You know what I learned last night that I didn’t know before? Last year, 2022 (but…you knew that), the United States of America was a net energy EXPORTER. That means we produced more than we bought. This, after having to listen to the cons whine about trump greatness/Biden failures for the last two years.

Cons keep saying gas prices are so high in California because Biden cancelled a bunch of leases that weren’t being used, cancelled drilling IN ANWR (but not near ANWR), that had not produced a single drop of oil, and cancelled ONE arm of the Keystone pipeline project, the Keystone XL – that had yet to move one drop of oil, leaving the rest of the pipeline complex in place and operating like normal. The FACT that those three items had not contributed ONE DROP to our oil supply does not calculate into their “thinking” and it WILL not, either. That reality really hurts their talking point so… out it goes…

But this kind of post always gets a conservative response along the lines of “Yeah, you have your “facts” but I have my gut feeling and you have to respect that!” Um… no, I don’t. You, as a person, sure, but not your drivel. Still, I DO approach these things carefully because it’s a very complex subject and that involves looking into things. No, not “doing my own research.” Pumping a slanted question into a search engine and then browsing until I find the answer that fits my preconceived notions isn’t “research,” anyway. The best I can do is find relevant, factual information about a specific segment of the topic and highlight that information.

So Gavin Newsom goes on Hannity’s show on Fox Not-News and tells Hannity’s audience to “google 5.94 quads!” So I did. You might want to, as well. It turns out, the US is a net exporter of energy by a measure of 5.94 quads. Now, I’m going to keep it real, here, and confess I haven’t a clue what a “quad” is. Near as I can tell, a quad is some collection of British Thermal Units, or BTU’s, measuring energy output.

Okay, I can do a LITTLE better than that. (One sentence. Don’t glaze over.) A quad is one quadrillion BTU’s, equal to 183 million barrels of petroleum. And what THAT means is that the United States EXPORTED over a BILLION more barrels of petroleum than it imported. Keyword: “petroleum,” not crude oil. We still import more crude than we export but that has always been true – even under the criminal, rapist, fraudster, traitor.

You know why? While I was looking into (but not “researching”) this one segment of this one issue, I stumbled upon another fact I had not known. According to PolitiFact, most of the refineries in the United States can’t refine the oil we produce in the United States. So even though we already produce enough oil to satisfy our own domestic needs, we can’t refine the oil we produce so it goes into the world market. That means producing more American oil won’t do diddly squat for Americans.

Oh, but we are, anyway. This year, 2023 (but…you knew that), we’re on pace to produce more domestic oil than any other year ever. Even under Trump! So, why, in California, are we paying nearly $6.00/gal? Yeah, yeah, special blend and taxes, blah, blah, blah. Except, the national average is $3.70/gal. Newsom says that after taking everything “California” into account, the oil barons can justify an additional .85 cents per gallon. That should put our pump price at around $4.55/gallon. That extra $1.45 per gallon? Greed. Straight up, pure and simple. Greed. Well, okay. It could be a corporate play to harm the Biden administration by hobbling the economy but, either way, it isn’t justified by market forces. It turns out? Corporations aren’t our friends…

Now, I know, all this is just factual evidence proving that Biden hasn’t done the damage to the energy outlook of America the cons pretend he has – and what good is that when up against a MAGA con’s preferred beliefs? Nothing. Their delusions are impenetrable. But the rest of you can now know that when they complain about Biden harming the oil economy in this country? They’re just wrong. Turns out, despite the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling conservative bunk, Biden is Presidentin’ better than Trump ever did – (but…you knew that…)

I haven’t seen much about this, yet, but I suspect it’s coming. I’ve heard that in the NY Fraud trial, Judge Engoron has ordered the trumpery organization to disclose ALL secret investors. The suspicion that he’s worth FAR less than he pretends in public has dogged this guy for a long time. Oh, but he has all those lovely buildings, right? Uh, maybe. Maybe not. Maybe, the buildings are owned by “silent” investors and managed by the Trumpery group. For a fee, of course.

