Author: MyBaconPress

2026… Threat or Promise?

by MyBaconPress

Well, about the best we can claim is that we survived ’25. Most of us, anyway. That was a hell of a ride. A nightmare, to be sure. If you’re like me, you spent much of last year walking around in a kind of shock at what has happened in the US. Donny reclassified cannabis from a Schedule I drug, which it never was, to a Schedule III drug. Other than that, everything he has done has been harmful and intended to inflict damage.

He has stopped paying America’s normal bills – he just cut off child care funding – but has still managed to “spend” (steal) more money than any other administration in history. So, in eleven short months he has destroyed the US, crashed the economy, turned us into a world-wide laughing stock, stolen everything that isn’t nailed down – and a few things that are. The nation is wreckage. So instead, we turn to our personal lives.

People are losing jobs. Prices are high and going up. Millions lose health coverage – today – not because they don’t want it. They simply can’t afford it. Are you better off than you were under Biden? Hell, no, you’re not. Looking at our personal lives just puts in mind that we’re worse off, there, too. FAR worse off. But this is supposed to be a Happy New Year message!

It’s a tough message to deliver because I don’t think 2026 will be any happier than 2025 was. In fact, I expect worse. There are some possible bright sides. Our national embarrassment is in terrible shape. He might die at any moment. Short of that, this clown-show continues. Life will get easier and easier for the billionaires and harder and harder for everyone else.

No, wait, I almost forgot. The mid-terms are in November. If the left can take back Congress, or any part of it, we can stop him in his tracks. I have noticed that, these days, when there’s an election, it’s been an almost perfect clean sweep by Democrats. I think Republicans, by and large, are sitting out elections, intentionally handing control back to Dems. It’s not that they want the Dems, but they can’t take much more of Donny, either.

So there’s that. There IS possibility. There is hope. 2026 could be the year we turn things around. 2026 could be the year we get rid of this Cockwomble, once and for all. (A Cockwomble is a spectacularly stupid person.) In that spirit, I wish you a very… Hopeful New Year. So let’s get going…

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Man, this rift between Donny and Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to be complete. She says she was naive to believe in him. (She was.) He says she’s a traitor. (She’s just being honest now.) It’s been a back and forth that she traces to the Trump/Epstein files. She believed he would release them. She believed in him and felt like there was no reason not to release them. But then, he didn’t. He wouldn’t. He simply refused.

Finally, the House forced him to release the documents through a discharge petition signed by 218 members, one of whom was MTG. The White House ran a full court press on MTG and other GOP women who had signed the petition. Marjorie is now out telling everyone that when they pressed her, Donny shouted at her that his friends would be hurt. That’s something of an admission, isn’t it?

He KNOWS he has friends who would be hurt if the Trump/Epstein Files are released? How many known pedos does he call friend? Do you know how many friends I have that I know for a fact are pedophiles? None. Not one. Do you know who knowingly hangs around pedophiles? Other pedophiles. Have you ever heard of NAMBLA? It’s the ‘North American Man Boy Love Association.’ Pedophiles hanging with pedophiles. But Donny is yelling at MTG that his friends would be hurt by releasing the files. Pedophiles hang with pedophiles.

I think MTG honestly believed Donny’s name wasn’t in the files. She really didn’t understand his reticence to release them. When he was finally forced to release the files, the world was treated to black page after black page, releasing the paper, but not any real information. Fortunately, the black pages were redacted badly and clever sleuths figured out how to remove the redactions where we’ve discovered Donny’s name has been redacted countless times to protect him. Not his rich friends, him.

For the record, this, I think, is how people will recover from MAGA. It was often a single issue that drew normal people into the MAGA-sphere. After they were drawn in, they learned to accept and excuse one outrage after another, slowly chipping away at their own morality. A single issue can also be the catalyst to breaking the bonds of MAGA like it did with MTG.

Once she realized that he wasn’t releasing the Trump/Epstein Files because he was likely in them and protecting himself, the scales fell from her eyes and she sees him more clearly than she ever did before. Once the illusion of the greatness of the Precious is penetrated, the failure that is Donny becomes more and more clear. Be patient with your MAGA. It will work the same for them, too.

Conservative icon Bill Kristol is openly questioning Team Evil, as well. He wrote, “At first I just thought, what clowns. But after a moment’s thought I am more incredulous and suspicious. A million documents? When they’ve been on high alert for months? And DOJ and FBI do have filing systems. (That’s why they’re the Epstein FILES.) Something’s rotten in DOJ.”

Kristol has also now repeated some information those of us outside the MAGA media bubble have had for a long, long time. “In a court memo filed on July 8, 2019, two days after his arrest, DOJ outlined some of the evidence they had seized. This included stacks of compact disks labeled “Young [Name] + [Name].” In short, Epstein kept a carefully curated library of videos.”

One could simply make a list of the names on those discs. Leave out the ‘Young [Name]’ part and present the people of interest in the ‘[Name]’ part. Those are the men in whom we’re interested in the first place. I don’t care about who flew on the plane or when. I care about who raped whom. Give us those names, and, yes, even if they’re Democrats…

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In LA, they saw more rain on Christmas Day than they’ve seen in years. Meanwhile, on the same Christmas Day, it was a balmy 68 degrees Fahrenheit – in Iceland.

I’m sure glad I have Donny and other MAGA mouthpieces to tell me climate change is a hoax because, at this point, I have concerns…

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As you know, Felon 47 recently tried to add his name – illegally, I might add – to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He DID slap the letters on the wall. This was an illegal homage to his own insatiable ego that no decent person wants to see. So, of course MAGA is all in. The Kennedy family objected to the change and pointed out that it’s illegal. Only Congress can change the name of a national memorial and Congress doesn’t do anything these days. They certainly have not done that.

So, MAGA being MAGA, they started protesting people declaring the name change illegal, specifically, the Kennedy family because, of course they did. If a person can take a wrong position on a subject, any subject, MAGA will be there, passionately, gloriously, and publicly wrong and wrong-headed.

Then, the Kennedy family suffered yet another tragedy, JFK’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, died of acute myeloid leukemia, aged 35 years. The Drumpfster is mad at the Kennedy family for not letting him associate his failed, gross, Jabba the Hutt self with one of the best Presidents in American history. So he did what he does. He attacked.

Now, in fairness to His Blobster, he apparently didn’t actually write anything himself. Instead, he spent an evening re-posting tweets and memes from other people who were mocking the Kennedys for not wanting Donny’s dark, evil, and horrifying name associated with JFK’s name. The family is mourning a tragic loss and Donny mocks and teases them. That’s one classy guy, isn’t it? Dear MAGA, remember this because what goes around, comes around.

