MAGA On The Case…

by MyBaconPress

I hear that Team Evil tried to work out a cease fire with Iran shortly after attacking her without cause or provocation and killing their Supreme Leader. I hear that Iran has declined the opportunity. It turns out, when one lights a fuse in the Middle East, one most commonly gets exactly the explosion they should have expected. President Pedo thinks the world is so impressed by US military power he can just bomb and leave as he pleases.

The headline in this morning’s ‘Guardian’ says, “Kuwait mistakenly shoots down three US fighter planes, as US says Iran’s “reckless” attacks threaten regional stability.” Kuwait mistakenly shoots down THREE US fighter planes? It’s being described as a ‘friendly fire’ incident. The crews are all safe but the planes? Not so much. I know MAGA is going to lap it up, but blaming Iran for threatening regional stability is pretty much what the DOJ is doing with the Trump/Epstein files and ICE: blaming the victims.

“Oh, those little girls shouldn’t have been so alluring,” and “Oh, those people shouldn’t have been so brown” are both terrible positions. “Iran responding to our unwarranted, unprovoked, illegal and unconstitutional attack destabilizes Middle East stability” is equally nonsensical.

I honestly can not believe people are going to die as a political maneuver by Sleepy Don in an effort to maintain power. I’ll tell you what’s worse. Cadet bone spurs said flatly, “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war.” I’m not the first to notice the similarity to the character Lord Farquaad in the movie ‘Shrek’ who says, “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

Trump, declaring his contempt for the common man.

Yet again, Trump is displaying his fundamental contempt for work-a-day Joes. He does that a lot. He pretends he loves them. He makes MAGA laugh. They love him. He does not truly reciprocate the feeling. I think after the revolution, any legal age offspring of the political “leaders” should be required by law to take up a position on the front lines of any war or battle these warmonger cowards decide to start. If it’s important enough to send my children, it should be important enough to send their own…

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I remember during one of the Gulf wars, Saddam started sending SCUD cruise missiles pretty much everywhere they could reach. We were told here in the US that Saddam’s missiles were being taken care of by American Patriot missiles. We were told that the Patriots were shooting down, literally, 100% of the SCUDs Saddam shot off. Ha, ha, isn’t Saddam silly?

Then, one day, as support for the war began to wane a tad, here at home, ‘Time Magazine’ was emblazoned with a cover photo of a great big crater right in the middle of Riyadh. What a threat Saddam posed! So, we claimed to be shooting down 100% of Saddam’s SCUD missiles until they needed to whip up a little support, then, suddenly, the magical Patriot missiles magically missed one. It turned out, the Patriots weren’t quite as perfectly devastating as the American people had been led to believe. The already rich contractor who built the things made tons of taxpayer money, though, so no one is allowed to complain.

Israel is said to have a “Golden Dome” of protection. Nothing can get through. But if you’re like me, you noticed that Iranian missile falling into Tel Aviv. You know, having gotten through. I mention that because Sleepy Don wants to build a “Golden Dome” for America, too. That, I’m sure, will be expensive. Oh, AND, it doesn’t seem to work.

I’ll tell you this: I think I’d rather see them stick to the defenses we already use and divert the money they were planning to pass on to their rich friends to universal health care for Americans…

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According to the CDC, as of February 26, 2026, there are 1,136 confirmed measles cases in the United States. In all of 2025, there were 2,281 cases. We’re on track to bury that number – along with several of the victims who contract the illness. In 2024, there were 285 total cases in the US. In 2023, there were 59.

Word is, measles kills about 95,000 people around the world every year. The sudden increase is said to be down to “vaccine hesitancy.” People are “hesitant” to get their kids vaccinated. Instead, they’re eager to risk their child’s life to measles because they’re afraid of a story an unethical doctor made up to try and make money. After the revolution, can we please make ‘Critical Thinking’ a mandatory class every year from Kindergarten through twelfth grade? Clearly, we need it…

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The economic fallout from Team Evil’s management continues to grow, unabated. The DOW dropped 521 points on Friday. It closed at 48,977.92, well below Pam Bondi’s sacred 50,000+, meaning the DOJ now has to release all of the Trump/Epstein files. No, I don’t understand the relationship, either, but Pam assured us she didn’t have to release the files because the DOW was over 50,000. Maybe she can explain it…

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Dubai is a playground for the rich and richer. Except now. Now everybody is trying to get the hell out. It’s a rather dangerous place to be, and rich people don’t like to be in dangerous places. They have poor people for that. So here’s the story of suffering you may not have heard. The price of private planes in the region has skyrocketed. Rich people are being gouged by other rich people just because they want to get out of harm’s way. Maybe they can start a GoFundMe…

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Some clever sod has created a “Walk of Shame” near the White House. It’s made up of stickers that resemble the “Walk of Fame” stars but they name people identified in the Trump/Epstein files. Each sticker includes a QR code that opens a link to information about that particular assailant.

It looks like Trump’s damned and dirty little war of distraction hasn’t distracted at all. I’m guessing we’re going to have elections, too. It’s almost like he’s going to waste all of those lives and all of that money for nothing. Oh, AND, expect the price of gas at the pump to go up, not to mention other imports that will likely be affected by the upheaval in stability. Thanks, MAGA…

Two Thoughts At Once…

by MyBaconPress

So, we’ve bombed Iran. Does that mean the DOJ released those hidden pages from the Trump/Epstein files? What does the elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei, mean? Not much, I’d guess. Iran has a system to replace the Supreme Leader, just like the US has. In fact, the unprovoked, surprise US/Israel attack on Khamenei’s compound killed several highest-ranking leaders, all of whom have been replaced today. The MAGA dream of regime change and nation building is in full swing. In 2012 and 2013, Trump insisted Obama would invade Iran in order to distract from domestic failures at home, so we KNOW he understood the strategy.

In the meantime, we found out that Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein for ‘the wildest party.’ That’s yet another close associate of Trump’s, partying with Epstein. If you’re not MAGA, you’ve seen the pictures and video of Trump partying with Epstein, too. (If you’re MAGA, you were told, instead, about how cute puppies are.)

It was a crime, the bombings I mean. We all know raping minors is a crime. Several countries have spoken out against the actions. The whole world knows it was illegal and unprovoked. Iran wants nukes. It’s hard to blame them. Do you know who doesn’t get invaded by the US? Countries with nukes. Consider Osama Bin Laden. When the US wanted him, we invaded Iraq. They didn’t have nukes. We also invaded Afghanistan. They also didn’t have nukes. When we finally found Bin Laden, he was in Pakistan. They DO have nukes. So, we just sneaked in real quiet-like and snatched Bin Laden up and whisked him away.

