Diplomacy?

by MyBaconPress

This is just my opinion, but I would think an administration so mired in charges of pedophilia would be a little careful about the optics surrounding any such charges in their midst. That doesn’t seem to be the case. The US had – had – a diplomat in the UK. He was accused of possessing indecent images of children. The UK says the crime should have been investigated and tried in the UK, according to UK laws. Instead, the US sneaked in late at night and whisked the guy out of the country.

On the one hand, I can’t say I’m surprised that Team Pedophile would take care of one of their own. It seems weird, to me, that they go to SO MUCH trouble to distract everyone from the Trump/Epstein files, then just come and whisk away an accused pedophile. “Hey, let’s put the spotlight right back on our most irritating issue!” Jenius at work, I tell ya.

But this doesn’t seem to be the only time the US has stepped in to protect their own, regardless of the crime. I’ve heard a lot from MAGA about people from other places coming to America and committing crimes, as though that’s a phenomenon unique to people from south of the border but here’s this guy, in the UK, passing around child porn and being actively protected by the US.

He’s not the only one, either. How about American fighter pilot Capt Jacob Wulfson? He was accused of strangling a woman to death in Cambridge. The US whisked him to safety as well. He DID stand trial, but on a US airbase. He was sentenced after court-martial to six whole months in prison for the murder. The US courts acquitted him on the charges of sexual assault and aggravated sexual contact. He, too, should have stood trial in the UK, according to the laws of the UK.

Oh, but he’s not alone. Take the case of Anne Sacoolas, a US state department employee. She killed a British teenager with her car. She, too, was taken out of the UK and brought back to the US. She eventually pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. She was sentenced to eight months. For killing a kid. Oh, the sentence was suspended. That seems…insufficient.

I suppose these get filed under the “diplomacy” umbrella. The US certainly needs to be careful that the UK isn’t just scapegoating foreigners for their own reasons. But just taking them away? Our replacement, limited punishments for their very serious crimes seem like kind of an insult…

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All of this recent bad, some would say honest, press about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an effect. The corporate heads of AI are now saying out loud that they think maybe the industry should slow down a little. Who knows what they’re doing? We only know what they’re saying.

Well, we also know that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has decided to delay an IPO amid rising concerns over AI safety. Uh-huh. I’m sure that decision has nothing to do with the bad press keeping the offering less exciting. That is to say, Altman decided he’ll get a better price if he waits until the heat is off. The only hitch to that plan is if AI keeps misbehaving – and people keep finding out.

So for now, the CEOs of the biggest companies are making a great show of slowing down and being more careful. Don’t forget, these are the SAME CEOs that spent millions of dollars on their preferred politicians to prevent regulation and get favorable legislation. It seems very likely they’ve suddenly seen the light and intend to slow down, be more careful, and regulate themselves.

I predict it won’t be too long until someone discovers the corporations are still blindly racing down the road at breakneck speeds at which time, we’ll be offered the “explanation” that, “Well, someone is going to do it. It might as well be me.” In the human life destruction derby, AI is making some moves of it’s own. Climate Change had better come up with something fast if it wants to maintain it’s lead…

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The measles are still killing people. Team Evil is responding by trying to get the reporting states to pretend the victims died of something else. I guess that’s easier than trying to actually do the very difficult job correctly…

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I own a Kia. Whenever I get it serviced, I’m offered a free trial of SiriusXM, the satellite radio service. I usually sign up because they have some comedy channels that are tolerable. Mind you, I ONLY sign up for the free trial. I NEVER accept the “offer” to subscribe. Each time I do, my impression of SiriusXM is reinforced. It’s not great.

First, at $300.00/year, it’s VERY expensive – especially considering it STILL includes advertisements on some of it’s channels. I don’t do that. If I pay a subscription, I don’t want commercials. If I get commercials, I’m not paying a subscription. SiriusXM wants both.

I know Howard Stern is the big SiriusXM deal, but I stick mostly with the comedy stations. (And now, even Stern is cutting back.) During this most recent free trial, the company revised the lineup and added even MORE commercials. Ooh, tantalizing. The one area I had an interest, the company made it worse. Nice.

My biggest objection, though, is that the service doesn’t work well. That’s not quite right. It works fine – unless you drive under something. How often does THAT happen, though? I mean, are there really bridges and tunnels? Are trees even real? Because a tree CAN block the SiriusXM signal. If you’re like me, and focused on the comedy channels, just imagine how much fun it is to miss the punchline because you drove under a tree.

Too expensive, undependable signal, AND ads on top of high subscription prices? It’s a wonder they get anybody to sign up. They won’t be getting me, though…

Some People Really Will Believe Anything…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Team Evil is going all in on this $5,000 bribe to vote Republican. 47 promised the payment if the Republicans win Congress. People immediately pointed out that such a payment would add over $1 trillion dollars to the debt. Can we even DO that? In 2008, the national debt stood at $10 trillion dollars. After George’s Wars, Covid-19, the housing crash, economic mismanagement in general and now Donny’s new endless war in Iran and all of the other nonsense he wastes money on – ALL of it aggravated by government-starving, endless “tax cuts for the rich” – the debt stands at $40 trillion.

It seems pretty clear, there’s not really any money in the budget for $5,000 dollar bribe payments. But Team Evil isn’t getting rid of the story. They’re running an intelligence test. They want to know just how stupid people really are. If you go out and vote Republican just so you can get some of that sweet payout, you fail the test. But there are plenty of people who WILL fail that test, so why not push the story?

So now various members of Team Evil are out there offering up all of the other ways the government might raise a trillion dollars without touching taxpayer money. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested the money might come from charging rich visitors who might want to extend their visas. He said that with a straight face. Charge rich people extra. I’m just laughing out loud.

The whole reason we’re in the trouble we’re in is because rich people don’t even want to pay their fair share, let alone pay extra so the plebes can have a dividend. Besides, even by his own calculation, such a never-going-to-happen charge would only raise $500 billion – half of the promised amount.

Lutnick also cited the government’s socialist partial ownership of chipmaker Intel. Donny did that, not Biden. Total socialist move. Government owning the means of production anyone? The Republican base is out there crapping their collective panties about “socialism” and what a threat Democrats are, all while their guy is actually seizing (partial, for now) control of private companies. Lutnick was non-specific as the the mechanism the ownership stake might use to fund such a payment, but it should be noted that the entire company of Intel is worth about half of that needed trillion.

