Month: May 2025

Predictable…

by MyBaconPress

I have questions…
Huh. A glacier collapsed? It wiped out a whole town? Now there are other areas threatening to do the same? Wow, who could have predicted? What? The vast majority of the world’s climate experts predicted exactly this kind of calamity? Not JUST this but other kinds of natural catastrophes, too? And they’re ALL coming true, exactly as warned?

Wait a minute, isn’t there a huge number of people who insisted for decades that climate change isn’t real? What about them? Doesn’t it all just go away if we collectively don’t believe in it? Didn’t 47 “solve” it all by removing any reference to climate change on government websites and firing the people who study the problem? And… didn’t he ALSO eliminate regulations intended to battle climate change? Won’t THAT fix the problem?

Come to think of it, wasn’t that ALSO his big strategy for dealing with Covid-19? I mean, didn’t he suggest that if we just stop testing for it, Covid-19 would just go away? Didn’t he say that? Doesn’t that also suggest that if we don’t look, it isn’t real? Didn’t that idea boost the body count to just over a million people when every other country on Earth couldn’t get anywhere NEAR that body count? Didn’t we have the best body count, the biggest body count?

Wasn’t that brought to us by 47, thanks, mostly, to his astounding lack of understanding of reality and the way things work? So why shouldn’t his clever strategy of ignoring it and hoping it goes away while declaring it ‘fake news’ work? Do you supposed the Swiss faked the crushed village just to make the Orange Man look bad?

Isn’t it at least STARTING to feel like ignoring it isn’t working? Doesn’t it seem like we should be at least TRYING to do something to protect ourselves? Wouldn’t it be the most outrageously stupid, monumentally moronic, ridiculously irresponsible choice – to pretend a problem that’s causing deaths and billions of dollars in destruction doesn’t exist for no other reason than shareholder value? Isn’t that the dumbest thing you’ve EVER heard of in your life?

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This goes with that…
I saw two articles, side by side, in the Guardian this morning. The first was, ‘One day I overheard my boss saying: ‘just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI’ and the second was, ‘Are there billions more people on Earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing.’

I think the first story suggests the folly of the second. Full disclosure, you can put me, firmly, in the “We’re WAY too overpopulated” camp. 47’s regime is trying to encourage people to have more babies. White babies, to be sure, but more. People who would bear the responsibility for those babies seem… concerned about the future 47’s regime is offering those babies. The birth rate is down. But only in developed countries.

In places where more hands are required to get the work done or there’s a high mortality rate, people still have lots of kids. On balance, the population continues to grow. People often associate that problem as a resource management issue. Those of us who are concerned that there are too many of us worry that there aren’t enough resources for 10.3 billion people, the number we’re expected to reach by the mid-2080’s.

It should be noted, that’s even a concern for the people who think more babies would be better. The guy who wrote the article defending the increasing population, Jonathan Kennedy, included in his story a line that reads, “That many people will put considerable stress on the Earth’s resources, but if consumption is managed responsibly and sustainable technologies are developed, the world will avoid an apocalyptic catastrophe.”

Isn’t that great? IF consumption is managed responsibly and sustainable technologies are developed? Dude, have you ever MET a human being? Since when do we manage consumption responsibly? IF we can develop sustainable technologies? That ‘If’ is doing a LOT of heave lifting. What IF… we can’t? Or maybe just… don’t? Shareholder value, you know. If we’re not going to address overpopulation – and, surely, we are not – I’m putting my money on ‘apocalyptic catastrophe.’

But even before then, the other story, the side-by-side partner of the overpopulation story was about people losing their jobs to technology. And of course people lose their jobs to technology. That’s the way it has always been. Why wouldn’t that be the way it will always be? My best example, right off the top of my head while I blearily drink my morning coffee, is the coal mining industry.

When politicians run for office and get into coal country, they LOVE to promise one-time coal miners that their jobs will be restored. THAT particular politician has the plan and he or she will get those miners back into the mines, digging coal and dying of Black lung in no time at all. 47 promises “Two weeks. We’ll have it done in two weeks.” (Why is it always “two weeks” with this guy?)

But coal miners didn’t lose their jobs to regulations. The didn’t lose their jobs to environmental concerns. They lost their jobs to technology. Coal companies started using open pit mines. A small team of munitions experts blow up a huge swath of coal-infused earth and giant backhoes fill giant dump trucks that take the load to largely automated processing plants. Where once 100 were needed, now 25 can do the job. The other 75 are left without work.

Estimates for the work force to build the Great Pyramid range from as low as 7,000 to as many as 30,000. I would imagine we could build the thing, today, with only a few hundred. Modern technology would easily replace the rest. That would leave a LOT of people standing around with nothing to do.

That’s exactly the problem we have today. Too many people with nothing to do. AI is coming for jobs many people didn’t expect. When it seemed it would only be robots displacing blue collar workers, that didn’t bother too many people – at least, those not wearing the blue collars. But AI is coming for WHITE collar jobs. Who expected that? (I’m raising my hand. You just can’t see me.)

But the problem is the same. If a robot inserts tab A into slot B and then bolts them together, the blue-collar human worker is out in the cold. If AI becomes the accountant, the white collar worker is out in the cold. Same difference. It will take a fraction of the current human population to maintain the machines – at least until they learn to maintain themselves.

I am NOT a proponent of forced population reductions. China tried that. It looks as though the results are shaping up to be disastrous. I prefer educating people and letting them make their own decisions – exactly the problem that creates the future dystopia depicted in “Idiocracy,” I know. It’s still the right answer.

People who are looking at the world around them and holding off on babies are doing the right thing. Humans have never stopped doing pretty much the same things: we build roads and bridges, we build houses and other buildings, we produce food for the masses. The thing is, technology allows us to use fewer and fewer people to do those things. Population reduction seems the only rational choice. Sadly, being rational is NOT a human strength…

Captain McCain vs Cadet Bone Spurs…

by MyBaconPress

“All gave some.
Some gave all.
One had bone spurs…”

This, increasingly, seems to be how our military feels about their cowardly Commander-in-Chief. He wants a military parade. He pretends to honor soldiers but privately calls them ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ He had a chance for military glory. Instead, he got a letter that said he had “temporary bone spurs.” That was AFTER four college deferments.

