Crowley Over Hong? Curious…

by MyBaconPress

We’ve seen this before. It’s mind-boggling, but the clear message is, we’d rather lose than risk a progressive. The Democrats are struggling against the popular messages of the Democratic Socialists running for various offices around the country. Struggling against. It was most notable when the Democrats sidelined their more popular candidate, Bernie, in favor of the more centrist but FAR less popular candidate, Hillary.

Bernie would have won. People flocked to Bernie’s appealing message of change. Hillary couldn’t. Didn’t. Centrists, it seems, don’t appeal when it translates to more of the same, and that was Hillary’s whole campaign. But Democrats preferred to lose, handing the White House to Donald Trump, than risk a progressive. That ought to tell you something.

Now they appear to be teeing it up again in Wisconsin. The current frontrunner in the governor’s race is a woman named Francesca Hong. She’s trying to succeed Tony Evers, the Democratic governor who is not seeking another term. There are others in the race. One guy, David Crowley, had dropped out. He had deferred to another candidate, Sara Rodriguez, who then left the race after campaign finance “irregularities.” You know, mainstream politician.

That left the door wide open for Hong. Dems didn’t like that. Crowley decided to reenter the race. You know, to give the Dems more choices. “Please,” the Democrats pray, “Please choose the corporate guy.” According to polls, Hong was up huge. At one point, Hong had 38% voter support to Crowley’s 7%. As of Monday, her odds of winning were 95.5%. Somehow, she just barely lost to Crowley right there at the end. Now, as usual when the outcome doesn’t match the expectation, we’re being offered a list of reasons “the polls got it so wrong.” I’ve noticed the polls have been “getting it wrong” ever since we started using voting machines. Coincidence? You decide.

Hong had some baggage, including a tweet to cancel Thanksgiving and defund the police. Politically correct bunk. Cons woul certainly use that to attack her. For her part, she could only point to the most corrupt regime in US history and all the crimes and rapes and theft and bribery and fear-mongering and scare tactics and spinelessness and fealty to the trumpster and general darkness. Democrats thought it would be a tough race. They insisted they weren’t trying to sideline the progressive due to her popularity. No, not at all. Instead, they’re focused on “electability” – by working against their most electable candidate. Again.

Electability is their story and they’re sticking to it. The one thing most Americans know is that since Reagan, the US has been in assault mode against her own citizens and most of us are sick and tired of it. We preferred the land of opportunity, the home of the brave, and the great American melting pot. What we’ve gotten, instead, is trickle down theory that doesn’t work and economic disparity that makes a tiny handful of people obscenely rich while millions struggle and/or crash and burn.

Bernie promised change. Donny promised change. Hillary promised a steady hand on the never moving tiller. When the Dems sidelined Bernie, people desperate for change turned, instead, to the Dumbass. It’s not their fault he was lying through his teeth and hasn’t done a single thing to help anybody but himself. But with corporate Democrats promising more steady hand and the alternative being the insanity of MAGA, more and more people are looking to progressives.

And I’ll tell you this: if the Republicans could ignore “grab her by the…”, Democrats could certainly have ignored, “Maybe cancel Thanksgiving…”

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So…here’s a sentence I never thought I’d hear: The United States of America seems to be running out of missiles. Here’s a sentence you can always guarantee you’re going to hear: according to Donny, it’s not Donny’s fault. That boy always wants to take credit, whether he did it or not. And he NEVER, ever takes responsibility, whether he did it or not. That’s stolen glory and cowardice all rolled into one. But we ALL know 47 never takes responsibility for problems – especially when he causes them. The fact that we’re running out of missiles is just the latest.

Oh, and you’ll never guess who he DID blame. Oh, shoot, you got it. And you’re right. Biden! Biden, he says, sent missiles to Ukraine and now we’re out. What else could it be? He doesn’t even mention all of the missiles he shot into Iran. Apparently, those don’t count. Biden DID send missiles to Ukraine. He wanted to help a victimized nation defend itself from an unwarranted, criminal attack from Russia. But he left a stockpile for the US.

Donny used that stockpile to victimize Iran in an unwarranted, criminal attack. 47 has used those missiles to kill children and attack civilian infrastructure in ways that violate the Geneva Conventions, firmly establishing his bid as a war criminal. In short, Biden used missiles for good, 47 used them for evil. Biden left some for us. 47 did not. I suspect even MAGA isn’t gullible enough for this one, though they have surprised me before.

This is the same cowardly attitude that has him claiming that people are mad at Republicans but not him – as though he isn’t every Republican thought that’s allowed to take place these days. What kind of man can’t take responsibility for his own actions? What kind of narcissistic blindness allows a person to deceive himself to the point he really thinks no one will notice HE was the one shooting all of those missiles into Iran and HE is the driving force of the Republican party?

In truth, I AM mad at the Republican Party for being a bunch of spineless simps and/or collusive criminals. But I’m far more angry with the Drumpfster for choosing to do one harmful thing after another, all while shoving taxpayer money into his own pockets and sowing misery everywhere he goes…

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Did you hear? Mr Bravery flew his bribe jet over to Turkey. Then the bribe jet went to England. Team Evil announced 47 would be flying back on the old Air Force One. Then, Donny ascended the steps to the plane and gave the traditional “I made it up the steps!” wave. THEN… he snuck out of the plane on the other side – hidden in a food delivery container – and boarded yet another plane.

When all of the planes got to England, he reversed the process. Out of the military aircraft, into a food services container, onto the old Air Force One and out the door. All the while, the powder blue version of the airplane maintained the Air Force One call sign. Oh, yeah. AND, he left his staff and the press pool on the powder blue Air Force One. He protected himself and left all of those people – many quite loyal to him – as bait or cannon fodder. What a guy…

AI or aiR? I Guess We Don’t Get Both…

by MyBaconPress

It could be a science fiction movie. Aliens come to Earth but find the atmosphere just too full of oxygen and freshness. So they begin the long slow process of converting the Earth’s atmosphere to their preferred, much higher CO2 levels with a desertified landscape. It takes a while, so they hide among the locals. They use a tiny fraction of their alien technology to become ridiculously, obscenely rich so they have control.

Over time, they discover that power plants are fundamental to their goal of increasing the CO2 levels. The problem is, once they provide enough power for all of the houses and business, it looks too suspicious to keep adding capacity. It’ll still work, so long as they can focus on coal and natural gas, but it will take too long. The aliens need an excuse.

