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Cut Flowers Die…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve been thinking of it like a ball that has been tossed straight up. It goes up for a while, then begins to slow. It reaches it’s peak and for a moment, a fraction of a moment, it hangs in space, no longer rising, not yet falling. But inevitably, it falls. 51 words. Then I saw Ben Shapiro on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher.’ He put my ball analogy more succinctly. “Cut flowers die,” he said. 3 words.

You go out to the garden and you cut a pretty bloom. You put it with others you’ve cut and set the arrangement in your house. The flowers are beautiful – for a time. But then? They begin to wilt. They sag. Shortly, you can see that the flowers aren’t viable anymore. They began to fail the moment they were cut even though they didn’t look that way at the time.

I think right now in America – this moment in time – we’re at the ‘ball-at-it’s-peak’ moment. The flowers still LOOK beautiful, but cut flowers die. Who did the cutting? Donald J. Trump. Look around you. The world as you know it still looks the same but the underpinnings are all suffering. Donny’s not paying for anything. Without maintenance, things fall apart. I’m expecting things to get shabby.

The cons have been getting away with this kind of thing for decades, now, because the effects of their actions are removed in time from the action itself. In other words, the nation won’t decline overnight. It takes time. We were once a very strong nation with a very strong economy. Donny is attacking that at every turn and he’s winning. That is to say, we won’t be strong much longer.

The copper was being polished until 47. It still gleams, for now, but it WILL tarnish. The Trump economy is hitting in full force. With apologies to Dr. King, we aren’t landing on the Trump economy, the Trump economy is landing on us. Average Joes are certain to be crushed under the weight. Increasingly, that looks like the goal.

Obviously, the cons will simply find a way to blame Joe Biden but in fact, Biden had fixed the various failures of Donny’s first failed attempt and the economy was on the upswing. Yes, I know MAGA media says otherwise. Why would anybody trust MAGA media? The economy KEPT chugging along until 47 started “tinkering.” Old tariff boy is doing serious damage, but there’s a time lag between getting stabbed and bleeding out.

Yes, I DO know the Dow keeps hitting record numbers. So what? In fact, I see that reality as a BAD thing. The vast majority of stocks in this once-great nation are owned by a very small number of people. Very rich people. The Dow hitting record high after record high means the very rich are doing very well. Meanwhile, nearly everyone else is suffering. In real life, suffering trickles down, even if money never does.

I pay less attention to the formal numbers some pencil-pusher gives me and more attention to storefronts and how empty they are. And they are. People are closing their wallets. They have to save their pennies for the grocery store, what with coffee up $10.00 dollars and the price of bacon doubled.

Pay attention to the world around you. You’ll see more business space with ‘Available’ signs and more stores, devoid of shoppers, clinging to life, hoping for… something. And all of it is the direct effect of conservative economic choices. Sure, they’ll blame everyone else but it’s their own doing. It was Donny and MAGA that cut the flower from the root of the funding it needed to survive. The flower is just beginning to wilt but keep watch and remember, cut flowers die…

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When that shooter murdered Charlie Kirk, the whole country held it’s collective breath until we could find out if the shooter was a lefty or a rightie. The first report I heard one way or the other was a radio news report of a Guardian article saying an old high school friend of the shooter had said the shooter had been raised in a conservative household but was to the left of his family. The high school friend went on to note that he hadn’t seen the shooter since high school some three or four years earlier, so he didn’t know his politics today.

By the end of that same day, I had learned about all of the shooter’s ties to the Groyper movement and his loyalty to Nick Fuentes. I learned that the inscriptions on the bullet casings were each Groyper tropes. It looked FAR more like the shooter was an acolyte of Fuentes. It seems clear, the shooter was to the right of Kirk, not the left.

The Guardian article about the high school friend had, itself, cited an original story in the Wall Street Journal. That’s what gave the story credibility in the first place. Now I’ve learned that both the Guardian AND the Wall Street Journal have retracted the high school friend story. The publications were unable to verify any connection between the so-called “friend” and the shooter. It seems as though the “high school friend” story was a plant, attempting to manipulate the story.

Now there’s a story floating about that the shooter lived with a “trans” person in a “romantic relationship.” It should be noted, the story originated from Fox Not-News and the NY Post. Also, according to the Daily Mail, the shooter and his roommate had a third roommate for a time – suggesting a simple living arrangement – and at least one neighbor has said they saw no sign of either roommates being trans…

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So, does Donny really expect us to believe that someone 22 years ago – LONG before he ever became a politician – nevertheless knew to set him up with an incriminating drawing for Jeffrey Epstein of a child, with a message about “secrets” so they could use it against him later? NOT, mind you, when he was running but, instead, waiting until after the “election” to pull out the incriminating evidence?

He claims it’s a fake without ever explaining WHY anyone would want or need to fake something like that way back then. His story beggars belief…

More ‘Erosion…’

by MyBaconPress

“He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”

That’s from the Constitution. Article II, Section 2. Generally speaking, it’s referred to as the Advice and Consent Clause. The idea is to keep an out-of-control President from naming his horse to some position of importance. If the President nominates his horse, the Senate takes a look at the qualifications of the nominee and votes accordingly.

In OG America, that was how we did it. It was a one-at-a-time process. The Senate had a little time to look into each new nominee. If a Senator happened to notice the nominee was a horse, he had a chance to vote against the horse. Oh, but this isn’t OG America anymore, is it? This is MAGAmerica and in MAGAmerica, there’s no real need to vet nominees. 47 declares he wants his horse? He gets his horse.

The “opposition party” (really, I mean the Dems) stood in the way of several of Donny’s appointments. He DOES, after all, keep appointing podcasters, talking heads he’s seen on TV, and other such highly unqualified people to high-ranking posts. In a functional democracy, these Bozos wouldn’t get past the door. But this isn’t a functional democracy. It’s MAGAmerica, where the Congress does as it’s told by the Executive Branch, no questions asked.

