BBC Will Enjoy A TACO…

by MyBaconPress

Trump is suing the BBC. He says they edited some film in a way that makes it look like he was inciting the riot he incited on January 6th, 2021. Now he keeps dodging his deposition. The BBC maintains they didn’t do anything wrong and asked the judge to dismiss the case. The judge said no, for now.

So, Trump, desperate for a win of any kind, even the made-up kind, declared it a ‘HUGE VICTORY.’ He has to book that “win” now because he’s NOT going to participate in any depositions, despite being the Petitioner, and the case is going to get thrown out eventually because TACO – Trump Always Chickens Out.

He was an idiot to file the suit in the first place. I suspect his “wins” over American broadcasters gave him confidence he could just file a suit and it would be settled. But he has an unfair advantage over American broadcasters via the FCC. The BBC is not subject to the FCC. He has no special pull over them. They can fight back – and they did. They’re going to win, too. Turns out? Trump is a loser…

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I developed a theory quite some time ago. It’s really an hypothesis but too many people don’t understand the distinction and use “theory” when it’s really just an idea. I suspect that particular confusion is part of the reason MAGA thinks evolution is “just” a theory. They simply don’t understand the rigors of a scientific theory because they think it’s just the same as an idea. But I digress.

My “theory” is this: I think brain damage leads to conservatism. No, not every conservative. There really ARE people out there who simply can’t understand things, or don’t want to. But when you know someone for a long time, they grew up as thinking people, then, somewhere along the way, they became conservative? That’s often the result of brain damage.

The damage doesn’t have to come from direct head trauma. Often, it’s the result of a stroke or a heart attack. I think alcoholism and other addictions can do it, too, if people quit cold turkey and never work the steps. I mention it because of John Fetterman. He’s the Senator from Pennsylvania. He’s ostensibly a Democrat, but he and the Democrats have been at odds for some time, now.

Fetterman’s disloyalty to the party got so bad Republicans started openly offering him a seat in the Republican party. EVERYBODY thinks Fetterman has moved right and would better fit the GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles). In an interview on Fox Not-News, Fetterman told Kayleigh McEnany that he’s ready to make the leap. That’s not what he said. He said if Chris Van Hollen becomes the next Senate Majority Leader, he might well go ahead and make the switch.

He seems to have made the switch in all but party name by now anyway. He seems to be looking for the excuse he thinks will justify his jump. His main heartburn is over Israel. Fetterman, apparently, is pro ethnic cleansing and he’s really, REALLY irritated that so many Democrats – Van Hollen among them – are not. Obviously, not every Republican is a racist. But every racist knows there’s a home for them in American politics – and that home is the GOP.

Fetterman really DID start off a progressive. But he’s something of a stroke machine. He’s had several. Each stroke floods his brain with blood. Small sections of the brain die. After several, my theory suggests becoming conservative is nearly inevitable. Fetterman is just one small example that supports the hypothesis…

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Lauren Boebert has been replaced. She lost her re-election bid and will now return to private life and, hopefully, more private handjobs. (Honestly? I respect her adventurous spirit. It was her choice of venue I question.) Anyway, she’s leaving. But before she leaves, she sent a message. In an interview on “Not News Nation” she said, “I think the American people really were coming out against this Republican Party as it stands today and this administration, unfortunately.”

Here are some words I never expected to type together: Boebert is right. The masses are sick and tired of GOP gaslighting, crime, and pandering to the One Percent. I think the vast majority of Americans are on the lookout for that MAGA garbage and ready to oust anyone who spouts it anymore. (Fetterman should be paying attention.) Republicans might want to re-think their loyalty to the Trump Crime Family and the Team Evil Regime, lest they face the wrath of voters at the ballot box. Then again, if it means getting rid of more MAGA, I hope they don’t…

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At first, 47 was almost contrite. You know, for him. But the rumblings have begun. The tantrum is ginning up. I can’t say, for sure, when it started, but I saw a post from him about the election being rigged a few days ago. It’s still half-hearted. He’s not at frenzy mode yet. But it’s coming.

I’m no more surprised than anyone else. The surprise was his almost decent behavior after getting his ass handed to him in such an absolute way. I suspect the reason he was so decent, at first, is because the shellacking was so complete. He might well have thought to himself, “There’s no way to sell this story with this kind of drubbing.” (He doesn’t know the word, ‘drubbing.’) “Even MAGA will know it’s not true.”

