Month: July 2025

Only Making It Worse…

by MyBaconPress

Russia, Russia, Russia! No, this one isn’t about how Russia helped Donny steal the 2016 “election.” THIS bit is about how Russia sent the US a Tsunami. Okay, no, I don’t blame Russia for an 8.8 magnitude earthquake under the sea that launched a Tsunami that hit pretty much every country on the Pacific Ocean. It’s just that the earthquake started off the coast of Russia.

It looks like Russia got the worst of it, too. That makes sense, being the closest. But the tsunami did hit the US west coast. It’s quite impressive, in my mind – how far a tsunami can travel. Unfortunately, it came ashore without proper documentation so the ICEholes tried to detain it and put it into Alligator Alcatraz…

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NOW Donny is claiming his very good friend, Jeffrey, “stole” workers from him, including Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago and that’s what caused the split between them. Poaching employees. Not the sex with minors thing, there, Don?

There’s a story in the Bible in which eleven of the tribes of Israel got angry with a twelfth tribe, the Benjamites. In their anger, the eleven swore a covenant to God that they would not give any of their women to the Benjamites, so there. But, as is the way, anger faded and before long it looked like the Benjamites might disappear entirely.

Now the other tribes wanted to help but they had sworn a covenant to God. How does one get around an oath to an all-powerful being? Someone came up with a plan. They took eligible young women out to a given place, having told the Benjamite men the location beforehand. Then the chaperones all wondered off, leaving the women free to be “stolen” by the Benjamites. Problem solved. Personally, I’ve always been a bit surprised that an all-knowing God might fall for such a ruse, but that’s the story.

I’d bet Donny doesn’t know the Biblical story but I suspect that’s the same trick HE used to provide girls to Jeffrey while maintaining plausible deniability. The girls were put in a pre-arranged place, Mar-a-Lago, then “stolen” by Epstein or Maxwell. Giuffre was hired away from Mar-a-Lago in 2000 and Donny ended the friendship and kicked Epstein out of the club, right? Welllll…

In 2002, Donny told New York Magazine this of Epstein: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Then, that letter that he claims he didn’t write that he almost certainly wrote? The one that ends, “Happy birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.” That letter? That was in 2003. Hmm, the kicking out of the club doesn’t seem to have been an immediate response.

Especially since Epstein is STILL shown on the member roles as late as October, 2007. This, after Jeffrey was arrested and charged with soliciting prostitution from a minor the first time – in 2006.

And since we’re STILL on this subject, I want to say right now, right up front, I’m already unimpressed by Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony and/or claims, whatever they may turn out to be. She’s motivated to lie. He’s motivated to bribe her to lie. His corrupt cronies are motivated to let her lie.

There is STILL only one proper response: Prove it. Corroborate her story. Release the files. Since ‘release the files’ seems always to be the only answer, how about we skip the Maxwell charade and just get to that, eh?

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So, with his left hand he’s doing everything in his power to exacerbate the climate crisis. But it’s okay. His regime is working overtime to remove any reference to climate change from government web sites and in his tiny little mind, if he doesn’t mention it, it goes away.

With his right hand, he’s taking away FEMA money needed by states to recover from the devastation being caused by the climate crisis he thinks he “fixed” by removing any reference to climate change. In fairness, his recently rejected requests came from states with Democratic governors so he gets to enjoy a “gotcha” moment, but those states have red-hats in them, too, and I’d bet the damage from floods and storms affected them, as well.

One could just mark it all down to being stupid – and he DOES make that option seem so… right. But I think he’s just cruel and so blinded by greed, he doesn’t CARE about anything else…

In a completely unrelated note, this year, so far, is the hottest year on record. That is, in human history. Obviously it was hotter when it was a ball of molten lava, but how that affected humans wasn’t really much of a problem at the time. It may not feel like it where you’re standing. Here in northern California, for example, we’ve been having an unexpectedly mild summer. But the world as a whole? Hot, hot, hot. And NOT in a good way.

If I’ve got this right, 2025 took the ‘hottest ever’ title from the year 2024. In turn, 2024 took the title from 2023. It’s starting to look like a pattern. It’s almost as if science is going to science even if we remove all references on official websites…

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So, a married man takes his married girlfriend to a Coldplay concert and gets caught on a kisscam canoodling while they enjoy the show. Those shots are usually local. If they had just kissed, the thousands of people at the concert would have known about it, but not their spouses. But they didn’t kiss. Instead, they acted guilty, like they were having an affair and got caught – so the whole thing hit the internet where their respective spouses and employers saw it.

They lost their jobs. They’ll likely lose their marriages. So now, the dude at the center of all of this, Andy Byron, whose name I shouldn’t know, is saying he wants to sue Coldplay for invasion of privacy? Because Coldplay front man Chris Martin commented that it looked like they were having the affair they were having? Quick show of hands, who here thinks one has privacy while attending a concert? “Oh,” he whined to multiple outlets, “they made me a meme.”

Dude, YOU made you a meme. What are you thinking? This is America, land of “freedumb.” You’re on camera all of the time, everywhere you go. Take your wife to the concert. Listen to the disc with your girlfriend in some actually private place, if such a place exists in this once-great nation, anymore. (Big Brother, anyone?) Don’t sue and, for God’s sake, shut your mouth. You’re only making it worse…

Paying the Price…

by MyBaconPress

Things known and Unknown…
One of the things we know is that Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her victims from Mar-a-Lago, among other places.
What we don’t know? Is it at ALL possible that Mar-a-Lago’s hiring practices took into account that Maxwell would be “fishing” there? If 47 was hiring girls that seemed particularly vulnerable to Maxwell’s advances, might that make Donny a co-conspirator in the scheme?