47’s daddy was landlord to a podiatrist, Larry Braunstein, who, according to his family, wrote the bone spur “diagnosis” as a “favor.” The scheme involved a second podiatrist, Manny Weinstein, who also leased space from Fred Trump. Meanwhile, 47 competed in sports in the school he was hiding in. He says he was “the best,” but when does he ever say anything else? From MY point of view, the only thing he’s ever been “the best” at is evading responsibility.

I think somewhere in the dimmest recesses of is puny little mind, he KNOWS he doesn’t measure up to the soldiers who answered their country’s call. Because he’s such a shallow person, he seems to actually resent the military. He couldn’t stand John McCain, for example. He said McCain was NOT a war hero because he got shot down. Captain McCain vs Cadet Bone Spurs.

McCain DID get shot down, too. He was taken to an infamous POW camp called the Hanoi Hilton. It turns out, though, McCain was well connected back in the states and, as a result, was offered the opportunity to skip all that POW ugliness and just come back to the US. He said, “No.” He stayed with his comrades. That segment of his life cost him the use of an arm for the rest of his life. I didn’t agree with his politics, but McCain was a proud and brave man – a war hero, the likes of which Donny couldn’t even conceive. (Can you imagine 47 making a selfless decision about, well, anything, really?)

So Donny didn’t think much of McCain and McCain didn’t think much of Donny, either. The difference was, McCain had the credibility of action Donny could never gain. During an interview, McCain said, “One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”

So military members have a fun little put-down of the orange man. “One had bone spurs.” As always with 47, words are just words and Lord knows he talks. But his actions give him away, and, in action, he ran and hid…

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The military isn’t alone. Wall street has taken to referring to 47 as ‘Taco.’ That’s an acronym. It stands for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out.’ The reference is to 47’s oh-so-stupid tariffs that do so much damage each time they’re announced. Then revoked. Trump has turned the United States into a laughing stock, an ongoing joke.

It’s rather heartening to see that the joke is on him. Taco Trump. Cadet Bone Spurs. People whose respect he craves are, instead, showing him the respect he deserves…

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“Trump is not corrupt because he commits HIS crimes in plain sight.” REALLY?!? That’s the line from the GOP in defense of their corrupt idol. This guy is grifting and grafting on a daily basis. I presume he’s trying to hide some of it but there’s just mountains of it he’s doing right out in the open, with no concern for what people might think.

This is the direct result of the Robert’s Kangaroo Court saying the POTUS has near-perfect immunity, coupled with a corrupt Congress who still could, but will not take action to stop him. Instead, they offer up defenses like that. It’s not corruption because it’s in plain sight.

The only reason MAGA hasn’t turned on him, yet, is because MAGA media is still misinforming them and they still believe it. But it’s GOT to be getting harder and harder to defend him and his actions. It’s GOT to be getting harder for MAGA to convince themselves that Donny has anything in mind other than taking everything he can from them and stuffing it into his own pockets.

I’ll tell you this: the fact that he commits crime in plain sight doesn’t make them any less criminal. I see it. You see it. Sooner or later, MAGA is bound to see it…

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Musk takes away your FEMA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes away your NOAA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes your education money. FAR too expensive.
MAGA Mike will take your health care, and, likely, Social Security, too. Too expensive.
But Musk accepts your taxpayer money at an amazing rate – billions of dollars. His rockets keep blowing up or tumbling into the ocean (and, sometimes, populated land!)

There are millions of people in this country who couldn’t be where they are without government assistance – something of an indictment of Capitalism, if you ask me. Government money intended to help the needy is being canceled as too expensive while government money given to make rich people richer just keeps flowing. Welcome to the Upside Down…

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Defenders of Israel went into this whole thing with the moral high ground. Hamas HAD attacked Israel. I can’t say it was “unprovoked,” but it was certainly not smart. When Israel “responded” to that attack, much of the world understood. 1,200 people had to be avenged.

Slowly, at first, then faster, Israel has surrendered the moral high ground. Okay, 1,200 for 1,200, sure. But then, Israel didn’t stop. 120,000 for 1,200? Is that where we’re going? Anybody paying attention has seen Israel tell refugees to go to such and such a location for “safety,” only to have Israel bomb and attack that exact spot.

I think that when Hamas launched rockets into civilian areas of Israel, they committed a war crime. But Israel has been committing war crimes ever since. I think it’s time for the world to intervene. Enough is enough – and Israel has inflicted MORE than enough…

One Judge, Two Judge, Red Judge, Blue Judge…

by MyBaconPress

There’s this whole argument being advanced by the right that a single “activist” judge (according to MAGA, an “activist” judge is a judge who rules in a way they don’t like) should not be able to make rules that affect the entire government. It’s one thing, they say, to make a ruling that affects the people before the court, sure. But a ruling that affects people NOT before the court? Like, a CLASS of people?

For clarity, say, for example, some unknown, mythical government was about to deport several hundred people based on little more than a combination of skin color and tattoos, without due process, making the deportations a crime. ONE of them manages to get before a court (somehow) and insist they’re NOT part of a gang and that they’re here legally.

If you’re MAGA, you’re arguing that only that ONE person should be affected by the judge’s ruling. The judge should be barred from, say, noticing that the entire process is a violation of the Constitution and putting a stop to it, even temporarily. Instead, each individual should have to seek justice themselves, on the same issues, over and over again.

Taking things on a case-by-case basis is a very old con trick. It slows the defense. How many can they deport illegally while each individual seeks their own justice? How many have no access to seek that justice in the first place? How frivolous is it, to have judges ruling, over and over again on the same issues, especially when the “issues” in question are so obviously unconstitutional?

Fortunately, nothing like that happened in the United States of America. Stay tuned to see how the world works in this Bizarro America. But when we followed the Constitution, no single judge COULD issue a nationwide order that stood, all alone. That’s because we have – I’m sorry, I’m still getting used to this, HAD – a review process.