I wake up every day hoping for the headline, ‘Trump dead at 79.’ Every day. The first thing every day? He keeps disappointing me on that – then he goes and does even more disappointing stuff. I understand he’s an abomination of a human being. I’m not sure why I ever expect any level of decency from that guy. My bad, I guess. He has never shown even a spark of human goodness and I remember Maya Angelou: when someone shows you who they are, believe them…

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According to Frank Luntz, the Federal workforce is nine percent smaller now than at the beginning of 2025. Meanwhile, Federal spending is up six percent over the same period.

Donny’s not spending one dime more than he absolutely has to on America or the American people. So, where the hell is all of that money going? Asking for a friend…

A Promise, Re-promised…

by MyBaconPress

Zelenskyy must be feeling pretty good. Safe and secure, you know? Word is, Donny promised Zelenskyy strong, 15-year security guarantees. Oh, good. I wonder if those “guarantees” are any more solid than the original US promise of security guarantees to Ukraine for surrendering the nuclear arsenal they ended up with after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1994, the US, the UK, and Russia signed an agreement with Ukraine called the Budapest Memorandum. It promised respect for Ukraine’s borders, no economic or military threat against Ukraine, except in self-defense, and that the US and UK would support Ukraine in case of invasion.

When Putin first invaded, the US, kind of begrudgingly, offered weapons. Some weapons, of limited capability. The US held Ukraine to a “limited war.” I define “limited war” as a war the “limited” side gets to lose. Biden finally figured out that his strategy was poor and changed, but it was very late in the game and Ukraine had worse to face: Donny the Dumbass.

Donny started off as a Russian asset, reporting to Putin. By definition, 47 has little to no choice but to try and deliver Ukraine to Russia on Putin’s orders. Donny also started off as a self-serving grifter who doesn’t – can’t – do anything for anybody – ever – unless he gets a taste of the profits. A large taste. So Donny reneged on the deal. Now Ukraine has to renegotiate.

Maybe 47 will keep his word, maybe he won’t. As nearly as I can tell, he rarely keeps his word, so I wouldn’t bet on it. More likely, Donny will take the vig he demands from Ukraine for “security guarantees,” then turn his back on Ukraine anyway. I mean, come on, name a person or group Donny has NOT betrayed. The very best you can do is name someone Donny hasn’t betrayed yet.

Hey, is NOW a good time to remember that this is a war The Felon promised to end in one day? He said it would be easy. He was counting on his close, personal relationship with Putin. Then Putin told Trump to pound sand. Now? Nothing but excuses. People can defend him all they want but I’m sticking with the idea that if he didn’t have a plan in place, he shouldn’t have made the promises – and he REALLY should honor the agreement the US already promised…

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Here’s a paragraph from an article from ‘Military.com:’ “Historically speaking, battleships have been obsolete since at least 1921, when a simple bombing demonstration off Virginia’s coast proved the large warships are vulnerable to air attack. That vulnerability has been validated repeatedly through World War II and ever since as aircraft, submarines and cruise missiles systematically demonstrated that bigger and more expensive warships are easier to sink. They are simply not worth the costs and risks involved in building, maintaining and using in active combat.”

Hmm, battleships are outdated technology that cost WAY too much to build and maintain with WAY to little return on investment? That sounds like the dumbest choice a person could make as far as upgrading one’s navy. So, obviously, Donny has announce a new battleship. You’ll never guess the designation. It’s a ‘Trump-class battleship.” If I was going to bet today, I’d bet the thing sinks the minute it hits the water.

Cadet Bonespurs claimed the new battleships will be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” Of course he did. Naturally, none of that is true. American battleships of WWII were larger and the Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship ever built. By now, Donny, of all people, should know: you can tell someone yours is the biggest, but eventually, they’re going to see it and they’ll discover the truth. There’s a reason he demands non-disclosure agreements…

Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell tried to warn the Navy battleships were vulnerable to air attack as far back as WWI. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. Mitchell proved it by sinking a captured German warship with air-dropped bombs. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. In 1924, Mitchell famously predicted that the Japanese would launch carrier-based attacks on Pearl Harbor using aerial torpedoes against anchored and vulnerable battleships. 1924.

The Navy still didn’t want to hear it. In 1925, the Army court-martialed Mitchell for accusing military leaders of “almost treasonable administration” after they refused to heed his warnings. In 1941, Japan did exactly what Mitchell had predicted. To this day, you can still visit the USS Arizona, laying at the bottom of the bay after having been bombed by airplanes and sunk exactly as Mitchell had warned.

So, of course Donny wants to build new battleships. It’s outdated technology, easily defeated by air power. It costs huge amounts of money to build and maintain, a massive waste in view of how easily defeated they are by air power. Super expensive, nearly useless, yesterday’s technology? That’s right in the center of Donny’s bailiwick: useless, expensive, and wasteful…

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It would have been easier on the Niners had the Carolina Panthers beaten the Seattle Seahawks. But, they didn’t. The Seahawks won. The Niners had to beat the Chicago Bears to stay in the race for first place overall. The Bears are a VERY good team. The Niners have some issues this season. Nonetheless, the Niners managed the victory. It was a very good, back and forth game. At the end, it felt like the game could go either way right up until the gun sounded and the game went one way: to the Niners.

They’re playing for first place overall and that comes with a first round Bye, a chance to rest players. It can be quite the advantage. I understand why they’re putting so much into it. But it looks like they’re leaving it all out on the field, now, in these regular season games. I’m becoming concerned that what it will take to land the First Seed will cost them too much heading into the playoffs.

Then again, I’ve been underestimating this team all season long. Players keep getting injured and each injury brings a feeling of, “Well, that’s it!” So far, though, that hasn’t been it. They just keep plugging along and winning games. Next week, the Niners host those self-same Seahawks in Santa Clara. It’s yet another must-win for the Niners.

If they DO win, they earn the number one seed. They get to skip the first round and rest. THEN, for as long as they can remain in the playoffs, ALL of their games would be in Levi Stadium – up to and including the Stupor Bowl, should they get that far. That would be fun and good for the team, not having to travel at all throughout the playoffs.

If the Niners lose to the Seahawks, they’re still in the playoffs. They just get a lower seed and they WILL have to travel. Oh, AND they’ll have to play in every round and they lose their chance to rest players. I really hope the Niners win. It should be a great game. Hey, what can I say? Escapism is more important, these days, than it used to be…

The Never-Ending Reveal…

by MyBaconPress

A MILLION more files? Good Lord, when the FBI – the old one, the one that did the job – got going, they didn’t mess around, eh? Team Evil has just announced the “discovery” of over a million new Trump/Epstein files from the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
“Wait, the Trump/Epstein files?”
“Yeah, the dude likes to slap his disgusting name on everything and he insists his name come first. I just beat him to the punch on this one. I think time will show how correct that is, too.”
Apparently, it’s going to take them a few more weeks to dig through them and redact Donny’s name from the possibly thousands and thousands of times mentioned. (Possible hyperbole alert, there. Possible.)