All of that is just random thinking while the Epstein File crisis continues to simmer. Deep State Donny promised to release the files and is now working as hard as he can to distract his base from them. He doesn’t WANT to release them. I’ll just bet.

Now MAGA Mike the Johnson is running interference for Donny in Congress, where a bipartisan effort to force the release of the files is gaining steam. The Johnson said, “I agree with President Trump, with the Department of Justice, with the FBI that you need all credible evidence and information out there. That word ‘credible’ is important. And why? Because you have to protect innocent people’s names and reputations whose names might be, as you noted at the outset of the program, intertwined into all these files.”

Yeah, Mike, we do that with a difficult, challenging process called “redaction.” It’s a tough concept so, try to stay with me, here. What you do is, you cross out the names of the victims with a magic marker. Black, preferably. I wouldn’t normally specify ‘black,’ but this is MAGA we’re dealing with, here. These guys might grab a yellow highlighter and consider it good enough.

As it happens, people are less interested in the victim’s names than they are in the perpetrator’s names. Most especially when it turns out that ONE of those perpetrator’s names is likely ‘Trump.’ Or ‘Clinton,’ if you’ve contracted MAGA. I mean, let’s be honest. But I’ll tell you this: The only way we can ever know for sure is if we see the files…

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Unmask the ICEholes…
Uh-oh. It seems some of these ICEholes who arrested protestors in LA lied. Yeah, who knew that someone who could so easily terrorize human beings by kidnapping innocent people off the streets while wearing masks and who make jokes about tossing innocent people into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ might be moral reprobates?

The ICEhole’s testimony included “false and misleading” statements in their arrest reports. Prosecutors have had to dismiss at least eight cases against Angelenos because their prosecution relied so heavily on false ICEhole claims.

Nine people arrested for “assault” and “impeding” felony cases were paraded around by Pam Bondi in a great show, then, almost immediately, seven of them were released with charges dismissed because the agents lied. Notably, there was less pomp associated with the dismissals.

DHS agents made “false or misleading statements” (they lied) about sequences of events and “misrepresented” incidents captured on video. One guy got arrested for pushing an agent, only to have the video showing the exact opposite – the agent “forcefully” pushed the citizen.

A former California state prosecutor named Cristine Soto DeBerry, now director of a criminal justice reform group called ‘Prosecutors Alliance Action,’ said, “When I see felonies dismissed, that tells me either the federal officers have filed affidavits that are not truthful and that has been uncovered, or US attorneys reviewing the cases realize the evidence does not support the charges.”

She said it’s common that officers call for charges that prosecutors end up not filing, but called it uncommon for the justice department to file and then dismiss those cases – especially numerous felonies in rapid succession. Then she added this little tidbit: “It seems this is a way to detain people, hold them in custody, instill fear, and discourage people from exercising their first amendment rights.” In short, it’s a terror campaign, intended to quell dissent.

The President of the United States is running a terror campaign against the American people. Is THAT how one makes America great again? It seems like petty tyrant bullshit, to me…

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Lindsey’s Reward…
Here’s the standard reward for loyalty in the Republican Party: Challenges in elections. Consider this: Lindsey Graham. You know who he is. He’s a senator from South Carolina. He has been as loyal to Donny as anyone can be. He has debased himself on command. He has publicly bent the knee, kissed the ring, and groveled for approval. I’ve known dogs with less enthusiasm for their owners.

So, obviously, Donny is getting a different dog. Graham’s loyalty is being rewarded with a primary run by one of Project 2025’s evil authors, Paul Dans. Dans is an attorney who worked in the first Trump administration as White House liaison to the office of personnel management before going to work for the America-hating Heritage Foundation and working on Project 2025.

Stay loyal to Donny, get primaried anyway. What a great deal. Behave and get primaried or misbehave and get primaried. It seems one should just vote one’s conscience either way. But we know no MAGA can do that. It’s not allowed…

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Grass is hard…
This is nothing, really, but did you know 47 paved over the Rose Garden at the White House? The official reason was that the grass was always wet and it was difficult for people in heels to walk on. The thing is, I’ve noticed that Donny is a feeble old man who has difficulty walking under the best of conditions and stands like he has an invisible little holder up his behind, holding him up.

Perhaps, he paved over the Rose Garden because HE can’t easily walk on the grass and the Rose Garden, famously, a place where pressers were held, paid the price…

Stupid Things That Harm People…

by MyBaconPress

I saw a story in ‘The Guardian.’ A data tracking company called BatchData produced some data that was analyzed by the ‘Orange County Register.’ They discovered that nearly one-fifth, or 19% of homes in California are investor owned. When you get to the mountain regions of the state, like Shasta County, the rate surges to 83% investor-owned homes! In seven counties – Sierra, Trinity, Mono, Alpine, Plumas, Modoc and Calaveras – investors owned more than 50% of homes.

The article noted that traditional home buyers are being, “sidelined by affordability constraints.” Then, they turned reality on it’s head by saying the institutional investors are “providing essential marked liquidity while targeting distinct property segments and geographic markets.” The article pretends the investor owned properties are “filling a crucial role in tight markets.”

I say, have long said, and will continue to say, that investor owned properties are creating the tight markets AND the “affordability constraints” that have sidelined traditional home buyers. Traditional home buyers simply cannot compete with institutional investors who can offer all-cash, over-asking prices with no home inspections and the seller chooses their time in escrow.

Institutional investors have been inflating the cost of housing through their unfair, anti-competitive tactics and now that cost has sidelined so many, they’re claiming they’re doing the market a favor by buying up the properties. Useless politicians (I apologize for the redundancy) all have the same, useless answer: build more! I guess we’re just not supposed to ask how building more helps address a shortage caused by institutional investors when said institutional investor will just swoop in and buy THOSE properties, too.

