Month: November 2024

Don’t Help The One Percent…

by MyBaconPress

No, you’re right, I didn’t post anything yesterday, even though I normally do on Sunday. Why, you ask? (No, we didn’t.) Well, I took a tumble and broke two ribs. Yeah, that sucks. It’s going to suck for a while. But just to put a cherry on top, my computer decided on Saturday it never wanted to boot again. I’m capable of opening the thing up and seeing if there’s anything I can do to correct the situation but, because of the ribs, I can’t move it to get it somewhere I can work on it. It has NOT been a great weekend for me…

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I keep seeing calls from my lefty friends to separate themselves from their MAGA, where ever MAGA might be. I would like to ask you to please reconsider that decision. I continue to believe MAGA is deceived. I continue to believe that, having achieved the goal for which they fought so hard, they’re about to find out, the hard way, what they actually voted for.

Consider this: the day after the election, the three most popular searches on Google were: ‘Can I change my vote,’ ‘Did Biden drop out,’ and ‘What are tariffs?’ Now, the ‘Did Biden drop out’ thing could be people trying to see if Biden dropped on his own or was pushed out. But I seriously doubt any rational Americans wanted to change their vote TO Trump and, for my money, ‘What are tariffs?’ tells a great deal of the story.

We have started hearing, for example, about companies letting their employees know they will NOT be receiving expected Christmas bonuses this year. Sure, it could just be an excuse for corporations to avoid bonuses. Of course it could. But the story is, in anticipation of Trump’s tariffs, companies are using bonus money to, instead, try to stockpile materials and supplies as much as possible.

When the workforce complains that the foreign company pays the tariff (like Trump said), the CEO has to explain that, no, the seller will pay the tariff and pass the cost on to the consumer. Sure, MAGA can lie – or express their honestly held but mistaken belief that the foreign company pays the tariff. But prices – and inflation – are going up whether MAGA acknowledges it or not.

I’ve heard MAGA say they don’t care if the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) gets repealed because they have “Oregon Care” or “Covered California” or whatever name their state gave their program. They’re going to be very surprised to find their health care gone and no protection for preexisting conditions back on the table.
“Wait, I get my insurance from Covered California, not the Affordable Care Act.”
“Covered California IS the Affordable Care Act.”
“No, it isn’t.”
“Yes, it is. You lost your health insurance because YOU voted to lose your health insurance.” Doing ‘your own research’ AFTER the election? Too late..

I could point out these kinds of details all day and half of the night but MAGA isn’t going to believe it until MAGA lives it. It IS a bummer that ALL of us have to live it while they learn but that’s the way it is. By now, many people realize that the true fight is NOT left and right. It’s the One Percent vs the rest of us and, for the moment, the One Percent has won.

MAGA is about to discover how important they really were to Trump. He doesn’t need them anymore. He’s going to do what he wants to do and he’s not going to give two figs for what his small folk supporters think, want, or prefer. Sure, he will probably still hold rallies for awhile. He LOVES the adoration. But I suspect that as MAGA realizes what he’s doing to them, the crowds will get smaller and smaller and the rallies will come to an end.

The One Percent won this fight using a lesson Lincoln tried to tell us. A lesson HE got from the Bible, so I’ll go straight to the source. “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” (Matthew 12:25) Turns out? Jesus was exactly right about that. So, the One Percent went to a LOT of trouble to divide our “house.”

They set up “Stink tanks,” like ‘The Heritage Foundation,’ The American Enterprise Institute,’ and ‘CATO,’ (among others) to intentionally feed misinformation to the masses. They used Fox Not-News. They didn’t care who bought the false message, just so long as people started buying the message. They funded seats in colleges in order to spread “the conservative message.” But it wasn’t the “conservative message.” It was the “One Percent message.”

