Author: MyBaconPress

Four Things That Are Not Good…

by MyBaconPress

What a weird election we have coming up. The majority on the left are afraid their decent candidate might die before inauguration day and that the indecent opposition candidate might not. Meanwhile, said indecent candidate, the beloved of the anti-American right, is headed directly to either to the White House or to prison – and nobody knows which he’ll get to first! If he ends up in the White House, prison is off the table (except, maybe, in Georgia). But if he ends up in prison, MAGA will vote for him, anyway, and he could, theoretically, move from cell block ‘D’ to the Oval Office.

I’ll tell you this: It is NOT what you might call an inspiring race…

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Here’s a little piece that probably went unnoticed. I’m not even sure how it got published, since it throws wealth into the spotlight of evil once again. There are people out there (anti-poverty organization Oxfam International, to be exact) suggesting that the world will have it’s first trillionaire within ten years. Apparently, this trillionaire will likely be one of the five guys vying for “richest guy in the world” on an on-going basis.

Income inequality, it seems, has been put on steroids since the pandemic. The already gaping chasm between wealth and poverty started widening at an alarming rate. ”Oh, isn’t that great?” coo the supply-siders. ”That was our goal!” Yeah, it was. Oh, Oxfam ALSO noted that five BILLION people have been made poorer in the process, so far.

I’ll tell you this: I’m going to go out on a limb, here, and state flatly and for the record that a policy – any policy – that benefits five people while harming five billion people is probably a bad policy…

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MAN, these things irritate me. Word going around on the left is, ‘Donny isn’t going to be on the Primary ballot in Nevada.’ The reason? The GOP didn’t file the application! Wow, what a bunch of rubes, right? Well, no. As it happens, Donny isn’t the only con who isn’t on the ballot. In fact, only Nikki Haley IS on the primary ballot. What the Left left out, was that the GOP doesn’t like the primary system Nevada changed to. They used to use a caucus. Dems changed the rule after much “chaos” in the process in 2020. Cons are convinced (and of course they are) that the new system is some kind of trick, so they’re not participating in the Primary and, instead, holding their caucus anyway.

So the statement is technically true, Donny won’t be on the primary ballot. But the overall presentation is misleading to the point of becoming untrue. I expect that kind of misrepresentation from cons – it’s what they do. I do NOT want to see it on the left. We have all the facts, all the evidence, all the ‘correct’ on our side. We don’t HAVE to make up stories about them. I get really irritated by click-bait…

(This bit came from a podcast called ‘The David Pakman Show.’ Anybody can make a mistake but it was VERY easy for me to discover the details so I have to assume Mr. Pakman didn’t even bother to check. That makes him a rather untrustworthy source. Rely upon Mr. Pakman at your own peril…)

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Well, it looks like I may have spoken too soon. Ole’ cheatin’ Bill Belichick has interviewed with the Atlanta Falcons about their head coaching job. I guess he started believing his own press. Ooh, what a genius. His cheating scheme has been fully exposed. He won’t be able to do it in Atlanta any more than he’s been able to do it in New England since 2007 and, as we’ve all seen, if he’s not cheating, he’s not winning. Maybe Atlanta is angling for a first round pick…

Chilling Effects…

by MyBaconPress

Climate change? Really?
Truth be told, I didn’t realize the cons were still out there pretending climate change isn’t happening. They fought the fight. Hell, they won, in the sense that they prevented any meaningful action for long enough to ensure we hit runaway heating. (Congratulations for bringing about our extinction?) We’re well on our way, now. But I guess it’s still a thing for people who refuse to think.

Lauren Boebert, in an effort to remain somehow relevant, posted a comment on brand X. She wrote: “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming.”

“They just don’t see it, do they?” she added.

It reminds me of when Jim Inhoff brought a snowball into Congress to “prove” global warming wasn’t happening. I might accept that they were, and are, posturing. I’d prefer to believe they know the difference between weather and climate. But I’ve got Maya Angelou ringing in my ears. ’When someone tells you who they are, believe them.’ These guys keep insisting they’re morons who don’t understand even the most basic of facts, evidence, and/or science – and I believe them…

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Attack!
So, Donny is already out there, promising more violence if he doesn’t win. (This, at a time when he is simultaneously claiming he wasn’t responsible for J6. He didn’t bring THAT violence but he absolutely WILL bring this violence…) THIS time, there can be no question. THIS time, there can be no doubt. THIS guy WILL bring as much violence and “bedlam” as he can manage if he doesn’t get his whiny way. I guess the message is, ‘Vote for me so I don’t have to mess you up.’ The fact that he threatens to mess us up if he doesn’t win should, itself, be a disqualifier.

He has already destroyed our unbroken string of peaceful transfers of power for over 200 years. Now he’s threatening to start a new American tradition, whoever is the most violent gets the office? Look, Donny is clearly a damaged and disturbed individual. The thing that continues to blow my mind (and disappoint so very deeply) is the number of Americans who think his plan is awesome. ”Yeah! We can’t win on the issues so let’s win with violence!” They love him and, as we all know, love is blind.