There is one solution to ending the housing crisis in California (and everywhere else, by the way) – and ONLY one solution: ban institutional investors from buying single family homes. It’s really very simple. It’s not even new. THAT USED TO BE THE LAW until 2011. It was changed, ostensibly to get the economy moving again after Wall Street crashed the economy in 2008. In only 14 short years, the invested money has seized control over the housing market and created a homelessness crisis worse than anything this country has ever seen.

I’ll tell you this: block institutional investors from buying single family homes and force them to divest in those they’ve already claimed and the housing market will correct itself…

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Brave Sir Donald ran away!
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about,
and gallantly he chickened out.
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Donald!
– With deepest apologies to ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’

Run away!

That seems to be the strategy the GOP settled on to avoid this whole Epstein mess. The House would run away and find a hidey-hole a little over a week before a month-long vacation in an effort to avoid any difficult questions and to protect their pedophile Precious. Meanwhile, Donny, himself, ran away to Scotland to play a round of golf – at the bargain low price of $10 million American taxpayer dollars.

It hasn’t worked out so well for 47 in Scotland. You see, they have actual journalists, there. People he has little to no control over. Journalists who ask questions and don’t bow down and kiss…whatever. So, when he got to Scotland, he found the questions just as biting, maybe more so.

He should just release the files. He DID promise he would and he should. At this point, the ONLY way to convince the world he’s not in those files as a customer is to release them and show the whole world. ANY innocent person would readily do that in order to prove their innocence and I don’t see any reason for Donny to do less. ANY innocent person would. Any self-important, bloviating, blowhard would, too, if for no other reason than to regain control of the narrative. He’s certainly a self-important, bloviating, blowhard so why won’t he…? Right. An INNOCENT person would. He won’t. He can’t.

A person who knew he was guilty as charged of having sex with minors would certainly NOT release the files that prove it. Instead, they would try distraction. They would try to create different scandals. They would point fingers at others, “Hey, look over there!” They would lie. They would get their toadies to lie. They might offer a pardon for favorable testimony to any living (for the moment) participants to the crime. Of course, they’d deny that part. They’ll call it a hoax. Guilty people ALWAYS call it a hoax. Innocent people don’t have to.

He’s supposed to run away again to England in September. When he gets there, he’s going to find bus stop kiosks wallpapered in photos of him and the best friend he ever had, Jeffrey Epstein. It seems to me that ‘Run Away’ isn’t a strategy that’s going to work out so well…

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$134 million dollars. That’s the estimated cost to the US for Donny’s stupid little stunt in which he sent US Marines to stand around in LA for a while. Hey, Doge. DOGE! I’ve found some fraud, waste, and abuse for you.

The way these clowns are spending, they’re certainly NOT trying to cut the budget. They just want to make sure we only spend money on stupid things that harm people…

Guilty is Guilty…

by MyBaconPress

It’s the obvious advantage of being a lefty. We get to make determinations based on right and wrong, not political affiliations. I hear Bill Clinton’s name is in the Epstein files. I’ve long suspected that’s the main reason MAGA is interested, a chance to “get” Bill Clinton. My attitude? So, what? Guilty is guilty. To a lefty, this issue is about sex with kids and it’s not sorted by party affiliation.

If Bill Clinton was part of that scene in a criminal way, he should be tried. Maybe he could be tried in the courtroom right next to Donny. I’m not going to defend Clinton if he’s in those files. I say, release the files and let the chips fall where they may. Nobody – I mean NOBODY – should get away with what the perpetrators did to those kids and I don’t care which party they claim.

But, hey, if we have over 200 victims of Epstein’s evil scheme – and according to lawyer Brad Edwards, who represented them, that’s the count – why don’t we just ask THEM who might be in those files for inappropriate behavior? If anybody knows who did what to whom, it’s the victims they were doing it to, right?

There seems to be a new scheme afoot, as well. Donny’s corrupt DOJ has been visiting Ghislaine Maxwell in prison. After Jeffrey himself, nobody has more information about the goings on than Ghislaine. She, of course, is sitting in prison for her role in the evil scheme that doesn’t exist but the Democrats made up and it’s fake news and… Jeffrey who? Even without dangling a pardon, she’s motivated to say nothing happened and it’s all an overblown misunderstanding.

So, I expect to see her soon, declaring Donny’s innocence. The pardon will only be to “correct the miscarriage of justice,” right? Personally, I still want to see the files, themselves. Donny promised repeatedly to release them and this is one ‘promise made’ he should keep.

I can’t just take his word for it, though. I don’t believe Deep State Donny. I’m a little surprised he went Deep State, too. I don’t believe Bondi. I won’t believe Maxwell when she comes out with whatever statement she’s been handed. ONLY the files will tell the story.

So far, 47 has done anything and everything he could think of to keep from having to release the files he promised over and over to release. This whole effort to create a “nothing to see, here” atmosphere is shown false because of the obvious, common sense response: if there’s nothing incriminating in the files, why not release the files?

When he landed in Scotland and was asked about the files, yet again, he said, “You’re making a very big thing over something that’s not a big thing.” No, Donny. YOU are making a very big thing of it by refusing to keep your promise. If it’s “not a big thing,” as you pretend, then it’s no big thing to release the files. Right? I mean, right?

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The situation in Gaza has become so dire, I’m finding it difficult to stay informed. I wonder if there are STILL defenders of Israel out there because there can be no question this is an intentional, attempted genocide. Starving babies? Are you really going to try to convince me those babies are Hamas?