In short, MAGA is deceived because the One Percent WANTED them to be deceived, thereby dividing the house against itself, and using that division to seize power. I’ve got to say, so far, it has worked brilliantly. BUT… in achieving their “victory,” they have effectively eliminated the opposition. EVERYTHING that happens because of Trump’s installment will clearly BE Trump’s doing. No more blaming others.

The thing is, conservative media won’t stand down. In fact, I would guess they’re going to double down. I suspect they’ll continue to blame others even though there are no others to blame. I think they’ll need to ramp up their message in order to keep people in the fold. But even MAGA will start to understand reality as it invades their world, and many will turn away. That will be an opportunity to reunite the house.

To be sure, some MAGA will stay loyal. There are always true believers. But some people who supported Trump are already feeling the betrayal and more and more will every day. The only way the One Percent can maintain their current standing is to KEEP us divided. If you distance yourself from your MAGA, you’re doing exactly what the One Percent want – no, need – you to do.

Don’t help the One Percent keep control. This is going to be an ugly fight. We’re going to need every person we can get – and that includes reformed MAGA. If we all retreat into our own little bubbles, we’ll never come back together and that, I fear, really will be the end…

What’s Real?

by MyBaconPress

I don’t expect good things, with this. Gavin Newsom is out there making a big show of ‘Trump-proofing’ California, as the Guardian called it. Is he, though? I mean, he’s trying and I appreciate that. But here’s the deal. Federal law supersedes state law. California has access to abortion enshrined in their constitution. It means nothing. Several states had outlawed abortion in their constitutions and Roe v Wade rendered those provisions inactive. That’s why they were ready when Roe was overturned.

I appreciate Newsom’s efforts. At this point, I’d like to see California (and, perhaps the rest of the west coast) secede from the union and form a new, better country. That won’t happen, though. Remember the Civil War? There’s no provision for secession.

If you want to register protest, you have to do it where they live. Close your wallets. I mean that. Don’t buy anything you don’t absolutely HAVE to buy. That will be difficult, of course. If such a concept was successful, many people would lose their jobs as factories shut down. (If nobody is buying, nobody is selling, so there’s no need for manufacturing.)

The people refusing to buy would feel the pain along with everyone else. Then again, we’re all about to feel the pain anyway. It might offer some small comfort to have at least a modicum of control over how the pain spreads.

Think of it like that movement women are embracing. They’re beginning to go with a movement in which they refuse to sleep with anyone (well, any men) until women’s rights are restored. I think that’s solid thinking. It’s called the “4B movement.” It originated in South Korea and the “B’s” in question are Korean words that basically mean women are keeping themselves TO themselves so long as they don’t have bodily autonomy. Yeah, everyone feels that. The question is, who feels it first and who feels it worst?

Newsom’s efforts are inspiring but they will amount to nothing in the long run. Federal law supersedes state law. Truthfully, closing our wallets is the ONLY thing I can think of to defend ourselves…

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Here’s irony. One of the ways Trump scared hell out of his acolytes was to tell them Kamala was “going to start World War III.” Okay, so, it wouldn’t be Kamala in the first place. We’ve enjoyed the BIDEN administration, not the Harris administration. Two conflicts HAVE started, but the actions I expect from Trump will only inflame them.

Trump withdraws US support for Ukraine. Europe steps in to make up the shortfall. The US withdraws from NATO. Putin feels emboldened to respond to European “interference” and all of Europe is engulfed in war.

Trump tells Netanyahu to go ahead and finish off the Palestinians. The Middle East isn’t going to just sit around and watch that happen. Suddenly, THAT entire region is burning and fighting and killing.

It sounds, to me, like TRUMP is about to start World War III by encouraging the growth and escalation of the conflicts…

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Not that it’s going to make any difference, but the more I think about it, the less I believe it. I mean, look, we had several states working feverishly to eliminate as many Democratic votes as they could, but along with that, we KNOW the Russians were calling in bomb threats all over Georgia. No, not “all over.” In expected Democratic districts. We have no idea how or where else Russia might have intervened and now that corruption is the rule of the day, we’ll never know.