Enter data centers. These bad boys gobble up energy like small towns. Perfect. Now, alien Bezos announces that his company, Amazon, is going to build a 35-turbine, 7.6 GW natural gas power plant to service a Texas data center. It will be the largest CO2 emitter in the US, twice as bad as the next plant. With the added benefit that the data centers use massive amounts of fresh water, Texas, where this alien is building his climate-destroying machine called a data center, stands to dry up, too.

Really, it’s perfect AND it’s the conflation of BOTH of my bets as to what wipes out humanity first, climate change or Artificial Intelligence (AI). The data centers, you see, are being built, so the story goes, in support of surging AI demands. The aliens get to waste all of that water and dump all of that CO2 into the air and the masses aren’t rising up in revolt. In fact, the masses are begging for it. “Ooh, this AI is so much fun.” “How neato.” “Hey, strip that girl from math class.” “Give us more!”

It’ll be a hard movie to watch. The movie is a warning and doesn’t have a feel-good ending. Billions die rather horrible deaths. There doesn’t seem to be a hero out there, steadily working to defend the planet from the alien invaders. The Justice League was going to come out, but they’ve been bought off and now they defend the aliens. The X-men are all looking at their screens and making funny AI videos to post online. (What could be more important?) Angel just WILL NOT stop “nudifying” Marvel Girl.

I wish someone would – could – write a better ending to this thing. We go to the movies to escape the darkness of our real lives, if only for a while…

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I’ve been saying, the climate has a huge advantage in the goal of wiping out humanity, and it’s pressing in right now. We all know about dwindling water supplies and lost crops. Now we’re learning about migrating toxic insects and illnesses. A recent entry? Flesh eating bacteria. Yuck! Louisiana has confirmed NINE cases of flesh eating bacteria this year. All nine required hospitalization. Five died. For comparison, over the previous decade, Louisiana had seen an average of seven cases and one death.

It comes from a bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus. One gets it from seawater, when you go swimming in warm, brackish water. It enters the body through breaks in the skin, cuts or even just scrapes. It can kill in three days. It ain’t messin’ around. Because the Vibrio virus likes warmer water, most infections are reported from May to October, and most happen in states along the Gulf coast.

But now, thanks to climate change, the oceans are warming. That means the Vibrio bacteria family, including Vibrio vulnificus, is moving northward. Each year, the number of cases has been rising and the northernmost case of infection moves north by about thirty miles. That’s a clever trap Mother Nature has devised. The temperatures keep going up. We get hotter so we go jump in the ocean – where we contract flesh eating virus through a shaving cut or some such – and die…

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Hey, sorry about all of this. I’m not feeling nearly as dark as these two bits, so far, might indicate. Those were just two stories that caught my eye, this morning. So let’s laugh at a dumbass for a minute. 47 tried to take on a Senate candidate from Michigan. His name is Abdul El-Sayed. Well, that’s the name he uses. His actual, full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. As far as 47 is concerned, that, alone, is enough to disqualify El-Sayed from running.

So you can just bet that 47 will never, ever, mention the guy without the FULL name. It sounds so, so, Muslim. Recently, 47 decided his best course of action in attacking Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was to attack his marriage. I just don’t get that. If there’s one topic that dumbass should keep his dumbass mouth shut about, it’s other people’s marriages. Donny has never been in any marriage he didn’t defile. I guess maybe he’s trying to turn his weakness into a strength?

Among all of the myriad, countless things 47 absolutely sucks at, marriage is right at the top of the list! To that end, 47 posted a meme that showed two photos. One, possibly Photoshopped, showed 47 and Melanomia standing together, smiling, at some formal function. The other showed the dangerous Muslim and his wife, Jukaku, out for a meal at what looks like a “family style” restaurant. 47 titled his post, “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s” (sic. HE put the apostrophe there, not me.)

Like nearly everyone, El-Sayed is FAR smarter than 47. His response to Donny’s baby-like taunt? “Yeah, he’s right.” Then he highlighted the differences in the two marriages. “One in which your overlords are two people who don’t like each other, but join in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you – or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that that family is going to have the good things.”

It says something to me about MAGA that 47 knows he can simply pronounce the man’s full name and many of his base will freak out. Also, El-Sayed uses “inshallah” more than they would like, which is not at all. Inshallah is an Arabic word. It means, ‘God willing.’ Yeah, what a horrible thought to express. So, El-Sayed has a scary name. He’s a Muslim. He says scary words. Sadly, all of that actually WILL make it harder for him to get elected.

As to his policies? FAR Too many Americans will just stop at ‘scary words from the scary man with the scary name.’ “Argh! Dark skin! Crap your panties! RUN!!!” I liked it better when America was the home of the brave…

It’s Not Communism…

by MyBaconPress

We’re starting on the Capitalism/Communism argument again. Isn’t it boring? We’ve been having this argument for decades. Nobody even WANTS communism. That’s just the scary story one side tells to terrorize their own base into voting their fear. Now they’re telling it again. The sad part is, it’s a real toss-up as to whether those same people are going to buy that same tired story yet again. A conman will sell you a bridge as many times as you’re willing to buy it.

Even Democrats are freaking out because so many Democratic Socialists are doing so well in campaigns, and that scares the lard out of so-called free-market capitalists. The Democratic Socialists ARE doing so well in campaigns because they’re talking about a more equitable system, a system that gives more people an honest chance to succeed. That’s all people really want, an honest chance to succeed.

I can take it one step further, too. When most people talk about Democratic Socialism, they’re talking specifically about what is known as the Nordic model. It’s a highly-regulated, Capitalist economy. It includes private ownership of businesses but a strong safety net and controls over what are called the commons, things everybody needs like water, power, education, and health-care. Those kinds of things.

When the masses talk about the known and proven benefits of the Nordic model of Democratic Socialism,the response is usually along the lines of “This is a different country.” Well, that’s true, but it doesn’t really mean anything more than that. The implication is that they can do it, but we never could. In truth, it’s just capitalists afraid they’ll lose dictatorial control over businesses.

Besides, even capitalists know that free-market capitalism is a wildly unstable economic system subject to wide swings of equality and success. Think about the Roaring 20’s, followed immediately by the worst economic crash the world had ever seen to that point. WIDE swings. Worse, so-called free-market capitalism is pretty much opposed to democracy.

Free-market capitalism is SO unstable, capitalists try to hide it in a catchy name, the “Business Cycle.” They’ll tell you that the business cycle dictates that the economy will crash to one degree or another every seven to ten years. Really? Economic crashes are built into the system? How is that better? Is there really no way to stabilize the system? Why, yes. Yes there is. Democratic Socialism.

