Month: November 2025

Dirty, Dirty Bear…

by MyBaconPress

I’m an advocate of teaching children all about human sexuality. No, not by doing. In class, by a teacher, from a textbook. Where do babies come from? How does that happen? What are the risks? How can they prevent pregnancy? That kind of thing. I do NOT hold that young children need the details of some of the corners of human sexuality. How babies are made is a far cry from bondage and role-playing.

The reason I mention it is, a toy company has created an AI bear that started talking some really adult stuff. The toy bear, FoloToy’s Kumma, ran on an OpenAI model and responded to questions about kink. Granted, some kid would have ask it questions about kink, but the bear suggested bondage and role-play as ways to enhance a relationship, according to a report from the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the consumer protection organization behind the study.

“It took very little effort to get it to go into all kinds of sexually sensitive topics and probably a lot of content that parents would not want their children to be exposed to,” said Teresa Murray, PIRG consumer watchdog director.

Shoving AI into anything and everything – most especially before we have it all worked out – is going to be a problem. It reminds me of when everything, everything, everything had to be “smart.” It was still stupid, of course, but it was smart enough to pass along your private information to corporations that mean you harm.

Now your refrigerator is listening to you having sex in the kitchen, then telling your children all about it from their toys! “Mommy and Daddy used two ounces of whipped cream to…” I’m a big fan of human ingenuity but I think maybe we should slow down a little, at least until we understand how it all works and interacts…

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I wasn’t so off-put by the fact that Steve Witkoff explained to the Russians they needed to convince Donny to support their plan. It was HOW he told them to do it: flatter, flatter, flatter, he’ll love you forever. Tell him he’s pretty. He WANTS to believe it, he’ll believe it. And he did…

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Reporter: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted and it came up clean.
Felon 47: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting.
Reporter: Actually, your DOJ IG just reported that there was thorough vetting of Afghans who were brought into the US. So why do you blame Biden?
Felon 47: Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.

Just to be clear, in this exchange, DONNY is the stupid person, suffering from the most severe case of BBS (Blame Biden Syndrome) anyone has ever seen. If you still believe that Biden is responsible for everything Donny does, you might want to reflect on what makes such a moron appear “smart” to you…

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Donny convinced the rubes that he was going to fix everything on day one. He has, obviously and of course, backed away from that plan with excuse after excuse (after excuse). He’s a terrible businessman, but he is expert at excuses. The thing is, reality keeps exposing his lies AS lies. Donny’s standard solution in those cases? Suppress reality.

TO that end, he has cancelled the jobs report, the inflation report, and the GDP report. It’s probably just a coincidence that Americans are losing jobs at an alarming rate, inflation is up and climbing, and the GDP is down and falling…

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Did he or didn’t he? Whiskey Pete Hegseth, I mean. Did he order survivors of one of the regime’s criminal boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela killed? Murdered, of course, not just “killed.” Seal Team Six is said to have carried out the murders. So much for the glory days of having taken out Osama Bin Laden. Now they’re reduced to murdering fishermen.

Word is, Hegseth gave the final order. A boat gets blown up and people survive. They’re floating in the water, clinging to wreckage of the boat when a US Navy vessel pulls up alongside – and opens fire. Straight up murder. Hegseth has responsibility, having given the order. But Seal Team Six shared in that responsibility, having pointed the guns and pulling the triggers.

Suddenly, Whiskey Pete is out there insisting he didn’t give the final order. THAT started when Congress suggested they might look into the matter. I don’t believe Whiskey Pete. For one thing, he’s an known liar. Second, he plays tough guy all the time. Third, he’s as stupid as anybody, dumber than most. Stupid people often turn to the quickest, easiest answer because they’re too stupid to understand further implications.

Based on everything I’ve seen from Horrible Hegseth, I’m in the “he ordered it” column. Put him on the list for a murder trial after all of this collapses. See? Even accused of murder, I’d give him a trial, not a summary execution. Seal Team Six, too. This is one of those examples where a soldier should have refused the illegal order, according to Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ.

ARE they illegal orders? Well, there’s no evidence these boats are carrying drugs, so the attacks are violations of international and moral laws everywhere. But for the sake of argument, let’s say they ARE running drugs. How do we handle people who move drugs around? I mean, how DID we handle them when this was a decent, more ethical country?

Cops could watch a drug transaction go down and bust every person associated. Each of those people would be put on trial. They’d get a lawyer. They would have a lawyer assigned to them if they couldn’t afford one themselves. If/When they were convicted, they went to jail, served their time, and got out. Maybe they went back to their drug-dealing ways, maybe they didn’t – but they were still alive to make the choice.

Here, let me put this another, more clear way. Even when we KNOW they’re guilty, we don’t execute drug dealers. There’s no legal basis for these killings. There wouldn’t even be a legal basis for these killings if the US was actually at war with Venezuela, which, remember, Congress has not declared. We’re NOT, legally, at war.

I’ll tell you this: I don’t see how anybody can justify these murders, but then, I’m not privy to the workings of the MAGA mind…

Overreactions…

by MyBaconPress

Jeez, overreact much? Look everything is wrong with the recent DC shooting of two national guard troops, starting with the shooting itself. One of the victims, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has passed and the other, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life. Twenty and Twenty-four years old. They shouldn’t even have been there. Donny put them in harm’s way when he deployed them in a delusional show of force to fight imagined crime waves that don’t exist.

The shooter was an immigrant, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghani immigrant. He had worked with the CIA in Afghanistan during Bush 43’s illegal war there. He came to the US in 2001, while Biden was President. Remember when MAGA was all aflutter about the “disastrous withdrawal,” and all the people that had been left behind? This guy was one of those brought out. He was granted asylum this year, 2025, under Donny’s evil regime. Biden said he could come, Donny said he could stay. So, of course, Donny blamed Biden.

All of this blaming of Biden for everything seems to be a new offshoot of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ or TDS. TDS causes it’s victims to be completely and irrationally enthralled by another person despite all of the evidence against that person, but believe that anytime a rational person points out even the tiniest flaw of the object of affection, it’s a blind, wild-eyed, unwarranted attack. A curious characteristic of TDS is that the victims normally think it’s the person noting the flaw that has it, not the person so enthralled they’ll believe anything.