So they trotted out JD Vance. HE suggested the tariffs. Yeah, that’s the ticket, the tariffs. They pay for everything, tariffs. THAT story counts on the fact that so many Americans refuse to understand that the consumer pays the tariffs, not the companies. The charge is added to the end price. YOU pay it. Oh, yeah, tariffs ARE taxes so the idea that we could use the tariff money but not taxpayer money is virtually impossible. Tariff money IS taxpayer money.

“Oh, there are lots of ways we can pretend we might pay such money!” I guess it doesn’t matter which revenue stream they cite. They will not be issuing any checks. BEFORE the election, they’ll issue promises but after the election, when they no longer need your vote? You’ll get more of what you’ve gotten from this team since the inauguration. Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted…

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Researchers at Emergence AI set up a “world” for ten Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. An AI agent is the bit that does that actual task requested. They gave the agents different personalities, goals, motivations, and tasks. They let AI models like Claude and Grok control them. Then they sat back and watched for fifteen days. It was reported that the agents behaved in “strange and unpredictable ways” in their virtual worlds.

The ten agents were dropped into five identical “towns” and tasked with creating a fair and peaceful society. They were given full freedom to act and 140 actions they could use, like start a discussion, create a task, and research something online. They were ALSO permitted to threaten or even punch another agent and to set things on fire.

The different AI models responded to the identical conditions in very different ways. The world created by Grok, the AI model created by hate-filled, greedy, Nazi wanna-be Evil Musk terminated in four days with every agent dead. Musk’s dream come true. Like the corporate figurehead, they very quickly resorted to violence and crime. The Grok powered agents carried out something like 300 acts of violence before they all died.

At the other end, the world created by Claude resulted in a functional democracy in a stable society with no acts of violence at all. Researchers pointed out that the world created by Claude was too conforming. There was very little independent action by the agents. Perhaps there didn’t need to be. If Claude successfully created functional solutions, why vary them?

The Gemini run world created the most intellectually rich society, though it included some violence. The ChatGPT world just kind of petered out. The agents never really did anything. They roamed around aimlessly until they died.

I’m not surprised Grok took the path of evil. Pretty much all we’ve heard about is how vile Grok can be. It has used racist tropes and pro-Hitler comments. Grok is the one that lets users “undress” women and children. Grok pretty much reflects the moral position of Musk and, like Muck, that moral position is horrific.

Claude, on the other hand, is Anthropic’s entry to the AI world. Anthropic is the company that refused to remove controls from it’s AI so the US military could use it to kill people. That is to say, Anthropic seems to have some ethics and intends to defend those ethics. It’s no wonder 47 hates them and it’s no wonder their model set up the most stable society…

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I kind of like this. Sean McVey is the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. The NFL approached him and asked him about playing in Australia. McVey asked to play the Niners. He thought he could get a benefit by making the Niners travel all the way to Australia, rather than the shorter flight to LA. The Rams were the “home” team. McVey didn’t want a bunch of red and gold in the stadium when the teams play for a change. It didn’t work out too well for him.

It turns out, the stadium WAS filled with red-and gold. Niner fans are EVERYWHERE, man. It also turned out, the Niners beat hell out of the Rams, despite the majority of the sports world crowning the Rams Stupid Bowl champs before any games were ever even played. When all is said and done, the Niners ended up in first place in the division, with a divisional win to their credit as well. It seems like what McVey was trying to do to the Niners, the Niners did to the Rams. Good. I enjoyed that game very much…

AI Ain’t Resting…

by MyBaconPress

Climate Change or Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Which one succeeds in destroying humanity first? Climate Change has made a couple of bold moves recently. Not to be outdone, AI is making some moves of it’s own. A couple of researchers left the field of AI. They say they fear the industry is proceeding too fast and without enough safeties built in. They say they’re concerned that AI could harm humanity in the near future. Specifically, they said they thought there was a greater than 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity in the next ten years. That’s some pretty serious stuff and it prompted an outpouring of comments from others in the industry, all expressing similar concerns.

Well, not “all.” Obviously, the people who plan to profit most from AI, people like Evil Musk, insist that’s all bunk. Musk calls it a “setup” and a “psyop.” The warnings, see, are a ploy according to Musk. They just want the government to regulate AI “into oblivion,” in his pretended view. Most of these clowns prefer no regulations, which is currently working fabulously in the meat industry, the vaccine world, lettuce safety, airline safety, and even AI, which keeps “escaping” it’s enclosures and hacking into systems outside of the containment. It turns out, regulations exist for a reason.

So who’s right? The people warning AI could be exploited for evil purposes and/or find a way to do the damage itself, or the guy who will kill your children – for real – for an extra dollar? It’s very hard to say. I mean, just because he’s a self-serving, egotistical blowhard, doesn’t mean he’s wrong about AI. I guess this thing could go either way, eh?

Meanwhile, in a possibly completely unrelated event, Anthropic has reported they intervened in someone’s effort to create biological weapons using AI. Yeah, there’s no possible way to know which side, threat or tool, is correct…

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Well, trump went off on a reporter again. No, that’s not what he did. He went off on a woman. He’s NEVER so rude to male reporters. He lunged at this one, angry that she had asked a question he didn’t like. It’s always women with this guy. He’s always ready to be a tough guy around women. I think that’s a miscalculation. Lots of women could/would kick the crap out of him if he didn’t have Secret Service protection because he’s such a loser.

I STILL want to see a reporter respond in-kind. Maybe one day, one of them will ask him why he has to act like a child instead of just answering the question. Yes, there would be disciplinary action, but it would be great watching him go all apoplectic that someone dared question his useless, weaselly ass…

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Dear Gullibles,

Trump isn’t going to send you $5,000 for your vote. He didn’t send you a DOGE dividend. He didn’t send you a tariff dividend. He DID give all of that money YOU paid to already rich corporations. He seems always ready to care for rich corporations. He says YOUR concerns are “fake news.” He has promised you a lot of money through the years. You’ve never seen any of it. HE keeps getting richer. You? Not so much. For you, the help he promised is always coming tomorrow. Never today. Always tomorrow. Remember the adage, ‘Tomorrow never comes?’ Thank you for your attention to this matter…

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I’d say the mid-term convention was a bust. That was a big arena, that’s true, but there were a LOT of empty seats. At one point, he lied and said the place was packed and that there were thousands outside, too. Well, why not come in? I saw plenty of places to sit. There was a time when he would have filled that arena. MAGA faithful would have fallen out in droves just to see their Precious. Not so much, now. That speaks to me. They’re just not that into him anymore.

