Over? Not So Fast…

by MyBaconPress

The announcement of the so-called cease-fire came Tuesday night. I wrote this next bit on Wednesday morning, before I left for work:

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It appears Trump surrendered. Unilaterally. I’m not sure how well that’s going to work. If Israel doesn’t stop bombing, does Iran hold the US responsible? Can Israel kill the ceasefire deal? If they can, I presume, they will. When the US presented various bombastic threats, scary promises, and demands, Iran gave a kind of “ho-hum” attitude. They sent back a 10 point plan, calling it the only plan to which they would agree.

It looks as though 47 has acquiesced to all ten demands. One of those demands is that Iran gets to enrich uranium. Again, the US has agreed. Today, Donny said Iran would stop enriching uranium. Here’s a weird bit. According to the Guardian, Iran released it’s 10-point plan. In Farsi, the language they speak in Iran, the list included “acceptance of enrichment” for it’s nuclear program. In the English version, that list item wasn’t included. I suspect that means Iran gets to enrich uranium, but the US gets to say otherwise.

I think Iran has the stronger hand, going into negotiations. It looks like the US isn’t getting anything it was trying for, making the deaths of those American military members just wasted flesh. It’s even worse for the Iranians. Donny was just trying to look like a tough guy but people, real people, died. Kids. I wonder which talking point in the negotiations brings back those kids.

I’m not surprised that ‘Team Fake-Tough-Guy’ would present their surrender as a win. That’s not for people paying attention. It’s for MAGA. Iran is also claiming complete victory. The one thing we know about the Pedo President is that he’s undependable as hell. His “word” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. A good word to describe him? Erratic.

The stock market has hated this war and with word of the US surrender, seems to be responding quickly. The price of oil has come down and stocks are going up again. But technically, this is only a two-week ceasefire and the two sides have to come to agreement. I’m not paying much attention to the crowing of the two sides. We’ll have to wait and see what comes out of any final agreement, if anything.

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So now it’s Thursday. It’s likely that while I was writing Wednesday morning, Netanyahu was sending bombs into Lebanon. One of Iran’s negotiating points was no more bombing, including Lebanon. Israel declared the agreement didn’t cover Lebanon and bombed away. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. I suspect that’s our answer. Donny won’t be able to stop his stupid war because Israel won’t let him.

Netanyahu and 47 have something in common: if they leave their respective offices, they go to jail. Well, technically, they go to trial. Netanyahu needs to keep wars going to stay in his office. Donny is just dumb enough to think people won’t notice HE started his war of choice and will try to turn it into some existential battle that must be fought. 47 intends to use his war of choice to try to interfere with the mid-terms.

Donny’s in a panic about the mid-terms. His regime has been an unqualified, unmitigated disaster. The GOP in general has debased itself, groveling before their Precious, abdicating their responsibility to everything. MAGA Mike, the Johnson seems to be trying to keep the House in perpetual recess so he never has to do anything. Well, anything but accept his paycheck. He’s not doing his job but he’s taking the money. People – even conservatives – want this collection of corrupt clowns out. Donny was hoping a quick victory would change his fortunes.

To hear 47 tell it, it IS existential for Iran, though. President Pedo did say he was planning to wipe out “a whole civilization.” (He didn’t say which, theirs or ours.) Even the threat is a war crime. I believe old Bibi convinced Dumb Donald an Iranian invasion would be quick and easy. A quick victory for the Drumpfster might make him look decisive and tough. He wanted – needed – that. Instead, Iran has made him look like a weak, confused, and incapable dotard. Even MAGA can see it now…

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See? It’s not a lock, necessarily. Democrats have been sweeping special elections. It looked like that was going to be the knock-on effect of being Republican, what with the party looking so hapless, reckless, and downright anti-American. But yesterday, Republican Clay Fuller beat Democrat Shawn Harris in Georgia’s special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Dems CAN still mess this up…

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This is an odd little bit I wanted to mention. Landmines are a problem worldwide. Armies bury them during wars. Or conflicts. Or police actions. Then after the hostilities, the armies leave. Did you notice there was no mention of going back, digging up the mines, and taking them along? Yeah, they don’t. They just leave ’em.

In Cambodia, for example, estimates suggest there are as many as six million undiscovered landmines left over from the Vietnam war. For years, often decades after the end of fighting, people get blown up by landmines. 20,000 killed, 40,000 injured in Cambodia since 1979. (The war ended in 1975.) Yeah, I’d call that a problem.

Some clever sod out there figured out a way to train African pouched rats to find them. Their little noses are powerful enough to smell the explosives inside, but the rats, themselves, are too small to trigger the devices. It takes a human being four days to clear a tennis-court sized area. The rat can do the same job, with less risk, in twenty minutes.

Rats take a lot of heat from humans. That has a lot to do with them being freight trains for bubonic plague infected fleas during the Middle Ages. It’s nice to have a good thing we can apply to rats, now, as well…

America First or Donny First?

by MyBaconPress

I’m starting to suspect Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) might be setting up a Presidential bid. It’s hard to say. She’s out and about, these days, trying to convince MAGA to leave MAGA and move to an ‘America First’ position. She says MAGA was supposed to be America First but trump has betrayed the movement on just about every front.

