Bunglers And Fools…

by MyBaconPress

“Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.” That’s Percy Garris, a fictional Bolivian mine boss from the movie ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’ It might as well be 47, though, because he DOES have morons on his team. Take the DOJ. They’re suing someone, Former federal prosecutor Carmen Lineberger, for “leaking” the second part of Jack Smith’s scathing report that summed up all of trump’s crimes and attempted crimes.

That part of the report was SO clear on trump’s crimes, one of his federal judge toadies, Aileen “Loose” Cannon, sealed it and said nobody should see it because of the harm it would do to her Precious. But DID Lineberger “leak” the report? She saved a copy, changed the name to something innocuous, then emailed a copy to herself. There’s no evidence she ever did anything more with it, but the DOJ sued anyway.

Then, as part of the discovery process, because Team Evil is populated by toadies and morons, they accidentally included the very report they’re suing her over and sent it on over. Now I suppose someone in the DOJ is going to have to be sued, too, for leaking the very report they’re suing someone else for leaking. These guys constantly come off like a bad sit-com. I’d be laughing except they’re also so dangerous to everything I hold dear. Someone gave these Keystone Kops real bullets. They’re still bunglers and fools, but they’re very dangerous bunglers and fools…

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My interest in soccer is generally quite low. I’m not much of a fan of the game. In this World Cup, I’ve watched one half of one game. It was Mexico vs England, though, so it was a good game. I DO like organized sports, though, and I understand larger concepts – like cheating.

There’s a player for the US team, Folarin Balogun, who earned a red card in a match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. A red card is a punishment for playing too aggressively. They often seem to follow one player threatening another player’s legs or feet. Legs and feet are pretty important in a game where you can’t use your hands. Essentially, the player is ejected from the match at the time of a red card. In the World Cup – I don’t know about regular season play – the ejected player is then required to serve a one game suspension.

It should be noted that Balogun’s offense was debatable. Was it an accident or did he step on another player’s foot on purpose? That makes a difference to the punishment, a yellow card or a red card, but it doesn’t matter after the card has been issued, and a straight red card was issued. Balogun was ejected. He should have served a one game suspension. It should also be noted that other players have received red cards during this World Cup and they have all served their one game suspensions. Both FIFA and US soccer confirmed that such a red card can not be challenged.

The US faces a very good Belgian team next. They could really use their star striker, Balogun. 47 got involved. He started pressuring FIFA to lift the suspension and let Balogun play. FIFA caved. They cited this rule, Article 27, which apparently gives their judicial committee authority to just change the rules as they desire – or as someone else desires. But if the rules of a contest can be changed just to satisfy some private demand somewhere, ARE there rules?

I’m not the only one feeling this way. Pretty much everybody in the World Cup is furious with the sudden change. Belgium’s team is extra angry. They thought they’d be facing a team lacking it’s star striker and instead Balogun will be there because FIFA changed the rules, possibly because Donny stuck his ugly face in.

The US team is all happy about it, of course. They think it’s just fine that they get their star player back for the match. They’re defending the decision as having corrected a bad call in the first place. Yeah, the team that benefited from the unexpected, against-the-rules change thinks it’s a great thing. But nobody else does. ALL of the other teams think rules are rules and should be followed equally by everyone. I agree.

The US credibility as a team will be questioned now. If the US beats Belgium, the response will be, “Cheaters!” Worse, that response will be right. The rest of the US involvement in the tournament will be overshadowed by the change. Should the US manage to win the whole thing, their victory will be tainted by this one bad decision. The change, not the red card.

It looks like my interest in soccer is going to STAY generally quite low. I’m not about to get involved with a game that doesn’t even follow it’s own rules or will change them if the right person calls the right person. I’d guess I’m not alone in that sentiment…

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Wow. Just wow. The assault on media in America is heating up. Cons don’t like Jimmy Kimmel because he makes jokes about their Precious. Kimmel is on ABC. So, obviously, the cons are coming after ALL of ABC in an effort to shut down Kimmel. The Drumpfster’s FCC, led by boot-licking toady Brendan Carr, demanded ABC file requests for broadcasting license renewal early, then invited public comment.

The “public” – in the form of a number of self-serving, far right groups – filed objections claiming every affront in the book. They even tossed in the idea that ABC is cozies up to the Communist Chinese Party. “Ahh, the commies are coming, the commies are coming!” Kimmel tells jokes. Another show, ‘The View’, interviewed a Democrat from Texas, James Talarico. “Ooh, too partisan,” the partisan complainers complained.

The short version of this is simple: the US Federal government is harassing a US broadcasting company into compliance. “Broadcast less of what you want and more of what we want or we won’t let you broadcast at all. Because, you know, free speech.” What the government wants broadcast is lies and misinformation. Sure, that will kill ABC but that’s kind of the point.

It’s a very good argument against allowing people to accrue so much wealth. If you can afford to spend billions of dollars buying a broadcasting company, only to gut it and destroy it, thereby surrendering all of those billions of dollars as nothing more than pocket change, you have too much money…

Wrapping Up The Weekend…

by MyBaconPress

Ah. I knew there would be a gimmick. I just didn’t know what kind. He bragged he’d give a long speech despite the high temperature just to prove he can do anything. I thought maybe he’d give the speech from an air conditioned building or maybe with coolers directed at him. I didn’t think of ‘late-at-night,’ but he did. That worked, too. He gave the speech from a stage strategically located to hide the Reflecting Pool. But he promised he’d have the Reflecting Pool finished and ready to show off by the Fourth. Yet another promise made, promise not kept.

Apparently, he tried to give a standard political ‘Ain’t-America-Great?’ speech. He only veered off into his favorite tangents a little bit. It lacked greatness. No memorable lines, no soaring rhetoric. I even heard it referred to as boring rhetoric. He’s not good at staying on topic when the topic is not him. Someone referred to him as ‘Teleprompter Trump.’ They try to get him to stay on task by getting him to stick to the teleprompter but he has the attention span of a three-year-old and his aging mind wanders.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a trump event if it didn’t include white supremacists. So the hate group Patriot Front showed up, faces carefully covered, and marched the Confederate flag down the street. Do you think they covered their faces out of concern over Covid-19? That’s awfully respectful for a hate group. But they weren’t just hiding their identities, were they? Wouldn’t that be cowardice? How does one take a stand on an issue while hiding? If you believe a thing, why hide? No, it must have been the Covid thing. Thanks, haters.

