Author: MyBaconPress

Presidents Precedence…

by MyBaconPress

It always concerns me when I see something, ANYTHING, from Fox Not-News I agree with. I worry my brain may be rotting. Fortunately, for me, they made this one a no-brainer. There’s a group out there that ranks ex Presidents. They call themselves the Presidential Greatness Project and self-describe as the, “…foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics.” The 154 respondents to the survey included “current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association…as well as scholars who have recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses.”

That all sounds fine, like they might know a thing or two. I was still having trouble with the source, though. Fox Not-News is infamous for bringing on “experts” who know nothing and talk a lot anyway. But this particular team seems to have gotten it right. So, why did I read something from Fox Not-News? Because I wanted to know where they put the MAGA Precious. The source being the source, I suspected they’d have have him number one or two. Of course, Murdock got mad when Donny cost him $750 million dollars so, there was that. And THAT seems to have been the deciding factor in Fox reporting the story.

The Presidential Greatness Project placed Donny at dead last. Frankly, I think they STILL have him ranked a little high. We had one President who refused to wear a coat to his inauguration despite the wet weather and then gave the longest inaugural speech in history – in the rain. He caught pneumonia (just like your mom always said you would) and died about 30 days later. He never did anything as President, STILL higher than Donny. And that’s perfect. Doing nothing was FAR better than all the damage Donny did. Dead last. Perfect.

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I’m not a fan of Presidents Day. I think it’s kind of a slap to George Washington, making him share time with the likes of Reagan, 43, and the Precious. George Washington, I would celebrate. Reagan? The tool of Charles Koch, who introduced and popularized so-called “trickle down economics” and tricked people into believing in “welfare queens?” No. 43? The guy who lied the US into, not one, but TWO wrong-way wars that cost thousands of lives and billions (trillions?) of dollars, all for nothing but oil profits? Absolutely not. The moron MAGA Precious? The guy who lost more American jobs than any other President in history, killed more Americans than any President in history, committed more crimes than any President in history? Oh, HELL no!

I’ve never liked Presidents Day because it’s wrong to “honor” the failures along with the successes, just because of their job title. I’ve tolerated it – because I don’t have a choice. But Donny ruins everything. Now that HE has to be included on the list, I move we go back to Washington’s Birthday and leave the others aside…

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Donny finally got politically pressured into saying something publicly about Navalny’s murder at Putin’s hands. As you can imagine, it was stupid. He never mentioned his overlord and handler, Putin. He mentioned Navalny, then launched into how Navalny’s murder made him “more and more aware of what’s happening in this country.” Not yet, Dumbass. And if we can keep you out of the Oval, never. Pretty simple, really…

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Okay, so Gavin is trying something to put some lipstick on this pig but it’s actually just a waste of taxpayer dollars. He said he was going to provide tiny houses throughout the state for homeless people. Lots of city leaders resisted the idea. They cited zoning laws and “neighborhood resistance.” NOW he’s just sending money for the purpose. $30 million dollars for 1,200 tiny homes. Hyperbole alert: I’m not sure 1,200 tiny homes would solve the problem in my home town, let alone all of California. But he gets to say on the campaign trail that he tried things, and that seems to be the important part.

There is, and continues to be, exactly ONE WAY to reverse homelessness: Stop Wall Street from buying single family homes. Period. Nothing else will work. Everything else is window dressing – and a waste of resources…

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I woke up the other day with a sore throat. It was BAD. It was swollen. I could barely swallow and when I did, I regretted it immediately. Even breathing was a challenge. I’m normally a “Give it some time, it will go away,” kind of guy but I knew this was more than that. I needed help. Unfortunately, I only had Kaiser. But I was desperate, so I called, trying to find out if they have Urgent Care. Good luck just trying to see your doctor. Instead of Urgent Care, I got a phone appointment. Someone would get back to me within, you know, a few hours. Great. That’s exactly what a person in severe pain wants to hear; wait a few hours.

I DID, finally, get a call from a doctor who seemed competent. He knew his medicine, I guess, but he didn’t know anything about Kaiser procedure. He asked me a bunch of questions about my throat. He told me he’d write a prescription for something to reduce the swelling so I could swallow and, although he doubted I had Strep, thought a swab would be a good idea, just to be on the safe side. That all sounded reasonable. THEN, he told me to stick by my phone and someone would call me back with details – how to get the meds and the swab.

In standard Kaiser fashion, no one ever called. I spent yet another night in brutal pain, constantly concerned that I might choke to death on my own fluids. Hey, the threat was real. I had a VERY tough night and choked three times, seriously struggling just to breathe. In the morning, I went back to my patient portal and started looking, again, for Urgent Care or a number to call to find out what the hell happened. Buried deeply in the doctor’s notes, I discovered that the meds had been ordered but I had no idea which pharmacy. So, I decided to call the Pharmacy and see if they could guide me.

Kaiser buries it’s contact information very effectively on their website. I’m not too bad with computers and such but it took me quite awhile to find a number. I did, though. When I called, I was told I had to order the prescription. Sure, the doctor wrote it, but why the hell would Kaiser fill it until I specifically asked them to? So I asked them to. I was cheerfully told I could pick up those meds in about five days. FIVE days?!? I’m choking, here. Oh, well, in that case, I can just order the pills and go into the Pharmacy and they’ll expedite the order. Lovely.

I still had no plan for the swab but wanted the pills so I took off for the local Kaiser office. Now, it so happens that, in this building, the lab is right next to the pharmacy. It made sense to me that I could go put in the order for the pills, then go to the lab for the swab. I ordered the pills, then went to the ‘Walk-in’ line at the lab and stood there. And stood there. And stood there some more. A couple of ladies behind me in line commented on how the line hadn’t moved for some time. I was impressed by the level of understatement.

There was a woman, one, behind a counter, processing patients as quickly as she could. But Kaiser has TWO lines for the lab. One if you have an appointment, one if you’re a vile, ugly, little walk-in – and the appointment line, obviously, gets priority. The check in process seems to involve some really time-consuming stuff, too, so it takes awhile. I did, finally, get a turn.

I told the woman why I had come and she said, “Oh, we don’t do that here. They should have done that at the doctor’s office. You’ll have to go back to the doctor and let them do it.” Is now a good time to remind you that it was a telephone appointment? That would have required an awfully long swab. I didn’t even know where the doctor’s office was. For all I knew, it was in Timbuktu – and I don’t know how to get there.