You walk into a lower court and make your case. The judge rules against you. “No, you can NOT simply grab people off the streets and send them to foreign prisons without charge, hearing, or trial.” But you hate brown people. Are you stuck? Nope. You file an appeal with a higher court. That’s usually a three judge panel. You can sometimes request a larger panel, but at least three MORE judges are looking over the lower court’s shoulder to make sure the ruling made sense.

If you STILL can’t be openly racist and deport people based on skin color and tattoos alone, you take your case higher – to the Supreme Court. That goes to one Justice and then, maybe, to the whole panel. One to nine MORE judges looking at the question. So at a minimum, by the time the process is finished, the smallest number of judges to review a question is five. It could go as high as twenty. But rarely is the question settled with just one.

See, I wouldn’t want only one judge to have that kind of power, either. I mean, what if said judge was ideological in nature and ruled based on their love of a certain person rather than the words in the constitution? What if THAT happened? One might end up with decisions that rule the exact opposite of the plain English words in the Constitution.

One might read the words that say it takes an act of Congress to remove the “disability” of a person barred from holding public office if they have, say, engaged in insurrection against the United States of America, and then rule that it takes an act of Congress to engage the disability – the exact opposite of the words on the page! I would HATE that.

That would be insanity! We might well end up with a felonious fraudster in the White House, moving from one grift to the next, fleecing the Federal government as fast as their greedy, tiny little hands can shove money into their already overflowing pockets. That would be a terrible, dark, ugly day for the United States of America and I’m glad that we– Aw, crap…

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Well, we’ve finally gotten a glimpse of 47’s brilliant and very easy but secret plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine: he intends to say, in a very meaningful and strong way, “Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!” If THAT doesn’t work, well, he’s pretty much out of ideas.

One problem with 47 is that he invariably surrounds himself with ass-kissing yes-men who ALWAYS nod in assent and laugh at ALL of his jokes, and THEN decides that “everybody agrees” with him since he will not put up with dissent. In his mind, “Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!” shouted at people NOT on his payroll should work just as well as when he yells at employees paid to take his garbage.

Donny often reminds me of a spoiled six-year-old, laying on the ground, kicking and screaming, shouting and crying, pounding his fists and his feet on the floor and threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue…

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Recently, I mentioned that the government was offering $1,000 dollar “Trump Accounts” to women if they would have a baby. I haven’t seen the fine print, yet, but I’m guessing they mean a white baby. They call that an “incentive.” Ever since I learned that, I’ve been thinking, “That amount will ALMOST pay for one month of day care!” After that? The kid is, entirely, on you. Wow, what a great incentive…

“It’s Only Stupid IF…”

by MyBaconPress

Americans need to engage in a game of “It’s Only Stupid IF…” Hell, the whole world is allowed to play – encouraged even. “It’s Only Stupid IF…” is a game I made up intended to help rational, decent people make some sense of the USA today. No, not the newspaper, the country. It’s easy to play, too. All one does is start a sentence with “It’s only stupid IF…” and finish the sentence with what ethical and honorable people might do.

Here’s an example: on the left, it’s a great laugh line just to mention any or all of the failed businesses 47 has started and destroyed. “He’s so stupid,” they say, “he even bankrupted a casino! A-ha, ha, ha! Oh, isn’t he dumb?” But then you play the game, see? “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intended to create going concerns in the first place.

But if his goal was to create – and destroy – “bust-outs,” then, really, Donny’s various business ventures, casino included, represent a master class. He forms a corporation and uses it to start a business on borrowed money. He builds it out on empty promises to pay craftsmen later. He hires employees (human beings) to work the business, paying them with that borrowed money, then he fleeces every cent out of that business. Every dollar that comes in flows directly into his own pocket. Eventually, inevitably, the business fails and the corporation files for bankruptcy protection.

The lender loses. The craftsmen lose. The employees lose. The municipality he ran his scam in loses. But HE, personally, pockets lots and lots of lucre! The reason ethical people have difficulty seeing that is because such a scheme is profitable to one or two people and damaging to hundreds, maybe thousands, of others. Every. Single. Time. Profitable for him, harmful to everyone else. But if one doesn’t CARE that they’re harming people… It’s easy money.

He recently started a crypto currency business. Crypto is, essentially, pseudo-money. It has nothing behind it, not even debt. It has value because people agree it has value but the moment that agreement changes, so does the value. Jumping in to such a venture seems stupid. But, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intends to make money from the crypto. But he doesn’t. He’s “mining the miners,” as the saying goes. HE makes money from the fees and charges that come from facilitating the hopes and dreams of people who DO intend to make money off the currency itself. 47 doesn’t CARE if his coin makes money or loses money. HE makes money either way.

Let’s think about his on again, off again tariffs. THAT game hurts millions, not just a measly few thousand. Demanding, rescinding, insisting upon, then removing tariffs SEEMS like incredibly stupid economic management, and I mean world-class stupid. He’s destabilizing the world economy, destroying the American dollar, and voluntarily surrendering American hegemony. He’s only been in office a short time, and the US has seen her credit rating downgraded as a direct result of his actions. Not Biden’s. Not Obama’s. Not even Hillary’s. HIS.

But “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he intends the US to have a strong, vibrant economy that works well for as many as possible. You know, like the one Biden left him. If your actual goal is to turn ALL OF AMERICA into one, giant “bust-out,” OMG is doing a good job. Think about it, if you wanted to devastate the financial power of a once-great nation, if that was your goal, what would you do that Donny isn’t doing? He’s covered all the bases, right?

Another round? Okay. He lies as easily as drinking water. No, that’s wrong. He sometimes has difficulty drinking water. The thing is, he’ll look right into a camera that he KNOWS is recording and promise that, say, tariffs will never raise prices on the end consumer. Sometimes as short as a day later, he’ll look into those STILL RECORDING cameras and tell the same people that of course their prices are going to go up because of his tariffs. See, to me, that seems stupid. Does he not realize that someone, somewhere, will show those two clips side by side, proving he’s lying?

But, of course, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” he expects his lies to be a problem, which, for reasons I can’t grasp, they never, ever are. MOST of the time, when he’s talking, he’s not talking to the world. He’s not even talking to Americans. He’s talking to MAGA. He’s feeding soundbites into MAGA media that the complicit broadcasters can play on a loop, all day, every day. Americans know Donny is lying. Hell, the whole world knows Donny is lying. But MAGA does NOT know Donny is lying.

