Month: April 2025

Fluffers and Facts…

by MyBaconPress

Apparently, Felon 47 felt SO defeated at having to back down from his tariffs, he had to call a fluffer meeting with his staff. He sat them at a giant table and made them take turns telling him how wonderful he is, how awesome, what an amazing human being, the business genius of business geniuses and how super-de-duper honored they are to bask in his glorious presence. The public groveling is humiliating – or should be – and whenever I see it, I feel embarrassed for the lickspittles who gladly engage so they, too, can feel important.

Wednesday, he backed down from his oh-so-stupid tariffs and the market shot up nearly 3,000 points in a clear message that big business didn’t WANT him messing with the markets by initiating a trade war. He tried to take credit for it as the biggest single-day gain in history. He does NOT, however, take ANY responsibility for his crash that set the whole thing up. “Down bad. Not trump fault. Up good. trump genius.”

But then people got wind of the fact that he hadn’t been completely clear in his retreat. He didn’t completely pause the tariffs. He left his 10% across the board tariffs and not only left the insane tariffs in place on China, he increased them. “Ladies and gentlemen, please stand clear of the door. Going DOWN!” Like, 1,000 points.

Meanwhile, MTG went on a buying spree. She was snapping up stocks at an amazing rate. Those were bargain basement deals, you know, and she wasn’t going to miss out. Never mind that it’s clearly insider trading. There’s a new rule in the US: it ain’t illegal if nobody enforces the law.

Felon 47 is manipulating the market. Congress has the power to stop the crimes through impeachment. Congress won’t do it, seemingly because Congress is profiting and crooked, too. No law enforcement is exactly equal to no laws.

Well, it’s not NO enforcement. Dems are calling for investigations into market manipulation, meaning there ARE people in Congress interested in doing the right thing. Just not enough of them to get the right thing done…

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There’s a practice I know of called “inoculation.” I mean politically, not medically, though the meaning is similar. In political inoculation, one accuses his opponent of doing something SO loudly, SO long, and SO obviously untrue, people get tired of hearing about it, just sick of it. THEN, the person making the false claim does exactly the thing they accused their opponent of doing. When someone says, “Hey, he just –,” everyone groans. “Oh, gods, don’t start THAT again!”

When 47 was 45, he did such a terrible, horrible, bad job, the people who were still alive came out in record numbers to vote against him. (That was Biden’s biggest mistake, thinking people had voted FOR him and never realizing they were actually voting AGAINST the Drumpfster.) Donny started right in with the ‘Stop the Steal’ crap. He even got his loyal acolytes to attack the Capitol in a show of “outrage” that the election had been “stolen.”

Bear in mind, he never, EVER presented even the tiniest modicum of any legitimate evidence supporting his case, but he never EVER shut up about it. People just got sick and tired of hearing about it. Now there’s increasing evidence that well-placed supporters of the Drumpfster used a variety of methods to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 “election.” But when one tries to mention that to someone, the common reaction is, “Oh, gods, don’t start THAT again!” Just like it’s supposed to be.

We know about the illegally purged voter roles. We know about fires in collection boxes in heavily Democratic districts. We know about the bomb threats at heavily Democratic polling places. Now we’re seeing statistical analyses indicating vote manipulation as well. To be clear, NONE of this is offered as definitive “proof.” It doesn’t stand as proof. These analyses are best described as indicators and should trigger an actual investigation.

Think of it this way, a cop walks into a room and sees a body laying in the corner with no head. The head is found in a box on the table in the next room. Near the body is a note that reads, “I wasn’t murdered. I killed myself because I’m so depressed.” You could chalk that up to suicide. After all, there’s a note. But the question of exactly how one commits “suicide” by cutting off one’s own head, putting in a box on a table, then moving their own body to the next room should prompt questions. There should be an investigation.