Donny said he had never been on Epstein’s plane. Well, that was just a lie and now the world has the documents to prove it. Word is, Donny traveled on Epstein’s plane to an island neighboring Epstein’s island, too. Do you believe Donny got so close to Epstein’s island for some reason that did not include going to the island? Wanna buy a bridge?

The (in)Justice Department is pretending to work feverishly to get all the Trump/Epstein files out in a timely fashion and for all the world to see, so long as it takes as long as possible to process them and the world doesn’t see anything. Meanwhile, Donny seems to be feeling the pressure when it comes to these files. Nothing he has tried has worked. He can’t deflect from his involvement. Every time he tries, some new tidbit comes out that supports his participation.

Hell, from my point of view, revelations keep making things worse for him. I’ve already moved from 47 as participant to 47 as purveyor because of the information being uncovered – and that’s while the DOJ is doing it’s ridiculously incompetent best to protect him…

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Before we get too far from these Trump/Epstein files, did you see what Donny wrote on Christmas? His Christmas wish to the world? Sometimes, Donny gives up the game when he doesn’t mean to. He wrote: “Merry Christmas to all (that part’s nice), including the many Sleazebags (Oh, oh, here we go.) who loved Jeffrey Epstein (like DJT), gave him bundles of money (DJT), went to his Island (DJT), attended his parties (DJT), and thought he was the greatest guy on earth (DJT), only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him (DJT), didn’t know him (DJT), said he was a disgusting person (DJT), and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump (sic), who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so.”

That’s a long paragraph because that’s what rambling looks like. If you ask me, it was awfully helpful of him to lay out so many details of the relationship…

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Donny The Dotard has faced numerous scandals since descending that escalator on that dark day in 2015. For reasons that defy all attempts and reasonable explanation, he has managed to lie his way out of the vast majority of them. But these days, there are two that seem to have stuck: The Trump/Epstein Files and the economy.

Most of his other scandals have been less in-your-face. He can lie about boats in the Caribbean, for example, because MAGA isn’t in the Caribbean. But MAGA IS in grocery stores and it doesn’t matter how many times he says prices are down when their wallets are so much lighter at the checkout stand.

MAGA media has worked as hard as they could to protect Donny from the reality of the Trump/Epstein files, too, but the more information that leaks out – and it’s legion, at this point – the harder it is to pretend the Trump/Epstein bromance was in any way innocent.

Donny seems to be feeling the weight of not one, but two millstones around his neck. It’s possible he can still survive the Trump/Epstein Files and the economy – the devil takes care of his own, after all – but if a third crisis rears it’s ugly head, and it sticks, I suspect Donny will be sunk, once and for all. C’mon third crisis…

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There’s this woman, Tina Peters. MAGA, to no one’s surprise. She really, really wanted Donny to win the 2020 election. So, with all of the integrity of a standard MAGA, she cheated. She was found guilty in a Colorado court of allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity. In truth, it was a team of people and they were so confident in what they were doing, they even ordered lunch in.

It turns out they worked with Mike Lindell, the failed pillow guy who just can’t conceive that Donny might have lost, despite easily having been the worst President in history until this current clown. Lindell has been shouting into the wind about having evidence the election was rigged, but has yet to show even a single legitimate document supporting his claims. Lindell is lying. Peters lied, too.

Peters ended up being convicted on three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Our moronic misleader doesn’t understand why she should be in prison just for helping him cheat in the election. He thinks she should be free to cheat again. So, he wrote her a pardon. It was performative. He thought it might pressure state officials to release her from their state prison on all of those state charges. His big problem? “State.” It turns out, he has no pardon authority over state crimes and Colorado helpfully reminded him of the fact – then refused to release Peters.

Then Colorado had some wild fires. As it happens, the fires occurred in a district represented by a Republican. Donny denied requests for assistance anyway. He’s now tying emergency aid to Colorado’s willingness to free felons from prison? Well, at least that’s the speculation. They haven’t said so specifically. In fact, they promised their decision was policy, not politics, which, coming from Team Evil, practically guarantees the decision was politics, not policy. Or that the policy IS politics. Take your pick.

These are MAGA voters he’s leaving twisting in the wind. I approve. They get to see what they voted for. They get to feel what they voted for. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll start to realize that they can stay conservative without supporting a politician that won’t support them. He has already moved soy farmers from productive, self-sustaining workers to welfare recipients. Now he’s doing the same to MAGA in Colorado. I’m watching to see how much abuse MAGA will absorb, but then, I’m often startled by how much abuse some people will take…

Needed: Three Ghosts…

by MyBaconPress

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. I certainly did. You may have noticed, I took the day off. (You may not have noticed, as well.) I didn’t get what I want. He’s still infesting the White House. Other than that, though, it was a pretty good day…

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It’s one thing, I imagine, for Donny to run around messing with average Americans. Generally speaking, we don’t have the ability to defend ourselves and Donny loves to pick on people who can’t defend themselves. But what happens when the demons he wrestles start causing him to pick on people who DO have the ability to defend themselves? That is, people with money.

Well, I think we’re all about to find out. He’s SUCH a deranged dumbass, he got angry at Scotland for putting up a few windmills in the sea that can be seen from one hole of one of his golf courses. He fought them at the time. He lost. He ALWAYS loses fair fights. That’s why he cheats so much. From there, the anger festered and grew. Now the guy has decided that climate change is a hoax and he has it in for any and all forms of renewables. Bring on the horrible fossil fuels we no longer need and should be moving away from.

In keeping with his backward, deranged “thinking,” he attacked five wind farms being built offshore along the east coast. Two are in New York, one is in Massachusetts, one spans Rhode Island and Connecticut, and one is in Virginia. Collectively, the projects cost $25 billion dollars. They provide power for 2.5 million homes. These five projects represent only a tiny fraction of all wind farms, but also represent 100% of off-shore projects being built today.

He tried one of his stupid Executive Orders but a judge struck it down. While all of THAT legal wrangling was taking place, according to the corporations developing the project, they lost somewhere between $15 million and $50 million dollars every week. You know what corporations love? Losing money – especially when it’s for no good reason and only to placate a moron.

So, on Monday, Dec 22, the Interior Department announced they were suspending the leases for the wind farms. Why? Get this: national security concerns! As always, the exact opposite of reality. The administration pretends the blade movement, combined with the towers’ reflective nature, can create radar interference, making it more difficult to identify legitimate targets. No word on why he dropped the bird slaughter and confused whales line. No, now it’s national security. True national security would be breaking our national dependence on oil, but one can’t explain reality to crazy people.