White supremacists marching down the street? Obviously, when 47 started flapping his lips, he used the opportunity to condemn, uh, <checks notes> right, communism. Obviously. Communism isn’t a problem of any kind in this once-great nation, and racism and white supremacy have been put on steroids since our racist pedophile president came to public attention so it makes perfect sense to condemn the imaginary problem while overlooking the actual problem. Classic trump.

He pretended there were 350,000 people there, too. From what I’ve seen, he might get a tenth of that throughout the entire event. I often find myself wondering if those people he always see are in the room with me right now? Hey, maybe he does see them, like Cole Sear in ‘The Sixth Sense.’ “I see dead people.” Maybe he’s seeing the ghosts of all of the people he’s killed already…

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Israel is establishing thirteen more new settlements. They’re strategically positioned to ensure no contiguous Palestinian state can ever exist. I suspect that also means they’re strategically positioned to ensure no peace in the region in the foreseeable future. These settlements are one of the biggest complaints of the non-Israelis living in the area.

Ever since Israel expelled the Palestinians from the area called Israel in 1948, the Palestinians have been fighting back. Badly, it’s true but they’ve tried. Israel, though, tends to encroach a little at a time. They’ve never stopped. It’s like the person sitting next to you on an airplane who slowly, but surely, pushes your elbow off the armrest by pushing their own further and further onto the armrest.

Israel just keeps encroaching. Another settlement, then another, then another, then another. The goal is clear and obvious. Israel wants ALL of that land for themselves and they’re taking it – by stealth and by force. If you happen to notice that Israel is always the aggressor in these matters, you run the risk of be called antisemitic. That’s a cheap dodge by defenders of Israel. What the government of Israel is doing has nothing to do with Judaism – and it’s just plain wrong…

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In a rare moment of sanity, the corrupt Supremely Kangaroo Court upheld the US Constitution over Donny’s whims. In this case, they supported birthright citizenship, just because it’s written in plain English in the Constitution. That’s no guarantee with these clowns, but, in this case, they did the right thing. Donny doesn’t like being told no, and he absolutely abhors when people do the right thing.

So now Team Evil is considering banning foreign pregnant women from entering the country at all. Isn’t that lovely? Now women have to promise they’re not pregnant if they want to visit. Cons think there’s such a thing as “Birth Tourism,” in which women travel to the US for no other reason than to deliver an anchor baby. Now they’re doing everything in their power to stop that.

Come to think of it, if 47 stays in power much longer, the US will become such a crappy little country to be in, nobody will want to be here. Perhaps he’s not just a terrible manager, after all. Perhaps he’s destroying the country to discourage “birth tourism.” That’s a little like setting a broken arm by killing the patient. The broken arm won’t be a problem anymore, sure, but it seems like going too far to achieve the goal…

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So, did you notice the number of events that were cancelled because it was just too effing hot? Not so much here in the west but in the east, oh, man, are they suffering. All kinds of traditional Fourth of July events were cancelled. Parades? Gone. Fireworks displays? Out. Too hot. Too dangerous.

I’m really split as to which threat wipes out humanity first, AI or climate change. I’d say this weekend, climate change has made a bold move to be in first place. AI is going to have to come from behind, like an unexpected checkmate in a game where you just didn’t see it coming until your opponent is laughing in your face.

Besides, climate change has a real advantage. We set it up to operate automatically. It’s in it’s own feedback loop so, as long as we just keep pumping more and more pollutants into the air, Donny’s goal, it will get worse and worse on it’s own. After a while – and the deadline is fast approaching now – we won’t be able to stop it. Hell, the deadline may have already passed. Please note the term: DEADline.

We were warned. Long before we started seeing the effects of climate change, we started hearing about them. We ignored them. Once the effects started, we couldn’t ignore them anymore. But we did anyway. When public awareness picked up, so did mis- and disinformation. Our very existence was reduced to a political game, and there it sits.

Now we’re starting to suffer the more severe aspects of climate change – and we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. But politics is still in charge. That’s just stupid at this point. It looks very much like humanity is going to stupid itself out of existence. That’s just embarrassing…

July 4th? Why Not?

by MyBaconPress

So, it’s the Fourth of July. The US celebrates it’s independence from Great Briton on this day. Might as well. The Continental Congress actually voted to declare independence on July 2nd. We could have used that date. Once declared, there was a bit of a dispute over whether we were actually independent or not. King George III thought not.

Major hostilities of the Revolutionary War ended October 19, 1781. We could have used that date, too. It might have been cold out for fireworks, though. The war wasn’t officially over until the Treaty of Paris was signed September 3rd, 1783, yet another viable date to celebrate our actual independence.

After the vote to declare independence it took the congress critters two more days to write up and distribute the announcement. People have been celebrating the announcement date, July 4th, rather than the actual independence date, July 2nd, ever since. It makes little difference. We picked a date and we’ve stuck to that date and that’s the date we use and that date is today, so, Happy Fourth of July…

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Speaking of fighting for independence, Ukraine continues to fend off Russia’s illegal war, despite the promise from 47 that he would end it on Day One and that it would be easy. It wasn’t easy. He got bored. He quit and walked away. Yet another promise made, promise not kept. Hell, the only problems I’ve ever seen him “solve” are problems of his own creation. If he’d just keep his stupid hands to himself, he’d have no problems at all.

According to estimates, Russia has lost a larger number of people than Ukraine, but Ukraine has lost a larger percentage of it’s smaller army. I saw one article suggesting Russia was losing fighting personnel at a rate of 8 to 1. That’s a LOT, but Russia has a larger population to draw from. Somehow, they’re already down to drafting felons and debtors, though. I’m not sure the war is going the way Putin planned…

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Holy Gods, what now? I hear 47 went to Mount Rushmore. Is it still intact? He gets near something special in this country, he can’t help but destroy it. It wasn’t about him, it doesn’t mean anything in his ever-so-challenged mind. He might try to add his ugly, raper visage to the others. That would certainly ruin it.