Do you want to see for yourself? I don’t much like links because they break over time, but here you go: This one is called ‘Nathan 2024 Election Overview [Election Truth Alliance].‘ It’s a 17 minute video providing an overview of statistical findings.
This one is an abstract by the same group covering a more focused study in Nevada. It’s called, ‘Analysis of 2024 Election Results in Clark County Indicates Manipulation.‘

The reality is, the US doesn’t “fix” it’s elections, even if we DO know they weren’t “right.” I know that nothing will be done about it. Mostly, I’m marveling at the long-term vision of whomever it was who hated America SO much they thought they should decimate it by replacing our Constitutional Republic with…this. The plan was evil, no doubt. But it was solid, and it worked. Think of the detail. They KNEW to inoculate the populace by having Donny flap his jaw so much for four years, we all just got sick of it. A four year setup indicates something more formal than just mere coincidence, wouldn’t you say?

But THIS time, there’s a difference. The left isn’t attacking the Capitol based on a story they heard from a friend’s friend’s acquaintance’s mother as seen on MAGA media “opinion” outlets. These are readily demonstrable events, that actually took place and were reported by legitimate news outlets at the time, followed by statistical analyses showing some incredible results. For example, did you know that the likelihood of 47 winning ALL of the swing states the way he did is comparable to him winning the Mega Millions lottery seven times in a row?

Here’s what’s worse. As usual, he effing TOLD us. He said that Elon, “knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide.”

The reason this is important is not that it will change who occupies the White House. It won’t. But the analyses ALSO indicated unexpected behavior for certain, select Senate races. If they’re manipulating Senate races, too, the electorate can NEVER correct this “error,” even though we desperately need to…

Evolution Of A Grift…

by MyBaconPress

Is Frankenstein beginning to fear the Creature? As of Tuesday morning, a group backed by Libertarians Leonard Leo and Charles Koch is suing The Felon over his tariffs. According to the book ‘Dark Money’ by Jane Mayer, much of the mess we suffer in Bizarro America, today, is the brainchild of Charles Koch.

Koch and a handful of his like-minded greed-heads spent decades distorting information, distorting intellects, and distorting morals. To me, it seems… inevitable that after embracing fraudulent information, dumbing down a third of our society, and promoting the very worst impulses of humanity, we would have ended up with something like the Drumpfster.

Apparently, it never crossed their minds that putting a creature like that into power might somehow come back to bite them in the backside. Now their investments are up, no down, no up, wait, down, no, up again, holy crap, WAY down, down, and down even further. They’re a little…concerned.

For perspective, they’re just irritated. But they’re rich. This whole mess THEY created won’t wipe them out like it will the work-a-day class. Still, it’s nice to see that they don’t like it, either. I’m not sure how it feels to note that if we’re to be saved from this insanity, it will be by the very people who created the mess in the first place…

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I wonder if MAGA remembers. He didn’t say, “eventually, things are going to be great” on the campaign trail. He said he would fix the problems on day one and it would be “easy.” I’m not putting words into his mouth, HE said it – over and over again.

Once in office, though, he hasn’t fixed anything. Pretty much EVERYTHING is worse. NOW he’s saying it’s going to be a rough ride and we’ll just have to hang on for dear life. What happened to “easy?” If I’m being as generous as I possibly can, perhaps he underestimated the depth of the problems. If I’m being honest, I’d say he was lying through his teeth from the start…

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Every once in a while, one sees an article talking about what corporations are actually doing with all that beautiful lucre they keep through the tax cuts for the rich. These days, what they do, invariably, is stock buybacks. They’re not reinvesting to keep prices down, nor are they raising worker wages. They buy back their own stock, reducing the amount of stock available. That, in turn, raises the price of the stock. Oh, AND they have the insider advantage of knowing WHEN the buybacks are going to happen.

In short, it’s insider trading on stock manipulation. It used to be illegal. That changed in 1982. The change was part of Ronald Reagan’s initiation of his assault on reality – “Supply Side Economics.” Ever since, corporate focus, when it comes to money, has been stock buybacks. Companies like the buybacks because the bosses get richer even if business slows. You don’t have to innovate or invest at all! No, just buy your own stock back and bump the price that way.

It’s not the executives who get hurt. In the end, it’s the investors and workers who suffer the losses. The practice should be stopped. After the revolution, let’s reinstate the rules that prevented companies from buybacks without careful SEC scrutiny. It turns out, SOME of those regulations we “deregulated” served an important purpose. Who knew?