So, when faced with fierce opposition – or even just mild obstinance – from the timid Dems, the GOP got tired of the process with each and every new unqualified nominee. And, as always, whenever the GOP faces opposition, they shift to their go-to behavior – they cheat. In THIS case, they’ve changed the rules for themselves and are NOW allowed to “batch process” nominees.

Donny won’t send one name. He’ll send, oh, say, 250 names, in a group. The Senate will pretend to advise and will rubber-stamp the consent on the entire group, all at once. If one of those names happens to be that of Donny’s horse, well, the horse is now Ambassador to Nauru or whatever. But you can see what gets lost, right? The review process. There’s no chance to vet the group, especially the horse. The horse just slips on by, the 197th name on the list.

As of this writing, the GOP has promised – now would be a good time to reflect on other GOP promises and how well they’ve been kept – that this ‘nuclear option,’ as they’ve termed it, will not be used on judicial nominees under any circumstances. It just won’t. No way. Not at all. Not judges. We wouldn’t DO that. Because we said so, that’s why. We pinkie-swear and, this time, we really, really mean it.

So expect the next package of nominees from the White House to be judicial nominees. Also, expect the next package of judicial nominees from the White House to receive it’s rubber stamp and move forward. We can all find out which television show the new judges came from later. Lovely.

Make no mistake, this is a bad thing. Imagine not interviewing each candidate for a job and, instead, just hiring every person who put in a resume with no review. You might get lucky. You might find a qualified person in there. But you’re also going to find a large number of people who should not be doing the job they’re doing, and you’ll likely find them as they fail.

And really, this is a bad analogy. In my example, at least, the quality of the candidates is random, based on who applied. In this real-life nightmare, we can take comfort that each of these hand-picked candidates will be unqualified but loyal toadies willing to do as they’re told, when they’re told, so long as it’s Donny doing the telling.

People might call it ‘eroding’ the Constitution but really it’s ‘corrupting’ the Constitution. The President was never intended to have this much power. The complete surrender of Congress by the cons – along with the compliant servitude of the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court, of course – has overturned our once-great nation and reduced it to a banana republic. There’s no fight, anymore, to “save” our democracy. Now the fight is to “recover” our democracy – and it ain’t looking any too good…

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I thought it was funny when Jesse Watters, a Fox Not-News spokesliar, tried to list examples of violence from the left after the Charlie Kirk murder. When it came to violence against people, he got exactly one example, the shooting of Steve Scalise. Other than that, though, he had to count burning Teslas and/or calling someone names as “violence.”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” That’s a quote from Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’ Perhaps it explains WHY the GOP adamantly refuses to do anything about all the gun violence in this fast-failing nation. It’s part of their plan. (And, yes, that’s one of the names they were called as an act of “violence:” Nazis. But I stand by the obvious – if you don’t want to be called Nazis, don’t act like Nazis…)

The cons, of course, like to pretend the violence comes from the left. It remains true that every GOP accusation is an admission, though, so when they say violence comes from the left, they’re acknowledging that the violence – FAR more often than not – comes from the right.

So, I came up with a betting game. It goes like this: You name a violent act against a person committed by a known lefty. I give you a dollar. Then, I name a violent act against a person committed by a known rightie, and you give me a dollar. We’re even, right?

Round two, values are doubled. You name a person, I give you two dollars. I name a person, you give me two dollars. Still even. We keep going that way, each round doubled in the amount, until neither side can come up with anymore names. If one side does but the other side can’t, the one who did gets paid and the game moves to the next round – and remember, each round doubles. Round 1 was one dollar. Round 2 was two dollars. Round 3 is four dollars, round 4 is eight dollars, and so on and so forth until both sides are out of names (and, I confess, I suspect the MAGA would be out of money).

Do you think any MAGA would play my game with me? My guess is, they would not. I suspect they KNOW which side perpetuates violence the most, denials notwithstanding. It’s one thing to shout it at people with nothing on the line. It would be VERY costly to bet on it on a doubled-each-round basis…

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Oh, hey, just in case you forgot, a helpful reminder: Donald Trump was best friends with an accused and convicted child sex trafficker named Jeffrey Epstein for fifteen years. Trump wrote Epstein a letter in which he drew a picture of (possibly) a nude child and wrote, “may each day be another wonderful secret.” Supporters of Trump are supporters of an alleged pedophile…

Well, Well, Well…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve got to tell you, I’m tired of all of this viscous, white-on-white, “christian” Nationalist violence and I want it to stop. This white-on-white crime is out of control! Because Charlie Kirk was an icon of conservative hatred, MAGA-land jumped straight to the conclusion the shooter MUST be a lefty. I can’t say that was a completely unreasonable conclusion, but they should have waited to bring out the venom until everyone knew for sure.

But, oh, no. It’s important to get out in front of it and get your hate-fueled rant in front of people’s eyes as quickly as possible, so the right sprang into action.
“No more mercy for leftists,” wrote the Malaysian MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong. “They want you dead. They truly want to kill you and desecrate your body and erase your memory.” (If we could erase their memory and reprogram them as decent people, why would we need to kill them?)
“THIS IS WAR,” wrote Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account. (It wasn’t…)
“The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk wrote. (As usual, the exact opposite of the truth…)

“The Left wants us dead,” wrote C.J. Pearson, a Gen Z conservative influencer. “This is not hyperbole.” (It was…) “This is now the ONLY logical conclusion that any sane human being can reach after a repeated pattern of demonstrated behavior and violence.” (I take issue with the self-proclaimed ‘sane human being’ part…)
Former congressional candidate Blake Masters wrote: “Left-wing violence is out of control, and it’s not random.” (Worse for them, it’s not even real…)
Scott Presler, a conservative organizer, wondered aloud: “How do you coexist with people that want to murder you?” (I’ve wondered the same about MAGA for a long time.) “In response, the anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines responded: “And they’ll kill you in the name of ‘tolerance.’” (In truth, the right is the source of most political violence and they actually DO kill in the name of intolerance on a fairly regular basis…)

None of that aged well because it turns out, the guy who murdered Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was far to the right of Kirk. Robinson was a white guy. A Mormon. Cis, not trans. A gun-totin’ conservative from a Republican family. When THAT piece of information came out, watching the right back-peddle on their hateful screeds was almost comical. Nancy Mace, the woman who fled testimony from Epstein victims in tears because of her own sexual assault, but continues to protect the attacker anyway, wrote, “Some crimes are so evil, the only just punishment is the death penalty.”