The United States faced this once before, with the American Civil War. The south, to this day, largely continues to deny the war was about slavery or even that they lost. 159 years of self delusion and denial. Now, it seems, the weakest thinkers in this once-great nation are starting down yet another primrose path of preferred perceptions. ”Even when Donny loses, he should win!” No, he shouldn’t. And if it takes another Civil War to smack that evil down, so be it…

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A little football stuff…
It’s going to be cold in Buffalo, NY. The game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Buffalo Bills was postponed by one day due to a blizzard. That says something about those folks who live there. One day? They can have the blizzard, clear the roads, and fill the stadium with just one extra day? And the people who want to attend the game…will! It’s going to be cold in Buffalo. Props to the people of Buffalo. They must be pretty tough to endure a football game for hours in temperatures starting around zero at game time. I’ll watch from the comfort of my living room – near the heater…

Jared Goff is the Quarterback of the Detroit Lions and he and they just won their first playoff game in something like 32 years and only the second in team history. There’s a reason. For years, the guy who owned the Lions used the team as a tax write-off and had no interest in building a winner. He’s gone now. It seems the team wants a winning season, after all. Goff was drafted into the league by the LA Rams, the team he beat yesterday. He took that team to the playoffs and all the way to the Super Bowl. Jared Goff has the distinction of being the first Quarterback to lose a Super Bowl to Bill Belichick’s cheat scheme…

Speaking of which, I’m glad Belichick is out of the league now. I don’t have to listen to how great he was anymore. The guy cheated, pure and simple. The league pretends otherwise – aggressively – because the owner of the Patriots is one of the most powerful owners in the game. In short, the guy cheated while the league turned a blind eye for as long as they could. Once they HAD to make him stop, he coasted on his reputation, attracting better players than he likely would have otherwise. Eventually, though, the “super-winner” reputation began to fade and he had to actually coach. The team has been on a steady decline ever since, getting worse and worse every year. Belichick was never a great coach. He was a great cheater…

I’m sorry to report it looks like Peacock’s stream of the Chiefs/Dolphins game set a streaming record. 23 million viewers. You just KNOW the NFL isn’t going to stop now. They tested the waters and found that people will pay extra for something they once got for free. There will be no fewer commercials, either. That’s another revenue stream the NFL simply will not surrender. Look for the NFL to start locking more and more games behind pay walls – because people wouldn’t skip even ONE game to protect their own interests…

Sports writers have to write something, right? They like these “What the teams have to do to win” columns and jot down a few things football teams try to do. Protect the ball. Get the ball into the hands of their play-makers. Keep the ball out of the hands of their opposition. Use the run to set up the pass or, alternately, use the pass to set up the run. It depends on the writer. I think I’m a bit too minimalist to do that job. The Niners will be hosting the Green Bay Packers this coming Saturday. Here’s my piece on the game.
What the Niners have to do to win: get the most points.
What the Packers have to do to win: get the most points.
It’s pretty simple, really…

More MAGA Mania…

by MyBaconPress

I’m hearing a lot of talk about how Donny is going to dominate the Republican primary process. It seems true, to me. Then again, it’s true because the Republican party has been, essentially, taken over by MAGA. Sane Republicans left the party. Not all of them, but lots of them. When the party started bending the knee to Stinky Don, many people saw the extremism and didn’t want to be associated with it. Of course, they didn’t become Democrats. They’re still conservatives. They’re just not “burn the country down” conservatives, like MAGA.

But the Republican party tends to let ONLY registered Republicans vote in their primaries, and THAT’S the problem with conservatives leaving the Republican party. Of COURSE Stinky Don is best-positioned to win the nomination. He’s not being supported by the majority of conservatives, only the MAGA wing, the only segment that can cast votes in the primaries.

To me, that’s the real question. Will the conservatives who left the party and, therefore, were not allowed to voice their preference for someone other than trump, come out and vote for him, anyway? If you’re not MAGA, even if you ARE conservative, you can see that Donny is a criminal, a traitor, and an incompetent. I know the cons like to say it about Biden, but Donny seems to losing command of his faculties. MAGA can’t (won’t) see that, either. Will not-so-MAGA conservatives vote to return him to the White House even after knowing his intention to not leave again, ever? I’m not so sure. I hope not.

But I’ll tell you this: having to rely on conservatives for sanity is an increasingly lengthening long-shot…

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This is really key: MAGA will not compromise. Pretty much everything they want to do, they want in a “my way or no way” approach. Case in point? MAGA Mike, the Speaker of the House that managed to sneak into the job after the ousting of Mike McCarthy for making a deal with the Democrats, is on the verge of making a deal with the Democrats – and MTG is publicly calling for his removal from the Speakership. Why? Well, the deal isn’t her perfect dream. (It, simply, does not harm enough people…)

The thing is, politics is the art of compromise. Sure, it’s frustrating. There’s always something I’d like to see that gets left on the table at the end of the bargaining. But that’s usually true for both sides. That’s a compromise. MAGA sees compromise as weakness. They’ve decided to take a stand.

MAGA ALWAYS decides to “take a stand” when Democrats are in power. When Stinky Don was infesting the Oval, conservatives increased the national debt by $8 TRILLION dollars. They didn’t even bat an eye. You can look this up. The Republican party raises the national debt the most, not the Dems. Going back to Reagan, it goes up record amounts under Republicans, almost always.

In fairness, there was Obama. Bush 43 had left him quite the economic mess, what with two wrong wars caused by conservative panic and a crashed economy caused by conservative deregulation. Bush 43 had raised the debt a LOT but he did it “off books,” trying to hide the increases. One of the first actions of the incoming Obama administration was to count all the money 43 had tried to hide and it sent the debt soaring. Then Obama had to stimulate the economy Bush 43 had crashed and that cost a lot, too.

But that’s the thing, isn’t it? When Democrats raise the national debt, it tends to be because they’re trying to recover from the economic damage caused by Republicans. When Republicans raise the national debt, it’s almost always because of their precious tax cuts for the wealthy.

In THIS case, though, the cons just don’t want to fund the government because there’s not enough stuff in there to attack people coming in at the southern border. MAGA is perfectly happy to let Americans suffer (not themselves, of course) in an effort to make sure desperate people running for their lives suffer even more. And if “MAGA Mike” makes any kind of deal, any kind of compromise, with Democrats? He’ll go from being “MAGA Mike” to being a RINO in a heartbeat – and he’ll be out as Speaker. Lovely…

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MAGA reminds me of a LOT of things but I realized the other day, it’s NEVER anything good. Ever. Sometimes, they remind me of carnival hucksters. Sometimes, they remind me of Nazis. Sometimes, they remind me of whining little babies. Sometimes they grow up, but never more than, say, second grade. These people are paranoid, delusional, and LOUD. They remind me of the homeless guy walking down the street SHOUTING at his demons.