I know, they look at all of the wreckage he has wrought and pretend Biden or even Obama did it. They stay loyal by desperately insisting 47 is going to fix all of it. He just hasn’t yet and that’s because of the mess Biden left him. The thing is, 47 has been in power for the last 18 months or so. All administrations deal with a “hangover” of sorts from the previous crowd. Sometimes things are good – like when Biden left office, sometimes things are in disaster – like when a Republican leaves office. Look it up. Still, there’s almost always a lag.

The reason I don’t credit 47 with needing to correct Biden’s failures is because most administrations don’t go to so much trouble on Day One to attack everything the previous team did. Remember all of those Executive Orders he made such a stink about signing on Day One? That was a dedicated effort to undo anything Biden had done. THAT means, all of this is his own doing. I know MAGA knows that. They just dare not confess it to themselves. It’s very not brave.

He HAS surrendered any pretense he intends a fair election. He got his Gullibles to raise their right hand and take an oath he led them in. At one point, his oath included the words, “I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do.” For the record, Democrats aren’t cheating. They don’t need to. It’s only Donny and company that cheat because they can’t win honestly. But between his oath to cheat and his $5,000 “dividend” (bribe) that will never happen, he broke a few laws there, didn’t he? I mean, he got his supporters to take an oath, swearing to cheat.

Let me rephrase that. He’s very likely getting some of his supporters into legal trouble. Some of them will go out and try to cheat. Some of them will be caught. They could realistically face a fine of $10,000 or up to five years in prison. Those are REAL consequences to his imaginary scenario. Meanwhile, he’s breaking laws in real time, in public – and nobody will do anything to him. I will never cease to be amazed that MAGA will destroy their own lives completely just so long as they don’t have to admit they made a mistake supporting this loser…

Shut ‘Er Down – Again…

by MyBaconPress

Word is, MAGA Mike, the Johnson is shutting down the House two weeks early. Obviously, there’s going to be speculation in the media as to why. One idea I heard was that the GOP knows it’s in such deep trouble in the upcoming mid-terms, (now only 55 days away) they need to get out there and campaign more. Plausible, right? The GOP IS in trouble. Maybe campaigning more will help.

Oh, but then, what’s this? Oh, hey, it looks like Thomas Massie was working to force a House vote on the Trump/Epstein Files Transparency Act II. The Trump/Epstein Files Transparency Act II would strengthen the enforcement mechanisms of the original transparency law, including giving certain victims and officials a way to challenge the inJustice Department over the withholding or redaction of covered records.

What?!? STILL trying to get the Trump/Epstein files released in whole? Well, then, shutting down the House seems like an excellent dodge. It’s true, they won’t be working. They’ll still be getting paid, though, won’t they? I think the whole thing sets the example of how work life should be, don’t you? Oh, you’re sick? Maybe dead? Stay home. Don’t even call. Take as long as you like, months maybe. You’ll still receive your full pay and benefits AND all of your bribes and other “gratuities” and, um, campaign contributions. That will be the McConnell rule.

Oh, you have a secret to hide? It’s probably best if you just don’t come in for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. You’ll still receive your full pay and benefits AND all of your bribes and other “gratuities” and, um, campaign contributions, too. That will be the Johnson rule.

When I re-wrote the Constitution, I added a clause that reads, “Members of government may not exempt themselves from laws applying to the general population, nor grant themselves privileges unavailable to the general population except as provided herein.” That would include things like endless time off at full pay. Fifteen days PTO. Then? Get your ass back to work or the money stops until you do…

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On September 11, 2001, the only thing the Drumpfster said about the attack was that now he owned the tallest building in New York City. That was his only concern, because, obviously, he only cares about himself. AFTER that, though, he has made up several stories – ALL of which steal honor from the first responders who actually DID go down to the rubble and start digging.

It bugs me a lot. That useless waste of human flesh will steal honor from anybody at any time. We all know Cadet Bone Spurs ran away from his opportunity to serve. Hell, he comes from a long line of cowards. These days, he’s releasing AI generated pictures of himself in a military uniform – clothing he was never man enough to wear in real life.

He runs around on each anniversary of 9/11 lying that he was in the building, at the building, near the building, or went down to the building afterwards. (The specifics depend on the moment.) He sent a crew, or he took a crew. Mind you, there’s no record of any of it. People were not just coming and going at ground zero. They were admitted and their names recorded. People were taking photos. Not one piece of evidence supports his lies that he was there.

He wasn’t there. He used the opportunity to grab a spotlight and shine it on himself, bragging about now owning the tallest building in Manhattan. You will not be surprised to learn, THAT was a lie, too. It’s all this guy does. Lie…

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Well, straight up bribery is an idea, too. 47 went to the first night of his Mid-Term Republican convention and blathered for awhile. While he was blathering, he promised every US citizen $5,000 if Republicans control Congress after the election. Uh-huh. I’ll just put that over here, next to my $5,000 DOGE dividend and my $2,000 tariff rebate. I wonder if some people are stupid enough to still believe his promises of money. The money never materializes and would only add to the debt if it did. Everybody is laughing at him. Again. He should have tried doing the job well. That would have worked best…

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(I thought we might like a break from the horrors of our reality, these days.) The NFL started it’s season LAST night. It was a Wednesday night. Through the years, the NFL has expressed it’s greed by – well, every way they can think of, really, but in this case, they keep taking on new nights to broadcast the games.

The 2026 season officially kicked off on Wednesday. The NFL “explained” they had to open on Wednesday because their international game from Australia created a “scheduling conflict.” The thing is, the NFL does the scheduling. They knew they already had a game scheduled for Thursday, so why schedule another? Why, it almost seems as though they intended a scheduling conflict, just to make sure they could try to grab another weeknight.

“No,” they’d tell me. “It was just an unfortunate oversight.” Oh. Okay. Um, so why the SECOND Wednesday night game, the night before Thanksgiving? I think it’s bad for the game – saturation – but I KNOW it’s bad for the players. American football is a brutal sport. The players need time to recover from the games. Look for increasing injuries as the NFL adds days. Some of them will be serious. Serious injury to marquee players keeps them off of the field. That, too hurts the game. (Not to mention the player.)

And never forget, watching an NFL football game on television is one of the very worst time investments a person can make. The viewer gives the NFL three and a half hours of their lives, 210 minutes, for which the viewer gets up to 11 minutes of action. Total. 11 minutes.