But it turns out ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ was ‘Real, Real, Real,’ after all…

Bummer…

by MyBaconPress

Well, that was…disappointing. Depressing, even. I hesitate to confess that because I know that MAGA takes great pleasure in lefty depression, but what the hell, right? It’s their day. They get their celebration. I suspect it will be short-lived. Whatever it is they’ve chosen to believe, reality will invade, and soon. So, congratulations, MAGA. The whole world is going to reap as you’ve sown and I genuinely believe it won’t be the utopia you’ve imagined.

I’ve got to say, I don’t really believe it. I mean, I’ll accept it. To be clear, I have no evidence of any kind of chicanery and I’m not leveling any charges. I just don’t believe it. It’s only a personal opinion. But I suspect Trump got a boost from his good friend and handler, Putin, who will now enjoy unfettered access to the American intelligence apparatus. I don’t think the machines are inherently corrupt – so stow your lawsuits. I just think they’re vulnerable to MAGA mischief. Something like, say, connecting the machines to the web early, allowing the Russians to dial in and “adjust” the outcome. It’s just an opinion, but it’s a firmly held opinion. And I should say, it’s possible I simply can’t accept that so many people could be so blind.

To me, the GOP “victory” just doesn’t pass the smell test, and I’ll tell you why: he “won” the popular vote. See, it has long-since been a political reality that large turnout favors the left. It always has – before this. And this wasn’t just “large” turnout. It was the second highest turnout in history. Yet, suddenly, huge turnout means nothing and Trump wins both the electoral college AND the popular vote? And he did that by pulling in large numbers of people from groups he promises to oppress, deport, or otherwise vilify?
“You suck, it’s all your fault, and I’m going to punish you!”
“Oh, you’re my guy. I’m voting for you.”
Yeah, that’s how people work…

See, Trump has NEVER won the popular vote before, and the left has mentioned that fact a time or two – or three or four or… When anyone mentions anything that might be viewed as a vulnerability, he needs to do something to prove it’s not true – especially if it is. Remember how hard he worked to convince people that nobody ever left his rallies, even as we all watched video of people leaving his rallies?

So this time, he doesn’t just arrange to “win” the electoral college. THIS time, he needs to “win” the popular vote, too. But winning the popular vote has a second, more sinister, motivation. It sets up the claim that they HAVE TO do the terrible things they want to do. They have a “mandate.” (True, someone had to explain to them that a “mandate” wasn’t two guys grabbing dinner and a movie, but still…)

At this point, the only thing I can think of that might serve as even a glimmer of a bright spot, is actually the success MAGA has enjoyed. What I mean is, now there are no Dems to stop them, assuming the GOP lead in the House holds. The GOP OWNS anything and everything that happens going forward. (Yeah, it ain’t much of a bright spot.) They’ll have no one to blame. The only place to point their fingers will be the mirror.

Maybe, just maybe, as things crash – and things will crash – the scales will fall from MAGA eyes and they’ll see what they’ve done – to themselves, if nothing else. Might the MAGA win be the beginning of the MAGA undoing? Maybe. Meanwhile, the only thing that remains for the left is the “neener, neener” factor. That is, we get to say “We told you so.” That’s small comfort, though. It’s like having the ocean lapping at your ankles on the deck of the Titanic and seeing someone you don’t like fall into the water first. Yeah, you can point your finger and laugh, but you’re headed for the drink, too. Small comfort.

Besides, I don’t think we should. The 2024 outcome is the culmination of decades of work by the One Percent against the rest of us. It has been slow, but it has been steady. It has been relentless. MAGA hasn’t been the driver, they’ve been the tool. As the scales DO fall from their eyes, I think we should welcome them back to the fold of humanity. We, the people, are going to need to work together to overcome what the One Percent has done to us.