I went and got the pills. Then? I had to get to work. Yes, really. (This is America. Sick days are for losers. Get to work.) In truth, I didn’t work hard and I didn’t work long. Fortunately, it was a short day. I came home and called Kaiser back. How the hell do I get the swab? I was told I’d get a call back. This time, I did. The young woman on the phone cheerfully told me that I needed to go to – are you ready for this? – Urgent Care for the swab!

So, where, I asked, is this mystical Urgent Care I wanted in the first place but never got? Oh, that’s building so-and-so in suite number whatever. You can go in the morning. Kaiser’s Urgent Care is one of their best kept secrets. I never went. The pills the doctor had prescribed had opened my throat and the symptoms were already subsiding, which would NOT have happened had it been Strep. But what a complete sh*t show.

It reminded me of a story I know about Kaiser. Back when Richard Nixon was President (yet another conservative scumbag we’re now supposed to “honor” on President’s Day) there came a time when he was quite concerned that America might have to do what every OTHER civilized nation on the planet had done and provide national health care to it’s citizenry. (Fortunately for the Capitalists, they avoided that fate.) Nixon preferred the Kaiser model – because, according to him, they had nearly perfected the art of NOT providing health care. They’ve had decades since then to perfect that model.

It’s just another of those moments where I count myself a victim of the ‘Greatest Country on the Planet.’™

Busy Friday, Part 2…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, a couple of quick followups from yesterday. It’s important to remember that this $355 million dollar judgement against Donny only covered a few years of his criminal enterprise. He likes to tell the deceived that he “won the appeal,” but that’s all he says. He DID win the appeal. But the appeal only limited the scope of the trial because the Statute of Limitations had run on the older crimes. That’s what got Ivanka removed. Her participation, if any, ended before the time period in question. It could have been much, much worse if they could have considered his entire life of crime.

Also, Donny announced, yesterday, he’s launched a line of shoes. They sell for as high as $300/pair. That will help him pay his judgements. I’m guessing that – like his hats – they’re NOT made in America and I’m guessing the unpaid penalty will survive longer than the shoes will. He’s STILL managing to find some financial support from some GOP mega-donors, too. I suspect these were legacy babies, born to wealth. Which person in their right mind, who somehow acquired their own money, would give any of it to a known, proven, grafter and thief? And, yes, the word is grafter, a person who engages in financial chicanery or corruption. That’s Donny all over…

The other follow up thing? The Russians won’t turn over Navalny’s body. Nothing says “it was an honest accident” like hiding the evidence, eh? They HAVE, however, “detained” over 400 people mourning the passing of Navalny. And STILL…MAGA loves a dictator. I continue to be stunned by just how stupid stupid can be…

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But, ALSO on Friday, we all found out that James Comer’s hard-hitting (maybe), can’t be beaten (we think), absolutely definite (probably), open and shut case (if Biden was involved), with a “smoking gun,” FBI informant named Alexander Smirnof they couldn’t find for awhile hasn’t just fizzled. Their “smoking gun informant” couldn’t be found because he was on the run from the FBI. That’s because he lied, lied, lied!

All of the parenthetical asides are because Comer went on shows all over the conservative bubble, over and over again to say they were going to get Biden but was just smart enough to never once commit himself to any of his own actions. The ‘probably’ and ‘maybes’ came from Comer. To me, that suggests that Comer knew better than to commit to his story because he knew the story was false. Weasel words. He promoted it anyway. Hell, it was the linchpin of their entire impeachment against Joe. Oh, AND it laid bare (literally) Hunter’s life and smeared the heck out of Hunter’s name. (Hard to do, considering Hunter’s reality.)

MAGA lies are boring and predictable, these days, so I can tell you what Comer’s going to say in response: Biden had the FBI arrest the informant as a political move. It has probably, maybe already started – you know, if Comer knew the whole story was fiction to begin with. These guys always pretend the Democrats corrupt the DOJ like the Republicans corrupt the DOJ and simply CAN NOT wrap their arms around the idea that the Dems don’t. In fairness, though, the Dems don’t NEED to. The Republicans commit really stupid crimes and they’re not very good at covering them up. The DOJ just has to do their job. And the DOJ is VERY good at what they do.

The actual story is that Burisma paid Hunter AND Joe $5 million each to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Smirnof amended his story after “meeting with the Russians” but it only got worse. As is always the case when MAGA is involved, there was never any evidence. Lots of promises of evidence. Never any actual evidence. Effing MAGA falls for this exact same shtick over and over. MAGAGOPCORP has been screaming for three years about having all the evidence in the world of all the cases they try to make. But they never, EVER produce one shred, not one scintilla to prove it. Still, MAGA deceived are forever telling me the evidence is there. Usually with an attitude. Hey, MAGA, school’s out. Grow up.

You know one of the people who helped him? Sean Hannity. Old Sean had Comer on his show to present the fraudulent case over and over and over again. One might have thought that after the $750 million judgement for promoting lies, Fox Not-News would have been more careful about helping spread MORE lies. One might also think that Hunter is probably gearing up the attorneys right now over the defamation. One certainly hopes, anyway.

I’ll tell you this: I suddenly find myself wondering how many three-quarters of a billion dollar defamation lawsuits Fox Not-News can absorb…

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It looks, to me, like the frivolous case trying to protect the Dumbass from his crimes by removing Fani Willis as the prosecutor in Donny’s Georgia trail took a pretty big hit on Friday. The suggestion is that Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade to be a special prosecutor so SHE could benefit, financially, since the two were dating. The two maintain the relationship started and ended after Wade was hired.

One of the key witnesses against Fani, Terrance Bradley, was once Wade’s law partner and, for a time, represented Wade in Wade’s divorce. He suddenly refused to answer questions, claiming attorney-client privilege. We ALSO found out that Bradley left his firm with Wade after an undisclosed “dispute,” protected by the privilege. Oh, we also found that this star witness was once the focus of a sexual assault claim by someone he worked with. He acknowledged the charge but denied it’s veracity.

The thing is, Wade got paid for his work. Wade and Willis got involved. Wade and Willis, as lovers, took a couple of trips together. Wade paid for them on his credit card. The total amount of money the trips cost came to something less than $5,000. THAT’S the big kickback scheme being alleged? Willis set the whole thing up for less than one month’s salary?

Oh, and Wade and Willis have both testified, under oath, that Willis paid Wade back in cash. No, she didn’t ask for receipts. Willis’ father testified he didn’t know Wade and Willis ever even had a relationship. Sounds pretty serious to me, when your family doesn’t even know about it. He also testified that it doesn’t surprise him to find out his daughter had cash on hand in her house. He called it a “black thing.”