Oh, but – and this is already widely known – where do the self-congratulating, self-serving, so-called free market capitalists turn when the whole thing comes crashing down, as it does on a regular basis? Socialism! “Please, sir,” they beg the government, “bail us out sir.” It’s so common, there’s a saying about it; ‘privatized profit, socialized risk.’

Here’s a bit of a startling number I’ve picked up from an economist I follow: employers – and that includes the self-employed – make up only three percent of Americans. Three. That means ninety seven percent of Americans are NOT employers and have little to no voice in their workplaces. Isn’t it stupid to build a system that best serves three percent of it’s population?

Those of us who have seen the free-market failures and understand that those failures are inherent to the system are simply looking for a better way, a more democratic way. We’re asking, why not skip the darkest parts of so-called free-market capitalism and just go with the life-saving socialism in the first place? It’s a fair question and Americans are asking that question more and more…

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Democrats are war-gaming elections. They’re literally getting together and planning responses to expected and unexpected disruptions to American elections. To be clear, the only evidence of any electoral fraud I’ve seen revolves around Donald Trump, but he is selling scare stories that everyone else is cheating. They’re not. He’s lying.

But that boy regularly responds to his delusions with real-life activity. It’s less important that election fraud doesn’t exist and more important that his demons tell him otherwise. He’ll respond to those demons, evidence or no. So the Dems are trying to find answers to his attacks.

One of the biggest concerns is centered around artificial intelligence (AI). People are worried about floods of AI generated election bullpucky, intended to confuse voters by spreading false and misleading information. Will that happen? Hell, have you been on social media lately? OMG, my feeds are FULL of AI generated videos and ads already. It’s just getting harder and harder to find legitimate information created by actual people.

Even when there ARE people involved, it’s just so much click-bait. ‘The end for Trump.’ ‘Donald melts down as administration collapses.’ ‘Trump can’t take the heat.’ Uh-huh. But he just keeps going and NOT collapsing, doesn’t he? I want decent information, not click-bait. (That’s why I don’t get my news from social media, by the way.)

It can’t be good that Democrats feel the need to game-plan the upcoming elections to offset the cheating virtually everyone knows Donny is going to initiate. We all know he has to do something to save his ass. We’ve seen him trying over and over to control the outcome in his own favor. So far, he has been thwarted by the Constitution and/or Republicans who know that disenfranchising voters means disenfranchising Republican voters, too.

But 47’s desperation seems palpable. Everyone knows he’s going to do something. We just don’t know what. It’s hard to imagine. He’s a sociopath. He’ll do things normal people wouldn’t even think of, and that’s the problem. Increasingly, the fight is centered on mail-in ballots because Donny knows he can’t cheat against those. They’re the safest form of voting so of course 47 decries them as the least safe form. Lying continues to be his favorite weapon.

Donny says voters are mad a Republicans, but not him. Those are just words. If he thought voters weren’t mad at him, he wouldn’t need to cheat like he’s planning. But he IS working to cheat so he must know voters ARE mad at him, right along with the rest of the Republicans. Why wouldn’t they be? What has Donny done for anyone but himself? I’ll tell you this: I, for one, AM mad a Republicans for being so spineless AND at 47 for being so evil, so I guess Donny’s wrong again…

A New Low At US AG…

by MyBaconPress

Lisa Murkowski has insisted she won’t be voting for Todd Blanche to advance to Attorney General. She says she doesn’t trust his assurance that the J6 treason fund isn’t dead, despite his written statement that the fund is dead. That’s smart. Trusting anything Team Evil says has been reduced to a simple this or that. If you believe anything they say, you’re either a gullible fool or you’re complicit. These guys lie about everything, all the time.

But then, so does Murkowski. Maybe she’ll stick to her position. More likely, she won’t. She comes out from time to time, defiantly taking one contrarian position or another. Then she votes along with the crowd, doing as she’s told, a safe a reliable vote. It doesn’t matter what she does, though.

He’s got the votes now. It’s gotta be embarrassing to be in the GOP, these days. They’ve had to confirm Todd Blanche as US Attorney General. Blanche is among the toadiest of 47’s toadies and represents a new low in the job. (So far, ALL of 47’s team represent the very worst person ever to hold the job. That can’t be a coincidence.) Blanches thinks J6 attackers deserve “compensation” and he thinks nobody should ever be able to audit any trump family or businesses ever again because, reasons. (The reason is, that’s what Donny told him he thinks.)

First, he tried to create the compensation fund for a bunch of traitors. Then when that met resistance, he said he didn’t mean it. People didn’t believe him. So he wrote it down. “Oh, okay,” say the GOP, “NOW we think it’s legit.” As if nobody in this regime has ever said anything they didn’t mean and had no intention of sticking to. But cons have to pretend. “Oh, THIS time they’ll behave.” Suckers…

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Well, rats. It looks like McConnell is still alive after all. How disappointing. I know. It’s not very nice of me to be disappointed. That’s not a normal position for me, either. But the choices McConnell has made cause me to wish he couldn’t make choices anymore. I wouldn’t want to live a life that caused people to wish me into the corn field, you know? I wonder if the money is actually worth it…

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In the race to wipe out humanity, climate change has been making some bold moves recently. It’s moving on our food supply and the fresh water supply at the same time. As a result, there’s less of both. At a time when the human population has exceeded Earth’s carrying capacity for nearly fifty years? Yeah, that’s going to be a problem.

Romania is about to sink four rock-filled barges in an effort to raise the level of the Danube river. The water level is so low, they’ve already had to shut down one of their nuclear power plants and they’re trying to keep from having to shut down the other. It doesn’t seem like a solid effort. Even if it works, it will only buy them a few days.

Puerto Rico has started water rationing in the capital city of San Juan and nearby areas. They’re going to shut off water for up to 48 hours at a time! July was San Juan’s driest month on record since 1899 and experts predict the drought will persist until at least September. If they don’t get some rain soon, the water cutoff could extend to 72 hours.

Meanwhile, rich people continue to press for data centers, despite the fact that data centers use so much water aquifers are trembling in terror at their own impending demise. “Hey,” say the rich people, “the machines NEED that water.” As if people don’t. It’s a straight up, Capitalist choice, though. The rich people think they can profit from hydrated machines but not from hydrated humans. The choice is obvious, to hell with the humans. Free market Capitalism is stupid…

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Rich people. Every time someone suggests a tax on their lucre, they frame it as an “attack.” Hey, they have all of the money. Where the hell are governments supposed to turn? That scary, scary dark-skinned man, current mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, has implemented a pied-à-terre tax. See? That must apply to rich people. You don’t even know what a pied-à-terre tax is, right? So I’ll tell you. A pied-à-terre tax is a tax on second homes. In this case, second homes in that great city.