Most of the things he has done can be undone. Carving his mug into the mountain wouldn’t be so easy to fix but fortunately, it’s not so easy to do, either, so he probably won’t. His laziness and short attention span finally work for us…

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Old man Donny said he was going to give a speech today despite the fact that the weather report is calling for temperatures as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit. He said he was going to do it just to prove he can do anything. He did NOT say he wouldn’t use coolers of some kind, though. He also didn’t say he was going to do it outdoors. Maybe he will, though.

Maybe the frail old man will try to stand outside in 104 degree heat and give a long-winded speech full of lies and fear-mongering. Maybe he’ll sweat a lot and not drink enough water. Maybe he’ll suffer heat stroke or something. Hope springs eternal. But enough about daydreams.

I’ve heard snippets of his current campaign positions. He’s running on anti-communism. “Oh, the commies are coming, the commies are coming!” This seems to be his reaction to the recent success of Democratic Socialists in New York and Colorado. I’ve said before, Americans – as a group – are apparently an amazingly stupid bunch. (I was surprised, too.) Many, like 47, don’t understand the difference between Communism and Democratic Socialism.

Democratic Socialism is a Capitalist system. It’s just controlled Capitalism. Managed. Democratic Socialism seeks to soften the hardest edges of Capitalism and where it’s been implemented, it works wonderfully, creating the happiest societies on the planet. Communism fails.

But NO politician, not even Donny, can run against a system that’s more fair for everybody – so they don’t. They pretend commies are hiding under the Democratic Socialist banner just waiting to pounce, then they run against communism. That’s what Donny is doing now. The part that surprises me is that it might still work. I mean, how many times does one have to buy the same bridge from the same con-artist before they realize the sale isn’t real?

But speaking of real, let’s be real, here, for a moment. Bernie Sanders attracted a LOT of attention during his campaign. His message was SO popular, the Democratic party had to take, um, extraordinary steps to sideline his campaign so they could foist their FAR less popular candidate on us, instead, because, as they explained it at the time, her check cleared and he wouldn’t write one.

The Dems are, right now, trying to figure out how to “manage” the recent upsurge in Democratic Socialist support. It’s a tough position. How does one push out the candidates that want to actually serve the masses without alienating those self-same masses? But the Dems serve the same One Percent the cons do and they’ll have to fight against their own success when a candidate like Bernie Sanders shows up. But the Dems weren’t ready for his popularity and their efforts to sideline him were sloppy. Bad optics.

Bernie’s attraction was and is that he offered something different than politics as usual. Bernie’s message was to the masses, not the masters. (That’s the real reason Hillary was pushed forward, by the way. She was far more “don’t change a thing” than Bernie.) Before being artificially sidelined, Bernie attracted people from both sides of the aisle. After being pushed out, some Bernie supporters turned toward The Dumbass because he, too, was promising change.

But Bernie’s success and more recently Zohran Mamdani’s success is proving people want something different, and not the hate-mongering and fear-mongering and criminal activity of a trumpster. The masses are looking for candidates who will keep them in mind when decisions are made, not the toadies doing the bidding of the One Percent.

I suspect the hardest challenge for the movement will be teaching people the difference between Capitalism, Democratic Socialism, and Communism. The Capitalists have a real advantage, here, because the ‘Ain’t commies scary?’ message has played out in this country since Marx and Engels published ‘Das Kapital’ in 1867.’ So long as they can keep, uh, “low information voters” thinking communism and social capitalism are probably the same thing, they’ll control the message.

But we shouldn’t walk away from the fight just because it’s a fight. No social change has ever come to this country – or any other, by the way – without a fight. It seems pretty clear WHY the One Percent want to protect what they have accumulated, honestly and otherwise. Life is pretty good for them and they have no idea, not a clue, how life is for most of us. Largely, I suspect, because they don’t care. But there’s a better way than this and I hope enough Americans understand and embrace it to bring it about…

The Flu, The Fair, The Frauds…

by MyBaconPress

It’s as predictable as sunrise, isn’t it? Team Evil takes some stand based on their wrongheaded beliefs. Their goal is to prove their beliefs are not wrongheaded. Then come the actual, honest-to-God, real-life consequences of their stand and – BOOM! – they’ve proven their stance is wrongheaded. Over and over and over again, it happens.

Take their stance on vaccines, in general, and, in this case, the flu vaccine in particular. Getting the flu vaccine in the military used to be seen as a strength force issue. If the army gets sick, they aren’t fighting as well, or at all. Oh, but MAGA knows science is bad and stupid and a tool of the devil or whatever so they choose to believe the voices in their heads, instead. (It’s actually the voices in their televisions but the voices might as well be in their heads.)

So Whiskey Pete tells the army that, no, they don’t have to get the flu vaccine if they don’t want to. Many, apparently, didn’t want to. Then one of them got the flu. Then another. And another. Now the army is having something of a flu epidemic at training centers like Lackland AFB in Texas and many of our recruits are sidelined. One died! Wrongheaded.

So now the military is requiring flu vaccines again and trying to get them used up before they expire. They’ll run out soon and don’t expect replacements until September, maybe August so they’re not out of the woods, yet. Excellent planning, as usual, from Team Evil. As it happens, the problem with putting a moron in charge is that you have an effing moron in charge! That should have been obvious…

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Fox Not-News tried to help boost 47’s stupid “State Fair” by going to the event. They broadcast with the fair in the background and had “reports” from people at various specific locations. That should help, right? Highlight individual bits and show the overall thing as you America-bash and boost the Drumpfster.

What became obvious immediately? The vast, empty area. No one was there. The thing is a bust, mostly because of how closely it’s associated with Donny, whom everybody on the planet hates with a passion except MAGA, who support child rape and theft. I’m not sure I’m all that interested in their opinion, you know?