So, no, it’s not a matter of national security. What it is is, a multi-billion dollar project being undertaken by corporations large enough and wealthy enough to build a multi-billion dollar project. It’s possible – likely, even – that Felon 47 is simply angling for a payday. No one gets to do anything unless he gets his beak a little wet, you know? But I suspect deranged neuroses.

I say again, it’s one thing to attack defenseless people. This is an attack on the very wealthy people he usually tries to take such care of. They have resources. In order to protect their investment, they’ll have little choice but to use some of those resources to try to overcome the deranged delusions of a powerful but tiny, tiny little man…

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Jim Beam, yes, the whiskey company, is suspending operations at it’s flagship distillery in Kentucky for a year. Apparently, there’s a whiskey oversupply. Some of that, for sure, is down to this recent trend in which people are drinking less alcohol. Much of that, for sure, is down to Donny’s tariffs. Canada got angry at the dotard over his stupid and unnecessary tariffs and pulled all American whiskey from their shelves.

Think of the Jim Beam distillery as a canary in a coal mine. I presume it’s not a large operation, employing thousands. Still, it employs plenty of people who now have to find other work. It’s just a single example of how he’s wiping away people’s jobs with his feckless mismanagement. But it’s only one example. This kind of damage is happening from sea to shining sea as he primps and prances over his new ballroom and works, tirelessly, to slap his name anywhere and everywhere it doesn’t belong…

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Hey, I hear the GDP is up! Can you believe that? I mean, DO you believe that? It’s okay. Some people never learn. Really, haven’t you noticed how 47 reacts to bad news? He fires the person who reported the bad news, promising to fire the next person if they report bad news, too. Haven’t you noticed how he inflates and exaggerates numbers? If he really brought down prescription prices 800%, 900%, in some case 1,500%, drug manufacturers would be paying US to take their drugs.

No, Donny lies about performance. He just does. If you want to go ahead and invest YOUR money based on nothing but government reports, you have at it. It’s your money and you’re free to burn it however you like. But it only leaves me wondering just how bad the actual GDP numbers must be for Team Evil to be making up these glowing replacements…

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I wrote at the outset that I hope you had a nice Christmas and I meant it. I genuinely hope you did. At least one person seems to have been a bit lonely over Christmas, our inglorious misleader, Donny the Doofus. He spent Christmas rage-tweeting. Apparently, he posted over 200 long and rambling, furious rants. It made him seem lonely, but in his case, I could be wrong. He seems to love raging at his demons so maybe he was having a wonderful Christmas, tossing childish abuse at all of his perceived enemies, like any 8-year-old might.

He declared himself awesome (I mean, obs). He posted hate-filled screeds against anybody he perceives may have tried to hurt him. He declared himself awesome again. He pretended his Epstein problem is a Democrat hoax AND pretended he wants all the files released to embarrass the Democrats. (No word on why the Democrats would perpetuate a hoax intended to smear themselves.) He pretended he has solved all of our problems – he hasn’t – and declared himself awesome one more time.

He attacked Obama, who was, likely, spending Christmas with loved ones. Donny doesn’t know what “loved ones” means. He attacked Biden because he always attacks Biden. It’s the worst case of BBS (Blame Biden Syndrome) I’ve ever seen. He attacked a re-run of Stephen Colbert’s show, fercrissakes. Spewing anger, spewing hatred, spewing vitriol, spewing conspiracy theories, spewing and spewing and spewing. Bah! Humbug!

I’ll tell you this: I’ve never, ever known anybody who better needed to be visited by three ghosts…

Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey…

by MyBaconPress

This is an ‘All Jeffrey, all the time’ post. Things are moving pretty quickly now that the Epstein Files are coming out. Team Evil is desperately trying to look like they’re cooperating with the law while working overtime to NOT cooperate with the law. “Here’s the file, but you can’t read it.” The cat and mouse game has inspired some thoughts and a caution on my part. Remember, this is just an overview. There’s a LOT going on right now…

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It’s the typical standard from Team Clownishly Evil. Unless and until they fix it, some clever person out there discovered that if one copies the all-black pages and pastes them into another text reader, the text that had been redacted is no longer redacted and now reads clearly. Apparently, it doesn’t work on all of the pages but I’ll bet there’s an army of people right now downloading file after file to read the contents.

The down side is that uncovering the text uncovers the names of victims, too, but at this point, many of the victims are already known. The obvious up side is that everyone gets to see what those files say AND what, exactly, the government is redacting. People investigating the issue have already discovered redactions that seem to have been done just to add some black to the page.

Also, in their search function, they blocked the ability to find “Trump,” but not the ability to find “Trump .” See the space after? So far, people have discovered well over 600 references to Trump. He’s all over those files. The incompetence of Team Evil is one of humanity’s greatest allies…

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I advise caution. Do you remember Dan Rather? He was a reporter with CBS back when CBS was an honest and honorable news outlet. That is, before Bari Weiss. He had gotten hold of a story about at-the-time President Bush 43. George, it seems, avoided service in Vietnam by signing up for a National Guard “Champagne Unit.” It was a typical dodge of rich kids back in the day.

But then, 43 couldn’t even be bothered to go to the weekend obligations. Apparently, he never reported for duty. That was the story. There was much back and forth on the subject until, miraculously, a letter appeared that supported the story perfectly. Too perfectly, as it happens.

When asked about it, the secretary said she did type such a letter for her commander. The letter in question summed up the details of 43’s “service” nicely, she said, but that particular letter wasn’t the letter she had typed. The letter was a fake, a plant. Dan Rather, a seasoned newsman, had fallen for it and reported it as authentic.

Not only did it end Rather’s tenure as a newsreader on CBS, it ended the debate. Even though the secretary had said the information in the letter reflected the letter she had typed, meaning it was accurate, because it wasn’t the actual letter, the entire issue went away.

The reason I mention that is this: it is not beyond the realm of comprehension that Team Evil might plant fake stories into the Epstein files. The idea would be to get people going on this or that fake thing then prove it’s fake, trying to undermine the entire issue. Based on their redacting skills, it might not take long to identify fake entries but I recommend moving slowly on “discoveries.” This team of morons is likely to try anything. Fortunately for us, they’re morons…

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I’m going to presume that Team Evil didn’t expect this particular response from Bill Clinton. I think they thought they could just release a bunch of pictures of Bill around Jeffrey and everything would come up roses for Donny. Maybe everyone would forget that Donny’s name has been redacted throughout. Maybe we’d all forget that it was DONNY who was Jeffrey’s best friend for so, so long. Maybe, the left would fear that Bill was going to be caught up in the whole mess and back down on the Epstein things to protect him.