There are a few details to be cleared up but it looks to me like the whole thing is a nothing-burger. Mostly, it seems a salacious effort to undermine Willis’ credibility and very little else. I mean, a couple of grown adults got hot for each other and worked each other’s fun bits for a short time. People do that. It happens. That seems more about the fun bits that Donny’s crimes.

I’ll tell you this: the case is still playing out, but it seems that Donny is STILL going to have his date with destiny in Georgia. And Fani, now EXTRA pissed off, is going to be leading the charge…

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Finally, I just want to note that the shooters at the Kansas City celebration were NOT Niner fans who couldn’t handle the loss. They were just a couple of average, run-of-the-mill “responsible gun owners” who decided to open fire on each other in the middle of a huge crowd over some personal disagreement and hit lots of people – just not the person they were shooting at…

Busy Friday, Part 1…

by MyBaconPress

Well, lets’ see. Has anything worth writing about happened in the last couple of days? Some people call the “news” we get in this country on Fridays, “Take out the garbage day.” NORMALLY, it’s just fluff stories and light stuff. Sometimes, though, something important slips in under the radar – and right past the masses, hopefully. This was not that Friday.

Donny lost his fraud trial in New York. No, that one starts in March. This is the civil case brought by Letitia James. The judge, Arthur Engoron handed down his much anticipated ruling. $365 million dollars from Donny, two of his criminal kids, and a couple of their cohorts. The lions share goes to Donny, though, at $355 million dollars. You’d think he’d LOVE that. He got the biggest numbers. The Best numbers. Nobody has EVER had numbers like him.

In addition, he’s barred from doing business in New York for three years and can’t work with any bank, any where, that is registered to do business in the state of New York. Being the financial capitol of the world, that’s pretty much any bank large enough to do crime, er, business on his scale. I was disappointed.

Up until the ruling, it was assumed Art – can I call you Art? – Okay, it was assumed Judge Engoron was going to bar him from doing business in New York for the rest of his life. He even wrote up the order. THAT is what I wanted. Then I remembered. This is just the first conviction in a long line of convictions. This was a civil trial, not a criminal trial. This cost him money, but other trials he’s facing could very well cost him his freedom. That is to say, most rational Americans expect him to be in prison within three years…

He testified in one of his depositions he has about $400 million cash on hand. The way he lies, that might well mean he has $1.28, but let’s use his numbers. He just got hit with $355 million to New York. He’s already been ordered to pay $83 million to E. Jean Carroll for ‘Defamation Loss II,’ the sequel to his famous ‘Defamation, What Not To Do’ trial,’ which cost him an additional $5 million. That comes to $443 million dollars. Wait, no it doesn’t. I mean, it does, but there’s interest. According to Letitia James, that starts at around $99 million, and counting, pumping the beginning balance he owes to $542 million dollars.

I suspect most people think he’s going to tap into “campaign contributions” to pay some or all of the bill. It’s not supposed to be legal. NONE of this has anything to do with his maladministration nor a campaign but, since when does Donny care about legal? I don’t know how long MAGA can keep this up. (Actually, it’s only about $8 bucks to each of the 70 million MAGA who voted for him last election, despite his crimes and failures.) He’s also still got a compelling interest in his website ‘Truthiness Social.’ Hey, that has the word ‘Social’ in it. It must be communism.

Now comes the stalling. I’ll give Donny this: I’ve learned a LOT about the legal system in this country and how the rich manage to manipulate it to their advantage, thanks to him. Donny is OLD. He’s been “working the system,” as the saying goes, for a long, long time. He knows just about every trick. Supposedly, has to post a bond in the amount due for each trial he wants to appeal. In most states, bankruptcy can delay judgement payments but not discharge them. Will someone lend him money? I mean, he’s now been officially adjudicated a liar and a fraudster. Who’s going to part with a half-BILLION dollars to a known scallywag?

I’ll tell you this: Letitia James landed a big, hard blow on that tiny, little snowflake. She certainly staggered him – but she didn’t knock him out…

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I wonder how MAGA feels about their man Vladimir Putin today. Do they still love him for being the “strongman” or have they noticed, yet, that “strongmen” often kill their political opponents, like Vlad just did to Alexei Navalny? Navalny ran a long standing campaign against Putin for years and years. At one point, Navalny escaped Russia and kept taking pot-shots at Putin from a distance. Putin’s people found him and poisoned him, nearly killing him. He survived, though. THEN, the dude went BACK to Russia and filed to run against Putin in an election.

So, Putin did what Trump wants to do. He tossed his political rival – Navalny – in prison on what most of the world saw as trumped up charges. Navalny managed to keep up the attacks so Putin had him moved to a FAR north gulag, where they could kill him slowly and without any prying eyes. And they did. They say he died after a “fall at the Arctic penal colony where he was being held.” A LOT of Putin’s political critics die from sudden, unexpected “falls” these days. I guess gravity is cheaper – and easier to administer – than poison. Currently, the State is refusing to produce the body.

The thing about dictators is that murdering people they don’t like is a common arrow in their quivers. It’s not just Putin. Duterte did it. Erdogan does it. Xi does it. They ALL do it. Hell, Idi Amin used to EAT his opponents. I suspect MAGA thinks dictators are a great idea because they think they’re safe from the dictator’s wrath. I don’t think they understand, well, anything, really, but they seem to miss the idea that ANYBODY can become the enemy of a dictator, at ANY time, for ANY reason. Sometimes, all you need to be is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In the book ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ the protagonist, Guy Montag, lives in a dictatorial society, based on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the time it was written, and realizes at one point that he’s on the wrong side. He runs for his life, at night. He loses the helicopter chasing him but watches on television as the cops in the chopper kill “him.” The public had been tuned in to the chase, see, so they could know that opposition to the State was a bad idea. When Montag lost the helicopter, the State had to produce results anyway, so they gunned down a silhouetted figure, insisting they got their guy. Weirdly, I’ve always felt badly for that character we never even met, except to see him die. He just lived his life, likely followed all the rules, but died anyway in a misguided show of strength on the part of the State.

I’ll tell you this: MAGA should look more closely at the dictator state they think they want. It doesn’t usually go really well for the masses…

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So that’s it. That’s everything that came out this Fri – wait, what? Oh, yeah. It also looks like Willis is winning and the House MAGA are losing, but you’ve got things to do and so do I. Let’s look at those tomorrow…

Ousters…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it looks like the Hamas genocide effort- from the river to the sea – isn’t going all that well for them. Meanwhile, Israel’s genocide effort – every Palestinian is probably Hamas – is moving forward at a steady pace.