During the campaign, Donny promised he would release the Epstein files so the world can finally see the details of Epstein’s human trafficking crimes. The whole world knows there are names of some very wealthy, very powerful people associated with Epstein’s crimes. We just don’t know exactly whose names we might find on such a list. So the regime is pretending they just can’t seem to get the files together. Those particular files seem to be constantly “under review.” It seems to be little more than stupid incompetence.

Once again, though, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” you DON’T know that the three most prominent names that would likely show in that record are of the very dear friends, ‘Jeffery Epstein,’ ‘Ghislaine Maxwell,’ and ‘Donald Trump.’ But Donny DOES know whose name shows up as much as Epstein and Maxwell and he doesn’t DARE release the details. Sure, he can promise, but he can NEVER follow through. He’s concerned about what MAGA might think if they thought he was knowingly having sex with underage women.

To my mind, this one gets a rare “double stupid.” See, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” MAGA might react badly to the statutory rapes, but they won’t. MAGA will overlook the criminal sex the same way they disregard any – ALL – of his other moral failings. 47 just seems too stupid to realize that. So it’s a pretended stupid, disguised and confounded by an actual stupid.

So there you go, the rules of the game. Now you can play along on your own time and it applies to everything, all the time. EVERY time you hear about some new, apparently “stupid” thing he’s done, play the game. “It’s Only Stupid IF…” then fill in what a decent, moral, honorable person would do. Donny NEVER does what a decent, moral, honorable person might do, so the game helps to clarify his true intent, even as he tells whatever lie is needed to facilitate the current grift at hand. And, sadly, “It’s Only Stupid IF…” it doesn’t work…

Blue Is My Favorite Color…

by MyBaconPress

The LAST time the low-information, conservative, anti-American crowd came together and started forcing their low-information, conservative, anti-America views on everybody, the battle that ensued was between the Blue and the Grey. THIS time, it looks like it’s going to be the Blue vs the Red. It seems the good guys always get blue. I like that. Blue is my favorite color…

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I suspect 47 thinks he’s being tough when he receives a visit from some other country’s leader, and then attacks them publicly over some pretended “issue.” I guess it plays well in MAGA media. For reasons I can only pretend not to understand, he only seems to do it to darker skinned world leaders, too. The thing is, so far anyway, he attacks dark-skinned foreign dignitaries with false information. That kind of makes him look dumb… everywhere – except MAGA media, of course.

He did it with Zelenskyy when Team Evil was all butthurt that Ukraine hadn’t said “thank you” enough. Now he’s done it with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. 47 claimed, falsely, that white farmers are being attacked and killed in South Africa. MAGA loves stories about dark-skinned people killing white farmers. Do you remember when they were telling that exact same story about farmers that lived along the Mexican border here in the US?

They had LOTS of fun with that one – until some wet blanket reporter investigated the charges and proved they were nothing more than a fun story for racists. Farmers were NOT getting their heads chopped off by illegals along the Mexican border. So, you won’t be surprised to learn that white farmers are NOT suffering crime at a much higher rate than other citizens of South Africa. It’s just a fun story for racists.

So, of course, 47 is all in on it. He’s SO sure it’s true, he even went so far as to show a photograph of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo being buried after being murdered. He didn’t SAY it was a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo and, in fairness to him, he likely didn’t know or care that it was a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He believed it for the moment because it fit his story for the moment so he showed it for a moment so he could get his moment in MAGA media.

But if your story depends on showing actual atrocities from the Democratic Republic of Congo and pretending their imagined atrocities in South Africa, your story doesn’t deserve to be told. But maybe someone could check on the women from the Democratic Republic of Congo? Oh, yeah, the US isn’t in the good guy business anymore…

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The left-leaning media is characterizing the discussions among Team Evil as to exactly how much damage they should inflict on defenseless individuals as some kind of ‘Freedom Caucus Revolt.’ Ooh, how did MAGA Mike handle THAT? (He told them to STFU and vote as instructed – and they did.)

Was there EVER any question in your minds that the GOP would fall in line and do as they’re told? Not in mine. They always do as they’re told. I’m not sure they know HOW to stand up, since their spines simply don’t seem to exist. Sure, they’ll say things in public, but they vote dependably.

Donny is out there, promoting his “Big, Beautiful Bill.” He says it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bolster the US economy. Remember, kids! It’s ALWAYS a safe bet that if 47 says a thing, the opposite is true. It’s almost a fact of life, like sunrise. So when he says the “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bolster the US economy, you just KNOW the one thing this behemoth nightmare does NOT do is bolster the US economy.

Experts in economics seem to be in a near panic about the US destabilizing their own economy to such a dangerous extent. Our credit rating is down and investors are flocking to other places with their investment dollars. Instability is a bad, bad thing for most investors and the US is very unstable at the moment. Well, at least it’s current “leader” is. Unstable, I mean.

It DOES strip regulations related to buying a silencer for your gun. I mean, obviously. If you’re trying to stimulate the economy, what better way than eliminating some gun regulations?

It also eliminates all of that pesky oversight from the courts the cons hate so much. It never crosses their minds to simply stop breaking the law. They need to silence the people who keep pointing out that they’re breaking the law. The bit they tossed in? It reads: “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or restraining order…” Sure, you can make a ruling, but you’re not allowed to enforce that ruling.

It should go without saying that they attacked transgender people a little bit more, too. Remember, the goal is to stimulate the economy – and MAGA finds attacking defenseless people one of the most stimulating activities they’ve ever pursued.

They’re trying to bribe women into having babies. Sure, the economy sucks. You could be on the streets in a moment’s notice. Maybe you can feed your kid, maybe you can’t. Need a doctor? Oh, HELL no! Pay no attention to the fear that an actual shooting war becomes just a little more likely, here, in Bizarro America every day. “Have you a baby. Here, we’ll give ya $1,000 dollars.”

