Trying to Buy The Election…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Divine Retribution Or Superpower Suicide?

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changing landscapes…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TACO date, December 10…

by MyBaconPress

Our story, so far. After losing in 2020 (you’ll remember this) the Petulant Pipsqueak whipped his armed, weak-thinking followers into a frenzy, convincing them the election had been stolen and encouraging them to go to the Capitol building and attack. He denies any of that – but there’s so much evidence. Later, the BBC edited some footage to make the point that he had whipped his armed, weak-thinking followers into a frenzy, convincing them the election had been stolen and encouraging them to go to the Capitol building and attack.

The Embarrassment didn’t like that, so he filed a $10 billion dollar defamation suit, because of course he did. He got used to broadcasters bowing to his demands for no reason other than he holds the key to their futures via the FCC. But the FCC has no authority over the BBC and the BBC chose to fight the charges. That starts with discovery and specifically a deposition. The dotard doesn’t sit for depositions because they make him look so very, very bad.

The BBC is trying to depose him right now, but he keeps avoiding it. He has been ordered to undergo the deposition by December 11, 2026 or the suit will be dismissed. The rule, of course, is that Trump Always Chickens Out and I’m putting the TACO date at December 10. This is nothing but a vexatious lawsuit and he knows he’s going to lose but he’ll drag it out as long as possible.

But, waiting in the wings, also slated to be deposed in favor of the BBC? Jack Smith. Jack Smith is the prosecutor who was preparing to put Trump in prison before his case was derailed by a series of unfortunate events that let a corrupt DOiJ take control. Jack Smith has ALL of the details. Jack Smith recently testified to Congress that he felt sure he was going to convict Trump on the charges. The very LAST thing Trump wants is for Jack Smith to be deposed in the case. December 10. You mark my words…

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Okay, so, honestly? I think it’s kind of funny. I don’t accept the ‘New York Times’ as a trustworthy news source. I haven’t since they helped 43 start his criminal war in Iraq. Remember the Yellowcake lies? But the Times has reported that the Democrats DID, indeed, recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent Dan Sullivan as a way to draw votes away from the incumbent.

Now the question: is that dirty or clever? Both, it seems. MAGA will be focusing, today, on the “dirty” side, outraged and furious that the Dems would stoop so low. They are less vocal about THEIR backing a Democratic candidate, Eric Hafner, in a House race. Hafner is running from a prison cell and drawing votes away from the main progressive candidate against Republican incumbent Rep. Nick Begich. Oh, yeah, the cell he’s campaigning from is in New York state! Hafner has never set foot in Alaska.

THAT one was a-okay with the cons. I thought I should mention it because you KNOW the cons aren’t going to. Our National Shame filed a preemptive lawsuit asking the court to rule that nobody is allowed to win but the Republican 47 prefers. No, those were not his exact words, but that’s the effect. The Dumbass didn’t file any lawsuits about Hafner running and drawing votes. It seems the Demented Don doesn’t think that’s rigging. It’s only rigging when the Dems to it to the cons, see. It’s clever when the cons do it to the Dems. In fairness to the GOP, Hafner wasn’t recruited. He filed his own paperwork. He’s just being backed by cons.

Our National Embarrassment is going to lose his suit. You see, in Alaska, the practice is legal. I DO believe that a guy running from a prison cell in a different state demonstrates a certain failure in the interpretation of the rules. Hafner is running in a House race. The Constitution says that one of the requirements is that the candidate must be an “inhabitant” of the state they seek to represent at the time of the election. Alaska’s Supreme Court, likely after smoking a HUGE blunt, decided that means the candidate doesn’t have to be an inhabitant of the state until they’re elected.

There’s no word on how Hafner becomes an inhabitant of Alaska while incarcerated in New York, but the court let him run because “anything might happen.” Hafner – a dangerous threat to society, by the way – says he expects a compassionate release if he wins. I’ll be more comfortable if the prison system has him serve his entire sentence.

Ancient history, right? Well, no. Hafner’s success will be judged this November 3rd, the same as Dan Sullivan’s. That means that right now, Alaska has two candidates on the ballot backed by one party to draw votes from the biggest threat in the other party. At least Dan Sullivan is an honest to gods resident of Alaska. But The Pedo is only complaining about one. Curious…

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Hey, yet another example of a legal action based on nothing but pique. A judge has ruled that Maureen Comey was fired illegally and her job must be returned along with full back pay and benefits. So, Evil Don’s DOiJ has file yet another indictment against her father, James Comey. James once led the FBI. James understands trump is a criminal, so the right hates him.

Maureen brought a little heat of her own. She is a prosecutor. She was investigating the links between Trump and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein, two of the three leaders in what is proving to be an international child sex-trafficking ring. That’s why she was fired. The LAST thing Trump wants is a competent prosecutor looking into his child sex trafficking ring…

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In response to Prop 40, rich people have gone out and hired a crew of work-a-day looking people to tell you why taxing rich people is probably a bad thing. They show, for example, an Hispanic woman dressed in a housekeeping outfit saying rich people shouldn’t have to pay taxes. Maybe she believes that. There are plenty of MAGA out there, not understanding things. Then again, maybe she’s an actress who wanted the acting job. Perhaps she needed the pay.