Anybody not wearing blinders has seen Israel’s answer to the October 7 attack progress from ‘proper response’ to ‘over-reaction’ to ‘brutal response’ to straight up ‘brutality’ before becoming ‘war crimes’ and very obviously working toward genocide.

Biden is in a tough spot. The US is obligated to support Israel no matter what. We get a lot of intel on the Middle East from Israel. But Israel is wrong in this fight. They’ve surrendered the moral high ground by continuing, and amplifying, their brutal campaign and they’re using American-made weaponry to do it.

Biden wants Netanyahu to stop. Netanyahu isn’t going to stop until every Palestinian is dead – unless someone makes him stop. And who the hell can make him stop?

I’ll tell you this: I don’t WANT to be a part of a genocide. I don’t want my tax dollars used to kill innocent people just so Netanyahu can achieve his personal dreams. I don’t want the US to provide any more weapons until Israel stands down. They can make their own, genocidal weaponry. Oh, crap, you don’t suppose they’ll be building ovens soon, do you?

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Ah, ha, ha, ha! The cons in the House have voted to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas – over the border, no less. All they had to do was disregard their own decision to scuttle the bipartisan border bill because Donny needed something to run on. That’s kind of stupid, in and of itself.

For one thing, cons don’t give two figs about evidence. They could have passed the border bill and STILL pretended that nothing was being done – in the same way they continue to pretend the economy is, secretly, still struggling. For another thing, though, Donny is only going to whine about how everybody is picking on him and what a poor baby snowflake he is anyway. Why the hell does he need an issue?

It turns out, MAGA HAD to move forward with their, um, trumped up impeachment if they wanted to get someone impeached. And they WANTED to get someone impeached. They needed it. They needed it bad… They apparently feel like they need to impeach somebody in order to try to make the case that Dems are as bad as their criminal, rapist, con-man, ex-president. They’re SO desperate to impeach somebody, anybody, they’ll even make things up. So, when their plans for Joe fell apart, they turned to Mayorkas. The thing is, there was a timing issue they were facing.

They were tracking the special election being held in New York. You know the one. One of theirs, George Santos, got so deeply into his criminal activity, they booted him from Congress. Think about that. The cons will put up with TONS of stuff. Almost anything, really. Criminal activity isn’t just part of the conservative mantra, it’s a requirement. How badly did George have to mess up to get cons to kick them out over his criminal behavior? I guess it’s just too bad, for him, that he isn’t Donny. Anyway, dumping Santos meant that a special election had to be held to fill his seat and the Democrat in the race won!

So, late Tuesday night, they had the vote. It passed, 214-213. One vote. On Wednesday, the vote would have failed because the new Democratic Congress critter takes his seat immediately when filling a vacated seat. That’s some pretty weasel stuff, right there. They don’t even have a case (the same vote lost just last week), they don’t have any evidence of a crime because they don’t have a crime. Oh, but they got their impeachment.

Do you suppose MAGA is dumb enough to believe this, even after watching the whole thing play out, in public, on national television, seeing the machinations of the GOP to create out of whole cloth some cockamamie story and then act on it? Yeah, of course they are. Being that stupid should be painful…

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Putin told a Russian state journalist he prefers Biden to Trump because Biden is a better politician. Putin likes Biden better than Trump! I wonder, NOW will the Putin-loving cons help Ukraine? Of course, the cons will say it’s because Putin can push Biden around easier but the whole world watched as Putin got his way with Trump over and over and over again, though it’s true he didn’t “push him around.” He didn’t need to. Trump was totally complicit…

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Well, the Kansas City Chiefs got their big parade to celebrate their big win in the NFL’s Big Game – and shooting ensued. 1 dead, 10 injured. What the hell is wrong with people? Two shooters have been arrested. (Please, gods, don’t let them be Niner fans who couldn’t take the loss. Don’t let them be Niner fans who couldn’t take the loss. Please don’t let them be Niner fans who couldn’t take the loss…)

In other after-the-game action, the Niners have parted ways with Steve Wilkes. I’ve had heartburn with the guy most of the season. I challenged myself to come up with a one-sentence summary of the Stupid Bowel and came up with this: If DeMeco Ryans is still the Defensive Coordinator, the Niners win that game. Yes, simplistic. I had one sentence to work with. But, I suspect, quite correct.

It’s not that Wilkes’ defense was bad, exactly. It’s just that it wasn’t good anymore. The team tried to work with the guy. They brought him down to the sidelines so people around him could help him. They got him an assistant. I’m sure they worked with him in the background as much as possible. The defense remained real average.

When writers wrote about it, they said things like, “Wilkes defense has struggled as he tried to put his own spin on it.” He did, too, try to put his own spin on it. And the defense struggled. I think his job was in serious jeopardy after the playoff games with the nearly non-existent defense in the first half of both games. I suspect he got help at the half in both games. The point at which I suspect he reached serious jeopardy? Wilkes said the problem was “lack of effort” on the player’s part.

But we all know: it’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools. It’s also a great way to lose a locker room overnight. The main thing that changed between 2022 and 2023 is the DC. The rest of the team was pretty much the same. I suspect the organization thought Steve was out when that became so clear. But, obviously, one doesn’t fire their Defensive Coordinator going into the Putrid Brawl. The thing is, do you know who else I suspect noticed that old Steve was likely getting coached at the half? Why, that would be Andy Reid, the very savvy Head Coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. And Andy made a plan.

I suspect Andy decided to play a simple and straight-forward offense in the first half. Steve looked good. Steve can handle simple. THEN Andy brought the “good stuff” in the second half, when it was too late for someone to help poor, lost Steve, who clearly didn’t have a clue. But even if there was some question as to whether Wilkes could be salvaged or not, I feel CERTAIN he lost his job when his head coach had to burn a timeout because the Defensive Coordinator had called SUCH a wrong defense, even the announcers commented on what a poor call that was.

I know. That was a lot on Steve Wilkes. But I think it was cathartic for me so thank you for your patience…

The Games People Play…

by MyBaconPress

Well, that was a very good football game with an ending I’d rather had gone differently. Congratulations to the Chiefs. They’re an amazing football team and beat the Niners pretty much the way I feared they would. I’ve got the Niner loss down to Moody missing that Point After Touchdown and Wilkes’ defense in the second half and overtime.

