Stories and Tales, Tales and Stories…

by MyBaconPress

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” That’s the opening line to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem commemorating the ride where Revere warned everyone the British were coming. The poem is fine and all but it put a focus on Revere that was, maybe, overstated. He DID ride, but he did NOT ride alone. There were teams of people trying to get out the message.

We know of Revere mostly because Longfellow wrote a poem about him. The poem doesn’t cover the part where Revere was captured by the British, ending his particular part of the ride fairly early on. The Brits let him go the next morning but didn’t give him back the horse he rode in on, so he had to walk all the way back to Boston. It was a borrowed horse.

There were as many as 40 riders out, trying to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the Brits were coming to arrest them, which they were not. He wasn’t shouting and making a bunch of noise. This was a discreet mission. He and his fellow riders snuck around British patrols.

Meanwhile, in New York, after learning that the British were attacking the Continental supply depot in Danbury, Connecticut, and setting the town ablaze, a 16-year-old girl named Sybil Ludington is said to have made the same ride, or, rather, that actual ride. She rode alone. She rode 40 miles. She didn’t get caught. Also, she made her ride on a different day and for a different reason. But we don’t hear much about her midnight ride. Apparently, she forgot to enlist a poet to write about her exploits.

No, I don’t really think Revere “enlisted” Longfellow. They didn’t even know each other. But most of us know of Revere because of Longfellow and we don’t know of Ludington because she didn’t have a Longfellow. But you know now. I don’t mean to take away from what Revere did. I just know there were others who participated and most did better than Revere. Good press goes a long way…

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I was watching 47 answer questions before getting onto Marine One, his helicopter. Someone asked him about the economy, how long people should expect to have to struggle with it. His answer – and I’m not making this up – his answer was that the economy is fine. For proof, he pointed to the Dow Jones Index. It’s not the first time he has done that. I’ve come to believe he thinks the Dow IS the economy. That is, if the Dow is doing great, the economy is doing great.

Here’s a rule: the Dow is not the economy. The Dow is not the economy. The Dow is not the economy. The Dow is a CEO happiness indicator. So, sure, the CEOs and other self-important blowhards might be doing just fine, but this economy sucks. The thing is, if he thinks the Dow is the economy, he doesn’t think he needs to do anything to help it. That is to say, help is not coming because the person infesting the White Houses doesn’t even understand there’s a need…

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The clown show continues. Did you hear the one about Whiskey Pete Hegseth leading a prayer service at the Pentagon? He invited the attendees to pray with him as he read something he apparently honestly believed was from the book of Ezekiel. Verse 25, Chapter 17, to be exact. Team Evil likes doing things like that. They’re wolves, hiding in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be pious while they carry out their evil deeds.

The clown show part? Oh, yeah, that’s because the quote he repeated came from Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction.’ One of the hit men recites it as being from the Bible before he murders people. Now, since this Trump/Hegseth war is illegal, he IS murdering his victims, too. In that sense, maybe it made sense.

There is a hint that maybe, just maybe, the quote isn’t from the Bible, a compilation of books written a couple of thousand years ago. The first words of Hegseth’s “quote” were, “the path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men…” Hey, I’M not the one who said it was Ezekiel 25:17. Whiskey Pete said it. But he had a hint.

I’m pretty sure there were no “aviators” during the time of the Bible, downed or otherwise. When the “Bible verse” you plan to quote starts with “the path of the downed aviator,” you might want to grab an actual Bible a check for yourself. It kind of reminds me of the time Donny said the American revolutionaries had “taken the airports” during the Revolutionary War. He’s really dumb…

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A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon? Here’s hoping. On Friday morning, the thing was trying to take hold. My own question is about Israel. Will they honor it? When a “ceasefire” was announced in Gaza, Israel never ceased fire. They just kept on shooting. It’s like they don’t understand the concept of a ceasefire.

Conservative talk show host Bill Maher likes to defend Israel by pointing out that the Palestinians say “From the river to the sea.” It’s a kind of a mantra Palestinians use to object to Israel and the not-so-nice things that country does. I don’t think it’s just talk, but because they have no ability to carry it out, it’s just talk.