If you own a second home in New York City that you don’t live in full time, and the second home meets a value threshold – a house worth more than $5 million dollars or a condominium or cooperative unit worth at least $1 million – the tax affects you. The pied-à-terre tax is not a new idea. Cities such as Paris, Singapore and Vancouver already have pied-à-terre taxes. In theory, that makes it easier for people who want to live in the city to buy property.

Honestly, I’m not sure taxing $5 million dollar properties is going to help much at the work-a-day-Joe housing level but experts say I’m wrong. It does help. They’re the experts. So the pied-à-terre tax raises significant revenue for the city and is expected to increase available housing for everyone. It seems like a good idea for the largest number of people.

So, obviously, the tiny number of people it affects are complaining and threatening to leave the city. Uh-huh. It’s a threat rich people like to pitch out from time to time. What is the actual threat, though? If you tax us, we’re going to go live in that OTHER greatest city in the world? Theirs are philosophical threats with no practical application. They’re not going anywhere.

Sure they don’t want to pay the tax. Who would? But a person who owns a second home in New York City worth $5 million dollars or more is almost certainly not going to even feel it. The revenue will help a LOT of people and the people the revenue is raised from won’t even notice. That seems like a good deal to me.

If it bothers you, consider this: the rich have been promising that they will trickle money down to us just as soon as they have enough. They have most of it, now, and most people are still waiting for their trickle. Think of these kinds of taxes as simply forcing the rich to trickle the way they promised…

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A judge has stepped in and told 47 to stop work on his ballroom. The judge said only the useless GOP Congress has the authority to approve major White House renovations. Donny whined that he was going to take the case to his toady Supremely Corrupt Court. That will drag things out a little longer. What a moron.

Many of us know someone who tried to build something without the proper permits. Sometimes they get away with it, sometimes they don’t. But to try and build an illegal addition – essentially a whole new wing – to one of the most famous houses in the world, in full view of the public, without any permits or proper permissions? Yeah, moron…

Schrödinger’s McConnell…

by MyBaconPress

I woke up August fourth to no announcement of Mitch “the bitch” McConnell’s passing. The, um, deadline was August third. After that, no special election could be called. That was the date the cons were reportedly waiting for. They kept promising McConnell was alive but no proof was ever offered. A couple of still photos were released but many people saw the photos as AI-generated fakes. As of this writing early August sixth, still no announcement.

The GOP successfully froze the opposition long enough. I suppose the strategy could be to wait a day or two in order to give his “sudden and unexpected downturn” some credibility. I suppose it’s also possible, I should at least mention it, that McConnell is still alive. He has lived his life in a way that has me hoping he’s measuring for curtains with Lindsay Graham, though. We’ll all find out together, here, in the very near future…

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It can’t be a little thing that Capital One closed all of Trump’s accounts because of money laundering. That happened in 2021. Donny took it personally, the way he takes everything. “It couldn’t have anything to do with all that fraud I commit,” he randomly decided. “It was political!” Then he sued Capital One. So now, in defense of their actions, he has forced Capital One to produce their work papers showing all the fraud committed in those accounts.

All of this happened after the J6 insurrection. (See how I haven’t stopped calling it what it was, just because a few people pretend it was something else?) 47 suspects he was debanked because of it. Capital One denies the charge, but I think they have a right to not do business with a guy like that if they so choose. There SHOULD be consequences to calling your minions to storm the Capitol building and threatening to murder the Vice President.

My guess? The fraud Capital One detected was directly related to expenses of the J6 attack. That would explain the timing and support the money laundering charge. Sadly, I have no evidence to support such an idea. I just think it would be awesome if his own spiteful spirit exposed his own criminal activity yet again. This isn’t over yet so it still might. Stay tuned…

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I’m not a person who accepts the concept of Hell as we, generally, understand it. I don’t see Hell as an artifact of an after-life. I understand Hell as a reality of the current life. That is to say, I think people put themselves in Hell by their actions, words, and deeds – the suffer the consequences of those deeds each day of their lives. It doesn’t matter if they meant to do a Hell-bound thing or not.

One example is this current Reflecting Pool kerfuffle between Jeanine Pirro and 47. As we all know, 47 hired a company to resurface the Reflecting Pool. The company appears to have done the work poorly. It’s a trump associate. Of course they did the work poorly. THEN, Donny drove one of the heaviest cars in the world over it, along with several other support vehicles, for a really cool photo opportunity.

Then the whole thing went south and the Reflecting Pond now faces the same fate as most of 47’s other projects. Waste. This newest failure reveals him to be, at best, a second-rate builder – and that might be an insult to second-rate builders. Donny only cares that the failure might make him look bad. He lashes out, he blames innocent people, he seeks to punish someone.

His brain hit on “vandalism” and he started having people arrested. The thing is, when those people got to court, there was absolutely no evidence of any crime. So the DOJ had to drop the charges and confess the problem was poor installation, not vandalism. But Donny has already said vandalism. NOW what?

Hell. Donny’s Hell. He lives every moment of every day in fear that his dwindling supporters might somehow see him for who he actually is. His life is governed by jealousy, fear, and anger. He’s constantly looking for someone to blame or punish. Living one’s life in that state of constant agitation can’t be fun or pleasant. His whole life is clouded by his own actions. It doesn’t matter what he tells you. It ONLY matters what HE knows about himself in his heart-of-hearts. And one does NOT lie to themselves, no matter how hard they might try.

I suppose swimming through his money or his dalliances with young girls might offer some distraction for him but the jealousy, fear, and anger always, always, linger just below the surface. Worse, the “distractions” often add to the self-disgust because of their nature. He really likes to golf. He’s actually pretty terrible at it, for a guy who spends so much time and taxpayer money on it, but it requires focus.

That probably offers him a temporary escape from the self-torture he lives with. But the jealousy, fear, and anger are always there. To me, that’s the real definition of hell, what we do to ourselves in our own minds. We can hide it from others, but we can’t hide from ourselves…

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Why do companies keep putting out “spy glasses?” And who wants these things? I know the masses don’t. People don’t WANT to be filmed covertly. But someone buys them. The companies call them “smart glasses,” but they often come with a secret camera so you can film people without their knowledge. Who needs to film covertly?

Really, it’s the hidden camera that’s the problem. I can actually see how smart glasses could benefit a person in some situations but the hidden camera comes with an inherent possibility for chicanery. Why not add a light so the people around you know when you’re filming? That’s the part that seems to bother people the most.