Then, after discovering the shooter was a far right, white nutball pivoted to, “We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ.” The death penalty for a “leftist”, prayers for “lost individual” from the nutball far right. Slick. And, probably, nobody even noticed the flip-flop.

Shooter Robinson was a disciple of Nick Fuentes. You may know the name. Fuentes is a far, FAR right nutball. Too racist and hateful for Charlie Kirk’s ‘Turning Point USA (TPUSA)?’ Then join Nick Fuentes’ ‘Groypers.’ Fuentes is a guy who thinks the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is just not quite hate-filled enough so he formed a competing hate-fest, ‘America First Political Action Conference.’ (Quick question: Why does ‘America First’ ALWAYS mean either overt racism or all praise to the rich?)

Fuentes was one of trump’s “very fine people” at the Charlottesville rally. He was also one of the fabulous people participating in Donny’s January 6th “day of love,” in which only a handful of people were killed, as is common at days of love. While we know Fuentes was at the Capitol that day, there’s no evidence he went inside, so he wasn’t charged. He just encouraged others to invade the building and kill cops.

Feel free to look up more horrifying information about Fuentes if you want to but… you don’t want to. All you really need to know is that Charlie Kirk hated just about everybody and Nick Fuentes thought Kirk didn’t go far enough. The young Robinson got radicalized by Fuentes and took it from there.

Fuentes didn’t like Charlie Kirk at all. No matter how much hate Fuentes foments and feeds into the world, he just can’t seem to get in good with 47. (It’s probably his name. ‘Fuentes’ sounds so… Mexican.) But Charlie Kirk did get in good with The First Felon and it seemed to make Fuentes jealous. So, Fuentes had his ‘Groypers’ heckle Kirk’s TPUSA events as often as possible. To the best of my knowledge, hate-filled though he is, he never called for Kirk’s death. Harassment? Sure. Death? Not so much.

The lesson, here, is to not jump to conclusions. Being the fastest doesn’t mean you’re correct. But I’d bet a dollar that the NEXT conservative nutball white guy with a gun will spawn a whole new raft of wrong-headed accusations and indictments from the right, blaming the left. Then we’ll get to watch them eat crow and back-peddle again. Lather, rinse, repeat – ad infinitum…

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Something more and more people seem to agree on, the implied breasts on the drawing Donny didn’t but definitely DID draw for Jeffrey Epstein appear more petite than large. I suspect that when Donny says he didn’t draw a woman for Epstein, he’s speaking a technical truth. He didn’t draw a woman. He drew a girl.

“May every day be another wonderful secret,” indeed…

Charlie Kirk…

by MyBaconPress

Fair warning: if you’re MAGA, you WON’T like this and you won’t agree with a word of it…
Charlie Kirk is dead. He was 31. I wasn’t a fan of Kirk. He pretty much stood for everything I oppose. Kirk was co-founder of a group called ‘Turning Point USA’ that used to hit high school and college campus’s in an attempt to radicalize young people to the MAGA way. He had this shtick he did, where he would take a booth to a campus and challenge students to debates. The booth was emblazoned with the words, ‘Prove Me Wrong,’ which, of course, is impossible if a person is stubborn enough, and Kirk absolutely was.

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Guardian’s piece about Kirk, ‘Kirk was unashamedly far to the right of the US political spectrum and had expressed openly bigoted views and engaged in homophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric. He recently tweeted: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

He mixed evangelical Christian beliefs with right-wing politics into a combustible brew. During an appearance with Trump in Georgia last fall, he claimed that Democrats “stand for everything God hates”, adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”’ I should add, MAGA loved this guy.

Kirk was gunned down during one of his campus challenges. Ironically, he was speaking on the topic of mass shootings (he was pro) when the shot rang out. Voices from across the political spectrum hit the airwaves in an attempt to tamp down the rhetoric and, hopefully, slow ongoing political violence. Well, except Donny, of course. Donny just stirred the pot – exactly what one would expect from the anti-Christ. He immediately blamed the “radical left [who] have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis.” As of this writing, no shooter has been identified, so no motivation has been identified.

Does it make sense that a radical right-wing voice may have been stilled by a radical left-wing shooter? Yes, it does, I’m not saying otherwise. But Kirk may have had other enemies, who knows? Maybe the shooter just wanted his (or her – let’s just pretend it might be a her) name permanently tied to a high profile victim, the way that asshole who shot Lennon did. We’ll find out more when cops find the shooter.

Am I happy violence has, once again, visited this once-great nation? No. I’m a supporter of common sense gun regulation. I oppose political violence and I don’t see it as a “solution,” ever. But ours is a blood-thirsty nation. One can hardly claim violence is unexpected. I do not like it, but I’m never surprised by it, either, and it must be acknowledged, Kirk was a leading voice for maintaining gun violence in this country. (He used the euphemism “Second Amendment Freedumb.”)

Am I okay with the fact that a man who spent so much time sowing the seeds of discord and supporting gun violence died by gun violence? Yes, I am. Am I wrong to feel that way? Maybe. What goes around, comes around. Kirk was okay with people being killed by guns, though I understand the possibility he, likely, didn’t include himself in that crowd. He thought of them as the unfortunate collateral damage that comes with Second Amendment rights.

Do you think I’m being hyperbolic? Here’s a quote from Kirk: “I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” According to his own words, Kirk, himself, thinks his death was “worth it” so why should I feel badly about it? His dream came true. Way to put your money where your mouth is, Charlie.

About here is where MAGA starts whining, “But he left behind a family!” Yeah. Pretty much every person gunned down in the US left behind a family. Suddenly we’re supposed to be outraged that a common, daily event in the US has come home to one of your heroes? I don’t think it works that way. We should have taken action to protect the population LONG before your boy was murdered. Maybe your boy wouldn’t have been murdered if we had.