I suspect we’re all about to find out why the trumpster is so submissive to Putin. If you’re not MAGA, you’ve seen 45 fawning over Putin like a child with a new puppy. The thing is, nobody can figure out why. Trump treats EVERYBODY like something that just fell out of his butt. There are two exceptions: if you can do something for him (but only WHILE you can do something for him) and if he owes you something he can’t slither out of. Like, say you’re a brutal murderer, and the leader of a country, and a large, perhaps majority shareholder in someone’s buildings. 45 isn’t likely to pull any of his shenanigans on someone like that. He just does as he’s told. And I’ve NEVER seen him do as he’s told like he does when Putin does the tellin’…

It could be Saudis. He let them get away with murder, too. Literally. But my money is on Putin…

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On the other end of the lap-dog scale, there’s still Aileen “Loose” Cannon and she’s still trying to help the defendant in the trial she’s overseeing. She recently agreed to hold up the process for her trial because Trump asked her to. Um…while she makes some ruling or something. No word on when that will be. I’d guess, quite a while from now. One of the very few people who want to see Trump beat these charges as much as Trump is Judge Cannon.

It’s rather unusual for a judge to be on the defendant’s side in the United States. The judge isn’t supposed to take sides. Then again, there’s very little about trump that is usual… or reasonable… or even rational. Okay, so he has some breathing room in the Case of the Classified Documents. Fine. This was scheduled to be his last case anyway, thanks to his obsequious acolyte, Loose Cannon.

If she doesn’t just dismiss the case, outright (something I suspect she’s just itching to do) he can show up later… from prison… in an orange jumpsuit. It turns out, our legal system can accommodate multiple trials in multiple jurisdictions…

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Hey, just a quick hit, here, but the FIRST thing Matt Gaetz did after ousting Speaker McCarthy was start fund-raising for ousting Speaker McCarthy. Ousting the Speaker of the House was just a fund-raising stunt? It’s illegal to campaign from official premises (like the floor of the House). Using official proceedings for campaign purposes seems exactly like campaigning from the floor of the House. Where is Jack Smith when you need him?

Oh, yeah, I thought this was funny. Gaetz said (threatened?) that if McCarthy managed to save his job as Speaker, he would be “working with the Democrats” – the ostensible excuse for tossing him out in the first place. But in tossing the Speaker? It was Gaetz who worked with the Democrats! Only 8 Republicans voted for the removal, all Freedumb (emphasis on “dumb”) Caucus members. The rest were Democrats who have no interest in a Republican Speaker. Matt Gaetz did the Democrats’ bidding!

Gaetz and the Democrats sitting in a tree…

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There are a LOT of people upset with old Sleepy Joe for starting up the wall of trumpery again. He said he wouldn’t, now he is. Here’s the thing. My biggest complaint about the wall was, is, and will remain that the wall won’t have any helpful effect. It quickly proved to be little more than a minor impediment to those seeking entry. Joe knows that. Perhaps getting back to the wall was part of a back-room deal to get Texas to take down their razor-wire barricades that have been killing people. Killing people for showing up seems a bit…extreme.

Also, this is campaign season. The cons are pounding him on boarder security, because that’s what they’ve got. He gives them their wall. Now what? They get what they want, so he blunts that argument. But, since we all know the wall won’t stop ’em, the immigrants will keep on immigrating. For his part, Biden says he’s only spending money that was already allocated by Trump.

Meanwhile, people keep fleeing Venezuela, especially, in droves. Venezuela has essentially collapsed. Communism, you know. At this point, communism is a proven failure. Don’t be a communist. Be a Democratic Socialist so we can have a country that works again. But I digress. Biden is re-starting a program to send people back to Venezuela. That just seems mean-spirited, to me. Kind of like watching a snail make it across the sidewalk, then picking him up and putting him back where he started.

On the other hand, NO nation (especially our rapidly collapsing country – thanks, cons!) can just absorb millions of people in such a short period of time. Like it or not, there IS a gap between doing the right thing and doing what’s possible. Let’s say you see someone drowning. You swim out to help them but, in their panic, they put up so much fight they start to pull YOU under. The moral thing was to help but now, the victim won’t let you. Is it immoral to let the person go, KNOWING how it will end? I don’t think so. TWO deaths won’t help anything.

On the other hand, many of these south of our boarder nations are struggling thanks in large part to American “nation-building.” If we contributed to the problem (and surely we did), do we not have an increased duty to help? That is, maybe you try a little harder to save the drowning victim if you’re the one who pushed him into the water in the first place.

There are no good answers but I’m a fan of trying to solve the problem at the source. If we CAN’T take them all but they CAN’T stay where they are, we have to find a way to make their homes livable, so they don’t have to leave in the first place. But we can’t do that, either. (What, more nation-building?) Sadly, that’s as close to an “answer” as I can get. I don’t know HOW to help them where they are so they don’t have to leave. So I’m curious. Imagine you’re the President. It’s your responsibility now. What would YOU do?