They were GOING to call these little baby-bribes “MAGA Accounts.” Apparently, they wanted a little credit for creating the things, and naming the accounts after their cult seemed like a lovely way to make sure people understood, this was a MAGA thing. Alas, that didn’t satisfy the ego of the Precious enough so at the last minute, the accounts were renamed “Trump Accounts.”

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It’s classic GOP. During the campaign, The Felon started claiming – falsely, of course – that FEMA wasn’t on the ground for a natural disaster in South Carolina. FEMA WAS on the ground, helping as much and as quickly as they could. Donny was just lying, as he does so easily. But, it seems he wasn’t JUST lying. He was foreshadowing.

While FEMA worked just fine under – well, every President not named ‘Trump’ since it’s inception – it’s not working now. It turns out, cutting funding and personnel cripples the agency. Who knew? I mean, everybody but MAGA knew but, ignore that part. Now, even MAGA gets to see what it feels like when “government inefficiency” shifts from being a fun taunt to being a real thing.

Here’s what IS true, and I’m not making this up: it looks very much like natural disasters don’t pick and choose between Red Hats and Americans. We ALL get hit at the same time and at about the same rate. Hurricanes aren’t a surprise to anyone. People even refer to “hurricane season,” suggesting it’s a regular event.

They’re coming, like it or not, and FEMA isn’t ready, at least, according to FEMA. In fact, since I know the regime fires ANYBODY who dares tell any truth, I wonder why the director of FEMA hasn’t been fired as well. They should just drag him out of the– wait, what? Oh, he HAS been fired? Yeah. Perfect. That’s certain to make America great again…

Heating Up A Low Boil…

by MyBaconPress

I CAN say I’m disappointed. I can NOT say I’m surprised. An angry person gunned down two Israeli Embassy staff in Washington, D.C. He yelled something about freeing Palestine during the event. I suppose it’s inevitable that Netanyahu’s actions are inspiring fury outside of Gaza, but I seriously doubt these two embassy workers in DC – a research assistant and a travel planner – had anything to do with the decision-makers engaged in the genocidal efforts in Gaza. The shooter took his fight to the wrong people.

Adding even MORE innocent people to the long, long list of dead innocents doesn’t help at all. It won’t change a thing, or worse, could be used as an excuse to escalate in Gaza. Netanyahu is the problem. It might even take violence to stop him. But shooting the first two random Jews you see because you can’t reach Netanyahu is just plain stupid and very disappointing…

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Speaking of disappointments? Donald Trump…

He has officially accepted his Qatari bribe. Now he needs the American taxpayers to spiff up his white elephant plane to bring it up to the standard of Air Force One. That’s FOUR planes dedicated to 47’s use. FOUR! He has his own, the old one, emblazoned (naturally) with his horrific name. He has TWO Air Force One planes. Now he has this bribe plane that costs too much to fly and needs to find special runways to land and take off.

Meanwhile, you get two dolls, not three, and they’re going to cost more. The rich are getting richer while the workers, the people who made them rich in the first place, don’t even get enough. I wonder what excuse MAGA has been conditioned to pitch into the conversation that defends the massive wealth transfer they’ve helped to engineer…

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This is NOT some “libtard” complaint. This information comes from the notoriously right-wing Cato Institute. Cato was formed specifically to inject fraudulent material into the information sphere, disinformation intended to benefit the far right and their objective of dismantling the United States. When they announce something against that goal, it’s likely true.

Cato analyzed 90 cases, where information could be found, of the men kidnapped and sent to El Salvador during the regime’s “bad guys who aren’t really bad guys” purge. Of the 90, Cato was able to show that as many as 50 of them came into the country legally. According to Cato’s report, “Dozens of legal immigrants were stripped of their status and imprisoned in El Salvador.”

We’re supposed to believe that all of the victims of the regime’s incompetence were gang members, but too many of them have been shown to NOT be affiliated with gangs to have that story hold up – even IF MAGA shouts loudly that they ARE TOO gang members. They’re still not.

The fallback story is that they had tattoos. Well, yeah. Tattoos are popular these days. LOTS of people have them. People get tattoos of, well, everything, really. Of ALL the tattoos that ALL the people get, the vast majority of them have nothing to do with gang affiliation.

That leaves brown skin and racism. The idea that those men were “disappeared” because they have brown skin is supported by the invitation to a bunch of white South Africans brought in to the country under false pretenses and without red tape because they’re white. We were told they’re the victims of crime but that story has already been thoroughly debunked, too.

This is the reason the men sent to El Salvador should have received due process, as guaranteed in the Constitution. It looks very much like, had they received the due process they were supposed to receive, they would have been able to clear their names against false assertions. Donny wouldn’t have had his great big photo op of shipping them out in manacles. It would have really hurt the MAGA story. But it would have been good for the men in question, the Constitution, and the United States of America, in general. I guess MAGA opposes those things…

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This was written by Sidney Blumenthal in an article called, ‘Trump can complain all he wants – but he can’t stop his own economic mess.’ It made me laugh – mostly because it’s true. “Trump’s learning curve is a hamster’s wheel. He goes ’round and ’round, repeating belligerent ignorance unaltered over decades. He’s the hamster who thinks he’s making progress if he receives attention.” I just thought I’d share, in case you missed it…

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Two things I’ve noticed. One, despite the characterization of “lazy” undocumented people coming here and taking handouts, ICE keeps raiding workplaces to find them. Two, for reasons still unclear (unless you think about them at all) when undocumented people ARE found at those workplaces, the undocumented people are taken into custody – but not the managers and owners who hired them illegally in the first place…

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Dear MAGA, if your partner tells you, quite honestly and believably, sincere-sounding to the bone, that they would NEVER hurt you, while they’re stabbing you repeatedly, you should pay more attention to the stabbing than the words. The stabbing is more important. The stabbing is where you’ll get your best information.