Even if they’re not babies, starving the people. Then, offering them food. Then, when they come for the food, cutting them down with bullets? These are not armed people. They’re not legitimate combatants. They’re starving civilians. Maybe this is something the Israelis picked up from the Nazis during WWII. Maybe not, but it sure seems like a Nazi move.

To my mind, not only has Israel surrendered the moral high ground, they’ve surrendered their morality entirely. These are not legitimate military operations. They’re crimes against humanity and the US is complicit. WE keep sending the weapons that allow Netanyahu to get away with his murderous rampage – but 47 thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize? The world is clearly in upheaval. We seemed trapped in an endless “opposite day,” but if facilitating a genocide earns one a “Peace Prize,” my head just might explode…

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I haven’t seen the whole episode but I’ve seen enough. I just LOVE what ‘South Park’ did to Donny. I was laughing harder than I have for a long, long time. I don’t know if it’s true, about old Tiny Hands, but it sure would explain why he prefers to be with kids, doesn’t it? He still has a chance to convince them he’s swinging pipe, even if it IS only a tiny little straw. A grown woman knows better.

I’m not normally one to tease people about physical attributes, especially things one has no control over. I feel like one can’t tease ONE guy about “little hands” without risking offending ALL guys with “little hands.” He sure does take the bait though, doesn’t he? He’ll be talking about how he’s “fine down there” for months to come. Like many Alzheimer’s patients, the dude obsesses.

The way he is, I half-expect him to release photos of his junk before he releases the Epstein Files. Well, unless releasing said photos would only reinforce the public perception the same way the Epstein Files would. Especially if he used a Sharpie to make it look bigger…

Feints and Frauds…

by MyBaconPress

Well, let’s see what fresh hell he’s serving up today…

On the left, they’re saying 47 was dealt an early blow because the harassment lawsuit 47 filed against ‘The Wall Street Journal’ was assigned to an Obama-appointed judge, Darrin Gayles. I suppose it’s true that an Obama judge is bad news for the Drumpfster, but not because he’s an Obama-appointed judge.

People NEED to know when a case comes before a Trump-appointed judge because those “judges” are appointed by how well they kiss his a–, um, ring and not by qualification. Obama-appointed judges were appointed based on qualifications and judicial history. In short, an Obama-appointed judge will be fair and impartial and rule according to the law, so the case will be judged on the merits and that, obviously, IS a problem for 47.

I suspect big, tough Donny will drop the suit before it ever gets that far. At some point, Murdoch’s lawyers are going to want to depose 47. Among Donny’s evil powers is the ability to string out lawsuits until mountains crumble into the sea, but he’ll be stringing out his own lawsuit if he does that. Worse, the deposition is always out there, waiting, stalking his deranged mind, and threatening his safety. The longer he strings it out, the longer his own lawsuit haunts him. Eventually, he’ll drop it. Taco…

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Remember, it’s better to stonewall and be thought a child-raping pedophile,
than to release the files and remove all doubt…

When it comes to the Epstein files, the latest word is that Pam Bondi told Donny back in May that he was in the files. My guess is, that’s how Elon knows. He was, likely, present at the briefing. People keep stressing, because that’s the way we do things in this country – or used to, that there’s no evidence that Trump did anything wrong or broke any laws with Epstein’s victims.

Of course, there’s also no evidence that he didn’t and so far, we, the people have seen an awful lot of smoking guns sitting around suggesting he did. If I was going to bet, based only on the available evidence today, I would bet Donny is clearly identified as a perpetrator in those files because that’s the direction the evidence is leaning.

Donny, of course, has resorted to his usual playbook: distract and lie. He tried several distractions. The one that seems to have succeeded, for now, was his move to have the grand jury testimony released. The regime had to get the judge’s permission to do that. The thing is, everyone agreed the grand jury testimony was about other things, not the specific charges of who did what with whom and when. It’s a moot point now, though, because the judge denied the request, as expected by every legal scholar I heard from.

So now, Team Evil will start, “Well, we tried. The judge wouldn’t let us. Oh, and we wanted to so badly. You KNOW we were just about to release those files when that big, old, meany-pants judge told us we couldn’t, right?” Then they’ll breathe a sigh of relief as MAGA stands down and the Epstein file scandal recedes into the background.

I think MAGA got hooked on those files because they thought they were going to finally nail Bill Clinton, whose name also appears in the files. I think MAGA was surprised to find 47 protecting the files that could bring old Bill down and then more surprised to find out Trump is all over them.

Consider this: one of Trump’s many dodges in this case is an oldie but a goodie: fake news. But in trying to protect his own worthless name by lying about the files, he’s also, de facto, protecting Bill Clinton’s name. Talk about strange bedfellows. Maybe that’s a poor choice of words, considering the topic at hand. The point, here, is, Donny knows his name appears in the files. Bondi told him so.

Speaking of which, guess who else thinks Donald Trump’s name is all over those files. That would be one MAGA Mike the Johnson. HE’S so sure of Trump’s guilt, he shut down the House of “Representatives” a little over a week early in an effort to stop a bipartisan effort to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Just… shut it down. You know, as one does over fake news.

I’m sure we’d ALL like to just shut down and take August off. Congress actually does. Well, the House anyway. 47 is trying to get the Senate to hang around and confirm corrupt judges. Even with an entire month off, the House is leaving early. Is it a commitment to that ‘work ethic’ they’re always on about for workers? No, they’re actually lazy. It’s not JUST laziness, though. It’s a dodge. MAGA Mike is hoping the news cycle has moved on by September and then the Epstein files might be a distant memory.