I’m often stunned at how deeply MAGA has penetrated our society. We wouldn’t (I hope) knowingly allow that homeless guy into the halls of Congress but he managed to get there anyway, in the form of MAGA. And there are several million people out there who want to be just like him. I really don’t get it…

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As every rational person knows, abortion and the overturning of Roe has been a deal-killer for voters from sea to shining sea. Republicans have been trying to run campaigns without talking about it. ”Hey, let’s all pretend we didn’t do that, okay?” Um, no. Thinking Americans KNOW you did it. Trying to downplay it, isn’t going to work.

Especially with Stinky Don out there taking bows for it. “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it. And I’m proud to have done it.” Well, yes and no. Roe was one of those wedge issues politicians like to keep around but never solve. They’re great campaign tools but once they’re addressed and solved, what do they run on after? So they don’t. They just leave the issue out there. That’s why we have so many problems with obvious solutions that just never get resolved – candidates want to run on those “issues” again.. (I wrote a song about it. You can hear it, here…)

So, Republicans campaigned against Roe but never took the steps to actually remove it and Democrats campaigned in support of Roe but never took the steps to actually protect it. Until Donny. He just doesn’t understand subtlety. In his “culture war” he actually packed the High Court with enough ideologues to get the job done. They overturned Roe, and the cons have suffered ever since. People, even many conservative people, liked having the choice or, at the very least, understood the importance of access to medical care for such things. If you’ve been around the sun enough times, you remember, before Roe, the regular, heartbreaking news stories of so-called “back-alley” abortions – and the often horrifying consequences that came with them.

I think, Republicans haven’t won an election since (except where gerrymandering protects them, of course). So, the Republicans are all trying to ignore the abortion issue, acting like they don’t know HOW that happened, the overturning of Roe. Then comes Donny, ever the dumbass. ”I did it. I did it. Women across the country are going to suffer because of me for years to come. That was all me. I’m so proud of myself. Suffer, bitches…”

Yeah, Don, we know you did. We’ve been voting accordingly and I suspect we’re going to KEEP voting accordingly. So you just keep wagging your tongue on the subject. Do everything you can to remind people, it was Republicans who took rights from the American people, not the Democrats. Make sure they know you’d do it again and that you intend to strip MORE rights from Americans. Just keep talking…

MAGA Kneels…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, I kind of love this. Donny sued the NY Times over a story they did that he didn’t like. He thought he’d hit them hard in order to show what a brilliant tough guy he is. The Times published a story about the trumpster “wealth” and tax practices. Donny didn’t like it. So, he sued the NY Times, the reporters who wrote the story, and the story’s source, estranged niece Mary Trump for $100 million dollars. (Hey, a guy has to get money somehow…and he certainly isn’t going to earn it honestly…)

First the reporters, then the paper itself, were dismissed from the case. Of course, it was a complex case and, again, he was asking for $100 million. The problem? The story was essentially correct and laws protecting the free press kicked in. Now DONNY has to pay the NY Times and the reporters $400,000 in restitution over his frivolous lawsuit! (They’re still pursuing Mary – for now…) File a frivolous lawsuit in an attempt to get $100 million dollars and end up having to PAY $400,000? Priceless!

At this point, MAGA is going to have to start selling their cars to pay Donny’s penalties. He seems to be racking up punishments faster than MAGA can refill his coffers. If they don’t get busy, he might have to pay out some of his own money. (Heaven forfend!) Then, MAGA can sit around complaining that they don’t have any money and blaming Joe Biden for it. That’s not right, MAGA. You voluntarily gave your money to a con man and you keep doing it. You know what they say, ‘A fool and his money are soon parted.’ Excellent demonstration of the concept, I’ll give you that.

So, that’s $400,000 to the NY Times, $370 million to the state of New York, and maybe $150 million more to E. Jean Carroll. Remember, that’s just January. MAGA keeps whining about what the national debt will do to our kids. I think they’d better start paying attention to what their god-on-earth is doing to THEM…

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They won’t, though, pay attention to what he’s doing to them, I mean. The Iowa Caucus is coming up. Stinky Donny has a huge lead, despite the fact that he hasn’t campaigned as much as the others because he’s been choosing to go to court, trying to defend his indefensible criminal activities.

MAGA knows they’re voting for a criminal. They just don’t care. MAGA is in full-on delusional mode these days and the more evidence that comes out showing what a useless puke Donny is, the harder they fight to defend him. That’s some serious “irrational,” right there…

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In the hearing in the ‘House Committee to Harass Hunter Biden,’ Democrat Jared Moskowitz said, “You come up here and talk about Hunter Biden’s behavior, and you’re so disgusted, but the guy that you all kneel to associates himself with a pedophile.” (He’s talking about trump’s loyalty and devotion to Jeffery Epstein.) MAGA pretended to get angry at the suggestion that they “kneel” to trump. Snowflake Clay Higgins interrupted, “I kneel to Christ!” Uh-huh. Somehow, I doubt that. What I do NOT doubt, is that if Donny told you to kneel before him, you would.

And you might as well. You ALL kneel before him, metaphorically, all day, every day. Why pretend to be offended by something we all watch you do on a daily basis?

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I got scolded in social media for the way I think of MAGA. The person wrote, “…thank you for characterizing me and all MAGA the way you’ve been taught.” It’s true. I HAVE been taught how to think about MAGA – by MAGA!

MAGA pays Donny’s bills – because, they insist, the courts, and not the criminal, are corrupt. MAGA stays loyal to Donny despite his absolute, complete, and easily proven failures as President and the piles of evidence and charges against the guy. They insist upon their delusions and pretend to get furious with those who refuse to delude themselves along with them. I see them as abused wives explaining why they shouldn’t have “made him to do that.” NOBODY questions the idea that MAGA, any MAGA, any time, would kneel before Donny upon command, but to be outside MAGA and say so out loud? Oh, the huMANity!