MTG reacted strongly to the Trump/Epstein File thing. She got even more upset when The First Felon took health insurance from millions of Americans. Hell, she started sounding downright sane, very unusual for her. She knows he hasn’t done anything about the cost of living except make it worse. She knows he turned the USA into a pariah among nations.

47 has only been in office about fourteen full months – just over one year – and he has already added $2.5 trillion dollars to the national debt. At that rate, he’s on pace to add $10 trillion dollars to the debt, assuming he leaves at the end of four years, which I doubt. And that’s not money he’s using to help the vast majority of the American people. He’s redecorating. He’s assaulting Americans. He’s “getting even” with enemies, real and imagined. He chose a foreign war of regime change he can’t explain, he can’t manage, and he doesn’t seem to understand.

I’m saying MTG has a point. I’m not saying she has my vote, of course. Donny has not been America First, the promise of MAGA. Donny has been – has always been – ‘Donny First’ and MAGA is finally starting to see it. For those that don’t? MTG is helping, pointing it out. I don’t know. It’s just a guess, but with MTG suddenly lurching back into sanity and now trying siphon off MAGA voters for a “new and improved” ‘America First’ movement? Yeah, a Presidential bid doesn’t seem that far out of line…

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Apparently, President Pedo has endorsed former Fox Not-News host Steve Hilton in California’s governor’s race. I presume the damage control team sprang into action. I can sort of see Hilton’s people on the phone with reporters, “This vile rumor must stop. We would NEVER accept an endorsement from him.” See, I’m not sure an endorsement from Cadet Bone Spurs carries the weight it once did. It might be more of a millstone around Hilton’s neck…

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Actually, I feel a little silly, not having realized it myself, but I take comfort in the fact that my mind just doesn’t work that way. I KNOW that social media algorithms feed me information they think I’ll be interested in based on things I do online (and sometimes, things I say too near to my phone). If I’m researching, say, clothes washers online, I’ll start seeing ads for washers, that kind of thing.

On the one hand, it’s creepy. On the other, it could be convenient. It generally isn’t convenient only because by the time the algorithm figures out I’m looking to buy a product, I’ve already bought it and don’t need the ads anymore. The point is, if I have an interest and the social media algorithms find out about it, they’ll feed me more information on the topic that captures my imagination.

But it never crossed my mind that there might not be ANY limit on the focus of my possible “interests.” If I’m into surfboards (I’m not), I’ll get information about surfboards. If I’m into sexualizing children (I’m really not), I’ll get information about that, too. I presume that applies, no matter how dark my “interests” might be. META just lost a huge lawsuit for allowing their platforms to be used for sex trafficking children. I can’t believe the social media sites didn’t set up guardrails for such things.

And you know why they didn’t: money. Limit an interest, any interest, you lose eyeballs, subscribers, cash flow. In our unregulated Capitalist system, one can buy anything if they’ve got the money. It’s really rather ugly…

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Holy gods, if you live in the west of the US, you’re in trouble this coming summer. We had a warm March. It melted much of the snowpack. That’s water we’re going to need in the coming months. Hell, the fires have already started and we’ve got a moron in the White House, just itching to “get even” with California for being smarter than him.

I’m starting to feel like maybe it was a mistake to ignore all of those warnings about climate change from all of those experts all around the world who just kept telling us and telling us, only to have their voices drowned out by the power of the almighty dollar. As your life burns to the ground, perhaps you can take comfort in the knowledge that rich people got a little bit richer…

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Today, sometime, the Artemis II crew reaches further into space than any human has ever gone before. They’ll be looking at the far side of the moon through portholes. Pretty cool. See? There ARE good things happening in the world. Well, near the world. You know what I mean.

This is just a shake-out mission. Astronauts won’t land until the next mission. Now all we need to do is get to the next mission before Donald Dork cuts the funding and steals the money…

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The beatings will continue until morale improves! That seems to be the message Donny is sending Iran. “We’ll keep bombing if you don’t do what I tell you to do!”
“Bombing is what starting this, Donald. Stop.”
“No. We won. We’re winning. We’re going to win, because we won already. Me. Me. Beautiful me.”
“Donald, this is–“
“Win, winny-win-win. I’m building a ballroom, a big ballroom, a beautiful ballroom. It’s the best ballroom. Open the f*cking Strait. Ooh, I’m so pretty.”
“We’ll open the Strait when you pay us war reparations.”
“Nobody told me you might not stop when I told you to. It’s not fair. It’s so unfair. Why is everybody always picking on me?”

Even if trump tries to stop his stupid, evil, illegal war, Israel isn’t going to let him. They just keep bombing everything in sight. Our National Embarrassment is in a hole and he doesn’t have even the slightest inkling on how to get out. He seems to be flailing. All he’s got is threats and foul language and the Iranians seem particularly unimpressed.

