Month: August 2024

Untethered…

by MyBaconPress

As it happens, the US has been providing weapons to Ukraine so she could defend herself from a Russian incursion into their sovereign nation. But the weapons came with a caveat. They couldn’t use American-made weapons IN Russia. That left Ukraine fighting a “limited war.” A limited war is a war in which there’s a line one side isn’t allowed to cross for one reason or another.

The side with the restriction cannot win a limited war. The enemy just attacks, then retreats behind the limit line and waits for a bit. Then they get to do it again, using up resources from the limited side. The US tried fighting limited wars in Korea and then again in Vietnam before giving up on the idea. We KNOW it doesn’t work so I don’t know why the powers that be would have shackled Zelenskyy like that.

But we’ve taken off the proscription. Ukraine is now allowed to use American-made weapons in Russia. Russia was making headway in Ukraine because they were able to concentrate their forces in one spot and attack. Ukraine responded by sending troops into Russia at a different point. It was very Sun Tsu. It alleviated the pressure where Russia was attacking by forcing Russia to move some of her troops to repel the attack.

Putin called it a ‘major provocation.’ Really, Vlad? A single incursion into Russia is a major provocation? What the hell does that make sending an army and invading a sovereign nation for more than two years?

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I saw a group of supporters of Palestine protesting the US involvement in the Israeli war. They were insisting they wouldn’t vote for Harris if she didn’t promise to stop sending weapons to Israel. Great. Then you get Trump. Do you think Trump would be better for Gaza and the West Bank than any Dem?

This is America. You don’t GET a “best choice.” You get the least crappy choice you can tolerate. The question is NOT, “Who will be best for Palestinians?” The question is, “Who will be worst for Palestinians?” Vote against that guy…

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A new slogan for Boeing: ‘Maybe we’ll get you there, but we can’t get you home.’

I think this is the first time I’ve ever felt badly for astronauts who made it to space. Thanks to Boeing cost-cutting measures, two astronauts are trapped at the ISS for the foreseeable future. It was supposed to be a few days but the Boeing craft that got them there can’t be trusted to bring them home safely so now they have to wait until they can hitch a ride home with someone else.

If Boeing wants to cut costs, I have an idea. How about the CEO? He made $32.8 million dollars in 2023. Maybe if that greedy SOB had settled for, say, $30 million, the company could afford to buy some quality (or even just decent) equipment. I know, they’ve installed a new CEO. Do you think he’s making more or less?

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I sure am glad all of those conservatives assured me climate change was all fake. Otherwise, I’d be growing more and more alarmed as the “fake” predictions keep coming true, one after the other, like clockwork.

Wait, the conservatives were wrong about something? DO tell…

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I saw a piece out of MAGA media that tried to smear Kamala by suggesting her rallies were little more than free concerts with political speeches at the end. I presume that’s because people are aware that a Trump rally is basically just a bad comedy show with NO political speech at all. Just riffs of his favorite slams, put-downs, complaints, and dire, terrifying, warnings.

We’ll all die! They’re so mean to me. We’ll never make it. It’s so unfair. We’re DOOMED, I just know it. Political persecution. The markets will crash. Keep me in court. Cities will burn. Only I can save you. Everyone will have to learn Spanish! Why do they pick on me? Rapists! Murderers! Drug mules! Terror! Disaster! Destruction! Me, me, me, glorious and beautiful ME!

That’s a scary world MAGA lives in. Imagine what happens to them every time they set foot outdoors. I wonder why those terrible things aren’t happening to everybody, just MAGA? Hmm, maybe they’re just making stuff up, eh?

No One Is Safe…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve long suspected cons are so loyal to Trump because they think AS cons, they’re safe from his attacks. But are they? As he melts down trying to find a decent and not hackneyed attack on Kamala, he has taken to lobbing insults at other Republicans, too. Their sins? Speaking truth about Trump. He hates that. He WILL work to tear you down, Republican or no, if you don’t kiss his ring.

But it’s not just that. He tore into Tennessee Governor Billy, no, Bill Lee, the chair of the Republican Governors Association, for being a “RINO.” (That’s a ‘Republican In Name Only.’ One can be a DINO, too…) What did Lee do? Well, months ago, Lee endorsed a candidate. More recently, Trump endorsed that candidate’s opponent. That puts Lee on the outs.