In the UK, restaurants, pubs, and theaters are banning the things entirely. The glasses are seen as invasions of privacy. I see them the same way and I know I’m not alone. I wish public venues in the US would follow suit. No spy glasses in their establishments. Then all we have to worry about is everywhere else…

Loyal First To Him – Or Themselves? That Is The Question…

by MyBaconPress

47 really does expect his followers to fall on their swords for…whatever. He’s angry with Jeanine Pirro for protecting her law license by refusing to lie to courts. To be clear, she’s a-okay with lying. Just not to courts. She’ll lie on TV. She’ll lie during pressers. She’ll lie in a box. She’ll lie with a fox. You know she’ll lie here or there. In fact, she’ll lie most anywhere. But not court. And 47 is mad at her for that. You see, HE doesn’t care what happens to her. He only cares about himself. It has always been true. It’s true today. It will remain true for as long as he lives.

This is exactly the kind of schism I’ve expected from the right for quite a long time, now. At some point, one’s own personal interest, I presumed, must interfere with their loyalty to 47. Much to their shame, many of the cons destroy their own lives rather than cross the madman. But not all of them, which brings us to his America-hating ‘Save My Ass Act.’

For reasons he simply cannot fathom, Republicans in Congress are not passing the thing. To be clear, 47 NEEDS it. He wants it bad. He doesn’t really care about how it might affect anybody else. He doesn’t CARE about anybody else. He cares about himself. Period. But, as it happens, other cons DO care about their futures.

As it happens, 47’s ‘Save My Ass Act’ is an attempt to disenfranchise voters, and mostly women voters. It requires a photo ID but not just any photo ID. The list of acceptable forms of ID includes several things most Americans don’t have, like a passport. Worse, you have to essentially show a paper trail on any name changes. So, if you’re say, a woman who married and took your spouse’s name? Yeah, you might not be able to vote anymore.

There are lots of ways one’s birth name might no longer match their current name. But according to SAVE, if the two don’t match and you can’t show the path of those changes with the right legal documents, too bad for you. The thing is, there’s a feeling out there, true or not, that conservative women tend to follow more traditional marriage paths than liberal women.

That is to say, perhaps more conservative women have married and taken their husband’s name than liberal women. They may not have all of the documentation needed to prove the name change. In short, Donny’s ‘Save My Ass Act’ might disenfranchise conservative women at a higher rate than liberal women, creating a massive backfire. Cons in Congress know it, too. Or, at least, fear it.

They’re covering their own tails. They might lose their own elections if they accidentally disenfranchise conservative women and they don’t want to take the chance. All of that means I don’t have to count on Republicans to do the right thing, which is comforting since I know that’s not a thing for them. But I CAN count on their own selfish and self-serving desires and since passing SAVE could well end their own political careers, I suspect (sincerely hope) they really won’t do it…

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As a follow-up, a federal judge in Minnesota has denied a request from Elon Musk to suspend Minnesota’s nudification ban. The case is still going forward, but the law went into effect Saturday. In case you missed it, the law bans deepfakes of people that have been digitally undressed using AI tools. It’s a practice called ‘nudification.’ You won’t be surprised to hear that estimates say somewhere between 96% and 98% of all deepfakes produced since 2022, when the tools became widely available, have been explicit in nature and nearly ALL of it involves women – or children.

Elon is defending the perpetrators. He calls it a matter of free speech. I disagree. There’s a very clear, readily identified, true victim in these cases, the unsuspecting, nudified woman. A victim means a violation. It’s the tip of the nose rule. A person’s right to swing their fist ends at the tip of another person’s nose. Any argument toward ‘trust the user’ is already destroyed by the fact of the things they’ve already done with those tools. The best way forward to protect victims is to remove the nudification tools entirely…

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I think I’ve mentioned that Team Evil has withheld Medicaid money from a couple of (blue) states over imagined fraud, waste, and abuse. Everybody knows, it’s really just a punishment for knowing what a piece of garbage 47 is – and saying so – but they need some kind of excuse so they file it under fraud, waste, and abuse and never offer details. Now they’re coming after in-home care providers for disabled people.

Team Evil is offering up really stupid arguments in favor of their cruelty and stupidity. Rich person Mehmet Ooze, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said, “Often these are services that your family would typically have provided for you that the federal government has started to fund.” Oh, really, Ooze? Do you mean back when a single breadwinner could provide for the family’s needs? Surely you’re not talking about today, when it takes two incomes (or more) to even have a chance to make ends meet?

Also, often these are services for which, in the past, a person might have needed institutionalization – at a much, much higher cost than paying in-home helpers. It’s so much less expensive to have home help. It’s just a good solution to an ongoing problem. But I don’t really have to explain how stupid the regime’s move is, since they’re lying about why they’re doing it. How can I tell?

Oh, that’s easy. They only pretend to have found fraud waste and abuse in blue states. Not one red state in the country commits fraud? Really? No problems from the red states. Sure, that makes sense. Also, even if one DOES identify some fraud taking place, does that mean ONLY fraud is taking place? Why, no. No it doesn’t.

Lawsuits will be filed. 47 will lose and have to pay the money retroactively. Then he’ll start to look for ways to delay that program and more legal wrangling will follow and all of it – ALL of it – is just to be a jerk to states he doesn’t like. It wouldn’t surprise me to find he thinks punishing California will teach us a lesson and we’ll fall in line just to keep him from punishing us. I hope Californians will rebel against his capricious cruelty and double down on our dedication to getting him out of office and in chains as quickly as possible…

Won’t Learn…or Can’t Learn?

by MyBaconPress

It just keeps happening and 47 seems like he CAN’T learn. He cut the pandemic alert team. Covid-19 followed. He cut the Cyclospora tracking team. We have an outbreak of Cyclospora. He cut the screwworm team. We’re suffering an outbreak of screwworm. He convinced his followers that vaccines are bad. Now we have outbreaks of measles and even effing polio!

In fact, the measles are getting so bad, local agencies are having difficulty keeping up. As of July 31, the US passed the record total tally for measles cases for a year. We still have nearly half a year to go. One of the most dangerous people on the planet when it comes to vaccinations is current health secretary and renowned moron RFJ, Jr. Here’s a question: when an official spreads false information that proves dangerous to society, why isn’t that actionable? Why can’t we prosecute that guy?

I don’t mean everyday Joes. It’s not their job. They’re not expected to know. If a layman says something stupid about a science, well, they’re laymen. What the hell do THEY know? But experts are supposed to know, and if you’ve got a job like, oh, say, Secretary of Health and Human Services, you should be an expert.