But the One Percent certainly can’t portray Jay Gatsby saying he doesn’t think he and his rich friends should have to pay. That’s too obvious. So they put out a working-class looking type. It seems more likely the people in the ads are the heirs to the fortunes, playing dress-up, trying to convince the poors to keep suffering so the rich never have to. It’s rather a sorry comment on the electorate that it works…

Well, THAT Seems…Desperate…

by MyBaconPress

A commercial came on during the Niner game. It took the position that Democrats hate America and are racists. One person – in silhouette, for drama – whined, “I can’t show my face because I’m white.” I really felt for her. I’m white, you see, so I can tell you, the struggle is real. White people only get most of the benefits of this once-great nation, not all of them. How is that fair?

The ad didn’t work in my mind. It came across as sour grapes. It felt more like, “Oh, you call us racists? We’re going to call YOU racists, see how you like it.” Well? It made me laugh. MAGA doesn’t like it when someone says their behavior is reminiscent of (exactly like) the Nazis. Rather than examine their Nazi behavior, though, they feel like whining should achieve the desired effect.

They’ve got the same thing going with racism. They’re cheering on a LOT of racist things and then bristle when someone says, “Hey, that’s racist.” But nobody is just lobbing charges without basis, like that ad attempts to do. Yes, I’m guessing one could find a racist or two in the Democratic party, but it’s not the left’s thing. By and large, far and away, racists find a welcoming home in the Republican party.

It should also be noted that it’s not the left that has been systematically attacking and destroying the Constitution for the last fifty years, all the while bitching and moaning about this aspect of America or that aspect of America they can’t stand. RIGHT NOW, even as you read this, conservatives across the land are working feverishly to destroy our Constitutional Republic and replace it with an authoritarian dictatorship and rule by the rich – and liberals hate America?

Truth be told, I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Someone actually spent money to make that drivel, then spent more money to air that drivel. The worst part? MAGA actually believes that drivel…

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory!” That was Barack Hussein Obama. (See? His middle name isn’t all that scary.) I think it’s a funny line. I think it’s funny because it’s true. Several conservative talking heads took issue with that comment. One conservative talking head called it “elitist garbage.” The charge, see, is that Obama has never been in a Cheesecake Factory.

Elitist?!? The word elitist can be defined as someone who believes in rule by an ‘elite’ group. Elitism looks FAR more like a guy trying to seize power for himself and on behalf of the One Percent to rule over the masses than a guy saying the Pervert President’s taste is all in his mouth. It’s not a charge that’s going to land.

In fact, they couldn’t really land anything. Insisting that was not a nice thing to say because you like the Cheesecake Factory really misses the point. Obama’s line was not a dig at the Cheesecake Factory. Do you really not understand that? (Of course you understand that.) He was making a dig at The Demented Dotard’s decor choices. In truth, 47’s changes look less like a Cheesecake Factory and more like a cheap whorehouse trying to look “real classy-like, you know?”

Scott Jennings of CNN said that Obama “Will always be known for a presidency that ushered in the Trump era to begin with.” Really? And tell me, Scott, what one specific thing do you think set the right on so determined a course? Thinking people continue to see that Obama’s skin color gave rise to the overt racism and hatred the left sees from the right every day. It’s not some big mystery and MAGA has nobody fooled.

Barack Obama was a better President on his worst day than trump is on his best. I suspect that’s a main hate point on the right. Well, that and the fact that the better President was not the whitest President. It turns out, Donald Trump is the DEI hire. I support hiring mentally disabled people and giving them a chance. I’m not sure putting one in the White House was a good move, though, and so far, ALL of the evidence supports me.

Jon Lovett, one time speech writer for Obama, said, “The decor is famously and purposefully over the top – that is part of the fun!” The thing is, the Pedo doesn’t see it as over-the-top. He thinks it looks just great. He’s proud of his gaudy changes. He shows them off to people. He brags about them.

Snowflakes. Snowflakes all. If you’re more upset Obama made a joke than you are trump has devastated the US economy, destroyed US standing in the world, betrayed our allies, brought diesel to over $9.00/gallon here in California, plundered the treasury to his own benefit, unleashed overt racism, protects criminals instead of victims, rapes children, murders boaters in the Caribbean, and plunged us into yet another unnecessary foreign war of choice, your priorities are screwed up. Badly…

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All this talk about how beautiful he finds this guy or that guy? That’s kind of new from 47. But I suspect it’s a deep truth he has kept buried for most of his life. I have long suspected his over-the-top bravado about being so successful with women was a kind of beard – overcompensation to combat secret feelings he didn’t want anybody else to know about.