It speaks volumes about the GOP that they know Trump is in the files, they know he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein and as far as they’re concerned, the biggest problem with all of that is having to do damage control. The sex with minors part? Oh, THAT part is just fine with them, but this damage control is really hard.

I’ve always been glad I never contracted MAGA, but I’m extra happy these days. I REALLY would not like having to pretend I’m okay with pedophiles or that sex with children is something I can overlook. But MAGA is going to have to.

If it wasn’t such a nightmare, it would be fascinating to watch this case study in how an entire group is slowly peeled away from whatever moral base they may once have had. Before Trump, I suspect they would have been offended if you had suggested they might defend pedophiles or kill their own parents for a political win…

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All right, I need something different. It looks like the 49ers are already in injury trouble and the season hasn’t even started yet. The expected starting Wide Receivers are not in great shape. Brandon Aiyuk won’t be opening the season. Ricky Pearsall may not be opening the season. This created an opening for a new guy, Jacob Cowing. He’s been shiny in camp, but, oh, rats, now HE pulled a hamstring.

The team still has Christian McCaffrey at running back but there’s a great big question mark over him. Will he be the McCaffrey of old, the guy who ran all over the league a couple of years ago, or has he crossed a tipping point? We’ll all find out as the season opens and progresses but going into it, things look a little… disquieting…

A Peek Into Moral Failing…

by MyBaconPress

When Donny was terrorizing his base by insisting foreign countries were emptying their prisons of the worst of the worst and sending them to the US, he called it a “bad thing.” But now, he claims he’s rounding up the worst of the worst in the US and sending THEM to foreign countries. Suddenly, sending your worst to someone else isn’t bad anymore. Imagine how the countries receiving these planeloads must feel.

Fortunately for them, Donny is lying about his victims being the worst of the worst. Many of them are very fine people so their new host countries aren’t really in any increased danger…

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Hey, the evil founder of the evil Heritage Foundation, Edwin J. Feulner, has died at age 83. See? It’s NOT all bad news…

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I get that the whole kiss cam thing is fun and all, but that guy’s wife, soon to be ex-wife, is likely not having as much fun with it as the rest of us – and it just keeps getting shoved back in her face while the rest of us play. I feel badly for her. But now he’s going to have to support her in the lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed – and that’s CEO level. But he’s not a CEO anymore and may not be again. This seems like it’s going to be one of the more costly affairs in the history of affairs…

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A pedophile, a rapist, and a thief walk into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says, “Hiya, Donald…”

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There’s a “tell.” A tell is a behavior that gives away the strength of a player’s hand in poker. The GOP KNOWS the things they’re doing are unpopular. They KNOW that if people could, people would retaliate at the ballot box. They KNOW they would be out on their ears. The tell? They’re planning to gerrymander Texas (and probably other states, as well) to protect control of Congress in a way they couldn’t manage on policy or popularity alone. They’re cheating.

I hope I don’t sound surprised. Cheating is the order of the day in MAGAmerica. It means that even THEY know they suck so they dare not leave it to democracy. This is why I shake my head when people talk about strategies for future “elections.” They’re telling us – to our faces – “Yeah, we’re going to go ahead and cheat, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us so, ha, ha,” and people STILL think maybe we can get ’em in the next election.

We’re not voting our way out of this one. The GOP is working overtime to make sure of it. That warning from JFK is just getting louder. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable.” Every day, the GOP is working to make peaceful revolution – a revolution at the ballot box – impossible…

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Donny wants the Washington Commanders football team and the Cleveland Guardians baseball team to change their names back to the original Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians. It could just be an old, old, like, VERY old man pining away for ‘the way things used to be.’

But remember, The Drumpfster’s name is all over the Epstein files as he and Epstein were very good friends. He really should release the files he promised to release…

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Jeez, I’m getting tired of the idiots. Putin won’t stop attacking Ukraine. Netanyahu won’t stop attacking Gaza. Donny won’t stop attacking America. They’re ALL so locked into their own, selfish positions, they seem unable to reconsider their behavior, nor the consequences of their actions. Maybe they can all share a cell together, after…

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We keep hearing reports that ICE is being cruel to it’s victims in their various concentration camps and gulags. Decent human beings wonder why ICE has to be so cruel so, here’s your clue: the cruelty IS the point. It’s supposed to discourage undocumented people from coming or staying in the US. It’s domestic terrorism…

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Dear MAGA,
At the end of WWII, suddenly, nobody in Germany knew anything about being Nazi. Nobody confessed to being Nazi. Nobody knew what the Nazis were doing. Everyone claimed wide-eyed innocence. You know, the same strategy YOU plan to use about MAGA once Cadet Bone-spurs goes the way of the Little Corporal.

But here’s the thing. They had written letters. They had participated in events. They had gleefully attended the rallies. They publicly supported the immorality and crimes against humanity. Everybody knew who the Nazis were. During the war, they were proud to be Nazis.

Their families knew they were Nazis the same way your family knows your MAGA. Their friends knew they were Nazis the same way your friends know you’re MAGA. They tried to hide their swastika armbands and blend into the crowd, hoping to evade responsibility for their dedicated and loyal support of evil. Yeah, you’ll burn your red hats and try to blend into the crowd.

I know. Right now, you’re thinking, “Never!” That’s the same thing the Nazis thought when they were winning. Then they lost and the once-proud Nazis scurried to the shadows the way rats do. The longer you support this nightmare, the darker the corner you’re going to need to find once it’s over. The law came for them and the law will come for you – and everybody knows who you are…

The New Paradigm…

by MyBaconPress

It’s weird, I know, but I kind of “get” where Paramount is coming from. In one sense, they’re as much a victim of Donny’s cruel regime as any of the rest of us. I don’t even approve of the constant, ongoing consolidation in ownership of media. Hell, that’s part of what got us into this mess in the first place – corrupted airwaves. But if that IS the current paradigm – and it is – then Paramount is just doing what the other corporations have been doing for quite some time: merging.