If Hillary and Bill can be called before Congress to testify in the Epstein case, why can’t Melanomia and Donald? We all know Bill flew on Jeffrey’s plane fairly regularly. I, for one, haven’t heard anything verifiable that implicates Clinton in Trump’s and Epstein’s sex-with-kids scheme. It’s still possible Clinton availed himself of legal age women they may have been trafficking, too, but I haven’t heard that, either. In short, Clinton used the plane, not the women.

I’m just not sure why the US gets to decide who gets nukes and who doesn’t. My preference is that NOBODY have them, but we do. (Humans, I mean.) So why do we get to decide? Are we afraid a madman might gain control of the stockpile? Well, we’ve got THAT now, too. And it ain’t in Iran. So Trump murdered Khamenei in order to destroy the Iranian enriching capability Trump insists the US destroyed only six months ago, which was only proceeding in the first place because Trump is jealous of Obama and unilaterally decided to walk away from a deal Obama made that would have stopped Iran from gaining nuclear weapons any time soon.

Do you suppose Trump can say the same? He used the facilities, not the girls, that is. There’s at least one filing of specific, graphic detail of Trump forcing a thirteen year old girl to perform oral sex on him. She apparently bit him and he punched her in the face. I’M not saying that. SHE is. And THAT came out even as the DOJ works feverishly to redact and remove the name Trump anywhere and everywhere it appears.

Iran can’t attack the US so they started dropping bombs around the Middle East, instead. Mostly, their bombs are aimed at Israel but they’ve dropped a few into other countries, as well. Mostly, those have been countries that host US military bases. Historically, it’s not a good thing when bombs start falling in the Middle East. It often leads to years of conflict. Increases in oil prices are one side effect but FAR more importantly? People die. Like the 148 girls (so far) killed and 95 wounded when a US missile hit a girl’s elementary school. “Targeted strikes,” indeed…

Still, I do have to confess that Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran seems to have pushed the Trump/Epstein rape conspiracy off of the front pages for a short time. But I expect it to be only for a short time. While I’m becoming increasingly convinced that corruption is going to protect the perverts and pedos – at least here in America – the very least we can do is name them and shame them…

From the way this is written you might discern that I suspect the bombing of Iran has everything to do with distracting from the increasing fallout from the Trump/Epstein files. The fact that people are actually dying in an attempt to distract from the Trump/Epstein files seriously boggles my mind. I’ve become increasingly disappointed by the gullibility of so many of my fellow Americans. The distraction might work. Think about this, not that.

But it turns out? You CAN think about two things at the same time…

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I’m not telling you I’m voting for Gavin Newsom. I’m not saying I won’t. But he has been put into a bit of a political trap. Bernie Sanders is backing a billionaire tax in California. Newsom opposes it. As it happens, I do, too. I’m all for a billionaire tax. I really believe the wealthiest wealthy should pay their fair share and a billionaire tax is a good start. BUT…

You can’t do it in only one state. The one percent are forever threatening to leave if we ask them to pay taxes. The obvious answer is, “Oh, yeah? To where?” Where might they go that offers the same combination of First World Luxury and such oh-so-low-to-non-existent taxes? But they CAN leave between states without suffering too much…

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At this point, is there anything, anything at all, that Trump “warned” his base about Kamala that he hasn’t done himself?

Collective Insanity…

by MyBaconPress

Are we all really supposed to just forget that the US had an agreement with Iran to stop nuclear weapon production? Felon 47 objected to it because it was negotiated by Obama’s team. So, in his first term, Trump unilaterally pulled out of the deal. He said it was a terrible deal but I’ve seen him work enough now to know that he wouldn’t know a terrible deal if it slapped the orange off of him.

After the ill-advised, unilateral pull-out from the Iran arms deal, Iran started enriching uranium again. To be fair, it should be noted that Iran says it’s nuclear ambitions are peaceful, intended for civilian power purposes. No, I’m not saying I believe them, necessarily. That’s just what they say. Anyway, Trump “decided” to bomb Iran’s enrichment facilities after Netanyahu told him to.

The US bombing raid met with some less-than-stellar reviews. The regime that always claims complete and perfect success, claimed complete and perfect success. Analysts around the world suggested the bombing raid did damage but not as much as was being touted by the regime, which was claiming complete obliteration. When questions were raised regarding the actual efficacy of the raid, the regime repeated, LOUDLY, “COMPLETE OBLITERATION!” and “WHAT PART OF COMPLETE OBLITERATION DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?”

Recently, workers rebuilt a bridge here in my home town. It took a little over a year. I suspect a bridge is a less complicated build than a uranium enrichment facility. The point is, Iran could certainly rebuild it’s facilities after “complete obliteration.” But wouldn’t it take more time than it took to rebuild a bridge? Isn’t it difficult to obtain uranium to enrich? Doesn’t that take time? Doesn’t the enrichment process, itself, take time? Doesn’t it take even longer to refine uranium to weapons-grade standards?

But only six months after “complete obliteration,” the new claim from the lying US regime is that Iran is only mere weeks from obtaining WMDs. WMDs?!? Where have I heard that one before? It’s a test, see? How stupid are you? CAN they take you to war using the exact same lie Bush 43 used to illegally invade Iraq? I guess we’re going to find out. Either they were lying about complete obliteration in the first place or they’re lying now.

If he hadn’t been such a teeny, tiny man, if he hadn’t been so desperately insecure, and so completely jealous of Obama, he might have just kept the deal that was already in place. Now he’s going to war in an attempt to get the deal that already existed that he walked away from unilaterally and voluntarily. Hey, MAGA, remember when he decried foreign entanglements and promised to stay out of them? Get your kids ready. It’s time for The Sandbox III.

MORE people dying because he’s a moron. A new war-of-choice. An illegal war, remember. He STILL has so much support among his base. At some point, one has to acknowledge the collective insanity of it all. And remember, we’ve all seen him “work” over this last year. Any deal he actually gets will be less than the deal he abandoned. I can practically guarantee it. I still want to see the complete, unredacted Trump/Epstein files…

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“We didn’t ‘intentionally withhold’ those pages from the Trump/Epstein files. We simply ‘did not provide them, with purpose.’ See? That’s entirely different.”

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Well, it looks like Paramount is the winner in the Warner Bros/Discovery hostile takeover. That means everyone else loses. It’s going to be MUCH harder to find decent, trustworthy information from US sources. The One Percent are building a media misinformation empire intended to deceive and confuse. This merger will do tons of damage to an already teetering media landscape. Cons are trying to convert all media to a Fox Not-News format, that is, protecting the Pedo. All propaganda, all the time.

Cons are already attacking CBS news. Now they get to destroy CNN but they’ll also gain control of programming at HBO. What do you think that’s going to do to ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ and ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver?’ Do you think it will have any impact on HBO’s documentaries?