The missed kick changed the entire strategy of the game. KC only needed a Field Goal to stay in the game instead of a touchdown. Losing Greenlaw was huge – and heartbreaking. The guy tore his Achilles tendon running back onto the field. This meant his backup came in. A coach like Reid is going to target a backup player and Coach Reid certainly did. Wilkes called a pretty good game at the start but there’s something about the guy. He seems to revert to less-than play-calling in some situations.

At one point, Defensive Coordinator Wilkes called SUCH a poor play, Head Coach Shanahan was forced to use a timeout to tell him to call something else. Even the commentators were saying it was a seriously bad play call in the moment. It’s possible Shanahan would have done that again but he only gets three timeouts per half. I’m guessing he was irritated he had to do it once, let alone use all his timeouts trying to help his DC.

Look, I don’t mean to lay this all off on Moody and Wilkes. Mostly, KC is a great football team and all of Niner nation knew this was a possibility going into the game. We also knew the weak points. In what turned out to be something of a metaphor for the game, Moody set a Putrid Bowel record with a long field goal. Yay! Then, he lost the record to KC’s kicker, Butker, in the same game. Rats!

Moody’s challenge is playing in the shadow of Robbie Gould, one of the great kickers to have played the game. He might get more consistent. But Wilkes has a long history of real average coaching. There was no reason to think he was the guy to suddenly step up to that level and it turned out he wasn’t. I suspect the Niners will give a presser and say Wilkes did a fine job and it wasn’t him and yadda, yadda. Then, I suspect, the Niners will seek out a stronger candidate.

On the up side, this was Brock Purdy’s FIRST full season and he took the team to, and had a chance to win, the biggest game of the big games. Because Brock is stuck in a rookie contract, the Niners have a LOT of salary cap space, so they may, well, be able to keep the core of the team together. What THAT means is that it’s more than just blather when the Niners say, “We’ll see you next season!”

Also on the up side? We get to leave all the hype about the big game behind us for awhile. Now all we have to endure is hours and hours of political commercials and that’s…ah, crap! When does football start, again?

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Today is Donny’s deadline to ask the Kangaroo Court to rule on whether or not Joe Biden has perfect immunity. Okay, no, that’s not his question. He wants perfect immunity for himself. The DC Court of Appeals has said, rightly, that no American president has perfect immunity. Donny knew he was going to lose this fight going into it. He didn’t care. The point was about stalling. The court sniffed that out and ruled that a) he doesn’t have perfect immunity, b) he could appeal to the entire panel but the case was going back to Chutkin and would be active again even if he did, and c) they gave him until today to file his appeal with the ideological kangaroos.

The kangaroos, I’m sure, would love to help him. They help him every chance they get. But in this case, how do they give Donny perfect immunity without giving it to Joe, too? The only real risk is that the court takes up the case and then waits until it’s slinking out the back door late at night in June to issue their ruling. That would buy Donny LOTS of time…

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Did you see that weasel crap about Robert Kennedy, Jr during the Scooper Brawl? A Super PAC that supports him used an ad that looked exactly like something John F. Kennedy used in the 1960 campaign, complete with vintage look and soundtrack, and just stuck ‘Robert’ in where it would have said ‘John’ originally. In fact, it WAS something John Kennedy used. I wonder if the PAC can be sued for plagiarism? The thing is, THIS Kennedy is no John Kennedy. He’s a righty, in fact. He’s trading on his father’s and uncle’s name but he’s not in their league by like, light-years.

The dude even pretended to be a Democrat until 2023, when he switched to ‘Independent.’ The subterfuge, pretending to be a Democratic Kennedy, helped to get him elected in the first place. Now he’s running for President. I don’t know. Pretending to be something you absolutely are not in order to trick the electorate into supporting you? That seems…sneaky. Then again, it really is the American way…

Oversights…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so there’s a scathing new report out suggesting that the Biden administration has been downplaying Biden’s retention of classified documents. First we were told it was only a few. Then, there were a few more. Then, a few more. A special counsel was assigned.

In the end, the special counsel determined that Biden had willfully retained some documents but that no charges were warranted. This is likely because Biden cooperated with the whole thing. The special counsel took great pains to rip on Joe Biden for being old. That was not necessary but I was okay with it. It demonstrates the guy didn’t like Biden but STILL couldn’t recommend charges.

Do you think that will shut MAGA up, though? Where have YOU been living, under a rock? Of course it won’t shut MAGA up. They’ll see NO difference, whatsoever, between Biden having documents, turning himself in over them, cooperating with the investigation and giving them all back and Donny’s efforts to keep the documents, first claiming he didn’t have them, then that they were his to keep, then lying about giving them back, then trying to hide them. THEN trying to “negotiate” the documents return, finally losing them in a warrant search of Mar-a-Lardo, only to discover he likely has even MORE in his secret locked room.

Biden shouldn’t have had those documents and he is paying a political price (MAGA whining) for having them. Donny shouldn’t have had the documents HE had, either, but his crimes are about obstruction of justice – which Joe DIDN’T do. Joe cooperated, Donny didn’t. Joe gets a scathing report that attacks his age, Donny got charged. It’s all in keeping with the law and known legal practices but MAGA is going to scream and shout about this for a long time to come. Thanks, Joe.

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Turns out? It’s not likely to matter. Scientists have discovered that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), a vast system of ocean currents that is a key component in global climate regulation is slowing at a far faster rate than previously expected. Great.

So, what IS the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, you say? It’s a conveyor belt in the Atlantic ocean that moves warm and cold water around, regulating much of the Earth’s climate. As global warming advances, the glaciers in Greenland are melting and dumping massive amounts of cold, fresh water into the ocean. This, in turn, slows the Amoc and changes the planetary climate – for the worse, it you’re human (and many of us are).

Scientists told us this was going to happen decades ago. Conservatives shouted that scientists wouldn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground and the scientific consensus was wrong. They knew this because some talking head in the conservative bubble who knows nothing told them so. So, thanks to a political position du jour, humanity didn’t respond fast enough.

Scientists say the change is likely to happen so fast, adaptation will likely not be possible. Oh, they ALSO say it will be “devastating.” But absolutely, let’s keep debating whether there are kids in school who get cat boxes in the bathroom because they think they’re cats. (There aren’t and they don’t. That’s just more MAGA crazy…)

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One of Donny’s missteps. The other day on the campaign trail, he pointed out that Nikki Haley’s husband isn’t out, campaigning with her. ”Where is Nikki’s husband?” he asked, pointing out the absence. Interesting choice. See, Nikki Haley’s husband is a combat veteran and active duty military member deployed overseas. Nikki responded, “Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about.” Then she got to add, “Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief.”