We’re ALL suffering from the intentional MAGA misinterpretation of the Second Amendment. As far as I’m concerned, since someone, somewhere is going to die as a direct result of conservative refusal to regulate guns, the person who dies should be, by rights, the person who insisted everyone should be armed – and Kirk was exactly that guy.

Sure, he’s dead and he left behind a wife and kids, but someone’s right to bear arms remains sacrosanct and nothing can be more important to someone like him. Am I really supposed to feel badly that a person who passionately defended shooters killing innocents was killed by a shooter? I guess it seems harsh, but I don’t. What he wished for others, he got for himself.

I wonder if his widow will have a funeral, mourning the loss of her husband, or a celebration recognizing that the Second Amendment has not been infringed…

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So… maybe the First Felon doesn’t understand what the word ‘hoax’ means. He keeps calling the pursuit of the Epstein Files he once promised to release a ‘hoax.’ “It keeps coming up,” he says. He seems to be complaining that people keep bringing the thing up, not so much that the details are false.

A hoax, by definition, is an act intended to deceive or trick. It’s a deception for mockery or mischief. It’s not ongoing talk on a given topic. This is simple (unless you’re MAGA). If you’re saying that someone went back in time and planted all of the evidence that includes trump, just so they could use it against him later, AFTER he became “President,” you’re wrong. The Dems don’t have that kind of power.

If the information in the files is true and correct to the point where one dare not release it for public consumption lest one risk the ire of one’s supporters, despite the fact that people keep talking about it, that’s not a ‘hoax.’ That’s a ‘cover-up…’

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So, if you’re the CEO of a large company that sends goods all over the world, and some unnamed orange moron starts slapping tariffs on everybody, meaning you can’t get raw materials in the US at decent prices anymore, wouldn’t you, at some point, simply surrender the US market and move your operations out of the country?

I mean, if you can’t get the raw materials you need at a decent price and you can’t move out of the country then ship your product back in without running into the tariffs, it just makes sense. Leave the US and don’t even try to ship your product in. In short, eff ’em.

Your production costs stabilize. You can still ship goods to every country but one. You can make up the loss of the US market by getting into China and/or India. Donny says he’s trying to force companies to come to the US but after arresting the workforce of a South Korean company, I’m guessing companies are re-thinking that idea. I’m thinking that, long term, companies will be folding up shop in the US and moving elsewhere…

Closing In?

by MyBaconPress

Ro Khanna (D) says he and Thomas Massie (R) have the votes they need to try and force the release of the Epstein files. Well, okay, WILL have the votes they need by the end of September. There are special elections coming up. There are currently four vacant seats in the House, three of them from deep blue districts. Two of THOSE have already committed to signing the petition so Khanna and Massie have the 218 they need – or they will.

This is just a first step. A discharge petition is a tool to bypass a committee report that might be held up for political reasons, thereby holding up a floor vote. The petition forces the floor vote. Donny and MAGA Mike the Johnson are working overtime trying to keep the Epstein files secret – as one does when one knows how innocent one is. Like, exactly how “innocent” one is.

47, of course, is pretending the whole thing is a democrat hoax and is willing to prove that by keeping the files completely secret (except the parts that were previously known anyway) and shoving them down into a deep, dark vault. Everyone knows, the best disinfectant is deep darkness and further coverup. That never elicits questions. No wonder it’s working so predictably for Donny, et al.

Sometimes, I wonder what he’s worried about. MAGA morality is SO disrupted, Donny could show Polaroids of himself with young girls and MAGA would find a way to justify the photos. Would he lose any support? I doubt it. Those of us who oppose pedophilia would continue to oppose pedophilia and those who defend pedophiles would continue to defend pedophiles – just like what’s happening now – so why all the concern?

In the past, he has embraced whichever of the seven deadly sins he stands accused of committing and MAGA just admires his “honesty.” I’m pretty sure they would extend the same grace to him raping kids…

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Judges are pushing back against the regime’s illegal agenda. Many of the things the First Felon have done are, not surprisingly, crimes. Judges keep saying so. The White House blasts the judges in conservative media as “judicial activists.” MAGA knows to hate “judicial activists” – except when the judicial activism benefits conservatives.

The reason MAGA is so easily deceived by the details? MAGA media isn’t reporting on the lower court rulings at all. That means the faithful don’t get the details. They only get the bluster from the White House and that’s bluster they WANT to believe, so they do.

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As this redistricting battle heats up and degrades the US, it remains possible that Republicans who still love OG America might turn on the party. Just because a district has been gerrymandered to benefit one party or the other doesn’t mean the district will necessarily go in that direction. The benefited party has to come out for the election. If they’re unhappy and they don’t come out? The other party can win – even in a gerrymandered district.

I know that every single downturn of the economy or the society or the law in this bizarro America will be met with excuses by MAGA media. Somehow, everything bad that happens will trace back to Joe Biden or even Barack Obama. All they have to do is ignore the actions Donny took to bring about each day’s new disaster – and ignorance is easy for a MAGA.

But a year from now, even a MAGA might figure out that Donny has been playing them for gullible fools. He has lied to them, tricked them, and stolen from them. If they figure it out, they might just sit out an election. Key phrase? “IF they figure it out.” Odds are long…

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Well, the Niners won. It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was just lucky – but they won, and a W is a W. They started off with a bunch of injuries, then TE George Kittle got injured during the game. The team held together. The defense looked good. The offense has looked better. Special Teams? The headline this morning should have been about Jake Moody looking for work. Apparently, the guy was money in college. Apparently, he hits like a machine in practice. Clearly, he is – at best – “undependable” during an actual game.

He doesn’t have a preference. He pulls them left and he pulls them right. He has demonstrated a rather remarkable collection of ways to miss, in fact. He can miss Field Goals. He can miss Extra Points. He can miss from any distance. But when Moody takes the field to add points, one expects the score to remain the same.