Still, the markets seem to be responding to the “possibility of peace talks.” There aren’t any and by now, one would think smart people would realize he’s just manipulating the market with talk but they don’t seem to. Tomorrow is supposed to be the big bombing campaign to stop Iran from responding to the earlier big bombing campaign that started this whole thing. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I’m looking for a TACO…

Happy (ish) Easter…

by MyBaconPress

So today is Easter Sunday. Happy Easter, I guess, and I hope it is. But, personally, I think the US should be barred from recognizing Easter until we do at least one thing – just one – in keeping with the teachings of Jesus. Aspirational goals, I guess…

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This is something Donny actually said out loud, for everyone to hear, “On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem as crowds welcomed him with praise honoring him as king. They call me king now. Can you believe it?” For clarity, we mock him as a wanna-be, but he’s… kinda dumb.

“…the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB)

Hmm, those two bits seem related, somehow…

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An American aviator went missing in Iran after Iran shot down his plane with some of that war fighting ability that has been so completely destroyed. We went looking for him. The Iranians were looking for him, too. Recently, Whiskey Pete Hegseth bragged that he had ordered no quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Tough guy. No quarter is a war crime. It means ‘take no prisoners.’ Based on the Hegseth Doctrine, if the Iranians had found that aviator before we did, the flyer might well be dead.

That’s the very worst part about Hegseth’s oh-so-stupid declaration. Setting aside the war crimes bit, what do you think it does to the attitudes of the enemy regarding our soldiers that might get captured? In this case, we got the guy first. But if the war is to be fought “no quarter,” the Iranians will fight that way, too. Hegseth is an idiot…

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“Open up that Strait!”
“You should not have bombed us, Donald.”
“Oh, come on, I didn’t mean anything by it. Netanyahu said he thought it would be a good idea.”
“You killed our children, Donald.”
“Did we? Or was that someone else bombing Iran at the same time?”
“It was an American missile, Donald.”
“Not our fault. Maybe it was a windy day. Let’s be done with this, now, k?”
“No! Donald, we are not done with this.”
(This part, ↑, I made up.)

(This part, ↓, I didn’t.)
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

That’s a crazy post from our crazy misleader, written exactly as he wrote it. (I cut and pasted.) I think the thing people admire about him most is his Presidential bearing and decorum, don’t you? I suspect there’s a TACO in the very near future. All he can do is make the terrible situation he created worse. So, hey, maybe if he cusses at them. Maybe that will do it.

Do you think cussing at them is going to work? I’m skeptical. And what’s his threat? Bombs? Isn’t that what started this? Yesterday, last I saw, diesel fuel was $7.99/gal. Regular gas is hovering around $6.00. Your information may be different. These are California prices and we get screwed by the gas companies pretty hard. High taxes don’t help, either.

Regardless of the numbers, though, your gas and diesel have gone up, too, right? A LOT! That’s going to keep happening and it ain’t Joe Biden’s fault. This is all the handiwork of Donald Dork…

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Donny so dumb…
How dumb is he?
Donny so dumb he thinks fraud only happens in blue states.

Trump doesn’t care about fraud. I surmise that based on the fact that he pardons one fraudster after another – after an appropriate “honorarium,” of course. But if you hate fraud, you don’t pardon fraudsters. I guess the message he intends to send to fraudsters is, “Go to the red states. We won’t look there. You’ll be safer shafting MAGA.”

Fantasyland seems to be collapsing. That was inevitable. One can perpetuate fantasies on some things for a while. But one can NOT re-write reality for long. Reality, it seems, bites back. MAGA media is still working to protect him. MAGA still, largely, has no idea who he really is. But the veil is slipping.

Every time they pull up to a gas pump, the truth smacks them in the face. When they lost their health insurance, smack! When the letters of regret start showing up announcing the death of their children in Donny’s War, that’s going to smack them in the face, as well. Reality, it seems, has decided to reassert itself, ready or not…

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Do you think Todd Blanche thinks he got a promotion? He says that all of the Trump/Epstein files that are going to be released have been released. Evidence suggests otherwise. Now HE’S in the hot seat. His job is to stonewall, but the law 47 signed is working against him. Let the out-of-a-job countdown begin…

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Captured on a video during a White House luncheon, President Pedo said, “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare – all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis.”

Meanwhile, just to back up that point, Little Marco Rubio, anchor baby, said, “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent the money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” We’re not supposed to notice the irony, I guess. Still, I did.

We should NOT be fighting this war of trumped up reasons. We sure as shi—, er, shootin’ shouldn’t use the illegal war of choice to justify harming Americans at home. Hey, is NOW a good time to point out that other Presidents, pretty much ALL of the other Presidents in our blood-thirsty history have managed to fight wars AND take care of the American people? Those not being disposed of in those wars, that is.

But Donny’s not smart enough to do both. He can focus on one thing or he can focus on another thing, but you can’t make him focus on two things at once…

Bye, Bye, Bondi…

by MyBaconPress

Pam Bondi is out. She was an incompetent so I can’t say I’m surprised. She was given clear directives to hide files that can’t be hidden and prosecute people who haven’t broken the law. She didn’t do very well at either. People still remember that Donald Dork was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and likely co-conspirator in a sex trafficking ring. Oh, maybe I should have said, “Spoiler Alert” for MAGA.