This does two things: One, it highlights Donny’s draft-dodging cowardice and, Two, it begs the question; where is Melania, or anybody else in the Dumbass family for that matter? In 2016, Donny had nearly his whole crowd there. Barron stayed out because he was too young and Tiffany mostly missed it as well, though she did make some appearances.

But he had Ivanka, Dumbass Jr, and Eric with him all the time. Melania made the occasional appearance as well. I presume DJ and Eric are out because they need all of their time to fight the criminal charges they may be facing. Ivanka managed to avoid criminal charges, being the smartest of the crowd, and I suspect she’s staying away to keep from getting close to charges again.

We even know Melania renegotiated her marital agreement with Donny a few months back. The presumption at the time was she was getting more money for Barron before Donny loses it all in court battles but it surely included some provision that she pretend she likes him on the campaign trail a time or two. Still, it seems as though it would be fair for Nikki to ask the same as Donny, “Where’s Melania?” One thing’s certain, she sure as hell isn’t out “serving” anyone, particularly this country…

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We don’t know where Michael Haley is (and we probably shouldn’t) and we don’t know where Melania is (and we REALLY don’t care) but we all know where Taylor is. She made it to LA and is now on her way to Nevada. It looks like she’s going to make it to the game, just in time to tell all the Swifties to vote for Biden…

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Donny’s comments are becoming increasingly unhinged. On Saturday, he claimed that in an unspecified NATO meeting, he told a head of state that if they’re delinquent, the US wouldn’t support or defend them. He added, “In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.” That, in and of itself is hilarious coming from the serial deadbeat Donny is known to be. But it’s also dangerous.

Trump brags he destroyed a woman’s right to choose. MAGA supports him. Trump brags that while daily carnage plays out in the streets, he will make no effort to protect Americans from Americans with any kind of gun regulation. MAGA supports him. Trump sings praises of dictators around the globe and insists he’d be a dictator on day one, pretending it would ONLY be day one. MAGA supports him.

Now he’s suggesting he would stand idly by while Putin attacks NATO allies. He would, too. And MAGA will support him. It’s sure a good thing the conservative corrupted supremely kangaroo court is going to keep him on the ballot and give him another chance to destroy our republic. He couldn’t QUITE pull it off on his first try. By all means, let’s keep giving him opportunities until he finally bumbles his way to success. Effin’ morons…

It Doesn’t Say What It Says…

by MyBaconPress

It came up on the floor of Congress, again, that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a part of the J6 Coup Klutz Clan. She was being all whiny and screechy about crime in Washington DC when one of her colleagues, Robert Garcia, said, referring to MTG and the J6 rioters, “The first thing she does is … greets them and hugs them and prays with them and apologizes and is treating them like heroes…”

Quick question, is that not the very definition of giving aid and comfort? I hate to keep referring to the 14th amendment (I don’t, really) but if you will recall, it says, “…shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof.” (Emphasis added.) Okay, Georgia, it’s up to you. You can ’14th Amendment’ that bit- er, representative and get revenge porn out of Congress. If you want to.

Oh, then again? Maybe not…

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On November 18, 2023, I wrote this: “I don’t like it any more than you do but the 14th isn’t going to keep Donny off the ballot in any state.” It sucks to be right about things like that but the most corrupt high court indicated heavily during the oral arguments on Thursday they don’t think the 14th applies unless Congress says it applies. The Constitution doesn’t SAY that. In fact, to me, it suggests exactly the opposite. The Constitution says Congress can remove “such disability.” It never says Congress has to impose the disability.

The other weasel point they’re relying on is whether or not states can decide for themselves how their elections work. Bear in mind, this is the “states rights” crowd. These are the people who, for example, attacked women throughout this country because women’s control over their own bodies should definitely be up to the states. Also, the fact that states get to make all the other decisions about each of their election processes suddenly doesn’t apply?

Look, it doesn’t have to make sense. It has to be words that sound kinda like they support the position the cons want in the first place. That’s it. I wrote this just last Thursday: “So now the only remaining question…is whether the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court will go ahead and trash whatever remaining credibility they might enjoy in order to play lapdog toady to their precious – or will they do the right thing?”

Full disclosure, I was writing about the immunity case when I wrote that. It looks like it was spot-on for the 14th Amendment case, as well. Everything is, and should be, states rights except when the states do something the cons don’t like. THEN it has to be Federally controlled if it can be. Unless the Federal government wants to do something the cons don’t like. THEN it’s clearly a states rights issue…

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Hey, I hear there’s a football game of some kind this weekend. The Kansas City Chiefs host the Santa Clara Forty-Niners in the Stupid Bowl. (Please note: the NFL, always in need of more cash, wants people to pay them, should they use the real name of the game. So, I use workarounds. They’re not all nice but I like the game. Still, if the NFL prefers I call it the Super Bowel, I’ll call it the Super Bowel…)

Commonly in this game, two very good teams are scheduled to play. One shows up, the other seems to think the game is tomorrow. That is to say, The Pooper Bowl is commonly a one-sided affair. If that happens, I hope it’s the Chiefs who play flat. But if both teams show up? It will be a hell of a game. It’s very difficult to say who will win.

My own back of the napkin “analysis” suggests that if the Niners can get their running game going, they have the best chance of winning. Statistically, the teams are evenly matched. The main difference is the Niners run game – which has been good this whole season – and the Chiefs run defense – which has not.

The Chiefs have the advantage in the air. That’s another reason the Niners should rely on their run game. Mahomes can’t do his magic if he’s sitting on the bench but he’s likely to shred the Niners pass defense while he’s on the field. On third downs, Mahomes gets his legs into the game as well. KC has a very good percentage of third down conversions, keeping the ball in Mahomes’ hands.

So that brings us to coaching. Andy Reid is my pick for the best coach in football, maybe the G.O.A.T. Yeah, that’s arguable. What, in football, isn’t? The thing is, Kyle Shanahan is ALSO a very good coach. He doesn’t have as many years in the game but he’s had pretty consistent success. What he needs is a win in the big game to move up a level in the conversation. My primary concern is the Forty Niners Defensive Coordinator, Steve Wilkes.

I’ve been bothered by him all season. The fans have been told, over and over, that the drop off in defense isn’t the DCs fault. We’ve also watched the team take pains to “fix” his game. He wanted to sit in the booth. They let him, until the three game slide. Then, at the Bye, they brought him down to the field and “worked with him” a little in the background. I get the impression Wilkes has been getting remedial training all season. He still, regularly, allows teams to have their running game, which opens up their passing game and that’s Mahomes wheelhouse.

