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…

Another Day In MAGAmerica…

by MyBaconPress

MAGA morality. That’s an oxymoron, like Jumbo Shrimp, but at least there’s such a thing as Jumbo Shrimp. There’s no such thing as “MAGA morality.” They have exactly ONE principle: what’s best for Donny? I’ve long said MAGA will do anything if they think it might please 47. Americans suspected as much when MAGA started lying about everything, all the time. Then Covid-19 hit and they killed their elders – over a million of them – because they couldn’t confess trump’s failings.

But not only did they kill them, they celebrated killing them. After all, they died from “comorbidities” and everyone knows that if you die from comorbidities, you deserve to die. That MAGA attitude killed over a million people in this country. They pretend to support law enforcement – until trump tells them to attack the Capitol building and “fight like hell.” Then they’ll fight – and even kill – law enforcement. They pretend to love the Second Amendment. Guns everywhere, for everybody all the time. Until someone they don’t like has one. Then? Having a gun is clearly a death penalty offense.

Now we have this story about a father living in Texas. He’s an immigrant. He got into an arguement with his daughter, Lucy Harrison, aged 23 years. First, he defended trump from charges of raping girls by telling his own daughter that if SHE had been a victim, he wouldn’t care, since he has two other daughters who live with him. And I guess he wouldn’t have cared because then, he killed her. This is a photo of the woman, a young pretty blonde women killed by an immigrant.

Lucy Harrison, forever 23

According to MAGA, we’re supposed to focus on those. None of the other murders that happened that day “count” and none of the immigrants who didn’t commit crimes that day count, either. We just strip it down to the most basic, single focus photo and scream, “IMMIGRANT! ARGH!”

Oh, I should mention, this immigrant, a white guy, seems to be getting away with it. The details behind what happened came down to just a matter of his word against his dead daughter’s word and, being Texas, authorities readily accept the “accidental shooting” story because they prefer to. But make no mistake. I believe this man murdered his own daughter because she said something about trump that he didn’t like.

I wonder if MAGA is going to start showing pictures of this particular immigrant who killed a pretty blonde girl like they do with others. At least the others have been captured, tried, and convicted. THIS guy, they’re giving a pass and letting walk. It’s almost as if their interest in immigrants who murder is limited to one group…

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Bill Kristol is a pretty well-established conservative, right? He posted on Brand X, in response to reporting that ICEholes shot a man ten feet away from them and then lied and said he was attacking them. Kristol: “Does DHS ever not lie?” Bill Kristol has noticed, but MAGA simply will not and there are none so blind as those who will not see…

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Gallup announced they were going to stop tracking Presidential approval ratings and people are surprised. Not me. Gallup hasn’t been a decent or respectable polling organization since the founder died and the son took over. And isn’t that classic MAGA? Donny’s poll numbers are in the tank. They reflect only the enduring love of self-deluded MAGA but it’s likely even some of them are lying. So, stop taking the polls, eh? If there’s no reporting of disapproval, there’s no disapproval, right? Jenius…

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That racist video Trump the Pedo posted? The one that shows the Obamas as apes? The one trump knows nothing about because somebody else did it without his knowledge on his account late at night? The “somebody else” has never been disciplined nor even identified. Worse, 47 STILL doesn’t see what the big deal is. It’s just a simple, basic, long-understood racist trope. Why is everybody so upset? It just confirms what I already know: racists very commonly don’t know they’re racists…

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In yet another weaponization of the law, Team Evil tried to prosecute six members of Congress over a video they made that reminded enlisted people they don’t have to follow illegal orders. I mean, how stupid is that? “Hey, they can’t make you break the law.” “Prosecute that man!” Weird, weird response. No, I get it. The video came out in response to Donny murdering people in boats in the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes, the Pacific Ocean.

So, see, maybe it was some kind of an affront to 47 so they have to be prosecuted. I don’t think saying things Donny doesn’t like is prosecutable yet. Neither do the courts, apparently. A grand jury would not indict the targets and now a judge has blocked the regime from punishing Mark Kelly for his part in the video by busting his rank. It’s the right thing to do, in view of the simple fact that Kelly only stated a simple fact. Military members DO have an obligation to refuse illegal orders…

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I thought MAGA would celebrate Pam Bondi’s asshole performance on Capitol Hill the other day. She was SO effective at not answering any questions while shouting like a child and throwing tantrum after tantrum, she became a co-conspirator. You know, assuming she wasn’t already. I thought MAGA would celebrate her whiny, screechy performance, then decry a similar performance from any Democrat that might show up on scene and do the same thing. I was thinking Bill Clinton.