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I know he lies about it, by the day, by the hour, by the minute, but Felon 47’s tariffs are a $6 trillion dollar tax on Americans. On Wednesday morning, I read an op-ed in ‘The Hill’ called ‘Trump just handed Democrats the golden ticket. Tariffs have unified the American electorate.’ It was written by a person named Jos Joseph. The piece suggested that the Democrats should HAMMER the message, every day, every hour, and every minute, that the tariffs are a $6 trillion dollar tax on Americans. Clearly, I agree.

Sure, MAGA will ignore the message at first. Fox Not-News will spring into action, ignoring the story by showing cute puppies, instead. Only later will they acknowledge the story by pretending it’s just insanity on the part of the insane left. But do you know what? People will still go shopping. I continue to believe, actions speak louder than words.

MAGA will listen, dutifully, when they’re told the tariffs punish the foreigners. They will. But then, they’ll get up and go grocery shopping. (Sorry, I don’t mean to use such outdated and arcane language as “groceries.”) Sooner or later, even MAGA will realize that the tariffs are a $6 trillion dollar sales tax, added by the Drumpfster so he and his very wealthy buddies can have a big, beautiful tax cut they don’t need.

There’s nothing right, honest, or honorable about causing some people to suffer on a daily basis so some other people can have more than they’ll ever need or use. I hope the Dems can make a message of it. These days, they mostly just make a mess of things.

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“Only the weak will fail!” Someone recently posted that to social media. Who was that? Oh, yeah, that was the First Felon, shortly before he blinked, and called for a 90-day “pause” on his tariffs seven days after declaring his “Liberation Day.” This whole piece was dominated by the damage Felon 47’s tariffs were doing. I’ve mentioned the normal supporters who are turning on him – even going so far as to sue him.

Elon Musk has been working him, too. Hard, if reports are to be believed. The rolling crematoriums have been suffering from the association with the Muskrat. The LAST thing in the world he needed was tariffs making it even harder to move his crappy products. Always remember, Musk bought the 2024 “election” for 47. Musk OWNS 47. At first, Donny tried to stick to his guns. I’d guess the last private conversation saw Musk threatening to let the world know EXACTLY how Felon 47 “won.”

So the Drumpfster backed down Wednesday morning. Sure, he said he had accomplished his goal. He ALWAYS says the exact opposite of the truth. He pretended ALL of the other countries – apparently, including the penguins – were “kissing his ass.” (His words, and…yechh!) The market recovered something like 3,000 points. SO… another crisis of his own idiotic making has been averted. For now. There’s no telling what moronic move he’ll make next.

I mean, he’s either a complete fool with no idea of what he’s doing – a position which can be easily defended – OR he’s the biggest market manipulator (read: “thief”) in the history of the country, engaging in insider trading over and over and over again – another easily defended position. Is he a moron or a thief? At this point, there really ARE only two options, although, I suppose he COULD be both…

Abusing “Medicine…”

by MyBaconPress

I found it quite heartening that so many people fell out for Saturday’s rallies, both around the country and around the world. There aren’t enough, yet. Full disclosure, I didn’t make it out to the local rally. I had a previous obligation I couldn’t escape. I presume there are others who found themselves in the same boat.

Let’s keep having them. The people, like me, who couldn’t make THIS one, will come out for the next one. Numbers matter. The number of dollars you’ve lost from your 401k matter. The number of people who come out to protest the insanity matter. We may not ALL make EVERY gathering but we need to keep having them and showing up. We need to whip up some support.

Meanwhile, I saw at least one report of a counter-rally in support of Felon 47. It was a pretty paltry affair. They were enthusiastic, though, all twelve of them. Compare that to the hundreds and thousands who came out in protest, I’m not sure team “pro poverty” is going to gain much traction…

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Hey, a second family in Texas has “protected” their child to death, this one an eight year old girl. I’m sure they’re very happy. After all, she didn’t have autism when she died of this totally preventable illness, Measles. Of course, she would NOT have contracted autism from the vaccine, anyway, since there is NO relationship between vaccines and autism. But, apparently, that part wasn’t important to the parents.

I might, actually, support forced sterilization for parents like that. I hope they don’t have any other children. If they do, the kids should be removed from the home and placed with some people who care about the health of the child. Oh, and this is important, with people who are NOT stupid.