It’s been a busy few days for Republican insanity. They’ve gone into overdrive. Trump showed up at one of his trials long enough to scowl at the judge and be disruptive in court, then step outside and confess to the very crimes of which he stands accused – over and over again! Then, after nearly three full days of trial, he got bored and flitted back home. He said he already knows what the judge is going to do. Yeah, he knows what the judge is going to do – because the judge has already done it. The judge in the case determined the fraud was SO evident, he didn’t need a trial. It’s called Summary Judgement. (What, after all, is a reasonable defense against claiming your 10,000 sq ft apartment is really a 33,000 sq ft apartment?)

I’ll tell you this: I don’t blame the dumbass Don for absconding back to Mar-a-loco. He’s heading to jail, soon, and I wouldn’t want to spend my last days of freedom in court, either…

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Lots of people on the left are making hay about the fact that Alina Habba didn’t check the “Jury trial” box, laughing at her “mistake.” If you listen carefully, you’ll eventually hear that, in New York, these kinds of trials are usually handled without a jury. She might have asked but, likely, would not have gotten a jury anyway, so why ask? Not checking that box just shows she understood how the process works. Had she checked it anyway? The left, I suspect, would be trying to belittle her for checking the box when “everyone knows” that’s not how those trials are generally conducted.

I don’t like these little made up talking points. They’re so, so… Republican! They do it because it’s all they’ve got. If they don’t make stuff up, they don’t have anything to bitch about. But on the left, we don’t have that problem. The right is generating true scandal and stunning stupidity at a fast and furious rate and there’s no sign they plan to stop until they implode completely. The sooner the better, if you ask me…

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Case in point? The ouster of the Speaker of the House – because he (Oh, Heaven forfend!) worked with Democrats for the benefit of the nation. Really? That’s an unforgivable sin? Compromise? Look, the art of politics is compromise. Nobody likes it because nobody gets all they want. You get a little, you give a little. You win some, you lose some. But not the MAGA cons. Not the Freedumb Caucus. “NO! No compromise! You do it OUR way or you don’t do it at all!”
“Um… your way is stupid.”
“OUR way or not at all! We count, you don’t!”
“Well, we’ll wait while you’all figure it out. Um…do you think you can do that?”
“Oh, we’ll show YOU! We’re forming our firing squad right now and the circle is almost complete! You’re gonna look SO stupid!”
“Um… a circular firing squad? Is that a good id–?”
“OUR WAY OR NO WAY! FIRE!”

So McCarthy’s out. The stupid sector has the power to destroy, but not the power, or, let’s be real, even the desire to build. The Dems, I suspect, will stay with their preferred choice for Speaker, Hakeem Jefferies. And why not? That’s who the Dems want. That’s who they’ll vote for so it’s up to the cons and they don’t have the votes. The far-wrong will insist on some MAGA moron. Still sane Republicans will prefer someone, well, sane. Impasse.

On the up side, the House can conduct no business until they have a new Speaker – except naming a new Speaker. (Oh, well, they CAN throw Pelosi out of her adjunct office. Petty tantrums are ALWAYS on tap for cons…) This means they’ve limited their own capacity to inflict the very damage they love so much. Good. The down side is, they’re still babies with a loaded weapon: the debt ceiling battle the Democrats refused to forestall.

So this will be pass-the-popcorn fun for awhile but it’s going to start getting serious in a few weeks and downright dangerous if it goes on for a whole month and with these guys? That’s always very possible.

As of right now, the nominees for the Speaker job are Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Donald Trump. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says one must be a member of the House in order to be Speaker. Truthfully? I’m surprised these idiots overlooked the obvious: Jesus. There’s nothing in the Constitution that requires the person even be real, either, so Jesus could take the vote in a walk – if he wasn’t sitting in a courtroom with Trump, ignoring everybody else…

Jordan stands accused of ignoring sexual abuse when he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State University. He denies any knowledge. His wrestlers don’t believe him. Steve Scalise got shot by a gun-toting nutball and STILL thinks every nutball should tote a gun. He seems kind of incapable of learning, explaining his attraction to the Freedumb Caucus. Donnie the Dumbass says he’s too busy campaigning to spend time in court. But he COULD take time to be Speaker, suggesting he HAS the time, he just doesn’t want to be in court. (Hard to blame him.)