As the saying goes, that’s why they play the game. Either team really could win this thing so here’s the final analysis. What the Niners need to do to win? Get the most points. What the Chiefs need to do to win? Get the most points. I really feel like the team with the most points at the end will win. Now all they’ve got to do is play it so we can all find out who that’s going to be…

Details, Details…

by MyBaconPress

Well, the Republicans failed – again – in their ongoing quest to find somebody to impeach. The problem seems to be, they have no evidence of a crime from any of their potential “impeachees.” (That’s not really a word…) They see that as a detail to be handled later.

They tried to get Joe Biden for…reasons. Pretty much, they managed to post some revenge porn on the floor of Congress and then…crickets. This after they had repeatedly promised they had the evidence. You know what would have been good? It’s just my opinion, mind you, but I think they should have shown somebody the evidence they claimed to have. I suspect that would have been a huge step on their path to glory. I wonder why they didn’t try THAT tactic?

But they didn’t and the effort fizzled. So they turned their attention to Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security. They at least got THAT effort to a floor vote, but then? Ooh, they lost the floor vote. Even some Republicans said, “What, are you stupid or something?” Yes, by the way. The answer to that is yes. MAGA is working hard to make “stupid” an art form. But it’s a dedicated stupid and dedicated stupid can be a very dangerous thing.

I wonder who their next impeachee is going to be? Hey, I had to sit at a red light a little longer than I wanted to the other day. How about they go after Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation? After all, red lights DO impede my freedom of movement. Buttigieg is trying to take my freedom! I mean, what more evidence do we need?

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So, Donny is running about – no, Donny doesn’t run – okay, Donny is lumbering about snarling that if we don’t suddenly grant full and absolute immunity for all Presidents (but mostly him) every President will, naturally, be indicted when they leave office. Someone pat that bloated monster on the head, would you? He got VERY close to a truth – which is a momentous event for him.

What he meant to say is that every President who commits the kinds of crimes HE committed while in office will be indicted – and that’s true! It’s also good. I’m not only okay with that, I’m a staunch supporter…

Oh, but instead of upholding Donny’s dumb position, the court made a good ruling. I mean, the President doesn’t have perfect immunity. It would be stupid to think otherwise. Even Donny doesn’t believe the President has perfect immunity. What he believes is that he needs more time before the election or he’s very likely going to jail so he needs to stall, stall, stall.

My guess is that his plan was to appeal the oh-so-stupid position to the DC Court of Appeals, where he would get a three judge panel. He did that and it took about a month. THEN, he planned to appeal to the full panel – a move that he wanted to take at least another month. Then, when THEY agreed no President has perfect immunity, he would take it to the Supreme Court, you know…eventually.

But the three judge panel saw the same legal strategy playing out. I’m of the opinion that courts don’t like to be trifled with and they REALLY do not want to the be the instrument of someone’s obstruction of justice – pretty much the exact definition of Donny’s plan. So the three court panel, in addition to slapping him down on his ridiculous claim, ALSO ruled that even if he asked the full court to review the case, it would still go back to Chutkin and be active again, essentially cutting out the second step of the stall plan. More, they told him he had until February 12th to file an appeal with the Kangaroos, if that is what he is going to do.

It’s no minor detail that there’s no known basis for Donny’s argument. He just wants it. Roberts Kangaroos should refuse to review the case. The three judge panel got it right. There’s nothing left to consider. They may not refuse it, though. They’re loyalists. Although they can’t rule a president enjoys perfect immunity, they CAN take a bunch of time before saying no, helping Donny that way.

So now the only remaining question in this matter is whether the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court will go ahead and trash whatever remaining credibility they might enjoy in order to play lapdog toady to their precious – or will they do the right thing? I’ll tell you this: it’s a national embarrassment that nobody can say, one way or the other, for sure…

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Today, though, the Most High and Corrupt Court will be hearing the question of whether a known traitor should be handed the levers of power once again. It’s mind-boggling that such a question is being treated as a real question. The whole thing hinges on whether the President of the United States is an Officer of the United States. If yes, section 3 of the 14th amendment applies. If no, coups by a president are a-okay.

I’ve made the point that references to the president as an Officer were in the original Constitution (Section II, Article 1) but were (probably inadvertently) amended out by a less detailed writer. But the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868. The Amendment that changed the language, the 25th Amendment, was passed in 1913, meaning that when the 14th was passed, the Constitution clearly considered the President of the United States an Officer of the United States.

It seems a hair-splitting detail, but I also see a difference in an office and an Office, the difference being the capital ‘O.’ An office is a room one works in. An Office is a job one does, a rank one holds. Commonly, an Officer works in an office. As written, the Presidential oath says that the president will “…faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States…” See the capital ‘O’ in “Office?” In my mind, that capital ‘O’ indicates the founders understanding that the president is, indeed, an Officer of the country. They weren’t talking about the room he worked in. They were talking about the role he was taking on.

I’ll tell you this: My mind is STILL having difficulty accepting that so many “Americans” would WANT him in the Oval again, after what he did. I still don’t know how stupid this country actually is, but I have a healthy concern that we might all be about to find out…

Suckered by Psyops…

by MyBaconPress

I guess Taylor Swift’s value as a Psyop asset just got a little higher, having set a record by winning her fourth ‘Best Album’ Grammy. ”Psyop” means psychological operation. It’s a method to attempt to control what people think about things, and the MAGA rank and file are certain Taylor Swift is being used as a pawn in a Psyop to tell young, largely female voters to vote for Biden. (No word on why the cons don’t deploy their own superstar musician to counter the claims. Oh, right. Well, okay, how about Kid Rock or Ted Nugent?)

I’ll tell you this: getting nearly one third of this once-great nation to actually believe young women need Taylor Swift to tell them NOT to vote for the sexual-assaulting, misogynist, criminal and traitorous liar that IS Donald Trump – and the MAGA rank and file DO believe it – seems like a FAR better example of a perfectly executed Psyop. Yet another example of every conservative accusation being a confession. In fact, I have come to see the entire conservative media bubble as a 40+ year Psyop to distort the thinking of Americans. And, really, for Donny’s beloved “poorly educated,” the effort has paid off in spades.

The MAGA rank and file believe the economic chaos caused by Donny’s woeful mishandling of Covid-19 (“What happened to Covids 1 – 18?”) is Biden’s fault. In fact, they actually believe that the crashing economies of EVERY Republican administration always point back to the Democrats and the economic recoveries always engineered by Democrats are secretly the work of Republicans. How’s THAT for a successful, ongoing Psyop?

