections in one party’s favor, it looks like politicians from both sides of the aisle are hesitant to act on it.

But if this thing passes, peaceful revolution will be impossible…

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Even Bush 43, heretofore the worst President in history, stopped golfing after he started his illegal wars. (And, by the way, what IS it with the GOP? It seems every time one of them gets into the White House, they crash the economy and start some war someplace.) Anyway, George said he didn’t think the mother of some fallen soldier would like to see him out golfing and enjoying himself after getting that dreaded letter.

But there was trump, out on the course, giving thumbs up to imagined adoring fans, and wearing that same hat – the one he wore to the dignified transfer and never took off. Completely tone deaf, or just plain lack of caring?

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So, let me make sure I have a solid handle on this: we do NOT have money to help desperately poor Americans receive health care, but we DO have the money to murder children in schoolrooms in foreign countries? Yeah, I’ve got it. I just don’t effing believe it…

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I wonder if the whole shoe thing is a joke to him. If you haven’t heard (and you have) trump is now buying his co-conspirators new shoes. The thing is, he’s not checking sizes. He just buys a pair for someone and then they have to wear them. Also, the appear to be shiny shoes, like one wears with a tuxedo, not office shoes. So there’s Little Marco Rubio, wearing shoes clearly too large for him that are shiny and WILL draw attention. And they do.

JD is sporting a clearly oversized pair as well, making HIM look the fool, too, and I wonder if that’s the point. Is Trump dressing his staff to embarrass them on purpose? It’s a kind of making-them-crawl move meant to publicly humiliate them. I don’t feel sorry for them. Public humiliation is the LEAST of what they should expect when they hitch their wagon to that particular pony…

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First we had, “Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.” That was from our notorious misleader, the figurehead of Team Evil. Now we have some new ones. These are so stupid, they sound like they came from Bush 43 who was infamous for this kind of malapropism. These aren’t single words, though. Behold the wisdom of the Precious:

“All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.” Can you imagine the inhumanity of being dead AND having to walk around on no legs?

“They’re the ones that caused the problem, but we’re really down prices big.” That’s a bonus lie/word salad combination. Only the most addled can pull that one off and that boy is clearly addled…

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Did you notice the pattern? Felon 47 and Israel attacked Iran. Intel came out suggesting Putin was helping Iran. The trumpster and Putin had a phone conversation. Trump lifts some sanctions on Russian oil, helping Russia and harming Ukraine. Then, suddenly, Donny is declaring the war over. Or not. I mean, it is but not yet. We’ve accomplished our goals but not quite.

Then Israel attacked a fuel dump. “Woah, woah, don’t hit anything important!” The US said to Israel.
“You bombed a school full of children!” Israel retorted.
“Yeah, but we didn’t hit OIL! Like we said, nothing important.”
That’s genuinely how those people feel about the little guys. The oil must be protected at all costs. The kids? Collateral damage. Donny didn’t know any of them.

47 keeps barking orders and threats. Iran keeps bombing things – like ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The cost of a gallon of gas jumped by a LOT between last week and this making his damn dirty war a “twofer.” He’s squeezing the American household by radically increasing the cost of living to Americans AND he had initiated exactly the kind of nation-building, regime-change wars he swore over and over never to get into.

I don’t feel betrayed. I never expected anything better from the guy in the first place. Hell, I’m vindicated. But MAGA? I imagine MAGA is feeling a little let down at this moment, now that he’s done the exact opposite of nearly EVERY single campaign promise he has ever made. Now they have to start running around being PRO war and PRO pedophile and PRO job losses and PRO inflation. How humiliating. Hell, he might as well make them wear shiny, oversized shoes out in public. It must be tough to be MAGA these days…

Clever, Not Intelligent…

by MyBaconPress

For various reasons, recently I’ve been contemplating the question of human uniqueness in the galaxy. There’s a possibility that we – humans – are the only, um, “intelligent” species currently in existence anywhere in the galaxy. That’s what we call ourselves, “intelligent.” I see a lot of room for questions. We call ourselves “intelligent” because we’ve decided the criteria to our own advantage. I guess that’s clever. I’ll keep using that description, “intelligent,” since there’s no one around to debate the point. Please just understand, I’m not convinced.

Personally, I don’t really accept that we’re the only. I’m also not a big believer in aliens visiting Earth. But they must be out there. The one fact I have – a thing I know for sure – is that life finds a way. One hears scientists speculate that they can’t see how life could exist in such-and-such an environment only to find such an environment, discover life DOES exist there, and then figure out how. They found a lichen that sucks moisture from rocks! Update the records.

I currently subscribe to the idea that there are other “intelligent” species out there. They rise to a certain technological level – about where we are right now, by the way – and then do something spectacularly stupid – confident, at the time, in their own intelligence. They either wipe themselves out entirely, or knock themselves back to their own Stone Age and have to start again.

But if it IS true that we, the species, are, in fact, the only “intelligent” species ever to rise to this level, we’re sure doing a lousy job of representing “intelligence.” I mean, if we ARE the singular example – and there’s no evidence of aliens elsewhere – don’t we have a high obligation to represent better than we’re doing? Don’t we have a moral obligation to be the best we can be? Is that how it looks to you?

We’ve put ourselves directly on a path to our own destruction. We KNOW it. We’re doing it anyway. “Well, sure, Dan, we ARE going to wipe ourselves out of existence day-after-tomorrow, but we really need to maximize shareholder value today.” That suggests we’ve been FAR to generous in our own description of ourselves. We’ve been, here it is again, clever, not “intelligent.” We find solutions to common problems and we use skills in practical ways. But do we have a high level of understanding and cognitive ability?

Would an intelligent species really just continue to abuse it’s own environment, ignoring each and every warning sign as it comes up? Would a genuinely intelligent species really risk wiping itself off the planet using weapons so powerful we can accomplish that feat by accident? No, there are many, many contraindicators regarding our own, self-described “intelligence.”

The current form of human has been around for something like 300,000 years. It makes sense that, early on, we might have settled differences by trying to kill each other. But 300,000 years later and we STILL haven’t figured out a better, more civilized way? How is that “intelligent?” What we DID was come up with better ways to accomplish the same old goal. Clever.

Early on, there weren’t enough of us to affect our environment. There are now, and we’re doing it. We know we’re doing it. We care, just not enough to stop doing it. It would be very inconvenient. A storm just passed over Michigan and the tornadoes that came with it killed at least six people. The storm-front was born down near Texas and maintained it’s strength as it crossed the continent into Michigan. That’s climate change. More powerful storms. We KNOW it.

We also know what causes it. I’m pretty sure an intelligent species would realize the situation, then seek and implement a better way. We even know the better way we need to pursue! Instead, we’re doubling down on the things we KNOW we need to stop doing if we want to survive this thing. That’s a pretty high stakes game we, the so-called “intelligent” species, are playing.

If we were intelligent, shouldn’t we have left the trappings of ignorance behind by now? Shouldn’t we learn from previous mistakes and find ways to keep from making them again? But we don’t do that. We just keep making the same mistakes, over and over again. That’s not intelligent. But we repeat those mistakes more efficiently and effectively, because we’re clever. Lovely.

As a species, we have (had?) tremendous potential. Unfortunately, our potential has been overshadowed by our application. While we call ourselves “intelligent,” we’re actively involved in exactly the kind of spectacular stupidity that will roll us back to our Stone Age or possibly wipe us out, entirely. Hey, at least we’ll be clever about it…