I think gay would not have flown in the cruel and aggressive Drumpf family. It would be seen as weakness. So? He compensates. Perhaps it’s WHY he’s so aggressive with women. But now? Now dementia is setting in. He is losing his inhibitions as the process progresses. He’s FAR more likely to say what he thinks and he’s far LESS likely to be able to mask his true feelings.

That’s kind of sad, isn’t it? He never got to live his truth because it would have made him outcast in his own family. And the reason he finally DOES get to be the man he’s always wanted to be is because he’s losing his mind? Maybe his lifetime of self-denial is why he’s such a putrid human being to begin with…

The Dirtiest of Dirty Politics…

by MyBaconPress

Amy Acton. Have you heard of her? She’s running for Governor of Ohio. Her opponent is Vivek Ramaswampy, a brown man with a funny name who is nonetheless “acceptable” (that is, ‘one of the good ones) because he supports stupidity. Rampaswampy hired Acton’s mother to star in an attack ad against Acton. Acton’s mother says in the ad that Acton is a liar and should not be trusted. I presume this ad will hurt Acton’s campaign. I mean, her own mother?

The thing Ramaswampy and Acton’s evil mom left out? What Amy supposedly lies about. The details have come out, though. They kind of had to. Acton’s mom once married a pedophile. I know, that’s no big deal to cons, but decent people still have moral issues with it. Acton’s mom allowed her pedophile husband access to her young daughter, Amy, for a couple of years. He took advantage of said access and raped the young Amy on an ongoing basis.

Amy finally went to the cops and told them that the pedophile husband was molesting her regularly. An investigation ensued and charges were filed, not only against the pedo pervert, but against the mom as well. Amy’s mom and the pervert ran. They fled to another state because mom just knew the right thing to do in this case was protect the pedophile pervert instead of her own child.

The ad caused immediate outrage on the left. Once the background details came out, even some Republicans started questioning the ad and telling Ramaswampy to pull the thing. In steps the most infamous living pedophile in modern history, Donald J. Trump. We all know he has nothing against raping underage girls. He ran a child sex trafficking ring with his best friend Jeffrey Epstein for years.

47 says Ramaswampy should continue running the ad despite the fact that the ad mostly reflects the mom’s willingness to offer up her child daughter to a pervert in exchange for, what, a credit card? “Let me have a credit card and I’ll let you have my daughter.” Pretty sweet deal. Unless one is a decent person with a moral compass, which, pedos are not.

But there’s today’s GOP in a nutshell. Raping children is a nothing-burger. Ask them. They’ll tell you. Telling the cops you’ve been raped? Yeah, THAT’S the real crime in MAGA eyes. THAT makes you a “liar” and disqualifies you from office. The moral decline of the self-proclaimed moral majority hit the rocky bottom years ago – but the GOP gave them a shovel and they’ve just continued digging. They’re digging themselves straight to Hell, but at least they owned a lib for a moment…

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Neil Bush, brother to 43, has come out publicly as voting for Democrat James Talarico in Texas. He said he has issues with Paxton’s record and he likes the character of Talarico. It seems like he’s voting for the person he thinks best qualified for the job rather than sticking to loyalist party politics. That’s a fairly brave and definitely unusual thing in this day and age.

He’s not the only Bush to jump party ship, either. Barbara, daughter to 43, not the mom (who’s dead), contributed money to a PAC supporting Talarico, too. The Bushes once represented something of a dynasty in Republican politics. Moving to the Dems is a big deal. It says more about the failings of the GOP than it does about the Dems, but the failings of the GOP are legion and that leaves many voters with little choice…

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Okay, look. I know that these man-on-the-street interviews pick and choose to show the worst responses. That’s not a left game or a right game. That’s the man-on-the-street game. Ask 100 people how many states there are in the US. 97 of them say, “Fifty.” Show the other three. Aren’t they funny? Pretend those are the only answers you got.

But what if you ask 100 people how many states there are and only three of them say, “Fifty?” That really would indicate serious lack of knowledge, wouldn’t it? Recently, I’ve seen a spate of videos in which the interviewer asks the subjects to define communism. Person after person, they can’t do it. They know it’s bad, they just don’t know what it is. When the question is adjusted to define socialism, there’s still just crickets. They know to be afraid. They just can’t say what they’re afraid of.

Even Jarringly Dumb (JD) Vance tried to define communism as, “You want to replace American workers with foreign workers and you want boys to play in girls sports.” There’s even some truth to the part about replacing American workers with foreign workers. It’s just that the group doing that is the corporations that rely on H1B visas to bring in foreigners who will do jobs for less money. And, honestly, I’m not familiar with ANY definition of communism that includes sports on any level.

In the end, they tend to point to freedumb. After stammering a bit, that’s the best they can come up with. “I been free my whole life.” Uh-huh. Did you know? We live in the LEAST free, “free society” on the planet, largely because of widespread poverty and financial desperation, here in the “richest country on Earth™.”