I’ll tell you this: We’ve all known for a long time, stupidity hurts. I hope it’s not much longer until we realize stupidity can also kill…

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“Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.” That’s what Felon 47 said in response to a question about the crashing stock market?!? He DID throw in a possibly-supposed-to-be-comforting bit, but it didn’t help much. He said, “What’s going to happen with the market? I can’t tell you.” See? That’s not very comforting. Then he added, “But I can tell you, our country has gotten a lot stronger, and eventually, it’ll be a country like no other.”

The DOW dropped another 1,000 points on futures overnight. That means MORE record setting declines for Trump coming today. We ALL agree, we’re being forced to “take medicine.” We just DON’T agree there was ever any need. The economy had issues, but it was strong under Biden. Always remember and never forget, the economy was SO strong under Biden, Felon 47 constantly took credit for it. It was only a STORY that the economy was weak under Biden, just like it’s only a story that the “country has gotten a lot stronger.”

I mean, how? Exactly? Higher unemployment? Recession? Worldwide condemnation and exclusion? Crashing consumer confidence? Higher prices across the board? The weakening, crashing dollar? The intentional destruction of the social safety net? A confused, terrorized nation? Self-isolation, leaving China to step into the void and enjoy all of that goodwill the US once enjoyed? Yet another crippling tax cut for the wealthy?

I’m sure that throughout this whole debacle, the Drumpfster has his finger on the pulse of the nation, checking, moment by moment, to ensure the safety and health of the patient so he can quickly and decisively respond in whatever… What? What the hell do you mean, ‘He played golf?’ What, like, the whole time? Jeez, talk about fiddling while Rome burns… He isn’t even paying attention? Right, that’s right. HE has plenty of money. HE gets a soft landing, no matter what. Hell, it’s no WONDER HE’S not worried.

ELON is, though. Worried about the tariffs, I mean. Well, the tariffs on Europe, anyway. His crashing and burning company that builds crash-and-burn cars is suffering a LOT because of his malfeasance. The LAST thing he needs is to make it MORE difficult to sell cars in Europe.

So, Elon publicly ripped Peter Navarro, one of the morons behind this whole mess. No, Muck didn’t rip the Drumpfster, the person who actually DID this. He ripped Navarro. Navarro supports tariffs. This is from ‘The Daily Beast:’ ‘“Tariffs are the most common sense route to balancing our trade deficit and thereby stimulating economic growth, and strengthening the U.S. dollar,” Navarro told ‘Semafor’ during an interview from jail last year, where he served a four-month sentence over refusing to cooperate with a Jan 6. investigation.’ During a jailhouse interview. Felon 47 really has surrounded himself with the not-best and not-brightest, hasn’t he?

Navarro dismissed Musk’s comments as self-serving which, surely, they are. The rift has gone public. Cracks in the facade. It’s a moment I’ve been waiting for, the moment when their self-interests clash with each other’s self-interests.

I have to say, this DOES feel, very much, like 47 is reinforcing my already held suspicion that he IS the actual Antichrist. It just… feels like he’s punishing the whole world – the US in particular – for trying to punish him for his crimes. I suspect that, privately, MAGA is starting to realize they aren’t receiving any special protections or considerations, either.

Yeah, they DID help him escape justice. For their reward, he’s burning the whole effing thing down with everyone inside, MAGA included…

Complete Ruin…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, here’s a thing you can do that you may find comforting. Felon 47 likes to make up people. He uses a phrase, “a lot of people are saying…” We never know WHO, because he’s just making it up to make MAGA feel like they’re with a group. So do yourself a favor. Insert the word “imaginary” between “a lot of” and “people”. “A lot of (imaginary) people are saying…” See? It’s much more accurate – and it feels better…

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Felon 47 is out there telling people he thinks he can run for a third term. Last Sunday, The Drumpfster was asked on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ if there were plans for him to stay on in a third term as president. “Well, there are plans,” he said. “There are – not plans. There are methods – there are methods which you could do it, as you know.” Actually, no. I DON’T know. The Constitution of the United States of America is pretty specific, “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”

As usual, he accidentally told the truth. “There are plans – not plans.” Do you know what? I’m guessing plans. Really, if you didn’t expect him to refuse to leave office at the end of this term, YOU are the fool. Right now he thinks he can talk everyone into it, but when he can’t, he’ll just invoke his “plans.”