But MAGA seems to be unhappy with her useless waste-of-time performance as well. At least for now. MAGA is still allowed to get mad at Bondi. Bondi isn’t Donny. But MAGA media will explain to the rubes that Bondi is doing Donny’s bidding and they’ll fall right back into line.

“The Dow is over fifty thousand dollars!” That was Pam’s explanation for why it’s okay for rich people to rape our kids. That’s a dumbass excuse no matter what the situation, but most especially when one realizes the Dow isn’t measured in dollars. She’s evil and she’s an idiot. Based on the current regime, there seems to be a connection…

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On the “bright” side, um, if one can call it that, none of this is going to be much of a problem for us, here, in the near future. Team Evil has rolled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. An analysis found that enforcement of laws against polluters is nearly non-existent. Trump was named ‘undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal.’

In a completely unrelated event, a couple of days ago, a headline appeared in ‘The Guardian’ that read, ‘Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say.’ The first line of the article read, “The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.”

Scientists estimate that since the dawn of life on the planet, Mother Earth has shuffled off 99% of all species that have ever inhabited the planet. Said another way, it’s pretty clear Mother Earth doesn’t give a fig about any particular species one way or the other. If we don’t save ourselves, she’s not going to step in with some magical fix. She’s just going to shrug us off and try something else. Feel free to connect those dots…

Corruption On Steroids…

by MyBaconPress

I saw this sentence in an article by the Guardian, “The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption…” Hey, no question, eh? I can’t speak to the UK, but the US has become a cesspool of corruption under this regime. The only real question is, “Where ISN’T there corruption?” The article specifically referenced trump and the trump/Epstein files.

Why did the US fall to 29th place on the list? The report cited “the use of public office to target and restrict independent voices such as NGOs and journalists, the normalization of conflicted and transactional politics, the politicization of prosecutorial decision-making, and actions that undermine judicial independence.” MAGAmerica sucks…

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It seems inevitable that that would lead to this. The ICEholes are hiding their faces while they harass and brutalize people. The wear masks. It’s a crime to grab the mask and expose their faces so they get away with it. BUT… there’s a guy out there, called Dominick Skinner. He’s a Netherlands-based, Irish national and he created a website called ‘ICE List.’ (Click here.)

See, puppy killer KLAN – those are Kristi Noem’s real initials – said anyone working to identify ICEholes was subject to arrest. Skinner’s attitude? “I reposted that and said, ‘well, we’re not in the US, so send them to us.'” People started doing that and now he’s got quite the database of names.

The DHS says the ICEholes have to cover their faces for safety because of the increase in violence, ignoring the fact that the increase in violence comes from the ICEholes. Skinner had the same observation and added, “I always say that ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety. What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.” Hmm, I’d guess these incel losers would be used to being socially excluded…

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Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Republican (of course) from Wyoming, has finally decided she might be just a little bit uncertain about events surrounding the Trump/Epstein files. She bravely did her level best to ignore the issue, fearing that if she gets the information she might have to react. She said, “Well, initially, my reaction to all this was, ‘I don’t care. I don’t know what the big deal is.'” At this point, one has to have their head WAY deep in the sand to not know what the big deal is.

“But,” she added, “now I see what the big deal is, and it was worth investigating. And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong.” What was it that prompted her to finally speak up? The revelation in the latest Trump/Epstein document dump indicating a nine-year-old victim. Apparently, the thirteen-year-old didn’t bother her all that much, but nine? So now we know that Sen. Cynthia Lummis draws the line on sex with children somewhere between the ages of nine and thirteen…

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This might be a Mars/Venus thing. Men are bad enough, but I never understand women who have a tolerance for rape – most especially when the rapes are of children. One would think women would work together as a group to protect each other from that kind of violation. But we already know about Ghislaine, a woman who found and groomed girls for delivery to men. That’s not a “tolerance” of rape. That’s a predilection.

