I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher and his guest made the point that the 91 felony indictments against 45 are seen by the left as legal problems, but dismissed by the right as over-doing the persecution. And of course they dismiss them. That’s what they’re told by their media. They readily believe it, of course, because they know THEY don’t have any compunction about lying to try to make a case – and we all see the world through our own filters.

That is to say, when you know YOU lie, you believe EVERYBODY lies. When you know YOU make up charges to frame a political opponent, you believe EVERYBODY makes up charges to frame political opponents. But the conservative media works all day, every day to help, pumping out “rebuttals” and “explanations” that don’t really make sense if you delve into them. But, since the cons won’t delve into them, the lie-mongers are safe.

Cons in the house are trying to frame Joe Biden for something and, because Hunter has drug issues, they decided Hunter was their best weapon against Joe. It hasn’t worked out that way. Not one bit. But they keep trying. So the FBI received some information about Hunter and Joe receiving $5,000,000* each from Burisma. They hadn’t verified the information but the cons in the House found out about it and ran with it. The FBI warned them that the information was, as yet, unverified. The cons ran with it anyway.

Turns out, nope. The FBI informant was lying. He was trying to feed the FBI misinformation he was getting from the Russian government. But MAGA had run with the story already and they’ve decided to stick to it. So, the minute the fraud was exposed, the GOP doubled down and the conservative media bubble started cranking out “articles” about how it was really Hunter, after all. So the cons get to believe whatever they want.

Part of the conservative story is the Democratic effort to revive the Russia, Russia, Russia story. Revive? Did that story ever go away? 45 had control of the DOJ when the final report was released. He had a compliant AG, who did his bidding (legal or not). The GOP controlled the Senate and refused to impeach him. He managed to successfully bury the most damning parts of the report – but NONE of that proved he wasn’t in bed with the Russians. It just killed the political arm of the conversation.

In the upcoming election, I don’t worry about 45 being elected by MAGA. I worry about 45 returning to the White House because of the Russians. I know that sounds a bit crazy and I want to make clear, I’m not questioning the machines. I absolutely question the people in charge of the machines, though.

We’re all finding out, right now, exactly how much damage Republicans have done to the American judiciary by installing conservative loyalist crackpots. We also know that MAGA loyalists WILL allow nefarious people to tamper with the voting machines. It’s not speculation. It happened in 2020. So why is it so hard to believe a MAGA loyalist might connect the machines to the internet and let someone dial in and “adjust” the information? It’s not like it has to be done on every machine in every precinct in the country. There are only a handful of states in play and it doesn’t take much in those states to make a difference.

So, I’m worried. And from the things I hear, I’m not alone. Consider; Americans have been trying to conduct trials to find out, one way or the other, if Donald J. Trump is, in fact, the head of a crime family. The evidence says he is but it takes a trial to prove it. 45 has made NO effort to prove his innocence. Instead, he’s seeking legal trickery and loopholes, not to mention direct intervention and other help from the courts he corrupted.

He’s doing everything he can to run out the clock and some of the conservative corrupted courts are doing everything THEY can to help him. And we all know, “run out the clock” means “get to the election.” If Donny faces trial, he goes to jail. If he gets elected before the trial, he gets his loyalist AG to drop all the charges and ends the cases – and that second part scares the heck out of Americans from sea to shining sea. Justice delayed is justice denied, right?

But why are Americans viewing the thing as one or the other? He goes down at trial or he gets elected President? What about, he loses the election? That’s a possibility, too. If he loses the election, the trials will have been delayed but not destroyed. Protecting him from the law is more likely to happen by his protectors on the corrupt Roberts Kangaroo Court.

So far, it looks like his loopholes and corruptions are working for him. That means that we, the people, have an obligation to beat this piece of…guy at the ballot box. Since there’s a concern about the integrity of the machines, don’t use the machines. Vote absentee, on paper. The Russians can’t dial in and change votes on paper.

Failure to gain convictions doesn’t automatically mean the Dumbass goes back to the White House. Yes, his followers are self-deluded loyalists whose love for him is faith-based. That means blindly loyal, no matter what. But there are more Americans who DON’T like Donny than there are MAGA who do. Yes, Trump is sweeping the primaries. But that’s all MAGA. And MAGA is the only group that will come out to vote for the guy in the general. Well, MAGA and the Russians…

I don’t know how it will play out, obviously. This is just a reminder that it isn’t ‘convict or get Trump in the Oval.’ There’s still the possibility, perhaps the probability, that we can just beat him at the ballot box and end the long national nightmare once and for all. Let’s do that…

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This relates: I see people around the country unhappy with some things Biden is doing, or not doing, as in the case of Israel. People say, “If he doesn’t do what we want, we won’t vote for him.” Really? Look, I think Biden has done a horrible job managing Israeli aggression in Gaza. But not voting for him? What kind of job do you think the Dumbass will do? With the exception of the tax cuts for the rich, he mucked up everything he touched. MAGA believes based on faith anyway, but rational people? You know better.

I’m sorry, I kind of despise it, too, but NOT voting for Biden over some single issue, even one as big as Israel/Gaza? You get Donny. It really IS that simple..

*I inadvertently wrote $5,000 received. It should have been 5 Million. MyBaconPress regrets the error.