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Donny pretended. Yeah, you and your demons. (A lot of imaginary people want me to do it!” See? Better!) A lot MORE people – real people – DON’T want you to do it – or even try. The vast majority of Americans just want you to go away…

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“Only the weak will fail.” That was a post from The Drumpfster trying to buck up work-a-day MAGA as they watch their financial futures melt away. I mean, of course they’re faithful. Obviously, they’re loyal. But as they add up the extra years they get to work, now, while he “resets” the government, they’re likely – quietly, of course – getting a tad nervous. So he offers up some moronic platitude and they loyally bend over, “Thank you, sir! May I have another?”

Here’s the thing. First Felon 47 has plenty of money. MAGA knows this is true – he got it from them. Now, his addle-minded tariffs are taking a toll on MAGA’S retirement funds. They’re nervous, but they’ll let him. If he wants it, he can have it, as far as they’re concerned. They’ll eat dirt or something. It’s true, he’s hurting everyone, not just work-a-day MAGA. But at a certain point, it becomes a different kind of “hurt.”

For instance, according to ‘Business Insider,’ just since the day he “liberated” Americans from all of that pesky money, (Thursday) Elon Musk has lost $11 billion dollars. That’s a lot. But he’s STILL worth $322 billion dollars so I suspect he’s going to be okay. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, has lost $15.9 billion but he’s still worth $201 billion. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has lost $17.9 billion, but he’s still worth $189 billion. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Warren Buffet, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, “only” lost $2.57 billion but he’s still got $165 billion to fall back on should times get hard. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world’s largest luxury goods conglomerate. He lost $6.22 Billion but still has $163 billion to work with. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, “only” lost $291 million. Not bad. I guess he’ll be fine with only $162 billion left over. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, lost $8.1 billion but he’ll manage with the $160 billion he has left. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, lost $4.79 billion. He’ll tighten his belt, though, and rely on the remaining $138 billion he has lying around. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, lost $2.85 billion. Now he only has $131 billion. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, lost $4.46 billion from his $130 billion net worth. Felon 47’s recession isn’t going to affect him.

Collectively, that’s a lot of money they’ve lost. Collectively, they STILL have a lot MORE money. They, likely, won’t even MISS the billions they’ve lost, accidentally making the case for taxing the rich to make them pay their fair share. I mean, when you don’t even miss it when it goes, why not? Anyway, I guess I can understand how the billionaires are managing to weather the financial storm Felon 47 has conjured.

How about you? How much have YOU lost? How much do you have in your other pocket, to fall back on, just in case? Maybe it’s true. Maybe you just have to “ride out the crash” until he reaches his glorious (mythical?) “other side.” That’s how the billionaires are handling it. Absorbing the loss.

But, I’ll tell you this: if you don’t happen to have billions of dollars to fall back on, or even hundreds of millions (you deadbeat), your ride to the other side might well involve complete ruin…

An Age’s Most Uncertain Hour…

by MyBaconPress

“…And I dreamed I was dying…
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
and looking back down at me, smiled reassuringly.
And I dreamed I was flying…

And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty sailing away to sea.
And I dreamed I was flying…

Well we come on a ship they call ‘The Mayflower.’
We come on a ship that sailed the moon.
We come in an age’s most uncertain hour,
And sing an American tune.
Oh, but it’s alright. It’s alright, it’s alright.
You can’t be forever blessed.
Still tomorrow’s gonna be another working day
and I’m trying to get some rest.
That’s all I’m trying, to get some rest.”
(- Paul Simon, American Tune, 1973)

That’s an earworm I’ve been living with since shortly after January. I have no idea as to what might have set it in motion…

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First Felon 47 fired General Tim Haugh, Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA). Oh, he also headed US Cyber Command, which coordinates the Pentagon’s cybersecurity operations. Do you know why he was fired? Laura Loomer, a social media personality suggested it because he was good at his job and loyal to national security, MORE loyal to national security than to Donny. In this mess, loyalty is everything, qualifications don’t matter, as evidenced by his TV team and social media advisors. 47 also fired Haugh’s civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble. She was qualified, too. Had to go.