The cons made a big point of a new rule when they took over: nobody could be Speaker if they were under indictment for a crime that could put them away for two or more years. Trump is looking at like, 25 to life. But Republicans are NOTHING if not “flexible” about positions on any given subject, at any given time.

They’re supposed to having a closed door meeting this coming Wednesday to iron the whole thing out. They need to do it in private because someone has explained to them that the last Speaker-choosing debacle exposed them for fools, going 15 rounds. They’re going to STAY behind closed doors until they have the 218 votes one of them needs to get the job – or until one of the Freedumb Caucus members decides to make the whole process public for their own whiny reasons…

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I was talking with a like-minded friend the other day. We were joking about how deceived the far-wrong faction of this once-great nation is and he asked me, “How do we know we’re right and they’re not?” Fair question. Here’s what I told him.
“In order for our side to work, we rely upon science, logic, and evidence. In order for their stories to work, they have to reject science, logic, and evidence…”

Trump during the 2016 campaign: Yes, I’ll release my taxes just as soon as they’re ready. (Never did.)

Trump during his maladministration: Yes, I’ll release my taxes right after the audit. (Never did.)

Trump during his indictment for fraud: This is a private company. I was never going to release that information! (Emphasis added…)

Hey, at least he finally uttered a truth – and proved, yet again, that the MAGA cons are fools to trust him…

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Here’s the letter I’d like to see:

‘Dear Mr Trump:

We here at the Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office take our work very seriously. We strive for accuracy as our primary goal. As such, based on intrinsic property considerations, we valued your Mar-a-Lago property between $18 million and $26 million dollars. We have noted that you have objected, quite vociferously, to this valuation, claiming the property is worth “at least 100 times that amount!”

If pressed, we here at the Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office will have to admit, we did not take “intangibles” into account when arriving at our assessed value. But your (admittedly informal) request to re-assess using intangibles such as “Brand” has been honored and caused us to re-evaluate our earlier conclusions. We are STILL able to support your claimed valuation based on the property alone but in this one case, because you’re you, we’ve decided to accept your valuation and have reassessed the property known as Mar-a-Lago at your seemingly random number of $1.8 BILLION dollars. ($18 million x 100). Going forward, you will see this as your new valuation and property taxes will be billed accordingly, setting your new tax rate at $18,360,000 per year.

Unfortunately, the re-assessment means that you’ve been underpaying your property taxes for the 38 years you’ve owned the property, as well. As a result, you now have an outstanding tax assessment in the amount of $690,703,200 dollars, which is due a payable immediately. We expect this past-due amount in our office no later than end-of-business on Friday, October 27, 2023. Otherwise, we will be forced to initiate foreclosure proceedings to recover the outstanding tax amount now due.

If you would like to appeal this decision, please contact this office during normal business hours and an appeal will be initiated. But in truth, as we’re only using your stated valuation and you’re such a proven business genius (who are we to argue?) we don’t expect anything other than payment in full in our office on or before the due date.

Sincerely,

The Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office’

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When grand-daddy Drumpf had to change his name because he had brought so much shame on the family name through cowardice in Germany, he chose ‘Trump.’ The word ‘Trumpery’ was in common usage at the time. It means “fraud.”

How apropos that Drumpf trumpery is costing the family the last of the fortune started (reportedly) through human trafficking in the Klondike during that gold rush…

No, not the shorter days of winter. I’m talking about the launch of the new session of the ‘John Roberts’ Supremely Kangaroo and Criminal Court.’ They re-launch their assault on humanity, freedom, and the Constitution starting on the first Monday of every October, and, apparently, there’s nothing anybody can do to stop them. Today is that dark day.

I imagine the bribe taking Alito and Thomas have pocketed lots of bribes, er, I guess we’re supposed to refer to them as “gifts from friends.” I don’t know why. A bribe is a bribe is a bribe. Why can’t we call them bribes? As for me and my house, we shall use the words that describe the acts. Bribes.

The current makeup of the corrupt highest court in the corrupt land includes at least four members who got their jobs by committing perjury and two (that we know of) pocketing bribes as quickly as rich people can hand them over. They sit outside the court on their lunch hours with little cardboard signs, ‘Will make rulings for money.’ And they will, too.