I know you’ve been conditioned to believe that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was a bad thing but it created jobs, jobs, jobs – and it did so mostly in red states. So when the cons reverse the “green new scam,” conservatives will be losing jobs at a higher rate than others. THAT’S the stabbing, what they’re actually doing. Ignore the words. Pay attention to the stabbing…

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“It’s just too damned big to read. Nobody knows what’s in it!” Remember that? I do…

The cons passed their “Big, Beautiful Bill” out of the House. Now it has to go to the Senate. Of course, it’s a huge bill so, to summarize, it does harm to the lowest income people and benefits the highest income people. Sure, it has a couple of provisions to benefit lower income workers. The cons usually put those things in to give MAGA something to use to defend their indefensible actions. But those pieces ALSO usually sunset at some point, while the tax breaks for billionaires and corporations just go on and on and on.

It adds $3.8 trillion dollars to the national debt. The so-called fiscal conservatives have now added the largest single increase to the national debt in history. They follow themselves during 47’s LAST maladministration where they set the first record. In fact, each record increase not associated with war, comes from Republicans – who spend much of their free time whining about the national debt.

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, one of the two Republicans to vote against the bill, said of the bloated thing, “We’re not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic tonight. We’re putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the iceberg.”

Tens of millions of people are going to lose much-needed assistance. I’ve got to add, it seems odd that in the so-called richest country on Earth, so many millions of people should NEED assistance just to get by. But they do, and they’re going to lose it. That will happen across the board – everywhere – but it’s going to hit hardest in taker states, states that take more from the Federal government than they contribute. Mostly, those are red states.

Better or Much, Much Worse…

by MyBaconPress

No matter what else may be true, when the House GOP passes that big, beautiful bill, they’ll be needlessly adding trillions of dollars to the national debt. They’ll be adding more money to the national debt than any other President in history. Remember when the GOP resisted such things? And, really, all of this bloat isn’t being added because America found itself fighting a war or to provide services to the American people. It’s worse.

He’s adding trillions to the national debt while cutting services to millions of Americans and reducing our capabilities in just about every measurable way. He’s adding trillions to the debt just to pay for a tax cut that benefits mostly himself and his other hyper-wealthy friends. Do you suppose Fox Not-News is going to be breathlessly reporting how much each family gets to pay for that debt, like they do when a Democrat adds to the deficit?

I know, I know. We’re going to have to hear – AGAIN – about how tax cuts for the rich stimulate the economy and pay for themselves. The simple and plain fact that, so far, tax cuts for the rich have starved the government of much needed revenues and allowed the rich to enjoy the greatest wealth inequality since the turn of the 20th century and probably in history and have YET to stimulate even the smallest modicum of the economy and NEVER pay for themselves continues to befuddle MAGA, so the story continues to work. That’s frustrating…

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Two things, side by side. 47 says the US budget is looking at a surplus this month. Um… yay? He managed that by devastating the government. It’s like balancing your household budget by not feeding two of your kids anything, ever. Sure, you saved money but at what cost?

US businesses are going to Europe for money over uncertainty about 47’s tariffs. Moody’s has downgraded the US credit score. Americans are suffering. I’m not sure that surplus is all that great, assuming it’s at all real in the first place…

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In a possibly unrelated but absolutely related event, a severe storm has devastated Kentucky and bits of Missouri. Recently, due to budget cuts, the staff at the National Weather Service (NWS) in the area has been cut by roughly 30%. The local NWS office had to rely on other offices to fill in gaps in their own capability. In this case, they managed, but having to turn to “workarounds” to keep things going doesn’t really inspire confidence in the safety of the system.

It’s like the FAA suddenly experiencing all kinds of issues – and the only thing that changed was DOGE cutting the support staff without regard to what the support staff does for the agency…

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Jeez, I’m really getting sick of it, all the whining, I mean. In just the last couple of days, 47 has spent time whining about Bruce Springsteen, who seems to have set off this latest round of instability. Then he whined about Taylor Swift. Then he whined about Walmart. Then he whined about Springsteen again. Then he whined about ABC News. Then he whined about Kamala Harris. Then he whined about Bono. Then he whined about Beyoncé. Then he whined about the courts not letting him break the law. Then he whined about Oprah Winfrey. Then he whined about Obama.

Really, doesn’t he have anything better to do? If he spent HALF as much time working his job as he spends whining about people he’s mad at, he might understand his responsibilities. Instead, whine, whine, whine about everything, all the time. I’ve been on road trips with young children who didn’t whine as much…

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A man named Mark Felt became a character in the Watergate scandal (the original “-gate” scandal) identified only as “Deep Throat.” He helped Woodward and Bernstein figure out the scheme and break the story that brought down the Nixon Administration. His most important guidance came in the form of three words: “Follow the money.”

That advice remains every bit as true, today, as it has always been. Donny is a thief and a grifter. We should ALL follow the money at all times with this guy…

Okies, Swifties, and Walmart…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Oklahoma is now going to institutionalize wrongheadedness. Lovely. Students in Oklahoma schools now have to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election. Specifically, the new curriculum standard says the students need to, “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”

I’d be in trouble if I attended school in Oklahoma, these days. With that kind of standard, they will likely start teaching kids that Japan won WWII, as well. I mean, why not? If you’re just going to make things up anyway, why not go all out? I’ll tell you this: I didn’t like Oklahoma’s new standard, so I fixed it. It should read like this:

“Identify fictional discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at fake graphs and other fraudulent information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states that never happened, the security risks of mail-in balloting that don’t exist, sudden batch dumps that never happened, an unforeseen record number of voters furious at the Feckless Fuckup’s handling of, well, everything, really, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends that come with being such a complete loser of a President.”

This is simple, folks. Donny got his ass handed to him in 2020 because he did a terrible, terrible job. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly and he flat-lined the economy. The only President in history who has done a worse job than 45 is 47, who is working overtime to be worse in every measurable way – his only “success” and, sadly, succeeding at THAT brilliantly. The only real mystery is how he won so many people back to support him in 2024. Of course, Americans could offer an actual and honest class about how to steal an election based on 2024 but I’m guessing The Felon and his minions don’t want anybody looking any too closely at that “election…”

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Oh, crap, have you heard? Taylor Swift isn’t “hot” anymore and, apparently, Bruce Springsteen is “not a talented guy.” He was talented enough for 47 to use his song without permission during the campaign but, apparently, not any more. If the Failure President has declared it, it must be (the opposite of) true.