They will eventually get to “free handouts.” Jordan Klepper from the Daily Show asks them about “free handouts” which they disavow, then asks if they’re looking forward to their free $5,000 checks 47 promised them but will never deliver. Oh, yeah, THAT free money is okay. It’s the socialist stuff that bothers them. Apparently, the “socialist stuff” is money that helps “THOSE people.”

The funniest part about this communism that they’re SO afraid of but can’t define? Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about bringing communism to America. Communism is as failed an idea as Free Market Capitalism. Neither system is the best for the largest number of people and both systems fail for the same reason: an inability to address greed.

But socialism? Socialism does just great, here in the US. Our best systems are our socialist bits. They’re SO successful, the One Percent has been attacking them for ninety years. The One Percent are scared the masses might eventually figure out there IS a better way and then act on it. Having seen my American brethren over the last, say, fifty years, I doubt there’s much chance American masses will ever figure out they’re being played by the One Percent.

I know plenty of smart individuals, but, as a group? Americans are dumber than a box of rocks. It really was news to me, how dumb we are as a group. I didn’t know. But MAGA has laid us bare. Exposed us. It’s rather embarrassing to be an American, these days. No smarts, no morals, no decency. That’s the long-term legacy of this once-great nation the GOP would have you leave behind and, dammit, they’re succeeding…

When Checks Become Unbalanced…

by MyBaconPress

I was talking to a friend of mine who asked me if I thought Americans would fall out into the streets in huge numbers if Team Evil interferes with the outcome of the elections to steal it. I used to believe in our revolutionary spirit, so I wanted to say, “Yes, of course.” The thing is, I don’t. I don’t think enough Americans will fall out to make a difference.

We SHOULD, no doubt. But we’ve just taken it on the chin, over and over as the One Percent have bashed us, nonstop, with one un-American reality after another. We’ve had plenty of reasons to hit the streets like they do in France. We’ve even had some success with No Kings Days. But one day of protests from time to time doesn’t get the job done and we haven’t had any general strikes or open-ended No Kings movements. Any tyrant can ignore a one-day protest.

But why are we, the inheritors of one of the most successful revolutions in history, just sitting back and taking it? Where’s our revolutionary spirit when we need it? My current working theory is that our revolutionary spirit has been tucked safely into the ballot box and the courts for safekeeping. At least, that’s what Americans are depending upon.

In our history, one of those two has always protected the nation. Americans have become accustomed to the process. That is to say, Americans have become accustomed to relying upon the checks and balances that have served us so well for so long, and we’re ill-equipped to respond when the checks become unbalanced.

We’ve had miserable politicians before. For the most part, by and large, we vote them out when we get the chance. There have been a couple of impeachments when we couldn’t (or wouldn’t) wait for a vote. When the voting process is too far between, we can count on the courts. Well, we could, and in fairness, so far, the lower courts have been holding the line and respecting the Constitution.

But that’s why the One Percent worked so hard to corrupt higher courts, most especially the so-called Supreme Court. Cheat Justice John Roberts and his toadies stand ready to service the highest bidder, and the One Percent have more money than the rest of us combined. MAGA Mike, the Johnson is also an obvious threat. Will he certify the actual outcomes and seat the winning candidates? Has he done a single honorable thing since you became aware of his disgusting existence? Do you think he’s going to start now?

EVERY indicator suggests the Democrats should take control of the House of Representatives and there’s a better than average chance to flip the Senate as well. EVERY person (expect MAGA) knows it. So what do we do when that becomes the reported outcome, but Team Evil starts screaming and yelling about cheating and refusing to seat incoming pols?

I think what the American people will do when that happens is…wait. We’ll wait for the inevitable lawsuits to work their way through the system. Meanwhile, the One Percent’s media will barrage the airwaves with stories about the faults of this race or that outcome. We’ve already been told not to believe the results of exit polling, the gold standard of polling. Many of us have accepted that fraud. Too many of us will accept more.

In short, we’re being made victims of our own success. The process has served us so well for so long, we just trust that it’s going to save us again. It always has in the past. It’s not an unreasonable position. Except this is the first time the nation has faced an intentional threat, designed and implemented to undermine the Constitution and the process.

People have always done questionable things in their quests for power, but this is the first time people are willingly doing despicable and criminal things to maintain power permanently. I fear that by the time we realize our stalwart bulwarks have failed us, it will be too late…

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Eddie Murphy once starred in a film called, ‘The Distinguished Gentlemen’ in which a challenger takes advantage of name recognition to win an improbable upset. Murphy’s character has the same name as a recently deceased but very popular politician, so he puts his name in the hat and wins. It turns out, life is imitating art with the main difference being that the incumbent isn’t dead. His name is Dan Sullivan and he’s running. The thing is, he’s running against another Dan Sullivan.