Pam didn’t take the firing well. Word is, there was something of a shouting match. She lost. For now, trump’s loyal toady Todd Blanche is going to run the department but rumor has it that, long term, Bondi will be replaced by an even LESS competent, LESS qualified person named Lee Zeldin. It’s rather amazing to me that no matter HOW incompetent the outgoing person was, these guys can always find a LESS competent person to take their place. With these guys, it’s like there IS no bottom of the barrel.

It seems Bondi messed up one time too many. She accidentally released to the House Judiciary Committee, led by Jaime Raskin, a report from a member of Jack Smith’s legal team that suggested 47 kept those confidential files he stole – remember those? – for financial reasons. That violated an order from Aileen “Loose” Cannon that no DOJ could ever release any of the documents related to Donny stealing government property.

Cannon has been relentlessly shameless in her dedication and loyalty to a man who knows nothing of dedication and loyalty. She bent over backward to protect him from himself and she had almost made it. But now, because the Bondi DOJ DID release a document from that case, Cannon is in a tough position. She has to initiate contempt proceedings against Donny’s corrupt DOJ or she might face impeachment herself for obvious bias. Worse, the whole ‘stolen government top secret document’ story is back in the news. Thanks, Pam.

I don’t much like old Pam and I’m glad to see her go but when you think about it, in fairness, she was incompetent at breaking – or at least bull-rushing – the law. She was bad at being bad. That’s not much of an indictment. She tried, though. She tried hard. That is quite the indictment. Now, I think, it’s time for her to lose her law license, having disgraced it so, so badly…

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The whole point of this mission to the moon is to work out the kinks and shake out the bugs, but the toilet? I’d guess that’s one of the pieces they should have confirmed before someone had to… um… use it. I hear, in the end, it was a small issue, but for a moment, could you imagine being on a spaceship the size of a couple of minivans and not having a dependable place to poop for several days? Key word, “Depends,” I guess…

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All of that damage he’s done to everything. And I mean, everything. MAGA voted for him… No, MAGA voted for him because they’re enthralled by him. It doesn’t matter what he actually does. It only matters what they choose to believe he does. But he convinced them he is a business genius and he had every intention of fixing America’s economy.

If that’s the measure of his success, he has been a horrifying nightmare by his own standard. In one year, ONE YEAR, Donny has added $2.25 TRILLION dollars to the National Debt. No, I’m not slamming the Drumpfster, at least not alone. He’s just the latest.

The current national debt stands at – are you ready for this? The current national debt – as of this writing because it’s growing faster than I can type – stands at $39.1 trillion dollars. That’s just a bit more than I have in my change jar. Since Reagan – and this includes Reagan and the raper’s first year (2025) – the national debt has gone up $34.5 trillion dollars.

When Reagan took office, the national debt was less than $1 trillion dollars. Reagan added $825 billion and was the first President to leave office with the national debt over a trillion. It has been trillion dollar leaps ever since. Now, here’s a key question: What was it, what happened during the Reagan administration, that might have launched such stratospheric debt?

If you guessed ‘Trickle Down’ or ‘Supply Side’ Economics, congratulations. You win! Don’t get too excited. You only “win” crushing debt. Trickle Down theory, most accurately dubbed “Voodoo Economics” by President George H.W. Bush suggested that if we didn’t ask rich people to pay taxes it would be better for everyone. It was just a scheme to financially starve the government in an effort to drown it in a bathtub.

But it sure has worked out well for them. It was MUCH better for them. It has been a steady, unstoppable erosion of life for the vast majority of Americans NOT in the One Percent. There can be no question, trickle down hasn’t worked, doesn’t work, will never work. Now… GET out there and pay your taxes, because the rich people sure as hell ain’t gonna pay theirs…

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Meanwhile, Whiskey Pete removed a bunch of generals. Bondi is an incompetent so she’s out, the generals worked for an incompetent, so now they’re out. THEY have to go because they can’t win an unwinnable war. You see, Iran doesn’t have to win on the battlefield so long as they control the Strait of Hormuz. They’ve gotten away with a LOT through the years because of that fact. It was easy for them because everyone – everyone in the world – understood that fact.

I’d bet you a theoretical dollar that some of the generals that have been removed, maybe ALL of the generals being removed, mentioned that Iran doesn’t have to win on the battlefield so long as they control the Strait of Hormuz. We already know Dastardly Don started his stupid and illegal war against the best advice of the generals around him.

Now, because the weekend-talk-show-talking-head and the game-show-host were wrong about the war and the generals were right, the generals have to go. I mean, obs…

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Because it didn’t work with their political philosophy, MAGA decided that experts don’t know anything and any fool can do the same job after a few minutes on the internet. Then, the experts kept being proven right and the fools kept highlighting their own foolishness. Does MAGA learn? Not if they can help it. They just go out, find a bigger fool, and try (and fail) again. It turns out, experts are experts for a reason and one cannot simply dismiss expertise. Expertise is earned…

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“You know, we’re not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When someone’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people. I couldn’t care less. I’ll fight to the end for them.” A confession from Donald Trump at a private event he didn’t know was being recorded. That sounds like a person desperate for approval. It’s not really news. We already know he regularly hangs around with the scum of the Earth but now we know HE knows it, too. He just doesn’t care…

Finally, Something Good…

by MyBaconPress

1972. That was the last year the United States sent anybody into space. I mean, out of Earth’s influence. By it’s very name, the International Space Station (ISS) should be understood to be in “space.” Don’t go there without a helmet. And air. You’ll want air. But the ISS is still influenced by Earth’s atmosphere. Not much, mind you. It’s why you gotta take your own air. But it’s still, technically, in Earth’s atmosphere.