That last part was never going to work. I’ve spoken to many people on the left. All of them say, if Bill is in there, let him suffer the consequences. The left just wants these perverted, insecure men to pay a price for their crimes. We’re not even looking at political parties in the scheme. Decent people consider party affiliation irrelevant.

Still, whatever it was Team Evil expected, they do not seem to have expected Bill to challenge them to bring it all out, every page, every photo. “Let’s stop with the innuendo,” Bill challenged, “Show us the whole thing, unredacted (except to protect the victims). Put it ALL out there, Donny. All of it. Let’s see who’s implicated.” You gotta love Bill’s brass…

TPtheUSA…

by MyBaconPress

Charlie Kirk started a group called Turning Point USA (TPUSA). It, or he, became very popular among a certain conservative crowd. TPtheUSA started an annual convention called ‘AmericaFest.’ This year, for obvious reasons, Charlie isn’t the host. His widow, Erika, has the honors. ALSO, this year, there seems to have been much infighting.

Ben Shapiro, co-founder of the conservative media outlet ‘Daily Wire,’ came out swinging and insulted conservative mouthpieces Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Tucker Carlson. Owens, Kelly, and Carlson then each took turns insulting Shapiro back. Steve Bannon jumped on the “Smack Shapiro Back” train, too.

Bannon’s complaint seemed to revolve around Israel. Israel was another area of contention. Some MAGA wonder if US involvement violates 47’s ‘America First’ policy. So, on the one hand, MAGA stands staunchly against antisemitism and on the other hand, they dismiss Shapiro as a Jew with a narrow focus on Israel. Of course, by now, the idea of MAGA holding two conflicting opinions most of the time is just normal day-to-day stuff.

JD Vance said anybody could be part of MAGA so long as they “love America.” Be advised, though, you have to hate the US Constitution and all of the beliefs and institutions that define America AS America. Every time they claim to love America most, I find myself wondering just what in the hell they’re talking about, the landscape?

It was nice to read about the infighting. It looks like there are cracks forming throughout MAGA as individuals split off into their own special interests and splinter groups. I’m not sure Erika Kirk is the dynamic leader Charlie was. At one point, she was presenting an award to a Utah Valley University student named Caleb Chilcutt and she said, “Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband at UVU, Caleb has persisted with the same grift.”

She quickly shifted to “gift” before settling on “grit,” but her accidental truth was a moment of unintentional humor. It clearly was not a smooth, easy event and the public disputes suggest trouble roiling just beneath the surface in MAGA. Stay tuned…

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Sure, 47 will keep murdering people in speedboats. He thinks he has a cover story. But it’s pretty obvious he wants Venezuela’s oil. I mean, he DID say so. Because of his dementia, he actually said that Venezuela was sitting on our oil. He was less clear about how and why the US put it’s oil under Venezuela. So now he has seized a second tanker.

Here’s a question: How long do you suppose China is going to stay quiet about all of this? The reason I ask is, 80% of Venezuelan oil goes to China. Donny ordering the seizing of tankers seems like it could be a problem. Right now, Donny thinks he’s seizing Venezuela’s oil but it seems he actually seizing China’s oil. I suspect Venezuela is going to show up for Donny’s war with quite a strong ally…

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I find it telling that the (in)Justice Department is dragging it’s feet releasing photos 47 is in because they have to be super-de-duper careful about making sure he’s not in a photo with one of his victims, and, apparently, that’s a very difficult thing for them to do. It suggests there are a LOT of photos depicting Donny with his victims…

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Tax season is fast approaching and I’ve been concerned. I suspect Donny will do everything he can to milk the working class dry. My suspicion is based on the observation that, so far, all he’s done is work to milk the working class dry. So I was surprised when White House spokesliar Kevin Hassett suggested we, the people, are just about to receive the largest refunds in history.

Then I remembered: he’s a spokesliar. Everything this White House says turns out to be the opposite of the truth. If we’re being told we’re just about to receive the biggest refund in history, be afraid. Be very afraid…

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We’re getting to the fun part of the season. You’re going to read more about the NFL, here, in the next few weeks. Like the fact that the Niners clinched a playoff spot this weekend before they even played a game. I think stuff like this is fun. The Seattle Seahawks beat the LA Rams and the Niners clinched a spot. Not only that, there’s a path for the Niners to end up winning their division AND taking the number one overall seed, giving them a first round Bye in the playoffs.

That’s wild, in view of the injuries the team has suffered this season. It’s important to note that the Niners have to win the next three games in order to achieve that goal, and winning all three is NOT going to be an easy task. The last three games are all against teams with winning records. The attempt starts tonight as the Niners take on the 8-6 Indianapolis Colts.

Indy got to where they are behind a Quarterback who got injured and is out for the season. So, the team went out and signed 44-year old veteran Philip Rivers. He’s a good player but he hasn’t been playing for a couple of years. He seems a bit rusty. Besides, in football terms, 44 years makes you Methuselah.

After that, the Niners face the 10-4 Bears, then the 12-3 Seahawks but to embrace an old Football cliche, they have to take them one game at a time. If they lose any one of those games, the attempt fails and they play the Wild Card round. Based on the injuries the team has suffered all season, just making the playoffs is a huge success. Claiming the top seed in the NFC seems almost greedy. I mean, I’m okay with it, but just making the playoffs was a hell of an accomplishment, if you ask me…

Free, Premium Health Coverage

by MyBaconPress

Well, they’re gone. The House, I mean. They went home for Christmas. Isn’t that nice? WHEN they go home, each and every one of them – Republican, Democrat, Independent, et al, – ALL of them enjoy the safety and security that comes with having free, premium health coverage.

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans took health insurance from millions of Americans with their so-called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ It ain’t so “beautiful” to it’s victims, I can tell you that. While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans promised they were going to fix everyone up with a new, better way – but they never offered anything that might serve.

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Democrats tried to force Republican’s hands with a budget battle back in September. Democrats lost that battle by standing down after procuring nothing more than a promise to vote on the subsidies they had eliminated. That is, the Democrats relied on the word of Republicans. How stupid was that?!?

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, the vote came but the subsides did not. The measure by the Republicans, which passed along party lines, does not include the subsidies and is considered a non-starter in the Senate, but while enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans can tell constituents they voted on a package.

While Congress Critters are enjoying their free, premium health coverage, the estimate I’ve seen for the price increase on premiums is around $1,016 – PER MONTH! That’s the ‘Merry Christmas’ Americans get from Republicans in Congress. I don’t know if you’re aware, but all of this is occurring while members of Congress enjoy free, premium health coverage…

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Everyone is still angry at our moronic misleader over his Epstein involvement. The information that was released is a) insufficient, b) incomplete, and c) heavily doctored to implicate Democrats and protect Republicans – one Republican in particular.