I’ll tell you this: I figure we all, to the extent possible, have to just ignore the “rulings” of the now-moron court until better (hopefully, FAR more honest) people are there. It’s likely going to take years before the damage they’ve done (and will continue to do) can be undone, if at all. I’m still rooting for a criminal investigation of the bribery but I haven’t heard an official peep about such a thing…

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On the brighter side, today is ALSO the day 45’s New York fraud trial starts. He’s already lost the most important bits. The business has been ruled a regular fraudster, the business licenses have been cancelled, the assets are being put into a receivership for liquidation. There are a few questions remaining. Like, how much should Trump pay? Letitia James wants $250,000,000. I can only speculate on how hard the MAGA con base is going to have to work in order to pay that off for him. (They’ll do it, though.)

Trump doesn’t have to go but he says he’s going to. Apparently, his “lawyers” aren’t being disruptive and/or stupid enough, so he has to bring pro-level disruption to the courts. He may even win a couple of these smaller fine points but his New York business is already dissolved.

People worried about him transferring the assets to someplace, or someone, else – and he tried. Letitia James ran interference. (She’s smarter than him.) Now there’s no business to transfer and the buildings aren’t his to sell. It’s important to remember that we hear all the time about Trump’s “real estate empire” in New York, which has been true, but it’s also true that Trump didn’t build the empire. His criminal forebears did. When MAGA cons started shouting about what a business genius he surely is, I kept wondering what they were talking about. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of even a SINGLE business trump has started that succeeded, if by “succeeded” you mean, “became a going concern.”

I once read in Forbes Magazine an estimate that Trump had inherited nearly $8 BILLION dollars but at the time of the article, had already managed to lose three-fourths of it. I have never seen anything from 45 that would cause me to believe he’s anything but a huckster who started with a fortune. I seriously doubt he’ll ever be able to re-build that which he has now lost.

But with Trump, lying, playing “poor me,” and whining are ALWAYS an option and the trumpster has not let this opportunity pass. Trump is complaining about the judge in the New York case citing the Palm Beach County Assessor’s valuation of $18 million for Mar-A-Lago. Trump claims, based on his “gut,” that it’s worth $612 million, because of his “brand.” (You know, the exact crime that caused him to lose it all in the first place…)

I dunno. I think his “brand” is pretty well tarnished at this point. If Mar-A-Lago IS worth $18 million without his “brand,” potential buyers are probably more like, “Okay, I’ll give you $10 mil. Your “brand” has kind of hurt the place’s reputation…” Besides, Trump is a “motivated seller…”

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But, MAGA cons still hold sway in the House. Although the government shutdown was averted for the moment, it was only for 45 days. The plan is to get the stubborn, selfish, stupid, and obstructive element of the House to get reasonable, in the next 45 days, and support America. What no person has accomplished in 45 years, Kevin McCarthy has to pull off in 45 days.

Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz, the MAGA moron “representative” from Floriduh, is set to try and recall McCarthy because McCarthy got all reasonable and stuff. I HAVE noticed other House Republicans avoiding the question, though, as though they may not really be into the idea. I suspect Gaetz will try anyway. It’s an interesting stand-off. If Gaetz does try and fails, the Freedumb Caucus will lose much of it’s force. If he doesn’t try, then McCarthy successfully called Gaetz’ bluff – and the Freedumb Caucus loses much of it’s force.

Gaetz seems to have manuvered himself into a ‘heads I lose, tails I probably lose, too’ situation. Now that’s some political skill…

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I think it’s funny that Melania is so worried that Donald might really lose it all, she renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with him. She got more money for Baron put into a trust. I assume her personal allowance went up substantially, too. I hope she’s stashing it someplace safe. As his wife, the courts may call it community property and come after that money, too. Wouldn’t it suck to have to spend that much time with Donald Trump and then not get the pay-out you contracted for all along?

Then again, that’s Trump’s proven M.O. Maybe Melania should have expected to walk away broke…

Yesterday, I predicted the government would, indeed, shut down. Whoops! Not yet, anyway. I’ll call that a swing and a miss. (That’s just the risk of writing these things…) MyBaconPress doesn’t exactly regret the error, but certainly it should be noted… and so it is…

In this “stopgap measure,” support for Ukraine has been dropped – so they only passed something that has good hope of harming people. Sheesh! Republicans…

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These days, the MAGA cons are all-in on circumstantial evidence. They have to be. It’s all they have, really. So, Hunter Biden knows a guy who talked to a guy who did something wrong, meaning JOE Biden is guilty as hell. They just KNOW it. But circumstantial cases, alone, are bad law. One takes a series of possibly unrelated (and, often, untrue) facts and/or information, mashes them together into a tableau, then reaches an unsubstantiated conclusion.

