It was just yesterday, right? I heard Joe Biden giving a speech. He was talking about how awesome it was that Israel and the Palestinians had come to an agreement on a cease fire. Since the agreement had been negotiated by Biden’s team and Trump’s team, a spat broke out over who should get the credit. Truthfully? I’d have to say the credit should have been split between the two. The agreement is, basically, Biden’s original plan, the one Hamas had rejected before.

But Trump brought the crazy and Hamas believed him. Trump made clear that he was going to allow Netanyahu to do whatever he wanted in Gaza. Sure, it might start World War III. The Felon doesn’t know about things like that. He just talks tough. But he’s very, VERY, um…not smart and doesn’t understand the possibilities of his tough talk.

Still, Hamas seems to have believed him and realized that American bombs were still going to fall but there would not be any more American relief efforts and there wouldn’t be any more American negotiation efforts. Just the bombs. So, Hamas tried to stand down and accept the agreement.

This morning (and it’s early, yet) I woke up to the news that Israel delayed gathering it’s Cabinet to finalize the cease-fire and, instead, bombed the crap out of Gaza, yet again. Seventy dead – AFTER agreeing to the cease-fire.

I’ll tell you this: It looks like neither Biden nor The Felon are going to get credit for the cease-fire that, apparently, never happened. Lots of people defended Israel because Hamas attacked without warning. I wonder what that crowd will say now that Israel has done the same thing?

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I wrote about how disgusting I think it is that MAGA is politicizing the fires in LA. I received some push-back. No, the MAGA story goes, it WAS Newscum’s fault. He didn’t sweep the forests. (To fight a residential fire?) There wasn’t enough water. (Yeah, physics.) He didn’t sign the non-existent document to move water from Northern California to Southern California. (Keyword: non-existent. Oh, AND Californians DO move millions of gallons of water from Northern California to Southern California every day.) “They” smog-checked the fire trucks from Oregon. (No, they didn’t.)

It’s all pretty crazy and I’d bet I haven’t heard them all. MAGA media is very good at completely wallpapering the landscape (it can be done – ask Christo and Jeanne-Claude) with misinformation so MAGA can pick and choose the lies that work best for them. When I was writing about the poor form of politicizing a disaster, I was really gobsmacked that human beings could take so much pleasure from so much pain.

MAGA is having a great time, blaming California. MAGA politicians are threatening to withhold aid to California until we clean up our political act. That is, bend the knee. THAT, by the way, is a huge F*CK YOU to every MAGA that lives in California, but that’s an entirely different piece.

Of course they are gleefully politicizing while laying fraudulent blame. They really have no choice. They absolutely MUST make the case that the fires were fed by Democratic incompetence because, as it happens, THEY, MAGA, own the severity of these fires. I mean, look, California burns from time to time. We expect it. But we were told by science that the fires were going to get worse because of climate change and, guess what? The fires are worse. FAR worse.

MAGA started pretending climate change was fake LONG before they were MAGA. Hell, they weren’t even Teabaggers, yet. They were just a loose coalition of like-minded, closed-minded people realizing they all hated the same things, like science, and America, and smart people… MAGA media told them climate change was fake, so they KNOW climate change is fake, even as the projections of climate science come true, over and over and over again. Like the fires in LA.

But MAGA doesn’t take responsibility for anything – particularly the things they’ve actually done. They’re not about to accept the blame for runaway climate change just because they’re to blame for runaway climate change. MAGA won that battle. It was the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory. They “won” the battle. We ALL lost the war. Their “victory” prevented humanity from taking effective action in time to prevent the global rise in temperatures scientists were warning us about.

So, now we suffer the intensified hurricanes, the deeper snow drifts right next to the more intense droughts. Stronger tropical storms anyone? Now we get crop failures and increased pests and illnesses. Now we get the deeper floods – and the worse fires. ALL of it because MAGA defended the activities of corporations that knew they were destroying the environment for humans, but couldn’t resist picking up a few more pennies.

They absolutely MUST distract from the fact that fires of this intensity are the direct result of their earlier position-of-the-day, that climate change is fake news. So, DO they take responsibility for what they did? No way. Sweep the forests…

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Oh, yeah. I forgot. It’s a terrible miscalculation and I apologize. Many on the left have been waiting for what we see as the inevitable ‘Come-to-Jesus’ moment when MAGA finally – FINALLY! – realizes they’ve been duped and turns, angrily, on their Precious. It seems inevitable to the rational mind. But these aren’t rational minds. These are MAGA minds.

Mr. Felon has not delivered on much of what he promises, right? Ask a MAGA, though. Either he DID, or it was Democrats fault he didn’t. Period. He has already told them the economy is going to crash because of Biden. They believe him. California has always burned, of course, but the fires are worse, now, and more often because of climate change. But, as we’ve seen, cons have decided against climate change so they pretend that if the (DemocRAT) governor had JUST taken a broom into the forests…

MAGA media has so much control over the MAGA mind, they’ll NEVER be allowed to see that the leaders they support are as responsible for their plights as anything else in their world. MAGA media just lays the blame. They don’t got to show you no stinking truth! They don’t need no stinking truth.

It’s a game MAGA has played since long before they were MAGA. Anything bad that happens is a Democrat’s fault. Anything good that happens belongs to whoever their beloved of the day is, currently Trump. It’s SO deeply ingrained, they do it automatically. I think they’re incapable of considering one of theirs might have done something questionable – even when the only available evidence indicates that one of theirs might have done something questionable.

It won’t be enough that MAGA understands they’re being harmed as The Felon starts his damage. They need to know that it’s The Felon doing it – and their brains just… can’t. We won’t be able to count on fallen away, one-time MAGA to help put things back to right, after all. Bummer…

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As the dark day approaches, I’ve noticed that Steve Bannon has NOT, yet, managed to remove Elon Musk from MAGA. Bannon’s attacks are widening. Now he’s railing against Mark Zuckerberg and all the other tech bros. He wants them OUT. Uh-huh.

My personal opinion is that MAGA has been the dupe of the One Percent. They played an important role but The Felon will be taking the office soon. MAGA isn’t needed anymore. Let the One Percent reign!

The only problem? MAGA is still there. Oh, and…MAGA MAD! I think Bannon is spitting into the wind. He can bring votes that aren’t needed anymore. He can bring public support that is no longer sought. In the other corner, the tech bros can bring money. Lots and lots of beautiful money, money, money. Where do YOU think Trump’s loyalties lie?

It looks like Bannon knows. He has decided to simply declare victory and move on. Clever, eh? Nothing seems to have changed between Muck and The Felon but Bannon is claiming he’s done it, Musk’s influence is reduced – so there!