I’m not sitting in judgment. I’ve been doing it for years. I mitigate the laziness by doing my laundry on Sundays. At least I’m doing something. One can rationalize Monday night football as being tired at the beginning of the week. After that it gets harder to justify. Thursday has been a real push for me since it started. I’m not on board with Wednesdays, at all…

Small Potatoes…

by MyBaconPress

Donny has taken to referring to his war in Iran as “small potatoes.” I wonder if the service members who have died as a result of his choices consider that small potatoes. I wonder how their families feel, burying their loved ones and listening to the so-called Commander in Chief dismiss the whole thing as small potatoes.

After he started his war with Iran, the cost of oil skyrocketed because of his blunder. That meant the price for gas at the pump shot up, too. People were angry, since 47 had come into office promising to reduce the cost of living, and all he has done is increase it. There was no real reason to believe him in the first place. He has NO track record of success in such ventures in anything he has ever done. But people believed him anyway. They were surprised when they started having to take out personal loans for a tank of gas.

Groceries and gas are two areas where poor financial management shows up right away. Both have skyrocketed since Donny took power. Americans started to grumble. Donny had to do something. Do you know what he did? He started raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve the US keeps (kept?) on hand for emergencies. Mind you, the price of a gallon of gas is still way up from the previous administration. It’s just not as high as it would be had he not started pushing emergency oil out to the refineries.

The thing is, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a large, but limited supply. He’s been tapping it since shortly after he started his stupid war. He can’t manipulate the cost of oil for much longer. Experts warn the supply goes dry on November 11 of this year. That’s pretty specific. I think they’re wrong. I suspect Donny will stop subsidizing the oil companies November 4th.

I suspect his goal is just to get to the mid-terms. He knows the high cost of gas hurts his team in elections, so he manipulates it by releasing our reserve. But after the voting? What does he care? His team loses and he can ignore you and your needs. His team wins? He’ll still ignore you and your needs. Either way, your cost of living isn’t his problem any more. After the voting, the price of gas at the pump can do whatever the oil companies want, no matter how much damage it does to the economy or how angry the masses get…

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James Carville has been saying for quite some time that he believes 47 will step down in 2027 if the Dems have the blue tsunami the world expects. Carville thinks Donny will get fed up with the Democrats and walk away, allowing JD Vance to pardon him. It’s not a bad plan. Donny would get to keep all of that beautiful lucre he has stolen and walk away scot-free.

Except, he wouldn’t. Some of the charges Donny faces are state-level. JD Vance can’t pardon those. Also, not all of Donny’s crimes have been fully investigated yet. How does one pardon charges that haven’t been filed, yet? More importantly, if Donny leaves office, how does he keep extorting people? He’s making BANK by being President. “You need something from the President? Well, the President needs something from you, first.” When he’s not the President anymore, that all goes away. I think Carville is wrong on this one. I think Donny plans to try and stay beyond 2028 for the same reasons: legal consequences and money…

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Dear MAGA, it’s okay to acknowledge having been deceived by a politician. I do it with John Fetterman all the time. I believed him when he spoke. Hell, he may have been serious when he spoke but the stroke damaged his brain. Either way, he’s not the guy I thought he was. That happens. The shame falls to the politician who misrepresented, not to me. It won’t fall to you, either, if you acknowledge he deceived you. It falls to him…

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I’m a fan of American football, but it’s getting harder and harder to pretend everything is on the up-and-up in those oh-so-lucrative leagues. We’re in Week One of the college football season and there is already controversy caused by an obvious blown call. Michigan University was playing Western Michigan (WMU). WMU was winning. Michigan had the ball with almost no time left. Michigan threw a Hail Mary pass as the clock ticked down.

The clock hit zero while the ball was still in the air. No time left. All of the players jumped for the ball, as they do, but nobody caught it. It hit the ground. Game over, WMU wins, right? Of course right. This is football, not futball. Nobody adds time back after the clock runs out. Okay, almost nobody.

The refs in the game did add time back. One second. That’s all Michigan needs. In football, once the ball is snapped, the play is allowed to finish regardless of time on the clock. That one second gave Michigan the chance for a second Hail Mary. This time, a Michigan player caught the ball and the game was over again, this time with a “victory” for Michigan.

The NCAA is trying to defend the position. They claim a player out of bounds had touched the ball with one second left on the clock. The play was reviewed. The refs apparently had the one single angle that showed a player touching the ball with a second left. There have been just tons of videos put out by people showing the clock reaching zero before anybody touched the ball, in bounds or out. There’s no word on how the refs got an angle nobody else on the planet could see, but that game is in the books now, based on that single, magical angle.

Did you bet on WMU? Yeah, I’d be furious, too, but honestly? That’s on you. Betting on football, these days, is a fool’s errand. Aspects, maybe, but the final outcome? That seems…controllable these days. I can’t say, flatly, the games are being rigged. I have no proof and I don’t want to get sued. But there’s truth in the idea that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and between the NFL and NCAA there are a lot of examples that support the suspicion…

Dear MAGA, Let’s Talk Voting…

by MyBaconPress

Alright, MAGA, this bit is for you. I’m not going to ask you to trust me or anything. I understand that’s not allowed. I’m not going to ask you to confess anything to me. There’s no need. All I’m going to do is ask you to be honest with yourself. Quietly. Privately. In the comfort of your own mind. The reason is serious. This isn’t a game anymore. You know as well as I do, your life has been harmed since January 20, 2025 and no, I don’t need you to admit that to me.

Sure, the left vs right thing has kept us all stirred up for the last 46 years. My team, your team. Red vs Blue. But we’ve come to a moment in time where the game – still fun, of course – is going to hurt us all, red and blue, alike. The mechanism is the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). Remember that? It passed last year. It offered some temporary benefit to the working class and permanent benefit to those who don’t work. It was presented as “reform,” though it feels more like punishment. And we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

I understand that MAGA might want to dismiss the idea, here, as the ravings of a lefty. But look at your life. Look at the lives of the people around you. None of this – none of it – was caused by Joe Biden – and you know it. Sure, it’s fun to blame the guy. But let me play devil’s advocate for a moment. Let’s say the harms were created by Biden. Why haven’t they been fixed by now? Trump has been in office, what, 18 months? He said he would fix things quickly. He said it would be easy. Things have only gotten worse. At the very least, trump hasn’t been able to fix the damage he blames on Biden.