So Fox Not-News accidentally exposed the unpopularity of the event? “Accidentally?” Murdoch and the Drumpfster are not the great friends they once were. Maybe Fox was trying to help. Maybe Fox was not. Either way, they certainly didn’t…

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Okay, you can hem and haw all you want to. But you can no longer deny that Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. He went all the way through the court system trying to overturn the decision. Literally, all the way to his toady-laden Supremely corrupt court. They let the decision stand. Obviously, people are free to lie away from courts, but in court? That’s a different matter. So he’ll continue to say he didn’t do it – when he’s not in court. But in court? That’s a different matter. After testimony and a trial, the courts agreed he DID do it. He DID do it…

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Birthright citizenship is upheld. Who knew? The Way High Court has indicated in the past that they rule according to the Constitution if the writing is clear and direct. That’s not always true, but in this case, they went with the text. Surprisingly, not Clarence Thomas. He’s one of those guys who prefers to pull the ladder up behind him. Alito and Gorsuch also dissented.

The dissenting justices tried to pretend the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States to gain citizenship to mean birthright citizenship is not automatic because some foreign citizens are not. Subject to the jurisdiction, that is. Of course, that’s wrong. Let a non-citizen visitor to this once-great nation commit a robbery or a murder here. They’ll find themselves seriously “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States tout de suite.

Hey, I believe at least a couple of these so-called “justices” get paid to rule in Donny’s favor. Their job is only to find a way to comply and they do that pretty well. Sometimes, like this one, it just leaves the bootlickers looking like fools and idiots, like they can’t read the words in front of their faces…

And idiots they may indeed be. They’ve allowed for even more dark money to flood and corrupt our political system. In 2010, they ruled in favor of corruption in Citizens United vs the FEC. Also in 2010 they ruled in favor of corruption in their Speechnow vs FEC ruling that lifted the caps on individuals contributing to elections. Then, in 2014, with the McCutcheon, et al. v. FEC, they ruled in favor of corruption when they eliminated the caps on corporate contributions and now they’ve ruled in favor of corruption by eliminating caps on political committee spending.

If you’ve got the money, you can buy a politician, though they’re all bought and paid for at this point. You’ll need to sponsor your own. If you don’t have that kind of money? You can suck eggs while you watch the political system serve the wealthy at the expense of the masses. That’s not the system our founders envisioned and our country has gone steadily downhill since the One Percent took over. Well, for the masses. The One Percent are enjoying benefits and opportunities not seen since the Gilded Age…

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Speaking of which, reports suggest that 47 has pocketed over $2 billion dollars since taking office this term. That mostly seems to come from his requirement to get his beak wet if you want to do anything. But if you DO get his beak wet, you really can do anything.

Anna Kelly, a White House spokesliar, said that “neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest.” That created a spit-take from me. Kelly added that “all actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”

That’s good enough for MAGA. All of Team Evil enjoy the morality of your average sewer rat. Lies like that flow so freely from their lips they may not even know they’re lying anymore. But when the Drumpfster openly declares he doesn’t care about affordability, he loves the inflation, he’s not going to help with the housing crisis caused by Wall Street, he’s not showing even the slightest interest in the American people, let alone taking actions in their best interest…

Giant Steps Back…

by MyBaconPress

Well, of course they are. Limiting input on fossil fuel drilling on federal land, that is. They already know how most people feel about it and they know it doesn’t go their way so, “Hey, let’s just limit their input!” Oh, but you wouldn’t want Team Evil to leave it at that, would you? No way. So let’s allow the drilling companies to release more methane into the atmosphere while we’re at it.

Sure, it’s a greenhouse gas – one of the worst, in fact. But it will be easier for drilling companies to do their jobs if they don’t have to worry so much about the environment. I mean, c’mon, how important is the environment? Besides, they’ll clean up any mess they make, just like they always do, right? Well, okay, they’ll clean up some of it. The rest? Oh, we’ll shift that cost to taxpayers, that is, you. We wouldn’t want to burden the corporations with participating in society, now, would we?

Oh, we want the US to be energy dominant. We are already, but we want to be, too. The US became energy dominant several years ago. That didn’t stop Lying Donny from bitching and moaning about US energy output during his campaign. Then, all he has to do is wait a little while. After a time, he announces that the US is energy dominant under trump. See? He kept a promise. Sure, the promise was a lie. Does that matter?

According to Oilprice.com, the US has been the world’s largest natural gas producer since 2009. Obama was President. We became the world’s biggest exporter of LNG in 2023. Biden was President. I’ll grant that we became the world’s largest oil producer in 2018. Some Dumbass was President. So it seems becoming energy dominant has been an ongoing process. While it’s true that we’re in that position today, Donny is claiming credit for work other people did. That’s just his way.

For a while, we were a leader in renewable energy, too. That one was most important because renewable energy is the key to having a future as a species. We were heading in the right direction and leading the way. But who controls the sun? If some corporation, someplace, can’t turn off the spigot for a little extra cash infusion, where do their cash infusions come from? These are serious questions to greedy people.

Donny had the answer: attack the renewable industry. Slow it down. Maybe surrender our leadership position entirely. In truth, there are already too many rich people with too many investments into renewables for him to destroy the field entirely, but he’s trying. Corner the market in yesterday’s technology. What could go wrong?

One can’t be surprised by any of this. The bribe was paid during the campaign to the tune of $445 million dollars to Donny’s campaign. He promised he’d do everything he could for them and he’s doing that. Finally, a promise kept, and it’s a promise to destroy the environment. Destruction is what he does…

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The last number I saw for the death toll in Venezuela’s recent earthquake is up to 1,450 people. The destruction is incomprehensible with thousands more injured or displaced. The US has promised to help. We sent search and rescue teams to help find victims. Tens of thousands have been reported missing. China sent almost $15 million in disaster relief aid. At least 22 other countries have sent aid. The whole thing is a nightmare…

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Well, here come the Kangaroos. Traditionally, this is the last week of the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court session until the first Monday in October. Also, this is the week said court issues what often turn out to be it’s most egregious rulings. They like to issue them late at night, as they scurry out the back door to cash their bribe checks.

They have indicated in the past that they rule in keeping with the text of the Constitution, where such information is available. They did the exact opposite in the case of the 14th Amendment that said nobody could hold public office if they had participated in an insurrection unless Congress made a special exception. The court stood those words on their head and said, no, Congress has to act to block the person.