Meanwhile, the racist, criminal, and very OLD weirdo Donald Trump is trying to distance himself from his Public Display of Racism at the NABJ by calling Kamala “Kamabla.” Yeah, that should work, name calling. How VERY second grade. Except, nobody knows what Kamabla is or means.

I’ve digressed a bit. The point here is, even cons aren’t safe from his attacks – and one doesn’t even have to actually DO anything to him. If he even THINKS you’ve done something he doesn’t like, he works hard to bring you down, Republican or no, and right now, he’s just flailing at anybody and everybody as he falls further and further behind in the race…

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Recently, there was an economic blip, a huge sell-off in the rich people’s casino. The GOP immediately dreamed of an economic crash and started trying to pin the hoped-for economic slowdown on Kamala, calling it the ‘Kamala crash.’ Had it been an actual crash, I STILL think it would be more closely associated with the specter of Trump seizing power in January, after losing the election in November.

The cons CAN steal the election. They want to, they have a plan to, and they can. They’ve put the pieces in place. But would the country just sit idly by and let it happen? Or, would the largest economy on Earth, the one so many other countries depend upon, be destabilized? Are the world markets spooked by the prospect of a Trump return, either in November OR in January?

MAGA lives in a dream world of delusion but the rest of the world remembers Trump’s first term. The rest of the world knows that the American economy was already suffering under Trump’s mismanagement even before Covid-19. His stated plans for his return promise to do even greater damage than he did the last time. Maybe, the closer we get to the possibility of his actual return, the more rich people feel like they need to protect their own positions…

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So, this mystery buffoon (I’ll let you see if you can guess whom) goes on Fox Not News and takes questions from bikers at the Sturgis rally in South Dakota. One person explained that rents are too high and asked what our mystery buffoon (it could be any MAGA) plans to do about it.

His answer? Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive! Yeah, you think I’m kidding. You think I’m poking fun at a mentally challenged person. You think I’m treating him like he treats disabled reporters. None of the above. Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive.

Okay, so that isn’t an exact, word-for-word quote. But it was absolutely his message. He said energy costs were causing high housing prices. (He’s wrong.) This is one of the falsehoods MAGA holds on to. The US is currently – that means right now, today – producing more oil and gas than we ever have before in the entire history of the once-great nation. But nobody told MAGA and they think we’re not drilling at all. (They’re wrong.) Besides, the US is mostly incapable of refining the oil we take out of the ground under our feet. In short, we HAVE to sell it. Drilling more just improves oil company profits. It doesn’t lower prices at the pump one cent.

The food gouge HAS increased the price of bacon – just like they’ve increased the price of everything else. Greed kills. Greedy grocery chains aren’t the reason that guy’s kids can’t find a decent place to live at an affordable price. That’s Wall Street greed. Totally different.

Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive. Dear MAGA, I know you love him. I know you’re going to vote for him, but you’re voting for a moron…

Walz Vs Vance…

by MyBaconPress

When Harris announced Walz as her running mate, most people I know said, “Who?” The more we find out about Walz, though, the happier I think most lefties are. He was a good pick. He was an unknown pick the day he was announced but his approval numbers just keep climbing. Walz is bringing people into the fold, increasing the number of people excited to vote for the ticket.

When Trump announced Vance as his running mate, MAGA said, “What?!?” The more we find out about Vance, though, the LESS people like him. Not just MAGA, everyone. He was an unpopular pick the day he was announced and his approval numbers have only fallen since. Vance is alienating entire voting blocs at an alarming rate, driving voters away. He’s lost women, independents, and Black voters. His approval among college-educated voters has declined 28 percent! By their own words, they prefer the “poorly educated” anyway.

One of my favorite things about Walz is that he’s funny. He’s going to be fun to listen to in speeches. Oh, I also found out he’s not rich. Like, he has no investments and doesn’t even own a home. That sounds like a school teacher to me. LOTS of school teachers can’t afford to buy their own homes these days. Walz really IS just a regular guy.