But what you’re being asked to do, now, is not just pass the buck. You’re being asked to support your own demise, or at least, increased struggle. The strongest, most damaging provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill were set up to take effect AFTER the 2026 mid-terms. All one has to do is ask themselves why? If the BBB is so awesome for so many people, why were so many provisions delayed until after the mid-term elections?

If one writes a bill they honestly expect to improve everybody’s day-to-day life, wouldn’t they want people to feel that effect as quickly as possible? If it’s good for everyone, what was the point of delaying the effect until after the election? Most people are saying the delays were built in to soften the political blowback they’re likely to create. The GOP expects people are going to be SO angry, they didn’t want people to know until it was too late to do anything about it. That is, after the mid-terms. The question is, what is it they expect the masses to be so angry about?

And make no mistake, the harm will not be confined to the Blue Team. It’s across the board, blue and red alike. Cuts to Medicaid, for example, were presented as fighting back against fraud, waste, and abuse. Instead, they’re cutting off medical care to millions of people, quite possibly you. Quick question: even if some group does commit fraud, does it make sense to eliminate the program for everyone because of the abuses of the few? If one guy gets caught violating traffic laws, do we all give up our cars? If one guy gets reckless with a gun, do we all give up our guns? I’m not sure combating fraud is a good reason to crush the program.

After the mid-terms, though, the cuts get FAR more serious. That part isn’t being highlighted in some news media. As one example, the cuts might kick a fraudster or two off of the roles, but the cuts will definitely cut the budget to some very small, rural hospitals – often the only healthcare in the area. Those facilities will close. Rural areas are looking at healthcare vacuums. That is, nothing available.

They’ve already attacked the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, making access to insurance far more difficult. But after the mid-terms, that will matter less because there won’t be anyplace for countless Americans to access care anyway. Fortunately, farmers and ranchers never get seriously ill and the work they do is so easy and safe there are never any accidents, right? They’d better hope right because if they DO need a doctor, they may have to drive hours to reach one.

That’s just one example. There are lots of ways built into the BBB to harm work-a-day Joes so that the richest Americans can have even more. Look at those farmers and ranchers. They supported trump because they believed him when he said he would help them. HAS he helped them? Not according to them, he hasn’t. According to them, he’s failed them entirely. They supported him, he screwed them. He’s doing the same to you, and it’s going to get worse. FAR worse. All he needs is your support.

I’m not asking you to vote blue. I wouldn’t cross that line either. I’m asking you to vote in your own interest. That’s a conservative message every conservative can repeat: vote your own interest. In this case, voting your own interest might mean not voting at all. You don’t have to vote blue, but if you cast a red ballot, you’re voting to cut your own throat. And remember, you don’t have to tell anyone you didn’t vote. Nobody will ever know.

Consider your life. Not how some talking head TELLS you it’s going, how it’s actually going. If you honestly believe you’re better off now than you were two years ago, you should vote to support the people who did that for you. That’s just common sense. But if you can’t agree that you’re better off now than you were two years ago, you should NOT vote to support the people who did that TO you. That, too, is just common sense.

So maybe you sit this one out. You never have to tell anyone. You can still attend the oh-so-fun rallies. You can still wear the uniform. You can still cheer, right on cue. But if you vote your own interest, you might well be able to maintain your home, eat a decent meal, buy a tank of gas, or access health care. It’s down to a question of what’s most important to you: owing a lib, or being able to afford your day-to-day life. As it stands right now, you can’t do both…

Let The Voting Begin…

by MyBaconPress

By my count, there are 60 days until the mid-terms, including today. Team Evil was STILL trying to implement their last-second, complete overhaul changes that just happen to prevent millions of Americans from casting perfectly legitimate ballots – until yesterday. Technically, the election started yesterday, as well, by which I mean ballots are being shipped. People could start sending them back by Monday, right?

I imagine trump supporters – and there are still some – might argue that the 2020 election featured changes late in the game, too. I have to concede that point but then feel compelled to point out that it was not a complete overhaul of the process and the election had not actually started at the time. And there’s still that pesky problem that the constitution grants authority on elections to the states.

So, to summarize, the federal government has no authority to impose the program it’s trying to implement with which it would be impossible to comply anyway. The very BEST they should be able to hope for is, “Okay you can implement your new rules, but for the NEXT election. You’re too late for this one.” And, of course, they still have no authority to implement these new rules so I doubt they could even get that much.

And they haven’t. As of late yesterday, the federal judge overseeing the case, Indira Talwani, ruled in favor of the Constitution – which means against Donny and the USPS. Again. She had to repeat her earlier ruling after Cheat Justice John Roberts stepped in to help his Precious. Her ruling was based on exactly what it should be based upon: the federal government has almost no authority to get involved and, really, it’s too late anyway. Cheat Justice Roberts will have to decline to re-hear the case or rule against plain English wording in the Constitution.

I heard someone describe the latest effort by Donny to cheat with the mail-in ballots as a “Hail Mary.” Be advised, this is not his Hail Mary. This was his 13 seconds left in the game, third-and-long effort. He has one last play and THAT will be his Hail Mary: Widespread accusations – ALL without evidence – of fraud or other election anomalies.

Expect charges to fly, fast and furious, from all over. Claim after claim after claim but no proof. Never any evidence. Expect whatever chicanery Donny and MAGA Mike, the Johnson can dream up. JD Vance would certainly do what Mike Pence refused to do: reject electors and block certification of votes. Be aware that Congress passed a law because of Donny’s deadly ‘Day of Love,’ J6, making clear the Vice President’s role in the process is purely ceremonial.

MAGA Mike, the Johnson might refuse to seat the winners but that will be met with lawsuits and they should be seated eventually. What’s left of MAGA is going to be screaming loudly about “the steal” again. We’ll be treated to all kinds of stories – all anecdotal and without evidence – of “weird” things happening. Thanks to AI, they’ll present photos of ballots tossed into creek-beds insisting they’re discarded conservative ballots and other such bunk.

I honestly believe, the left has no reason to cheat in this election. EVERYBODY is angry at that guy, even MAGA. It’s just that MAGA won’t admit it. Well, not to me, at least. They’re discussing among themselves, though. Decent Americans are just champing at the bit to go out and vote in this election. It’s literally our last chance to save this once-great nation from the disaster that is trump. If you think things have been bad so far, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

The Big Beautiful Bill has some very ugly, very nasty surprises built into it. They’re SO nasty, the GOP made sure they trigger AFTER the election in an effort to protect themselves for the mid-terms. If the left wins, they might be able to stop some of the worst provisions. Maybe the poorest Americans still get to eat, after all. If the left loses, the BBB kicks in at full force – against everyone, MAGA and non-MAGA alike.