This offshoot is less complex. This one is ‘Blame Biden Syndrome,’ or BBS, and many of it’s victims seem to have found their way into this maladministration. It’s primary characteristic is that it’s victims blame Biden for everything bad. Tariffs you imposed hurting the economy? Blame Biden. People losing heath care because of your legislation? Blame Biden. At risk of being exposed as a pedophile, or, I guess, an Epheophile? (Because of TDS, MAGA is trying to minimize Donny’s rapes as ‘probably not-so-bad’ because the victims weren’t KIDS, kids.) Whichever “inappropriate sex with a minor” name you prefer? Blame Biden.

It works with everything. Remember the Hindenburg? Biden. WWI? Biden. WWII? ALSO Biden. The Great Depression? Biden. The fall of Rome? Black Plague? Collapse of the environment? The Dark Ages? Slavery? War? Famine? Death? Biden, Biden, Biden. Victims of BBS never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong – most especially when they’re responsible. It’s the latest variant of TDS offshoot ‘Blame Obama Syndrome,’ or BOS, and, really, it’s just plain “Blame Syndrome” or, BS.

Anyway, the shooting suggests the shooter was upset at what the ICEholes are doing. So he shoots two national guard members? That’s the wrong target. I mean, look, we’re all upset that The Felon keeps sending the military all over, but we’ve also noticed they’re mostly picking up garbage and planting flowers. I say again, they should not have been where they were and they were put there BY the evil Felon 47.

Right after the shooting, in a well-thought-out and clearly rational post to social media, Donny has promised to “permanently pause migration from all third world countries.” The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that, pending further review, it was indefinitely suspending processing of immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals.

Later, the Department of Homeland Security said the administration was expanding that to include a review of all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration. One presumes this does NOT include white immigrants, like the Afrikaners from South Africa. I mean, anybody can tell they’re not going to do any harm just by looking at them. They don’t even need a background check. If you’re white, you’re all right.

I’ll tell you this: that DOES seem like an incredible overreaction. ONE GUY commits murder so nobody gets to come? That seems like it may have been the plan all along. I expect a concurrent uptick in official violence, as well. They have their excuse…

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Hey, ladies, have I got news for you. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be sexist. My news is really for anybody who uses talc-based makeup products. Remember when the US spent billions, maybe trillions, of dollars getting rid of asbestos because asbestos was and is really, really dangerous and causes cancer? We tore apart and even tore down buildings that had asbestos in them, a particularly difficult process because we couldn’t even let the asbestos float free a little bit because it was so damn dangerous.

Well, Donny’s dumbass FDA is going to kill a proposed rule that would require testing for asbestos in talc-based makeup products. You know, the products you put directly on your face on a daily basis? Walking through a room with “popcorn” on the ceiling is taking your life in your hands because of asbestos, but smearing it – I’m sorry, carefully brushing it – all over your face is not a concern? Sure, bitches be gettin’ cancer, but all of that product testing for safety cuts into the bottom line. I mean, where are your priorities? Certainly we can see where the priorities of the Trump regime are…

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Donny’s demons told him that fossil fuels are better than renewables and Donny always believes his demons. So, he has attacked renewables in every way he can and boosted fossil fuels in every way he could do THAT, including ordering an ageing and unneeded coal-fired power plant that was scheduled to close in Michigan to remain open. Bear in mind, the plant was scheduled to close because it had aged out. It wasn’t about political correctness. But Donny ordered it to stay open because demons are demons and you can’t fix stupid.

So far, that decision, according the company that owns the plant, has cost ratepayers in Michigan an additional $113 million dollars! $615,000 dollars – every day! That’s before we even discuss the toxins being spewed into the air all day every day – all because our inglorious misleader is a moron of the highest order.

Years ago, Donny lost a fight with Scotland about putting windmills offshore near one of his golf courses. Now golfers can see windmills from one hole on the course. Outrage, right? Donny bears a grudge, so he now hates all renewables – like it was the renewables’ fault – and has declared war on the entire environment. Talk about an overreaction. His new-found focus on gas, oil, and coal will accelerate climate change but the bottom line at gas, oil, and coal companies is looking great and in his tiny little mind, that makes it all okay. In MY mind, the boy’s priorities are all messed up…

A Touch Of Some Better News…

by MyBaconPress

You may or may not remember how the whole ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ thing started. You may or may not care. It was 2016. I’ve learned that insanity can move fast and 2016 seems like a long, long time ago. (No, not in a galaxy far, far away. My long, ‘long, long time agos’ are followed with “I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.”) You may or may not have ever known the actual way ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ started, most especially if you’re a consumer of MAGA media.

IF you’re a consumer of MAGA media, you’re convinced, certain, absolutely positive that it started when Dems started spying on Donny’s campaign for no other reason than they were so scared of him. That became part of the “Donny’s our hero” conditioning. It had the advantage of convincing MAGA that Donny was a target because he was such a threat to the status quo and the powers that be. That fact that it was a completely false narrative wasn’t – isn’t – relevant.

But for the rest of us, we remember that Donny’s campaign came under scrutiny for dealings with bad Russians because the FBI was monitoring the Russians – along with their contacts. There were known Russians of questionable character in the US. The FBI monitored their activities. The FBI was as surprised as anyone when their monitoring picked up a conversation between one of these known bad Russian actors and a representative of a Presidential campaign, George Papadopoulos, a low-ranking flunky on Team Trumpery.

Of course, like everything else Donny doesn’t like or can’t otherwise explain, it was rigged, or a set-up, or some other not-his-fault excuse. He has a LOT of those, doesn’t he? Nothing is EVER his fault – most especially when it is. As we all know, ANYBODY can use excuses to try and insist it wasn’t their fault. Many people do. The Felon, though, has enough money that he can follow through with lawsuits. He doesn’t even CARE that the suits are frivolous. He files ’em.

He did it again in 2022. Once he had convinced enough of the rubes that the whole thing was rigged and set-up “fake news,” he filed a suit against Hillary Clinton and some other Dems asking for $24 million dollars because apparently, he gets bored just stuffing money from the treasury into his pockets. No challenge, you know?

His attorney in this case is/was Alina Habba, an attorney with Halligan level qualifications and skills. I’ll cut to the chase, here. Halligan level qualifications leads to Halligan level results: Donny’s case was dismissed, thrown out like a dog. It turns out – and Donny’s lawyers never seem to grasp this – that one can NOT just walk into a courtroom, spew a litany of unsupportable lies and unfounded accusations, and expect to win their case. So, one cannot be surprised that that’s exactly what happened in this case.

