I don’t know why people are only calling for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election, which Donnie the Dumbass lost in spectacular fashion. He should step down. Period. His wife, Ginnie, gave the world the reason. She’s a bat-shit crazy con who insists the Dumbass won the election, despite having no proof to support her claim. (Lindell’s pages of 1’s and 0’s notwithstanding.) That’s not really the problem, though. One is allowed to have a crazy – or maybe just stupid – partner. It should be noted that Ginnie is a dyed-in-the-wool believer in the Q-Anonsense. Is Clarence?

TWICE, since trumpery’s big lie began, Clarence has ruled in favor of her. No, I know. Officially, he’s not ruling for his crazy-ass wife. He’s ruling on some “contested” point of law. It just happens that his opinions don’t support law, but DO support protecting his wife. Coincidence, see? In February of 2021, shortly after the CheetoJesus attempted a coup on January 6th, Pennsylvania Republicans file a suit – I think it was called Pennsylvanian Snowflakes Sad About the Outcome vs the United States but you should check that. Anyway, Pennsylvanian snowflake Republicans tried to whine about the outcome of the 2020 election all the way to the “Supreme” Court. The case being frivolous, the High Court rejected the suit. Thomas dissented, even as he included in his dissent the reality that the election had been “free from strong evidence of systemic fraud.” So, why would Thomas support a suit he KNOWS has no merit? I think he was writing a plea to his wife…

THEN, in January, 2022, the Orange Moron tried to block the release of a trove of documents from when he polluted the Oval Office to the January 6th commission. Hard to blame him, really. They just keep revealing one incriminating detail after another. That suit went to the “Supreme” Court, too. The whole court agreed the Dumbass couldn’t make the case he was trying to make. Well, everyone but Thomas. Thomas dissented, with no stated rationale for his vote. It seems, now, his “rationale” was that the documents were going to implicate his wife in the coup attempt – as they have done. She was at the January 6th rally, though she maintains she left before the riots. Likely true, since she had to get to the command post to help support the freaking thing. Fortunately, she wrote much of her criminal, traitorous behavior down. Apparently, she’ll be taking the Fifth before the January 6th commission soon.

For his part, Clarence got some unnamed “sudden infection” as the information became public and has been unavailable for comment…

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Biden’s rhetoric about Putin is ratcheting up. In a recent speech, Biden said of Putin, “This man cannot be allowed to remain in power.” The White House, of course, followed up with “clarifications.” No, we’re not calling for the destruction of the Russian government. What the President “meant,” apparently, is that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors. Oh, okay.

Personally, I think Putin should be removed from power completely. But I don’t think calls for the Russian people to remove him will find any traction. It’s hard for day-to-day citizens to rise up against their leadership, no matter how bad – or how corrupt – that “leadership” is. Most rational, thinking Americans know, for example, that Dumbass trumpery was grifting from the moment he took power in the Oval Office and not only did they NOT rise up, they won’t put the criminal in jail. Hell, he might even run for President again. In the same way the Dumbass counts on important support from the “poorly educated” – whom he loves – Putin has a small but powerful cadre of supporters at his back, too.

In the meantime, Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine continues unabated. He has kind of shown the world that the Russian bear is more of a Russian bear cub – unless they use significantly damaging weapons like chemicals or nukes. The Russian troops don’t want to be where they are and seem to be surrendering military equipment to the Ukrainians as quickly as they can. Putin apparently issued a statement saying he never really intended to take ALL of Ukraine. He only wants the Donbas, an eastern Ukrainian region. It would be like if Putin invaded California, saying he “just” want control of Florida and Georgia. I think most Presidents would say no. The Dumbass would likely consider the request. Okay, on second thought, America would be MUCH better off without Florida or Georgia so, any takers?

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I kind of love the idea that the Dumbass is suing Hillary Clinton over the investigation into his Russian connections. I’ll bet. Trumpery thinks Clinton and others “colluded” to create the idea that his campaign was in league with Russia – based on nothing more than his team’s collusion with Russia! The nerve! Remember, there have already been a number of convictions.