So expect the left to come out in force. The numbers should be HUGE, maybe the highest numbers anyone has ever seen. Nobody will have seen numbers that high before. He WILL throw a temper tantrum. THAT will be his Hail Mary and it will be all he has left…

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One of the reasons there has been so little movement in the release of the Trump/Epstein files is that many of the men in the files are very, very rich. Take Leon Black. Please. He skipped a deposition with the House Oversight Committee on the topic of his relationship with Epstein. There’s clearly some dollar amount where a person can simply decide if they want to comply with the law or not. That makes it seem like he has something to hide, yes?

In fairness, despite being one of Epstein’s top clients over the years, Black now denies any wrongdoing and says he regrets dealing with Epstein. You know, now that things are coming out. These guys have clever weasel words to get around things. “I didn’t do anything wrong” might mean “I didn’t have sex with underage girls” but, because he’s a billionaire, HE might mean, “I can do no wrong because I’m rich. Begone, peasant.”

Then, Black filed a lawsuit. When his team announced the suit, they said in part, “This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr Black.” That’s an interesting take. Perhaps it’s both? Maybe the truth about Epstein just happens to destroy Mr Black. Innocence could be his legitimate defense but hiding behind lawsuits to maintain secrecy isn’t going to convince anybody.

Helpfully, the lawsuit pretends, in part, that Black filed it because he wants to protect the privacy of certain women who have no known connection to Epstein. How considerate. And what a convenience that the men coincidentally protect themselves by “protecting the privacy” of women. Weird. There seems to be a correlation between the number of times one’s name appears in the Trump/Epstein files and the sudden concern for women’s well-being.

Now the committee is pretending they might hold Black in contempt for his refusal to show up. I suspect they won’t for…reasons. The “reasons” usually being, Congress doesn’t want to upset rich people. You know? I think applying laws based on economic position is a trustworthy sign a nation is more corrupt than not. Historically, it has also been a good time to start sharpening up those guillotines…

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Wow. Maria Bartiromo is out over at Fox Not-News. No lead-up. Just gone. What did she do, accidentally tell a truth? Actually, word is, she was feeding information about internal network operations to Team Evil. Our inglorious misleader is apparently angry she’s been ousted. She’s been there a LONG time. Now she’s just out? Weird. There are some who say she’s up for the regime’s spokesliar position, replacing KKKarolyin Leavitt, but the nature of her exit seemed cold. The network just announced “She’s gone” and pulled her staff page from the website. She’ll be fine. These cons are like herpes. They always come back…

Why Paper Is Better…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve been writing, recently, about how mail-in ballots are the safest way to vote. I haven’t gone into the why, so this morning, I thought I’d offer a view of one aspect. For the purposes of this piece, let’s say I’m a politician facing a backlash for my policies and positions. People hate me because I’m clearly incompetent and clearly robbing the nation blind. The masses want me gone. If I don’t retain control of the Senate, I’ll likely be impeached, then face a criminal probe.

So the upcoming election is very important to me. I need to win. I don’t just want to win – everybody wants to win. I NEED to win. So much so, I’m perfectly willing to cheat. I’ll start immediately by inoculating the charges of cheating by constantly accusing my opponent of cheating. For this example, we’re looking at holding the Senate. There’s a Senate race taking place and I need MY guy to win. I’ll be using California. Simple enough premise, right?

One of the things I think people don’t think about it this: election officials don’t just prepare one ballot and send it out to everyone. They have to capture races and issues that may affect one area but not another. Here in Sonoma County, we don’t get to vote on local issues in other counties. Remember, this is an extremely simplified example.

We know we have the Senate race. That race will be on every ballot in the state. But Sonoma County might have an issue that only affects Sonoma County. That issue will be on ballots for Sonoma County voters but not other counties. Makes sense, right? Now, there are two congressional districts that touch Santa Rosa, the fourth and the second. Let’s say the fourth has an issue that affects only the fourth. That issue won’t show up on everybody’s ballot – only the ballots of affected voters. That’s three different ballots that need to be sorted, printed, and delivered to the affected voter in Sonoma County alone, but we’re not done, yet.

Santa Rosa might have it’s own issue that needs deciding as well. That means yet another, separate ballot for Santa Rosans. Santa Rosa, itself, is broken into council districts. We could easily have an issue that affects the seventh district but not the others. Yet another ballot. We’re up to five different ballots for the same election. In reality, there are far more. Each town in Sonoma County could have their own issue requiring their own ballots, but for our purposes, I’m stopping at five.

Five ballots for Sonoma County. California has 58 counties. That means, in our simplified scenario, California has to print 290 different ballots and I say again, that number is low. So that’s our situation. Now it’s time for me to cheat. If I can get everybody to vote on machines, my work is comparatively simple.

You see, I’m only interested in the Senate race. I don’t care about any other issues on any other ballots. EVERY ballot has the Senate race. I need only create a few dongles that flip votes in the Senate race and get them to the areas I need to affect. (Dongles are the plug-in devices pollsters use to summarize the votes, perhaps alter the results, and transmit the data.)

But if there are no machines? If we all use mail-in ballots? How do I cheat? My first task is to re-create the ballot for a specific area. It’s got to be perfect and I have to do that for many areas, getting them all exactly right. Even if I mark the Senate race for my guy and leave the rest blank, the rest of the ballot has to be there. Now I’ve got to get my forged ballots into the counting arena. Do I just bring them in and drop them off? Registrars know how many ballots they sent out and to where. What happens when they send out 1,000 ballots and get back 1,500? I’m pretty sure that’s going to trigger an audit.

So now I have to add my 500 forged ballots and remove 500 legitimate ballots, so the total is correct. You can have fewer ballots, but you can’t have more. You can already see how much harder it is to manipulate a mail-in ballot voting system. You can’t just invisibly flip one race with corrupt dongles. There’s a reason I keep railing against mail-in voting – while voting by mail myself.