Now an Artemis II rocket is taking four astronauts out of Earth’s atmosphere and going around the moon, and THAT hasn’t happened since 1972. Fifty-four years. In fact, this crew will travel farther from Earth than any human ever before – 252,000 miles. Humans went to the moon several times. (Oh, stop it, yes we did.) Then we stopped.

I’ve always seen that as a shame. Had we continued going, we could have a permanent station up there by now. We could have been learning more about the moon and the solar system by being there. Not for long, mind you. Each crew would have to get out after a relatively short time, like they have to at the ISS. It seems lack of gravity is rough on the human body. But I still believe humanity could have learned a LOT if we had kept at it

A couple of areas where human beings make zippy-quick advancements are war and space. We’ve gained a LOT of technology from those two pursuits. For the last fifty-four years, and forever before that, the focus has been war. We’ve gained a lot of technology from our various and sundry efforts to kill each other in as quick and creative ways as possible.

We used to gain technologies from the space race, too. Then we abdicated that gain. Now we’re going back. These days, I don’t get to write about very many good things, but this is a good thing…

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Make an investment betting the oil market is about to tank. SCREAM about dropping more bombs. The market tanks, you clean up. Make an investment betting that the market is about to pick up. Make an announcement that talks are going great and the war is probably nearly over. The market rebounds, you clean up. See how that works?

Heads, I win, tails, I win again. 47 told us straight up, too. He told us that when oil prices are high “we make a lot of money,” remember? It’s not his fault YOU are not part of his “we…”

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According to a report from the Brookings Institution, mail-voting fraud is exceedingly rare. Such cases account for 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast, which amounts to roughly four cases out of every 10 million votes. Four cases, every 10 million votes. It simply is NOT a problem and anybody who says otherwise is straight up lying…

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I’m glad to hear the war will be over in another two or three weeks. I know it because Donny said so last night on TV. I’m sure it will be a different “two or three weeks” than the last time he told us it would be over in about two or three weeks. Or the time before that. I feel certain THIS “two or three” weeks is the real two or three weeks, not like those other cheap-ass two or three weeks. It’s either that, or he’s lying again…

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Apparently, President Pedo thought maybe he could bring his self-described “magnificent presence” to the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court and maybe intimidate his boot-licking sycophants into doing his evil bidding yet again. It doesn’t seem to have worked. He wants to end birthright citizenship. Sure, it’s in the Constitution, but he doesn’t like it.

No, he didn’t try an amendment, which is the way he would have to change the Constitution according to the Constitution. He used an Executive Order, which doesn’t even carry the weight of law, even though everyone is pretending it does. Well, apparently, except for the Supremely Corrupt Court. They don’t seem too keen on ending birthright citizenship.

The court WILL rule for him if they can. But in this case, the Constitution reads: ‘All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.’ Where’s the wiggle room in that? The Constitution just might win this one…

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Speaking on 47’s harmful and destructive tariffs, Dario Perkins, the head of global research at the consultancy TS Lombard said, “If it was possible for Trump to have spent the last 14 months on the golf course, we would be in a better place.” Of course, that’s true of everything he has done, everything he has touched, and everything he even thinks about. He’s just a disaster…

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The Golden Colander

Have you seen this? It’s called, ‘The Golden Colander.’ It’s a fountain, raining down water on Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and co-conspirator as a metaphor for how leaky the stupid ‘Golden Dome’ idea is. The umbrella looking thing is a colander, not a dome. Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry’s fame, put this statue up in the National Mall. It depicts a dumbass who thinks he can build a space-based defensive system that will destroy any and all rockets aimed at the US. The dumbass in question calls it a “Golden Dome.” Ben Cohen says it’s more like a “Golden Colander” because it’s just chock full of holes.

The proposed system is expensive. VERY expensive. At a time when Americans are being thrown off of various forms of assistance because nobody can afford anything, we still seem to have come up with lots and lots of money – a nearly endless supply, in fact – for the military. But the cost of the system isn’t the main concern. The most important concern is that such programs don’t work and they never have.

This is just a new name for Evil Ronnie’s ‘Star Wars’ system. That one didn’t work, either. Occasionally, a “test” would be presented that showed one missile hitting another to boost support for the wasteful program. Then we would learn the people in charge had pre-programmed the “shooter” missile with exact coordinates or even put a receiver in the “incoming” missile to direct the “defender” missile – just like enemies would not.