The idea appears to have been to try to throw suspicion on Democrats and pretend no conservatives were caught up with Epstein. THAT, the hope seems to have been, will get people to stand down on this, right? Conservative dingbat Laura Loomer wrote, “It’s pretty rich how the Democrats falsely accused President Trump of being a pedophile, only for the Trump DOJ to release Epstein files that show Bill Clinton skinny-dipping with a pedophile in the pedo’s pool. Maybe now the media will stop obsessing over these files.” (Emphasis added by me.)

Then again, maybe not. It remains true that honest brokers don’t give two figs about the political affiliations of the people involved. Also, everyone – and I DO mean everyone – has noticed the release has been carefully manipulated to highlight Bill Clinton’s involvement while redacting Donny’s. Oh, AND there’s no evidence he was “skinny-dipping.” And it was all done so… skillfully. Why, I haven’t seen THAT level of clever since the last time a six-year-old tried to cover up a misdeed.

One year, our kids knocked over our Christmas tree. They knew they had messed up, badly, and they tried to “fix” it. To their credit, they managed to get the thing back upright. Then they put the ornaments back and – voila! – misdeed hidden, right? Well, it might have been – except that when they put the ornaments back on, they grouped them all in one place and no higher than their little hands could reach. It’s fair to say, we noticed. Secretly, we laughed. But their “fix” caused questions.

That’s how I feel watching this group of supposedly adult clowns trying to manage the release of the Epstein files that indicts anyone and everyone except Donny, who was probably not just a participant but part of the trafficking team. Their efforts at manipulating the files is SO poor, so… effing juvenile, well, now there are more questions, not fewer.

Personally, I just want to ask the victims. It has to be said, not every person is perfectly honest in every moment. Even if they mean to be, honest people make honest mistakes. But I’d guess these now women have a pretty solid memory of what happened, when, and with whom. I think we could ask the women, then corroborate their stories with information from the files. I think of that as a witness statement supported by evidence. What a radical idea.

It has the advantage of bypassing the stonewalling of Donny and Team Evil. It has the advantage of getting the information out there, without devolving into a ‘he said, she said.’ It has the advantage of NOT giving more consideration to the dead guy than the living victims. Witness statements supported by evidence is a pretty good standard. Let’s use that…

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Hey, MAGA, this last bit is just for you. I want to make sure we’re all clear about something. Look, nobody is asking you to become liberal. Nobody is asking you to betray core beliefs about fiscal prudence and smaller government. The rest of us are only asking you to stand against corruption. It just so happens that in this case, the corrupt politicians are Republicans but that part is just a coincidence. You don’t have to stop being Republican or conservative just because you stand up to corruption.

In fact, you stand up to corruption to defend yourself. You stand against corruption, no matter which party, because you love America and you want to preserve the Constitution. You stand against corruption to maintain your right to see things the way you see things, not the way you’re told to see things by someone else. Nobody is asking you to stand against Republicans. Nobody is asking you to stand against conservatism. We’re only asking you to stand against corruption.

I’m not even going to summarize the corruption in question. I don’t need to. I know you see it. The rest of us suspect you hate it as much as we do. We believe you know you’ll suffer from it right along with everyone else. (Check your health insurance cost right after you get back from the grocery store.) You defend it because you think this is a Democrat/Republican thing. It isn’t. If you acknowledge Donny hasn’t gotten the job done – for anybody but himself, anyway – you don’t have to switch parties.

It just feels like it needed to be said…

An Awful Lot Of Stupid…

by MyBaconPress

It’s the law, right? The Epstein files must be released by Friday, 12/19. Today, 12/20, some of the files have been released, though heavily redacted. Democrats are pointing out that what was released and how it was released is not in compliance with the law. Cons are insisting this is the most transparent presidency in history, clearly proving they do not know the meaning of the word, ‘transparent.’ Here’s a hint: if Team Evil was being transparent, the world would be able to read the words in the files. Pretty simple, really.

Based on Donny’s behavior around all of this mess, I believe – and I mean I genuinely believe – Donald J. Trump raped or caused to be raped underage, adolescent girls. There is simply NO other explanation for the way he hides and obfuscates the information the FBI collected. I suppose he’s free to sue me for saying so, but the first thing I’ll demand in discovery is the entire Epstein data cache. Unredacted. But, for clarity, it’s just a personal belief. Sure, it’s one I think I share with millions, perhaps billions, of people on planet Earth, but it’s just a personal belief.

I wonder if anybody is surprised he released a pile of useless information that does nothing to move the case forward. Over 550 pages were completely redacted, just a series of black lines. Yeah, that’s helpful. The part the confuses me the most about his reticence to release the files is the why.

Look, if you’re not MAGA, you already know who and how he is. You already really don’t like him and you can’t wait for him to go away. You don’t NEED him to die, but if that’s the only way to get rid of him, you’re hoping and praying, daily, for Divine Intervention. If you ARE MAGA, you don’t care that he rapes kids. Hell, you’d drive your daughter to his house and leave her there – or even hold her down – if your Precious asked you to.

I might expect some pushback on that last sentence but MAGA’S moral malignancy is already clearly apparent for any and all to see. You happily killed family members when he wanted to pretend Covid-19 was a hoax. Why wouldn’t you sacrifice your daughter or grand-daughter to the darkest whims of your Precious? Yet, here he is, cowering in his hidey-hole, afraid someone might notice the reality of him…

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Okay, really? The Trump-Kennedy Center? That’s just disgusting. Maybe ‘putrid’ is a better word. I DID throw up in my mouth a little when I heard. He infested the Kennedy Center when he stole his way into the White House and the board was all hand picked by him. Primary criteria? Soothe and nurture his tiny, fragile ego. It’s the same job description as every person who surrounds him. So, when he said he wanted his name on the Kennedy Center, they put his name on the Kennedy Center. Keep the baby from having a tantrum.

I think he killed the Kennedy Center for the foreseeable future. I mean, the only performers that will show up are MAGA has-beens or never-weres. Who wants to see that? Once he goes away – and at this point, that can’t be soon enough – we’ll have to have the place fumigated. Maybe we should bring in some medicine men to exorcise the demons. Probably, we’ll just have to knock the place down. He just ruins everything…

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Because we’re following Donny, we’re moving from putrid to petty. I’d say he acts like a three year old but that’s an insult to three-year olds. He put bronze plaques under photos of the previous presidents – except Biden, of course, whose “portrait” is a signature done by Autopen, because one can NOT be petty enough. I thought that was bad but then, as usual, he out-pettied even himself. The plaques are supposed to be blurbs about each President. A normal human would have said something nice about the guy and moved on. Not these. Keywords? “Normal human.”