For reasons I can’t imagine, Trump took almost all of last week off. He just sat at Mar-a-Lardo, perhaps trying to come up with some clever name to call someone, and sent Vance out to do the campaigning. Was that supposed to be a charm offensive? It didn’t work. People don’t like Vance. He’s weird.

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What the hell is it with that weird old guy? Trump held a news conference. He was trying to hit Harris on the fact that she’s been out campaigning and not doing pressers, but first, he had to have a presser himself in order to blunt criticism. But holding a press conference and spewing lies? I’m not sure that’s going to get you anywhere.

I’d sure like to know why he’s so obsessed with crowd size. It goes all the way back to his inauguration in 2017. He didn’t draw nearly the crowd most newly elected Presidents draw and it really frosted him. He has spent years trying to convince somebody, somewhere that he draws large crowds. It’s fairly easy for him, because when he doesn’t, he just pretends he did. Hey, I don’t care. Pretend what you want but I’m not going to pretend with you. During his presser, he claimed he drew more people than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did at his “I Have A Dream” speech. He didn’t. He never has. He never will…

He said no one was killed on January 6th. That’s in keeping with the MAGA lie that the whole thing was a peaceful, “unauthorized tour.” It’s also incorrect. Ask Ashli Babbitt. Oh, you can’t. She’s too dead, having been shot in the head trying to storm the Senate chamber. Maybe you could ask Brian Sicknick? No. He’s the cop that died after battling the crowds at the Capitol – as a direct result from having had to battle the crowds. Let’s set aside the five other cops who committed suicide later. Just one of those names was enough to prove the weird old man a liar.

Cons keep trying to pretend Kamala taking the nomination after Joe stepped aside is some kind of coup. They really need a coup attempt on their side to try and balance the scales from their own efforts, so they call everything a coup. For clarity, there was and is nothing criminal or even problematic about a political party picking it’s preferred candidate. Just because Trump wishes he was running against Joe and with a decent VP pick, doesn’t mean the Dems have to choose Joe or a lower, Vance-level VP pick…

He claimed the economy would be perfect in every way had he been elected in 2020. Easy to say, old man. I’m not sure anybody who knows what they’re talking about would agree with you and since you were NOT elected in 2020, it’s all hypothetical. Since we’re just making things up, I can just as easily say that if you had been elected in 2020, everybody in the country would be homeless and jobless, disease riddled, starving and suffering in every possible way. Go ahead. Prove me wrong in a fantasy scenario. It turns out? ANYBODY can just make crap up…

He said 20 million people came across the border during the Biden administration, maybe more. First, there’s no support for that number. He just made it up. Second, even though the cons keep trying to smear the Dems over the border, it was the Republicans who killed the best bill we’ve had on the topic in years – and they did it on Donny’s orders. Dear MAGA, you can TRY blocking meaningful action on a topic and then blaming your opponents for no meaningful action. But nobody is going to believe you. We all know what happened, regardless of how many times you repeat the lie…

He’s still whining about being caught in his criminal activity, too. He keeps claiming state cases are influenced by the Justice Department. They’re not. In fact, as nearly as I can tell, ALL of his cases were, essentially, initiated by HIM. If he hadn’t sexually assaulted that woman, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t stolen from his charity, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t cooked his books to pay off his illicit lover, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t stolen all of those documents, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. See the pattern? I sure do…

He claimed he “went down” in a helicopter with Willie Brown. He said they had an emergency landing. He claimed, “This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was, he was a little concerned.” Willie Brown says it never happened. Did Trump confuse his Browns, Willie for Jerry? Nope. Trump DID tour fire damage with Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom. Jerry says no such thing ever happened with him, either. Newsom confirms Jerry’s account. Does Trump really think it happened? Is he THAT disconnected from reality? Maybe he was just scared up in that helicopter and it FELT like danger to him…

He even claimed to have protected Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign! “I was very protective of her,” Trump said at his press conference. “Nobody would understand that, but I was. I think my people understand it. They used to say, ‘Lock her up, lock her up,’ but I’d say just, ‘Relax, please.’” That’s his actual quote. He claims he tried to CALM the crowd chanting ‘Lock her up!” We were all there, Donald. We KNOW you’re lying, but, hey… Do you?