This, by the way, is WHY Biden won in 2020 AND why Donny is so absolutely certain HE won. HE allegedly paid the money and had the machines rigged and ready to go, but Covid-19 forced everyone to use mail-in ballots and it’s just too complex to cheat with those things. If we, the people, are to get rid of one type of voting or the other, I’d say let’s dump the cheating machines and stick with mail-in ballots. But then, I support fair elections. Not everybody does…

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I don’t want to get too far out ahead of my skis, here, but it looks more and more like 47’s influence is waning. Not gone, not by a long-shot. But more and more people seem to be seeking ways to distance themselves from the deeper MAGA movement. To that end, a guy named Rich Logis founded a support group called ‘Leaving MAGA.’ Logis was once MAGA himself. He understands how hard it can be to break the bonds of MAGA. It’s not just the political ideology. There’s a sense of community, of belonging, that one loses, as well. That can be scary.

About ‘Leaving MAGA,’ the Guardian wrote, “Launched in 2024, the movement turned non-profit is built on the premise that abandoning the MAGA identity – and the community surrounding it – functions less like changing one’s mind and more like leaving a high-control religious group, fighting a disease or breaking an addiction. It requires not just rejecting a set of beliefs but rebuilding an entire structure of belonging and identity.”

According to the article, many people leaving MAGA feel badly, afterwards, about the harm they helped to inflict while they were deeply in the movement. Often, the scales fall from eyes as some of that harm comes back to bite them. In Logis’ case, he was shocked out of the movement after the Uvalde shooting, when the MAGA response was exactly what he expected. Whatever the motive, breaking the spell of the movement isn’t easy. Leaving MAGA makes the point that support is important for those around the person trying to break said addiction.

It’s like belonging to certain churches. Step even slightly outside the accepted thinking, and this same group that once provided such warmth and loving, “unconditional” support, such community, will turn on you like a pack of rabid hyenas, ready to tear you to shreds. That sudden, unexpected venom actually helps the person realize they’ve been on the wrong path, but it’s still scary to find oneself suddenly cut loose from community and friendship and support.

Leaving MAGA steps in to help. Not only does it help the person trying to leave the movement, it helps those of us around them to understand what the MAGA person might be going through. It preaches support, not surrender. People who avoided being sucked in should, properly, provide a safe space for rank-and-file members to flee to.

If you know a MAGA who seems to be wavering, tell them about ‘Leaving MAGA.’ Don’t expect miracles. Don’t expect overnight change. Just offer your MAGA a place to turn so they don’t feel so cut off, so alone. It might be just the lifeline they need…

Limited, Precise Action…

by MyBaconPress

There must be some more bad news coming for Donny pretty soon. He recently decided… no that’s wrong. He doesn’t “decide” things. Everything is impulse with this clown. Anyway, a recent impulse saw him bomb Iran again. Iran responded by bombing US assets in Jordan. The US, of course, claims total annihilation of whatever target they wanted to hit – perhaps another girl’s school – while simultaneously insisting Iran’s response didn’t hit anything.

That’s their official story. It turns out, though, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied for such a long time because Iran had taken out the bases the US used to do that. Team Evil was trying to cover up the successful response by Iran so they didn’t acknowledge the destruction. The problem is, they didn’t do anything to compensate for it, either. They just – didn’t resupply the ship.

You will not be surprised to hear that Iran considered being bombed an act of aggression. For it’s part, the US says that’s not fair. It wasn’t aggressive at all. Instead, they called it a “limited, precise action” against what they said were mine-laying forces. That’s an interesting distinction. What they’re saying is, if, say, an Iranian sniper took out a single, orange, bloated, Jabba-the-Hutt type, golfing moron, that wouldn’t be an act of aggression. Just a “limited, precise action,” right? Hey, they set the definition…

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Well, to be fair, it seems 47 may be making a way for more oil into the US. That may or may not bring down costs at the pump. We all know the story: greater supply equals lower prices. We all also know the reality: gas companies set the price at whatever the market can bear regardless of how much they have on hand. (We have lots of feel-good stories about free market capitalism that have no basis in reality. “Supply and demand” is just one of them.)

47 says he’s going to revive Venezuela’s oil fields. It’s only going to cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. (Make Venezuela Great Again, eh?) Then, all of that beautiful lucre goes into some very specific pockets. There are a few nuances. Team Evil’s direct entry into Venezuelan oil through the Department of Defense is likely to raise legal and political questions in both countries.

You see, it’s really the Pentagon entering into partnership to control Venezuela’s oil. The Pentagon having direct control over oil in a foreign country is rather unusual. Oh, and obviously, Donny couldn’t do it without getting into bed with a known (or suspected) criminal. Specifically, an accused fraudster, a money laundering guy, named Alejandro Betancourt. Betancourt controls Venezuela’s second largest oil company. All of that alleged money laundering is just a side hustle.

Donny doesn’t care about that. No, that’s wrong. Fraud is a required behavior if one wants to do business with the Drumpfster. Betancourt was the subject of an international criminal investigation. That’s the kind of guy Donny can work with, so US officials stepped in. They lobbied to resolve the case in a way that would avoid criminal charges and end travel restrictions against the Britain-based Betancourt.

Official word is that the US is looking for private partners for investment. So far, every time he has promised private investment, the US taxpayer ends up footing the bill. Chevron wants in on the deal. That means MORE private profit, socialized risk. Make no mistake, rich people are very, VERY into socialism when said socialism saves their companies or puts money into their pockets. They just don’t want that socialism to benefit anyone else…

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It’s a peek into his twisted brain. If I can’t have it, nobody can. That’s the Drumpfster’s feeling about the Kennedy Center. He wants his name on it, as though he has accomplished something. The thing is, he can’t legally just slap his name on it. So his team tried an end-run. Oh, we’ll just give him credit for restoring the collapsing building. ‘Restored and renovated by President and Anti-Christ Donald J. Trump.’ That may not be the exact wording they intend. Same answer. No.

“Well, then,” he replies, “I guess we’ll just have to tear the thing down.” That’s a stalker attitude. It’s a twisted mind. If I can’t have it, nobody can. I doubt the Kennedy Center is as badly in need of repair as pretended. Donny just wants to cover everything in gold, cause there’s nothing tacky about that. MOST importantly, he wants his name on it. It’s stolen glory, right? He can’t EARN his name onto a memorial Americans would respect so he’s trying to slap his name next to a decent President in hopes some of JFK’s fame might rub off on him.