If it was up to me – and it’s not – I would put less money into fantasy defense systems and more into benefits for the American people…

Realities He Can’t Reshape…

by MyBaconPress

James Carville has a theory. He thinks after the mid-terms, trump will get tired of the problems and walk away from the Presidency after getting JD to pardon him. I disagree with Carville. Well, sort of. I agree Donny doesn’t like the problems, but he never has. That’s why he doesn’t deal with them. He just tries to talk his way out of them. So far, it hasn’t worked. I mean, he DOES squirm out of taking any responsibility, but the problems remain.

The thing Carville isn’t taking into account is the money. Trump loves money more than anything else. Did you ever see the 1968 movie, ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?’ There’s a scene in which the gang robs a train. Butch uses too much dynamite and blasts money everywhere. As the gang is picking up the money, a second train pulls up and a posse comes charging out.

Butch and Sundance take off and call the others to do the same but a few of the gang members want just one more dollar. They stay too long and end up dead. I think that will be Donny. Not dead, but impeached and that will be good enough. Even after he knows he needs to go, he’ll stay for one more dollar. Greed kills. I think Donny will stay too long. Maybe the posse can catch up to him this time…

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So, 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 wants people to forget that. People are not forgetting that. Don’t you forget it…

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Now Operation Epstein Fury is going to include ground troops? In a war we’ve already won? No, not a war, of course. According to trump, if he calls it a war he has to get permission, so he calls it a ‘military operation.’ It’s still a war and I doubt the Founders intended to allow the President to circumvent their writing by playing semantic games. To my mind, it’s an illegal war. With regards to the Bard, a war, by any other name…

Donny has spent his life telling other people how things are and then he expects them to bend themselves into whatever shape they need to bend into to agree. If there’s ANY point of subjectivity in the topic, people might be able to and, based on MAGA, lots of them like to. But every once in a while, something comes up he can’t just talk his way out of.

Covid-19 was one such event. He couldn’t insult the virus away. He tried. He couldn’t tell everyone it wasn’t real. Too many people were dying. There was no story he could tell that reality didn’t smack him in his stupid face and refuse to go along with his narrative. Over a million Americans died while he tried to “talk them out of” Covid-19.

His war in Iran is the same thing. Iranians don’t care about trump’s opinion any more than the Covid virus does. (Or I do.) He’s still stuck in his only “management tool,” though, so he keeps saying the war is won. We beat them. We wiped them out. Speak it into existence. But the price of gas keeps going up. The cost in lives keeps going up. The cost in American treasure and reputation keeps going up.

Reality simply WILL NOT bend to his delusions when it comes to war – or even military operations – any more than Covid-19 bent to his will. There’s an old adage: when you find yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. So, obviously, Donny is escalating. What else might you expect? The guy’s not dealing with reality. He’s been in a battle with reality his entire life. Iran might just prove to be his Waterloo.

It’s a real mind-bender, isn’t it? We’ve won but we’re going to need $200 billion dollars. It’s over, so were going to have ground operations – not boots on the ground, ground operations – probably for weeks to come. I wonder how many people will die THIS time for no reason other than trump can’t handle the truth? To MY mind and way of thinking, it has already been too many…

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When grandpa Drumpf so disgraced the Drumpf name (through cowardice) that he had to change it, he chose ‘Trump.’ Remember, ‘trumpery’ means “showy but worthless,” “nonsense, rubbish,” or “deception, trickery, and fraud. When it comes to identifiers, I’d say grandpa Drumpf got it right…

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One can always count on the TACO, yes? The Drumpfster is trying to blockade oil from reaching Cuba. Well, he was. Mr. ‘No Regime Change’ is working on regime change there and wants to punish the population in hopes that they’ll revolt. But then, Putin told Donny to let him sell some of his oil despite international sanctions and Donny does what Vlad tells him to do.

So, Donny created an “exception” for Russian oil and the first thing Russia did was to send a tanker full of the beautiful black gold to… CUBA! Trump is blocking oil from Cuba, Russia was taking oil TO Cuba. Who would win that one? My prediction was Putin, because Putin owns Trump. I know, it wasn’t all that great of an insight. Every person not MAGA knows Donny does as Vlad says. He always has, he always will, because Putin owns Trump.

So guess what? The tanker reached Cuba and will offload thousands of barrels of oil in Matanzas, granting relief to the Cuban people. Suddenly, TACO Trump has ‘no problem’ with other countries sending Cuba some oil. Yet another reality he can’t speak into existence…

Even More No Kings…

by MyBaconPress

As I watched the sea of humanity flowing across the whole world, ALL in agreement on one thing: Donald Trump and the Republicans in general suck, suck, SUCK, I found myself wondering how many of those people left their red hats behind to attend. It’s weird thought, isn’t it? I mean, he still does well with MAGA in the polls. His overall approval remains strong at roughly 33%. That’s MAGA.

But I’ve seen plenty of things that cause me to believe that MAGA is increasingly frustrated by all of this insanity, too. I don’t have evidence, but I suspect they’re answering pollsters the “correct” way, but feeling betrayed and let down. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that some of them are so off-put by the outrages that they might come out and march in a ‘No Kings’ Protest.

The No Kings rally in Maryland, March 28, 2026

There were rallies in every state and in sixteen countries around the world! They even had ‘No Kings’ rallies in places where they have actual kings, like Britain. (No word on how Charles feels about that.) It’s a pretty encompassing movement. At various rallies, people focused on different aspects of the madman’s reign, but all under the headline: No Kings.