Thanks to US backing, though, Israel does have the ability to carry out the mantra – against the Palestinians. From everything I’ve seen, that appears to be their goal and they’ve decided to use the Hamas October 7th attack as their final solution. Bibi ain’t stoppin’. While Palestinians SAY ‘From the river to the sea,’ Israel is doing ‘From the river to the sea…’

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Oh, gods, he’s doing it again. He presents things upside down and backwards and pretends they mean something. In this case (there are so many) I’m referring to his assertion that gas prices aren’t high. In order to convince the rubes of that, he points out that they could have been higher. He says he expected them to be higher so when they came up to “just” what they are now, he thinks that means they’re not high.

Diesel where I live is running around $8.00 per gallon. That’s high. The fact that he could have gone for $12.00 per gallon doesn’t mean $8.00/gal isn’t high. This guy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was born on third base and he goes through life pretending he hit a triple. He didn’t. He has never known a day of adversity in his life. It’s why he has no character. It’s why he’s so completely out of touch with the day-to-day realities of being a work-a-day Joe…

He’s Evil, Not Sanctified…

by MyBaconPress

Boy, he started running from this pretty quickly, didn’t he? (If you’re one of my subscribers and you don’t see this picture in your email feed, would you please let me know? I hear some people aren’t getting the photos when I use them. If you’re not seeing it, it’s that picture of the Drumpfster pretending to be Jesus.)

Trump portraying himself as Jesus, cause Trump is a piece of shit...

HE posted this to his social media account. A handful of MAGA “Christian” Nationalists, of course, just thought it was beautiful. ACTUAL Christians, though? The word they used for this was ‘blasphemy.’ One definition of blasphemy is ‘irreverent or impious action or expression in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct.’ Here’s another, ‘Contemptuous or profane speech or action concerning God or a sacred entity.’ I’d say blasphemy is the perfect word for this bullshit.

Once the backlash ignited, he went all TACO. He told a reporter he’s supposed to look like a doctor. Uh-huh. Do we see a stethoscope? Then he pulled the picture and pretended he doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Really, it’s disgusting. I’m not even religious and I wouldn’t do something like this. It IS, absolutely, disrespectful. I really, really don’t like this guy…

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It often seems, to me, like anytime Donald Dork “messes up,” someone already-rich makes money. That’s curious, isn’t it? The most recent is his illegal war-that’s-not-a-war in Iran. Not only are weapons manufacturers having a great time, his war has disrupted oil supply chains around the world. This creates both an actual need AND a convenient excuse to raise gas prices at the pump, which the gasoline companies are always happy to do, and have done.

According to an article in the Guardian, the major oil companies stand to take home an extra $234 billion dollars by the end of this year, so long as Donny can keep the price of a barrel of oil hovering at $100 dollars each. His blockade blockade can very likely do that nicely. Yeah, people make money under this regime. It just seems to always be the people who already have money and don’t need any more and not the people who could really use an infusion of cash…

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“What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.” That’s a quote from Jarringly Dumb Vance. He likely doesn’t realize it, but he just admitted that the President – or in this case, Donny – is engaged in an act of economic terrorism against the entire world…

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I liked Eric Swalwell. I did. I thought he was probably a good guy. I was wrong. Damn. He IS a good politician. But, really, what a dumbass. I’ll tell you the truth, I can see some high school kid making an error in judgement, misreading a situation or making a dumb, crude joke. High school dudes can be really dumb. But grown men? A politician?

Politicians are extra vulnerable to public perception. Even the hint of a scandal can end a career. Look at Swalwell. (Don’t look at Donny. His base is immoral and LOVES his scandals.) From the time this story broke until he resigned was a matter of days. He didn’t know that taking his junk out around a female staffer with whom he had only enjoyed a professional relationship previously might cause him a political problem?

His was a bit of a non-denial denial. “There’s no way I did THOSE things, but, I have to admit, I did these things.” Uh-huh. The “these things” part of that statement means you lose anyway. “Sure, I had sex with them, but it wasn’t sexual assault,” is never going to play well with your spouse – nor your constituents. The Dems were quick to dump Swalwell. I presume they’re trying to show the cons how to handle sexual predators like Donald Trump. I understand the GOP won’t care what the Dems do…

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Do you remember when Donald Trump incited his followers to attack the Capitol building in an effort to overturn an election? It was January 6th, 2021. They followed his advice and attacked. Much damage was done. Several people died. Congress went into hiding for a short time. It was an ugly, embarrassing-to-be-an-American day.