According to John Bolton, you can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie. Bolton says you can’t tell the difference because you simply don’t care. You just say whatever you need to say in the moment and trust that no one will challenge you. It works when you’re surrounded by sycophants. Not so much when confronted by normal people who see you only for what and who you really are. I suspect that’s why you get to talk for two hours at one of your rallies but get whisked off the stage after thirty minutes when talking to actual journalists.

So I think the Trump presser has not worked well for Trump. It only exposed him more. He’s flailing. Mr. ‘I can solve everything easily’ can’t even come up with a decent campaign response to Harris/Walz? It’s been two weeks. So far, he’s come up with ‘Kamabla.’ That one is right up there with ‘covfefe,’ Donald. You’d better stay home longer and keep trying…

I’ll tell you this: The strangest election in modern American history continues to deliver. It’s been frightening, exhilarating, scary, comforting, predictable, confusing, exciting, AND boring – and there are STILL just under ninety days remaining…

Losing His Mind In Real Time…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, man is he losing his mind in real time? Trump’s initial response to Harris choosing Walz was “THANK YOU.” Then, as a measure of his weird little dinosaur-like reflexes, he waited five hours before posting again, trying to come up with a good zinger, I guess. When he did post, it was to call Harris/Walz the “most Radical Left duo in American history.” Five hours it took him to come up with that.

THEN, he went after…(checks notes) wait, is this right? He’s still going after Biden? He’s even pretending there’s some massive movement to bring Biden back as the nominee. If there is, it’s coming from the right, and I don’t blame them. Biden seemed beatable. Harris does not. They should be scared.

But then, he just…made up a scenario. He thinks Biden is going to don tights and a cape and just show up at the convention and wrench the nomination back from Kamala, realizing what a mistake he made stepping down. (More Trump projection.) Trump is still campaigning against Biden and I suspect it’s because he thinks Biden is easier to beat. But Biden isn’t running. I’ll tell you what, Don, I won’t vote for Joe, okay? That is some really weird, out-of-touch stuff, right there.

I suspect this goes back to the MAGA tendency to just make up whichever preferred reality you like best. But MAGA icon Ayn Rand warned them: ‘We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.’ To that end, I hope he keeps doing it. He’s not going to make much headway against his opponents, Harris/Walz, so long as he’s attacking his NON opponent, Joe Biden.

Either way, though, I hope he gets some new material soon. I mean, am I the only one who thinks Trump needs new shtick? The cons have a list of grievances. A very LONG list. I mean, gees, they complain about everything. They have treated this list as though it’s plug and play, meaning they could just replace names of potential opponents as needed. It worked, for a while. But suddenly, it seems to be wearing thin.

One of Trump’s earliest reactions to Walz was to pretend Walz would “unleash HELL ON EARTH.” Ooh, that’s some pretty scary, over-the-top, super-hyperbolic, weird-ass nonsense you’ve got going there, Donald. He put it in a fundraising email but the email was SO generic, it seemed as if it had been written days before the announcement and any name that came up could have gone in there. It was all just standard MAGA grievance stuff.

The problem with everything being the most extreme all the time is that it gets old, then boring. I believe Trump’s constant rending of clothes, clutching at pearls and swooning at the terrifying specter of someone who wants to help people rather than harm them has passed it’s sell-by date and gone completely bad. It’s boring.

After choosing Walz over his closest competitor for the role, Shapiro, the cons started suggesting Harris is antisemitic. It’s quite funny when bigots try to smear someone else as a bigot. They’re not very good at it. I’d call the whole ‘Harris as an Anti-Semite’ a swing and a miss. It’s a tough case to make, Harris’ supposed antisemitism, in view of the fact that her husband is Jewish. “So what?” shout the cons. “Our own reality!”

I’ll tell you this: That’s some really crazy, and really quite weird, stuff there…

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Oh, Gods it just keeps getting worse for Musk, doesn’t it? He bought a once very successful social media site known at the time as Twitter. He did it mostly as a political stunt. Twitter had taken to blocking objectionable content. They blocked racism, MAGA lies, fake news, false content, and some of the most egregious lying liars, things like that. Musk didn’t like that. Apparently, he prefers racism and other MAGA lies. So he bought the site.