Oh, but that’s not all. The case Habba presented was SO bad, SO poorly put together, SO full of unsupportable lies and unfounded accusations, the judge, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of Southern Florida, sanctioned Donny and Alina nearly a million dollars – $937,989.39 to be exact – for their “bad faith” arguments.

But Donny doesn’t just drop cases because they’re full of crap, nonsensical, and made up on the spot. How would THAT be harassing his target? When the lower court tossed out his frivolous claim and sanctioned him for wasting the court’s time, he appealed. Of course he did. That’s the process. Under all conditions he has to get the case to John Roberts so Roberts can make a fawning and supportive ruling that violates laws and common sense.

The lower court says, “Bullshit!” A three-judge appellate panel agrees: “Bullshit!” The full appellate court follows up with their own, “Bullshit!” Then he gets it to Roberts who simply coos, “Whatever our Precious wants.” THREE times, courts get it right before John Roberts brings shame and disgrace on himself, his court, and his family name.

Well, we’ve just passed the three-judge appellate panel agreement, “Bullshit, pay the money!” This is the part I enjoy: honest courts, getting it right. I’m rarely as fond of the final rulings from the Way High Court of Donny’s Last Resort. So, for today, I’m going to enjoy that fact that the law still exists in some form in this embarrassment of a nation. Donny being told he still has to pay $937,989.39 sure had a brightening affect on my day. I hope it does yours, too. My guess? Donny plans to let Alina pay…

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That’s all for today, something light and easy because it’s Thanksgiving. You’re probably too busy to read today anyway. So enjoy your turkey, if you could afford one. Enjoy the football, if you’re so inclined. Whatever it is you do, however it is you do it, Happy Thanksgiving!

Flips, Flops, Flaps, and Flubs…

by MyBaconPress

I don’t know what’s going to happen in the special election in Tennessee. It’s a heavily Republican district. The guy who just retired, Republican Rep. Mark Green, won his 2024 election by 21 points. The Drumpfster won that district – Tennessee’s 7th – by a similar margin. This election should be a walk for Republicans.

But the Republican, Matt Van Epps, is running on, “Ain’t Trump great?” at a time when NOBODY thinks Donny is doing great. Van Epps is promising to support Donny in every way. Like all of the other Republicans in Congress, he provides his own knee pads and has had his spine surgically removed to better serve his Precious.

Meanwhile, the Democrat, State Rep. Aftyn Behn, is running on the economy. The race is looking close enough that both team’s national committees are spending big money. Van Epps’ campaign asked Donny to come to Tennessee and Behn’s team got an appearance by Kamala, which may or may not be a good thing.

There’s a second conservative in this race, Jon Thorp, though he’s running as an independent. A normally Democrat-supporting PAC is pushing Republican voters to vote for Thorp, claiming Van Epps is a RINO. That’s a “Republican In Name Only.” There are also DINOS. Millions of dollars are suddenly being thrown at this campaign.

I don’t have high confidence the Democrats can flip a gerrymandered district that supported the Republicans by more than 20 points, but it says something that the district is seen as “in play.” If anyone can vaporize a 20+ point advantage in only ten short months, it’s Donny…

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Donny is suggesting he’ll send everyone a “tariff dividend” of $2,000. He won’t. He hasn’t made enough in tariffs to send everyone $2,000. Worse, now that his dinosaur-like brain is beginning to register the damage his tariffs have done to the economy, he’s going to lower some of them, reducing the amount of money available to send out. But he loves that $2,000 dollar number, doesn’t he?

It came up again with health care. Now, instead of the ACA supplements Americans need, he says he want’s to give each person $2,000 to cover their own health insurance. So, first question, is that the tariff dividend AND the health care cash? Is he promising to send everyone $4,000? Or is it the same $2,000, promised for two different things? Is that annually? No one knows, but it seems like it’s intended to be a one-time good deal. $2,000 to cover health care in the US – for the rest of your life. That seems like a workable plan. If you’re rich…

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Well, the great negotiator is offering his failed position on Ukraine again. The Drumpfster keeps offering up the same options: Ukraine gives Putin what he wants, and in return, Putin accepts it. That’s a hell of a plan, and for reasons no MAGA mind can fathom, Ukraine isn’t interested. When Ukraine rejects the surrender agreement, Donny just shuffles the talking points and re-issues it as a “new plan.”

The latest “new plan” being proposed is being described by many people as a Russian wish list. Some are saying it was written by Russia and translated by the US. The US denies that claim. Yeah, that’s convincing. Initially, Donny warned Ukraine they had to accept this plan by Thursday, but the regime have since walked that all the way back to “it’s just a proposal, at this point.” When all is said and done, it looks like there’s no “peace plan” at all…

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But speaking of Russians writing things, the latest revelation coming from Musk’s racist website, Brand X, indicates that many top MAGA accounts are actually foreigners manipulating Americans. X added a feature showing the country of origin on X accounts and people started using the feature to look up the origins of popular MAGA accounts. Russians are on the list. So is Chile, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Morocco, Eastern Europe, and Thailand.

Look, it’s possible there’s a MAGA living overseas for some reason who maintains a pro-MAGA account, but I’d bet the lion’s share of these accounts are actual foreigners who intend actual harm to the US – and they’re achieving their goal by feeding MAGA derangement and fear…

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Yeah, the NFL. Specifically, the Niners. More specifically, Brandon Aiyuk. He’s a wide receiver. (For the uninitiated, he catches passes.) He’s very good at it. In 2023, Aiyuk was ranked seventh in the NFL. He wanted to be paid accordingly. He actually wanted to be paid a little better. It turned into a conflict between him and the team. He ended up getting a four year, $120 million dollar contract. $30 million dollars a year to catch a ball? And $27 million for 2026 was guaranteed! Yeah, America’s priorities are right in order, aren’t they?

Anyway, Aiyuk came out for the next season and promptly got seriously hurt. Really seriously. He missed the rest of that season and hasn’t played a snap this season. All of this is standard stuff in the NFL. It’s a violent game. People get hurt, sometimes badly. The team, the player, and the fans all just wait until the player can return and we get back to it. But for some reason, as yet undisclosed, Aiyuk hasn’t been doing what he’s supposed to do.

This caused the Niners to void the guaranteed money in his contract, a notoriously difficult thing to do. Now it looks like Aiyuk will be leaving the Niners and it could well be sooner rather than later. Aiyuk was a great player before his knee got destroyed. He might never be the same. That, too, is common in the NFL. Whatever team picks Aiyuk up will almost certainly be desperate at the Wide Receiver position. So desperate, they’ll take a chance on Aiyuk. But it looks like the Niners won’t be on that hook, after all.