We can still get reasonable news from the BBC. There are other dependable foreign sources we can turn to but many of them involve reading and, apparently, Americans can’t be bothered anymore. There’s a guy, Seth Stern. He’s chief of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He pointed out that the new company will readily throw the news organizations under the bus for business or political reasons, then added, “But censorship is bad for business. WBD executives and shareholders should recognize that selling companies that depend on the first amendment to a censorial White House puppet is not only morally wrong but harmful to their bottom line.”

I know I’ll be cancelling subscriptions…

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So, last month, the on top of everything Trump regime shut down airspace around a New Mexico airport so they could shoot down a bunch of party balloons. In fairness, they thought the balloons were drug cartel drones. I would have imagined they could tell the difference but, apparently not. Now, just to make sure we know they don’t know what they’re doing, they’ve finally shot down a drone!
“Well, that makes it sound like they DO know what they’re doing.”
“Yeah, I wasn’t finished. It was a US drone being operated by the border patrol.”
“I think you just said we shot down one of our own drones…”

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Recently, for reasons I can’t define, I’ve been watching a lot of historical clips on YouTube about WWII and it’s aftermath. What happened to equipment? What happened to the Nazi leadership? What happened to complicit civilians? I recommend it. I find it comforting. It helps me remember that a once-civilized nation that loses it’s collective mind CAN find their way back to decency.

I’m always particularly unimpressed by the way so many of the Nazi leaders took their own lives rather than try to justify their positions to the world. It makes it seem, to me, like they knew there was no justification. Even if they thought it was because the world was so stupid, they knew they’d never convince anybody they had done the right thing. Call it the lack-of-courage-of-their-convictions.

After the war, Germany went through a “de-Nazification” program, in which Nazis were purged from government positions. We’ll have to do the same with our Nazi— er, MAGA conspirators. What, we’re just going to leave Aileen “Loose” Cannon in her judicial role? I don’t think we can afford that. People like her would just keep inflicted their faulty ideologies on the country. They’ll have to be removed.

It’s likely going to take a while to deprogram the MAGA rank and file, too. Those guys have been conditioned and they’ve been conditioned good. They’ll need help getting back to civilized frames of mind. Still, remembering that Germany went from sane to insane back to sane again is a comforting reminder that hope is still possible as the US descends into it’s own collective insanity…

The Gaslighting Of The Union…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it seems that went exactly as expected. From what I hear, he had a captive audience and he held them hostage for nearly two hours. Some of it, you have to be honest, was the Republicans making such a show of jumping to their feet every time he finished a sentence and applauding whatever moronic stupidity he had just spewed. That might not be so bad, if he had said anything of value but after the fact-checking, it seems he didn’t even say anything honest.

Some Democrats attended. Some walked out during the speech, which I kind of liked, but I would have been happier to have that entire side of the chamber empty to begin with. Al Greene, a Democrat from Texas, went but only long enough to get thrown out for holding a sign that read, “Black people are not apes,” a sign referencing the racist video trump, except, no, some unnamed staffer, posted to trump’s account showing the Obamas as apes.

There was a time when Congress Critters sat, respectfully, and listened to the speech. I should mention, many of them have actually been fairly good speeches, unlike this mess. But that has changed. Several years ago, a Congress Critter named Joe Wilson (a Republican, obviously) shouted, “You lie!” at Obama during one of his State of the Union addresses. MTG did it again, shouting at Biden.

So, turnabout being what it is, the Dems added their own spin and started fact-checking him in real time, during the speech. He talked about the fictitious fraud case out of Minnesota he’s using to smear Somalis in a trumped up fraud case, to which Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib shouted, “That’s a lie!” and “You’re a liar!”

Trump tried to trap Democrats into standing for him by saying, “If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” The Democrats remained seated. Trump retorted: “You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up.” But not only did they NOT stand up, Omar yelled, “You have killed Americans! You have killed Americans! You have killed Americans! You have killed Americans!”

It was a solid point. He’s NOT protecting American citizens. Is now the time to mention that the Constitution often uses the word “people” and not “citizens,” meaning the job of the US government is to protect everyone in the country? That seems relevant, too. When President Pedo claimed, “No one cares more about protecting America’s youth…” Talib interjected, “Then release the Epstein files!”

People are going to hammer on the lies so let me highlight a truth that slipped out, apparently accidentally. At one point, he said he could say “with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.” That’s actually true. It just isn’t good. Despite the falsehoods from MAGA media, the country was humming along when Biden left office. 47 has crashed it into the ground in record time. It really is ‘a transformation like no one has ever seen before.’

Sadly, it’s been a transformation for the worse, not the better. On the up side, I DID have “like no one has ever seen before” on my SOTU bingo card. It’s one of his favorite phrases, though, so it wasn’t much of a reach. Despite your every day, lived experience, he said everything is better. As you pay more at the grocery store, he told you you’re paying less. As your costs go up across the board, he’s telling you how much he loves that and thinks it’s great. It’s almost as if he lives in an entirely different United States than the rest of us.

My favorite part? That TCM showed the movie ‘Gaslight’ at the same time as the speech. It seemed the perfect summary of Trump and pretty much every word he says…

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Epstein’s BFF is still a pervert, child-raper, though, and he’s still working as hard as possible to protect himself. People are digging pretty carefully through the Trump/Epstein information that has been released. Carefully enough, that they found a place where 50 relevant pages of information have been withheld. It’s the section where Trump stands accused – by the accuser – of raping her when she was thirteen years old.

It’s a pretty amazing coincidence that the parts they won’t release happen to be the same parts that implicate Trump. I’m sure it’s some kind of oversight. They’ll “happily” get it straightened out the very minute they’re totally forced to and have exhausted every alternative. It’s not even a matter of critical thinking, anymore. Any child knows that if those files exonerated him, he’d be waving them around in public. That same child knows that hiding the files is because the files will get him in trouble.

Trouble. I wonder what that might look like. So far, it mostly seems to mean some hyper wealthy or well connected sex pervert is going to have to get a different job. Yeah, yeah, Andrew got arrested. Not for the kid-diddling, though. Andrew got arrested for passing sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Gates just apologized. Gates says he didn’t do anything wrong. Maybe he didn’t, but, hell, Felon 47 says the same thing. I would REALLY like to see someone, somewhere face responsibility for they things they’ve done…

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Since we’re on the topic of inappropriate sex, a House member and Republican from Texas, Tony Gonzalez, started sexually harassing one of his aides. The press is characterizing the relationship as an affair and maybe it was, but among the news articles, I read this paragraph: “The paper also published apparent text messages between Gonzales and Santos-Aviles, showing Gonzales allegedly pressured her into sending a sexually explicit photo and described graphic sex acts. Gonzales continued messaging her even after she warned her boss he was going ‘too far.'”

I don’t know, but in my experience, one does not have to “pressure” one’s lover into doing lover things. That feels more like harassment. The main part, though, is that after the interactions were discovered, the staffer fell into a deep depression and then killed herself – and MAGA Mike, the Johnson swept the thing under the rug because his margin is so small in the House. If Gonzales is forced to step down, they’re WAY too close to losing the majority.