As of now, they have us right where they want us – back to before FDR saved the country in the 1930’s with the New Deal. It was a good time to be rich back then. But it sucked for everyone else. It was the New Deal that made America great in the first place. We don’t make America great again by scrapping the New Deal…

Good Luck…

by MyBaconPress

Well, here we go, eh? I mean, I know voting started a while ago. I, myself, described the start of Trump’s coup attempt as being a few days ago. But today? Oh, today is the day the battle is joined. Everything has been theoretical until today. Now it’s real. Very, very real. Today is the day we begin to determine if MAGA gets the authoritarian dictatorship of their dreams, or if Americans can save what’s left of our democracy-on-the-brink.

There HAS been some attempted rigging but, so far, it has all come from Republicans. They’ve been flooding the information sphere with fraudulent polls to make it seem as though Trump is doing better than he is. Virginia started purging Democratic voters from their rolls as close to the election as possible (supposedly against the law but the SCKCOTUS said it was okay just this one time) so there was no time for the disenfranchised voter to correct the challenge.

Georgia even tried to make a rule that if the certification board didn’t like the results, they could just declare that vote invalid and substitute their preferred outcome. (Fortunately, that one didn’t make it.) But the most basic part of the rigging? Shouting about all the “election irregularities,” which MAGA has been doing since, well, 2020, right? Can you believe it? It’s about to get LOUDER!

As of now, the polling places are open on the east coast but not yet anywhere else. Has Trump declared victory yet? We know he’s going to. It’s part of the plan. Also as of right now, because of early voting, Kamala has a lead. She’s leading in all of the swing states and she even appears to have a lead in Nevada and Iowa. (Wow.) But, again, that’s the early, blue wave. We all know about THAT, too, and it has happened.

Now, today, comes the red wave that’s supposed to gain ground for Trump. The very moment he perceives he has pulled ahead in some state, he’ll declare victory. He’ll be lying and, because we all know the plan (I’m writing about it right now) we all expect it – and we’ll KNOW he’s lying. EVERYBODY will know it – because we all know the plan this time.

Bear in mind, this is not like the last time. The last time, MAGA was able to pretend (and convince themselves) that what happened was just a series of natural, spontaneous events that, unfortunately, spun out of control by January 6th. This time? Everybody knows the plan and cons who repeat the big lie will be active, knowing, co-conspirators. It was one thing to go along with the coup attempt when there was some possibility to convince oneself events just got out of control.

THIS TIME, everybody will know it’s just a part of the plan. MAGA will know – and be unable to deny – MAGA is actively attempting to overthrow a legal election because they didn’t get their way. I wonder if knowing they’re actively attacking the Constitution will dissuade any of them. These are NOT naturally occurring events – it’s a plan. MAGA is being used as the puppets to carry out the coup – and THIS time, they absolutely know it…

Frankly, I’ve been concerned about this election from the point of view of how the result will affect me. Yeah, a little selfish, I guess, but we’re supposed to vote our own interest and I expect a Trump win won’t be good for me, personally. But then I realized, if Trump “wins,” the result will be seriously bad for the vast majority of Americans. Even MAGA. We ALL suffer.

But then I thought about how that outcome affects Ukrainians. We all know Trump will tell his good buddy Putin to just have at it. That will be very bad for Ukraine. The US will cut off all aid in an effort to help Putin and it will be up to Europe from there. But…oh, yeah. Europe.

Trump, himself, said he had no idea what NATO was before becoming President. Now he wants us to leave NATO because, like most things, he doesn’t understand it. NATO has been the main stabilizing organization between nations in Europe. Trump thinks we should leave. And he plans to.

THEN, I thought about the Palestinians. I expect Trump to just tell his good buddy Netanyahu to have at it, too. Do what he wants. Go ahead, wipe out every Palestinian from the river to the sea. A Trump victory will be very, very bad for the Palestinians. But, oh, Jeez, I almost forgot.