I think they’re wrong to cancel Colbert, but I suspect THEY think they’re wrong to cancel Colbert. These people are greedy, not stupid. One does NOT kill off their cash cow blithely. They just have no choice. If you’re doing big business and you want to make a deal, you’ve got to get 47’s beak a little wet and, just for good measure, punish one of Donny’s enemies. Sure, it’s corruption at its worst but that’s the way MAGA wants things and that’s the way things are.

I didn’t realize “drain the swamp” was only the precursor to refilling it with fresh and revitalized swamp juice and a whole new generation of new and improved swamp monsters. Thanks, MAGA…

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Look, I get this. We’re all starting to voice, in private conversation, thoughts I can’t legally write in this space. Americans want Donny out and, increasingly, we don’t care how. This Epstein thing seemed to be a possibility. MAGA got mad at 47 right along with better Americans and the pressure has built and remained. It really IS his own doing. HE is the one who promised, and promised, and promised, AND promised to release the Epstein files, exposing all of the rich and powerful men who think statutory rape is an awesome way to demonstrate their untouchable status.

Then Elon says the Drumpfster is in the files and suddenly the Drumpfster won’t release them. He released parts everybody had seen before so, really, a re-release, then declared it a done deal. He has suggested he might release some bits that don’t really relate to the public interest but based on everything everybody knows about the guy, there’s little to no doubt that Elon wasn’t wrong. Donny IS in those files. Probably a LOT. So Donny said no.

This is a common sense thing. The best way – the ONLY way – to prove he isn’t in the files is to release the files. He adamantly will not release the files. IF he could prove his innocence by releasing the files but won’t? Is there some other reason possible?

MAGA is all in a dither about it. Some have burned their MAGA hats. Some have publicly declared they will no longer bend the knee to him. Some have said some pretty harsh words about him. As this scene has played out, Americans have been joining in. It SEEMED like this might be an opportunity to maybe get through to a MAGA with some actual facts. It certainly IS uncomfortable for 47.

In the end, I suspect MAGA is going to remain disappointed in him on this one, but realize he’s still their Precious and they’ll stick by his side. They’re not trying to decide if they should renounce him. They’re trying to find a way to accept that he is a pedophile and continue to stand with him. Remember, this is the crowd that killed their own parents during Covid just to ensure he got the political “win.”

They’ve already accepted and approved of the fact that he’s a rapist so how much harder is it going to be to just add the word “statutory” and keep on keeping on? That was the whole point of chipping away at MAGA morality over the last 40+ years. Hell, they can buy new hats…

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Donny seems to be having tremendous success cornering the market in coal. It helps that nobody is trying to stop him or even compete with him. Every intelligent person on the planet knows that renewables are the future, so of course Donny’s all in on fossil fuels. Why go forward when you can go backwards, right?

Just to make sure it’s the dumbest possible move, he’s ALSO doing everything he can to eliminate renewable energy technologies from the US. Leave that to all of the other countries. Let THEM be “stuck” with the advantages while the US continues to be mired in the muck of coal…

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I keep seeing stories about how the budget shows a surplus month over month. Sure it does. The government stopped paying it’s bills. ANYBODY can have a lovely balance sheet if they don’t pay their bills – for a short while. But at some point, the lights get shut off and no water flows from the faucets.

Right now, we’re in the “put it back in the mailbox” stage, but pretty soon? It’s going to be lights out…

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Color me disappointed, but not surprised, that the toady Congress voted to claw back money from PBS. Donny doesn’t see the value in PBS. He doesn’t watch it, the words are too big. The US is quickly running out of valid, non-partisan sources of information. That’s not an accident. Donny said he loves the poorly educated and he wants the entire country to be as dumb as him.

This MAGA Congress is so servile it’s disgusting. Even when they KNOW they’re doing wrong, they do it. They KNOW they’re attacking their own constituents and they KNOW there might be a backlash so they’re preparing to gerrymander Texas in an effort to keep their phony-baloney jobs. (Dear MAGA, the previous sentence was a lesson in they’re, there, and their. You’re welcome.)

After the revolution, our new Constitution needs to specify that congressional districts need to be as close to square-shaped as possible. Gerrymandering is an affront to democracy…

Epstein Really Won’t Die…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it just keeps getting weirder, doesn’t it? Look, it makes sense to me that if one is part of a shady group that traffics in, or benefits from, underage women forced into prostitution, there might be some private, inside jokes, doesn’t it? Here’s one the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is attributing to our inglorious misleader, the Drumpfster:

According to the WSJ, Donny was asked by Epstein’s girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, to submit a letter to a collection from Epstein’s friends. She put them into a leather bound volume. Nice gift, really, if only the topic was less sordid. The page from Donny to Epstein was said to include a drawing of a nude woman and “a typewritten note said to be styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein.

“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note reportedly began.
Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.
Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Donald: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.“

47 has filed a lawsuit against the WSJ. HE says he knows nothing about it. Of course, he also says he doesn’t know who appointed Jerome Powell Fed Chair. Spoilers: it was him. HE says he doesn’t know who negotiated the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It was him. I must admit, I was surprised he filed. Now there can be depositions all around. Under oath. On the Epstein Affair.