Then Donny lied about it. MAGA media picked up the lie and put in on a repeating loop. MAGA rank and file started wandering around parroting the words they’d been conditioned to use. “No attack.” “Day of love.” The posturing became a political flashpoint and before long, you couldn’t find a MAGA who would admit the attempted insurrection was an attempted insurrection. Then? Just to make the point? Donny pardoned the J6 attackers. They got out of jail free.

Several of these fine, upstanding people have gone back to jail since. These were not the best and the brightest in the first place. Many of them were right where they belonged when they were sitting in the clink. In my view, every crime committed by a pardoned J6er is on Donald Trump’s head. He didn’t care if these were good people or bad. He didn’t care if they belonged in jail or not. He ONLY cared about political optics.

Now there are two children out there, sexually molested by a pardoned J6er, that can only have been sexually molested by that J6er because Donny let the son-of-a-bitch out of jail for political reasons. He’s just the latest in a long line of criminals, marauders, perverts, and pedophiles Donny let out of prison. That’s not hyperbole. Many of these guys are back to prison or on trial right now preparing to head back. Thanks, Donny.

I only mention it to highlight the fact that trying to force one’s fantasy alternate reality on actual reality always comes with real-world consequences. Donny corrupted one moment in time for politics. Those kids will pay for that for the rest of their lives…

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Closely related to that, 47 is about to kick off a campaign move to try and convince people things aren’t expensive after all. He’s heading to Nevada and Arizona so he can tell everybody to ignore their own reality. Disregard anything you learn when you, say, stop at a gas pump or go grocery shopping and replace it with his preferred vision.

“Everything is affordable,” he says. “You are getting very sleepy. You are under my control. When I snap my fingers, you’ll believe. Keep your eyes on the watch.” <Snap!> “Everything is affordable. Prices are down. You’ve never paid less for gas.”

Apparently, the GOP is becoming concerned with the price of, well, everything, really. It’s not related to concerns for you, the squeezed consumer. Instead, it’s all about elections and keeping their own phony-baloney jobs. The GOP cares about making rich people richer. Period. Full stop. They’ll pay lip service to affordability until the ballots are cast but they won’t care when they’re talking and they won’t care later, when it’s time to address the problems…

C’mon Montana…

by MyBaconPress

At this point, I’m thinking props to Montana – the state, not Hannah. Come this July Fourth, the US will pretend to celebrate 250 years of the United States, but the fact is, in 2010, our Constitutional Republic was corrupted by a “decision” of the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court called ‘Citizens United.’ It wasn’t presented this way, of course, but it basically said rich people get to buy our government, if they want to – and Oh! Em! Gee!, did they want to.

The US has been suffering ever since. It was a corrupt decision by a corrupt court and it corrupted our once-great nation. The corrupt court said corporations could buy our democracy because it was within their rights, a corrupt concept based in the corrupt idea that corporations are people. Rights are hard to mess with in our once-great nation, unless you’re evil Donny.

But Montana is coming at it from a new and rather original angle. They’re not attacking the idea that a corporation has rights. Instead, they’re attacking the corporation’s powers, which are created by individual states. The idea sidesteps the Corrupt Supreme Court and doesn’t require a constitutional amendment. That is to say, this could work.

A guy named Tom Moore wrote a paper that basically boils down to this: All American corporations are chartered and given their powers by state governments, which means that state governments (or voters in states where initiatives and referendums can enact or change laws) can rewrite their charters to deny corporations the power to involve themselves in elections.

Now, you may know that most corporations are chartered in Delaware. You may ask yourself, what good does it do for Montana to pass laws on corporations chartered in Delaware? Well, an 1869 ruling from an actual decent Supreme Court says that “foreign corporations” – which, in this case, includes corporations chartered in other states – must comport with the corporate charter law of every state in which they do business.