The world. The whole, effing world. Trump wants to eliminate regulations, in general, but environmental regulations in particular. We, the species are already on incredibly shaky ground when it comes to climate change. With NO guardrails, Trump will put climate change on steroids. We’ll hit each tipping point in no time at all – until finally, most of humanity just…tips over.

So…good luck. Yes, to me. I don’t WANT to end up in a gulag for expressing my opinion.
Good luck to you. I presume you like the country as much as I do.
Good luck to every American (this obviously excludes anti-American MAGA) because most of us would suffer under Trump. (Hey, just like his wives and girlfriends!)
Good luck to Ukraine. You don’t deserve what Trump will allow Putin to do to you. In fairness, Trump, likely, won’t have any choice. He DOES as Putin tells him to do.
Good luck to all of Europe. You deserve better than an intellectually incurious imbecile like Trump, who only recently discovered there’s a thing called NATO.
Good luck to Palestinians. Your situation seems to be spiraling out of control and Trump simply doesn’t understand. Maybe, he just doesn’t care.
Good luck to the world. Please understand, we the people, the true American people, are doing what we can to stop this from happening. But there has been MUCH corruption inflicted on our once-great nation by MAGA and I really can not say if we can hold. I can only promise, we’ll try.

Good luck…

This Coup Brought To You By MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

Trump is running a campaign ad in California. It’s probably just a national buy since there’s no reason for him to waste money in the Golden State. Too many of us are FAR too smart. The thing I noticed, though, is that even his ad is chock full of lies. There’s only one I would like to address.

The ad says something to the effect of “Kamala broke it, and Trump will fix it.” Two lies in one. First, even if it HAD been this administration, this is the BIDEN administration. Kamala has been the Vice-President, not the President. We’re ALL pretending the VP is way involved in decisions made in the Oval Office.

The left is pretending in order give Kamala credit for work she hasn’t done, but it makes her look like she’s more ready to be President than she maybe is. The right is pretending in order to blame her for things Biden did. But we all know, and we have all long-since known, the Vice President is more of a placeholder.

The second lie is bigger. It was TRUMP that “broke it,” not Kamala OR Joe. The Biden administration has been working to fix it and they’ve done an amazing job. I know MAGA doesn’t know it, but it’s true. The reality is, we have an economy that Trump would be taking credit for if he were in office, but he isn’t – so he’s attacking.

The catalyst for the economic damage was Trump’s incredible mishandling of Covid-19. Not the illness, itself. We had a plan in place for exactly that eventuality and the Trump administration dismantled the program – to save money. THEN, when we DID get hit, Trump went into wish mode and tried to wish the thing away. Over a million Americans died.

That’s HOW Trump broke it. He left the nation in a shamble. Biden fixed it. Kamala will keep Biden’s economic programs and add her own. I’d rather have Kamala, who can do it, than Trump, who clearly can not…

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There’s an article in the Guardian, this morning, titled, ‘What if Trump’s campaign is cover for a slow-motion coup?’ Well, duh. It hasn’t seemed like Trump cared, much, about the election for a while, now. A person running for office who, nevertheless, doesn’t care about the campaign is likely more focused on his after-election coup. He just NEEDS the election to happen so he can pretend horrible things happened. It’s not just cover, it’s catalyst.

They’re ALREADY screaming about problems in the election and lawsuits have already been filed. It suggests to me that Trump KNOWS he’s not popular enough to win an election on merit. He KNOWS he’s losing this thing but can not afford to lose this thing, so he has moved into desperation mode. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, except that so many deceived MAGA are right there with him.

Truthfully? I’ll never understand WHY so many people believe in this person but they do. Many of them are deceived. Their information sources have presented such heavily massaged “information,” they genuinely don’t know the facts about Trump. They honestly think THEY are the people defending the Constitution, even as they support the person most likely to destroy the Constitution.

Many would actually LIKE to have a dictator. These are not the brightest among us and they don’t grasp the reality of a dictator. They don’t understand what made America great in the first place. They think a dictator will be more efficient. They are comforted by the easy answers Trump promises (but never delivers).