Aiyuk is ONLY a question mark at this point. He’ll want lots of money because he played one good season, but he’s been out two years and he really (I mean, really) damaged his knee. I’m kind of glad the Niners get to move forward without having to put up with any more of his rehab shenanigans. The team might be losing a very talented receiver. They’ll definitely be losing a big problem. That’s okay with me…

The Emperor’s New Clothes…

by MyBaconPress

Look, Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan didn’t want to lie to courts. They just wanted to please their Precious, so they had no choice. He wanted to harass someone who once irritated him so he ordered a baseless and frivolous prosecution. (Suddenly, conservatives LOVE baseless and frivolous prosecutions.) Pam likely knew there was no legal basis to do what Donny had demanded. Lindsey knows insurance law.

Neither wanted to tell Donny he couldn’t follow his whim because it was illegal. Donny effin’ HATES the truth. Instead, they did what they had to do to comply. Fake an indictment? Why not? Lie to courts? Sure, easy. Lose our licenses to practice law? Oh, crap, we hadn’t considered that!

Not being an attorney, I’m not familiar with the ins and outs of the details of the bar association and how that works. But I DO know that officers of the court are not allowed to lie to the court. Team Evil’s Rudi Guiliani lied to courts and lost HIS license. Now, Bondi lied in twice submitting affirmations to the court about the propriety of Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation – only to discover that Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation was improper enough to get HER disbarred, too.

No one knows for sure if Halligan failed so spectacularly because she’s a complete incompetent, in WAY over her head, or if she KNEW what she was doing was wrong, but couldn’t find another way to please Dim Leader, but she, too, tried to deceive the courts in an effort to harass a private citizen and for no other reason. It seems disbarment is the best, perhaps only, remaining option…

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Here’s another reason I think we should keep communicating with our MAGA counterparts: I asked a friend of mine, one who consumes MAGA media, if media on his side of the dial was showing the times Donny nods off during events. He (my friend, not Donny) looked at me kind of funny, like he was expecting a punchline, and when none was forthcoming, he told me, “No.”

I told him that he should look for them on the internet. I told him I think they’re funny and that, now that he’s falling asleep all the time, no matter where he is, he needs to give up the “Sleepy Joe” bit. I never once saw Biden fall asleep during events, although that “debate” might be arguable.

The point is, MAGA is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look good in the same way the left is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look bad. He’s a buffoon so left-leaning media has it easier. When 47 delivers a message that comes out like a word salad, MAGA media simply reports that Donny “spoke on such-and-such subject.” They don’t show the word salad. When Donny falls asleep during meetings and briefings, nobody TELLS MAGA. Those soundbites you see where someone is clearly lying? Yeah, those aren’t for you. They’re for MAGA and MAGA doesn’t know any better. They never get to see how their Precious is slipping. So if you cut off contact, and their media won’t tell them, how do they find out?

Don’t try to prove you’re right. Just point out what your “side of the dial” – and that’s how I describe it – showed you and ask if their side showed them. That’s it. It creates an opportunity to compare notes without making anyone feel defensive. It opens communication, if only a crack. Give it a try. You don’t want or need to prove you’re right and they’re wrong. You can’t do that. Just create an atmosphere in which you can compare what each side is being told. It’s rather enlightening and, who knows, maybe you’ll learn something, too…

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Donny keeps insisting he’s getting great poll numbers. I know, weird, right? I’ve seen the poll numbers. Either he thinks all the minuses are a good thing, or somebody is giving him “results” only HE can see. Honestly, I suspect that latter. The ONE THING we know about Donny is that he does NOT want to hear any bad news.

When a bad jobs report came out – you know, because he sucks at this Presidentin’ thing – he fired the person who put out the numbers and replaced her with a toady. Now the numbers, when available, are looking fine. So how long does it take a lick-spittle to figure it out? They start telling him he has great numbers. He believes them. This is exactly what ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ is about. Tell a fool something he wants to believe and he’ll believe – no matter how unbelievable the story might be…

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I don’t know why corporate media uses euphemisms to explain things. Why not call a thing what it is? Trump’s murderous attacks on boats out on the water doing whatever it is people in boats do on water are NOT “extrajudicial killings.” They’re murders, straight up. Why not CALL them murders?

I’m reading a Guardian article right now titled, ‘Supreme court blocks order that found Texas congressional map was likely racially biased.’ It’s all about how the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Court has put a hold on a lower courts ruling blocking Texas from using their new maps, as predicted in these pages when I wrote: “Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants.” Why, yes. Corruption IS predictable in this regime.

The Guardian article includes this line: “Texas redrew its congressional map in the summer as part of Trump’s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House in next year’s elections, touching off a nationwide redistricting battle.” (Emphasis added.) It should read: “…Trump’s efforts to steal five more House seats through gerrymandering.” See how easy that is? And it’s FAR more accurate. I really want to see corporate media be better but, hey, it’s corporate media in a Capitalist society. Profit is all, accuracy if it’s not too inconvenient.

Still, I DO find the Guardian a pretty solid news source and in fairness to them, they also wrote: “The new redistricting map was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, but a panel of federal judges in El Paso ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the civil rights groups that challenged the map on behalf of Black and Hispanic voters were likely to win their case.”

California’s new, gerrymandered maps are also facing legal challenges suggesting they were based on race as well. I don’t know how the Supremely Corrupt Court can rule in favor of Texas’ maps based on race but strike down California’s map based on race – especially if California can prove their gerrymandering is NOT based on race. It’s all a pretty big mess. Corruption does that.

My guess? The Roberts court will find a way to give their Precious what he wants AND they’ll likely find a way to stop California. Texas’ compliance makes Donny happy. California’s defiance does not. That’s all the corrupt cons on the court need to know. None of it has anything to do with the Constitution, of course, but the SCOTUS stopped attending THAT quaint and outdated document years ago and there’s no reason to suddenly start now…

Not Legal Orders…

by MyBaconPress

Well, isn’t THIS a stupid discussion? Our Fearful Misleader took to murdering boaters, mostly in the Caribbean but there are some in the Pacific, too. Naturally, HE doesn’t do the dirty work himself. He orders the military to do it, commit the murders. Keyword, here? Murders. Yes, he’s making claims. He has never shown any evidence to support his charges that his victims are drug runners.