Then, he started unraveling the site. He dumped the well-known, established name, Twitter, and renamed the site as the unnamed brand compared to the name brands in commercials, X. Then he began allowing racism and other MAGA media content on his site. (Keyword: “his”) Okay, so far, so good.

As a result of his decisions about what content he would allow on his site, advertisers started making choices about what kind of content they wanted their products associated with – and it largely was NOT what brand X was doing. So advertisers also made a choice about where they would spend their advertising dollars. See that? Elon made a choice about content, advertisers also made a choice about content. The advertisers fled the site.

Now Elon is trying to sue them. He says they’re depriving themselves of advertising results. I think they’re depriving HIM of advertising revenues. Elon wants to force advertisers to advertise on his site regardless of the content on the site – and he’s willing to sue over it, as if ‘Pornhub’ could force the Church of Latter Day Saints to advertise on their site. (I know, why would they want to? That’s not the point, here…)

Musk started this whole thing, he said, because he was so concerned about free speech and the First Amendment. Then he started blocking users who said things he didn’t like and insulting advertisers and now he wants to try and force advertisers back? I’m not sure he has a solid handle on the First Amendment – or, perhaps, just reality…

Going Nowhere…

by MyBaconPress

Well, the courts are starting to get the cases again. Tanya Chutkan got her case back on Friday and on Saturday denied one of Trump’s frivolous requests to simply toss the case. He pretended he was being prosecuted for vindictive and political purposes. He knows the truth. He just doesn’t work well with the truth.

Trump’s team lied that Trump was being prosecuted for “challenging an election” and others have challenged elections without prosecution making HIS prosecution just so unfair. Chutkan rejected the argument saying Trump wasn’t charged for simply challenging the election. She pointed out that he’s charged with “knowingly making false statements in furtherance of criminal conspiracies and for obstruction of election certification proceedings.”

Of course, this goes nowhere to go anywhere in our corrupt country. He has the Supremely Kangaroo Court in his pocket and most of them don’t give two figs about the law. They want to help rich people, in general, and Trump in particular. It’s the conservative way. It’s just inspiring, seeing people out there still trying to do the right thing, even as conservatives work so hard to make sure there IS no “right thing.”

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I wonder if there’s a connection between the market sell-off that’s happening right now and the fact that seven days ago, Rolling Stone Magazine printed an article detailing Republican plans to simply steal the election outright with as many as 70 Trump-loving, election deniers sitting on certification boards.

Despite MAGA rhetoric, I know quite well that if (when) Trump takes office again, the economy tanks. That’s what happened last time. He flat-lined the economy.
“That was Covid!”
“That was Trump’s miserable mismanagement of Covid.”

They simply don’t mention that the trends had turned the wrong direction before Covid hit. Trump’s policies hurt the economy before and they’ll hurt the economy again. People running corporations know this, even if the rank and file cons don’t. Successful investors know it, even if rank and file cons don’t.

Do you know what corporations and rich people hate even more than paying their fair share? Unstable markets. Unstable markets are very difficult to plan for. People close their wallets. Revenues plunge. Corporate stocks lose value, the greatest single sin in a brutally Capitalist society like ours. Tax cuts on profits aren’t very helpful to a company with no profits.

It’s hard to say, of course. The whole point of keeping interest rates high was to slow the economy. Now the economy is slowing. Now people are worried it might slow too much. People are fickle. It creates the possibility of a recession.

Do you believe Donald Trump is the guy to lead the US out of a recession, despite his near-perfect record of financial failure? You must be MAGA…

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Well, the ‘make the homeless disappear’ campaign is moving along pretty much as expected. The cops come in and clear a homeless encampment only to see the tents come back in a day or two. It’s perfectly predictable. It’s easy to write a “solution” on paper that bears no resemblance to real life. It’s stupid, but it’s easy. So, writing down “sweep them and they disappear” might be fun but it turns out? They don’t disappear at all. It turns out, these are living, breathing people and they lack the ability to simply “disappear.” They’re going nowhere. That, of course, is because they have nowhere to go. Not to put too fine a point on it, that’s the whole reason they’re out there in the first place.