IF, AS the expert, you come out an insinuate that vaccines, say, cause autism, when every scientific study on the subject says that’s not true, that’s not just a wrongheaded opinion. That’s a lie that is going to kill people – and that’s exactly what RFK, Jr is doing with his misinformation about vaccines. As it happens, free speech has limits. There should be legal limits on the actions of experts and professionals spreading lies about the risks of vaccinations…

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Okay, so this is weird and rather a stretch but it’s a thought that invaded my mind the other day. I watched a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the Great Depression, the world fell into great poverty. People went one of two directions. One group embraced Hitler, Mussolini, and fascism in general. The other group – the USA – followed FDR to strengthen democracy by helping the struggling masses.

To this day, I believe FDR saved the US during that time by introducing the social safety net and a few socialist principles – the bits that actually made America great in the first place. The very bits Donny is promising – and working – to remove. So, if FDR’s actions SAVED America in the first place and Donny is planning to eliminate FDR’s actions, America is probably _____ <fill in the blank>…

It crossed my mind that someone noticed that desperation caused people to turn to fascism in the past. New desperation might bring about the same result so long as there’s no FDR out there, championing democracy – and there isn’t. Maybe there’s a reason Donny is actively attacking the US economy and the health and safety of Americans…

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It’s not what he says that matters. He lies. It’s what his people say in court, under oath. Remember his imaginary vandals who, he claims, attacked the Reflecting Pool? He has repeated that whopper a LOT. Well, until it got to court. Now Team Evil, in this case Jeanine Pirro, has declared – under oath – that the Reflecting Pool failures were caused by a “flawed installation by the contractors.” She didn’t mention his motorcade driving down the middle of the Reflecting Pool right after the “repair” work was finished. So far, THAT’S the only vandalism I know of.

But Donny had several people arrested in an effort to sell his lie. They had to pay actual money to defend themselves against charges the DOJ KNEW were made up, just to try and make Donny look good. And even THAT didn’t work because now that the truth has come out, he looks even worse. He looks SO bad, he’s still insisting the Reflecting Pool was vandalized. Not in court, of course. He just maintains the lie for his base – so long as he’s not under oath.

He’s angry at Pirro for her filing. Think about that for a second. He wanted her, expected her, to lie to the courts just to maintain his delusion. His lie wouldn’t cost him anything, so why not? Of course, it could, likely would, eventually cost her her law license. It’s yet another Lord Farquaad moment: “Some of you MAY die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make!” I’ve noticed that from Donny before. 47 is commonly willing to let someone around him – friend and foe, alike – take the fall for his decisions…

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Well, let’s see what 47 has harmed this week. Oh, look. International soccer. Specifically, Gianni Infantino. Infantino put forth a plan to sell off parts of FIFA to private investors led by Joshua Kushner, the brother of 47’s son-in-law, Jared. Infantino’s announcement focused heavily on expected revenues. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) – a group that includes perennial soccer powerhouses such as Spain, France, England and Germany – unanimously threatened to boycott all FIFA competitions going forward.

Infantino backed down quickly. But his retreat seems insufficient to the UEFA. They don’t trust Infantino anymore. They want him out as President of FIFA. According to a statement released by the UEFA, “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA, commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

You know, the exact problem with any corporation taking over any business or activity. ‘What best serves the shareholders’ becomes the focus. The product or service is stripped of anything and everything that made it good in the first place. Profit at any cost. It’s the fundamental weakness of so-called “free market” Capitalism.

Now that the plan has collapsed, Donny is running away from it at an amazing speed for a man of his age and terrible physical condition. Ask him, he’ll tell you. He knows nothing. He sees nothing. Of course, he’s not under oath and, by now, every rational human being on the planet knows that if he’s not under oath – and often if he is – one cannot trust a word that pukes out of his nasty, lying mouth…

Team Evil vs Nudification…

by MyBaconPress

One of the “joys” of Artificial Intelligence is that one can generate “nude” photos of people, whether the subject of the photo likes it or not – or even knows about it or not. I put the ‘nude’ in quotes because, apparently, the final photo isn’t truly “nude.” The makers have the photo generator “dress” the subject in a single string or something. So some small-minded moron can “get even” with the girl who dumped him because he’s a small-minded moron by posting a “nude” photo of her online, thereby proving she was right to dump him in the first place. But she’s still out there, “exposed.”

One can generate “nude” photos of children, too. And guess what? There are people out there doing exactly that. The practice of ‘undressing’ people in photos – adult and/or child – has become SO commonplace, it has a name: “nudification,” a name that makes clear the subject wasn’t nude, then someone made them appear nude, right? Someone “nudified” someone else.

Politicians – always slow to move on any topic – have taken notice and are trying to craft legislation to rein in the AI companies. People and politicians want the AI companies to limit the abilities of less developed people to do things like that. To that end, Minnesota passed a first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps. The law is set to take effect today as Minnesota becomes the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nude images of real people.

“Not so fast,” says failed human being Elon Musk. “The whole point of Grok is to allow evil people to do evil things to innocent victims. Why would you want to stop that?” Yeah, okay, that isn’t what the lawsuit Musk filed said at all. Musk is evil, not stupid. What xAI actually said was that it does not contest the state’s interest in banning the distribution of AI-generated nude images of real people without their consent (wink, wink).

No, the problem xAI has with Minnesota’s new law is that it provides no “safe harbor” provision for companies that make good-faith efforts to prevent such images from being created by users. That’s the big tech bros excuse for everything their companies do. “Oh, we’re trying to fix that problem. Just because we provided the tools and the platform doesn’t mean it’s our fault!”

There are already laws on the books punishing users for creating deepfakes. Minnesota’s law intends to hold the makers of the nudification tools responsible for the fakes and they mean to charge the developers up to $500,000 per violation. See, all the AI companies have to do is pull the nudification tools. THAT would be – should be – the only good faith effort that qualifies as actually trying to solve the problem.

But Musk doesn’t want to do that. He went to a lot of trouble to add nudification tools. Now, obviously, he doesn’t want to be seen as supporting his nudification tools, either, so he’s pretending the law is just over-broad. He agrees with the goal, he pretends, but thinks this legislation goes too far. Uh-huh. He’s obligating states to try to use legislation to force him to remove the nudification tools he claims to dislike and could simply remove himself. How serious is he about wanting to protect victims?