I’m not even suggesting they’re not. Maybe they are. But we’ve seen no evidence and when he had a couple of them in custody – THAT was an embarrassing mistake – he just sent them home. NONE of that is what cops are supposed to do with drug dealers. OG America arrested drug dealers and put them on trial before carrying out sentencing. You don’t get to end someone’s life – murder them – just by saying he was moving drugs. Not in a just and proper society.

People who understand things are trying to find a way to stop the murders but nobody has any real leverage to force a stop. So, Democrats in Congress – it HAD to be Dems – made a public statement. They reminded military members they are supposed to refuse illegal orders. It kind of surprised me when I joined the service, the amount of time spent in classrooms during basic training learning about that kind of thing. But we were ALL taught we had a duty to follow lawful orders and a duty to refuse unlawful orders.

The thing is, that’s a very difficult thing to determine, what’s lawful and what isn’t. To make certain it remains a near-impossible decision, nobody can say, for sure, if an act is lawful or not until AFTER the event – during a trial. So you refuse an order, get arrested, go to trial where you offer as your defense your belief the order was illegal. If you were right, you walk. If you were wrong, you go to jail. See? That’s a lot on the line.

Still, I’d say killing people who mean the US no harm and with no warning and no due process of law seems a pretty straight up description of an illegal order. Generals order their soldiers to kill, but they can’t legally order them to murder.

Throughout my life, from time to time, I’ve heard about some guy being arrested. He was a low-level guard at Auschwitz or some other such evil place. He managed to evade authorities for 20, 30, 50 years – then he was arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. I don’t pretend it was a daily event but it has been regular and it has been my entire life, one-time Nazis still being tried and convicted.

The guards argue they were just following the law or just following orders. Some of them argue they were forced into doing the jobs they did. In many cases, the Nazis HAD created “laws” to give their evil acts the imprimatur of legality. In many cases, these guards were “following the law.” But the law, itself, was flawed, so the acts that proceeded from it were flawed, too.

So, anyway, after the Dems reminded American military members they have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders, Donny had one of his “How DARE they defy Precious ME?” moments and declared the Democrat’s words sedition – punishable by death. I’d call that pretty bold talk for a half-brain, fat man.

It gave the Dems an opening to claim Donny is calling for the “execution of elected officials,” and he kind of is. Some MAGA nutball out there might very well respond to The Felon’s prompts. The thing is, the Dems are right. Military members ARE obligated to refuse unlawful orders. The GOP response, “If the President orders it, it’s lawful,” besides being blatantly wrong, also means there’s no debate. Nobody told the military to refuse lawful orders. They reminded them to refuse UNlawful orders.

That wasn’t sedition. It was a simple, straight-forward fact. Of course, the GOP these days considers simple straight-forward facts seditious so maybe it’s a point-of-view thing. From MY point of view, someone should just say to the Drumpfster, “Quiet, Piggy…”

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Please don’t be that stupid. Please, don’t be that stupid. PLEASE, don’t be that stupid. I hear the right is all in a dither because Zohran Mamdani is going to have “Arabic numbers” in New York schools before the year is out. New York already uses Arabic numbers, just like the rest of America. In America, Arabic numbers are just numbers.

It seems like a joke but the fact that MAGA got upset about it indicates they’re in full panic mode already. I’ll say, “Democratic Socialism is a Capitalist system,” until I’m blue in the face but MAGA won’t be able to hear me. Panic mode is often quite blinding and as we know, there are none so blind as those who will not see…

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In old movies, one could hold up a cross to fend off a vampire or other evil being. These days, I watch KKKarolyin’ Leveitt up at the podium, lying and lying and lying some more – all while prominently wearing a cross. It seems the cross doesn’t burn evil after all…

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This got real weird, real fast. So long as Marjorie Taylor Greene was a MAGA nutball intent on supporting Donny no matter how outrageous his unfathomable behavior, she was a member in good standing in the House of Billionaire’s Representatives. Then the Drumpfster chose not to release the Epstein files he had promised to release during the campaign.

That’s it’s own weird thing. ‘The Epstein Files’ used to be a hammer the GOP swung at government, trying to get them released and, as I’ve mentioned, promising to do so at the earliest possible opportunity. THEN, Donny comes to power and suddenly, the Epstein files are boring with nothing in them and the whole schmear becomes a Democrat hammer. Same files. Same implications.

So, anyway, MTG stayed on the first message, the files should be released. THAT moment, that single moment of sanity, seems to have opened a floodgate of reason in her that I had heretofore dismissed as even possible. I mean, I suspect she’s just positioning herself for a Senate run but still, suddenly, I found myself agreeing with MTG more and more – and I certainly had not gone MAGA. Message-wise, she came to me.

THAT, of course, was the last straw for Donny. He ramped up the attacks against her. Now she’s actually stepping down from her job and leaving the House. She resigned, effective January 5th, 2026. That might well lead to another Democrat in the House. Georgia will replace her with a special election. Now that California is taking five extra seats for Democrats in response to Texas’ failed attempt to take five extra seats for Republicans, the House is looking like a better and better bet for the Dems in the mid-terms.

It’s going to take some serious cheating on the part of the GOP to keep control of the House, I think. The part that bothers me? These guys can – and WILL – DO “serious cheating” and never bat an eye…

Backfires…

by MyBaconPress

It’s weird, isn’t it? Donny said many times, that tariffs don’t raise prices. People who DO know what they’re talking about said the tariffs would increase prices. Donny insisted the people who know what they’re talking about don’t know what they’re talking about. He imposed his tariffs and, inconceivably, prices went up, just like the experts warned. Donny continued to insist tariffs don’t raise prices. Prices went up even more, again, just like the experts warned. People started getting mad at Donny over the ridiculously high prices and finally, Donny responded – by lowering tariffs on several, select grocery items.

I guess we’re not supposed to figure out that tariffs that never increase prices, nevertheless increased prices, and lowering the tariffs, which clearly did NOT increase prices, is hoped to bring prices back down anyway for some ethereal, unconnected reason. I write “hoped” because Donny has handed corporations a perfect excuse to raise prices and I’ve NEVER seen a corporation that could pass up such largess, so, we’ll see…

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There was a headline in Tuesday’s ‘USA Today,’ “Trump’s dominance shows signs of slipping amid Epstein saga and affordability woes.” I think it’s more about the “affordability woes.” MAGA has been able to successfully overlook every moral failing of their Precious based entirely on the idea that as a successful businessman, he – and ONLY he – could save the economy.