Demented Don supports the incumbent Dan Sullivan. The Drumpfster is just sure the second Dan Sullivan is running to confuse voters by having the same name. There IS the slight problem that BOTH Dan Sullivans are running as Republicans. Also, the challenger Dan Sullivan and the Democrats, themselves, deny they have anything to do with challenger Dan Sullivan’s challenge.

But 47 has stuck his nose in anyway. Our National Embarrassment had his DOiJ (that’s the Department of inJustice) file a lawsuit in Alaska, seeking to block certification of the election unless the guy he wants wins. That’s a weird lawsuit, even from this very weird guy. He has already confessed (bragged) that he gave the order, shattering the pretense of an independent DOiJ. “Well, I’m the one that said ‘do it,” he told reporters. That checks. It’s a very stupid move.

I’m no lawyer but I don’t see how a guy can win such a suit, unless they can find solid, irrefutable proof that it’s some kind of scheme between the Dems and the challenger. Even then, the state has already decided that challenger Sullivan can run. It’s really moot. Besides, as of this writing, the Democrat, Mary Peltola, is leading by a large enough margin that if you combined the two Dan Sullivan’s outcomes, she’s still ahead.

47 has tipped his hand. Everybody on the planet (except ever-gullible MAGA) knows the GOP intends to cheat as aggressively as possible. Asking courts to refuse winning candidates for no reason other than The Demented Don doesn’t like them seems like one arrow in that cheating quiver. But the main point to this story is that there IS rigging being attempted in this election – it’s just that it’s being done by Republicans – the Drumpfster, in particular – not Democrats…

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So, just a quick catch-up, yeah? Israel entered into a cease-fire agreement against Palestinians in Gaza and now the West Bank. Since then, they’ve killed over 1,000 Palestinians and injured over 3,000 more. The military is still involved but now citizens have taken over the killing and harassment and the Israeli government is doing nothing. No, that’s wrong. They’re not “doing nothing.” They’re encouraging the assaults, then acting all surprised and “tut-tuting” in all the right places.

Now Israeli security forces are even detaining American citizens. In some cases, Jewish American citizens. Those who have been blindly supporting Israel no matter what will think nothing of it, of course. It may not be a perfect genocide – the Israeli’s may not care if Palestinians leave. Israel’s message is more like, “You don’t have to die, but you can’t stay here.” It IS, very clearly, an ethnic cleansing in the region.

Israel is taking land they have no right to and they’re doing it by force. They’re doing it with the support of the US government and under cover of a “cease-fire agreement.” Historically, it’s VERY reminiscent of when the Europeans landed at Plymouth Rock and started moving west, pushing the First Nations aside all along the way. Except, Israel isn’t even offering Palestinians crappy little reservations. They’ve just got to go. Go where? Not Israel’s problem…

Phantom People…

by MyBaconPress

Since 1996, 73 noncitizens have been convicted of voting illegally. See? No one is saying it doesn’t happen. We say it’s a statistical irrelevance. We’ve had 15 elections since 1996, including that one. So, on average, across the nation nearly 5 people who shouldn’t vote try to vote in each election.

Suddenly, the Census Bureau has “found” 24,000 phantom people voted in 2020 who shouldn’t have? That sounds like propaganda, to me. Let’s take a closer look, though, shall we? It turns out, the Census Bureau used a commercial database to check against. Commercial databases are notoriously inaccurate. The Census Bureau didn’t identify the federal database it used to check the commercial database against, so there may be errors, there, too. Finally, there might well be errors in the matching process.

Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group focused on election technology put it most succinctly when he said, “This document doesn’t tell us anything about elections. It just shows that the Census Bureau has gone off the rails.”

Here’s the funniest part, though. It would be safe to characterize these claims from this team as false. In fact, they’re straight-up lies designed to throw doubt on the process and give MAGA something to shout about when the time comes. (MAGA needs to feel good while attacking government buildings and such.) But let’s pretend, for a moment, that the number is correct. 24,000 people in 2020?

158,429,631 votes were cast for president in 2020. According to David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, “All of the numbers cited in the Census analysis are smaller than the margins of victory in each state and would not have been enough to change the winner of any state in 2020.” That assumes all 24,000 votes were cast in one state instead of across the entire nation, which nobody is claiming, not even the Census Bureau.

This just KEEPS being not-a-problem but the right keeps pushing it as the most pressing problem the nation has ever faced. It’s a lie, straight up. More importantly, though, it’s a pretext. He’s setting the stage for his claims of rigged elections. He’s lying, but at least now we can see where and how the fight is shaping up. Who ever thought we’d be fighting our own government for fair elections? This whole thing is like a bad fever dream, and I really want to wake up…

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Dear MAGA, nobody would want to put too fine a point on this, but your President is a traitor. I know, he’s also, more importantly, your Precious so you’ll find a way to overlook this little peccadillo. You can make any excuse, all the excuses, you want to make. He’s a traitor. He undermines US interests to the benefit of Russia. The US is obligated by treaty to help Ukraine, specifically against Russian aggression, yet 47 has betrayed Ukraine repeatedly.