I’ve seen this before, a coach who takes on a ‘less-than’ player as a project. Head Coach Kyle Shanahan seems to have done exactly that with Moody. I can NOT figure out why Shanahan stays so loyal to that guy. Moody’s job is to kick the ball through the uprights. Moody kicks the ball everywhere BUT through the uprights. Moody keeps his job anyway. Moody cost the Niners games last season and he’ll cost the Niners games again THIS season if he sticks around…

One Fraud After Another…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, the latest report is that job growth is VERY low and unemployment is up. Whaddaya know? And remember, he fired the last person who put together that report and replaced her with a toady yes-man who would massage the numbers. So AFTER massaging the numbers, the best he could do was 22,000 jobs?!? My gods, I wonder what the real number is…

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Yeah, yeah, there’s crime everywhere. But the oh-so-clever trick that seems to be deceiving so many MAGA out there? He finds a city he doesn’t like (Democrat run, preferably black mayor) and announces it’s the worst, crime-riddled city in the world. (It isn’t.) He sends in a bunch of troops who do some gardening and stand around a while. Meanwhile, whatever work those troops were supposed to be doing goes undone. THEN Donny declares the city “cleaned up” and withdraws the troops.

Then he, wait, I hear a noise. Hang on. OH MY GOD, there are space aliens out in the yard. They’re killing all of my neighbors. It’s a horrifying bloodbath. We need a hero! Wait, I’ll get my pea-shooter. That’ll do it. BAM! POW! ARGHH! OOF! Oh, thank the gods, I got them all. They’re all dead. I, Mark Bacon, just saved the entire planet from a space alien attack with my trusty pea-shooter! You’re welcome. Gimmie my noble prize now.

See how easy that was? All I had to do was describe it. Now I expect adulation. MY story, after all, is every bit as true and accurate as all that “crime fighting” the First Felon is doing in target cities. And I didn’t only save a city from “crime.” I saved the entire planet from space invaders…

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I sure hope the video of that boat being blown up by the US off the coast of Venezuela is AI because if the video isn’t faked, the act is straight up murder, isn’t it? CAN you just blast a boat out of the water and declare it was full of drugs later? Quick question: what if it was a boatload of drug enforcement agents taking a load of seized drugs out to the deep ocean for disposal? What if it was Gilligan? The Skipper, too? A millionaire and his wife? What if it was a movie star? Or the Professor and Mary Ann?

The maladministration can’t describe the people on the boat. No info on the pretended drugs. How many people were aboard? Genders? Ages? How did they know it was a drug run? It was off the coast of Venezuela. How did they know it was going to the US?

I guess he’s STILL trying to look tough and I readily acknowledge my lack of a JD but I don’t know of any authority anywhere that allows the US to go blow up private boats for the “sin” of simply being in the water hundreds of miles to the south of the US. ‘Will murder to distract from Epstein,’ I guess…

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His lie during the campaign was that he would fix the economy on day one. HIS words, not mine. Of course, that lie blew up in his face and the economy started tanking. So he did what he always does, he lied about it. The worse it gets, the greater he declares it. Oh, and he updated his timeline. First the economy would boom later this year, then it became next year. Most recently, he has move the timeline to 2027 before the economy responds.

All he has to do is keep pushing off the timeline and MAGA will stay loyal and enthralled, so that’s what he’ll do. That boy NEVER delivers. He just pushes off the deadline and the deadline never comes. So by 2027, we should ONLY expect he’ll be promising happier days by 2028. But even at 2027? At the rate he’s going, at the rate prices are going up because of him, at the rate jobs are being lost because of him, businesses are being hurt because of him, income is down because of him do you think you’re going to be able to survive until 2027? I think it’s a fair question…

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Wealth taxes in Norway are under fire. In an effort to enlist the support of people who will NEVER pay the wealth tax, rich people have put out an advertisement with a little song. The message of the song is, “Don’t come to Norway, we will tax you till you’re poor, and when you have nothing left, we will tax you a little more.” Does that sound like anything you may have heard before?

“Tax the rich. Feed the poor. Til there are no rich no more.” That’s from ‘I’d Love to Change The World’ by Ten Years After. It’s not a risk. No one is talking about taxing rich people into poverty. But it’s a common lament from rich people – and people who pretend they might become rich like that some day soon. It’s ALWAYS a lie, but it gets sold to low information voters over and over and over again.

A wealth tax is a tax paid on the value of an asset. People pay taxes on the income from an asset but in most countries they don’t pay a tax on the value of the asset itself. So if you have a million dollars in stocks, you pay a tax on the dividends you receive but not the value of the stock themselves. A wealth tax fixes that.

It’s calculated by adding up the value of properties, savings, investments and shares, and deducting any debt. Private companies count as part of their owners’ wealth. There are discounts – for example, only 25% of the value of citizens’ primary residence is taxable. In countries where a wealth tax exists – and there are only three in Europe – it’s often the only tax the richest people pay – so it ensures they pay something.

Rich people like to pretend they’re “self-made.” They’re not. The closest you could get to an actual self-made millionaire would be an entertainer but even they have teams of people who help them. NO ONE is “self-made.” Rich people benefit from the societies in which they live. They get educated employees from the schools they don’t want to pay for, they move their goods on roads they don’t want to pay for, they get a stable society in which to conduct their business they don’t want to pay for, they’re protected by police and firefighters they don’t want to pay for.

We should have a wealth tax here in the US. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have each proposed such a thing but, of course, the rich have many minions in this once-great nation. And as we’ve all seen a million times, what we SHOULD do, we rarely actually do. It’s really rather embarrassing…

The Voices of Victims…

by MyBaconPress

Listen, some of you guys out there might have a hard time believing this. In fact, some of the dudes out there should probably sit down before reading this because it’s definitely going to be a shock. Okay, comfortable? Here goes. It turns out – and I’m not making this up – but it turns out, women don’t like being sexually assaulted nearly as much as you might imagine. I KNOW! “But, what kind of bitch might reject MY glorious seed?”