But then he realized, what’s left of MAGA will believe anything, so here come the mutterings. Maybe he CAN whip them into a frenzy, after all. Maybe he CAN foment an assault on the Capitol again. Maybe THIS time, they’ll hang his Vice President. Sorry, J.D. It’s a small price to pay for being you.

So bear this in mind when you hear it and use it to challenge your favorite MAGA this way: “Are you saying the red states rigged the election for Democrats?” Because that IS what they’re saying. Sure, where ever Team Blue ran elections, there could have been chicanery. (There wasn’t.) But why would Team Red rig elections so the Democrat wins? That’s the first question they have to answer…

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So, what do you think Trump means when he asks, “How could the polls be so wrong?” I mean, the vast majority of the polls I saw showed a developing blue wave, let alone a blue tsunami. That is to say, from my point of view, the polls were not wrong. So, maybe, he’s just lying. He does that all the time and one can never put it past him.

But maybe? Maybe his team only showed him polls that had the GOP ahead so they didn’t have to listen to him bitch. When they couldn’t find any that would have placated the man-baby, they made up their own. They did not dare show Trump polls that indicated the wave he was about to suffer. Trump is one of those guys people lie to in an effort to avoid a tantrum so he never really knows what’s going on. He can only tolerate good news, so he only gets good news – especially when the news is bad. It’s why he lives in an artificial world. Where he’s concerned, the news is usually bad…

Still Sweeping…

by MyBaconPress

Mississippi is one of the reddest states in the US. Coincidentally, it also happens to be the blackest state in the US, boasting a black population that makes up 37.9 percent of the population. Somehow, Mississippi hasn’t sent a black Senator to Congress since 1875. (Yeah, it’s a mystery.) But the sweep continues and they’re about to. Scott Colom (D), a black man, has been elected and will represent the state. His opponent, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R), has conceded, making her slightly more honorable than Donald Trump. But then, who isn’t?

Mississippi is one of the states that answered Trump’s call to cheat by redrawing districts to block Democrats – yet another failed Trump effort. The red states had all been VERY effectively gerrymandered to the Republicans favor. They had to give up a little to Democrats in a few areas but not enough to wield any real power. After the mid-term re-draw Trump demanded, the new districts were still red, but they were also thinned out a little. Clearly, a concerted effort by the people they were trying to sideline enabled a flip that might not have been possible had the districts been left alone.

As a sidebar, the Democrats have gained control over several once-red state houses. I hope they’ll use some of their power to redraw the maps – this time with some impartial oversight that results in fair maps. I don’t want them redistricting to the Democrats favor. I don’t like cheating in elections and I don’t care which side we’re talking about.

Democrats, alone, still don’t have a veto-proof majority in Congress. But there will be so many Dems in the next Congress, only a small handful of Republicans have to do the right thing should certain votes become necessary. There have always been honest people in the Republican party. They’ve just been pushed to the edges by the loyalists. Now a small number of honest Republicans can work with Democrats to exercise control over this out-of-control regime. Fingers crossed…

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Air traffic across the entire US was grounded Friday afternoon due to what is being described as a “communication issue.” Recently, Team Evil announced a shiny new Air Traffic control system was being deployed – likely, whichever one Trump recently invested in – supposedly to reduce traffic issues. The new system is AI based. Has the AI gone rogue?

I do want to say this about the Air Traffic Control communications failure. Team Evil is blaming the age of the system. Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, said, “What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system.” Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, quickly turned to a plea for funding from Congress to “fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system.”

I have no doubt the one we use is outdated. That’s been part of the plan all along. What did you THINK was going to happen when the GOP chose to financially starve the government “until it’s small enough to drown in a bathtub?” Services got cut. Maintenance got deferred. But maintenance deferred forever leads to an inevitable collapse and now we’ve seen our first glimpse of that in the ATC system failure.

Think of it as a canary in a coal mine. We still have a chance to correct course, but that’s going to mean funding things that need funding and THAT’S going to mean taxing the people who have any money: the One Percent. Otherwise? We’d better get used to our once-First World nation – when we DID tax the rich correctly – descending into failing status. How embarrassing. The suicide of our superpower was an incredibly stupid idea…

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Remember all of that slashing to spending? DOGE? Cuts? Loss of services? Loss of agencies? Loss of opportunities? Deferred maintenance? Trump was going to rein in the budget, remember? So now, with the government not doing much for day-to-day Americans and nearly nothing for anybody else, how did the Trump regime start the new year with a $404 billion dollar deficit?