Russia attacked Ukraine illegally and under a trumped up pretext. Now the Drumpfster chides Zelenskyy to stand down and surrender to Russia. He’s helping Putin bring in more money by defying an order he signed himself only a few months ago. Word is, he ordered his co-conspirator Elon Musk to shut down Starlink, a communications network Ukraine has been relying upon for information – just before an attack from Russia. You can tell me all day long that was just a coincidence. You’ll be wrong, all day long…

47 had a reason for restricting access to Starlink. He was angry at Zelenskyy for attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure. The thing is, attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is a legitimate and even smart war move. The USA shouldn’t condemn such a move. We should be helping. Such an action would hurt the criminal aggressor in an illegal war. But put another way, such an action would hurt Putin in Russia, and trump can’t have that.

So those are the facts, MAGA. Your President has turned his back on an American promise in order to help an American adversary. Sure, to you, he’s still your Precious. But I call him a traitor…

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Well, I’ve done my duty. I voted. On paper. I took it to the Registrar’s office and hand delivered it. I’ve received official word my ballot has been accepted. I felt good about it so I did it again. Then again. I’ve voted over and over and over now. My gods, it’s been so easy. I just made a few copies on my cheapo copier, filled ’em out, and took ’em back. Nobody will ever know. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

I didn’t, of course. I just wrote that to break a few conservative brains. They actually think that’s what people do. They’re too deluded to be embarrassed so I’m going to go ahead and be embarrassed for them…

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One skill 47 actually has? Delaying legal actions against him. He’s very good at that, ostensibly because he has had SO much practice at it. He’s doing it now, with the Trump/Epstein files. He has near-perfect control over the files themselves but still can’t manage to make the Trump/Epstein thing go away. And understand, it isn’t going away. Progress is much slower than it should be, exactly the way President Pedo wants it, likely because of how badly the files ultimately implicate him, personally. But progress is being made.

Donald Trump was best friends with a known child trafficker and a likely co-conspirator in a human trafficking sex ring. Hey, human trafficking runs in the family! One of the most damning bits of information comes from an at-the-time thirteen-year-old girl who claims she was forced to perform oral sex on the Evil Don. The FBI took the case seriously – and that was back when the FBI still operated on a professional level, before the FBI had been corrupted.

There’s a risk a court is about to force Team Evil to release the hand-written version of her statement. That would show more information than the sanitized version they released. 47 absolutely does not want this information released because he’s afraid it will hurt his standing with MAGA. Isn’t that silly? So far, the only thing that has hurt his standing with MAGA is high prices. They don’t care who he rapes or what crimes he commits, just so long as gas prices are down – and they’re not.

I hope the court orders the release but I expect to be disappointed when MAGA once again simply disregards evidence in front of their faces in favor of their preferred and curated image…

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The left is trying to make a big deal about the scene where our National Embarrassment waves to phantom people off in the distance – off camera. The camera was tight on the Pedo when the waving started. Then it panned back to reveal a demented man waving at nobody. The world started laughing at him because he looked like such a fool. There’s a possibility that shot wasn’t for us, “us” being rational people.

Right wing media will simply cut the shot before the camera pans back and cons will think he was actually waving to many adoring crowds, because that’s what they’ll be told. For 47, it’s part of the show, the deception. The whole world knows it was a performance. MAGA will forever be in the dark.

But what if it wasn’t just a show? What if Evil Don actually saw adoring crowds off in the distance in that direction? Phantom people, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean a demented old man didn’t “see” them. We KNOW he’s suffering from some form of dementia. The hand bruise is where they administer the medication keeping him even as cognizant as he is now. The sleeping is a side-effect of the meds, and the regular dementia tests doctors keep giving him is monitoring his decline.

Telling him they’re IQ tests is something of a master stroke. Evil Don believes it because he loves to believe positive sounding things about himself. So the doctors get to administer dementia tests and he gets to keep bragging that he “aces” them. He can still identify a giraffe. Wonderful. But he IS suffering a decline and it’s entirely possible he actually saw adoring crowds out there cheering him on. Putting our government in the hands of a madman was a bad move. It just was…

“My Precious Would Never…”

by MyBaconPress

Look, I know how hard it can be. It can be a real nightmare, trying to determine which case is a real prosecution and which case is just to harass one’s political opponents. And it’s harder than it seems because deciding guilt based on whether you like the accused or not isn’t a very deliberative process. “My Precious would never…” is really bad law. It makes FAR more sense to decide a case on evidence. But how can a person know what evidence is real and what evidence is just made up out of whole cloth?

Maybe I can help. Let’s start here. You already know it’s a crime to falsify your business books, right? I mean, I’d call that common knowledge. So, IF authorities discover you’ve falsified your business books say, 34 times – for ANY reason, really – they might very well initiate an investigation. But how, pray tell, can you know if the prosecution is legitimate? Well, the case gets past the Grand Jury. That doesn’t mean much since we all know a Grand Jury can indict a ham sandwich.