Hey, I hear you, man, but it turns out, women want to have a say in their own sexuality. No, really. It’s like, THEY want to decide who does what with them and when and under what conditions. I think we all know that, by and large, most women have been ‘spared’ the burdensome responsibility of deciding with whom they should have sex, fortunately or unfortunately. But apparently, they weren’t fond of that reality.

It really DOES seem like THEY want to make those decisions and not have some man decide for them. No, I don’t know WHO the f they think they are, but that’s the way they seem to feel. Wait, it gets worse. As it happens, when some random man DOES decide it’s time for her to have sex, ready or not, she doesn’t take that as casually as you might imagine.

Women don’t forget it, and NOT in a “Aren’t you a stud?” kind of way. It’s more like a “Why did you do that to me?” kind of way. For her, it’s more like a trauma and less like a treasured memory. And even if you could find a woman who hasn’t experienced SOME form of assault – and good luck with that – SHE would very definitely know and love a woman who has.

The reason I mention it is this: it looks like there may be a possible breach forming in the stonewall the GOP has been trying to build in an effort to protect President Pedo. The vulnerable point? Women. Specifically, the GOP women in congress who understand that protecting one pedophile is protecting all pedophiles. Making sexual assault safe for some makes it safe for many. The breach will very likely occur with the GOP women in congress who have, themselves, been assaulted.

Nancy Mace is one such. You may recall, she bolted the interview room where the victims were testifying with a panic attack. She was clearly upset. She signed on to the petition to release the Epstein files. It’s true, she also issued a statement declaring her certainty that Donny isn’t in the files, despite the simple and basic fact that we all KNOW Donny IS in the files. But the statement was political, the result of her being in a cult, while the signature on the petition was visceral and reflects her feelings on sexual assault. She’s against.

Now, except for Thomas Massie, who co-authored the petition to release the files with Democrat Ro Khanna, the GOP men – who really don’t understand all the hoopla and think there’s not a thing in the world wrong with a little “slap-and-tickle” from time to time – are still fully on board working all day, every day to protect the Precious, no matter what he did.

But the women? They didn’t like it when it happened to them and they’re willing to take a stand in an effort to protect other women and girls from suffering similar fates. So far, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene have signed the petition. I cannot TELL you how weird it is to be on the same side of an issue as Mace, Boebert, and Greene but if they’re willing to take an honorable stance on an issue, I’m willing to let them – and I’ll stand with them.

Massie and Khanna need 218 signatures to force a vote and they have 215. 211 Democrats, 4 Republicans. Eric Swalwell is the only Dem who hasn’t signed but will when gets back to Washington DC after dealing with the passing of his mother, meaning Massie and Khanna need only two more cons to sign. There are more than two Republican women in the House who have yet to sign, so that’s where MY energy would go, if I was Massie or Khanna.

For clarity, this petition does NOT force the release of the files, it only forces a vote and that fact might stop even some of the GOP women from signing on. Presumably, the GOP men in congress will work to protect the attackers and not the victims and vote against it. Bucking the MAGA party line takes balls, which is why only GOP women are up for it.

The victims of the Epstein/Maxwell/Trump child sex trafficking ring have come together and said they’re going to put together a list of the men who assaulted them. The obvious question is why they haven’t done so before. The answer is fear. One woman names a rich and powerful man and the lawsuits fly. Even if she managed a win, she, likely, would be wiped out. In short, individual women couldn’t risk it. (Money sure does do a lot of damage in this country, doesn’t it?)

Hell, even as a group, the women really couldn’t fight back. They’d be sued into oblivion just for naming names. So Marjorie Taylor Greene – yes, that MTG – has agreed to read the list of names the women create on the floor of Congress. The women will be protected from being sued because THEY didn’t publicly disclose the names. MTG will be protected from action because Congress critters get to say pretty much anything they want on the floor of Congress without reprisal. But the names will be out there.

Donny must be filling his diaper right about now. I suspect his panic level increased a LOT when the victims held their press conference. On the one hand, 47 is trying to act nonchalant and pretend it’s all a democrat hoax. On the other hand, he’s doing everything he can to distract and redirect. He went so far as to arrange to have military aircraft fly over the Epstein victim’s presser in an attempt to disrupt the thing. Of course, planes move fast and were only a very temporary distraction.

It’s VERY expensive to fly military aircraft for even a few minutes. But when one is calling out military aircraft in an attempt to drown out the voices of the victims of one’s actions, one is clearly concerned about the words coming out of the victim’s mouths…

Donny Lives – And So Does Jeffrey…

by MyBaconPress

Well, I guess we have to put the party favors away for a while longer. He reemerged. He just had some old-guy thing that kept him out of the limelight for a short time. Maybe he was personally reviewing his participation in Epstein’s activities on the DVDs we know the FBI collected when it was still a decently run, respectable organization. He likes those DVDs. They remind him of the good old days when men raping children was just party time.

Meanwhile, Nancy Mace was in a briefing with an Epstein survivor and got so upset listening to what happened to those girls she had to leave early so she could get back to protecting President Pedophile from facing the consequences of his actions. She was crying. She was visibly upset. She’s a victim of Sexual Assault, herself, and she said she had a panic attack and had to get out fast. Oh, but she’ll still defend her Precious.

In fairness to her and for clarity, she DID sign the petition to release all of the Epstein files. That seems contradictory, but both statements are true. She signed the petition but she also defended President Pedophile. That indicates her belief that his name isn’t in the files – at least in any way that might implicate him. I have a hard time believing he would go to so much trouble to protect the contents of those files if Mace is correct.

Meanwhile, the Epstein/Trump victims held a presser and have announced their intention to create a client list of their own. These women were there. THEY know who abused them. In my mind, it’s about time. I mean, I understand why they’ve stayed silent for so long. Running into the buzzsaw of MAGA wrath (a deadly sin, btw) would discourage just about anyone, but as a group and now that they’re known anyway? Full disclosure is their best protection and the sooner the better.

It looks as though MAGA Mike the Johnson’s ploy of running away early from Congress back in July hoping people would forget about Epstein and Maxwell and Donny and the sex trafficking ring they ran and/or enjoyed has failed. The news cycle DID move on. But now the news cycle has moved back.