Hell, the GOP is STILL cutting and with an almost artistic cruelty. They waited until Veteran’s Day to <checks notes> cut benefits to veterans! Do you suppose that means an even higher deficit? That money is going somewhere. If not to the services the US once provided, where is it going? I think we’d better check the pockets of regime workers. They’re making off with the treasury…

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Just for fun, yesterday was Friday the 13th. There’s much conversation about why people think Friday the 13th is a bad luck day. Some tie it to Judas Iscariot being the 13th disciple. Some tie it to Loki, the Norse god, an uninvited 13th guest at a divine banquet. Those seem less likely, to me. Those are more of an attack on the number 13, in general, than the specific Friday the 13th. That means Thursday the 13th, for example, could be bad luck, too.

Some say Jesus was crucified on that day. We know the Friday part from the Bible, but it doesn’t give the specific date and, oh, by the way, the world used a different calendar back then. It’s also relevant that Christianity works diligently to surreptitiously take over special or significant days and claim them as Christian. It’s entirely possible Jesus was crucified on a Tuesday, but that doesn’t fit the narrative.

I’m partial to the idea that Friday the 13th is considered bad luck because that’s the day and date (recorded in history) that King Philip IV of France ordered the mass arrest of Knights Templar across the country in 1307. Word is, King Philip had borrowed an awful lot of money from the Knights and was in no position to pay it back. It marked the end of Knights Templar dominance as a force in Europe. The Knights, themselves, along with their support network, were brutally tortured into confessions of all kinds and most were violently executed.

Friday the 13th was certainly a bad luck day for the Knights Templar. Somehow, the tradition seems to have continued into the present. I don’t know, for sure, that’s the actual origin, but it makes a lot of sense and it fits the elements, so I’m going with it until better evidence becomes available…

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I’m not a fan of ‘the Cloud.’ People store digital things in the Cloud. Financial information, important papers, private documents, whatever. All of it gets stored in the Cloud because it offers easy access from everywhere. It really does, too. If (when) your computer crashes unexpectedly, all of your documents are backed up to the cloud and you can just download them to retrieve them. Lovely. So what’s my beef?

The BEST definition of ‘the Cloud’ is “someone else’s computer.” You want to store your financial information on my computer? Insider corporate information? Nude photos you took of your lover? You want those on my computer? I’d bet not. I’ll even promise not to access any of it unless I have to for maintenance or some such – or the photo is REALLY hot. Still no? Yet, you happily upload all of that stuff to someone else’s computer every time you save to the cloud.

Worse? If your connection fails or their servers go down for some reason, you don’t have access to those important papers you need until they get it going again. I know, that sounds a bit…overwrought, but it happened, this week, to Microsuck. Officially, they have no idea what caused the outage. My guess is a hack, but they’re not going to confess that any time soon. (You’ll get a letter next May, ‘Dear You, Oh, by-the-by…”) No, thank you. I’ll keep my stuff on my computer – and put the nudes on a jump-drive…

Well, It Was A Try…

by MyBaconPress

Outgoing Congressman Thomas Massie introduced Articles of Impeachment against Whiskey Pete Hegseth. He’s done that before. He tried it in September of this year, too. MAGA Mike, the Johnson responded by shutting the House down early and fleeing to safer venues. He didn’t have to go to that extreme this time. The House just voted to shelve the motion. Done. I’d like to say it was a good try, but the Republicans swatted the effort down in about twenty-four hours so, really, it was just a try.

They got away with that because this is still the old Congress. People on the left got very angry with several Democrats for not showing up to the vote. I think they’re putting the cart before the horse on that. What do you want, a show or a removal? Because Massie’s Articles of Impeachment were a show. The GOP still controls what’s left of this Congress. They’re not going to impeach one of their own. Don’t you remember Trump’s impeachments?

They never even considered evidence. Trump was in trouble, the Republicans came to his rescue. This Congress was most likely to do the same for Whiskey Pete. So the MAIN effect of Massie’s articles was to get the charges read into the Congressional record. That’s not nothing. It’s just next to nothing. Massie was making a point. Some of the Dems didn’t feel an urgent need to get back just to cast a show vote.

I suspect they’ll get him in the next Congress, when there’s some chance of an honest vote. Impeaching Whiskey Pete would certainly be a good thing. Obviously, this corrupt-Republican-controlled Congress wasn’t going to impeach Hegseth. But it turns out, the Democratic Congress says they’re not planning to pursue many impeachments, either.