The election is tomorrow but the actual fight starts Wednesday. We know Trump will declare victory early. Hell, maybe he already has. It’s part of his plan. The GOP flooded the media landscape with false “polls” intended to make Trump look competitive, if not actually winning. (He’s neither.) We ALL know how this thing proceeds. The only question is, do we let it?

My whole life, worries of the people have been addressed with the same answer: vote. Most of my life, that answer has been solid. I have voted. Most people I know have voted. We’ve DONE that part. We’ve been holding our collective breath trying to get to November 5th to put this debacle behind us, but November the 5th is a start, not a finish. It’s the start of Trump’s next coup attempt.

MAGA will tell you ‘no.’ MAGA will SCREAM ‘NOOOOO!’ MAGA will insist I’ve lost my mind, my perspective, my reason. Why, Trump would never, NEVER do anything like that. MAGA is wrong. Trump IS doing that, right now, in real time. MAGA is making it possible.

I have a friend who says he thinks when Trump loses, again, the GOP will be finally done with him, once and for all, and kick him to the curb. He thinks they’re just waiting for the election to play out, then they’ll collectively turn on Trump. I think my friend is overly optimistic. The GOP has had plenty of opportunities to dump Trump. They simply will not.

It’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out. We ALL know Trump is working to steal the election, even before election day. It’s plain and obvious. MAGA will deny it, but they know it, too. (Hell, they’re counting on it.) Americans are supposed to have that “revolutionary spirit.” WILL we fight for our country, or just tune in to the next episode of whichever program we’re into in the moment.

Allow me, please to state the obvious: I never thought I would find myself in this position. I’m guessing I’m not alone in that observation…

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Win or lose, I hope Joe Biden pardons Hunter after the election. Hunter got caught up in a campaign event. He became a political pawn for the right and could end up in prison for it. Even the conservative prosecutor intending to smear Joe via the vindictive prosecution thought Hunter’s crime was not worth prison – until a conservative outcry. At the very least, Biden should do something about that…

…And So It Begins…

by MyBaconPress

Well, he’s starting already. I know, it can be hard to tell when his whining about the election being rigged “starts” since he never stopped lying about the LAST election. So, I’ll draw an imaginary line and say it “started” with his Mar-a-Lardo presser a few days ago. He OPENED with this, “I want to start by saying it’s going very well. Uh, there’s some bad spots in Pennsylvania where, uh, some serious things have been caught or in the process of being caught…” So there it is. We’ll just agree, that’s the opening salvo in THIS year’s coup attempt.

You see, it’s a lie. How can you know? His “reports” will always be generalized. He CAN’T present any details because details can be followed up. He wants to stir up his base so they’ll make all the right noise when he tells them to, so he lies. But if he provides specifics, there’s a risk – an infinitesimally small risk, but a risk nonetheless – that some MAGA might realize he’s lying.

So, he’ll tell you all about the problems (“…some serious things”). But he will NEVER define the problems in detail. He’ll mention a general region, even a whole state, but he’ll NEVER specify exactly where. That’s because he’s lying. There haven’t been any problems with voting in Pennsylvania. In fact, I’d say that the people kicking Donald to the curb are exercising excellent judgement and should be commended.

This kind of ambiguous lie is the same tactic the GOP has been using to deceive and terrify MAGA since long before MAGA was an identifier. Remember when they told the story about illegals coming across the border and cutting off farmer’s heads? That was a good, scary story until they got too specific about where. THEN, a reporter checked the facts (dammit!) and found the whole story was… wait for it… a lie!