Dear MAGA: if you don’t want to be lumped in with MAGA, don’t be such an effing MAGA. It’s pretty simple, really…

Take A Stand…

by MyBaconPress

I read an article on Tuesday from ‘The Hill’ quoting Stinky Donny saying the economy is going to crash and he hopes it crashes in the next year because he doesn’t want to be Herbert Hoover. Too late, Donny. You’re already worse than Herbert Hoover. In fact, in every measurable way, you’re the worst President the United States ever suffered. Don’t you remember your woeful mishandling of the Covid crisis? Most Americans do. Most of the world does. Had YOU done better, the economy would have done better. Sadly, we had an incompetent at the wheel in that moment and you drove us into a ditch. Dumbass.

Of course and like always, he’s taking credit for the current good economy. No, really. He says the only reason there’s any good at all is because it’s “running on the fumes” of what he did. Sorry, Donny, wrong again. Those “fumes” you sense are the smell of death from all the Americans you killed. On the up side, the current economy is SO strong these days, cons are hoping for failure as the best hope of winning in November. Leave it to cons to hope for harm and failure in the United States because of how they perceive it will help them…

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Donny’s out there promising he’s going to testify in his trial. No, not that one. No, the other one. No, not that one, either. This is the civil business fraud trial, in New York. I guess he plans to try to save whatever money his loyal acolytes have left, since they so kindly pay his fines. They’re going to need whatever money they have left. Donny has a BIG loss facing him in the E. Jean Carroll trial. MAGA is going to have to rent out their children as laborers to help pay his fines.

Donny wants to present the closing arguments. This part of the trial is about – and ONLY about – disgorgement. How much does Donny have to pay? There has already been a finding that he’s only ever been smoke and mirrors and his business model is fraud, fraud, fraud so he has to dissolve ALL of his business interests in the state of New York. Now the question is, how much will he pay?

The original filing was asking for $250 Million dollars but since then, the independent monitor has “noted” (caught) a few other elements that should be included. The adjusted number now stands at $370 million.

This month, he’s still looking at his next round in the E Jean Carroll case, too. He’s been found responsible for sexual assault. He defamed Carroll over that and lost his case. He was ordered to pay $5 million as a penalty. Then he went outside and doubled down, so she re-filed. Meanwhile Rudy Giuliani was found responsible in HIS defamation case and ordered to pay $148 million dollars. THAT set the new standard. This is trump’s follow-up defamation case. The one that suggests he didn’t get the message at $5 million. Maybe $150 million more will help him understand. (I made that number up based on the Giuliani ruling. It could be less, it could be more…)

Frankly, I doubt ANY monetary damages will convince him to stand down. HE doesn’t pay them. His loyal, and oh-so-gullible followers pay them, so why should he care?

Update: I wrote that bit Wednesday morning. By Wednesday night, trump had decided (surprise!) he wasn’t going to speak, after all. The cons will pretend the evil gubmint kept him from talking but, for clarity, Engoron, in fact, said Donny could speak but he had to limit himself to the issues at hand. He couldn’t give a campaign speech and he couldn’t just attack people he doesn’t like. That left Stinky Donny with nothing to say so he demurred, then declined. What kind of life do you live if you’re stuck in “If I can’t whine and cry, ‘poor me!’ I have nothing to say?”

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I saw a story that irritated me. The Headline suggested a Catholic priest got defrocked after marrying a woman. That paints a picture that fits into a larger, already established narrative about abusive priests in the Catholic church and I was all prepared to write about it. He was 29 when they met and she was 17! They married a year later. An element of the story is that the two had “fled” to Italy. I actually DID start writing about it, but wanted some details – why did he “flee?” – so searched out other articles on the topic. Turns out, that headline was technically true, he did leave the church after marrying a women, but not accurate.

The truth is, two people dated for a year, then got married but he had to quit his job because of that choice. See, this happened in Alabama. In Alabama, the age of consent is 16. He didn’t break any laws. He didn’t “flee” to Italy. They moved there. The church didn’t defrock him – technically, called ‘Laicization’ – as punishment for marrying the woman (though they would have). The priest in question started the process and made no effort to fight it. The church defrocked him for abandoning his post at his church – with his cooperation.

Corporate media sucks in this country. One must be VERY careful when reading even the most minor of stories. They just want the clicks and they’ll say nearly anything…

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The NFL, never short on greed, has decided to air one of their playoff games on a streaming service station only. If you don’t have ‘Peacock,’ you don’t watch the game, except in the local markets where NFL rules require them to air the game on a local channel. It’s the Chiefs/Dolphins game so they can watch it in Kansas City and Miami without paying. But everyone else? Pay up, suckers. The NFL made $12 BILLION dollars in 2020, and that was DOWN from $18 Billion because of the pandemic. Now the NFL is trying to squeeze out a little bit more. The ONLY way to protect ourselves from this ever-encroaching greed is to shut our wallets.

I’m asking you to avoid THAT game. It’s for our own protection. If they make money on this move, we’ll see more and more of it until football is an entirely pay-per-view event. If the game loses money, they’ll be LESS likely to push this as quickly. (Note that they WILL keep trying. Greed is a disease that does not go away on it’s own.) We, the fans, need to ensure the game loses money, or we’d better prepare to pay out lots and lots more. ”Oh, c’mon, they’ll say, it’s only $5.00 dollars.”

Yeah, today. But if it “works,” soon we’ll have to subscribe to ALL the streaming services just to watch a game or worse, the NFL will move all of their games to their own streaming service and charge hundreds of dollars a year. (That’s not hyperbole. Have you checked the price of their ‘Season Ticket’?) Soon, after that, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had to buy ‘Personal Viewer Licenses’ ($300.00) to obtain the right to subscribe to their service ($300.00 MORE). THAT part might be hyperbole. But even that is only a ‘maybe.’ The greed of the NFL is legendary and inexorable. I say again, the ONLY way to protect ourselves from this ever-encroaching greed is to shut our wallets.