Apparently, these are attacks on the people who have held the job before him. Petty, minuscule-minded attacks that, in summary, leave him described as the best President ever, despite ALL of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But, look, Donny trying to convince somebody – anybody – that he is in any way competent or qualified to do this, or any, job while stroking his own ego just as hard as he can is nothing new. That’s just 47. But, quick question.

How much did all of that cost? Bronze plaques and gaudy golden fixtures are disgusting to look at and not cheap. I keep wondering, how can he have the highest deficit in the history of the nation when he hasn’t been spending on the American people? Where’s the money going? No, I don’t think he has spent a trillion dollars on plaques and gold fixtures. But that just begs the question: where is all of that money going? He’s putting it somewhere, by God…

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47 didn’t even WANT to give that speech. Maybe that was why he seemed so angry. He had other, FAR less useful things to focus his attention on. His whole bit was about how awesome he is and how successful he’s been and how much better than everyone else he is and what a great job he’s done and oh, yeah, how great he is and you can, too, afford your life because he said so and he’s great and you’re not so just Shut The Facts Up! (I confess, I’m not sure that ‘Facts’ is the F word that goes there.) I mean, for such a resounding success, he sure sounded angry.

Susan Wiles made him do it, at least according to him. He didn’t really have anything to say so he just rolled out mostly a greatest hits speech and repeated many of his favorite lies. By the way, I read in ‘The Daily Beast’ where they reported he “fired off mistruth after mistruth.” More euphemism. Why? Why not just call them what they are: lies? What’s so hard about that? Donny lied and lied. It’s easier to read and it’s easier to understand. But I digress.

One of the lies he told was about a “warrior dividend.” He promised some troops were going to receive checks in the amount of $1,776 dollars. He said it was coming from his tariff dividend, which he has promised to various groups at various times but not one of them has seen a dime because, despite his lying claims, the tariffs are a disaster. But worse, that money that he promised HE was going to send from the tariffs was already authorized by Congress from your tax dollars.

It’s a housing allowance for some service members who don’t live in base housing. Congress authorized the money earlier this year. Donny has rebranded the money as some largess that came from him. Ho hum, just another lie from the Father of Lies.

In fact, Paul Simon summed up Trump’s entire speech in a song called ‘the Boxer’ years ago when he wrote: “Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.” Perhaps not Simon’s best poetry, but succinct and dead on years before Donny became the problem he is for the world. THAT is some quality insight, right there…

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Could someone please explain to me how Venezuela “took away” oil from America? What did they do, hide it underground in Venezuela just to pump it back out again later? Is that moron REALLY trying to convince the rubes that war is okay because Venezuela STOLE our oil? I simply can NOT believe that the recipient of the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize is going to lie his way into a foreign war – and for the ridiculously stupid reason of stealing their oil, an outdated energy source we should no longer be using. It’s a stupid act for a stupid reason endorsed by a stupid person. That’s an awful lot of stupid…

TACO Don…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so I have to confess, this is my favorite story of the week. As we all know, Donny’s a bully. He likes to use his money to abuse people around him. He’s especially aggressive about it when someone says something truthful about him he doesn’t like. We all say truthful things about him he wouldn’t like all day every day – and he makes it so easy – but he never hears the peons. He does hear newspapers and broadcasts, though, and he loves to sue them. The more honest their story, the larger the demand.

He did it again with the Pulitzer Prize board. They awarded a couple of their coveted prizes to the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Washington Post’ on their reporting of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Donny is working to convince the rubes that he didn’t collude with Russia and he insists nobody should say otherwise, so he demanded the Pulitzer board rescind their prizes over that coverage.

For their part, the Pulitzer Prize board reviewed the articles and said, “No.” Specifically, they said that “two independent reviews” of the reports awarded in 2018 showed that no aspects of them were refuted by special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian collusion findings, despite Trump’s claims. So of course Donny sued.

Get ready for TACO time, because Trump Always Chickens Out. Like, when a Pulitzer Prize board you’ve sued demands pretty much everything in discovery? Trump claims he was defamed. He claimed emotional distress, reputational harm, and financial damages. So, the board has requested a long list of demands for documents and evidence. They’ve asked for his medical records going back to 2015 so they can examine the exact details of any claim of emotional or physical distress.

Donny’s used to just sobbing in his soup about how poorly he was treated and how it harmed him. The Pulitzer board is demanding evidence. How, exactly, was he injured and what was done about it? If there was no emotional or physical damage, they would like that stated in writing as well. He’s used to people cowering when they see the threat. The Pulitzer Board has, instead, decided to get into the nitty gritty.

Oh, he was financially damaged? Let’s see the evidence. The board has demanded his tax returns going back to 2015. Everything, all returns and supporting schedules. If there’s financial damage, it should show up there, right? Donny tried to overwhelm his opposition. I suspect the opposition has now overwhelmed him. He’ll obfuscate. He’ll lie. He’ll try to delay but eventually, he’ll fold. He’ll tuck his tail. He’ll continue to bitch about it in public (“It’s so unfair!”) but, he’ll drop the suit.

I’ll tell you this: Donny’s no strongman. He’s a wimp who turns tail and runs every time he’s confronted by groups he can’t intimidate with his money…

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That bit you just read? All of that above this? Yeah, go back and read that again, except insert “BBC” where it says “Pulitzer Prize board” because he’s about to go through the same treatment in response to his $10 billion dollar suit against the BBC. The Drumpfster thought he was going to intimidate journalists into backing down because he was able to push around American corporate stooges? There’s a path to victory with TACO Don; ask for evidence. He really hates that…

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I’ll tell you what’s weird: the economy is shedding jobs in December. This is a time when retailers are normally taking on extra help for the holidays. I’m used to unemployment going down in December, then up again in January as the temporary help is let go. It’s no wonder he keeps trying to hide jobs reports…

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I know it’s behind us and we’ve all had some time to process his selfish, hateful, grotesque response to the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife at the hands of their own child. He simply lacks compassion. I mean, completely devoid. I look for words and there’s nothing – nothing – strong enough. Depraved? Boorish? Disgusting? Even ‘Evil’ isn’t enough, but evil he certainly is…

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When one spends so much time writing about politics, it’s advisable to sit and watch any address from the president, or, in this case, Donny. So, you can bet that at 6:00pm Pacific Time, I was somewhere else, making music. I can’t stand that guy. Besides, I’ve seen his act. It’s old. Very old. It’s also very, very boring.