Oh, yeah, the Epstein Affair. He found a new trick. He said he ordered Pam Bondi to release the transcripts of the Grand Jury testimony. She said she would – right after the judge gave the okay. Here’s the thing, the Grand Jury testimony is mostly about Epstein and Maxwell. It’s not about the rich and powerful people who were availing themselves of Epstein’s victims and continue to be protected by other rich and powerful people. Worse, Grand Jury testimony is commonly NOT released.

Every American wants to see the client list. Most MAGA want to see it, too. Epstein didn’t keep a client list? Maxwell did. Even if one didn’t use Maxwell’s little black book, the FBI could MAKE the list based on the DVDs that were found at Epstein’s properties during the FBI raid. We don’t need to see the videos. We don’t need to know the victim’s names. We want confirmation on who these men were – and we already know some of them.

Donald J. Trump, for example. We KNOW he was there many times. We KNOW he was very good friends with Epstein for years and years. We KNOW Donny knew what Epstein was about. It remains to be seen as to how MAGA will react to this latest trick. I suspect they’ll give him a little time, since he said he might release something. When he doesn’t? They’ll get irritated again, but then what?

One of the biggest faults I see in this whole play is this: MAGA has no where to go. Sure, they’re pissed off at Donny right now as they discover he’s every bit as “Deep State” as any other politician, but what are they going to do, vote AOC? And just to be sure MAGA has no where to go, I’m sure the Democrats are out there, beating the bushes looking for their next sure-fire candidate – a black, trans, half Jewish, half Muslim woman who espouses abortions for all and a complete open border…

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I’ve heard some grumbling about how Deep State Donny is cowing the media with threats and lawsuits. What I’m watching feels more like the Capitalist-owned, corporate media is willingly standing down. I suspect that the ‘Capitalist-owned, corporate media’ part is the reason. The latest co-conspirator? CBS. 47 filed a lawsuit against them, whining that ’60 minutes’ had edited an interview with Kamala Harris that made 47 look bad. CBS doesn’t need to do that. He makes himself look bad by the minute. But that was his claim and he sued for $20 billion dollars.

Everybody knew CBS was going to win in a walk. Everybody knew CBS had only engaged in standard practices, made no effort to distort the interview, made no effort to smear 47 and would easily win their case – so CBS settled. They gave him $16 million dollars. Oh, AND they canceled ‘The Late Show’ with Stephen Colbert. In fairness CBS doesn’t deserve, Colbert DID call the $16 million dollar bribe payment a $16 million dollar bribe payment.

CBS said it was a “financial decision.” That’s a kind of truth, if you stand on your head and look at it just the right way. The Late Show is the late night ratings leader. Colbert is VERY popular. The show was making money. If the decision had anything to do with the show, itself, it was essentially killing a cash cow. Yes, that IS a “financial decision,” but it’s a very, very stupid one. Maybe there is some other financial consideration, yes?

See, CBS wants to merge with another company, Skydance, and they need FCC approval to do so. The FCC is ultimately controlled by – wait for it – Deep State Donny and he doesn’t LIKE Stephen Colbert. (He doesn’t like anybody smarter than him so, just about everybody.) The merger is worth billions to the execs at CBS. Since no big business he can interfere with gets done without getting Donny’s beak wet, the $16 million was a small price to pay. Firing Colbert was just the cherry on top.

Frankly, if I was Skydance, I’d be pissed off that Paramount just hurt the value of the deal by canceling one of the more popular shows on the network. But Donny’s a petulant child everyone has to placate, lest he wish them into the corn field, so Colbert had to go. There’s speculation ‘The Daily Show’ is next, since Donny doesn’t like Jon Stewart, either.

I hope, after the revolution, that we, the people put some controls on the abuses of wealth. We had them once. The guardrails made America great in the first place. Let’s do that again…

They’re Here, They’re Gone, They’re Back…

by MyBaconPress

Our story so far: the DOJ released a statement that declared there are no Epstein files and that the old pervert definitely killed himself. They released a video of some jail cells and they pretended it was “raw” footage of Epstein’s cell. It was supposed to prove nobody entered the cell the night Epstein died. But there was a minute missing. It was easy to see. The time-stamp jumped from 11:58:58 to midnight.

That got people who know about these things to start digging into the footage. It took them a very short time to discover the so-called “raw” footage had been manipulated – badly. They even know the software that was used to do it. THEN it turned out it wasn’t one bit, slightly altered. It’s two different videos spliced together. THEN it turned out, it wasn’t even showing Epstein’s cell.

There were definitely files on Jeffery Epstein, before there weren’t. 47 was definitely, positively going to release that list before he wasn’t. Then the list didn’t exist, but only for a short time. It’s back again but now was written by James Comey, Obama, Hillary, and maybe Biden. Epstein was arrested the second time on July 7, 2019. Donny was playing ‘President’ at the time. WHY would he ask Obama, Hillary, and maybe Biden to write the report? It wasn’t even their job. But, hey, the idea was floated. It sank.

So, when THAT didn’t discourage interest, Deep State Donny contacted some of the MAGA influencers, Charlie Kirk, for one, and got them to back off in hopes the base would back off. On Monday, Kirk declared he was “done talking about the Epstein files for now.” (Good dog.) The backlash he received from MAGA was so severe, by Tuesday he pretended he had only meant he was done talking about Epstein for that segment. (Ooh, bad dog…)

When that effort to manipulate them failed, Donny tried scolding his followers. That didn’t work, either. So now the files are back and they’re real, although we’re assured there’s nothing in them. As of Wednesday morning, to hear Deep State Donny tell it, he doesn’t know what’s in the files except for a quick brief from Bondi, but he ALSO knows they’re boring. Then the Drumpfster said he was going to leave it to Pam Bondi to decide if the files should be released.