But then the case gets to court. The court looks over what’s coming. The judge talks to the attorneys. The trial starts. The evidence is presented. Both prosecution and defense rest. A decision is handed down, guilty or not guilty. In a civil case the final step might be responsible or not responsible. But if a case goes through the entire process and comes to a verdict, one can safely assume the case was serious and legitimate.

On the other hand, if your case gets to the preliminary stages and gets tossed out of court due to lack of evidence or worse, exculpatory evidence that proves the accused didn’t do the thing they stand accused of, the case is probably just trumped up bunk. Say you accuse a one time Olympian of vandalizing a reflecting pool, only to have security camera footage prove the man did no such thing. The court will throw the case out with prejudice AND scold your prosecutor. That case was probably just a harassment prosecution.

This would be true if someone was accused of falsifying a mortgage application – or really, any other crime that can’t be proven. If the prosecutor can’t bring any valid evidence and/or if their case gets thrown out faster than it got filed, it’s probably a harassment prosecution. Think of that as a tell. Harassment gets thrown out quickly. Valid cases take time and usually finish the process, assuming the accused doesn’t have a couple of well-placed federal “judges” in his pocket, each thinking “My Precious would never…”

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Team Evil has demanded that California set aside something like 20,000 ballots of people they have “identified” as possibly not being citizens. In this case, “identified” means “wild guess at Hispanic sounding names.” It’s a lie, of course. More, it’s illegal. The federal government has very little say in elections. Elections belong to the states. The “request” is already in court and Team Evil will lose. They know it. They don’t care. It’s not the setting aside of ballots they’re interested in. It’s the claim.

Now that the claim has been made, it can be used to challenge the results of California’s election. That’s the real goal. Maybe they can even try to keep from certifying California’s outcome as a result of their claim. Understand, the claim is false. Team Evil is lying. Here’s one hint: they keep insisting cheating has happened, even though the election has only just begun. They STARTED claiming cheating was happening long before the election had started.

Oh, it’s important to note, when the DOJ leveled the accusation, they didn’t include any information supporting the charge. Nothing. Most likely, because they don’t have any information supporting the charge. Just, “We say so.” Only idiots and acolytes believe what Team Evil says these days. I’ll be needing some proof…

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Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. It’s always tomorrow. Well, not always. When they’re on the campaign trail, it’s “Day One.” Remember 47 promising “Day One,” over and over again? Then, after the election, his position changed. “Hey, I just got here.” “This is hard.” “It’s going to take time.” Yeah, but that’s NOT what you promised. YOU said, “Day One” and insisted it would be easy.

Well, you’ve had your Day One. Hell, you’ve had your Day 635 and not only have you not solved even one of your economic promises, everything, everything, everything is worse for the working class. People are angry and ready to vote against your failed regime – so here come the empty promises again. “Oh, just stick with us. Everything’s juuuust about to bloom beautiful. Why, the day after the election, you’ll be fine. Everything will just…magically be fixed.” Promises. Empty promises…

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As 47’s human decency reaches new lows, so do his polling numbers. He’s down to 33% approval, with each person still approving representing an ostrich with their heads in the sand. 66% of Americans believe 47 is using the Presidency to enrich himself. That stuns me. Only 66%?!? How blatant does he have to be? If I may paraphrase Paul Simon a bit, I guess a person sees what they want to see and they disregard the rest…

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Wow. Did you know that no disaster relief funds have been released since Hurricane Milton in late 2024? There have been three major disasters since: the LA fires, a tornado in St Louis, Missouri, and flooding in Texas Hill country. Apparently, money is very hard to come by these days. Well, unless you want to destroy a reflecting pool. Or redecorate a White House, where some moron has spent nearly a billion dollars on gaudy glitz. Maybe you want to “renovate” a golf course, despite a judge’s order to stop.

Ballrooms? Sure, plenty of money for that. Multi-million dollar golf trips weekend after weekend? Gotcha covered. Money for dictator adversaries? Sure, we got that. There’s NO amount we can’t find for the Pentagon, the true black hole of the US budget. But if your house gets swept away in a tornado or a flood or burns to the ground? Oof, empty pockets, sorry. This country needs a better President…

Proof Of What We Already Know…

by MyBaconPress

We’ve all heard it, over and over, ad nauseam. We started hearing it when it first puked out of Ronald Reagan’s lying mouth. We’ve been hearing it ever since. Give enough money to the rich people and eventually, they’ll have so much they’ll trickle a little back our way. Uh-huh. Mostly, people didn’t buy the story. There was one group, though. They bought it. They’re the Many Astoundingly Gullible Acolytes, or MAGA. And they are astoundingly gullible. They’ll believe anything, if they’re told by the right person.