Now we’ll have someone in the role who is loyal to the Drumpfster and no one else. Good at the job? Who cares? He’s loyal to 47. I’m sure it will be someone of the same caliber as the crack team of “Jeniouses” that invited a reporter into their classified chat and didn’t even know it. Quality work there, guys…

Did you see the part about Haugh being in charge of Cyber Security? Most intelligent people believe our next war will be fought via computer. You’d think you’d want someone in the job who can at least turn the thing on. Not Donny, no way. Loyalty, nothing else…

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Our National Embarrassment has issued executive orders blocking security clearances and canceling federal contracts with law firms who have worked with his perceived enemies. These are big, powerful law firms. They’re just chock full of smart lawyers ready to fight. You just KNOW these guys are going to… wait… what?

Bent the knee, eh? Willkie, Farr, & Gallagher, where Kamala Harris’ husband is a partner, has agreed to provide $100 million dollars in free legal services. They’re the third “major” law firm to buckle, after Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps. Well, that’s not entirely right. Donny hasn’t issued an Executive Order against Willkie, yet. They just stepped up and volunteered to bend the knee. (My, that DOES sound like most Democrats, these days, doesn’t it?)

It’s likely I don’t understand the ins and outs of this thing but I’ll tell you this: if I was a client of any one of those firms, I’d start looking for different representation immediately. I mean, if they won’t even fight for themselves, how much are they going to fight for me? I’m just sayin’…

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I AM pleased to note that Elon couldn’t buy the election in Wisconsin. He spent a LOT. He lost anyway. The election was for a State Supreme Court Judge. We don’t normally DO parties for a State Supreme Court Judge, but we all knew, for this one, based on who was backing whom. It was a big deal. Muck even went so far as to say the election was a fight to determine “the future of America and Western Civilization.”

Wisconsin is about to consider redistricting maps for the state. Wisconsin has been gerrymandered in favor of the GOP for quite some time, now, and those being cheated against are getting sick of it. Had the Republican-favored candidate won, women in Wisconsin would lose their right to choose and the gerrymandering would have continued into the foreseeable future. Since the Dem won, women will likely retain their rights (until the Feds step in) and the redistricting map will move forward.

It eliminates two “safe” GOP seats in the House of Representatives. They’re “safe” because they’re gerrymandered. It’s peculiar, the more success Americans have eliminating gerrymandering, the less power the GOP has in Congress. Why, it’s almost as if, given a fair chance, Americans REJECT the GOP agenda. Their margin is getting smaller and smaller. It really was a big deal…

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Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it. Biden left an economic mess. THAT’S why bad things like this are happening now, and not when Biden was actually in office. In fact, if I remember correctly, the economy was SO strong, Felon 47 was actively taking credit for it – even though Biden was in charge.

“THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP.” He posted that on his Untruth Social on January 29, 2024.

“…our Stock Market is rising only because Polls are strongly indicating that we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024” Also, Untruth Social, March 12, 2024.

“There are many people that are saying that the only reason the Stock Market is high is because I am leading in all of the Polls,” Yet again, his fingers roaring on Untruth Social, May 15, 2024.

Of course, he also posted some blame. In early August, 2024, the stock market dropped a little. That happens. It was a blip. But Felon 47 was there, “STOCK MARKETS CRASHING. I TOLD YOU SO!!! …ALL CAUSED BY INEPT U.S. LEADERSHIP!” August 4, 2024.

Now Donny’s in charge and Donny has made some very 19th century moves. Have you checked your 401k, yet? Are you looking at the Stock Market or closing your eyes, plugging your ears, and shouting “La, la, la?” Donny imposed his insane tariffs on Thursday, April 3 – infamously imposing tariffs on penguins – those damned unfair birds! The market reacted exactly as one would have expected and certainly predicted. It plunged by almost 1,700 points. (That’s $2.4 TRILLION dollars he wiped out – in ONE DAY!)

It was set to open even worse, 1,500 more points in overnight futures sell-offs. But that was just the opener. By the end of the second day, the market had shed 2,100 more points. $6.4 TRILLION dollars in value, wiped off the boards – in TWO DAYS! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s a total of $11.1 Trillion dollars wiped off the boards since 47 was inaugurated.