Ah, what the hell, right? The cons on the court lied to get there. Why wouldn’t they lie once they’re there? Just keep the under-the-table checks coming. It doesn’t shock me to learn there are people who will corrupt anything for their own personal gain. It does shock me, a bit, to discover that so many of that kind of person have been collected together and put into powerful positions at the same time.

It took the One Percent nearly fifty years to corrupt each branch of government so completely. It’s going to take a long time to straighten it out, if we ever can. Right now, we’re swimming upstream against a strong current of ignorance and deceit. We certainly are living in interesting times…

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Conservative talk show host Bill Maher received the Mark Twain Prize for American humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, the 28th. Donny’s stupid tarps are still in place. He’s trying to hide the fact that his disgusting name was removed from the building. Jay Leno was a participant at the event and he said, “It’s vanity. It’s not a war, it’s not people getting killed. It’s not antisemitism. It’s not racism. It’s a silly thing covering a name. I mean, what’s funnier than that? You know, it’s high school with money.”

High school with money. That sums 47 up, over and over. The only real quibble I have with the idea is that Donny is usually Kindergarten with money…

Lie, Lie, Lie…

by MyBaconPress

The reflecting pool has cameras on it 24/7. Many people know this. That makes it a simple matter to release video of the evil-doer who dared cut a slash into the new liner with a knife which, according to 47, couldn’t be cut with a knife. That makes it sound like he just makes things up as he goes along, doesn’t it? In order to prove THAT point, the making things up part, officials DID release video of the evil vandal, asking for help locating the “perp.”

In the video, one can clearly see – well, no, it’s not really all that clear – a woman reach into the Reflecting Pool and, um, pull out a piece of the already floating liner. That’s “vandalism” in Donny’s book, seeing the results of his failure. Which means we’re ALL “vandals” because we’ve seen the East Wing. We’ve seen his gaudy makeover of the White House, or should it be the Fake Gold House now? And now we’ve all seen his makeover of the Reflecting Pool. I know he loves to brag on himself, but based on what I’ve seen, he sucks at building.

What I did NOT see in that video, was anybody using a knife to cut a gash into the uncuttable liner. But that was how the video was released, “proof” of the vandalism he claims. We all know who the actual vandal is. What we DON’T know is if there’s method to his madness or if he’s just completely incompetent. It turns out, one does NOT hire workers based on loyalty alone. All he had to do was hire a company that knew what they were doing, but he gave the no-bid contract – paid by your tax dollars – to a crony instead…

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When a group of people planned to attack Donny’s desecration of the White House with a UFC event, right wing media was quick to paint them as lefties but it turns out, nope. They were a collection of far-right nutballs. They came together over the internet. They verified each other’s identities and ideologies then moved to private chat rooms to rant anti-government slogans and plan an attack.

They were going to create a distraction, then bomb the event with drone-borne bombs, causing a panic. When people fled, so-called “high value targets” were to be picked off by snipers. I say again, these were far right nutballs, but they were targeting Republicans. The thing is, they chose their targets with the help of a left-wing website that tracks politicians who receive donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby group.

That’s what right-wing media seized on to “prove” the conspirators were lefties. It’s a two-fer. They get to smear the left AND they get to pretend the right isn’t as angry at Donny’s failures as everyone else. But the group’s focus seemed to be on Trump constantly taking the knee to Netanyahu. They didn’t like that one little bit.

I thought this was interesting: the would-be attackers talked a lot about the Trump/Epstein files and how the regime wasn’t releasing them. Right-wing media used those comments to note that they had “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” I added the emphasis to the ‘Democrat conspiracy theories‘ bit.

It was The Drumpfster himself who whipped the right up into a frenzy about the Trump/Epstein files, though he DID leave his own name out of it. Everyone, everyone, everyone NOT in those files wanted them released. But, apparently, MAGA has now been successfully conditioned to repeat the idea that the whole thing is a left-wing conspiracy.

By the way, have you noticed that not one of the people noted in the Trump/Epstein files has been arrested or even investigated in the US? Look wrong at the Reflecting Pool and you’re doing hard time. Diddle a child in the Trump/Epstein Pedo ring and 47 will “cover your six.”

Apparently, this particular group of not-so-much geniuses expected the attack to launch the second revolution. Why is it these guys always see themselves as some kind of savior? Racists in this country often relate to a book called ‘The Turner Diaries’ that paints a picture of one event triggering a race war so the glorious white people can finally get rid of all those “other people” once and for all.

They see themselves as heroes in their misguided efforts. They won’t get the glorious outcomes they expect, but they expect them anyway. Boneheads…

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Donny’s war-that’s-not-a-war looks like it might be devolving into war again. There’s lots of shooting going on and 47 keeps flapping his stupid lips, trying to tough-talk his way out of the nightmare he tough-talked his way in to. He said he wouldn’t start any foreign wars. He lied. He said he could solve it easily. He clearly lied. He told MAGA only HE could fix the problems. Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie…

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Oh, yeah, yet another failure. His State Fair. Nobody seems all that interested. Nobody is going. Word is, nothing works there. The food is mundane. There are two rides. The Ferris Wheel doesn’t work half the time. Finally, he shut the thing down, at least for the evening, blaming the weather. He might be trying to correct the failures. My prediction? Things are about to get worse. That’s just the way it is with this guy. He touches something, it turns to crap.

They built a little replica of the arch he hopes to build in honor of his disgusting self. Remember, this thing has only been going on for a very short time. There’s no reason in the world their little replica should be in shoddy condition – but it is. It’s already falling apart and the failure is visible from the “Freedom 250 Ferris Wheel.” Classic Trump. Failure at every turn. It seems the only thing this guy is even remotely competent at is crime. THAT he can do, and he does it every day…

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Texas has passed a law requiring all public students to read the Bible, or at least, passages from the Bible. Lovely. That’s probably for moral teachings. I wonder if they’ll read the part about Noah’s daughters getting him drunk and having sex with him. How about the guy who gave his concubine to a group of drunken men to use as they please, then had HER executed and her body parts spread about the region, do you think they’ll focus on that? Will they focus on Abraham, who nearly murdered his own son because of the voice in his head?