Trumpery is a first-class moron. (Finally! First class at something…) Hillary is smarter than the CheetoJesus in her sleep. But Donnie the Dumbass just keeps going, doesn’t he? I STILL say, Satan takes care of his own…

I just wanted to take a moment to say that I think the current GOP-generated trumpery about Ketanji Brown-Jackson’s qualifications to sit on the “Supreme” Court should be seen by every thinking American as a good sign. I mean, look, everyone knows the Republicans were going to find the Democratic nominee unacceptable for some reason. Everyone knows the Republicans hated the Democratic nominee – whomever it might eventually turn out to be – from the very moment they heard the Democratic president got to name a nominee. It’s not outrage. It’s theater – and I’ve seen this play so many times, it’s boring and not at all impressive.

So (yawn) the Republicans are pretending the good judge has been lenient with certain cases involving the defendant possessing – not producing – child porn. The lies suggest she’s pretty much okay with child porn and generally allows perpetrators to walk as often as possible. Those, of course, are the sound-bite statements – made with no rebuttal allowed and actually intended for campaign ads in their home states down the road. Honest media responded to the fraud nearly immediately by pointing out that Judge Brown-Jackson’s sentencing record in these cases is perfectly in keeping with practices all along the Federal bench. They pointed out that even judges appointed by the Dumbass make very similar sentences.

And they couldn’t even stick to just the fraudulent charges. They just HAD to misrepresent her actual record over and over and over again. In short? It’s a smear, not a “concern.” Today she gets to offer rebuttals to their bullshit. So, listen, if that’s the best the GOP can come up with to try and defame her? Good.

Welcome to the “Supreme” Court Judge Brown-Jackson…

Okay so, a couple of years ago a laptop became the focus of much chatter in the conservative bubble. According to a dude who knew a guy, his friend had discovered an abandoned laptop ostensibly that belonged to Hunter Biden. The contents of the laptop were copied and made into a transcript that was passed around. As it happens, the laptop, itself, was passed around, too, before finding it’s way to the Justice Department. As a group, the left – myself included – was pretty much unimpressed. A dude who knew a guy? A laptop handled by nearly every prominent GOP enemy of Joe Biden?

As it happens, though, this particular story in the conservative bubble turned out to have some legs. The laptop DID belong to Hunter Biden and the Justice Department may have found evidence of crimes, mostly him trying to make money off of the coincidence of being Joe Biden’s son. No word on the chain of custody issues but I’m guessing we’ll hear FAR more about it during any legal processes that may arise. For clarity, they may NOT arise, either. Justice has confirmed the laptop did belong to Hunter and has some concerning emails on it but has NOT said flatly Hunter committed crimes. The issues on the laptop are currently under investigation.

Still, it’s enough for the cons. The cons see the problem of ne’er-do-well Hunter as proof that Joe shouldn’t be President. They just refuse to grasp that most people didn’t vote for Joe because they thought Joe was the right man for the job. People voted for Joe because he wasn’t Donnie the Dumbass. Period. But, oh, they GOT Hunter, didn’t they? Some of my con friends have taken the attitude that they “got” me, too, because I remain unwilling to accept stories based on flimsy assertions and because I wrote in this space in October of 2020 that I wasn’t buying the story. (MyBaconPress acknowledges and regrets the error.) It’s a difference that can be highlighted between thinking Americans and conservatives. Thinking Americans will consider the new evidence and re-think their positions, updating accordingly. For instance, I didn’t buy the laptop story based on the assertions I had heard at the time. Now that confirmation has come from more credible sources, my current position is that if the evidence supports the charges, Hunter should pay the price. Simple, straight-forward, and honest.

For their part, once they’ve been given a position-du-jour, cons cannot, will not, are absolutely forbidden from changing their prescribed viewpoint on that topic at any and all costs. They don’t even notice when they’re arguing against their own stated positions, like, the very next day. Also, they’re amazingly adept at narrowing their focus to the point where they see crimes and nepotism in their political enemies but never notice similar (or worse) behavior from the pampered offspring of their political heroes.

What? Hunter Biden may have taken a job he wasn’t qualified for, that he only got because of who his daddy is? LOCK HIM UP! What ABOUT Eric, Don Jr, and Ivanka? They get what they get because of their obvious skills and qualifications. Sure. Obvious. Really, I wish the cons were able to widen their view and realize, that’s just the way life works for the useless offspring of the very wealthy. If they didn’t have their entire lives handed to them for nothing, they wouldn’t have anything at all.

The actual fight, here, is NOT left vs right. It’s the Haves vs the Have-nots, and the Haves are keeping the Have-nots squabbling over crumbs while they steal all of the cookies. In the meantime, though, I’ll let the cons have their day squawking over Hunter’s laptop. They don’t get many opportunities. A story from the conservative bubble that turns out to have legs is a VERY rare thing…

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In this once-great nation, these days, it seems like we’ve intentionally chosen to take a path in which, if we do ANYTHING at all, we do it wrong. I can’t explain this phenomenon. It can’t be an accident. If it’s your thing to make bad decisions while trying to make good decisions, you’ll occasionally make a good decision. So to be so consistently wrong on every front, at every turn suggests to me somebody somewhere is TRYING to make the worst possible choices at all times. Sadly, whoever that mysterious someone is, seems to be having tremendous success.

Take Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time is just a scam so energy companies can squeeze a little more money from the Have-nots when the weather starts changing. It serves no other purpose, despite whatever stories one might hear. People REALLY don’t like the time changes. They’re very disruptive to daily life. Evidence shows the time changes result in small but noticeable increases in car accidents, acute health problems and mental health challenges. So, Congress, in it’s infinite fealty to wealth has decided to stop with the time changes. Great. THEN they say they want to keep us on Daylight Saving Time all year round. D’oh!

It’s a typical Capitalist hellhole decision. It builds the money-gouging into the system once and for all. But think about the deepest part of winter. It will STAY dark longer into the already dark mornings. Think about the kids – YOUR kids and grand-kids – who will have to make their way to school in the dark. This is not just theoretical, either. In 1974, America switched to Daylight Saving year round. The change lasted less than a year and was revoked after several early morning traffic accidents involving children. Yes, changing the clocks sucks so we should…kill more of our children. Good. Great call. Oh, by the way, science says (sorry to mention science, cons) it’s bad for humans. It conflicts with our natural circadian rhythms. The correct move is to kill the time changes by switching to Standard Time, once and for all. Let individual Americans decide how they’ll spend their time on summer days.

But these days? You give Americans the chance to do the wrong thing, they WILL DO the wrong thing. Every time…

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Recently, it struck me that Cult 45 was created – and is maintained – using the exact same tricks and techniques that have been used by extremist conservative “Christian” cults throughout time: a narrow focus on their preferred leader, a narrow focus on their preferred “realities,” self-imposed isolation combined with dogged determination to avoid and disregard any and all information that conflicts with said preferred leader, and absolute, blind obedience to same.

The followers will die – and kill – for their beloved leader. They readily give up all of their possessions. They readily offer up their young daughters for the sexual pleasures of the Chosen One. There are no bridges too far or lines they won’t cross. Hell, they can be conditioned to attack their own country, threaten to kill their own leaders, defend a nation’s adversaries.

They’re the same techniques used by David Koresh and his ‘Branch Davidians.’ They’re the same techniques used by Jim Jones and his ‘People’s Temple.’ They’re the same techniques used by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite in their ‘Heaven’s Gate’ cult. They’re the same techniques used by Charles Manson and his ‘Family.’ Pop quiz: which of those ended well?

The conservative media and the ‘Trumpsters’ are operating on a much larger scale using the same tips and tricks as Adolph Hitler and his Nazi’s to “scale up” their ethical collapse. I fear the end will be just as bloody as those forerunner groups and, for the life of me, I can’t figure a way to stop it before the bloodshed…

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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives thought the very worst thing any human being could do to any OTHER human being was to participate in a protest that somehow blocked traffic. OMG, how they screamed at the inconvenience! They even started trying to pass laws allowing motorists to simply kill or maim the protestors, using their cars as weapons. After all, those people (wink, wink) were “only” protesting centuries of abuse and maltreatment – supported by volumes of evidence SO undeniable, the only way it can be contained is if no one ever even gets to know about it. (It’s a curious form of the ‘personal responsibility’ claptrap they’re always on about.)

But the whiny truckers blocking traffic on the border between Canada and the US? Heroes, all…just ask the cons. Each and every one of those protestors? Why, simply standing up for freedumb. Of course. How DARE they be asked to engage in a bit of social responsibility? The nerve! There was an AstroTurf followup protest staged in the US. A bunch of the whiny little bitches drove around Washington DC to what was reported as a FLOCK of “birdies” – the finger kind, not the winged kind – aimed at the babies. Apparently, some of the snowflakes got their “feels” bruised. Me? I’m laughing. Forrest Gump’s mom was right: stupid is as stupid does. Nobody does stupid better than a con…

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Every time I see Joe Biden’s mug stuck to some gas pump with the “I did this” slogan next to him, I know one thing: the person who stuck the sticker has no clue. About anything, really, but, in this case, the reference is to how the world oil market works – or doesn’t, as the case may be.

It’s just so easy to work a con into a frothing frenzy of outraged stupidity…

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Apparently, the world won’t confront Putin directly because he has nukes. I get it, but I also think it’s kind of dumb. He’s always going to have nukes. Does that mean he always gets his way? He just gets to pick a country, any country, and invade because he STILL has nukes?

“Oh, no,” they say, “but direct confrontation might lead to World War III.” It might not, too. Putin has kind of demonstrated that, aside from his nukes, his army doesn’t seem to be all that together. Do you think old ‘Murdering Vlad’ realizes that if he nukes one of his neighbors, he’s nuking Russians, too? Like it or not, nuclear fallout doesn’t respect boundaries or borders. It kind of reminds me of the scene in ‘Blazing Saddles’ when Cleavon Little holds a gun to his own head and threatens to pull the trigger if anyone moves – and everyone else drops their weapons!

I have to acknowledge, there is always the possibility that he’s been holding back but that seems stupid, too. If he wanted to take the major cities using a Blitzkrieg kind of strategy, it would have made sense to send in overwhelming force. Putin didn’t do that. So, he seems to be counting heavily on the fact that he HAS nukes, even though he can’t actually USE his nukes. (BTW, the world’s timidity in attacking countries with nukes explains perfectly why Iran is so focused on getting them. But that’s another essay.)

To be clear, I’m not pro-war. I think, like most Americans, we’re all effing tired of fighting after George’s Stupid Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it wouldn’t be a US response, it would be NATO, not some pretend “coalition.” Besides, the response wouldn’t be about invading a country for no reason other than greed. (In fact, that seems to be what Putin did.) This is about a madman who has come to believe that he can’t be stopped. This feels more like Germany in 1938. The Nazis claimed Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler got away with that because the world let him, agreeing that, well, yes, they HAD been Germany, once, so, it was probably okay. (Sound familiar?) Those were fiat takeovers backed by the threat of military force. Then they invaded Poland.

Putin got away with his fiat takeover of Crimea in much the same way. Then he tried the “used to be ours” crap on Ukraine. That’s still his justification. The world seems to be accepting that clearly fraudulent argument in fear of the nukes. (I’m sure the people of the First Nations are wondering if “used to be ours” might work on the North American continent – if, perhaps, world governments would turn up their bellies and just…give it back.)

I don’t know if I’m right. But it feels like we’re not avoiding war by allowing the Russian Strongman to run roughshod over his neighbors. It feels like we’re just making worse the inevitable war of the future…

That putz Putin seems to be trying to take a page out of the Dumbass playbook: simply state your preferred reality and then insist everyone around you embrace that new, false reality. Above all, stick to your story no matter how stupid and no matter how easily debunked. On Saturday (March 5), he gave a speech in which he claimed that the sanctions being imposed on him for his illegal invasion of Ukraine are “akin to an act of war.” I see it differently but even if it were true it would be FAR less so than invading one of your neighbors, wouldn’t you say? He also claimed that Ukrainians defending themselves run the risk of putting the Ukrainian state in peril. “The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood,” Putin said. “If that happens they will have to be blamed for that.” Not him and his war of aggression. No. The Ukrainians. For defending themselves. Sounds like an abusive spouse…

Just like the Orange Moron, he’s out blaming everyone else for his own actions and failings. Just like the Orange Moron, whatever sanity he may have had at one point has taken a powder. I stand by my assertion that his madness seems likely the result of his isolation during Covid. Have you seen the photos of that nutball at one of his forty foot long tables or in rooms so big his advisors have to talk to him via microphone? I think the distance could be about not catching the virus but, in fairness, Putin has poisoned so many people, he could just be scared someone might try to poison him right back, as they should. (More on that in a minute…)

Oh, and he threatened to widen his war to include Europe and the rest of the world. At this point, he doesn’t seem to have the military strength to do that so what do you think his threat refers to? The west limits it’s assistance in Ukraine to equipment and logistical support, fearing the madman with the nukes might use them – always the nightmare scenario when the topic of nukes comes up. But even THAT is too much for Comrade Putin. He wants everyone to look away while he attacks a peaceful, sovereign nation with the intention of returning control of Ukraine to “Mother Russia.”

The Russian people seem to be unhappy about the attack and many of the Russian soldiers report that they didn’t even know they were going to war. They thought it was a training exercise. So, it appears that nobody likes this invasion except Putin. Well, Putin and the American far right. That group has been trying to snuggle with Putin for years because they see him as a strongman and a beacon for white superiority. Besides, it’s easier for them. They don’t have to actually LIVE under Putin’s brutal rule so they get to fantasize about how awesome it must be. They COULD go there and find out but one does not see much of that…

As a sidebar, I read an article in the Guardian suggesting that both the far right AND the far left have embraced Putin. No link because the article is so stupid but the headline is, ‘Far Right and Far Left Alike Admired Putin…’ The writer gave many modern examples of far-right scoundrels who openly fawn over Putin, including Donnie the Dumbass, Marie Le Pen in France, and Boris Johnson of the UK. He offered two examples of far left supporters: Karl Marx and Oscar Wilde. Seems like a real reach claiming lefty supporters when you have to go back to the 19th century to find them. All right, I’ll give you Eugene Debs, too, but even he died in 1929. Putin wasn’t even born until 1952 so my bet would be none of those guys were actually Putin fans. Conservatives will just say anything to try to make a “point”…

The stupidity of the racist right has always boggled my mind a bit. I continue to hold that the best argument against White Supremacy is the white supremacists. Drooling morons, all. Donnie the Dumbass is, of course, their current poster child but Marjorie Taylor Green wants in on that action to the point she went and spoke at a recent racist rally in Florida. (Of course. Where else would it be?) Curiously, she doesn’t think racists should be “cancelled.”

When I was in the service, I learned that the Geneva Conventions – humanity’s attempt to civilize war – make clear that invading a sovereign nation without provocation is a war crime. It’s also a war crime to attack civilians. Putin’s tortured logic in attacking Ukraine was that he wanted to “denazify” the country – from it’s JEWISH President. Apparently, like so many conservatives, Putin wasn’t paying attention in History class. Russia keeps insisting they’re NOT targeting civilians. They just keep hitting, maiming, and killing them accidentally in a way that couldn’t possibly be avoided – unless one had chosen not to attack at all in the first place. The world has already begun to collect evidence.

The thing is, I think the only way the madman stops his illegal war of choice is for someone near him to kill him. (He seems to think so, too.) Yes, I know. I’m suddenly agreeing with Lindsey effing Graham fercrissakes. But the math is simple. The Ukrainians don’t have the ability to take Putin out. The west won’t get involved because Putin has nukes – which he’s now threatening to use either way so, good call there. That leaves some humanity-loving Russian to step in. To quote Sting, “I hope the Russians love their children too…”

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Have you seen the news that the Dumbass apparently lied to his dumbass supporters when he told them he would march with them in their seditious insurrection at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021? His private White House schedule has come into the possession of the investigating committee and shows quite clearly he had other plans. He talked THEM into it, then skulked off to watch television. He’s a liar and a coward and it was all just more trumpery…