Then yesterday, we got to see Pam Bondi on Capitol hill defending the perpetrators. And she did it right in front of several of the survivors. Smiling. It was a psychopathic level of social disregard in my untrained, unprofessional opinion. It was hard to watch. She made it clear she has NO intention of holding any of the perps accountable. Apparently, in Bondi’s mind, those girls got what they deserved.

She didn’t like being called before Congress and she was sure as shootin’ not going to answer a single question that came from a Democrat. She brought a specially prepared binder called a “burn book.” It is what it sound like. It’s a book full of… well… burns, nasty things she can say instead of answering questions.
“AG Bondi, why was the name of that co-conspirator improperly redacted?”
“You’re stupid and crime was up in your district two years ago!”
“But you redacted the name of a co-conspirator only in the list of co-conspirators, apparently to try and protect said co-conspirator.”
“We fixed that twenty minutes after you pointed out that we’d been caught, you big bag of poo-poo!”

She had a page of “burns” for each of the Democrats participating in the “hearing.” Oh, and, likely, one for Republican Thomas Massie. What she did NOT have was a single relevant answer to even basic questions. I actually got angry watching. I mean, really mad. It took me a few minutes to cool off and regain my composure after I turned away. It’s times like this I wish I believed in Hell, where there should be a special place for people like Bondi…

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That racist video trump posted? The one that shows the Obamas as apes? The one trump knows nothing about because somebody else did it without his knowledge on his account late at night? A reporter noted that 47 frequently suggests Joe Biden didn’t know what was going on in his name and “now this racist video is posted on your social media – “

Donny interrupted and snarled, “I know a hell of a lot better than you do. You don’t know what’s going on. I know what’s going on.” So he doesn’t know anything about the thing he knows all about? Got it…

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Do you know how I know that even Donald Trump doesn’t believe there’s any evidence implicating Bill Clinton in the Trump/Epstein files? Trump hasn’t appointed Clinton to a high-ranking, White House position like he has with so many of his other co-conspirators…

Speaking of the Trump/Epstein files, I’m disturbed by a recent trend. We keep being told how many times someone’s name appears in the file, as if that’s something. It’s not, and I don’t care. I’m not impressed that trump, likely, shows up tens of thousands of times. I want to know about the people whose names come up in connection with illegal behavior. That’s all.

The rest is becoming a distracting noise. As an example, I believe Bill Clinton when he says his name is in the files, but not doing anything wrong. So do the Republicans, by the way. There’s a reason they want his testimony behind closed doors and it’s NOT because they want to be open and forthright. They’re working toward smear season because it’s all they’ve got, there…

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The jobs report came out Wednesday. It was expected to be so bad, the regime issued early warnings. Apparently, you just have to look at it right and you’ll see how great it is. “No,” we’re told, “lower numbers are good.” We were told to expect lower numbers going forward. Look, I know trump is crashing the economy and people are losing their jobs in record numbers so, yeah, I’m expecting lower numbers going forward. It turned out, the numbers were better than anticipated – even by the regime.

We DO still have to take into account the “Keep Donny happy” fudge factor, though. Maybe the number was real, maybe not, but they certainly expected lower numbers. The regime told us the lower numbers are related to all of the “illegals” they’re deporting. But wouldn’t that create MORE job openings? It’s a bit insulting that they just lie about everything all the time, but it’s quite insulting that they don’t even try to come up with believable lies. The economy is crashing and the jobs report is very low because every move trump has made has been to benefit the wealthy while harming the not-so-wealthy.

“Wait, that last sentence suggests he’s hurting the not-so-wealthy on purpose.” Yep. We’re being ‘put in our place.’ We got a little too big for our britches wanting decent working conditions and livable wages. Now we get to see what life is like when our overlords are NOT so generous and gracious. It either that, or they get to see what it looks like when you’ve so infuriated 300,000,000 people all you can see is an ocean of pitchforks and torches.

The jury has yet to decide how it plays out but, if we let them, they plan to hurt us…

Nothing But Football…

by MyBaconPress

Well, that was, technically, a football game. I recognize the trappings. New England had no business being there. They ended up with fourteen points but not until Seattle was done. Once the game was secured, Seattle started the celebration. The fact that the “game” hadn’t ended yet wasn’t really relevant.