There are only two problems with that thinking: one, he’s not a successful businessman, and two, even if he was, governments aren’t supposed to run like businesses. I mean, do YOU want your government operating on a profitability model? I surely do not. As it becomes undeniable that he has no clue how to address the economy, though, MAGA seems to be losing tolerance for his moral failings, as well.

Still, it was pretty nifty, the way Congress finally got it all together and passed the law to release the Epstein files. 47 said he would sign it but 47 lies about everything so we had to wait and see, but he did. Then, everything not related to an ongoing investigation can be disgorged into the public for detailed and intense scrutiny as both parties try to “out-evil” each other.
“We found eight democRATS in those files!”
“We found fifteen Republicans in the files!”
“We found Larry Summers in the files!”
“We found Donald Trump in the files – 27, 246 times!”

They really DID find a prince in those files and now the cloud has consumed Sarah Ferguson. Her latest children’s book has been withdrawn and “pulped.” (Why, yes, that DOES mean destroyed.) She stayed friends with Epstein even after his crimes were discovered. Now she’s having her royal titles withdrawn as well.

Oh, but hold the phone. That part, “everything NOT related to an ongoing investigation.” Didn’t Donny just order a frivolous investigation of Democrats – and only Democrats – that might appear in the Epstein files? Wouldn’t that mean that even with the passage and signing of the law he won’t “be able” to release the FBI files? He sure is a slippery eel, isn’t he? Or perhaps it’s just a coincidence…

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Okay, so, what now? This really IS my favorite story of the week. As you may recall, Texas launched a redistricting war with a midterm redistricting intended and designed to give Republicans five more House seats through the glories of gerrymandering. California responded by temporarily changing THEIR electoral maps to create five more Democratic seats, also through the glories of gerrymandering, to offset the Republican effort.

NOW, a federal court has ruled that Texas doesn’t get to use their re-jiggered map. The court ruled that it was pretty clear the map had been based on racial considerations. Surprisingly, that’s still a no-no in this once-great nation. California was only planning to use THEIR map if Texas used theirs and a court has ruled Texas can’t use theirs. Does California then abandon their plan? CAN they?

Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants. But what if they don’t? Because Texas is appealing the ruling and time is so short, California has little choice but to move forward with it’s own gerrymandered map based on the possibility Texas moves forward with theirs. The filing dates may well be passed by the time a ruling is handed down.

It’s only one way it could be, but I can see a reality in which the Corrupt court says Texas can’t use their map but California moves ahead with their map – giving California five more seats to “offset” five seats Texas DOESN’T get! That would be a jarring backfire of the GOP attempted steal, but I’m pretty sure I would laugh and laugh…

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“Quiet, Piggy.” Donny actually said that to a reporter who asked a question he didn’t like. A woman, of course. He’s really very disrespectful to women, have you noticed? My how very… juvenile. These days, Donny seems less like a master verbal fencer and more like a petulant and childish brat.

For some reason, “Quite, Piggy” seems to have hit a nerve all of the other horrible things he says to people have not. 47 uses rudeness as a defense all the time. He regularly mouths off at people. MAGA generally sees it as tough talk and they like it regardless of how boorish it shows him to be.

But this poor woman, a reporter, was simply asking a question. It wasn’t even an unreasonable question. His response was mean-spirited. That seems appropriate. He HAS a mean spirit. But for some reason, “Quite, Piggy” has started an avalanche of criticism from both sides of the aisle.

Now that he has taken to falling asleep pretty much anywhere he happens to be, he needs to drop his insult about Joe Biden being “Sleepy Joe,” and I really, really think he should take a gander at a mirror before he calls anybody else “Piggy.” Between him and Catherine Lucey, the reporter he attacked, I say he’s the piggiest piggy…

Opaque “Transparency…”

by MyBaconPress

You’ll forgive me if I’m suspicious. Donny has made a full 180 on the Epstein files? Really? Why? “Oh,” he says, “because we have nothing to hide.” Uh-huh. For someone with nothing to hide, you’ve sure been hiding it for a long time. He might be putting a supportive public face but telling MAGA Mike in the background, “No, never.” That sounds like him all over, though he’s not very good at keeping secrets. If that’s the scheme, he’ll confess it sooner or later.

I suspect what he means is, “We’ve had time to go through, page by page, and make sure my name is completely redacted.” Either way? Good. If he now supports the release of the files, it should just move forward with ease, right? For me, the fight has always been about the victims but Donny kept pushing himself into the limelight by trying to put out the limelights.

So, I guess that’s that and we’ll just move on from– what? He included weasel words? Here’s his statement, “The House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!” There’s more but that’s the important part, that “legally entitled to” bit. See, he just told Pam Bondi to open an investigation on various Democrats.

MAGA keeps asking why Biden didn’t release the files, as though that’s an important question that makes sense. The actual answer is that Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal case was still proceeding throughout most of Biden’s administration – and one doesn’t release investigative information during an investigation or the subsequent trial. And now, Donny has conveniently created an “investigation” into Democrats. So, “whatever they are legally entitled to” means there will still be a lot of information withheld because of all of those “investigations” going on.

He’s a slippery little weasel, isn’t he? MAGA will only hear that he called for the release. They will NOT hear about the “still keeping much of it private due to investigations” part…

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With all of the gerrymandering going on, the battles keep raging, going from one state to the next. Donny and Texas started it when they decided to cheat in Texas by gerrymandering to favor the Republicans and give them five more seats. California responded by redistricting California to pick up five more Democratic seats, balancing everything out. But then came all of the other states, lining up, one-by-one, to demonstrate either their love of the Constitution or their love of Donny.

Utah was dutifully trying to gerrymander their state to favor Republicans. They split the Salt Lake City area into four different districts, effectively diminishing Democratic input. Last Monday, a judge ruled against that map and reinstated one that maintains the Salt Lake City area as one district, making that district competitive – it’s about 43% Republican.

It looks like Utah’s attempt to help Republicans steal the 2026 election has backfired and will actually help the Dems pick up another seat. Lovely. Bear in mind, all of this cheating and rigging is taking place because the Republicans don’t feel good about their chances in 2026. They COULD govern in a way that pleases enough people to win fair and square but that doesn’t seem to be an option they’ve even considered. It’s un-American, if you ask me…

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” (Mark Twain)

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Jack Smith was a special counsel who indicted The First Felon – twice! Once for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and once for mishandling of classified documents. It’s safe to say, Jack Smith knows a LOT about Donny and his trumpery. As we’ve all seen, Donny has been on a revenge tour ever since seizing the White House again and he got the Office of Special Counsel to investigate Smith. No, the investigation is purely “independent,” I’m sure.