Oh, one last thing. 47, liar that he is, keeps calling this thing a democratic hoax. This is a possible learning opportunity for MAGA. They KNOW the Epstein files are no hoax. They’ve known it for a long time. Right now is an opportunity for them to realize that “democratic hoax” is just a lie he tells to protect himself. If they can just connect TWO freaking dots, just two…

Yeah, okay, never mind…

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Every once in a while, I just sort of… reconnect with some stupid thing 47 has done. Most recently, it’s his dedication to fossil fuels. He has it in for wind power because Scotland built some windmills within visual distance of a golf course the Drumpfster owns. Once he got down on wind, he lumped all renewables together and doesn’t like any of them.

Do you know the first solar cell was invented by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey? Now Donny is turning his back on the technology in favor of coal and gas. Do you know who is NOT turning their backs on renewables in favor of 19th century dominance? The rest of the world. Everyone else will continue to benefit from the developing technology. They’ll install renewables and realize the savings and benefits of using them.

Other countries will take the lead. No, that’s not quite right. Other countries will accept the lead that’s being freely handed to them on a gaudy, gold platter by a grotty, orange moron. And he’s just… giving away the US lead – because Scotland built some windmills he didn’t like. So, naturally, he has to be all in on yesterday’s technology across the board.

He’s not just giving up the health benefits of using renewables here in the US. He’s giving up financial benefits. Not only can the US lead in the area of renewables, we profit from that. There’s money to be made – and lost, if he sets us back – but set us back, he will. He already has.

Get ready for Conestoga wagons to replace 18-wheelers. Sure, the big trucks pollute well, but they’re just too fast. Donny likes Conestoga wagons better, Conestoga wagons it will be. I guess his path to world dominance is to sit down and watch everyone else advance. Really, it’s just plain stupid…

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Round two seems to have gone to Alabama. When Donny emerged from whatever hidey-hole he was hidden in, it was to announce that the Space Command would be moved from Colorado to Alabama. The same idea came up during the Biden years (so, of course, Donny claimed it as his own) but was rejected by Biden. Space Command stayed where it was.

The National Space Defense Center (NSDC) at Schriever AFB, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, and the satellite communication capabilities at Peterson AFB represent the nation’s premier military and intelligence space coordination entities and people decided it would be best to keep the Space Command near them.

But I presume Donny is moving the headquarters to Huntsville because he likes their nickname, “Rocket City,” Alabama. Okay, that’s a joke. In fact, he may not do it at all. His threat to do it is to punish Colorado. They still use mail-in ballots, the safest and most convenient form of voting. (And you KNOW that’s true because Donny says otherwise.) That’s the reason he cited. Mail-in ballots.

Right. That’s SO petty and stupid, you suspect I’m just projecting stupidity onto the guy, right? Here’s the quote, “The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting,” he said during the announcement. “When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections, because that’s what that means. So that played a big factor also.” See? It’s not me pretending he’s stupid. It’s HIM, actually being stupid.

Now, obviously, if Colorado eliminates mail-in voting, as Donny is extorting them to do, he will likely change his mind and leave the command where it is. But Colorado MUST comply or they’ll lose hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending. Not to mention the damage he’ll do to the Space Command just to try to make a political point.

I’ll tell you this: Every time I hear some new “thought” from this guy I think of Bugs Bunny’s description: ‘What a maroon…’

Beggars Belief…

by MyBaconPress

Is there still any question that Israel is engaged in attempted genocide? Are there still apologists for Israel? (Check with Bill Maher.) Even Israeli citizens are hitting the streets, protesting the ongoing violence in Gaza. It’s one thing for other nations to comment. Israel has an out for that, “You weren’t attacked.” But when Israelis start protesting and calling for peace, Israel loses it’s pretended moral stance.

The enforced starvation of civilians in Gaza has been playing out in front of media cameras (when the reporters aren’t being targeted by Israel) and the whole world’s watching. Some people are trying to do something about it. If nothing else, they’re trying to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people by just showing up.

Well, they’re bringing food and supplies but it’s not nearly enough. It’s more of a show than an actual assist, meant to shame the rest of the world into stepping in. Noted climate activist Greta Thunberg – among others – has joined a flotilla heading to Israel with humanitarian aid. This is her second run. The last time she tried, she and her companions were intercepted, treated decently, and sent away. This time? Israel is promising to handle things… differently.

THIS time, Israel has threatened to toss Thunberg and her compatriots into “terrorist level” detention with a specific goal: “Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”

Israel is playing political games and, as always, actual lives hang in the balance. Israel has all the stories down pat. “We’re defending ourselves from Oct 7.” No, you’re not. Any moral superiority you once enjoyed – and you did – has long-since evaporated. Starving babies and other innocents is a war crime. It’s NOT self-defense.

“We have to impose a blockade to prevent weapons from getting to Hamas.” Uh-huh. Nobody is bringing weapons on these flotillas. These are high-profile protests against the above-mentioned war crimes. Thunberg, et al, are trying to help people. Israel knows that. But what Thunberg and company are doing flies in the face of what Israel wants: all the land for themselves.

I’ll tell you this: When Israel starts classifying activists trying to feed starving people as “terrorists,” I’m pretty sure Israel has surrendered ALL moral superiority…

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Meanwhile, there are still stories swirling that the US will begin taking control of Gaza and “administer” the area for the next ten years while “relocating” the people who own the land and live there. Then, Donny gets to try to carry out his plan to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

I didn’t realize MAGA was so into nation building and foreign interventions, but this, apparently, is what they voted for so I guess they’re happy. In fairness, though, even if they’re not happy about it, today, they’ll GET happy about it once Donny tells them to…

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I don’t guess I understand this. Donny has been rounding up not-white people and shipping them out of the country as fast as he can. Then, suddenly, he decides he’s going to allow 600,000 Chinese students to come to American universities? Okay, first question, why would they WANT to? I mean, now that Donny has seized control over various college’s curricula, what value will an American education have?