That’s some pretty juicy stuff. Montana can pass a law saying corporations do not enjoy the power to participate in elections and the law applies to all corporations doing business in Montana regardless of where the corporation is chartered. Really, lovely. At first, I suspect corporations will threaten to bail on Montana but I ALSO suspect that if this works in Montana, most states will follow suit as quickly as possible. No, not some of the red states, but they should be too few in number to help corporations corrupt too many more elections. This could be a very good thing. Stay tuned…

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If (When) the Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court strikes down late-returned mail-in ballots this summer, as expected, it seems to Alaskans like it will hurt Alaska the most. Alaska is a very rural state. Many people send and receive mail via airplanes, not roads. The geography, alone, makes voting more challenging.

These anti-American efforts out of the White House to restrict as much voting as possible will hurt red voters as much as blue voters, and blue voters, I think, are STILL more motivated to come out for the mid-term election than red voters, who are, and should be, extremely disappointed that their Precious turned out to be just another mealy-mouthed politician, lying to them for personal gain…

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Team Evil did everything it could. Really, everything. They sent people to offer support. Jarringly Dumb Vance went over and told everyone how happy it would make 47 if corrupt Viktor Orban was returned to his corrupted office. Little Marco Rubio went over, too. JD and Marco explained to the Hungarians how much trump like Orban and how happy it would make trump if Orban won.

Even trump, himself, got involved. He made a video endorsing Orban. He explained that he’s very good at endorsements, which he most assuredly is not. I have to acknowledge, he was. The people he endorsed had a tendency to win because if Donny said “That one,” MAGA voted accordingly. Blindly, but accordingly.

But an endorsement from the Dotard doesn’t carry the same weight, anymore. He recently endorsed a candidate for Governor here in California, Steve Hilton. “He was on TV,” seems to be Donny’s “thinking,” “so he must be good.” I think the guy must be freaking out. Associations with Donny just ain’t what they used to be. Donny’s endorsements have taken on a ‘kiss of death’ feel.

So, anyway, Vance, Rubio, and trump all tried to make clear to the Hungarian people that the typically conservative, typically corrupt misleader of Hungary, Viktor Orban, should be returned to power and, after sixteen years as an iron-fisted strongman, Viktor Orban was voted out of office. Trump’s endorsement failures have gone international.

At least Orban had the decency to concede when he lost, pushing trump even farther down the ranks of human failures. It means one less dictator in the world. That’s a good thing. This world has FAR too many dictators. We don’t need any others. Especially here, in the US. Let’s follow Hungary’s lead and dump our wanna-be dictator, too…

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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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Well, Jarringly Dumb Vance was unable to re-create the agreement Iran once had with the US. I mean, the agreement was in place. Donny tore it up because it happened under another, better President, Barack Obama. The thing is, Obama may not have pulled off all that great a trick, either. After all, Iran has had a fatwa in place banning the building, maintaining, or using nuclear weapons since 2004.

Muslims take their religion seriously, in a way no Christian could even imagine these days. Fatwas mean something to them. If they have a religious ruling that says no nukes, they weren’t building nukes. Every extra penny you pay at the pump, every extra dime you have to pay for goods moved by truck, every dead body coming home (or not) from Iran are the direct result of Donny’s malfeasance and incompetence. It’s completely unnecessary. The evidence is in and it’s undeniable. When all is said and done, Donny is terrible at this “Presidentin'” stuff. Just terrible…

Blockade The Blockade? Yeah, That’s The Ticket…

by MyBaconPress

All right, I have to make sure I have this correctly and I’ll presume this will be another TACO moment for our Fearful Misleader. He and Israel attacked Iran without provocation. Anybody who knew anything on the topic told him it would prove a terrible idea, but 47 insists he always knows better than everyone else – especially when he clearly does not – and went ahead anyway.

Mr. Insight, as it happens, was wrong. It wasn’t the quick and complete victory he had claimed he anticipated. Worse, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz using mines and drones and cut off international shipping of oil. This has caused an oil crisis and adds costs to any and all goods moved from place to place, so, everything.

Some of us came to realize just how desperately – and dangerously – addicted we are to Middle East oil during the 1970’s oil crisis. If you’re of a certain age, perhaps you remember odd days and even days to get gas. (I had a friend I could trade plates with if one of us needed gas on a “wrong” day.) It sucked. We should have learned WAY back then, we need to get OFF of oil as a main energy source, but some people just… never learn.