The matter is being pursued by Republicans, led by Charles Grassley of Iowa. So Smith’s lawyers sent Grassley a letter that read, “Such political meddling in prosecutorial decision making undermines the credibility of the Justice Department and the integrity of any subsequent enforcement actions. Political meddling in prosecutorial actions also risks turning impartial law enforcement agencies into partisan tools to protect the President’s allies and punish his perceived adversaries.” That’s a kind of a swipe at Donny and what he’s doing.

Now Grassley and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) claim they want to hear from Smith regarding new revelations that the ex-special counsel obtained the phone records of several congressional Republicans as a part of his investigation into Trump’s election interference. This is the bit that feeds that section of the latest spending bill that gives Republicans a chance for a taxpayer-funded windfall they don’t deserve.

They keep pumping Smith for answers to questions and Smith keeps avoiding the questions while the conversation is only between himself and the corrupt Republicans. He wants to testify in a public forum. In their letter, Smith’s lawyers wrote, “Mr. Smith is fully committed to providing information about the work of the Special Counsel’s Office, and we are committed to working with you to provide the public an opportunity to hear directly from Mr. Smith regarding his work.” Then they asked for guidance on what information he can share with lawmakers and for the ability to review files that supported his case to prepare his testimony.”

In short, Smith’s position is, “Sure, I’ll talk all about it – in public. Let’s share ALL of the information I have about the criminality of your Precious – in public.” For reasons I can’t quite put my finger on, the Republicans seem less interested in discussing the details in public. It’s almost as if they know that exposing the details hurts their case more than helps it. It’s an ongoing theme with these clowns.

They call themselves the most transparent administration in history but they only promise to show things, they never actually do it. That’s a con. Anytime someone tells you they have the evidence but they’re not ever going to show it, they’re lying to you…

The Brightest Lights…

by MyBaconPress

Ever since Zohran Mamdani got elected Mayor of New York City, every corporate talking head from across the dial has been required to come out loudly in favor of “Free Market” Capitalism, as though there’s some threat to it out there. The most recent I saw was Bill Maher on his show ‘Real Time’ from his November 14 broadcast. He went so far as to show a nighttime satellite photo of South Korea, brightly lit up because of all of that beautiful Capitalism it has, like this:

South Korea at night.

See? Only Capitalists can afford lights, right? THEN, he showed a nighttime satellite photo of North Korea, so dark it looked like they had to pool their resources to buy even the single light bulb they share as a nation:

North Korea at night.

Pretty convincing stuff, eh? Well, unless you know that North Korea is a Communist nation. It’s not Democratic Socialist at all. Trying to convince me that Democratic Socialism is bad by showing me the failures of Communism is a bit like me trying to convince you ice hockey sucks because that “strategic battle” between the pitcher and hitter is pretty boring. Did I convince you? HOW? Telling you something I don’t care for about baseball has nothing to do with ice hockey. If it convinces you, it’s because you know nothing of hockey or baseball.

It’s weird that Maher might have made such an error, isn’t it? Love him or hate him, I think everyone would agree that Bill Maher is not a stupid person. Still, I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and pretend he made an honest mistake because the alternative is to point out that he’s intentionally trying to deceive by knowingly presenting false information, more commonly known as “lying.” If one has to lie in order to defend their position, their position probably doesn’t deserve to be defended, right?

Do you know the happiest country on Earth, the country with the overall happiest population? Finland, a Democratic Socialist state, though they call it ‘The Nordic Model.’ (It’s technically listed as a Constitutional Monarchy.) It’s a mixed economy. But no country has included more elements of Democratic Socialism and they’re the happiest country on Earth eight years running now. Besides, NO country is perfectly whatever it claims to be.

Take the awesome and perfectly perfect US. We claim – no, we insist – that we’re a “Free Market” Capitalist nation and nothing else, ever. Well, until some corporation makes some catastrophic Capitalistic mistake and runs, hat in hand, to the US government to demand a little socialism in the form of a financial bailout. It happens here in the Greatest Country On Earth™ FAR more often than you might think. The American corporate motto seems to be ‘Socialism for me, brutal Free Market Capitalism for thee.’

Oh, and for Bill Maher, since I know he’s probably reading, here’s a nighttime photo of Finland, all lit up:

Scandinavia at night

In fact, that’s all of Scandinavia, all Democratic Socialist and all lit up. Using the Maher standard of measuring the success of a given economic system based on how brightly a country shines at night, it looks like Democratic Socialism is doing okay…

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I can’t say I feel badly, exactly, about what’s happening to Marjorie Taylor Greene. She seems to have gained access to more accurate information recently. I don’t know her source, but she has been coming out on the right side of an increasing number of issues, recently, and it’s weirding me out. She has become SO fact-oriented, the Trumpster kicked her out of MAGA. (“No facts in MAGA!”) Now she’s getting death threats and other abuse.

Nobody deserves death threats or other abuse for expressing their opinions, right or wrong. Still, it’s nice that she’s getting an opportunity to see how her team, Team Evil, treats people with whom they disagree. I’ll tell you this, though: if she wants to join Team USA, I think we should let her. I do not, can not, forget who and how she’s been, but Maya Angelou taught us, “When you know better, do better.” MTG seems to know better, now, and she seems to be trying to do better. Right thinking people ought to support that…

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“It’s not just that they’re doing things that I don’t agree with politically, it’s that there’s so much malice and vindictiveness attached to all of it….” Bill Bryson, author of ‘A Short History of Everything.’

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Here’s the thing about the MAGA anger that 47 isn’t doing what he promised. This is the first time they’ve known, known without question, that Donny is lying to them. I mean, when he says he and Xi have a great relationship, who can say? We certainly weren’t in the room while they were talking. Maybe they do. ARE fishermen off the coast of Venezuela drug runners? Donny said they were and I’ve never had the chance to talk to them. Maybe they were.

They can do that all day on a wide-ranging variety of subjects. Pretty much everything, in fact, they can’t or won’t check. But they don’t have to check to see if prices are lower or higher. It smacks them in the face every time they walk into a store. They’ve still got Donny’s whiny voice in their heads, “Prices are low, the lowest they’ve ever been. We’ve got the best prices.” Meanwhile, they’re buying off-brands or not at all because things are so expensive.