As we all know by now, homelessness is essentially two problems. There are people who have been priced out of the market and there are people too damaged to make decisions for themselves. Maybe it was drugs. Maybe it was congenital. Either way, it always strikes me as a little cruel that in this, the so-called ‘Greatest Country On Earth’™ we have people incapable of caring for themselves left to care for themselves anyway.

It also strikes me as wrong that so many Americans can be left out in the cold just so a small handful of Americans can be a little richer. It remains true, if they don’t stop Wall Street from buying single family homes (and force them to divest) the problem will only get worse. I’ve heard several useless, ineffective, and/or cruel “solutions.” I don’t hear much about the one that would work, though. Too bad…

Another Piece In Place…

by MyBaconPress

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the cons have positioned as many as 70 pro-Trump election deniers in roles as election officials in battleground states. They work on local certifying boards. At least 22 of them have already tried to disrupt previous elections by claiming they don’t believe the results. No, they never – and I mean EVER – have or even offer any evidence. It’s just something they feel, something they choose to believe.

We all know the standard by now. If Trump wins, the election was “fair.” If he loses, it was not. Sure, it’s a stupid standard but that’s the one they insist on using. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all suffering election conspiracy theorists who will simply refuse to certify the results, even though that’s their job. It’s not optional. It’s their duty – and they intend to NOT do it.

I should add, the author of the article made clear that there was no evidence of some national movement to foist these loyalists on certifying boards. These are, apparently, just your average, true-believing, Trump loyalist MAGAS who moved themselves into those positions because they believe the lies being spewed from MAGA media. But the Deceived are always more dangerous than the Deceivers. The Deceived truly believe they’re there to “stop the steal,” never realizing THEY are the ones doing the stealing.

The reason this is important is that this is the first step in their coming January coup. Now, listen, I know people think that’s some kind of crazy conspiracy theory and maybe it is. But I know they have a plan to steal and the plan revolves around denying the results of any election Trump doesn’t win outright. Discovering the cons have already installed 70 people willing to do exactly that to subvert elections in favor of their beliefs adds support to the idea.

The only real way to stop it is lawsuits, though a handful of states can impose criminal penalties on certifiers who refuse to do their duty. Lawsuits, ultimately, end up in front of the Kangaroos of Roberts Corrupt Court, who rule for Trump. That will NOT be good for America. This is the reason I’d like to see Biden add four seats. Yes, it would start a tit-for-tat but it would save America in the meantime.

At this point, I believe Kamala is going to win the election. I believe the cons will try to install Trump anyway. They have the plan. They have the pieces in place to execute the plan. They’re ONE LIE – “The election was rigged” – away from initiating the plan. I can’t see a single, peaceful way to stop them. They went to all the trouble to put the pieces in place. They are so close to success, I can’t see any reason they would just…stop.

So the question is, how do you think this country will react? Will we just sit back and let a felonious, rapist, lying, little man steal our country? Will we hit the streets for some France level protest? How do YOU think America will react to such a chain of events?

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Apparently, Trump thinks that showing a photo of Kamala wearing a Sari proves she has always and only embraced her Indian heritage. He needed to do something after he told the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) that she had only recently “turned black.” He did that. He doubled down. “See? She wore a Sari once. That’s not black.”

Sorry, man, that’s not the way it works. One can embrace many aspects of one’s heritage. There’s no rule that says I can’t honor my mother’s (and, therefore, my) Indian history AND my father’s (and, therefore, my) Jamaican history.

You’re just wrong on this one, Donny. She didn’t just turn black. She’s been half black all of her life. You’re just wrong…and really weird.

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I also liked that Trump got called out for one of his racist scare statements at the NABJ. We all know, by now, scare statements are part of the MAGA mind control. Trump keeps them scared or angry, always. It’s BEST if he can keep them both scared AND angry. People responding to strong emotions are not people thinking at their best. One of his more common stories is that undocumented immigrants are taking “black jobs.”

It’s a line that works well when talking to racists and scared, angry minds. Fearmongering. Someone “different” is taking something from someone. The jobs most of these undocumented immigrants end up with are menial labor. To suggest they’re taking “black jobs” pretends that black people only work in menial jobs. MAGA eats that crap up. Not surprisingly, black people seem a little offended.