It’s a good thing I’m not a teacher in Texas because those are the passages I would focus on. You know, until I got fired. Hey, I’d be reading from the Bible as the law requires. Full compliance. That shouldn’t be a problem…

Affordable Housing? Not If Donny Can Help It…

by MyBaconPress

It’s being hailed as a bi-partisan affordable housing bill. I don’t expect it to do much to make housing more affordable, but it IS bi-partisan and the Republicans, in particular, needed it for the upcoming campaigns. They want – no, need – something positive to run on. Affordable housing would certainly fit the bill. All the pols have to do is hope nobody pays attention to the fact that it won’t really do what they’re promising.

The new bill limits corporations in the number of single-family homes they can own. That’ll do it, right? Well, unless some corporate minion thinks of setting up several corporations under a holding company, allowing each corporation to reach the magic number but still collecting single family homes at a society destroying pace. But what are the odds of that happening? After all, it took me several, well, a few, um okay a couple of seconds to think of it. But maybe the smarter sharks will miss it, what do you think?

Anyway, the point is, both teams wanted to run on the great “success.” Dems should have this election in the bag, but never forget, they’re owned and operated by the same rich people the cons are, so the election can’t be certain. Republicans needed the law far worse. Even MAGA can see that things are going sideways.

They can lie to me all they want to. I don’t even care. But they can’t keep lying to themselves. Are you a MAGA soy farmer? Have you lost your farm to 47’s policies? Are you still MAGA? Okay, that’s stupid. You don’t have to become liberal, but continuing to support the person and policies that wiped you out is, well, stupid. There’s not a single thing Donny touches that he doesn’t destroy.

Like the affordable housing bill. He scuttled it because he wants congress to pass his SAVE Act. It allows him to interfere with elections so he needs it to SAVE his ass in those upcoming. The Dems stand opposed, with the possible exception of DINO Fetterman. Even some Republicans oppose the SAVE Act so cons can’t get a majority, despite Donny’s rants and threats.

Remember my fictional soy farmer from, like, two paragraphs ago? The Republicans in congress look like real-life versions of that guy, to me. Donny is a pariah, but he still wields great power. Cons in congress can see him destroying other politicians careers for the high crime of doing the right thing. They have to choose: do we continue to support the person doing so much damage to our own chances or not?

I suspect they will. So far, spine hasn’t been in evidence when it comes to Republicans. They’re lickspittle boot-lickers and it looks like they’re going to follow him right to the gates of Hell…

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Okay, so 47 certainly brought nothing new to his speech at the so-called ‘Great American State Fair.’ I call it a speech, but it was really just another rant. One lie after another, lies stacked on top of lies, braggadocio and hyperbole, and a few more lies to round things out. Some of the attendees just can’t get enough abuse and they stayed and cheered. Other attendees have seen this speech so many times THEY can deliver it – so they left.

The big opening ceremony was over two hours long with the blowhard speaking near the end. Maybe they were just tired. Maybe they came for the other stuff and left to avoid being associated with a pedophile. But maybe they’re one-time, die-hard fans who just aren’t quite as impressed anymore. Who knows?

Both sides are working it, though. The left is showing people leaving and calling it a “mass exodus.” The right is showing people who stayed and calling the left crazy. Neither side is telling the whole truth. But as always, Donny is only lying. He posted to social media, “The Crowd was incredible last night, packed to the brim — At least 45,000 people were there… Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech.”

People were there for the ceremony and, clearly, many left during his rant. There were a lot of people, but I doubt 45,000. He likes to make things up. He’s SO terrible at real life, he mostly lives in a fantasy land…

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When is a cease-fire not a cease-fire? When people KEEP firing, instead of ceasing. How weird is it that we get this constant talk of cease-fires and then get the updates of the latest skirmishes, battles, killings, and other violence? That’s not a cease-fire. At best, it’s a little-less-firing…

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The man is just SO yesterday in every respect. It’s like he thinks we’re still living in some mythical past. Coal is king. Gas rules the world. Tough talk gets ‘er done. A woman should know her place. And now? ‘Godless communists.’ That’s a slur that goes back to the sixties and seventies, maybe further. He’s rolling out the term to try and scare the crap out of his followers. Oh, the commies are coming, the commies are coming.

The discrepancy between the socialism the US lives with every single day and the attitude of some of our less inquiring fellow citizens when it comes to the word is startling. I think the Capitalists are starting to notice the far-and-wide public fury where Capitalism is concerned. It’s just a brutal, brutal system designed to enrich a few on the backs of the many.

Capitalism has now, briefly, minted it’s first Trillionaire. One. At the same time, and necessarily, Capitalism has now, long-term, minted millions of struggling and desperate people, concerned about where their next meal is coming from. Countless people can’t even afford a home in this, the so-called ‘Richest Country On Earth’™. Is that the best we can do? It’s fine, if you’re the Trillionaire, I guess. But most of us aren’t.

Nobody is calling for communism, but I would be happy with another heaping helping of New Deal-style Democratic Socialism. That seems to be catching on around the country and it scares the hell out of the people sitting on their vast piles of money, laughing at the victims below them. They’ll use that money to try and convince people that the inequity is a-okay. “Just try harder,” they laugh. “Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, like we never did,” they say. “Hey, maybe if you skip that coffee.”

Unregulated Capitalism has failed the vast majority of us. Communism has failed pretty much where ever it has been tried. But there IS a better way, a middle ground, that takes the best of each and mashes them together. Some people still get rich, but not so much at the expense of everyone else. I don’t understand why some people think that everyone working together for the benefit of everyone is a bad thing…

Things MAGA Support…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it’s just one “metaphor” after another with this clown, isn’t it? The destruction he leaves in his wake, reflecting similar destruction in America. The East Wing. Wreckage. The Ellipse. Wreckage. Now the Reflecting Pool. Wreckage. And to be FAR more clear than the Reflecting Pool, there were no vandals. Yes, someone put 86 47 in a nearby lawn. The Reflecting Pool is all Donny, though. The Drumpfster is the only “vandal,” complete failure that he is.