Many of us did learn -and never forgot the lesson – but the corporations weren’t about to let go of such a controllable cash-cow. We’re not fully powered by renewables, today, because Exxon and Shell and Chevron, et al don’t know to profit from them. But THIS oil war is the single most ridiculously stupid war in the history of the oil wars. We absolutely, positively, did not need this war for any reason, whatsoever. Ah, but I digress.

I was giving an update because of his latest dumb announcement. Okay, so we started this stupid war and Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz and choking off the oil supply to most of the world. Since then, the Drumpfster has tried everything his pea brain can think of. He talks tough. He makes threats. He hurls insults and foul language. Nothing works.

So now he has a new threat and THIS one, I think, will be withdrawn by lunchtime. Get this: now he says HE is going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz! Iran is blocking the Strait of Hormuz and in response, Donald Dork says he’s going to blockade Iran’s blockade of the Strait. That’ll show ’em!

Iran says they’re letting some ships through, but only if they pay a toll of up to $2 million dollars. Iran is trying to collect money for reparations for all of the damage the US and Israel have done. A few days ago, Donny was hailing the idea as a great way to make money. Then he found out HE wasn’t getting any of that money and now he thinks that’s a bad, bad idea.

So, any ship that Iran allows to pass because they paid the toll will be stopped, according to Donny, thereby exacerbating the oil crisis. We don’t like what you’ve done. We want you to stop. So we’re going to do it even more. That’s some quality thinking, there. Let’s hope he doesn’t decide to punish Iran by bombing American military installations, too. That’ll show ’em!

Oh, okay. I’m not even going to get to the ‘Publish’ button before he backtracks. Apparently, it’s going to take a little while – maybe two or three weeks – to get his blockade of the blockade up and running. So he’s definitely going to hold a blockade blockade but not before his magic cop-out time-frame of two weeks. Still the threat was worth a laugh. This mighty, mighty moron threatened to blockade a blockade to protest the blockade.

MAGA thinks he’s playing 10-demensional chess. It looks like demented chess, to me…

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FINALLY, after fifty years, the US goes back to the moon. No, we didn’t land, that comes later. Or, uh, does it? The Mega-maniacal Moron wants to cut funding – by as much as 47%. He’s got pockets that need more money in them, I guess. NASA calls it an “extinction level” funding cut. I call it yet another attack by the greedy swamp monsters. Always enough for war, never enough for anything else is the mantra of a dying empire. It always has been. It always will be…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is predicting a bloodbath for Republicans in the mid-terms. Rachel Maddow is talking about a report Mark Warner is highlighting in which the evil trump regime is planning to come up with some national emergency that allows the regime to control the election. MTG is expecting free and fair elections, and, if we do get them, I think she’ll be proven correct. The right should get shellacked in this next election.

If Warner and Maddow are right, though, MTG may not even get the free and fair election her prediction depends upon. Here’s the thing, MTG isn’t making some deep, insightful prediction. Everyone on Earth can see with their own eyes, trump has failed at nearly everything he has touched. He’s done more harm to Americans than any President in history and he’s done more harm to Americans than most of our historical enemies have done.

The horrifying Robert’s Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court has assisted him at nearly every turn, and don’t even get me started on the Corrupt Republican Congress. MAGA Mike, the Johnson goes so far as to just shut down Congress and ignore his job in order to facilitate trump’s criminality. He’s still picking up his paycheck though. The One Percent have done a very good job of corrupting every branch of our government.

Essentially, it’s all corruption, all the time and we, the people, are paying the price. I absolutely believe Donny will do anything, everything he can to disrupt fair elections. He KNOWS he can’t win but he also knows he HAS to win if he wants to stay out of jail, let alone keep all of that beautiful, ill-gotten lucre coming his way. Find your pitchfork and prepare your torches. If we let this son-of-a-bitch steal this election, we’re surrendering our Democratic Republic to the One Percent. That never, EVER, works out well for the working class…

Protect Yourself. Avoid Melanomia…

by MyBaconPress

What do you suppose Melanomia is on about, with her claims that she never knew Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell anything more than casually and that she didn’t hang out with them or communicate with them in emails and all of those photos showing Melanomia with Jeffrey and Ghislaine and the affectionate emails should just be ignored? They’re fake news, especially when they’re not.