The dude’s skin is a thick as the papery skin of an onion, isn’t it? Swift preferred the other candidate during the election, and she said so. She might not have, except Donny tried to lie her into his camp. He claimed she supported him. She set the record straight. Now he doesn’t like her, publicly, at least. As a general rule, Donny doesn’t like ANYBODY that tells the truth. Springsteen was a little more direct.

Springsteen stopped his show in England to declare 47’s corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous regime, “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.” That just seems accurate, to me. He called on “all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us.” He also called on his audience to “Raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.”

Apparently, that infuriated Donny. Apparently, 47 doesn’t WANT to let freedom ring. So, he got mad at Springsteen and declared him lacking in talent. Secretly, I think Donny is just jealous that both Springsteen and Swift have earned more honest money than him, but that’s just a suspicion.

Oh, but when Donny’s panties are in a wad, he simply can not let it go. He wrote, “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!)” [Editors note: look who’s talking.] “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.'” He added, “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

Wait, let me guess: ’86 47′ is a clear “threat,” but “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!” is just standard Donny-being-Donny kind of funny, right?

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Have you seen the Don of Destruction’s latest? Well, I don’t know if it’s his “latest.” He’s so stupid, so fast, so often, it’s likely he’s been outrageous thirty or forty more times since, but this is a good one. He told Walmart they aren’t allowed to increase their prices based on his tariffs. I honest-to-God did not know 47 had a voice in Walmart’s board room.

MAGA used to understand this. They’re not allowed to, now, so they pretend they don’t, but they used to. Try to implement a tax on something. MAGA will say… no, MAGA used to understand that retailers would simply add the cost of the tax to the end-sale price of that product. Increased sales taxes lead to higher prices. ‘Tariff’ is simply another word for ‘tax’ – and it’s a sales tax. But The Felon has been lying to his base that the tariffs won’t increase prices.

Amazon said they were going to highlight the added cost of products by showing the additional cost of the tariffs but they backed down from that after The First Felon spoke with Bezos. The prices are still going up, there’s just no breakout number to highlight the added cost of tariffs. Walmart warned their customers that things were going to get more expensive because of the tariffs – so 47 told Walmart they can’t raises their prices. Instead, he suggested, Walmart should “eat the tariffs.”

I don’t like Walmart. I don’t trust them. I don’t shop in their stores if I haven ANY other option. I think Walmart – and every other national retailer in the country – will raise prices based on the tariffs whether they need to or not. It’s an opportunity, and Capitalists NEVER take a pass when they have an opportunity to screw customers. At the same time, tariffs are taxes and taxes get passed on to the consumer.

So, while he’s over in the middle east illegally securing billions of dollars in business for himself based on the Presidency, he’s ALSO telling Walmart they’ve earned enough, so they should just suck it up and eat the tariffs.

I’ll tell you this: it’s one thing to attack and destroy defenseless Americans. It’s another thing, entirely, for him to start telling billionaires they have too much. Poor people? Sure. OBVIOUSLY, they’re taking far too much, but billionaires? Billionaires are twisted people. They don’t know what “too much” means and they’re certainly not going to let a proven dumbass tell them. I expect Walmart’s prices will increase based on the tariffs, just like Walmart said they would. And I would NOT be surprised to see some serious push-back from the billionaires now, it seems, in 47’s crosshairs…

Pseudo-Theocratic Lunacy…

by MyBaconPress

James Comey used to be the director of the FBI. He ran afoul of 47 years ago, when he didn’t help cover up The Felon’s ties to Russia, Russia, Russia enough. Obviously, the two men don’t much like each other. Comey posted on Instagram: “cool shell formation on my beach walk” under a picture of seashells that appeared to form the shapes for “86 47.” Now MAGA is outraged, claiming Comey is threatening The Drumpfster’s life. Apparently, somewhere along the way, “86” has gained an additional meaning, at least for the moment: to kill. Who knew? I didn’t.

If you asked me what it meant to “86” something, I would tell you it means to toss it out or throw it away. I LOVE the idea of throwing him out, but I mean impeach him. I imagine that’s what Comey meant, too. But now Comey is being investigated by the DHS and the Secret Service for threatening 47’s life. Thought police on patrol. So much for MAGA freedom.

Look, I get it. MAGA needs a win. They need something. Ever since this boob took office they’ve been on the defensive. During the campaign, 47 promised them everything. He was going to work miracles. He had all the answers. He would solve every problem America ever had and he would do it on day one. It would be easy, he said. No, he didn’t want to tip his hand by telling anyone any of his plans but trust him, he said, he had the answers. Turns out? He didn’t.

The left kept pointing out that he couldn’t do the things he was promising. The solutions just weren’t that simple. These issues were difficult and it was going to take more than a magic wand or wishful thinking to fix the problems. MAGA was left to choose between the promises of a madman and the warnings of the left. Of course, there WAS no choice. Donny said it, they believe it, that settles it.

So far, with the exception of his promise to be cruel to brown people, his major campaign promises have fallen by the wayside. Yes, he has offered up excuses and “explanations,” none of which hold water with even the slightest scrutiny but MAGA won’t check. Still, very little, if anything, he promised has come to pass.

Now he’s about to take away health care from millions of Americans so that he and a handful of others can have a tax break. MAGA has been told the $880 billion the GOP is gutting from Medicaid is all fraud, waste, and abuse. They’re determined to believe it, but it isn’t true. It’s money the government provided to help make health care more affordable. Now the GOP wants to take that away. Nearly 11 million Americans will lose health care coverage so a small handful of billionaires can have even more money they don’t need.

Up to five trillion dollars he’s adding to the national debt, depending on the source one uses. Lower income people will have a higher tax burden. Some of the tax breaks lower income people get will increase, temporarily, but will “sunset” after a few years. Several of the tax breaks people used to rely on will be eliminated resulting in a net increase of the tax burden. Work-a-day Joes get less so billionaires can have more. It’s kind of a theme.