Honestly? I don’t like AI. I’ve got it down as one of the two most likely things to destroy humanity altogether. Humans are having enough trouble with reality. We don’t need fakes, deep or otherwise, gumming up the works. So take that into account, here, because, frankly, once fake nudes and AI generated child porn started showing up, I would have banned AI entirely. And I STILL think that’s the right answer.

For clarity, I don’t think it’s a matter of free speech, either. Posting fake nude photos of real people should fall under the few umbrellas where we control speech, like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater when no fire exists, maliciously spreading ruinous rumors about someone, or threatening them.

If the tech bros can’t put out a helpful, harmless product, they shouldn’t be allowed to put it out at all. Intentionally adding tools like nudification doesn’t seem like they’re even trying to put out a harmless product. If the offset is “not at all, then,” I guess they’d police themselves more aggressively…

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It’s just another opportunity to learn a lesson the right WILL NOT learn. We should break our dependence on oil so we don’t need to worry about what happens in oil producing regions, right? That lesson became clear way back in the 1970’s, when Saudi Arabia proved a point by shutting off the spigots. Americans were stuck in gas lines and could only buy gas on designated days.

The US economy suffered greatly. That, right then, was the moment a smart nation would have said, “Hey, let’s find a better answer and get off of this stuff.” We did, too. Well, we tried. Big oil didn’t WANT us breaking our addiction and, like any good pusher, has worked to maintain our dependence ever since. Now that dedication to antiquated technology is going to bite us in the butt again.

The US has pulled Saudi Arabia into that stupid, ill-advised war-that’s-not-a-war in Iran. Iran will respond, of course. Most likely, that will involve attacking oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. That will hurt supply AND take years to rebuild. It also widens Donny’s stupid war. We’ve had lots of opportunities to learn. We refuse to. That’s going to be costly…

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It looks like Donny is trying to ratchet up the pressure on his Republicans in Congress to pass the SAVE My Ass Act and eliminate the filibuster to do it. He sent Susan Wiles, his Chief of Staff to Congress to huddle with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Thune has maintained consistently that he doesn’t have the votes for either. 47 wants him to do it anyway. No, it doesn’t make sense but then, less and less of what he does makes any sense…

Quick question: what do YOU think Donny is going to do to try to interfere or stop the upcoming midterms completely? It’s not a rhetorical question. We all (except MAGA, and even some of them) know he’s going to do something. The whole world hates this guy with a white hot passion. If a free and fair election takes place, he loses as badly as we can manage. Then he faces honest investigations, criminal indictments, and, likely, impeachment. He CAN NOT let that happen. SO…what do you think he’s going to do to intervene?

Grilling Fauci…

by MyBaconPress

So, does it matter any more where Covid-19 came from? Did it ever? There are two schools of thought on the topic: either it was a natural jump from animals to humans or it came from a US-funded lab in China. Okay, great. How does knowing where it came from affect anything? We still had to go through it. All the same people died. It was a big fight once between left and right, though. Apparently, for the right, it still is.

They called Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the nation’s infectious disease expert during the pandemic, to testify before Congress about Covid-19. Fauci knows, from experience, what the cons want: an excuse to harass Fauci and his family. He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights on over 100 questions.

At the time, Fauci was trying to understand and manage a new health threat while fully a third of the population challenged every word he said because they had spent a few minutes online doing their “own research.” Fauci only had years of education and decades of practice to work with. How could HE know what they learned in five minutes from some conservative talking head?

Fauci DID get some things wrong, too. He was working blind, having to determine courses of action in real time with little information. Much of what he said was ‘best guess’ or ‘best practice’ stuff that was later modified as information became available. Cons often can’t accept that. They think once a thing is said, that’s the thing and nothing can change it. Smart people know that new information requires modification of thought and that was the battle between left and right on Covid-19.

Fauci generally supported the natural transmission line but even he had doubts. It’s very difficult to say, for sure, and when the focus is managing the problem, where it came from is less important. Meanwhile, Donny was out there suggesting people drink bleach or shove a blacklight up their backsides to get rid of Covid and insisting Fauci didn’t know anything, and since it was uttered by the mouth of their Precious, Fauci had to agree or spend his days being bullied and harassed by blindly loyal MAGA.

Fauci stayed true to the science to the best of his ability and just took the abuse as long as he had to. But as quickly as he could, he returned to private life and has stayed there ever since. The cons won’t leave him alone, though. They’re STILL trying to prove he was just lying to make 47 look bad. (Generally speaking, it’s the truth that makes 47 look bad.)

He responded to the Congressional subpoena. He showed up. He refused to answer their stupid questions. Then he went home. Now Rand Paul, Homeland Security Chairman, wants to hold Fauci in contempt for invoking his Fifth Amendment protections. It makes sense. Having perfect information on a teeny-tiny, rather irrelevant detail of an event that took place over seven years ago is clearly more important than any of the minor challenges the US faces today, right? Leave it to the cons to keep their eyes on the wrong prize…

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Wow, this is going to hurt. On Monday, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ended for people from Haiti and Syria. They can no longer legally work in the US, and now they can be removed from this once-great nation. The bigots couldn’t be happier.

But there are 200,000 Haitians and 2,000 Syrians contributing roughly $5.9 billion dollars to the US economy. Plucking 202,000 people out of the workforce at once is going to hurt the economy. And for me? It’s not enough that bigots are going to be happy. Turns out, I don’t much care what bigots want…

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We have a little university, here in Sonoma County. It’s called, cleverly, Sonoma State University. The school ran into some money troubles. They ran out. So, something had to go. Did they lose benefits to school functionaries? No. Did they adjust salaries of administrators? Don’t be ridiculous. What they did was, they got rid of ALL of their athletics programs and stopped teaching other subjects.

Just what every student wants, right? A school that doesn’t teach the topics the students need. What a brilliant way to entice students to the school. When the academic program can’t bring enrollment, athletics often does. But, rats, Sonoma State got rid of that, too. Since then, they’ve recorded the steepest enrollment decline in the California State University system.

Who could have guessed? I mean, really, who could know that not teaching subjects and eliminating athletics would cause students to want to go somewhere else? But that’s what happened. No sports? No classes? I’m going somewhere else! Ok, the “no classes” is a bit of hyperbole. They still had classes. But they closed eight different programs entirely so there were “no classes” in those subjects.

But now? Now the sports are coming back. So are the cancelled programs, though stripped down. Cancelling programs and athletics didn’t do what people hoped it would. No doubt. It’s like a car dealership trying to improve sales by not selling any cars. Dumb, with a ‘b.’