If you’re keeping score, that’s the Republicans protecting some unknown number – let’s go with “countless” – perverts and pedophiles for political reasons and now they’re protecting a member who sexually harassed a staffer to the point of destroying her life, also for political reasons.

Even some Republican members think Gonzalez should step down or be pushed out. Johnson is far more worried about what he and his cronies can do to harm the American people and help the billionaires to risk holding anybody to any account. Sure, there’s a dead woman involved, but billionaires have a chance to keep a few thousand dollars more. Priorities, people…

Is President Pedo Losing Support?

by MyBaconPress

I can’t say it surprises me, much, that people want to kill President Pedo. I can’t support political violence, but I’d be lying if I said I was surprised. (At this point, I’m looking forward to his trials. I want to see him in an orange jumpsuit. If someone succeeds at killing him, they’re robbing me of my chance. Let him watch while we tear his vile name off of everything he has slapped it on to.)

The part that DOES surprise me is that THIS intruder is reported by family members to come from “a family of Trump supporters.” So, naturally, the right has to blame the left. No, it doesn’t make any sense. Logic is opposition in MAGA land. He apparently bought the gun he brought on the way to Mar-a-Lardo where he died. (I thought there was a waiting period.) The would-be shooter’s cousin said the guy didn’t even know how to use a gun.

There’s something that bothers me about this. The shooter probably left home on his final journey on Feb 21 at around 8:00 at night. The family had missing person flyers printed up and distributed by 7:00 am on Feb 22. It was noted that the family reported the guy missing at 1:38 am, mere minutes after the shooting. The kid was 21 years old. I believe I’d think of a lot of other, more likely, possibilities before jumping to “missing person” after, literally, a couple of hours of not knowing where he was.

It causes me to think there was something going on with this kid we haven’t heard about yet AND I suspect the family has more information than they’re sharing at this time. I didn’t know cops would even TAKE a missing person report on a 21 year-old who stayed out past his curfew. The family made a pretty public show of “looking for” their “missing person.” I know, tin foil hat stuff. But it’s a pretty aggressive reaction to a rather banal occurrence. I suspect we haven’t heard all of the information yet. Stay tuned…

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A massive blizzard is hitting the Northeast, with New York City expected to receive possible record-setting snowfall. That’s a miserable experience. People are being told to stay home and shelter in place. That means the only people on the streets for the next couple of days are low-paid, “essential” workers, probably cops, and – for some reason – weather reporters.

I understand people want to see the weather conditions. So point a camera out the window. Let the poor reporter do a voice-over. Nah. “Hey, Bob, that’s one hell of a snowstorm out there! I hear it will freeze your skin in about twelve seconds. How ’bout you get yourself outside for the next report?”
“Experts recommend staying indoors, there, Dan.”
“Yeah, experts like you. You’re going to recommend the same thing – from outdoors.”
It’s kind of dumb.

I hear travel is expected to be a challenge. Actually, the words I heard were “nearly impossible.” Flights are cancelled. Roads are closed. It’s a mess. I don’t mean to be smug, but it’s times like this, I’m glad I live in California. Of course, in a few months, California will likely be on fire and I’ll be less sanguine.

I blame Trump. It’s all his fault. How come Trump didn’t protect Americans from this record-setting blizzard? No, I don’t really. I just got the idea from MAGA because you just KNOW they’d be blaming Biden. But all kidding aside, it really IS awesome that Trump is pumping up global warming with his policies. I mean, we were only applying light pressure to the brakes anyway, but now his foot is firmly on the global warming accelerator and it’s pressed to the floor. That way, we can count on more and more record setting weather events. Thanks, MAGA…

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Sometimes, it seems like he’s attacking the economy on purpose. The Supremely corrupt court struck down Trump’s illegal tariffs, as they should have done. The stock market started going up on the news, indicating that rich people REALLY don’t like the tariffs. So, Donny, being the mind he is, added new tariffs! At least the quality of his work remains steady. It’s horrifyingly bad, but it’s steady…

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So, Jalisco, Mexico is in upheaval. The government killed a cartel leader that went by the name “El Mencho.” I checked my Spanish/English dictionary. “El Mencho” doesn’t have a specific meaning in Spanish. Apparently, it was just an alias the guy used. But in Yiddish, there’s a word; Mensch. It refers to a person of great honor and integrity.

That sounds like exactly the kind of sobriquet a drug lord might grant himself. “Yes, yes, I murder at the drop of a hat and sell a product likely to kill people and ruin lives but I’m a person of great honor and integrity.” What a Shmendrick. (Apologies. I have no business attempting humor with Yiddish.)

Mexico blew up after the killing. Violence broke out in twenty of Mexico’s thirty-one states. It’s expected the violence will continue, now, as the power vacuum needs to be filled. Will that cartel continue under new leadership or will it splinter off into new, smaller groups that now need to do battle for ultimate control? Man, the love of money really IS the root of all evil…

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Quick question: do you think the Dems will show up for the State of the Union Address? I heard a suggestion that every Dem should give their seat to a Trump/Epstein survivor. I like that idea but I don’t know if it’s legal. I think just not going and having that entire side of the gallery empty would send a great message, too. It seems the whole thing will just be a waste of time, since we all know the speech he plans to give.

He’s great (of course). His work is perfect. All of the problems are someone else’s fault. Ignore your eyes, the nation is in great shape. He’s really great. Oh, and we can’t skip the standards. He was robbed in 2020, which was just so unfair and J6 was obviously a day of love. He didn’t even know his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. He had no idea what Epstein was about and to prove it, called the police to say he knew, along with everybody else, what Epstein was about.

Everybody’s out to get him, probably because he’s so great. Any charge against him is a Democrat hoax and all of that evidence against him is made up. The SCOTUS is made up of traitors who have supported him with near-perfect reliability until they ruled against his tariffs and became horrible, disloyal human beings. How dare they enforce the Constitution instead of his awesome greatness? The world owes his poor, picked-on self a million, no a billion, no trillions of dollars because he’s so picked-on.

He’s totally great and no, he does NOT sleep during meetings. His eyelids need inspection on a regular basis and that’s all he’s doing. You call it blather, he calls it the weave. He sure is awesome and everybody wishes they were him. No, he’s not crapping his diaper in public, even though he has the same look on his face as a baby crapping their diaper where ever they happen to be. Everyone near him just randomly decided to hold their noses at the same time. Coincidence. Oh, has he mentioned he’s great?

He’s a star, you see, so they let him do it. (Apparently, “let him do it” means civil lawsuits and criminal investigations. He might not mention that part.) It’s terrible what Joe Biden did to him. Or Obama. Or Hillary. Cause he won and everybody knows he won. (He uses the “I just know it” standard and that’s a hard one to overcome.)