His approval ratings are plummeting. When I look at his approval polls, I’ve only been looking for one thing: is his approval less than 34%? You see, MAGA runs about 30 – 34% consistently. Anything that cuts into that mark indicates loss of support from MAGA. That’s dangerous for him. Recently, I’ve seen topic-specific approvals well into the 20 percentile group. MAGA seems to be catching on and they do NOT like what they see, now that they can see. So Donny had to do something.

He opted for a speech of lies. We all know them, by now. We can repeat them by rote. Oh, he inherited a terrible economy. No, he didn’t. Biden did it? (Did what? Everything bad. It’s all Biden’s fault!) Nope. Even his story about drug traffickers has fallen apart, now that we know his assault on Venezuela is an oil grab and has nothing to do with drugs. Pardoning the guy who brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US was a pretty solid clue for me, as well.

The economy isn’t getting better. The reason it’s in free-fall is Donny, not Biden. Prices are still going up, except gas and the reason gas is down is the primary producers opened their spigots a few months back. It had nothing to do with Donny. Oh, hey, your health care premiums are about to skyrocket, especially in Red States where dependency is the highest.

In fact, Republicans in Congress have put up a Herculean fight to make sure your premiums go up. Actually, I suppose in many cases the cost will drop precipitously, since many won’t be able to afford the new costs and lose their coverage entirely. I mean, sure, they don’t get to see a doctor anymore but their premium did drop to zero. Then, as you lay there dying of some easily preventable illness, Donny will whisper in your ear, “But I lowered your health care costs…”

What we DID get was a long list of promises. Oh, things are just about to happen. Oh, any day now, the plan is going to work. Give it just a little bit more time. Sure, things suck today but in two weeks or a month or two months or first quarter of some time in the future at some potential end point – sooner or later – things are going to blossom and bloom. Promises, promises. Damn, that boy has been promising for a long, long time. He has yet to deliver on… well, anything…

First Thing This Morning…

by MyBaconPress

The first thing I see when I open the newspaper this morning? The lede is about the shooting in Australia at Bondi Beach. A father and son murder team killed 15 people and injured dozens more in an antisemitic attack on people celebrating the first night of Hanukah. I noticed a short-lived effort on the part of gun death advocates celebrating that the shooting didn’t happen in the US and claiming that “it happens everywhere.” For the record, Australia has strict gun laws and mass shootings are rare.

Meanwhile, there was a shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. As of this writing, the shooter is still on the loose. THEN, there’s a story about how Donny’s budget cuts have threatened a crime-riddled town in Louisiana plagued by gun violence.

It’s just a lot of violence to wake up to, so I thought I’d… highlight it and put it at the top? It’s the world we live in. I think it’s getting worse, not better…

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Wow. On the topic of violence, Rob Reiner and wife, Michele, murdered? That was the last thing I expected to see when I got up this morning. Reiner was an outspoken critic of Dim Leader. So far, I know nothing of the details but it says something about the society in which we live today that the question pops into one’s mind, unbidden. Was this a political murder? It’s possible. It’s also possible it was something else so I’ll wait and see. I was just shocked by this…

UPDATE: Reiner’s son, Nick, has been arrested in connection with this event. Tragic. Is it a relief that it wasn’t some political thing? Yeah, but not much…

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Trump with six women whose identity is protected.

Have you seen that photo? It’s a big talking point right now. The right is being told this is a photo of Donny with the Miss USA pageant contestants. Maybe it is. If it’s from the island, a survivor needs to speak up and say so. Either way, though, this photo doesn’t implicate 47 in anything. Redacting the faces is dramatic, but everyone is dressed and nobody appears to touching anything untoward. So what happens if it IS just a photo of him with pageant contestants? Won’t the right use that to undermine all of the other evidence that supports the idea that Donny was in deep with Jeffrey?

That’s the thing that bothers me most about things being tossed out, presented as one thing that turn out to be another. It makes it harder and harder to know what’s true and it’s so unnecessary. Donny is the personification of all seven of the Seven Deadly Sins. Nobody has to make up terrible things he’s done. He’s got plenty of real ones. When someone does make them up, it doesn’t harm him, it protects him.

What we do know about that photo, though, is that it was released by the Epstein estate along with something like 95,000 other photos. It seems weird that Epstein would keep a photo of Donny with some contestants, but lots of things about Epstein seem weird. Donny DID own the pageants. He is said to have violated the women’s privacy during the pageants by “inspecting” facilities while the young women were changing clothes. Maybe that explains Jeffrey’s interest.

Novelty condom bearing Trump's likeness.

This photo, however, is going to be a bit tougher to explain away. This is a condom package from Epstein Island. It bears the Drumpfster’s likeness with a brag that sounds just like the “man” himself. Donny is trying to downplay his involvement with Epstein and prevent any evidence from coming out that might implicate himself. The harder he tries, the more it seems Donny wasn’t just a client at Epstein Island. He seems to have been part of the team.

I don’t have enough information to be sure. Maybe there are condom packages with images of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, and/or Alan Dershowitz. Maybe. Maybe those packages simply weren’t released. But we all know this game. If the Dems release something they think is incriminating, the GOP works to dismiss it and then releases something of their own. I suspect, because we’ve all seen the ‘Donny Condom,’ if a ‘Clinton Condom’ existed, we would have seen that by now, too…

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The Bill of Rights became law on this date in 1791. Those were good things we had, there, rights. It’s too bad a small handful of wealthy miscreants decided we had had them too long. It’s just one of many down sides to living in a fascist authoritarian regime. I thought I should mention it in remembrance of what we’ve lost…

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I want to do a follow-up on yesterday’s NFL football. The Niners won, which they needed to do. There was an outside chance they could have improved their position considerably if certain very unlikely things happened and that was fun, but those unlikely things didn’t happen so they ended up just holding their own – but that’s good enough to make the playoffs at this point.

Next week the Niners are playing the Indianapolis Colts, now led by 44-year-old QB Phillip Rivers He came out of retirement to play after the Colts lost their other Quarterbacks to injury. Physically, he didn’t look like he was in game shape but he played well. They almost beat a very good Seahawks team. That means the Niners have their work cut out for them.

The Chiefs were eliminated from playoff contention yesterday. That hasn’t happened in years. Worse, for them, their star Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, tore his ACL with about two minutes left in the game, while he was trying to drive the team downfield for a chance to even the score. He’ll probably have surgery and miss most of next season. As I watched the Chiefs get closer and closer to elimination, I noticed an upsurge in injuries to the team. I began to wonder if the idea they were at risk of being eliminated somehow increased the chance of injury. It’s just speculation.

The Dallas Cowboys were essentially eliminated, too. There IS a chance – 6%-8% – so I can’t say they’re out, but they’re out. They have to win all of the rest of their games AND they need help from other teams. I’m okay with both the Chiefs and the Cowboys watching the playoffs from home…