So, cons get “Pennsylvania” instead of a detailed location. Pennsylvania is a big place. It’s hard to pin down “some serious things in Pennsylvania.” But I’d bet his supporters have already started to feel the outrage they’ve nurtured for so long. They’ve been training for this moment for years. They can summon up fear, anger, or outrage on demand the way an advanced Yogi can stop and start his own heart. It takes focus and years of training. They’re about to get outraged over something that’s not even happening – and calling the LEFT “delusional” and “deranged” the whole time…

I mentioned the “risk – an infinitesimally small risk, but a risk nonetheless – that some MAGA might realize he’s lying.” I say it that way because I’ve come to realize the most MAGA simply don’t believe Donald Trump when he says the things he says. They think he’s just riffing. They laugh and cheer because they can’t imagine he might actually do the things he’s promising to do but, they wonder, wouldn’t it be great if he did? (It wouldn’t. And the lower one is on the economic ladder, the less great is going to be.)

But it DOES happen. There are a LOT of Republicans out there who once supported Trump but have turned their backs on the guy and in most cases, it’s because something happened that caused the scales to fall from those people’s eyes. They, too, had been laughing and cheering at rallies – and then something like J6 happened and, despite their best efforts, they were just unable to pretend it was something else. For some reason, they saw what really happened and suddenly, they knew. This guy isn’t kidding. These aren’t jokes. He’s unstable. He’s dangerous to democracy.

Truthfully? I was kind of struck by the number of people. (They’ve formed a club.) I have long-since believed that one thing MAGA has in common is that, as a group, they’re deceived. Then I see all these Republicans who are STILL Republicans but intend to vote Harris because they see how dangerous Trump is. THESE, I believe, are true Americans. People who put country over party. It tells me that people can recover from MAGA. Yes, it’s a serious, life-threatening condition, but people CAN recover.

Unfortunately, there are still FAR too many people suffering from MAGA these days and he’ll get lots and lots of help from them in spreading his lies. Ask your infected MAGA for details. Demand details. Point out that they can’t provide details because there ARE no details. Keep pressing. Try to break through the delusion. If it’s true, there MUST be evidence that will hold up in court.

It’s going to be unpleasant. MAGA damages perspective. You’ll be seen, and treated, like the enemy. But they MUST see the lies to be freed. If you can make them understand that he’s NOT just riffing, he’s serious, and you can make them understand that the threats he’s issuing are real, you might succeed in purging the MAGA from their minds. Become a lifeline back to reality for MAGA. Help them see what they cannot see for themselves…

How Could You?!?

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so, who’s NOT laughing at this latest freakout in MAGA land? You know the one. In a recent ad, Julia Roberts spoke on behalf of Kamala, and told married women they have a right to choose their own candidates and they don’t have to vote how their husband tells them to vote. Roberts said women don’t even have to tell their husband where their votes went.

Some of the voices on the right have come out to decry such a notion, that a woman can have her own mind. Jesse Waters suggested a woman voting differently than her husband would be the exact same thing as having an affair. Charlie Kirk called it the “embodiment of the downfall of the American  family.” Jeez, hyperventilate much?

So, the thing is, she really DOES get to vote for whomever she wants. Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s actually in the US Constitution. You know the Constitution. That’s the document MAGA pretends to revere but plans to dismantle should they seize power again. But until then, she’s a free and independent human being and gets to vote her conscience.

Now, because she lives with a Neanderthal (no disrespect to the Geico caveman, of course) I can see her donning her MAGA gear (which is illegal but gives MAGA something else to bitch about) and head to her polling place, march into the booth shouting, “Trump, Trump, Trump,” pull the lever for Harris, and march out, STILL shouting, “Trump, Trump, Trump!”

Then, when Harris wins, she can sit with a quiet smile inside while commiserating with her backward husband. Just like she does with so many of his other boneheaded decisions as “head of the household” when he lays down some moronic edict. I mean, just because he’s an idiot, doesn’t mean she has to be one, too…

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I saw a story in the Guardian that suggested that maybe, just maybe, the polling is off. They said, because pollsters have been so wrong in the past, they may be “adjusting” their results, fearful of under-reporting one candidate or the other.