Oh, how about the Kennedy Center? He slapped his vile name up there and the courts made him take it down. He has, but now there are tarps hiding the facade of the building. A judge has ordered the regime to explain why the tarps are still there because there really is no need for secrecy in this project.

Workers took out the entire panel where each letter had been attached. Presumably, they’re going to replace each panel rather than try to repair holes, but whatever they’re doing, they’re taking their own sweet time to do it. Still, the Kennedy Center has been around awhile. It seems likely that the color of the new panels won’t quite match the old. Even as he tries to hide it, there will be a visible reminder that he broke the law and the courts corrected him, yet again.

His destruction of America continues, unabated, and his various project failures stand as stark evidence of his incompetence. MAGA seems to love what he’s doing, though. They stand by him like an abused spouse, flinching and hoping to avoid the next beating…

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One of the people arrested for “vandalizing the reflecting pool” – except that’s not why he was arrested at all – say’s he’ll fight the charge. Christian Miles, was charged with violating a federal obscenity law for berating a group of Oklahoma state troopers guarding the reflecting pool. “Vandalism,” the regime called it.

Here’s the thing; he was having an argument with one of the troopers. This is from the Guardian, “Miles noted the irony that one of the Oklahoma state troopers he argued with before his arrest told him that the US was obviously a free society “because you can be out here and you can video all you want to. Go to China, they’d run over you in a tank in Red Square.” Miles was arrested seven minutes later. True, not run over by a tank, but not exactly free speech, either.

That’s the key. People are actually being actually arrested in an effort to prop up 47’s delusion that the reflecting pool failure wasn’t because of him, it was because of somebody else. That’s ALWAYS his story when things go wrong on him and things go wrong on him all the time because he’s an incompetent dotard. But my point is, the people being arrested are just props. He has a story to sell and he’s selling it through criminal action, misusing the DOJ.

How about the couple convicted to – are you ready for this? – 50 years in prison for “providing material support to terrorists.” Elizabeth Soto and her husband, Ines Soto, participated in a protest that got out of control at an ICE facility. I don’t mean to downplay the violence. Ultimately, a cop was shot. (He survived.) Clearly the shooter should face severe punishment. But neither member of this couple did any shooting. Hell, they had left the protest before it careened out of control. They weren’t even there at the time.

But they DO oppose ICE and they DO support left-leaning causes, going so far as to print what are known as ‘zines.’ Zines support far left ideas but not necessarily revolution or violence. They had one on “a journal of materialist feminism” and another on “a call for the eradication of artificial intelligence from the face of the earth.” It’s important to note the the FBI agent who testified at their trial said the content of the zines was “perhaps niche, but nothing illegal.”

The regime is targeting “antifa.” The Sotos were called antifa – and convicted to 50 years. Well, she was. His sentence gets handed down July 1. Antifa is an idea. That’s all. The word, itself, means “Anti-fascism.” There is no leader, no organization called ‘Antifa.’ Hell, nobody NEEDS a leader or an organization to be antifa. If you think fascism is a bad idea, you’re antifa, too. So the Sotos were arrested for being against fascism?

That means YOU can be arrested for being antifa – or anything else they might make up – whenever the government decides it needs a patsy. But if the government might arrest you because you oppose fascism, what does that say about the government? Pro fascism, yes? It’s binary. You either oppose fascism, or you don’t. I oppose fascism. President Pedo embraces it.

MAGA stands by him, though. Which means MAGA supports innocent people being arrested in the streets just to try and make Donny look less stupid. It doesn’t work. He looks how he looks for a reason, but they’d rather be falsely accused of a crime than confess his error…

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So NOW apparently, MAGA loves it when big government intervenes in states rights. I can tell because 47 has been trying to interfere with elections since he infested the office and MAGA only cheers. The Constitution says states have authority over how their elections are run, not the federal government. MAGA doesn’t care about the Constitution (except 2A, of course) so they likely don’t know WHAT it says.

When Donny stole his way into office, he issued an Executive Order (EO) on elections that included a requirement to show proof of citizenship. This is important to MAGA because they’ve been lied to about how many “illegals” vote in each election. Get this: MAGA actually believes the Dems run busloads of “illegals” from polling place to polling place so they can vote illegally – and nobody notices or cares.

So, they think the problem is rampant, even though more high-profile Republicans have been busted cheating in the voting process than undocumented immigrants. Don’t tell MAGA, though. Nobody else does and they love their ignorance. They think that wrongheaded is better than wrong – and they don’t understand they’re both.

But US district court judge Denise Casper ruled on Wednesday that the EO was unconstitutional. There’s a reason. She’s not just against the Dumbass. See, the Constitution says states have authority over how their elections are run, not the federal government. Legally, Donny can’t just issue an EO and call it done. He has actually had a pretty bad week. He’s a loser. Yes, he HAS stolen billions of dollars so he’s a rich loser but he’s a loser nonetheless…

Trying To Hide Reality…

by MyBaconPress

Really, what a coward. He got ordered to take his name off of the Kennedy Center. He fought it, but he lost. He ALWAYS loses fair fights. But he’s a petty and petulant little man and he put up a cover to hide the spot where his name had been but is no more. Now he won’t take the cover down. I suspect he’s embarrassed that he has been so completely, publicly rebuked, with his name NOT being there as the evidence. Excuses. It’s always excuses with that weasel.

Now, to be fair, the regime says they’re leaving the cover up until work is done repairing the damage he did when he slapped his stupid name up there in the first place. That could be true but it isn’t necessary. We all know what happened and how it happened. We all know Donny broke the law and was corrected by the courts. We all know his stupid name came down. We know the holes need to be repaired. We also know he knows he has humiliated himself and now he hopes nobody notices him putting up a great big cover that draws attention in an attempt to hide it. He’ll need a new excuse soon…

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Speaking of excuses, now Team Evil is saying the reflecting pool was vandalized. Yeah, that’s the ticket, it was vandalized. No, he doesn’t mean what he did. He means by someone else. They’ve even made arrests! For instance, they arrested three-time Olympian David Hearn as one of the “vandals.” According to him, he just stopped when he saw some of the floating paint and wanted to touch it to see how it felt.