The problem, of course, was that rich people never defined “enough.” Apparently, there’s no such thing. The working class has lived rougher lives. We live in smaller houses for higher rent. We eat worse and worse food, because that’s what we can afford. We’ve cut back on vacations and other pleasures of life. Our struggle is real. We’re VERY ready for a little bit of trickle. We need it.

The government has slashed one service after another because they can’t pay for them. Cuts to education. Cuts to already inadequate health care. Cuts to social services. None of that is any bother for the rich who have all of our money. They pay for private versions the working class isn’t allowed into. It’s rather an issue for those who have little to no choice but to look to the government to survive – and the One Percent resent even that.

Hell, we’ve announced our very first trillionaire! Hour upon hour, day after day, days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. Months into years. Years into decades. Not one red cent has trickled anywhere. In fact, they use the HUGE monetary advantage they have to… <checks notes> right! TAKE MORE FROM US! I’m calling that failure to trickle evidence that trickle down economics is now, has always been, and will always be, a lie.

It’s solid evidence. Evidence is good, but evidence isn’t necessarily proof. Proof is built on evidence, though. The evidence has been strong enough for long enough that I take it as axiomatic that trickle down economics has been an incredibly successful con game. But now? Now I have proof. Solid proof. So do you. No tin foil hat necessary.

So… my proof? Proposition 40. Win or lose, the pushback on Prop 40 is all the proof we’ll ever need that they never planned to trickle anything. Look, the story was always “give us enough, we’ll trickle some back.” We gave. We’re still giving. They’ve never once trickled. We’ve waited and waited and effing waited. Nothing. So, finally, in frustration, California puts a ballot measure to the people, ‘Shall we take back just a little of the money they took?’ And we’re getting our answer from the billionaires, “Oh, HELL no!”

Proposition 40 is merely trickle down in action. Maybe the greedy, selfish rich just need a little prompting to do that which they promised and have been promising for nearly 50 years. Prop 40 focuses on billionaires. There are something like 240 of them in the state. 240 billionaires. How many millions live below the poverty line? We’re WAY out of balance and Prop 40 tries to force those billionaires to trickle now. Just a little. The need is real.

But, nope. No trickle for you. If we trickle even a little today, you might expect us to trickle again sometime in the future. We can’t have that. Sure, we promise to trickle, eventually. We’ve already said so. It’s just that… now isn’t the right time. Our money hasn’t… matured. It’s still young. It needs more time. Just wait your turn. Keyword from the rich?: our, as in our money. But the working class earns that money. The parasite class just keeps it.

The current richest guy in California is Larry Page with a net worth of $257 billion dollars. After paying his 5% from Proposition 40, he would “only” have $244 billion dollars left. Cry me a river. Maybe he could skip a latte. But the parasites have spent more than $340 million dollars working to make sure they do NOT have to trickle anything to anybody at any time – ever!

I’ll tell you this: Proposition 40 is all the proof we’ll ever need that trickle down theory was never anything but a scam…

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There’s a deadly measles outbreak growing in Pennsylvania. There are about 4,400 cases right now in the good old US of A and Pennsylvania has a quarter of those cases. The CDC is sending an expert to help. It’s said that fewer than 1% of those cases effect those who have been fully vaccinated. In THAT case, maybe we should just pat them on the head and send them home. A little chlorine in the gene pool, anyone?

I mean, if you made a stupid and dangerous choice, just to support some moronic political position, why should anyone waste resources on you? You had the same chance as everyone else to get in front of this thing. You chose, “Duh!” You volunteered to clean up the gene pool a bit and the rest of us will eventually benefit from your stupid, stupid choice. So, thank you – and good riddance…

Yeah, that’s what I WANT to write. The problem is, in FAR too many cases, the stupid choice was made by the parent, and the person who suffers from the stupidity is their child…

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One sign that 47 is worried he might lose one of the chambers of Congress this mid-term? He has stepped up his support of Russia in Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine. I guess he expects the Dems to start trying to help the embattled democracy again instead of toadying up to Putin. Of course, 47 is a Russian asset. The Dems in Congress are not. I can’t tell you I’m surprised Trump betrayed Zelenskyy. Trump betrays everybody…

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This is funny. The Dumbass Dotard said he could still “go after” the Clintons and the Obamas if he wanted to. He claims he has damning information and he just chose to sit on it. Yeah, that sounds just like him. Restraint is his middle name. He said he could do it just to “destroy their reputations.” Um, with whom? MAGA already hates them. Intelligent people hate HIM. We know about his frivolous investigations even if MAGA doesn’t.

Oh, I see. When asked if he was going to attack them, he said, “I guess not, probably not, but I think if they impeach me, again…” So it’s just an empty threat. If you impeach me again, I’ll use all that good gossip I have to destroy your reputation! Ooh, that’ll scare ’em. Hey, how ’bout we impeach him again just to find out what good gossip he thinks he has? Nah, let’s impeach him for all of the crimes he is committing…