The Patriots ended up in this Stupor Bowl because of the benefit they gained from an easy schedule. A couple of things fell their way in the playoffs. I think if Bo Nix hadn’t gone down, the Broncos would have represented the AFC in the big game. But he did, so they didn’t. It might have been a better game, though.

It might not have been. Seattle played very well. Seattle came to play. Seattle earned their victory. No weird calls, no controversies, just good, clean, bad-ass football. I think the Niners have the potential for the same kind of defense, if they can just get their defense out of the infirmary and onto the field. It seems that being able to play your players is a real advantage.

Now seems a good time to point out that Seattle’s Quarterback, Sam Darnold, spent some time in the Niners Red and Gold under head coach Kyle Shanahan. Even Darnold credits his time with the Niners as having revived his career. He says he learned tons from Shanahan and Niner Quarterback Brock Purdy. Maybe Seattle should send Shanahan a ring – or at the very least, a thank-you card.

I noticed we all survived Bad Bunny. I’m not the person to comment on the halftime shows. I rarely watch them. When I sit down to watch football, I’m not really in a concert mindset. I DID think it was smart. The NFL has been trying to cultivate a following among the Spanish-speaking crowd. I suspect Bad Bunny’s performance went a LONG way to helping that goal.

As a sidebar, and just for fun, it should be remembered that the NFL and President Pedo have a history. 47 once tried to disrupt the NFL by investing in a rival football league, the USFL. The USFL wasn’t supposed to be a rival to the NFL. They scheduled their games in the off-season of the NFL, trying to avoid conflict. They played for three years like that. They ran into conflicts anyway.

Rejecting the competition, the NFL pressured venues not to sign USFL teams under threat of losing the NFL team. The USFL started drafting top talent into it’s league robbing the NFL of said talent for their league. The USFL was badly managed, financially. They were in trouble nearly from the beginning. So they conceived a plan. The “they” in that sentence? That was the owner of the New Jersey Generals, one Donald J. Trump.

The USFL moved their schedule to compete directly against the NFL, then sued the NFL for violating anti-trust laws. The idea was to try to force a merger. This next bit never really made sense, to me, and I presume that’s because there was some backroom crap. The USFL won their suit. They won. But they were awarded one dollar. One whole dollar. According to anti-trust laws, that amount was automatically tripled. They came away with three dollars.

The USFL folded and never played their next season, scheduled to go directly head-to-head with the NFL. Like everything else trump is associated with, the league lost money. Over $163 million dollars in 1986 money. More importantly, the NFL has never forgotten. In 2014, the owner of the Buffalo Bills, Ralph Wilson, passed away and trump tried to buy the team. The NFL rejected him soundly.

The Super Bowl can’t really live up to it’s hype these days. The NFL spends so much time and money telling us how great everything is going to be – and then it just… isn’t. The conference championships are almost always better games. The commercials were once a big deal but they’ve dropped off, too. The cost for those things shot straight through the roof.

Seattle Seahawks fans are happy. New England Patriots fans are not. Pretty much nobody else cares one way or the other. The season is over and a new season dawns. As of now, right this moment, the Niners are tied for first place in the NFC West with a 0-0 record…

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I’m going to stop with that. Yesterday’s game wasn’t very good but it DID offer a welcome break from the insanity that is the US today. I just had a nice time. I didn’t fret what the next crazy thing will be. I didn’t even think about him yesterday. He’s never far, though, and the specter of his return to my daily reality looms darkly in my windshield. So, just for today, nothing but football…

Our ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Moment…

by MyBaconPress

We all know that Donny likes to give the game away. He says the quiet part out loud. Inevitably, he tells us what he did, even the criminal things, especially the criminal things. The left likes to portray that as stupid, like, maybe, he doesn’t realize he’s telling on himself. As the Trump/Epstein file thing plays out, though, I’ve started to see it differently. I don’t think he’s accidentally “telling on himself” like the moron we know him to be.

I think he’s bragging. I think he’s letting us know – he’s done something again, he got away with it, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Hell, his entire legal odyssey has been about getting away with crimes using the money he has. Most people simply don’t have the resources to buy their freedom by buying the judge. (I’m pointing at you, Aileen Cannon.)