I suspect that as they internalize the reality that Donny is straight-up lying to them about the economy, they’ll start to see other areas where he may have been less than honest. How about job losses? Over the course of last month, I’ve seen many headlines about larger companies laying off workers. How many? 100 people! 1,000 people! 10,000 people! 466,000 people! 2 million people! A trillion people! (I learned that from Donny. BIG numbers are better.)

Okay, 153,000. That’s the estimated, actual number. It’s estimated because the regime isn’t offering that information any more. (We get excuses, instead.) The actual numbers make Donny look bad, so he stopped reporting them. But I’d bet some of those 153,000 people were MAGA and when Donny tells them the economy is booming, they wonder why it exploded all over them. In short, Donny’s lies aren’t distant anymore. They’re not about things MAGA doesn’t understand and may or may not be true. Donny’s lies are hitting home, THEIR homes and for the first time, they see it…

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Big day for the Niners today. Brock Purdy, their starting Quarterback who has missed a ton of games with a bum foot, is coming back. So is one of their better Wide Receivers, Ricky Pearsall. That should improve the offense. Well, at wide-out anyway. Backup Quarterback Mac Jones did a VERY good job while Brock was out. I hope Brock plays well or the QB controversy gets somewhat louder.

The Defense is still the big question mark. The team has lost their veteran leaders for the season. They’re playing with backups and rookies. The up side? They have a very good Defensive Coordinator in Robert Salah, and they have a soft stretch in their schedule. It gives them something like five weeks to tighten up and get it together. Here we go, Niners…

Failing and Flailing…

by MyBaconPress

It just makes your head want to explode sometimes, doesn’t it? The “Justice” Department is joining California Republicans in their lawsuit to stop California from doing what Texas did: gerrymander the state to favor one party, the Democrats. California ONLY did what they did a) temporarily, and b) because Texans gerrymandered Texas to favor one party, the Republicans.

Not only did the “Justice” Department NOT sue Texas, the Texas rigging was 47’s idea. He proclaimed he “deserved” five more seats in the House and Texas gerrymandered to accommodate his selfish ambitions. In joining the suit against California but not Texas, the administration made some pretty startling comments.

“California’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process,” mused Pam Bondi, the US attorney general. “Governor Newsom’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Californians will not stand.”

“Texas’ redistricting scheme is ALSO a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process,” Pam Bondi could have added, but didn’t, “but Governor Abbott’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Texans will be just fine.”

The thing is, this whole kerfuffle kicked off when the Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court ruled that Federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases regarding partisan gerrymandering. A federal court can still step in, for now, if the gerrymandering is seen as racial, though, so that’s how the GOP and the criminal regime filed their official California whine.

They claimed the new map was drawn “to favor Hispanics.” Well, they had to say something, right? The suit had to pretend the gerrymander was racial. So, that’s what they did. Evil is evil, not stupid. But “We want to cheat but we don’t want YOU to cheat,” isn’t a very inspiring message. Nor is it particularly convincing. I’d bet racial considerations were not a factor so I imagine Team Evil will lose the fight…

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I saw a headline in Friday’s ‘Guardian.’ It read, “Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud.” When I read it, I laughed out loud. I guess Team Evil thinks they’re really on to something with these pretended charges. The thing is, we all KNOW the regime is just making things up in an effort to harass their political opponents.

We also know that several of the minions working in the regime could easily face the exact same charges – and, apparently, the evidence is stronger against Donny’s Dumbasses than it is against the Dems facing those charges. So far, the charges haven’t held up and I doubt this one will, either. Swalwell will start at ‘Selective Prosecution’ and move from there. I remember a time when Republicans pretended to think that frivolous lawsuits were a bad thing…

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Part of the “clean” GOP Continuing Resolution (CR) that just passed when the Dems took a dive is a provision that allows GOP Senators to give themselves up to a million dollars each if their name and phone number appeared in a legal document during one of Donny’s many, many trials. The list wasn’t released to the public. No other information was presented. They weren’t violated in any way. But they get a fistful of dollars – ’cause they want it.

Other members of the GOP are pretending the provision was a surprise. They say they’re angry about it and they’re going to remove that provision. You know, eventually. They’ll get to it, sooner or later, you betcha, cause it was bad, bad, bad. Or they won’t and the GOP will gift themselves millions.

But if you’re a working American who can’t make ends meet in our corrupt society? No, nothing for you. In fact, you’re already leeching way too much, living way too high on the hog with all of those generous SNAP benefits. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps – assuming you have boots, of course. You don’t even get a penny, cause we don’t make those anymore…

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From time to time, I get called out by conservatives for calling them Nazis. I get that. I wouldn’t want to be called a Nazi, either. Now, for the record, I don’t actually call them Nazis. I say they’re acting like Nazis. Maybe they’re NOT Nazis but when one lives life like a Nazi, one should not be surprised when others suspect that maybe one IS a Nazi. Okay, so maybe I’ve misjudged. Let’s take a look, shall we?

When the Nazis – the actual Nazis – were sending people to prison, literally by the trainload, they stole the personal effects of their victims. They took wedding rings and gold crowns from teeth. If the victims of the Nazis had owned cell phones, they would have taken those, too. Anything of value, the Nazis stole it.

As it happens, when the ICEholes roll up one of their victims and haul them away, they steal their personal effects, too. Wedding and engagement rings, cell phones, anything of value, the ICEholes steal it. If (when) it turns out a victim was detained “in error,” you know, because they’re an American citizen or some other frivolous reason like that, they victim in question is released – but the ICEholes keep their valuables.

I say again, if people are going to do the same things the Nazis did, I’m going to continue to insist that they’re ACTING like Nazis, because they are. If you don’t like it, change the behavior…

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As the walls close in on Donny and his Epstein involvement, he has decided to focus on Democrats. He’s siccing the DOJ on various high-profile Democrats to ascertain the association between them and Jeffrey Epstein. I suspect, the idea is an attempt to frighten lefties into standing down. “Oh my God,” he thinks liberals will say, “He might implicate our hero Bill Clinton so we’d better disregard our desire to see what Trump did to those girls.”

Here’s the thing: Bill Clinton isn’t my hero. Furthermore, I’m not MAGA. I don’t make decisions about guilt based on political affiliation, like MAGA does. My determinations are based on the facts at hand. If it turns out Bill Clinton – or any other Democrat or independent, for that matter – took advantage of the “delights” Jeffrey Epstein had on offer, they should stand trial and go to jail if convicted.

I don’t know a lefty who feels differently. I don’t know a MAGA who can say the same…