Let’s see, he’s perfect, everything he has done is perfect. His work is perfect. Any evidence to the contrary doesn’t count because it’s a Democrat hoax. Democrats are incompetent fools who couldn’t do anything right – except thwart him with hoaxes all day, every day. But oh, man, is he great.

Yeah, I’ve seen that speech. More than once…

In From The Cold…

by MyBaconPress

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there will always be people who accept and believe in MAGA. Look, there are Nazis running around to this day. You really can’t fix stupid. When confronted with the atrocities the Nazis were known to have committed, they do the same thing MAGA does: they lie. We’re never going to convince them they’re wrong and we just have to acknowledge that some people get lost permanently. Then again, there are going to be the Marjorie Taylor Greene’s of the world.

Leaving the right in a huff, like so many before her...

I think she wants to come in from the cold. And I think we should let her. No, I don’t trust her, either. Her turnaround was pretty quick and surprisingly complete, suggesting she may never have been a true MAGA. As an example, Lauren Boebert also signed on to Thomas Massey’s Discharge Petition that started the whole ‘Release the Files!’ show. Boebert also declined to back down when the White House pressured her. But that’s the end of her going her own way. She’s still crazy, more likely stupid.

She still – honestly – believes, for example, that Democrats eat babies. If you believe Democrats eat babies, you need supervision. She still believes trump might be competent at something besides theft and rape. Her belief that the Trump/Epstein files should be released is predicated on the notion that the files don’t implicate Trump in any way. (They do.)

But MTG seems to have left the whole moron act behind. And of course it was likely an act. Boebert truly believes. MTG, it seems, did not. She knew the words to say, but she didn’t believe them. Those words curried favor with a crowd she needed to get into Congress. Honestly, that makes her more dangerous. More scheming. More conniving. But, she’s also a hell of a fighter.

We’ve done it before. Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s “fixer.” Now he’s a darling on the left and shows up on lefty podcasts all the time. Going back, David Brock was a gay writer who wrote hit pieces against the left. Cons ignored his sexuality so long as he did. But when, out of curiosity (according to him) he wrote a balanced piece on Hillary, the right suddenly noticed he’s gay and drummed him off of the team.

So, he switched sides and started ‘Media Matters for America.’ Now he’s described as “an American liberal political consultant.” Not every convert needs to be so impactful. The point is only that sometimes, scales fall from people’s eyes. When that happens, there has to be a place for them to come home to…

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Man, I’ve spent a great deal of time discussing the value and application of ICE here in Bizarro America with MAGA. Over the last year, every single one of their talking points has proven false. Not because I’ve said so, but because facts on the ground keep betraying them. At this point, I’m pretty sure there’s not one single talking point left that stands up to scrutiny.

The worst of the worst? Most often, not even here illegally. Responsible agents? Not even capable agents. Illegal drugs? While releasing the guy who brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US? Uh-huh. Honestly, the only excuse, er, “explanation” left intact? Bigotry. I’ll tell you this: I thought the red hat might become a symbol of hatred, to be feared. Instead, it has become something of a new kind of dunce cap…

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Okay, so, stay with me, here. The corrupt SCOTUS struck down Felon 47’s tariffs. 47, of course, threw a fit and decided to “punish” the court by illegally imposing even more taxes on the American people, first a 10% tariff increase which he raised to 15% by the end of the day. But then, I started hearing about corporations lining up to get “refunds.” Lawsuits have already been filed so the corporations can “recover” the tariff money “they paid.”

Here’s the thing, though. THEY didn’t pay it. Consumers did. That’s how sales and value-added taxes work. A tax is put on a product, the cost of the tax is passed on to the consumer, and the price of the product goes up accordingly. Corporations collect the tax from their customers at the register, then they send the money in to the government who, in this case, steals it and shoves it into their own greedy pockets. The corporation is simply a pass-through from consumer to government.

When you think about it, there’s no realistic way for the government to get the tariff money stolen from me back into my pocket. But that truth generates another reality: why should the corporation get a “refund?” Okay, so they take a dollar from me and pass it along to the government. The tax (tariff) is struck down as illegal but when the money gets returned, it only goes back to the corporation, not the consumer who parted with the dollar in the first place?

I’m actually against the refund, since it will go to the wrong people. Besides, the striking down of the tariffs will NOT be reflected in lower prices so the corporations are still getting an unearned windfall just from the policy. They don’t deserve the added benefit of a “refund” on something THEY never paid…

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I’ve seen this meme floating around that reminds people that Donald Trump will sue anybody over anything, most especially if he doesn’t like something you said. At the same time, Donald Trump hasn’t sued one person for calling him a pedophile. Nobody. Nada. Watch:
Donald Trump is a pedophile.
Donald Trump is a pedophile.
Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Alright in my case, I have to acknowledge that he’s never heard of me nor my little blog and likely doesn’t know I just wrote he is a pedophile but we all know it wouldn’t make a difference. If he files suit, the first thing that happens is discovery. Full, unredacted discovery. He, simply, cannot have that. Not in this case.

He DID file suit against the ‘Wall Street Journal’ over that birthday card to his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. He’s been trying to back away from it ever since. The Journal’s owner, Rupert Murdoch has just filed a response asking for the case to be dismissed because, as the filing says, Trump is too lewd a person to suffer reputational harm from this story.

Trump has bought his way out of every problem he’s ever faced, but we all know adversity builds character. Trump has never faced adversity of any kind. That pretty much indicates an almost perfect lack of character and Trump’s constant and endless claims of his own greatness and grandeur are overcompensation for what Trump knows about himself. He’s a terrible person who has done, and still does, terrible things. He’s terrified someone might find out and the facade he has worked so hard for so long to create will just crumble and vanish. Many of us are not fooled to begin with…

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News has emerged that in 2006, Trump called the city’s police chief when sex crime charges against Epstein in Palm Beach became public, and said, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” Team Evil is using that to support their lies. “See? He was opposed to Epstein!”

Well, first, I “see” that he DID know all about Epstein and Epstein’s activities, meaning he’s lying NOW about having never known Epstein or about Epstein’s activities. In fact, I suspect such a phone call was attempted “inoculation.” He wanted to get out in front of any charges that might come his way over his participation in the scheme. One quick little phone call gave him plausible deniability in the moment. Yes, the dotard is losing his mind, which confuses the whole situation, but Trump is evil, not stupid…

Quality Thinking…

by MyBaconPress

Have you heard? Trump was going to solve the trade deficit with his tariffs. Tariffs are his zippy quick answer to solve the problem and get the trade deficit back to even. So, punishing tariffs were imposed on the American people, increasing our annual cost of living completely unnecessarily. But, if our pain today can reduce the deficit, maybe it’s worth it right?

So, how’s the zippy quick fix that causes so much pain to so many American (and MAGA) households going after one year? Well, the deficit is described as “essentially unchanged.” Unchanged? Doesn’t that mean they haven’t worked at all? You bet’cha. That’s exactly what it means. I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is.