Yeah, I’d rather see the game, too. But I’ll catch the highlights later, maybe. Let’s make pay-per-view-only football a failed test…for our own protection. Please, don’t watch the game…

Suits and Laws…

by MyBaconPress

Here’s a name you likely wish you could forget: Ashli Babbitt. She’s the trump victim that got shot and killed during the J6 riot. She was trying to climb through a smashed out window into the House chamber. She was warned from the guy with the gun inside that he was going to shoot if they tried to climb through. She tried to climb through. He took the shot. On the up side, she won’t be charged with anything. (I should say, right up front, I’m extra irritated by Babbitt’s stupidity. She had been in the Air Force, my old service, and she made the AF look bad.) All she had to do to not be dead today, was what cons are always saying about black and brown people, “Why didn’t she just comply?”

MAGA tried to rehabilitate her reputation. They’re still trying. In their fantasized story telling about J6, she was just trying to direct the traffic of people. Aside from being in the building, she wasn’t doing anything anybody else wasn’t doing. The only problem with their story (and there’s ALWAYS a problem with their stories. ALWAYS.) is that video exists of the moment she was shot. I’ve seen it. She was clearly trying to climb through the window into the chamber.

So who are you going to believe, MAGA or your lying eyes? The reason I mention her is that her parents have filed a lawsuit against the US Government for defending itself from a violent insurrectionist. $30 Million dollars for Wrongful Death. Uh-huh. As it happens, one can file a lawsuit over just about anything if one can find a “lawyer” willing to do the work. What the suit tells me is that Babbitt’s family has bought into the whole reputation repair story and filed their suit based on MAGA lies, not the video. It also suggests the whole family was/is Q-Anon polluted and MAGA to the end. They must have been so proud of their traitorous daughter.

I’ll tell you this: I suspect, the government will simply show the video in court and, voila!, case dismissed…

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Doubled down? Tripled down? Quadrupled down? I had never heard of tripled down or quadrupled down but I’m watching the cons do exactly that right now. Idaho passed an anti-abortion law. It’s pretty complete. There are, technically, some exceptions but, apparently, you have to be carried in by angels (not “nice people,” actual angels. They have to show their wings as proof) on any day with a name that does NOT end in ‘Y’ to qualify. So, in effect, it’s a complete abortion ban. As you can imagine, people who prefer freedom have challenged the law and, no surprise, it has made it’s way to the SKCOTUS.

We all know, of course, how the kangaroos will rule. When it comes to enforcing the pretended dictates of their invisible super-friend, there’s no mystery left from this court. So, Idaho’s law will stand. THEN, other MAGA states will follow suit. All of this was the very predictable – and predicted – result of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade. These bans are already having disastrous results in people’s actual lives. Now Idaho has gone all-in. Why pretend? Cons LOVE ruining lives and this whole abortion question has been an absolute “God-send” (see what I did, there?) to them. At least, in their puny little “minds.”

I’m sorry for the troubles conservatives will cause women in the near future. These laws are going to rain trouble into people’s lives for years to come. Still, on balance? I think these laws, passed in individual states, are working against the Republicans more than helping them. In a very real sense, these evil laws will prove to be a good thing in the long-run. I’ll explain.

People are pissed off. Women, in particular, are really pissed off. As a group, that is. I’m sure one can find women who hate women as much as these men seem to hate women. Fortunately, the group of women who prefer freedom WAY outnumbers the group of women who want to punish other women. You know, for being sluts. Even if they’re raped.

The result of these rulings and laws is that women are coming out in droves to vote. Largely, they’re voting against the Republicans as a direct response to conservative restrictions. Ain’t that cute? Those little ladies want control over their own bodies. Republicans have lost election after election after election over the issue.

This horrifying development, of course, has been brought to you by Republicans and worse, MAGA. Stinky Don regularly brags – or he used to – about being the guy who packed the High Court with ideologues who hate women more than they love the law. Some of the higher functioning conservatives have realized the whole abortion thing is a loser for them but they’re not trying to stop the damage. They just think they shouldn’t talk about it. ”Hey, let’s not focus on that.”
“To hell with you, pal! We’re VERY focused.”

The thing is, since the SKCOTUS made their ill-fated ruling, the only way to put the lid back onto Pandora’s box (There’s a joke there, I just KNOW there is.) is with a Federal law mandating women’s privacy and freedom to make their own medical decisions and maintain absolute bodily autonomy. This, of course, is the law the Dems SHOULD have passed decades ago, instead of relying on a Supreme Court interpretation that could be, and now has been, overturned on a whim. Hopefully, maybe the Dems have learned their lesson and they’re now ready to step up for women. (Just like they did in de-scheduling cannabis. Oh. Wait…)

The thing is, Americans can’t pass such a law with cons controlling the House OR the Senate. We absolutely, positively have to vote out the cons in order to restore sanity. We’re going to have to stay engaged long enough to get it done. THEN, we’re going to watch the Dems very, very carefully. Nobody wants excuses. Americans from sea to shining sea want these cruel laws eliminated. But we HAVE to keep MAGA (and all other cons) out of government if we’re going to have a chance in the first place.

I doubt anyone has to explain the stakes to child-bearing women of voting age but do it anyway. Be like Taylor Swift and encourage young people to vote – for their own good. We, the people, of these United States can still fix this but we have GOT to get the Republicans out of Congress to do it. This is the year. Now is the time. Cast your vote (on paper). Vote for the Democrat of your choice but VOTE!

Not Working…

by MyBaconPress

Conservatives, even some MAGA, are starting to realize that this Congress, specifically, this House of Representatives has accomplished precious little during their recent period of control. I hear them talking in their media from time to time. They know it. Their only real concern is how the voters might perceive their do-nothing time in Congress. But they’re trying to do something now.