No details on anyone else, but if that’s the quality of the case, it seems like some patsies are going to have to face a legal fight just so 47 doesn’t have to admit being such a complete failure. Weaponized government, anyone? MAGA loves it because they don’t realize they could be victimized just as easily. All they have to do is be in the wrong place at time when 47 needs a fall-guy.

Now that the regime has it’s headline though, ‘Donny cries it is NOT is fault, see?’ the accused will likely enjoy a quiet dismissal of charges. Excuses…

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The guy just lies. Like, all the time. He went to the G7 conference, at which he was tolerated but not truly welcomed. Then he calls in to an Italian radio program and claims that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so ​badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.” He said, “She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her.”

That seems like projection, to me. HE was the one standing alone, with no one near him when the photo op took place and any informal gathering of the G7 attendees left him alone and isolated, each time. HE was the one who wanted some to talk to him. The world hates him and he knows it. Also, he cares a LOT more than he lets on. He really wants someone, somewhere to like him. I know, MAGA loves him, but he thinks they’re stupid. He doesn’t give two figs about their opinion so they don’t count.

He wants someone he admires to admire him back and he was hoping to piggyback to a bit of that feeling by claiming Meloni tried to get closer to him. She was having none of it. “Donald Trump’s statements are completely made up,” she said in Italian. “I am, frankly, astonished. I don’t ‌know why ⁠the president of the United States behaves like this towards his allies, and it’s not the first time.”

They used to get along. I suspect he hoped in citing her, she might support his lie. But no one – NO ONE – wants to be associated with the Drumpfster. Well, no one decent, anyway…

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Oh, so he’s rolling out his new Air Force One, the luxury jet “gifted” to him from Qatar. It’s painted darker than most of it’s predecessors. It costs more to fly a plane painted with dark paint. He doesn’t care about that. He’s not paying for that – you are! This plane is so big, it can only land at certain airports. That could mean his trips will take longer and require second legs, as he lands at the airport the plane CAN land at, then transfers to some other craft to reach his destination.

He doesn’t care about that. He’s not paying for that – you are! And it only cost $400 million dollars to renovate for his use for the next couple of years. That’s pretty extravagant but, of course, he’s not paying for that – you are! The planes he retired are still fine. They’re just old.

There are two brand new planes being readied to serve as Air Force One but they got delayed and won’t be around until 2028. Then he plans to “retire” this plane to his so-called presidential library, which, based on his apparent lifestyle, will be a run-down single-wide out in a field somewhere with broken down cars scattered around it – everything spray-painted gold, of course…

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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…

Too Much Stuff…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so this is an abbreviated post. As it happens, I’m moving house! Wait, didn’t I just DO that, like, two years ago? Yep. Sure did. Here we go again. The family group is growing and we need more space, so it’s a good thing. But, I’m too old to move every two years. There’s too much stuff. My back has collapsed over those two years. There’s too much stuff. We started eliminating things when we moved last time and realized there’s too much stuff. Not enough eliminating, though. There’s still too much stuff. We’re getting rid of more. But, OMG, there’s too much stuff.

So we’ve BEEN moving things over the course of the last month. The BIG things go today. Then there’s mop-up duty, both moving the last of the littler things and cleaning the house. As my bi-annual moving odyssey continues, I keep thinking, “My kids are just going to have to dump this crap when I die.” I’m going to keep getting rid of things. (I like the kids.) I just can’t believe how much stuff I have.

We moved two years ago, got rid of some stuff. We moved two years before that, got rid of some stuff. There’s STILL a LOT of stuff. (Pro tip: if you’ve lived in the same house for 10, 20, 30, maybe 50 years, you have too much stuff. Think of the children!)

But it’s likely going to affect my ability to post for a couple of days. I’m writing this on Friday, in fact. It will be automatically posted Saturday so, by then, the world may be completely at peace or trapped in total war and I will have missed it. Well, writing about it, anyway. I’m sure I’ll notice, either way…

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He didn’t drain the swamp. He built a new one. Badly. Leave it up to the Charlatan-in-Chief to screw up the process. I mean, really, is there ANYTHING he touches he doesn’t destroy? Anything at all? First, the whole thing turned green. That was followed by excuses. Now the paint is shedding and floating in the water in various sized sheets. This will be followed by excuses, too.

Excuses he can do. Success? Not so much. Now he’ll yell at people. It was his idea. It was his contractor. It was his project. But soon, he won’t know anything about it. He won’t “know anything about” the contractor, the one he claimed to love for taking such sweet, sweet care of his swimming pool. BTW, swimming pools are different than reflecting pools. His swimming pool guy might well do a good job on a swimming pool. That does NOT qualify him to work on the reflecting pool.

Soon, 47 won’t even know who started this project. But it was still him. His idea, his contractor, his project – and he screwed it up royally, cause that’s what he does…

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“The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history. After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump.” – Conservative Bill Kristol…

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I enjoyed the shot of the G7 summit where all the members stood together for a photo shoot, then broke out into social groups and left our National Embarrassment standing all alone with no one to talk to. The entire world hates Trump. That’s what MAGA loves about him most, how much disdain the world has for him. They don’t seem to realize that disdain affects them, too…

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Oh, no! Netanyahu called some shots. MORE missiles fired into Lebanon. 47 needs that to stop because it’s a condition Iran has imposed and since they won his war, they get to dictate the terms. But if Netanyahu stops attacking Arabs in Lebanon and Gaza, he faces criminal action, so he can’t stop, even if he wanted to, which he very definitely does not.

But Donny needs the elections to go his way or HE faces criminal action so he needs to end his war-that’s-not-a-war in an effort to get gas prices down because people are furious at his terrible management of the economy and it shows most in inflation of gas and food prices. So if one guy faces jail if he stops his military actions, and the other guy faces jail if he doesn’t stop his military actions, and the two military actions are tied together, how much cooperation should each expect from the other? I just wish human beings weren’t trapped in the middle…

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I saw this headline in the Guardian on Friday morning, “Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds.” Lovely. The very last thing this country needs is greater diminishing of critical-thinking skills. Far, far, FAR too many Americans clearly have NO critical-thinking skills at all, and now it’s getting worse? Yeah, just lovely…