I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there will always be people who accept and believe in MAGA. Look, there are Nazis running around to this day. You really can’t fix stupid. When confronted with the atrocities the Nazis were known to have committed, they do the same thing MAGA does: they lie. We’re never going to convince them they’re wrong and we just have to acknowledge that some people get lost permanently. Then again, there are going to be the Marjorie Taylor Greene’s of the world.

I think she wants to come in from the cold. And I think we should let her. No, I don’t trust her, either. Her turnaround was pretty quick and surprisingly complete, suggesting she may never have been a true MAGA. As an example, Lauren Boebert also signed on to Thomas Massey’s Discharge Petition that started the whole ‘Release the Files!’ show. Boebert also declined to back down when the White House pressured her. But that’s the end of her going her own way. She’s still crazy, more likely stupid.

She still – honestly – believes, for example, that Democrats eat babies. If you believe Democrats eat babies, you need supervision. She still believes trump might be competent at something besides theft and rape. Her belief that the Trump/Epstein files should be released is predicated on the notion that the files don’t implicate Trump in any way. (They do.)

But MTG seems to have left the whole moron act behind. And of course it was likely an act. Boebert truly believes. MTG, it seems, did not. She knew the words to say, but she didn’t believe them. Those words curried favor with a crowd she needed to get into Congress. Honestly, that makes her more dangerous. More scheming. More conniving. But, she’s also a hell of a fighter.

We’ve done it before. Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s “fixer.” Now he’s a darling on the left and shows up on lefty podcasts all the time. Going back, David Brock was a gay writer who wrote hit pieces against the left. Cons ignored his sexuality so long as he did. But when, out of curiosity (according to him) he wrote a balanced piece on Hillary, the right suddenly noticed he’s gay and drummed him off of the team.

So, he switched sides and started ‘Media Matters for America.’ Now he’s described as “an American liberal political consultant.” Not every convert needs to be so impactful. The point is only that sometimes, scales fall from people’s eyes. When that happens, there has to be a place for them to come home to…

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Man, I’ve spent a great deal of time discussing the value and application of ICE here in Bizarro America with MAGA. Over the last year, every single one of their talking points has proven false. Not because I’ve said so, but because facts on the ground keep betraying them. At this point, I’m pretty sure there’s not one single talking point left that stands up to scrutiny.

The worst of the worst? Most often, not even here illegally. Responsible agents? Not even capable agents. Illegal drugs? While releasing the guy who brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US? Uh-huh. Honestly, the only excuse, er, “explanation” left intact? Bigotry. I’ll tell you this: I thought the red hat might become a symbol of hatred, to be feared. Instead, it has become something of a new kind of dunce cap…

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Okay, so, stay with me, here. The corrupt SCOTUS struck down Felon 47’s tariffs. 47, of course, threw a fit and decided to “punish” the court by illegally imposing even more taxes on the American people, first a 10% tariff increase which he raised to 15% by the end of the day. But then, I started hearing about corporations lining up to get “refunds.” Lawsuits have already been filed so the corporations can “recover” the tariff money “they paid.”

Here’s the thing, though. THEY didn’t pay it. Consumers did. That’s how sales and value-added taxes work. A tax is put on a product, the cost of the tax is passed on to the consumer, and the price of the product goes up accordingly. Corporations collect the tax from their customers at the register, then they send the money in to the government who, in this case, steals it and shoves it into their own greedy pockets. The corporation is simply a pass-through from consumer to government.

When you think about it, there’s no realistic way for the government to get the tariff money stolen from me back into my pocket. But that truth generates another reality: why should the corporation get a “refund?” Okay, so they take a dollar from me and pass it along to the government. The tax (tariff) is struck down as illegal but when the money gets returned, it only goes back to the corporation, not the consumer who parted with the dollar in the first place?

I’m actually against the refund, since it will go to the wrong people. Besides, the striking down of the tariffs will NOT be reflected in lower prices so the corporations are still getting an unearned windfall just from the policy. They don’t deserve the added benefit of a “refund” on something THEY never paid…

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I’ve seen this meme floating around that reminds people that Donald Trump will sue anybody over anything, most especially if he doesn’t like something you said. At the same time, Donald Trump hasn’t sued one person for calling him a pedophile. Nobody. Nada. Watch:
Donald Trump is a pedophile.
Donald Trump is a pedophile.
Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Alright in my case, I have to acknowledge that he’s never heard of me nor my little blog and likely doesn’t know I just wrote he is a pedophile but we all know it wouldn’t make a difference. If he files suit, the first thing that happens is discovery. Full, unredacted discovery. He, simply, cannot have that. Not in this case.

He DID file suit against the ‘Wall Street Journal’ over that birthday card to his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. He’s been trying to back away from it ever since. The Journal’s owner, Rupert Murdoch has just filed a response asking for the case to be dismissed because, as the filing says, Trump is too lewd a person to suffer reputational harm from this story.

Trump has bought his way out of every problem he’s ever faced, but we all know adversity builds character. Trump has never faced adversity of any kind. That pretty much indicates an almost perfect lack of character and Trump’s constant and endless claims of his own greatness and grandeur are overcompensation for what Trump knows about himself. He’s a terrible person who has done, and still does, terrible things. He’s terrified someone might find out and the facade he has worked so hard for so long to create will just crumble and vanish. Many of us are not fooled to begin with…

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News has emerged that in 2006, Trump called the city’s police chief when sex crime charges against Epstein in Palm Beach became public, and said, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” Team Evil is using that to support their lies. “See? He was opposed to Epstein!”

Well, first, I “see” that he DID know all about Epstein and Epstein’s activities, meaning he’s lying NOW about having never known Epstein or about Epstein’s activities. In fact, I suspect such a phone call was attempted “inoculation.” He wanted to get out in front of any charges that might come his way over his participation in the scheme. One quick little phone call gave him plausible deniability in the moment. Yes, the dotard is losing his mind, which confuses the whole situation, but Trump is evil, not stupid…