Help the poor? Educate the young? Address the homeless issue? Fund Ukraine? Why, don’t be ridiculous! They’re not going to get involved in any of those things. Instead, they want a pay raise. Yeah, you might want to read that again. The cons in Congress want more money for all that nothing they’re accomplishing. These lifeless pricks make $174,000 a year. That’s about $100,000 a year MORE than most Americans make. I’m referring, here, to Americans who work. Oh, and this is important. The Americans who DO work, are expected to accomplish things WHILE they work, or they are granted the “opportunity” to NOT work – permanently. Of course, the pay stops, as well.

Cons started the radical pay escalations of Congress a long, long time ago. They came up with a story: if you want the best people in Congress, you have to pay them accordingly. The money started going up, the quality of our Congress critters started going down. Turns out, maybe quality people go where the money is, but scoundrels ALWAYS go where the money is, and I think we can all agree, Congress sure has a LOT of scoundrels in it, these days.

That’s still their story, though. Better pay equals better people. The FIRST Congress of this once-great nation, the one that worked for Per Diem only (that is, no salary), set up the country and the economy. That was quite the accomplishment and, I’m guessing, a lot of work. THIS Congress, the highest paid in American history, does nothing useful. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Zip. Diddly-squat.

Okay, in fairness, the Senate WOULD do things if the House would, but the House is focused on harassing a private citizen for political reasons as “retribution” for the legal troubles of their most recent and most criminal President. (Dear MAGA minds: The Democrats didn’t “do this” to Trump. Trump did this to Trump. You guys are (mostly) old. You remember Sammy Davis Jr singing, “Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.” (You even filled in the rest in your minds, didn’t you?) All Donny had to do was run an honest business, not sexually assault women, not steal from charities, not steal government documents, accept electoral reality, and NOT try to overthrow the government, and he’d be fine…)

Anyway, that’s the same story they’re trying to float in order to get THIS raise as well. It’s the story they’ll tell. Nobody will buy it. They’ll vote for their own raise anyway. One of the things I changed when I re-wrote the Constitution was that Congress’ salary should be tied directly to the fortunes of the American people. First, they shouldn’t get to set their own pay. It should be tied to the median American income. If THEY want more money, they have to do better by the American people. Pretty simple really.

I’ll tell you this: if there was some way to stop them, I’d suggest it, but once they decide they want more and feel they can get away with it, politically, nothing can stop them…

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All right, I guess I’m obligated to note that this is the anniversary of Donny’s attempted coup, January 6th. I think we might want to mark this day on an annual basis, like the Brits do with Guy Fawkes Day. Fawkes was part of a crew that tried to assassinate King James I. The Brits celebrate the survival of the monarchy and we should celebrate the survival of the Constitution.

Meanwhile, MAGA is out there, trying to turn January 6th into their version of July 4th and they’ve done everything they can to downplay the assault on Congress. (That means they’ve lied about it a LOT!) Oh, it never happened. It was just an unauthorized tour of the Capitol building. It was just a peaceful gathering. Nobody died. The people who died killed themselves. There wasn’t a riot. The rioters were Antifa/BLM/crisis actors. But mostly, it never happened.

So…it never happened but when it did, it was somebody else? It was totally peaceful but the violence was caused by somebody else? Nice work, there, ‘party of personal responsibility…’

We, the people, absolutely have to remember January 6th, the day an underdeveloped megalomaniac tried to overthrow our government and install himself as dictator – and the evil weasel came FAR too close to succeeding…

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Here’s something to remember:

Talking to a baby is the same as walking into a spider web in this way: anyone who catches you doing it immediately knows what’s happening, and anyone who catches you doing it understands…

Maroons…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, raise your hand if you’re shocked. The Epstein papers everyone made such a big deal about were finally released and, OMG, was it ever nothing. It was the greatest nothing. The nothingist nothing. Big, strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, “Sir, that was really nothing.” Let’s just agree, it was bigly nothing. (My spell check hates this bit…)

What people WANT is his client list. That’s not what we got. The cons want to prove that Bill Clinton is a pervert who has sex with underage women and they need the information to smear him more effectively than they can do with their current “Hey, just make it up!” technique. Bill’s name was mentioned. Then again, so was Stinky Donny’s. But these were NOT reported as clients. These were people somehow associated with the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.

The whole hullabaloo got me thinking, though, so I did something. Apropos of nothing – and I really mean nothing – I searched for photos of Clinton and Epstein. There are a couple, one at what looks like a White House function and the other looks…odd, like it might not be real. But then I did the same with Trump and Epstein. There are more. Lots more. And in party situations, hanging out. Even going out as couples, Stinky Donny and Melania, and Jeffery and Ghislaine.

I’ll tell you this: I’m not sure it’s a good idea for MAGA to try for political gain by slamming Bill’s association with Epstein when it’s so easy to link Donny and Jeffery, as well…

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There was this defendant being sentenced for battery in a Las Vegas courtroom when he rushed the judge, leapt over her bench, and attacked her. It was, simultaneously, a very stupid move and a very impressive jump. I’m guessing that, particular, Einstein enhanced his sentence, somewhat – and that’s before the new trial for new charges of assault and battery get filed for THIS attack. To quote Bugs: “What a maroon…”

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MAN the lies get old. No, they never go away. They just get old. Donny trotted out his “I tried to send 10,000 troops to defend the Capitol but Pelosi said no.” story again. THIS time, the story is to smack Liz Cheney, of all people. Donny insists he can’t prove he tried to send the troops because “Liz Cheney deleted it.” MAGA hates Liz, now that she did a right thing, so, of course it’s all her fault… Donny is trying to claim he “can’t defend himself” because of her meanie-pants behavior. Interestingly, I think Donny “can’t defend himself” because his behavior is indefensible.