Fortunately, the school ALSO got a new President, Michael E. Spagna, and Spagna is bringing back the sports and the subjects. He’s “reimagining” Sonoma State as a whole. That’s his spiel. We’ll see if it works. I hope it does. The old plan seemed to put the university on a death spiral. Hopefully, this will help…

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I know a young lady who just turned 16 years old. For her birthday, she wanted vinyl albums. Not a subscription to some online service. Not a playlist. Actual, physical vinyl albums. I like that. It reminds me of Sony’s choice to stop producing physical discs for their PlayStation game decks – and how people are angry about it. Finally!

I recently moved house. I dragged my CD collection with me. CD’s? Who the hell still listens to CD’s? I do. If some streaming service decides to withdraw music or movies or games or whatever else I’ve “subscribed” to, it’s gone. Oh, you bought it? No, you rented it. You never owned anything.

Look, I understand the value of streaming. It IS convenient. It does serve. It has a place. But it should never have replaced actual ownership of one’s favorite music or whatever. From the producers point of view, the benefit of the physical disc is the problem. I can share my owned discs. I can’t share my streamed stuff the same way.

I still have my disc after the service pulls it from streaming for whatever reason. For example, Sony is about to delete 551 movies and TV shows from the UK PlayStation store because its content licensing agreement with StudioCanal has expired. If you “bought” any of those titles, you’re just out. Had you purchased the physical copies and brought them home, you’d still be able to enjoy them even though Sony deletes them.

Young people seem to be figuring this scam out and they don’t seem to like it. Thank goodness. I’ve never liked it. They HAVE migrated to vinyl instead of CD’s. (One of her new albums skipped on the first play, a frustration I thought young people would never know.) Still, it’s a physical copy of the work, not some stream. There’s a movement afoot for gamers to boycott PlayStation this August in protest of the elimination of physical discs. I hope it works. I’d rather own a physical copy of the things I buy then a digital download that may or may not be there tomorrow…

Let The Traffic Flow…

by MyBaconPress

Back in February of this year, I told you about the Gordie Howe International Bridge. To recap, there’s a bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan in the US and Windsor, Ontario in Canada. It’s called the Ambassador Bridge and it is owned by a wealthy family named Moroun. It’s old (opened in 1929) and inconvenient. It connects surface streets on the Ontario side so if you use it, you’ll still have to wend your way through town. Oh, AND, it’s a toll bridge. The Moroun family makes money from the thing – and THEY get to say how much money. It’s an important trade route. They’ve been making a LOT of money from it.

So Michigan and Canada got together and decided to build a new bridge, the Gordie Howe International Bridge. It’s safer. It’s easier. It’s just better. So, obviously, the Moroun family has been filing lawsuits since the project started and when the span was completed anyway, they used their wealth in the way wealth works best. The bribed Donny. Allegedly. All I can say, for sure, is that the Moroun family has dumped large sums of money into 47 and when the Gordie Howe bridge was ready to open, Matthew Moroun visited President Pedo personally.

The next thing anyone knew, Donny was declaring the Gordie Howe bridge a national threat and he wouldn’t let it open. As usual, he was vague on the details of exactly HOW a bridge that makes travel safer, easier, and more affordable (there’s that word, again) constitutes a “national threat.” We DO know the Moroun family makes about $100 dollars per semi-truck each way, while the Gordie Howe Bridge will only cost them about $43 dollars. Sure, that saves money for the truckers but it takes money out of the Moroun family’s pockets. I’m not surprised to hear that Donny considers a billionaire losing money to a better way a national threat.

But now the bridge is opening anyway. I was curious about how that happened. Donny’s demented mind sees demons in Canada and he really wants to punish them for all of that nothing they’ve done to us. So I was curious about what changed. Why is the Gordie Howe International Bridge no longer a national threat? Well, it turns out – and you won’t be surprised to hear this – Donny extorted Canada.

Canada paid for the bridge – all of the money, up front – and arranged to recoup their investments with the toll revenue, but intended to share some of the revenue with Michigan, as well. Team Evil claimed the bridge was a threat until Canada gave up some of the revenues they expected. Donny says it’s a better deal. Canada says, “We’re dealing with an administration like we’ve never seen before. They renege on deals. They don’t follow agreements. It’s like dealing with pirates.”

That’s an honest look into how other nations view the US today. “It’s like dealing with pirates.” So? Expect more typical trumpery. You just KNOW Donny will be out there telling his base the world respects us more than ever, but “like dealing with pirates” doesn’t sound like respect, to me. Still, the bridge is open now. Well, until Donny has another fever dream and throws another tantrum, that is…

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‘Narcissistic Collapse,’ they call it. When you see or hear Donny rage-tweeting at 2 am or listen to one (any) of his speeches, he’s really on more of a rant than trying to deliver any new information. He attacks one time supporters and he uses very aggressive words.

One author on the subject, Tina Swithin said, “Narcissistic collapse occurs when a narcissist’s carefully constructed self-image is threatened or shattered, often by criticism, public humiliation, perceived abandonment or a loss of control.” She added, “Basically, narcissistic collapse is ‘the moment the mask slips.’ A narcissist’s facade of power, authority and unique greatness goes away as their vulnerability is exposed ― laying bare negative behaviors that were previously hidden or controlled.”

In short, he’s melting down as more and more people see who he really is and just how bad he is at, well, everything, really. He sucks as a human being. HE has always known that about himself. He’s just terrified YOU might be seeing it, too. Many of us do, Donny, and more will see the real you every day…

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There’s this law. It’s called the ‘War Powers Act of 1973.’ It requires the president to end military operations within 60 days unless Congress authorizes an extension. Team Evil is trying a workaround. At one point in their illegal war, they declared a cease-fire in Operation Epic Fury. Now, obviously, the fighting has resumed. But Donny doesn’t WANT to turn to Congress for permission to keep bombing innocents – so Team Evil is trying to pretend THIS US vs Iran fighting is different from the last US vs Iran fighting.

Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, wrote in social media, “Let me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been TWO Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire.” It really IS absurd. It will lose in court if it ever gets there, but it buys the regime time, and time is what they need to create even more confusion.

This is all coming up because the regime wants to hide the number of American war dead and wounded. If they can convince somebody of their ‘two wars’ delusion, they can separate the number of casualties and obscure the body count, which currently stands at 18 US soldiers killed and 624 wounded since his illegal invasion…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He’s trying very hard to distract people because he wants people to forget that. As he declines, his behavior becomes more outrageous and more dangerous, he’s slowly pushing the Trump/Epstein files off the front pages. But people are not forgetting his pedophile past. Don’t you forget it, either…