One journalist, Michael Wolff, suggested she was trying to get out in front of a book released a day or two ago. The book is about Andrew, the Brit formerly known as a prince. But Andrew is a former prince, in part, because of his involvement with Epstein, Maxwell, Trump, and, apparently, Melanomia. The book is said to quote Epstein from a 2007 interview in which Epstein claims to have had sex with Melanomia a full year before she met the Drumpfster.

I’m not sure why that might be news. Based on what I know of Melanomia, I’d say a LOT of men had sex with her before she met the Drumpfster. Like, a LOT. Many people are saying that was her job before she met Donald. Do you think Donald cares about stuff like that? I’d bet that Epstein and Trump became “Eskimo Brothers” long before Melanomia showed up. Why would that make any difference now?

But there she was, getting the Trump/Epstein files all out onto Page One again, making denials that were debunked almost as quickly as she issued them, and telling Congress to let the Epstein survivors testify. That irritated the survivors. One said, “We’re supposed to testify in front of Congress under oath? For what? Please tell us the reason why. Will it change anything? Will people be held accountable?”

There’s even speculation out there that Melanomia’s goal was to distract from Donald Dork’s disastrous surrender in Iran – by putting the Trump/Epstein files back on the front page. I think these guys really thought Trump’s lost war-that-wasn’t-a-war would make everyone forget about President Pedo’s past. That didn’t work. I doubt President Pedo’s past is going to drive his military failure off the front pages, either.

At this point? This all looks like flailing, to me. Juggling scandals because scandals are all you have doesn’t work to hide them. I suppose it CAN feel like a ‘Three Card Monte’ in trying to keep up with all of them, but we’re paying attention. I think we can handle it. We’re making an impeachment list. We’re checking it twice. We’re gonna follow up ’cause you haven’t been nice…

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Yesterday, the Artemis II spacecraft came back to Earth after, among other things, setting the record for human beings being farther away from Earth than anybody else ever. The previous record was held by Apollo 13, which was originally launched on this date in 1970. Sometimes, history rhymes, I guess…

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Well, I guess that’s it for Eric Swalwell in his Gubernatorial run. He stands accused of sexual misconduct. He denies it completely and absolutely. BUT… he also said he has made “mistakes in judgement” in his past but that those “mistakes” are between him and his wife. Technically, that’s true, but with a semi-acknowledgment that he hasn’t always been faithful, coupled with charges of sexual impropriety, his opponents will be able to pummel him out of the race.

For now, he says he’s staying in the race but he’s going to leave the campaign trail and go spend time with his family. That’s often a precursor to the inevitable, “After considering the details of my situation and looking at all options, I have determined that now is not my time and have, therefore, decided to “suspend” my campaign for <office title here>.” It’s not always true, but it’s almost always true…

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Wow! Cadet Bone Spurs has diesel fuel running at $8/gal and more! Fortunately, that’s only going to hurt you if you drive a diesel or, you know, buy any products moved anywhere by truck in this once-great nation. When gas prices were up under Biden, cons were running around with stickers of Biden that read, “I did that!” They stuck them to the pumps, blaming Biden for high prices. When our National Embarrassment took over, suddenly they all understood: the President doesn’t set the gas prices.

That’s true. He doesn’t. That’s a boardroom thing, just like it was a boardroom thing under Biden. But what the President – or in this case, Trump – CAN do is bomb the crap out of a major oil producer, prompting that nation to cut off nearly 60% of the world’s oil supply. He can so completely disrupt the flow of oil – AFTER working so hard to make sure we maintained our stupid addiction – that those boardrooms don’t have any choice but to raise prices…

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Is it stupid or is it strategy? I once learned this rule: when a person or entity makes a “mistake” that puts money in their pocket, expect that person or entity to make that “mistake” again and again. It’s a good rule of thumb. I’ve been applying it to 47 and his long, long – I mean, long – list of “failures” that, somehow, manage to make rich people richer.

He promised MAGA Heaven but has only delivered Hell. Well, unless you started off filthy rich. Do you deal in oil? Donny helped you tons. Do you build missiles? Oh, BOY, are you in a great position! A Wall Street investor into single family homes? Your position has been secured for the foreseeable future. He never – ever – seems to make a “mistake” that helps Joe Sixpack. After a while, isn’t it fair to wonder if these “mistakes” might be intentional? Inquiring minds want to know…

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…