Based on the way the ballots are coming in, right now, it doesn’t look like the race has been the close, neck and neck battle the pollsters have been broadcasting. But that’s just the start, right? We KNOW the cons will be coming out on Tuesday to vote in person. The race WILL tighten up. It’s only a question of how much.

Let’s just start with the Madison Square Garden fiasco. Trump has dismissed the anger, vitriol, racism, and misogyny at the Madison Square Garden rally as a “love fest.” That’s the same term he uses to describe his violent attempt to overthrow the government on January 6th, 2021 – a “love fest.” That particular rally seemed to launch a string of insanity we have not seen in politics in this country in a long time, maybe ever. It seems like the moment Trump decided to drop the facade and let the racism, hatred, and misogyny rip. One of his speakers pronounced Puerto Rico an “island of garbage.” THAT started a kerfuffle that Trump and his followers have tried to downplay.

Just since that rally, Trump has said he’s going to protect women whether they “like it or not.” This, from an adjudicated raper and a man with a LONG history of disrespect toward women. Oh, speaking of which, Jeffery Epstein (who totally did NOT kill himself) is STILL being paraded around, this time on audio recordings made in 2017 where he describes his very close friendship with Donald Trump and the way Trump and Epstein used to make bets about which one would get which girl first – including Princess Diana.

The recordings were made and released by author Michael Wolff, doing background for a book. On his podcast, Wolff said, “Here are these two guys both driven by a need to do anything they wanted with women: dominance and submission and entertainment. And one of them ends up in the darkest prison in the country and the other in the White House.”

According to Epstein in the tapes, Trump’s management style is to play one person off against another. “His people fight each other and then he poisons the well outside,” Epstein says. I don’t mean to bring up the Nazis again (apparently, I do) but do you know who ELSE, famously, pitted his generals off against each other as a way to keep them from uniting against him? That would be one Adolph Hitler.

It’s probably just a coincidence, but it IS weird how the only history Trump seems to know is about how Hitler came to power and then operated once on top. Worse, Trump seems to have missed the warnings inherent in those details. Hitler’s paranoia was one of the main factors in Germany losing WWII.

He pretended the start of the garbage comments did NOT come from his rally (they did) and put on an orange vest and rode in a pretend garbage truck in circles in a parking lot, apparently hoping to put to rest the “island of garbage” comment. Clearly, it didn’t work. (The media depicted that vest as “dressing like a garbage man.” When is the last time you saw a garbage man wearing a suit and tie covered with an orange vest?)

He talked about putting Liz Cheney in front of nine guns pointed at her face. Left leaning media is saying he meant a firing squad but he said he’d give HER a gun, too, and that’s not a normal detail of being executed by firing squad. I think HE meant he would put her in a very unfair, uneven fight, just to see how she liked it.

He said these things while criticizing her support for the military. It was quite surreal, listening to a known coward and draft dodger disparage someone else’s military record. (Besides, when Liz was the right age for combat, women weren’t allowed in combat.) Either way, Arizona has launched yet another investigation into a potential crime because of his threat.

He spends a LOT of time talking about all the things he’s going to do to his personal enemies and to “the enemies from within.” You know, people like Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. He has simply disregarded decorum. Politicians have long since suggested that their opponent is not up to the job, but we didn’t hear “dumb-as-a-rock” or “low-IQ individual” – particularly ironic, coming from him – until Trump.

To MY view, he seems to be spinning out. He seems to be losing control of himself. He seems unable to maintain even the facade of decorum and he is just being his course, base, and ugly self. And the polls say the race is still even? The ballots that have been cast have been coming in at what appears to be a huge margin for Harris, but the polls say the race is still even? Trump is literally suffering a severe mental breakdown while the whole world watches, but the polls say the race is even.

At this point, if this election really does turn out to be close, I’m going to be so disappointed in my fellow Americans it’s going to take years to get over. How can anybody support this man?