And now? Oh! Em! Gee! Our Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court ruled in keeping with the Constitution! Normally, that’s not the kind of sentence one needs to write down. It shouldn’t be noteworthy. But these MAGA loyalists (but traitors to America) regularly rule according to what Felon 47 wants, regardless of the words in the Constitution. Not this time, though.

THIS time, they struck down the Fearful Misleader’s tariffs just because that’s what the Constitution says! AND, they struck down the Fearful Misleader’s tariffs despite the warnings and words he was hissing from the White House. Weird. There’s no telling what got into the heads of the “justices.” Three of them are honest brokers so they’re no surprise but three of Dumbass Don’s stooges voted against the tariffs, too. So guess which toadies supported the policy and not the Constitution? Yep, the usual suspects, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh. Still, suddenly, the tariffs are off.

My washing machine has been on it’s last legs for quite a while. It finally got to the point where I didn’t see much choice. I had to replace the thing. I was trying to wait. The tariffs really hit washing machines. Still the old unit just wasn’t getting it done anymore. So, on Thursday night, I ordered a new washing machine. Then, on Friday, the SCOTUS struck down the tariffs. How’s THAT for timing? It just struck me as funny. I know prices weren’t likely to come down overnight. In fact, I don’t expect lower prices at all.

You shouldn’t expect lower prices, either. The Dipshit-in-Chief handed corporations an excuse to raise prices and raise prices they did. They’re not giving that back. Prices might – might – go up slower, having lost the corporate excuse of the tariffs but the main damage is done and trump did it. Now he has to pay that money back.

MAGA still thinks foreign countries paid the tariffs, but Americans know that said money came directly out of their household “pockets.” Joe Consumer paid the price and it’s been pretty dear. But for their next trick, Joe Consumer won’t be getting the refund from the illegal tariffs. The corporations will. I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is.

But, hey, don’t expect him to back down just because he’s wrong and lost in court. I mean, when has THAT ever stopped him? No, he says he’s going to keep the tariffs. He’ll just cite a different “authority.” THEN, just to make sure everyone got the point, he has threatened to impose a new, 10% world-wide duty (or should that be “dootie”) on everything.

Now would be an excellent time to go back and look at the second paragraph of this section. The part that points out that the tariffs haven’t changed the trade deficit one little bit. So, the trade deficit remains “essentially unchanged,” manufacturing isn’t coming back, and now, the way high court has ruled that the tariffs are illegal. Ineffective AND illegal? Of course he’s doubling down. I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is…

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Kristi Noem fires her pilot because she had to switch planes and nobody moved what is apparently a precious blanket – not even her, I’ve noticed. But when nobody moved her special “blankey,” not even her, she got mad and fired the pilot. Why the pilot? Is the pilot of the plane expected to keep track of her personal possessions? Okay, so she fires the pilot. BUT… she’s in the middle of her trip.

She was planning on going out, then coming back. She went out and the blankey incident happened and she fired her pilot – before she came back. Then she couldn’t find another pilot qualified to get her home so she reinstated the guy she just fired. I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is…

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“I don’t like handsome young men. Women, I like. Men, I don’t have any interest.” 47, speaking to his ‘Board of Peace’ on the topic of rebuilding Gaza in their preferred image. He just included that aside. Remember, the trumpster always gives the game away, usually by insisting that what’s true is the opposite of what’s true.

For example, he continues to pretend the Trump/Epstein files exonerate him. They don’t, but he keeps saying it, the exact opposite of the truth, see? So, if he’s now saying, “Men, I don’t have any interest…”

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Suddenly, our fearful misleader is promising to release all of the files, once and for all. Oh, finally, the Trump/Epstein files will be relea– Wait, what? Files on aliens? Like, extra-terrestrials? Didn’t he just slam Obama for talking about the UFO files? Now he’s just going to release them? I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is…

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So… some protestor calls some ICEhole a big bag of poo-poo or some such (probably worse) and the ICEhole takes out his gun and shoots the protestor. The ICEhole reports that the victim was attacking them and they feared for their lives. MAGA media trumpets the shooting as an example of tough-on-crime policies and MAGA rank and file start defending the shooting in social media, bringing shame on themselves and their family names.

Then, because everybody in the world is walking around with cameras these days, and because said cameras are out and on whenever the ICEholes show their ugly… um… masks, the claims by the ICEholes fall apart. Evidence keeps proving them liars. It has happened over and over and over again. Most of the ICEholes are on a rampage of revenge against a society they failed in. They’re tiny little men suddenly wielding enormous power and they have NO self-control, convinced they don’t need self-control.

Here’s the part MAGA really doesn’t get. They don’t mind ICEhole brutality against brown people, documented or otherwise, because they think such brutality will STAY against brown people. They don’t understand that bullies are bullies. ICEholes have murdered at least two white American citizens and one brown American citizen. Why wouldn’t they shoot others? They’ve got that handy “feared for my safety” excuse and they can just point and shoot. They won’t have any compunction about pointing and shooting white MAGA either, if they think they have a reason.

I’ll tell you this: It’s quality thinking like that that has this country in the condition it is…

There CAN Be Consequences…

by MyBaconPress

Arresting the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew? Man, Europe has jumped to action against the perpetrators who show up in the Trump/Epstein files. That must be nice. I wonder what it’s like to live in a country with laws that apply to everyone. It seems like a good thing. I wish we had that here.

As the revelations about the files come out, big-wigs across Europe are, at the very least, losing jobs. Now not-a-prince Andrew has actually been arrested. This appears to have been quite the process. One does not, apparently, just arrest a Royal.

An image of Andrew, Virginia, and Ghislaine.

But since this photo of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre came out, his star has fallen steadily. First they stripped him of his honors and duties. Then they stripped his titles. They they tossed him out of his house. They made him as much of a “non-Royal” as they could. THEN came the arrest. Now we need to get the US serious about consequences of raping minors.

I really don’t like this attitude that they “get to” because they’re rich. If we don’t follow up, it won’t just be an attitude. It will become a truth that they get to rape our children because they’re rich. I genuinely hope we don’t let that happen…

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Trump keeps saying he’s been “totally exonerated” in the Trump/Epstein Files. I wonder if he keeps saying it in an attempt to convince somebody, somewhere, or if his mind has devolved to the point where he has randomly decided on his own that he’s been totally exonerated in the Trump/Epstein Files.

Does Trump really believe no other country uses mail-in ballots? He keeps saying no other country has mail-in ballots but that’s not true. So I wonder if he keeps saying it in an attempt to convince somebody, somewhere, or if his mind has devolved to the point where he has randomly decided on his own that other countries don’t use mail in ballots…

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Oh, you want yet another example of Trump lying just to lie? Easy. He keeps saying he’s fighting the illegal drug trade. He keeps murdering people in the Gulf of Mexico, pretending he’s fighting the illegal drug trade. But he has moved huge numbers of law enforcement officers and agents who used to actually fight the illegal drug trade over to immigration so they can arrest people facing a possible misdemeanor charge – and maybe not even that.