Quibbles, right? Still, if the story is true, at all, in any way, it kind of creates more questions than it answers. So I’m going to ask the questions.

The United States had successfully enjoyed 44 (maybe 43, depending on how you count Grover Cleveland) peaceful transfers of power since the founding of our now MAGA-damaged nation. Why, pray tell, should Nancy have had concerns about the security at the Capitol? That is, what was the specific danger she was supposed to protect against? That question, alone, is usually enough to earn an epithet or two from MAGA as they slink back into the darkness.

For the rest of us, we know the answer because we’re not caught up in a web of delusions and stories. The danger that faced the Capitol building that day came from Trump and his attempt to steal the election. Why, oh why, would Trump try to send an army to quell the insurrection he was ALSO scheming to send?

Take your time, MAGA…

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Now that the traitor-in-Chief, Stinky Donny, has filed his appeal to the Supremely Kangaroo Court, I, for one, am holding my breath. On the one hand, I don’t trust this clearly corrupted court. On the other, the ruling in this case could affect the entire Presidential race. The appeal in this case is about Colorado declaring Donny ineligible to run based on his insurrection and attempt to overthrow the government but if the court upholds Colorado’s decision, they’re basically declaring Donny ineligible in every state.

CAN you try to overthrow the government and then be allowed back to the levers of power for a second run at it? It’s a very big, very important, and very stupid question. ANY rational person would say, “No!” MAGA says, “Look, a shiny thing!” What’s important is what the court says. It will be important forever, either because they protect the nation and the Constitution or because they don’t, and he tears the thing up and starts making his own rules.

It’s a concern because of the makeup of this court. Clarence Thomas’ wife is, allegedly, a co-conspirator and participant in the attempted coup. I’m guessing his vote is already cast. Protecting Donny protects his wife. He should recuse himself but then he couldn’t protect his beloveds, so he won’t. So that’s one vote for ‘Dictator.’ Roberts himself, has said he doesn’t buy the argument that the 14th Amendment applies to the President. If that remains true (people sometimes change their minds) that’s TWO votes for ‘Dictator.’

Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan will all vote for the Constitution, of course. But after those three, “smart” runs out in this court and devolves to political loyalty. Sometimes. How will the last five decide, Constitution or Dictator?

I’ll tell you this: that’s not a question I ever thought would exist in this country…

Deceiver Denied…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Donny’s got a new deception working. I know, he’s nothing BUT deception. This one, though, is likely to fool MAGA (I mean, what doesn’t?) but nobody else. Worse, he’s kind of mapping a route for MAGA to escape the cult. There are three women who worked in the Trump White House. Okay, there were a LOT of women who worked in the Trump white House but these three women both testified to the J6 committee AND went on network television together to warn Americans about the dangers of sending Trump back to the Oval.

In an interview with Jonathan Karl, Cassidy Hutchinson, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Sarah Matthews appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to caution America about the dangers a second Trump presidency could bring. They said things like, “Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly” and that a second Trump term could mean “the end of American democracy as we know it.”

Trump, being the thin-skinned, man-baby he is, retaliated, or tried to. He started posting comments each of the women made in support of him and his Presidency. It seems like he’s going for, “Hey, they loved me, now they’re stabbing me in the back.” Except, no. The comments he posted ALL come from before J6. Ever since? The scales have fallen from their eyes and they’re trying to warn other believers that this guy is a false prophet to be avoided.

You see, they DID love him, just like everyone else in the cult. The difference? They saw him, up close and personal, in action on J6. They loved Donny but they love America more. (An unacceptable quality in a MAGA.) When Trump tried to overthrow the election, they were forced to re-evaluate their opinions and their newly updated assessments were not good. MAGA is trying to smear them as RINO (Republicans In Name Only) but they’re REALLY just good Americans, unlike MAGA.

In short, people who loved Trump and would have followed him blindly nearly anywhere now despise and fear him. They worry for their country if he gets back. They worry for the rule of law and the continuing existence of the Constitution. These aren’t lefty “libtards.” These are STILL Republicans who once loved Trump, only to discover he’s not who they thought he was. He’s far, FAR worse.

You see MAGA? You CAN break free. I mean, I don’t blame you for not listening to, say, me. I’m a pretty well established anti-Trump guy. But the people who loved him? The people who worked for him and did his bidding? People who, just like you, WANTED to believe and then just…couldn’t anymore – specifically because of what they saw of him behind closed doors?

I’ll tell you this: You should listen to them. They have no political axe to grind. They just know better now. And you can, too. It’s okay…

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Donny’s been arguing that he has absolute, perfect immunity for anything and everything he does if he’s still the President, even if he’s just a lame-duck President. He’s taking that insane argument to courts and asking them to agree. He’s trying it in most of his cases so everything is on hold while courts go through the formality of saying, “No, Dumbass, NO American citizen has absolute, perfect immunity and the President is an American citizen, first and foremost.” And now? It has started.

The first appeal to come back with a ruling of, “Don’t be an idiot!” (I’m probably paraphrasing) comes from a three-judge panel at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the civil suits filed by the cops on scene at the Capitol on the day of Donny’s failed insurrection. Now the cops (or their families) can move forward with their cases. This is only the FIRST test that will affirm the President is NOT immune from prosecution for anything he does. But it won’t be the last. His “I’m immune” claim will buy him some time, but, long term, not a reprieve…

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This is funny. In a 2004 interview, Donny is quoted as saying the economy does better under Democrats than under Republicans. Wolf Blitzer asked him if he was a Republican or a Democrat. His answer? ”Well, you’d be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as Democrat,” Trump replied. THEN he added, “You know, it’s interesting, I’ve been now around long — you know, I think of myself as a young guy, but I’m not so young anymore. And I’ve been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” (Did you notice? He was doing the word-salad thing even back then…)