I saw a sketch, I think from Saturday Night Live, in which cops caught a bank robber and when the bank manager asked about throwing the robber in jail, the cops said, “No, we think he’s learned his lesson,” and “Now is not a time for looking backwards. We’re looking forward,” and a few other inspirational sounding phrases that all come down to mean, “We’re letting the criminal get away with it.”

We’re already hearing those noises from the Democrats. Trying to impeach everyone would be a pretty time-consuming effort and nothing else would get done. Of course, they’re not going to get much done so long as Cadet Bone-spurs has his special little veto hat, either. At this point, I’m not sure it’s “getting away with it” so much as “giving them a little more rope to hang themselves with.” We all know where they are. We can find them later.

There is a possibility the ‘no impeachments’ bit could just be make-nice talk until the Dems actually control the House, but I suspect the Dems intend to try and manage GOP behavior by legislation and oversight. It’s worth a shot, for now. It might actually work. Nobody knows because the GOP never even tried. Wouldn’t want to offend Herr Gropinführer Trump.

But I DO hope the Dems took notice of the reaction from people when eleven Democrats chose not to participate in a show vote because it was a show vote. One of the first things the Dems will do to undermine their own recent success is start telling work-a-day Joes – ALL of whom are very definitely subject to the law – that there’s no real need to enforce the law with these high-ranking, self-described “important” people…

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Okay, so California did NOT pass Proposition 40, the one-time tax on billionaires. Largely, that’s because the billionaires spent hundreds of millions of dollars making absolutely sure they never, ever have to trickle anything down. I never expected Prop 40 to pass. Too many people were scared the billionaires would leave the state.

Honestly? I’m not sure what the problem might be with that. You want to go live in freezing North Dakota or humid Texas? Have at it. Mostly, they just extract from the state and they’ve now made clear, that’s all they’re ever going to do. Take, take, take. I’ll hear from people about this so let me add, I know they pay token amounts. I also know those “token amounts” look like huge sums of money and for most of us, they are. But they’re a fraction of what work-a-day Joes pay as a percentage of income.

I think too many people accepted the threat that kept coming up in this, the most expensive opposition campaign in California history: secretly, it’s an “everyone tax.” The billionaires ran ad after ad pretending that might be true. It wasn’t, but gullible is gullible. And, hey, gullible is expensive, too. Since Prop 40 didn’t pass, but the state is still going to need money, who do you think they’ll turn to now? It’s ironic. The masses were afraid the billionaire tax might somehow apply to them, so now the masses will get to pay more in taxes because the billionaires absolutely, positively will not trickle anything, ever.

I stand by this statement: Unearned Income should never be taxed at a lower rate than Earned Income. Honestly, I understand that many Californians who voted against Prop 40 would support a national tax on the billionaires. They just think a state tax means the billionaires flee. Evil Musk fled. Much of his business is still here, so what did California lose, the relative pittance he was willing to part with?

The GOP has done serious economic damage to this once-great nation, what with their constant and on-going tax cuts for the rich. Eventually the richest rich people are going to have to pay their fair share or the nation won’t be able to pay it’s bills. Why not start now? I know, because they don’t have to and we can’t make ’em…

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The US could lose it’s “measles free” status, here in the near future – for no reason other than all of that measles spreading around the country and the people who have died from measles ever since our nutball “health” guy started spreading lies about vaccines. The Trump Regime is a race to the bottom and straight backwards. We’re losing ground in EVERY way under these fools…

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Okay, SO…the Republican controlled congress has just released a report that claims they didn’t see any evidence of Trump raping and molesting girls with his best friend and co-conspirator, child sex-trafficker Jeffery Epstein – and all they had to do was not read the full report and question only Trump loyalists. They spoke with the person who hopes for a pardon from President Pedo. They spoke with Bill Barr.

Do you know who they didn’t talk to? A single one of the victims. That seems curious, to me. It seems that if one is trying to investigate crimes, one needs to talk to the victim of those crimes, right? Wrong, apparently. Most especially, if you intend to declare a perpetrator innocent. My guess? This isn’t going to be the end. The GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles) needed to issue THIS report now to offset the future and far more honest report expected from the Dems in the coming months. But this gives the base something to cling to, and really, that’s all they need…

An End-Run Around Congress…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dumbass (with a ‘b’)…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blocking Paths…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It Shall Be Hope…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trying to Buy The Election…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Divine Retribution Or Superpower Suicide?

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changing landscapes…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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