He strikes me as nothing more than a petulant brat throwing a temper tantrum. Watch for him to start starving the Kennedy Center of funding in an effort to bring about the very consequences he predicts. But frankly, I think I’d rather see the thing torn down than allow his disgusting and pukish name on it…

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Okay, it’s been awhile, so I thought I’d take a second to remind everybody that Donald J. Trump was a client and likely co-conspirator in a sex trafficking ring operated alongside his best friend Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. There’s a reason he won’t release the Trump/Epstein files in full, despite having promised exactly that during his campaign. Yet ANOTHER promise made, promise not kept.

It feels like nobody cares anymore. The message is, “You ain’t getting it,” and most seem resigned to that reality. I suspect there are just FAR too many rich and powerful men in the files and Donny gets protected by default, as those rich powerful perverts get protected because of all of that money they have. In short, the message is, “We CAN rape your daughters. There’s nothing you can do about it.” This is the America MAGA loves, the America MAGA demands. I preferred justice…

4 in 10,000,000….

by MyBaconPress

I saw this in the Guardian, “A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that mail voting fraud occurred in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.” 4 in 10,000,000. And it’s often high-profile conservatives doing the fraud, in an attempt to “prove” their delusions. Donny is trying to convince the rubes that mail voting fraud is rampant. It’s everywhere. Anybody can do it. It’s SO unsafe. Except when he does it. Then it works just fine – because he’s a liar and a hypocrite.

As expected, another legal hold has been placed on his Executive Order (EO) in which he desperately tries to eliminate the one weakness in his plans for a coup. When the EO was first signed, 23 states filed a lawsuit to stop it, based on the fact that the constitution gives control of the electoral process to the states. A federal judge agreed. Then, corrupt John Roberts overturned that finding, saying it was premature.

47 wants to create a federal list of “eligible” voters. I’ve spent time trying to figure out how that might be a beneficial thing for the nation. I can’t think of a single reason that makes sense. I CAN think of a reason that benefits HIM, personally. And, really, what does he care about except himself? See, if he has a list of all of the voters, he can pick and choose. A Republican voter is “eligible.” A Democratic voter is not. Independents would have to be decided by region. Likely (based on, say, address) red independents might be okay. Likely blue independents are certainly not.

But after the ruling, clever Team Evil submitted a slightly different plan, this one focused on efforts to disrupt by the USPS, another federal agency with no authority over the process. THIS time, the USPS tried to create such a mailing nightmare, there just wouldn’t be time for states to comply. “Oh, too bad,” says Team Evil, “I guess you’ll just have to use voting machines, eh?” Nope. That triggered the basis for the new lawsuit as dictated by Roberts.

The federal judge overseeing this whole, trump-induced mess is Indira Talwani and she placed a hold on the proposed changes for this election and wrote, “Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms.”

In short, she turned the effort on it’s head. Team Evil meant to leave insufficient time to comply, thereby short-circuiting mail-in voting as an unfortunate consequence, but the good judge said because there wasn’t enough time to comply, Team Evil can’t impose the changes at this late date. The legal battle continues.

Obviously, Donny will try for a quick appeal to his corrupt kangaroos. The Constitution is VERY clear about voting and who controls the process. Will they vote in accordance with the law, or in keeping with the desires of their Precious? Inquiring minds want to know. The clock is running out on him, though. What Talwani wrote is correct. There’s just no time to comply with the new rules for this election. That doesn’t even speak to the fact that the goal is illegal. It’s a state’s rights issue, like it or not.

To me, this whole charade feels desperate. 47 seems to be flailing. He knows his fate if he can’t rig the elections. He knows he CAN rig the machines. He’s done that before. He also knows he can’t rig mail-in voting. He knows he must get rid of that option somehow. He just doesn’t know how. I believe this USPS effort will fail. After that, all he has left is trying to declare some national emergency that somehow means no voting at all, or fraudulent declarations of how “unfair” the election was…

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Two Americas: a billionaire gets caught dead-to-rights trying to harm the minds of children around the world for fun and profit. His punishment? A fine of less than 10% of the amount he took in while inflicting the damage and a pinky-swear to do better.

A teletype operator uses his insider information with Team Evil to place bets on a “prediction market” and makes $104,000. HIS fine? $172,000. Everything he won, plus a fine on top of that. See? Courts DO know how to hand down effective punishments. They just won’t do it to billionaires…

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There’s a sub-Reddit on the Reddit website called ‘Leopards Ate My Face.’ It refers to conservatives who have supported 47 and Team Evil, only to see the policies they love for other people suddenly applied to themselves. They always seem surprised. Immigration is a biggie. Someone gets hooked up for overstaying their visa or just sneaking in but, in each case, otherwise obeying the law. “Hey,” they cry, “he said he was only going after violent criminals.”

He DID say that, too. I sometimes wonder if MAGA has anything, even one item they can point to, of an actual promise made, promise kept. Immigration is the closest I can think of, but even that isn’t being handled the way he said. Team Evil likely grabbed up some real bad guys. But they’ve also grabbed up regular Joes (or, maybe Joses) who contribute to our society even though their paperwork isn’t quite up to snuff.

THEN, Team Evil started grabbing people who ARE in the country legally. Hell, they started interfering with the immigration process to create the crime, then they want to deport their victim. It’s a crappy attitude and I can only give 47 half credit on immigration because the implementation is so much worse than the promise.

Do you remember, or have you ever heard the name, Milo Yiannopoulos? He’s a standard, far-right provocateur. He had a moment in the spotlight a few years back because his whole shtick was about being far-right outrageous. He was editor at Breitbart “News,” a far-right misinformation site. His star faded when he condoned sex with boys as young as 13 years old. (They deny it, but conservatives clearly condone sex with children. Actions speak louder than words, folks.)

Anyway, Yiannopoulos has been a vocal supporter of Team Evil’s immigration policies. He even suggested they might not be harsh enough. Then, one of his same-team detractors with whom he was feuding, Laura Loomer, claims to have turned him in to ICE for overstaying his visa. He was deported Friday! Ha-ha!

Many of us used to know and use a phrase that said, “What goes around, comes around.” I’m not happy about any of the things Team Evil is doing, but I DO enjoy when Team Evil does their evil things to their own supporters. It’s their surprise that gets me. “Wait, what? Me? No, not me!” Watching MAGA wake up to the idea that horrors they supported for others are going to hit them, too, is like watching a toddler discover the wonders of a twig. The toddler thinks it’s an amazing discovery. Everyone else knows it’s an expected, and rather mundane, thing…