We all know the wealthy elite live a life of privilege. I suspect we all know they get away with crimes the rest of us don’t, too. After that, the only question for them is, “How far can we go?” I think that’s the whole point to raping the girls. He (they) did it to prove they could. Raping our children is the special little “treat” they get because they’re rich and powerful. I’ve come to believe this is, very much, a “Let them eat cake” moment.

There’s no evidence Marie Antoinette ever actually said those words – she was ten years old the first time the phrase appears – but the phrase was illustrative of the attitude of the French nobles to the masses, who were starving at the time. It reflected the fact that the gentry were living high on the hog, enjoying all of the finer things in life and doing what they wanted to do, while the masses were increasingly starving and desperate. Does any of that sound at all familiar in today’s context?

There’s a story in history known as ‘Droit du seigneur’ (‘right of the lord’), also known as ‘jus primae noctis’ (‘right of the first night’). During feudal times, the idea was that the lord of the manor claimed the right to deflower any young woman on her wedding night. Although there’s no evidence of anyone actually doing so, stories like it go way back in history. Those stories reflect the power and privilege of the “haves” while reinforcing the subjugation and lower status of the “have nots.”

In both of those cases, the message is clear: If you’re rich enough and powerful enough, the law doesn’t apply to you. How better to prove that than get away with otherwise illegal things? And that brings me to the worst part. I think 47 brags that he gets to rape our children because of who he is, because he DOES get to rape our children because of who he is. We, the desperate masses, are being told right now, in real time, every day and to our faces, they get to rape our children if they want to.

Despite his lying claims, the Trump/Epstein files contain tons of incriminating evidence against the guy. Lots of other people, too. But I’ve come to agree with Jon Stewart who says nobody else in the files is going to jail. Jeffrey Epstein went to and died in jail. Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting, comfortably, it seems, in a minimum security prison still enjoying many of the finer things in life, though, admittedly, it IS still prison. But certainly NOT what most people envision when they think of prison.

We KNOW other people appear in the files. Rich and powerful people. We’re watching all of this garbage play out, “Ooh, whose name appears in the files and how many times?” So far, trump holds the record. I guess because he’s the biggest raper, the best raper. But all of that distraction is starting to feel like corporate media protecting rich and powerful people, possibly themselves among them.

It’s just a waste of time to learn that Roy Wood, Jr or Micheal Ian Black appear in the files in the context of television shows they made. I don’t CARE who was using Epstein’s plane to get around, so long as they were just using Epstein’s plane to get around. It’s noise and innuendo and as long as it IS noise and innuendo, both sides can use the vague reports to insinuate wrong-doing on the part of their political opponents. But it doesn’t have to be vague.

There is (was?) recorded evidence against these wealthy, privileged elites committing their crimes with these young ladies in the form of DVDs. Each disc was labeled with “[rich guy]+[victim]” and the date. So, you pick up the first DVD, type the name of the [rich guy] on a piece of paper, and set the disc aside. Then you pick up the next disc and type THAT name. You keep doing that until you’ve gone through all of the DVDs. (Don’t skip Donny’s.) Then you release that list of names. Easy, right? Straightforward, right? It might not even be all encompassing but it’s a great place to start prosecuting.

But nobody is doing that and nobody is going to do that. It’s infuriating. I find myself wondering what the masses are going to do about it. When they say, “We get to rape your children,” do we just shrug? ARE we going to let them get away with THAT, too? There are clearly no cops on the beat to turn to. The cops are protecting the rich, not the kids. What do people do when the cops can not, WILL not act?

The French people rose up. Marie Antoinette found her royal head rolling regally down the street. Perhaps there’s a clue in that. John F. Kennedy said that when you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable. I’m now waiting and watching to see if the American people are really just going to accept what we’re being told, begrudgingly or otherwise…

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“I didn’t make a mistake.” More truth. He didn’t make a mistake. He did it on purpose. He posted the video that depicted the Obamas as apes, a classic trope of bigots everywhere. He knew what he was doing. He’s trying to distance himself and blame others today only because the reaction was so bad, even from his own evil people. But this is just more Donny, telling you a truth about who he is. It wasn’t a mistake. It was intentional…