What was it the Drumpfster wrote? Oh, yeah, “STOCK MARKETS CRASHING. …ALL CAUSED BY INEPT U.S. LEADERSHIP!” I guess if I’m being fair, I have to give him credit for that one. Inept US leadership IS crashing the market. The only part he missed was which President was the most inept. (The world agrees, though: it’s Trump – by a wide margin…)

Believe it or not, MAGA isn’t worried. MAGA has been conditioned to believe these are short-term pains. Yes, they’ve been told, it’s going to hurt at first, but then things are going to bloom in a way you’ve never imagined. THAT, at least is a kind of truth. MAGA isn’t capable of imagining anything other than glory for their “Dear Misleader” so they really would NEVER imagine the market doing what every decent economist in the world knows it’s going to do.

Having conditioned them to accept the crash as “a plan,” he has only to keep moving the goal posts by telling them the blooms are coming soon. The pain? Oh, they’ll feel that, daily, but they expect blooms in the near future. Any time, now. Just around the corner. No, not quite yet, but it’s coming. Hang in there. Be strong. He said it, so MAGA STILL expects their flowers to bloom.

You know, the way your flowers “bloom” after you pour ‘Round Up’ on them. Sure, they wilt at first but then they… I mean, they… well, they’re supposed to… Hey, what’s up with these flowers?

Let’s start blaming Joe Biden now, and avoid the rush…

A Terrorist State?

by MyBaconPress

Well, at least he was being even-handed. Felon 47 actually imposed his “Liberation Day” tariffs. He hit everywhere. EVERYWHERE! Including a couple of islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands. He’s HAD it with them giving us the business when it comes to trade. Unless it’s about Fentanyl. I’m not sure anymore. He’s not either, because of the Adderall. Still, he’s not going to STAND for it one day longer. He named those two islands specifically. Called ’em out, you might say. Every single person who lives there can see that the US isn’t playing around anymore!

And IF anybody actually lived there, they’d probably be upset at the destabilization of the trade relationship. But since nobody does – live there, I mean – the locals (Penguins) probably didn’t notice. To be perfectly clear: he imposed tariffs on penguins! Sometimes, I get genuinely concerned this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing…

Oh, it’s not just me, either. The Drumpfster’s mind-boggling boggled mind is destabilizing the dollar. The dollar is, well, was, the world reserve currency. In simplest terms, that means EVERYONE wanted/needed dollars because the dollar was so dependable, so strong, so… safe. Well, not with Donny driving, it isn’t.

The headline in the Guardian this morning read, “US dollar ‘at risk of confidence crisis’ as Trump tariffs rattle global markets.” Other countries are abandoning the dollar altogether, now. Increasingly, they’re turning toward the Yuan. That’s Chinese money. Donny’s hat is wrong. He’s making China great again. He’s pushing AMERICA into a depression. (I know I’M depressed…)

Mostly, I just believe he really doesn’t understand. I suspect he honestly thinks this will work. Someone told him there would be “market adjustments” so he doesn’t CARE about the crashing economy or your 401k. He thinks it will just be short-term pain. Respected economists think we’re on our way to a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.

On the other hand, he IS an evil son-of-a-bitch. One cannot discount that. He and his evil buddies might well have a profit scheme dreamed up that involves the ultimate “bust out,” the United States of America. He and his buddies end up with trillions in Yuan (NO, he’s not buying dollars. Those things are useless. What are you, crazy?) and the vast majority of Americans will be left with nothing…

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The right seems to have found a new bogeyman to expose and expunge: empathy. Empathy is a noun. It means, ‘The ability to identify with or understand another’s situation or feelings.’ I guess there’s a concern that some MAGA might start to wonder what it FEELS LIKE to be whisked off of the street, held without charge, put on a plane, and flown to a maximum security prison without EVER being charged, let alone convicted, to “serve your time.” How MUCH time? No one can say. There IS no crime, so there IS no statute. Technically, you’ve been “disappeared.”