These days, Republicans aren’t too concerned about the holes in their circumstantial cases. Since THEY make up the cases and the cases are all (obviously) against Democrats, Republicans don’t see any problem. If a circumstantial case is all they’ve got, they’ll run with it. Now, explaining the problems with circumstantial cases to a Republican won’t stop them. They’ll simply choose to not believe any information offered them on the topic from their “opponent.” (read: “Fellow Americans…”)

So, today, I thought I’d make one up against their favorite guy. Fortunately, on our side, we don’t have to rely on circumstantial evidence since we have SO MUCH of the real, verifiable stuff on hand. But we could. Now, please note: I don’t want to be sued for defamation, here, so it’s important to note that I have NO legal evidence supporting the conclusion I’m about to draw. While the individual elements are true and correct, they do NOT support my conclusion. They’re circumstantial, and that’s the point. But the key? I’m making this up. So…here we go…

Donald J. Trump should be locked up for molesting Ivanka Trump, starting when she was about 12 years old! (Shocking, right?)

The first block in my “wall of assumed guilt” is that Donald Trump (among others, of course) was a known friend of proven child molester Jeffery Epstein. Trump and Epstein liked to party together and Epstein, infamously, liked the “underage women.”

The second point. Trump has bragged, publicly, about walking in on beauty contestants in various states of undress during competitions. His comments were about the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants in which the contestants are adults, as though that, somehow, makes it less of a violation. But in 2016, Buzzfeed reported that Trump also walked in on underage women (15- and 16-year-olds) changing clothes in his Miss Teen USA pageant. Reportedly, one of the young ladies “mentioned the incident” (complained?) to Ivanka, whose reported reply was, “Yeah, he does that.”

Point three. When the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape dropped, I actually defended Trump in these pages. I genuinely thought it was locker-room braggadocio. My problem? I have actual regard for women. I simply could not put my arms around the idea that anybody might treat somebody – even a woman – with such disregard. Then we learned about E. Jean Carroll and, suddenly, ‘Access Hollywood’ wasn’t just hot air, it was an actual confession. Now the only question is, how many other women did he disrespect that way, just because “stars” get to “Unfortunately… or fortunately…”

Four: Of course, E. Jean Carroll. A court of law has now held him responsible – twice! – for exactly the sexual assault he described enjoying – and labeled him a rapist. The ruling suggests that Donald Trump sees women merely as sexual playthings, only on the Earth for his personal amusement.

Five: Trump is not a guy to deny himself any passing whim. If he wants to grab a woman inappropriately, he WILL grab a woman inappropriately. He does not deny himself any pleasure, any desire. He sees it as his “right,” being rich, or a “star.” If Donald Trump wants something, he doesn’t say “no” to himself – ever! And do you know what Donald Trump has always wanted?

Six: Donald Trump has stated, publicly and more times than people can count, that he wants to have sex with Ivanka, how great it would be to “date” his daughter. He’s been making this little “joke” since she was quite young, definitely one of those “underage women” he likes so much…

Point Seven: Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, served out her sentence (I mean ‘stayed married long enough to satisfy the prenup.’ Even then, she only walked away with two million dollars…) Then, she took her daughter and ran. Ivanka was about 12 when Tiffany was born. Maybe Marla had noticed that Ivanka had already caught daddy’s eye…

ALL of this suggests (but, notably, doesn’t “prove”) that Donald J. Trump should definitely be locked up for molesting Ivanka Trump, starting when she was about 12 years old!

So there you go. My seven point (but fraudulent) case that I just made up by mashing together a series of seemingly related events to suggest that Donald Trump molested Ivanka, possibly starting about the time Ivanka was 12. Remember, my conclusion is NOT warranted according to the rules of evidence but works QUITE well according to the rule of “look what I can make up!” I say again, for clarity, I do NOT say my made-up conclusion actually happened, even though we know the supporting points all did happen. My ONLY GOAL, here, is to show why it’s a bad idea to press circumstantial cases because one thing IS true: two can play at that game.

I’ll tell you this: This is a dangerous post. Someone could take my “case” out of context without my knowledge or permission and re-post the incriminating parts as real, making Trump look very bad. I wouldn’t want that to happen. I think some MAGA con should defend Trump to make sure they’re on the record. But how do they do that? Even if a MAGA con can dismantle my “case,” point by point, I can be just as stubborn and wrongheaded as any MAGA con so, sooner or later, they will be forced to demand proof – actual evidence, which, obviously, I don’t have. But when you do, you’ll be proving to the world you know the difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence…