The Balloon Backfire…
OMG that freaking balloon! Cons lost their collective little minds over the thing and Biden was in a no-win situation with them. (Their favorite kind.) We saw it over Alaska. Was it a weather balloon blown off course, as the Chinese claimed? Was it a spy balloon? No one knew. Biden elected to keep an eye on the thing and shoot it down over water so we might have a chance to recover some of it and find out for ourselves what the heck it was doing. That gave the cons an opening to criticize him. “WHY NOT SHOOT IT DOWN NOW, NOW, NOW, RIGHT NOW?”, they demanded.

Of course, if he had ordered it shot down immediately, everyone would have had to cross their fingers hoping that none of it hit something or someone and the payload would have vaporized upon impact eliminating any chance of discovering it’s true purpose. (It was 7 to 11 miles up.) Then the cons would have shouted that he should have waited until it was over water. He was going to lose – in their minds – either way. How predictably boring.

Then we all found out the Chinese flew their weather/spy balloon over the US THREE times during Former Guy’s maladministration. Former guy did what he did about everything that didn’t affect him personally: nothing. I haven’t heard a word from the cons about that. I guess letting the Chinese have the information they wanted was the answer the MAGA cons preferred…

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The Durham Report Backfire…
Okay, you knew it was coming, right? The very moment you started hearing the cons whining about the weaponization of the DOJ you just KNEW there was going to be evidence of the cons weaponizing the DOJ. Now the Durham Report is coming out and what it shows, mostly, is – and you might want to sit down for this – that was really Former Guy who weaponized the DOJ for his own evil intent.

After his 2016 campaign was caught communicating with Russians – the kind of Russians Team America feels it’s important to monitor – an investigation was launched into why. Some of his people (low level, obviously) were even convicted. That apparently irritated Former Guy. The investigation, not the convictions. He doesn’t really care about those. Hell, he’s used to it. It seems like someone from his inner circle gets convicted nearly every day. But he DID launch an investigation of his own. The idea, see, was to investigate the investigators and prove they were evil little minions out to get him.

So, lackey Bill Barr appointed an ex-US Attorney General named John Durham to look into it. Oh, man, the right went nuts. The cons were sure they were about to uncover corruption on a never before seen scale. “You just wait until the Durham Report comes out!,” they’d scream, “Then we’ll ALL know!” It became a common refrain. The investigation went on for years. Now it’s winding down and you’ll never guess what Durham found. Oh, you got it. Nothing, that’s right. It turns out, it was Former Guy and Barr weaponizing the DOJ, not the other way around.

Based on available evidence, Barr and Durham worked FAR too closely together and made many public statements about the investigation, always leaving the impression that they were THIS CLOSE to proving the corrupt “deep state.” The current accusations against them suggest they were timing “reports” for political purposes to try to spruce up Former Guy’s image or tarnish the images of his opponents. Durham is accused of using unethical techniques to smear political opposition. More than one of his investigators quit because of it. Well, at least we can say the cons were finally right about something: Now that Durham is coming out, we DO know the reality – and once again, it shoots the cons, not the DOJ, in the feet…

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The Shout-at-the-President Backfire…
I sure liked the way old Sleepy Joe conned the cons at the State of the Union address. By now, we all know the cons will shout at the President during his speeches like petulant teenagers first chance they get. He casually mentioned that some Republicans, not a majority, not even a large number but some Republicans want to sunset Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Republicans, in a now standard display of their lack of decorum, started screaming their damn fool heads off. “NO!” and “No way!” over and over. Marjorie Taylor Greene even got to call the President of the United States a liar. (They love that and she sends out fundraising letters immediately. ‘I called the DemocRAT President a liar. Will you donate to my campaign?’)

After Biden let them scream, yell, deny, and insist he’s misrepresenting for a little while, Biden smiled and said, Well, then, we all agree, no cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Good. So now, they’re ALL on record saying that, no matter what, they won’t even try to touch any of those programs. That won’t stop them, though. The cons HATE those programs for the same reason they HATE the Postal Service. All of them prove, daily, that government CAN do things right and that really violates their dearly held pretension that government can never do anything right. Hell, the postal service did things so well the cons had to install a saboteur, Louis DeJoy to try and bring it down. Slowly but surely, he’s doing it, too. (Truthfully, I don’t know why the man still has that job…) But I digress.

Just because Biden snookered the cons into swearing loudly and in public they wouldn’t attack those programs doesn’t mean they won’t attack those programs. They have no shame so there’s nothing to stop them from back-peddling. Still, it was fun to watch. It turns out, it was just a couple of cons making that proposal. He just gave them the rope and watched them hang themselves.

Thanks to the cons, the country, as a whole, seems to be declining steadily and rapidly but the political machines still work just fine. The cons had their pushback out pretty quickly, showing a much younger Biden on the floor of Congress giving a speech about trying to cut Social Security four times. That did quiet the left a bit but, of course, it wasn’t the same. Based on their long-standing positions (and actions) cons want to end those programs. Biden was talking about suspending increases for a short time and raising the eligibility age. Delaying payments would have saved some money, a de-facto “cut.” Don’t try to explain nuance to cons, though. They have enough trouble just grasping reality, they’re never going to grasp nuance…