I guess the “flagship” event was considered Minneapolis/St. Paul, in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two American citizens murdered by ICEholes. But the truth is, there were plenty of rallies, LARGE rallies for people to attend, pretty much anywhere you live. The whole world hates this guy just as much as I do. I’ll tell you this: It’s comforting to know I’m not alone…

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Republicans have an annual event known as CPAC. I’m pretty sure that stands for ‘Crappy People Acting Crappily.’ Donny used to be a fixture there. That’s where the first golden idol was unveiled. Ooh, they loved him. Did you catch that? ‘Loved.’

He didn’t go this year. Worse, when a person onstage asked the crowd how they felt about impeachment, the crowd cheered! The speaker was trying to whip them into a frenzy of fear that if the Dems won in the mid-terms, 47 would end up impeached. He wanted the crowd to affirm that would be a bad thing so he told them, flatly, that cheering was the wrong answer, then he asked again. How did they feel about impeachment?

The crowd cheered a second time. They clearly understood the question and they knew the answer they liked best. It looks like there might be more Marjorie Taylor Greenes out there than we might have imagined…

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It was as predictable as sunrise, wasn’t it? Donny is, reportedly, bored with his war now. Israel, I suspect, convinced him to get on board and hit Iran. You know, in a “manly” and “strong” way. He apparently thought he could just stumble in, rain down a few bombs, and walk away. Iran sees things differently.

Now the Feeble Failure is asking for $200 billion dollars and calling up as many as 10,000 troops. Overwhelming force, right? Well, Iran has mobilized a million troops. Okay, we’ll just keep bombing. Reports say we’re running out of Tomahawk Missiles. Meanwhile, they can produce their drones relatively cheaply and, apparently, they have a LOT of them.

This seems to be one of those situations that really confuse him. He’s just sure he should be able to tell you what he thinks and you’ll agree with him. In the past, that has largely been true of MAGA. But it’s hard to tell people you’ve won the war when they see the price of a gallon of gas every single time they pull up to a pump – and the price of a gallon is going up every single day.

Try telling people – even redhats – who lost their health insurance because ‘we couldn’t afford it,’ that we CAN afford $200 billion dollars to kill foreigners. Yesterday, I paid $13 dollars for one pound of ground beef. Go ahead, try to convince me things are affordable – OR try to convince me that “affordable” is a made-up word. We were clearly already on the wrong track. His war made everything worse.

But he’s bored now. Big surprise. He has the attention span of a three-year-old. He wants to move on to other things. Apparently, he has a LOT more damage to do somewhere else…

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Isn’t it a fair question? If the trumpster can just sign an Executive Order to pay TSA now, why didn’t he do that earlier? Those TSA workers aren’t banking huge amounts that leave them able to absorb a cash-flow interruption. They’re working class, which, in America, means struggling financially. Some dumbass cuts off their wages, they feel it. They feel it fast.

Political gamesmanship. He allowed the pain in the airport in hopes it would deceive enough Americans into believing the Democrats were at fault. But most of America isn’t MAGA. We understand things. We know the problem is the cons, or more accurately, Donny himself, so the travel assault didn’t work. It got even worse when Republicans started reporting that they were willing to fund TSA but President Pedo told them no.

Now that the pain and suffering he caused is being tied directly back to him, he’ll do something about it. He really is a waste of human flesh…

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It could be big, this ruling against Meta and YouTube that they deliberately designed addictive spaces. I understood why they were given protections under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. (1934!) It protected platforms from the things users might post on it. If one person went on a racist rant, for example, others couldn’t sue the platform over it.

The idea was to let the platforms moderate what got posted and what got removed. I think we would all agree: they haven’t done a good job. But that was the deal and they were protected and people, often young people, suffer as a result. It seemed there might be nothing to be done about it.

But then a clever lawyer came up with a novel solution. He sued the platforms for intentionally building an addictive product. He just won. That was the second blow to Meta this week! Earlier, a New Mexico jury found that Facebook and Instagram misled consumers about the safety of its platforms. They were ordered to pay $375 million dollars, pocket change for Zuckerberg.

This new suit, their latest loss, is “only” for $6 million. Couch-cushion money in their homes. But, Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts. The test is to see if their platforms were designed to be addictive. Spoiler alert: they were.

You can almost hear the equivocations writing themselves. ‘No, we weren’t building an addictive product. We just built a friendly environment that encouraged users to return over and over again and then stay.’ The lawsuits are addressing the platform structure and not the content and the user concerns are, so far, prevailing.

It’s hard to say how this will play out. These sites have TRILLIONS of dollars behind them. We all know, for better or worse (though it seems always worse), money rules the day in this once-great nation. But it’s a chance. There’s an opportunity to clean up the mess now. I don’t know if we can, but I’m glad there are people trying…

A SAVE That Doesn’t Need Saving…

by MyBaconPress

So, the main reason I oppose the so-called SAVE Act is that it’s a “solution” in search of a problem. With the likely exception of 47’s recent “election,” vote fraud isn’t a problem in this once-great nation, and where there ARE problems, they’re in the voting machines. Right about now I have to add that I don’t believe the machines are manufactured to cheat – so put your billion dollar lawsuits back in your pocket. What I can say, for sure, is that we, the people, started suffering electoral “anomalies” right about the time we adopted voting machines.