MAGA knows it. They won’t admit it. Hell, they’ll even argue about it, but they know it. MAGA is very definitely the abused spouse. It doesn’t matter WHAT he does to them, they just stay. So when they got a chance to pounce on even the possibility that Comey might have, maybe, if you squint and look at it from exactly this angle, threatened the life of The Felon? It’s like a breath of fresh air. Finally, something they can “celebrate” and pretend to outraged about. Just ignore the fact that it’s made up. Enjoy the moment…

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Is the plane a White Elephant? I think the very worst part about this whole flying bribe story is that the plane is inefficient and old. The Qataris have been trying to offload that plane for years, now. It was listed for sale in 2020. No one wants it. It’s too expensive to operate. It’s too expensive to maintain. It’s SO big, it can’t land at just any old airport capable of accommodating other 747’s. That means limited access.

And that’s while the old plane is just sitting there, unused. If they gave it to 47, it would have to be stripped down to the metal to check for bugs, then it would have to be upgraded to the standard of Air Force One. The President is supposed to have a job to do, even in the air. The fact that this guy doesn’t DO the job doesn’t cancel out the need to outfit the plane properly.

People are out there debating whether or not he should be allowed to accept a bribe and it’s not even a good plane. Sure, it’s exactly the kind of gaudy The Drumpfster admires and finally, he’d have the big one he’s always wished for, but it’s an old and inefficient airplane. It’s not just a bad idea because it’s a bribe, it’s a bad idea because the plane, itself, isn’t even any good.

Ted Cruz came out in opposition to the bribe. Who knows where he’ll end up in the long run, but at first he said, “I’m not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding theocratic lunatics who want to murder us… And that’s a real problem.” That checks. Donny is definitely a theocratic lunatic. It’s just that HIS theocracy has HIM at the front and center. He IS the golden calf.

How To STAY Losers…

by MyBaconPress

Well, the Democrats seem to be laying down to their old tricks, again. I’ve said before and I say again, the Democrats seem to be the Washington Generals of American politics to the GOP’s Harlem Globetrotters. That is, the Dems job is to lose.

30% of this once-great nation is solidly MAGA. But that means that 70% of us are NOT MAGA. Now that the country, no, the world has seen what conservatism looks like – graft, bribery, lying, bullying, economic upheaval, ideology over factuality, famine, pestilence, wars and rumors of wars – one would think all an opposition candidate would have to do is show up and promise something, anything, good.

There are elements from the Democratic party trying to do just that. There are people who see the Dems “strategy” of hiding and occasional “firmly worded letters” play out, failure after failure after failure, and say, “We need to change this. We need to be for the people. We need to do the right thing.” They work to act on that.

Then, the Dems work to sideline those people. The Democratic leadership has lost the House of Representative, the Senate, the Courts, AND the White House. True, they had to make some major moves to make that happen, but when it comes to losing, the Dems are motivated. Now, having seen loss after loss, they seem poised to present more of the same stuff that got us here.

Young people coming up are trying to re-direct the party in an effort to win… something. One of the more prominent and dedicated focuses of Democratic ire is a young man named David Hogg. You might remember the name. He was a high school student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when it was shot to pieces with the blessing of the NRA in 2018.

He became a rather active gun-control advocate, as did several of his fellow survivors. He chose politics as his route to achieve his means and has worked his way up to the role of being one of the five vice-chairs of the Democratic National Committee. He immediately began calling out Democrats who prefer to stick to the tried and true loser, “We’re not them.”

Hogg said he wanted to primary Democrats in “safe” districts if they weren’t interested in taking actual, effective action. He’s quite clear, he’s not trying to blow up the party. He only wants to send a message – AND, perhaps, get some younger blood with fresh thinking in there. As a direct result of his efforts at reform, some of the Dems were spurred to action. Apparently, it was inspiring.

They saw the young David Hogg trying to get the party moving and they – wait, is this right? It looks like the Democratic reaction to Hogg trying to win elections is to remove Hogg as a vice-chair! Yep, that’s what it says. The Dems want Hogg out. He just got elected to the role, but, apparently, trying to win elections is a deal-killer for the Democrats.

So the Dems have declared the election that put him in his role was, somehow, unfair to the women candidates and voided the February election that brought Hogg to his current position. To hear them tell it, it’s all strictly procedural. It has nothing whatsoever to do with his activism. They just happen to hate the activism on it’s own but they would never, ever, heaven forbid, remove a person for following his conscience. “Because we said so.”

I think the Dems answer to the One Percent, the same as the GOP. The Dems are supposed to lose and so lose they do. They pretend to put up a fight, but they lose. And they lose. And they lose some more. The GOP is as popular as head lice but the Dems can’t get traction? That just doesn’t make sense to me. These are professional politicians who managed to get on the national stage, but now, suddenly, they have no idea how politics work?

The Democratic leadership knows what it’s doing. They sideline members like AOC and David Hogg because they get people fired up. They seem to have lost interest in representing the US and their constituents and replaced that desire with greed. As long as the One Percent’s dollars are rolling in, the reform Democrats are out…

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Have you heard that the World Cup will be hosted, partially, by the US in 2026? It’s also being co-hosted by Canada and Mexico. The finals will be played in the US. That should be quite the revenue booster for the US. People will FLOCK into the country so they can watch their favorite…

Well, people were supposed to flock into the country and spend a bunch of their money. The US has become very hostile to non-Americans, particularly non-white, non-Americans. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world, but many of the game’s fans are <shivers> brown. A lot of them are white, too, but they ARE “foreigners.”

Ever since the rampage of destruction was launched by 47 and his minions, the US has become a very unwelcoming place. No decent person wants to be here, even to visit. Now we’re co-hosting an event that’s meant to draw thousands of visitors from other nations.

My guess? Canada and Mexico will do just fine during their turns at hosting. They’ll make lots of money. I suspect people will avoid coming to the US in droves. They can watch the thing on television and spare themselves the hassle of trying to visit. Meanwhile, American vendors of all stripes, people who thought this might be a great opportunity, are, likely, going to miss out on all of the beautiful revenue…

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This was posted by a guy named Paul Rudnick. “The main job of any Trump cabinet member is to deny whatever terrible thing just happened, blamed it on Biden, claim we’re in a ‘Golden Age’ and hint at a “Major Announcement” coming “sometime soonish.”

In one sentence, he managed to describe the current regime’s playbook perfectly…