The thing is, he wasn’t talking to MAGA. The NABJ is made up of educated, thinking people who understand the inferences of that comment. So, one of them asked, “What IS a “black job?” Trump had an answer. “Anybody that has a job.” There. Not racist at all, right? The audience groaned out loud.

I believe gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles put him in his place the best. After winning another gold medal, she tweeted, “I love my black job.” Oh, no! You don’t suppose someone is going to cross the Rio Grande and just push Biles off the US Gymnastics team and take her job, do you? Trump thinks so. Yeah, that sounds like a guy who should lead a nation.

I’m glad the Dems started with their “weird” campaign because, you know what? They ARE weird. I’m glad I finally have the right word for it: weird.

Hinky…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, the crazies come out, don’t they? Something maybe happened to Trump’s ear. Maybe a bullet, maybe not. Maybe shrapnel, maybe not. Hell, maybe he cut himself. Maybe not. No one knows because no one trustworthy will say. But the whole thing healed faster than most people expected from a gun shot that took “the top of his ear off” – as reported by Ronny “Candy man” Jackson-Johnson, once, apparently, a doctor but no longer because of his casual distribution of drugs throughout the Trump White House.

Photos taken less than two weeks after the shooting show no sign of any damage to Trump’s ear whatsoever. No scab. No scar. No piece missing. Nothing. Trump’s ear looks exactly the same as it always has in the photo. So, of course, MAGA came out in droves – to attack the photographer! They trolled him pretty heavily. So badly, in fact, he had to pull his brand X account. All because he took a picture that shows a perfectly healthy, intact ear.

Dear MAGA, that’s not the photograph’s fault, nor does the fault lie with the photographer who took the effing picture in the first place. If the photo offers evidence that something hinky is going on with Trump and his story, that’s not the fault of the evidence. You should check with your lying dear leader. Something isn’t right with his story…

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He can’t even fix it. Trump told a group of maybe-Christians they had to come out and vote for him one more time, then they’d never have to vote again because he would have it “fixed so good” he won’t “need their votes.” That caused rational people to think he was telling the world he was going to put an end to voting. No need, when we have a dictator.

So, he did an interview on Fox Not-News with Laura Ingraham and tried to clear up the “confusion.” Cleverly, he doubled down, even after she tried to help him. “You meant you won’t have to vote for you because you’ll have four years in office,” Ingraham pressed, trying to give him an out, suggesting he only meant he’d be at the end of his second term.

“I’m saying go out, you must vote,” Trump replied. “I said to the Christians in the room … you have to vote on Nov. 5. After that, you don’t have to worry about voting anymore — I don’t care — because we’re going to fix up, the country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore because, frankly, we will have such love.”

That answer still leaves me feeling like ‘no need, when we have a dictator.’ But I don’t WANT a dictator. MAGA might be looking forward to the end of the country and the Constitution, but I’m not. I prefer the rule of law to the rule of loyalty. Whatever you do, do NOT vote Republican…

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It’s STILL a great indicator. If a conservative is “warning” people about something, it’s because their scheme is at risk of being stopped. For example, Trump toady Bill Barr and Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO and chief counsel for First Liberty Institute, a “Christian” conservative organization, wrote an op-ed “warning” cons that the left wants to pack the court with additional liberal justices. (I know I do…) They wrote, “The last thing we need in this country right now is a Supreme Court coup that would threaten our democratic republic.” They’re correct on both points.

I want to pack the court with four more liberal justices in an effort to offset the criminally corrupt cons currently infesting the court and making decisions based on what’s best for rich people and Trump and NOT based on the Constitution. THIS court, the Roberts Court, has already done so much damage to our democratic republic, it could take decades to fix, if it’s fixable at all. The longer the kangaroos hold sway, the more damage they’ll do.

As always, the cons say it backwards. From ‘The Hill,’ ‘The op-ed painted a grim picture for what “court packing” could look like, suggesting civil and religious liberties will be limited and First Amendment rights for the left’s political opponents would be “trampled.”’ You know, exactly the results cons are calling for in their Project 2025, except they intend to do it TO the left.