So how does one fight the illegal drug trade if one takes the officers and agents that DO that and put them to work chasing undocumented immigrants? The words say one thing, the actions say something else…

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“Him calling me that [a traitor] has become a badge of honor because I’m not in his cult, I refused to bow to his demands to cover up the Epstein files to protect his friends…” That’s a statement by Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on Brand X about Felon 47 attacking her.

For his part, Felon 47 says he’s been “totally exonerated.” He means “totally redacted.” We have yet to see what the files actually say about him in full…

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At this point, the trumpster has done just about everything he promised not to do and has NOT done any of the things he promised to do. He hasn’t drained the swamp, for example. He has brought in new and worse swamp monsters. He invaded Venezuela in exactly the kind of unprovoked, nation-building move he promised not to engage in. Now he’s threatening to do the same in Iran.

Only… I doubt Iran is going to capitulate as easily as Venezuela. It’s a tough call. CLEARLY, the people of Iran are fed up with their leadership. Will they fight to defend it? Then again, people often fight because some moron outsider attacked their nation. A US assault might actually bring Iranians closer, common enemy and all that jazz.

Trump needs to stay out of jail by staying IN power. The whole country (read: world) hates him and there’s no way he can win honest elections. Even MAGA, while dutifully reporting total and absolute fealty to their Precious, seem to be staying home rather than participate. The GOP has won exactly one election since 47 infested the Oval Office again. The mid-terms loom. If control of Congress switches, Trump gets impeached, at the very least.

HE knows that as well as you know it and I know it and everybody else knows it. The primary difference is, I’m holding my breath in hopes for that day and he’s scared to death of it. At this point, Trump actually needs a war in order to try and mess with our electoral process. He’ll SAY it’s about securing the vote. He lies. It’s really about securing his freedom.

So there you go, MAGA. After lying to you about everything, all the time, now there’s one more. He’s going to start a nation-building, war of choice, just to try to stay in power and out of jail. American taxpayer money will be wasted and American youth will be destroyed, just so one craven, failed human being can try to avoid the consequences of his actions. Thanks, MAGA…

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If you ever talk to a MAGA, you’ll learn pretty quickly that they have no idea about what’s actually happening in the world and, most especially, in this once-great nation. Their information sources keep certain stories from them. That’s literally true. MAGA media simply doesn’t report certain things and/or offer weak tea reasons for some other things. The information divide has been the primary basis for the left vs right battles for quite some time and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find a way around it.

The problem is, part of MAGA conditioning is to never seek or trust information from non-MAGA sources. (There’s a reason MAGA has been conditioned to revile smart people.) The result? MAGA has nowhere to check information. They’re left asking Laura Ingram if what Sean Hannity said is correct. (It isn’t.)

One possible answer is Ground News. It’s a website, (click here). I don’t work for them. This is not an ad. Ground News gathers news stories from across the political spectrum and groups the stories by topic. They identify the political leanings of the publishers, left, right, or center. They also show the factuality of a given story, high, low, or mixed. They have little boxes called ‘Blind spots’ where they highlight stories being reported on one side of the dial but not the other. Both ways, by the way.

The main down side to Ground News is that it only covers actual journalism sources. Most of the information MAGA receives in their media is “opinion.” Take Fox Not-News, for example. They offer a few minutes each day of actual, hard news. They’re even pretty good at it. Then they bury that news under hours and hours of opinions dressed up as news shows. They call it “opinion” because an opinion can be anything from a considered thought on relevant and valuable information to an outright lie. And the vast majority of MAGA “opinion” consists of outright lies.

So it’s not perfect but it’s an outlet they might be able to trust and find out if they’re on the right track or not. You, too, by the way. I think you can send your MAGA there to get a full array of information. Tensions are getting pretty high, out there. The very least MAGA should do before the shooting starts is to make sure they’re killing people for the right reasons – or for any reason at all…

A Peek Behind The Curtain…

by MyBaconPress

So now 47 is saying that if he can’t get his election rigging bill called the SAVE Act passed in Congress, he’ll just issue an Executive Order that does the same thing. He wants to eliminate mail in ballots. He wants your name on your current ID to match your birth name. (Sorry, anyone who took their spouse’s name when they married. Tough luck, I guess.) They’re both stupid provisions, of course. But the most stupid part of all? Executive Orders are not laws. They don’t carry the weight of laws.

Obviously, he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots. That should be all the proof a thinking person needs to know he plans to rig the machines and he can’t as easily rig votes on paper ballots. Another way you can know that’s true is the claims that paper ballots are so easy to rig. As it happens, paper ballots are hardest to rig. That’s why he doesn’t want them. Paper ballots beat him in 2020 and paper ballots will beat him again in 2026, assuming we’re allowed elections.

I think EVERY American (and MAGA, too) should vote on paper ballots. My position feels buoyed by trump’s efforts to eliminate paper ballots. On second thought, since the machines will be rigged to increase red votes, MAGA can feel free to use them. Blue voters absolutely should not.

I expect to cast my absentee ballot in November, the same as I’ve been doing for years. Voting mail-in is easiest on the voters and most secure in the vote. No wonder that loser doesn’t want them around…

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We all know Alexi Navalny died IN the hands of his political rival, Vladimir Putin. Now the best evidence indicates that he died AT the hands of his political rival, as well. He was murdered by a powerful neurotoxin found in a specific kind of South American frog. There’s no known instance of the stuff occurring naturally anywhere in Russia, though it can be synthesized…

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Oh, the Gordie Howe International Bridge, eh? It gives us all a small glimpse into how Capitalism really works. See there’s a bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan in the US and Windsor, Ontario in Canada. It’s called the Ambassador Bridge and it was owned by a guy named Manuel “Matty” Moroun. It’s old (opened in 1929) and inconvenient. It connects surface streets on the Ontario side so if you use it, you’ll still have to wend your way through town. Oh, AND, it’s a toll bridge. The Moroun family makes money from the thing.

So, a new bridge was proposed. Bigger, better, and more convenient to use. ALSO a toll bridge, by the way. But if you’re getting ready to travel from Detroit to Ontario and you’re going to choose which bridge, most people, I think, would choose the higher capacity, more convenient bridge and that was designed specifically to be the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Such a common sense choice by consumers means Moroun’s Ambassador Bridge will lose traffic, which means Moroun will lose money.

Hey that’s Capitalism, right? Build a better mousetrap, and all of that jazz. A better way chooses the winners and losers, right? Or does it? Mr. Moroun, understanding the hit to his revenue, fought the bridge since day one. He knew his bridge was outdated and inconvenient, but he had the comfort of sitting back and enjoying the only route between the cities. He got to be lazy because he had the only bridge. I mean, the Moroun family could have arranged a new bridge as well, right? Instead, they filed lawsuits, all of which they lost.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge has been built and is ready to open now. Canada paid for the thing but they made sure to include US steel and US labor. It’s been a good, internationally cooperative project that promises to improve economies and lives all around. In 2020, Matty Moroun finally did the decent thing and he shuffled off his mortal coil, leaving ownership of his crappier bridge, the Ambassador, to his family. They have kept up the fight.

In a very real sense, he left them a weight around their necks. The Ambassador’s day has passed. As people shift to the new bridge, the revenues from reduced traffic will drop and that could threaten maintenance on the older span because you KNOW that if a Capitalist has to choose between profit and safety, well, you’re on your own. Profits first, always.

The new bridge is built, now, and ready to open. If you’re the Moroun family, what to do? The people have a new, better bridge but the Moroun family has something, too. Money. Here’s the real “Capitalism.” The Moroun’s have been spreading money around. Put a little (or a lot) into the right hands, you can STILL tie up the traffic. Moroun money has purchased them access to an excellent tool, the most corrupt President in the history of history. So they used it.

Matthew Moroun went to the White House and talked to 47 directly. We know the family has dumped large sums of money into Donny’s world and they likely left yet another big check because after that meeting, suddenly, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is seen as some kind of international security threat.

No, no details on exactly HOW the Howe Bridge is a threat. None needed, really. The Gordie Howe International Bridge will benefit thousands of work-a-day Joes all day, every day but it will hurt one powerful family of billionaires. There’s honestly no telling how this will play out. We can’t count on our “government” to do the right thing for the masses. Hell, Donny might bomb the thing, just to make the point.

But that’s how Capitalism really works. Build a better mousetrap, ‘Big Mousetrap’ will use their money and market share to bury you under lawsuits and blockades, limit your market, and try to wrangle control of (or copy and steal) your design. In Capitalism, money prevents progress as often as it enables progress. The actual question always comes down to who gets to keep the money, and if it ain’t the already rich, it ain’t happening…

Thanks, MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

The article I saw had a tiny but relevant error. The headline read, ‘Inflation eases more than expected, hits nearly five-year low.’ But the error was in the first line, which read, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday reported the consumer price index rose 2.4% year-over-year in January—down 0.3% from December and the lowest since May.” See the error? It should say, ‘The Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics…” That small adjustment explains the rest of the numbers.

If they had wanted to be really accurate, the article would have read, ‘A trump toady at the Bureau of Labor Statistics provided numbers intended to make the pedophile fraudster happy.’ I mean, really, do prices feel like they’re rising at slower rates these days? And then there’s this: if inflation is rising at a nearly textbook rate, doesn’t that mean Jerome Powell is doing a good job and his policies are working perfectly? Doesn’t that call trump’s claims of incompetence into question?

I mean, not to MAGA, obviously, but to everybody NOT locked in thrall to 47? Either Powell’s policies are working well to curb inflation, making trump wrong about Powell, or the numbers are fudged making trump wrong about the numbers. Either way, trump is wrong…

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MAGA has been dutifully defending the actions of the ICEholes just as they’re told to. They repeat the tales they’re told as though the tales have some validity, like they’re straight out of the gospel. It’s pretty clear to thinking Americans that the stories don’t hold up. When we have side by side comparisons of the evidence versus the comments from ICE, we can see for ourselves the ICEholes are lying.

I confess, being caught in lies over and over about the public events kind of scares me for the people we’ve heard stories about who have suffered abuse and even died in ICE custody behind closed doors. Now the federal government has opened a criminal probe into statements made by two immigration officers about the nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis last month of a Venezuelan national named Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

To be clear, THIS government, this corrupt, evil government working overtime to inflict as much pain and cruelty as possible into people’s lives opened a criminal probe into a shooting. Apparently, the shooting was caught on camera and proved the story the agents told was false. But it has to be worse than that, right? Pretti and Good were both murdered in broad daylight, both caught on camera. Agents lied about what happened in those cases, too, and video proved it. THOSE agents aren’t facing any legal action, so why these guys? I’m thinking it must have been pretty bad. Thanks, MAGA…

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Speaking of shootings, yesterday was the anniversary of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which 17 people were killed and 17 more injured. THAT shooting, according to MAGA, was impossible to stop and should have resulted in every human being everywhere carrying as much fire power as they could manage every time they stepped out the door. I mean, obvs.

It was totally unlike that completely provoked Alex Pretti killing in which Pretti dared to have a gun he never even drew, let alone used. See how that works? I pay attention to what MAGA says about one shooting, then I listen to what they say about the next shooting. It becomes pretty clear MAGA positions shift quickly, as needed. It’s no wonder nobody believes anything they say…

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During Pam Bondi’s tantrum on Capitol Hill the other day, she was asked at one point to acknowledge the Trump/Epstein survivors sitting in the room. She had been asked if her corrupt DOJ had interviewed any of the survivors. They haven’t. They don’t wanna. The survivors were asked to stand and raise their hands if they had reached out to the DOJ to provide information, but were rebuffed. This was Bondi’s response.

Bondi ignores Epstein survivors.

That’s some pretty aggressive, intentional “not-noticing” going on, there. I like how the survivors are looking at her. They don’t seem to feel the same shame Bondi is pretending not to feel. But that look, or non-look as the case may be, speaks volumes to me.

We now know Bondi is a co-conspirator. I mean, even if she wasn’t before, she certainly has embraced the cover-up wholeheartedly. At a minimum, she’s aiding and abetting after the fact. This photo makes it clear that Bondi has no intention of prosecuting anybody who engaged in the sex trafficking ring. None of the perpetrators, none of the clients.

There’s nothing about the Trump/Epstein files that doesn’t appear to be a cover-up, and one doesn’t cover-up honest, decent behavior. Thanks, MAGA…

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It remains true, as conservative doctrine has taken hold of the world, every aspect of life has taken a serious downturn, or is about to. In this case, I’m referring to Measles making a spectacular comeback all over the world. The UK just lost it’s “Measles free” status because the illness is so widespread there now. All of it – ALL of it – is unnecessary. This is just what the world looks like when people govern by hope and wishful thinking instead of relying on facts and verifiable information.

I recognize my own propensity to pitch the occasional (cough) epithet here and there but all kidding aside, it seems the world is currently being run by some of the stupidest people in history and we’re getting exactly the stupid results people might have predicted. No, DID predict. At this point, the main question is which stupidity is going to kill us first.

It could be the spread of easily preventable diseases. It might be the return of smog-filled skies. Maybe it will be the effects of climate change. Maybe it will be violence. Maybe it will be something else, I can’t say. But all of those treats are on the way. They represent completely unnecessary pain and suffering and they’re all being brought to you by conservative orthodoxy. Thanks, MAGA…