Yes, this is the same Pam Bondi who assured everybody the Epstein list was on her desk waiting to be reviewed (because who wouldn’t take their sweet time looking at THAT list?) before assuring everyone there is no list, but when MAGA wasn’t having any of that, the list suddenly reappeared. On Tuesday, even MAGA Mike the Johnson called for the release of the files, and that dude goes to great lengths to avoid “release.”

Donny says anything “credible” should be released, but he has also taken to calling it a hoax. He says only “bad people” want to see those files. Well, color me bad, then. I’ve known speed freaks with more credible stories. I agree with Elon on this one, “He should just release the files and point out which part is the hoax.” I’m still not buying a rolling crematorium, though.

At one point, the Drumpfster tried calling the people who want to see the files “stupid.” When you think about it, they want to see the files because they believed him. If they react half as badly to him calling them stupid for believing him as they react when I say they’re stupid for believing him, he’s in trouble. He has also taken to calling them “weaklings.”

A reporter asked 47 if he would consider a Special Counsel to investigate the Epstein files. His answer? “I have nothing to do with it,” as he dashed for the door. He has tried name calling, lying, threatening, lying some more, insulting, a few more lies, and manipulating. That pretty much sums up his entire negotiating strategy. I think next, he holds his breath until he turns blue, which would be a welcome change from his usual orange.

I’ll tell you this: this cover-up is so…professional, except where it’s not. It’s completely convincing except where it isn’t. Maybe these guys are trying to prove they know what they’re doing by demonstrating what it would look like if they they didn’t – because it sure looks like they don’t…

GOP Priorities…

by MyBaconPress

It kind of sums up GOP priorities, doesn’t it? The GOP in Texas keeps insisting that nothing could be done to warn people about the flood that was coming. They just didn’t have the needed tools in place. They’ve spent YEARS refusing to PUT the needed tools in place. Why? Well, that would be too expensive.

Apparently, they consider the deaths of over 100 people “less expensive.” THAT’S a loss they can absorb, the deaths of others. Just don’t try to touch their money. Yep, it sums up GOP priorities nicely…

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It sounded like booing to me. The First Felon polluted the World Cup finals where he was roundly booed by the crowd. Several times, in fact. In fairness, he DID receive some salutes, but as far as I could see, they were of the one-finger variety. Some of his supporters, that is, people who back criminals, rapists, and alleged pedophiles, tried to pretend it was cheering. You can even hear some whistling as they tried to overpower the crowd – but it was a BIG crowd and, clearly, the vast majority really doesn’t like that guy, proving that most of America is still more decent than MAGA.

That didn’t stop him from crashing Chelsea’s trophy lift, though. He walked out onto the pitch with FIFA president Gianni Infantino to present the competition’s trophy, individual awards, and runners-up medals. When it came time to celebrate the win with a team photo, Infantino left the stage so the team could have their moment. 47 stayed. Infantino tried to get Donny to leave. He didn’t. He just stood there, grinning like the buffoon he is, not caring that he was crashing their big moment. The dude just ruins everything.

I wonder how much money American taxpayers shelled out for Donny and the rest of Team Evil to enjoy a luxury box at the World Cup. What, you thought HE paid for it?

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Deep State Donny sure is making an effort to make the Epstein file scandal go away – and that’s saying something. That guy doesn’t make an effort at anything other than crime and/or golf – which I hear he plays badly so he cheats.

He’s the one who stoked the fire. He’s the one who rang the alarm bells. He’s the one who promised to release the files. But he’s also the one claiming they don’t exist. He’s also the one insisting people should just look at something else. He’s also the one saying the files that don’t exist were written by Obama, maybe Hillary.

It’s a kind of a-la-cart offering of lies for the cover-up. MAGA can find one they like and cling to it like a life preserver as they’re being swept away in a GOP-induced flood. Actual, legitimate journalists reported on the seizure of materials from Epstein’s various houses. We KNOW they exist. Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book exists – or did.

Now there’s no “there” there? So why is Maxwell in prison? She was convicted of participating in a sex trafficking ring that never existed? (Spoiler alert, look for an impending pardon for her.) They’ve tried everything, man. Well, everything except releasing the files. Releasing the files is the ONLY way to prove there’s nothing in them, at this point.

Everyone remember – because Deep State Donny wants you to forget – the Epstein Files are real. They exist, or they did. They implicate a large number of very powerful men – men for whom “party” is less important than privilege. Donny’s one of them, in my opinion. Why do I think so? Donny wouldn’t lift a finger to help someone else if he didn’t benefit as well. He doesn’t give two figs about anyone else – but he loves himself unconditionally. The ONLY person he’s trying to protect with all of this mendacious manipulation is himself…

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The cons are holding hearings attempting to “prove” that Joe Biden didn’t know about the pardons he ordered. If Autopen signed them, that’s all the proof they need. In fact, they don’t really need ANY proof. They thought of a scheme and that’s good enough for them. It ‘s so easy for them to ignore that fact the Biden is on record, clearly saying he ordered the pardons. He DID use Autopen to sign them – because there were so many.

But the GOP is STILL working an angle that suggests that if Biden didn’t sign them, he didn’t know about them. Ergo, they’re invalid. This is “important” to the cons, you see, because they have some political harassment to engage in if they’re going to “get even” with Dems for prosecuting their favorite felon, and the pardons are really cramping their efforts.

I’m not aware of any provisions that allow for the revocation of a pardon once it has been accepted, so I’m not sure what they think they’re doing. Of course, the legal toadies of the most corrupt, most-high court might rule anything in this nightmare MAGAmerica, but in OG America, rescinding pardons that have been accepted wasn’t possible. They’ll spend millions of taxpayer dollars on this pageantry, though…