The op-ed continued. “In truth, ‘court reform’ is nothing more than a desperate attack to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and originalism,” Barr and Shackelford lied. “If this coup succeeds, the rule of law will be over as the judiciary will become little more than a political tool of whomever holds power.”

Yeah, that would suck. But not as much as the corrupt court we have now that is little more than a political tool of one party, MAGAGOP, regardless of who holds power. And remember, the cons started all of this when they stole Merrick Garland’s seat and gave it to Neil Gorsuch, meaning their actual complaint is that the left might do to them what they did to the left. Suddenly, it seems really unfair, to them…

P25…

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It’s just hanging around his very old neck. Project 2025, I mean. The Heritage Foundation, the conservative stink tank behind this horrific plan, let people see their Project 2025 too soon. People realized this is the conservative blueprint and thinking Americans have been warning everybody in ear shot ever since.

They want to eliminate government agencies. You know, the unimportant ones -like the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security. They want to criminalize mailing contraception across state lines and eliminate Mifepristone all together. They want to outlaw porn, fercrissakes. They want to eliminate environmental regulations and crack down on programs to promote diversity in the workplace.

They want to replace thousands of competent workers with incompetent loyalists. They want to increase the President’s power over the Department of Justice, harming the rule of law even further in this once-great nation. It’s curious, how the cons are always trying to make it harder to prosecute white collar crimes, isn’t it? Why, it’s almost as if they know what crimes they want to commit and make them okay.

Oh, yeah, the tax cuts. Always with the tax cuts for the rich.

Trump can’t get away from Project 2025. People know it’s the conservative playbook for the future. Trump himself, it should be noted, has said he knows nothing of Project 2025 and that some of the things they’re saying are “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” Quick question, how does he know some of the things they’re saying are ridiculous and abysmal if he knows nothing of Project 2025? Just asking.

The leader of the group responsible for writing P25 has stepped down in an effort to trick voters into thinking P25 is dead. There has even been an announcement to that effect. But, no. It’s not dead. It’s a trick. Even the Heritage Foundation has acknowledged work on the project will continue unabated. The cons are telling you, flatly, what they plan to do to you. TO you. All you have to do is listen – and respond accordingly.

For clarity, “respond accordingly” means do NOT vote Republican, ever…

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Well, so much for courting the black vote, eh? Trump goes for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and says Harris just “turned black and now she wants to be known as black.” Wow, did she just turn black? Because I thought she’s been half black for as long as I’ve known about her and I’m pretty sure SHE knows her heritage even better than I do!

She DID attend a famously black college (Howard University) and pledged a famously black sorority (Alpha Kappa Alpha). Oh, and she was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus when she was a Senator. Those things tend to support the idea that she’s known about her black roots for a long time and, perhaps, did NOT “just turn black.”

He was apparently unnerved by the way the host, Rachel Scott of ABC News, began the interview. He said she was rude. She was just getting down to business. The part he really didn’t like was that she was asking real and tough questions. He’s used to fawning, softball interviews on Fox Not-News. “Mr President, how tough is the burden of being the greatest human being ever to live?” That sort of thing.

But Scott wasn’t wasting people’s time. She had some real questions about Trump’s sordid history with black people. She asked them. He avoided them – at least until his team pulled him from the stage about halfway through the agreed amount of time.

His presence upset a lot of the members of NABJ. They did NOT want to invite him. They didn’t want to give a platform to a known racist. I think they were mistaken. I think it was a fine thing, showcasing his racism for all the world to see. Sure, he tried to tone it down but a racist is gonna racist and he didn’t disappoint. In the end the NABJ didn’t “give him a platform.” They put a spotlight on his racist views – in public.

I guess, in fairness, I should point out that he once donated to a Harris campaign so his campaign staff says that proves he’s NOT racist. I’m not sure those two things go together. Besides, at the time, he may not have realized she’s black. HE says he “just found out!” Listen, he also once confessed he didn’t know there was such a thing as NATO until he became President.

It IS possible to live with one’s head buried so far in the sand they know (care?) nothing of the world around them. Trump cares about Trump and nothing else. And I do mean, absolutely nothing.