A drawing of people voting.

The problem may not be the machines, themselves, but there are always people – dark and dirty evil people – willing and able to subvert the machines. They can and they do. Just think of all the hacking going on around all of us all the time. I honestly believe that’s why 47 is so obnoxiously certain he won in 2020. He paid all the right money to all the right people for all the right votes. He KNEW he won. But it only works on those damned machines.

He was thwarted by Covid-19 and everyone shifting to mail-in ballots. You see, mail-in ballots are the safest form of voting, not the least safe. And you can KNOW this because Donny says otherwise. To my ear, every single time he insists he won in 2020, he’s admitting that he paid enough loyalist, unscrupulous people to rig the machines that it’s not possible he lost.

So President Pedo, Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time best friend and co-conspirator, NEEDS to eliminate mail-in ballots. You’ll never see a better argument for voting on paper than the obvious fact that Donny wants to get rid of paper ballots. Well, that and the fact that the GOP has to lie about the details of the useless SAVE Act so let me make one bit clear.

We’ve heard a lot about voter ID. “Just show an ID,” we’re told. “It’s the same as buying beer.” Uh-huh. Except it isn’t. I can’t speak to every state but you can know. Look at your Driver’s License. That’s what you show when you buy beer, right? Look at it. Where on there does it identify you as an American citizen? It doesn’t, right? And that’s the trick of the SAVE Act.

You see, the SAVE Act requires a government-issued photo ID that clearly identifies you as an American citizen. That lets your Drivers License out. So what other government-issued, photo ID that clearly identifies you as an American citizen do you have? Because THAT is the one you’re going to need. And all of this fuss to address a problem that doesn’t even exist…

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It was just Thursday when I wrote that Donny thinks of mail-in voting as a privilege HE gets that you should not. A reporter named Liz Landers asked him about it. He cut her off, “You mean, I used a mail-in ballot, you probably said? Yeah, I did. You know why? Because I’m President of the United States. And because of the fact that I’m President of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida — because I felt I should be here instead of being in the beautiful sunshine.”

But Landers wasn’t willing to let him lie that easily. See, 47 was in Florida playing golf on a day the polls were open. “But you were in Palm Beach, sir, the last few weekends,” Landers replied. That’s Trump, caught in yet another lie before it even finishes leaving his mouth.

“That’s right,” Trump replied, acknowledging he was there and could have practiced as he preached. “I decided that I was going to vote by mail-in ballot because I couldn’t be there because I had a lot of different things.” Uh-huh. Golf. He could have gone to a polling place. He didn’t want to, so he didn’t. It served him, the least among us, but he doesn’t think anybody else deserves the same consideration. All for him, nothing for you…

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Issac Asimov solved the problem a long time ago. He came up with the rules for robots that make it safe to have robots (operating on AI) around humans. He called them ‘The Three Laws of Robotics’ and they were first introduced in his short story, ‘Runaround’ in 1947. They’re straightforward enough:

1) A robot may not injure a human being or allow a human to come to harm through inaction.
2) A robot must obey orders given by humans unless it conflicts with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as it does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Here’s the thing: the AI being trained right now in the US and around the world is NOT using Asimov’s laws. Why? Well, because they WANT to build robots, running on AI, that CAN kill human beings. Sleep well…

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“We’re very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing… We’ll come to their rescue but they’ll never come to ours. I want you to remember we said this. They didn’t come to our rescue?” That’s President Pedo, again, demanding NATO come to the rescue of the US in a war the US started and has declared won, over and over. But we need rescue? Explain…

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He said he thought oil prices would go up much higher. He said he thought the stock market would crash much worse. THEN he said, “But it didn’t matter to me.” Does it matter to you? I’m so glad Pam Bondi helpfully pointed out that the Dow was – was – “over $50,000 dollars!” The last day the Dow was over 50,000 – points, not dollars – was February 12. As of Friday, March 27, the Dow closed at 45,166.64. That bad boy is falling like a rock.

Just for fun, I decided to test MAGA propaganda. They like to blame Joe Biden for, well, everything, really. But the day Joe took over, January 20, 2021, the Dow closed at 31,186.20. On the day Donny came back, January 20, 2025, the Dow closed at 44,424.25. That means that under Biden the Dow ticked up 13,238.05. And that was while Joe was trying to undo all of the considerable damage 47 did when he was 45.

Sure, as Bondi pointed out, the Dow once hit 50,000+. The close as of Friday, March 27, 2026, was 45,166.64. After fourteen months of the “business genius,” the Dow has climbed, um, 742.39 points. The Dow lost 793.47 points – Friday. If the Orange Loserman keeps going at this rate, by the end of business Monday, he’ll have the Dow lower than when he took office.

Biden was a better President by a large margin and by pretty much every metric…

Energy, Not Bombs…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mueller Did NOT Clear Trump…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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