He’s right, too. Republicans consistently add more to the national debt than Democrats. LOTS more. After Donny’s complete collapse as President (MAGA pretends it was utopia), the economy tanked in a big way, the biggest way. A record way. No one has EVER tanked the economy like Trump. (The Trump maladministration lost 22 million jobs. The Great Depression only lost 15 million.) After only three years on the job, Biden has the economy humming along at a record-setting pace. (MAGA pretends they live in a Mad Max-style, dystopian hell hole. That must be hard to maintain every time they step outside…)

It has been this way since Reagan. Republicans crash the economy, Democrats come in a fix it. I’ll tell you this: why we ever bother with Republicans in the first place remains a mystery to me…

Not Right…

by MyBaconPress

The conservatives in congress won’t fund aid to Ukraine or Israel unless and until something is done at our southern border to stop the flow in immigrants. So, old Sleepy Joe went ahead and arranged for a weapons sale to Israel without congressional oversight. That’s supposed to be a no-no but the Biden administration is pushing the idea that it’s an emergency and that Israel has national security implications and a right to “maintain a strong and ready national defense capability.”

Obviously, the cons are whining about Biden’s congressional end-run on GOP obstruction. But then, they whine about everything, all the time. By now, it’s LOUD, but it’s boring. As it happens, there are Democrats out there complaining about the sale, too. There WILL BE some kerfuffle about it but I’m pretty sure more American bombs will be falling on Palestinian babies soon. Thanks, Joe.

Meanwhile, South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top court, to declare that Israel’s war in Gaza is a violation of the Genocide Convention of 1948. The filing accused Israel of engaging “in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza”. I stand with South Africa on this one. Israel rejects the charge “with disgust” and as “blood libel” from South Africa. ”Blood libel.” Sounds like time for the disclaimer.

For me, and millions of people around the world, my concerns about the developments in Israel and Palestine are about governments and what governments do. I don’t give two figs about which religion these people practice or which of the nearly 3,600 gods worshiped on Earth right now, today, they think is the most super-de-duper. Trying to shut down criticism of Israeli actions with charges of “antisemitism” or “blood libel” is a dodge that comes from people who don’t seem able to otherwise defend their actions.

Look, I do not, CAN not, will not defend the incredibly stupid and violent response of Hamas in their October 7th attack that killed 1,200 Israelis. Since that day, though, the Israelis have killed nearly 22,000 Palestinians and they have no intention of stopping. Palestine is in ruins. Israel warned Palestinians to run south, then bombed the place they told the Palestinians to run to. They’ve completely destroyed any and all medical help in Gaza. If you’re Palestinian, disease is becoming more likely to kill you than Israeli (American) bombs.

I see it this way: let’s say you’re in a bar and a guy sucker-punches you from behind, then blends into the crowd so you don’t know who hit you. You do NOT have the right to kill everyone you see until you get the right guy. But that has been Israel’s strategy from the start. The world (except the US) started asking Israel to stand down. Netanyahu said he will not. Eventually, even Biden asked Netanyahu to, if he wouldn’t mind, please, take it a little easy on Gaza. Netanyahu increased bomb runs. The outcry is getting louder but the attacks just keep coming, Palestinians just keep dying. Israel keeps attacking and they’re using American bombs to do it. Yeah, because they need a strong “defense capability.”

If you ask an Israeli apologist about the war, they’ll look at you and drone, “From the river to the sea” because Hamas says they want to drive Israelis into the sea. From MY point of view, Israel says it wants everyone to get along - all the while working aggressively to push Palestinians into the sea. Hamas says they wish they could do it. Israel just does it – and they’re using American bombs. Oh, how I hate this war…

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Okay, I need something lighter. I didn’t see the game so I can’t say for sure. Yesterday, the Dallas Cowboys played the Detroit Lions. At the end, the Lions were down by one and tried a two-point conversion to win the game. This is all “in the weeds” stuff so I’ll simplify as much as possible. There’s a way for a guy normally NOT allowed to catch the ball to be allowed to for one play. He has to report to the refs that, for this play, he’s an eligible receiver and the refs tell the defense so they’re aware.

According to the LIONS, a guy named Decker reported to the official, Brad Allen, as eligible. At the same time, another player was running onto the field, number 70, a guy named, Skipper. (That’s his real last name.) So, Decker reports but Allen tells Dallas that SKIPPER has reported. The Lions run their play and it goes to Decker, just like it was supposed to. The refs called a penalty and the winning two-point play was negated. Detroit went on to lose.

The ref, Allen, may have gotten confused, listening to Decker, but watching Skipper run onto the field. Allen reported the wrong name to Dallas, then punished Detroit for Allen’s error. Allen maintains it was Skipper who reported. Uh-oh. As always, there’s video. The video shows DECKER reporting and the official nodding, then speaking to Dallas. Despite the video, Allen is sticking to his story, for now.

This game had serious ramifications on the playoff picture. The officiating “error” changed things. There’s nothing that can be done about it now. Detroit is just screwed. It’s getting easier and easier to make a case that the NFL is using it’s well-established reputation for crappy officiating to manipulate the outcome of games…

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See? Lighter. Okay, so this is the last issue of MyBaconPress for the year 2023. If you like what I’m doing, you can go to my site, https://mybaconpress.com/. Click the “Follow” button and enter your email address and they’ll come straight to your email inbox. Never miss an issue again!

2024 looks like it’s shaping up to be a BIG year in human history. WILL the US fall into the conservative fascist dream? Will Stinky Donald end up in prison or the White House? (Are we amazed that’s even a question?) Will rational, thinking Americans FINALLY push MAGA back into the shadows, where they belong? Will America solve its housing problem by passing the ‘End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023?’ Hell, will we solve ANY of our problems, or just keep nursing them as campaign “issues?” We all just have to wait and see. But I’ll be writing…

I’ll tell you this: I hope you have a safe and happy New Year celebration and I REALLY hope 2024 works out well – for all of us…