I kind of couldn’t believe it when I first heard about it. I mean, who thought they needed THAT? I see a ‘lack of empathy’ as entry level stuff for MAGA, a basic requirement. Yet, they’re starting to talk publicly about how empathy is weakness. Elon Musk went on the Joe Rogan show and said, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” All right, so Musk is a greed-blinded moron whom one would NEVER mistake for a decent or moral human being. Oh, AND, he has autism. It’s EASY to believe he can’t quite grasp the concept of empathy. I doubt he could do to people what he’s doing to people if he could. But among the leaders of that anti-empathy movement? “Christian” Nationalists.

The quotes around ‘Christian’ are about me not accepting them AS Christians.
“Hey! Who are YOU to judge my relationship with Jesus?”
“I’m a guy who can read your storybook and understand what it says, then watch your behavior and compare the two. When they don’t align, I draw conclusions, like it or not. When everything you do, say, think, and feel is the exact opposite of the teachings of Jesus, you just don’t qualify as Christian, no matter WHAT you call yourself. Maybe start with John 13:15…”

For those of us not so familiar with John 13:15, it says, “For I gave you an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you.” (That’s Jesus-talk for “I showed you how to behave. Do that.” They don’t, and I “discern.”) But maybe it’s just me, right? Maybe I misunderstood the message. No, I don’t think so. Here are some other examples from the “Christian” Nationalists:

JOSH MCPHERSON from the podcast ‘Family Talk’: “Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary.”

ALLIE BETH STUCKEY from the podcast ‘Thinking In Public’: “Really, I think empathy as hoisted up as the highest virtue, or even a virtue at all – I think that really gets us into a really big mess.”

JOE RIGNEY, discussing his book, ‘The Sin Of Empathy,’: “Most people have a hard time imagining how empathy could ever be harmful. And therefore, if I’m the devil, where am I going to hide some of my most destructive tactics?”

Purging empathy, any possibility of empathy, is crucial to the next steps in the coup. They’re about to get outright cruel, as though they haven’t been evil enough already…
“Oh, Mark, you’re always so hyperbolic!”

In Better America, one could NOT just put someone on a plane and send them to prison in a foreign country. Just for emphasis: ‘SEND THEM TO PRISON’ in a foreign country! By definition, then, we haven’t been Better America since at least 2001, when the US started jailing people in Guantanamo Bay based on the idea that, while being tortured, someone had mentioned a name just like theirs. Nothing else, just that.

Now we’ve sent a planeload of people to a prison in El Salvador. No, I DIDN’T write about how they lost their court cases – because they didn’t GET court cases. THIS time, it isn’t ‘named under torture’ that got them tossed (permanently?) into prison. THIS time, it was the “crime” of having a tattoo on brown skin. Ooh, scary…

Human beings were summarily declared guilty and sent to a prison. The US paid that prison $6 million dollars to keep them. No trial. Just a payment. Prison. No, not just a prison. One of the most notoriously brutal prisons in the world. What was their crime? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
“Uh-huh! They were members of a bad gang.”
“Oh, yeah? Prove it.”
“Well, we can’t…”
“Oh? And why is that?”
“It turns out, some of them weren’t really in that gang. But they were still in gangs!”
“Same answer: prove it.”
“No…”

The LAST time the cruelest incompetents misled the country, they kidnapped people’s children as a way to discourage them from coming to the US. We, the people – they did this in OUR name – never DID reunite some of those children with their families. We just… stole them. ‘Come to America, lose your children’, was the threat.

Now it’s ‘Come to America, end up in a brutal, El Salvadoran prison – for nothing.’
“Sneaking into this country illegally is a crime.”
“Yeah, a misdemeanor. Not usually maximum security prison stuff.”

They call it “Shock and Awe.” The idea is to use the threat of violence to coerce a civilian population in pursuit of an ideological goal. Hey, wait a minute. I’ve heard that before. Where have I– Oh, I remember! That’s the actual definition of ‘Terrorism,’ using violence or the threat of violence to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government in pursuit of political or ideological goals.

Thanks, MAGA. Donny’s only been in charge for just over two months, and already, the United States of America is, officially, a terrorist state! And you’re… cheering? I guess MAGA media doesn’t have to put TOO much effort into that “purge empathy” movement after all, eh?