That one runs in order to paper over the fact that Republican economic policies (trickle down) simply don’t work well for the masses. They’re great for a small handful of already rich people but suck for everyone else – especially the MAGA who support them. Psyop.

Over the same 40+ years, MAGA has been moved from full-throated support of Democracy to loudly preferring a dictator. Ooh, they want to get themselves some Putin, don’t they? And all this voting nonsense makes it very difficult to get conservative things done. Of course, that’s because conservative ideas are terrible and very unpopular but MAGA has been convinced that, secretly, it’s the voting that must be the problem. Psyop.

MAGA has been convinced by MAGAGOPCORP that deregulation is better than regulations. Even as airplane parts are falling from the sky, housing costs are skyrocketing, trains and refineries are poisoning entire towns, power companies are burning other towns to the ground, Reagan’s economic chicanery in the 1980’s, 43’s economic crash in 2008, and 45’s follow-up economic crash in 2019, people being imprisoned largely to fulfill some prison contract someplace because of “privatization,” MAGA is out screaming for deregulation. Sooner or later, they truly believe, deregulation will make everything better. Psyop.

The United States is producing more oil and gas than it ever has in the entire history of the country. MAGA believes Biden has somehow harmed the industry. Psyop.

Conservatives disavow experts. Not always. When they get sick, they go to “the expert,” a doctor. But if an expert says something that conflicts with a preferred political opinion? Oh, experts don’t know anything. Sure, the talking head on the noise box is the guy who understands the details. The PhDs who spent their lives researching, learning, developing, understanding, and considering every detail of a given topic? Why would anyone listen to a clown like that? Psyop.

MAGA believes national health care would HARM their ability to get care. ’Obamacare’ was passed by Democrats in Congress but conceived by conservatives in the Heritage Foundation. The result? We all have health insurance. The health insurance corporations are doing great. But can we all get health CARE? Sure, if you’ve got the money. Oh, but national health care would, obviously, be communism. Psyop.

This list could go on and on but I’m getting tired of typing and you’re likely getting tired of reading. You have things to do. (Besides, it’s a bit depressing, listing all the damage conservatives have done to this country over the last 40 years.) Let’s just sum it up this way: conservatives are always wrong. Always.

They always reject the exact thing that will best serve the masses and, instead, support positions intended to benefit small numbers of already rich people. Always. That’s not because these people are so deeply stupid they can never figure out right from wrong. It’s because they’re led to the wrong “solutions” by people with motivated interests in doing so by a dishonest and manipulative corporate media bubble. In other words, a Psyop…

Weird Developments…

by MyBaconPress

I’m not sure why Katie Porter is staying in the Senate race in California any more. The DNC has declared that the nominee WILL be Adam Schiff. (Apparently, Adam’s check cleared first.) I don’t really have anything against Schiff. I just prefer Porter. But what the voters may or may not want is never too bothersome to either of the parties. Schiff is the guy.

As nearly as I can tell, that decision was made when Katie pointed out that Adam takes PAC money. (She doesn’t.) The DNC thought that was a very unfair characterization. It’s accurate. It’s just very unfair of her to mention it and the moment Katie highlighted the PAC money, the Dems made their choice (notably, to protect PAC money) and brought out their support arsenal. For example, Barbara Boxer had said she was going to stay out of it and let the voters decide. Then Katie mentioned the PAC money and Boxer publicly endorsed Schiff.

The rhetoric of America is that we’re a democracy and we get to vote for the candidate of our choice. The reality of America is that we get to choose between the candidates the parties choose. That’s different, and it sucks…

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Here’s a weird thing. A couple of years ago, the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court ruled to overturn using race as a consideration in admissions to the University of North Carolina and the infamous diploma mill, Harvard.

But on Friday, Feb 2, that same court ruled that West Point can STILL use race as a factor when choosing it’s students. The court spewed some blather, of course. They said the case before them was underdeveloped so they were going to leave the question alone, leaving race in admissions in place.

But if some colleges can not use race as a deciding factor, why can the military colleges? ARE they ensuring diversity that matches the rank and file and/or the country? Or are they ensuring that mostly white men stay in charge of the military, with what seems like the blessing of the most corrupt high court? Like I said, weird.

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Congress – well, the Senate, really – in a rare moment of consensus, negotiated a bipartisan border bill. After years of screaming about the border from MAGAGOPCORP, Dems and cons, alike, were finally getting to the point of doing something about it.

The cons, of course, are ecstatic. They’ve wanted this for a long time and now? After all these years and all those tears and spreading all those fears? FINALLY! A bill is coming together. So the celebration started and they… wait, what? What do you mean, “No?” ”But after all that?” ”But we’re trying to…”

Okay, never mind. It turns out, MAGA doesn’t really care about the border. They care about having the border issue. Donny can’t run on the economy. The economy is ticking along just fine, thank you very much. He can keep screaming “Drill, baby drill!” but the US is currently putting out record amounts of oil and gas. (Cons think prices are high because of low inventory. It’s actually pure greed, but cons don’t want to understand things. They just want to bitch about things.)

So, when a border deal was nearly reached, Donny crapped his panties. What does he run on then? How well he’s stalling in all of his criminal trials? Actually, he might. One would think he would like to keep a lid on all of that but he talks of very little else, as far as I can see. So, he ordered his toadies on Congress to scuttle the deal and it looks like that’s their plan. Even if a more rational Senate does go through with it, the House will kill it in the name of MAGA.

Conservative opposition to the border bill will certainly please their lord and master, Donny. It seems, though, as if it might throw a wrench into their show plans to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his “failures” at the border.

I call it a show because the cons don’t really have a case. They just want to demonstrate that they can CREATE a false impeachment, just like they nullified the genuine and necessary impeachment of their beloved Donny. They’ll introduce the articles. If it gets that far, this whole thing will die in the Senate.
“Secretary Mayorkas, why didn’t you secure the border?”
“Um, because the loudmouth cons killed the bipartisan Senate border bill.”
“Yeah, not guilty. Get back to work.”

I know that humanity is very good at holding two conflicting ideas at the same time but “fix the border but for the gods sake don’t fix the border?” What a mind fu–er, how confusing! They’ve kind of taken away their candidate’s best campaign issue. Not among MAGA, of course, but for all their blather, they’re going to need far more than MAGA in the general and everyone BUT MAGA knows the border deal was killed BY MAGA…