The only thing the Chinese students will learn is that Donny saved the day at the Alamo, Donny led the charge up San Juan hill, Donny led the beach landings on D-Day and single-handedly raised the flag on Iwo Jima, Donny was the first man on the moon, Donny invented vaccines but then immediately destroyed them since all vaccines are always bad, Donny was the first signer of the Constitution, Donny, personally, invented the atom bomb and personal computers with his “big, beautiful brain,” and it was actually Donny who discovered the double-helix of DNA. Watkins, Crick, Franklin, and Wilkins only got the credit because “the whole thing was rigged.”

Still, MAGA got pretty upset with the announcement that 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to come here for school. It’s hard to blame them. Earlier this year, Marco Rubio laid out the official position that the US was going to “aggressively revoke” visas from Chinese students, especially those “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

Now Donny has just opened the door and let them in. 600,000 Chinese students. That’s 600,000 people who are – shh – not white. Naturally, there was a backlash. Donny fixed it, though. He said, “I think it’s very insulting to a country when you say you’re not going to take your students” before insulting other countries by refusing to take their students…

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I think it’s important to remember that no matter where he was during the mysterious missing four days, he was still Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend for fifteen years and the two of them likely raped children together.

The White House is trying to float the story that the Drumpfster was out playing golf with John Gruden over the weekend, but the photos they shared had been previously shared by Gruden a few days earlier. I suppose it’s possible 47 just now got around to posting the photo from over a week ago. Things like that happen. They just become a bit more suspicious when there’s already speculation going on about where he was.

Posting a photo that COULD be interpreted as trying to distort the timeline seems like it will only aggravate the controversy. You know, the way his many efforts to distract from that fact that he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and the two of them likely raped children together has mostly served to keep that story alive…

Dah, Comrade…

by MyBaconPress

As long as I can remember, the far right has been terrified of the word Socialism. In their mind, Socialism IS Communism. You know Communism, right? That’s a political/economic system in which the government owns the means of production. Cons are so scared of anything even approaching Communism, they are opposed to public fire departments. Well, they were.

Now Orange Man has taken a 10% stake of Intel on behalf of the US government. The government, officially, owns the means of production. Communism. It’s right there, right out in the open for all to see. Fortunately, MAGA can look away. Apparently, they’re okay with Communism when Donny does Communism. Why, it’s almost as if these guys have no beliefs at all.

It has happened before. The US has taken ownership stakes in companies that were considered important but badly run. Usually, though, only long enough to prop them up and spin them off. Even THAT is socialism, by the way. Cons cannot – WILL not – confess that Socialism is where Capitalism turns when Capitalism fails, but it happens on a fairly regular, ongoing basis.

The difference, this time, is that Donny doesn’t seem interested in letting go of the government ownership stake. Not only that, his regime is running around extorting a lot of different companies into paying a vig to the US government. “Nice company ya got here. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”

There is no end to what MAGA will do for this guy. He wants Communism? Communism is a-okay with them for… reasons. Sooner or later, someone else is going to take a shot at this guy. Sooner or later, Donny is going to want to collect the guns “for everyone’s safety.” And you watch, the Second Amendment, “cold, dead hands” crowd will be searching for their assigned gun drop-off station so the can do their patriotic duty and voluntarily turn in their weapons…

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I’m saying this: conservatism is on the rise around the world. Misery is ALSO on the rise around the world. Coincidence? I think not. I think where conservatism goes, misery follows. It’s pretty simple, really…

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Well, that was fun while it lasted. I wrote yesterday morning that nobody had seen Donny in public for a while and people were speculating as to why. I, for one, was hoping the mantra “trump dead at 79” was taking hold. No such luck. 47 hit the golf course yesterday. Fourteen. That’s the number of cars Donny used to get to a golf course yesterday. They’re all big, heavy vehicles. That explains (in part) why every trip he takes to a golf course costs taxpayers millions of dollars.

Left unexplained is where he was. He STILL wasn’t seen in public from Tuesday through Friday. That STILL means Donny went four days with no public fawning or adulation – nor epithets or insults, either. His ego is FAR to tiny and fragile to not rush to any camera, so where was he?

This morning, we’re getting a lot of “Oh, the haters were wrong,” from corporate media. It sure seems like something was up. He avoided cameras for four days. For anybody else, that’s just normal living. For Donny? It’s evidence of a crisis. He simply CAN NOT stay out from in front of a camera. I wonder if this pretended “most transparent regime in history” will issue a statement. My guess, it will be issued shortly after the Epstein Files are released to the public. That is, don’t hold your breath…

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Um… while they’re fighting a fire? Really?!? ICE raided a team of firefighters. They were held while the ICEholes determined citizenship. Oh, let me rephrase that. The fire burned freely while the ICEholes determined citizenship. Two people kidnapped. Unknown number of acres burned while the process played out.

They keep going to where people are working. They never arrest the employer who hired the person illegally. Only the worker. I don’t pretend to be an expert but do you really think MS-13 gang members are dutifully holding down a 9 to 5? I suspect that if you’re arresting MS-13, you’re NOT arresting someone with a steady job. If you’re arresting someone with a steady job, you’re NOT arresting MS-13.

It looks like the ICEholes want the easy captures and don’t really want to focus too much on MS-13. Those guys are tough. Why would ICE want to mess with them? The ICEholes are cosplaying tough guys. They dare not face actual tough guys, so they’ll take the woman picking lettuce – or maybe a couple of firefighters working to stop a wildfire. Certainly nobody threatening. Then they can talk tough at a press conference and the fantasy is complete.

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People who know about these things are saying that not only have the Drumpfster’s tariffs (aka tax on the American people) been declared illegal, if the decision stands the US may have to pay back all of the money they collected under the criminal regimen.

There’s no word on how I get back the excess money I had to pay when I went to the grocery store because of Donny’s tariffs coupled with corporate greed. Of course, the whole point is a wealth transfer from the working class to the lazy class, so I won’t be holding out any hope. In fact, The Felon knows he has the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court in his pocket. He’s expecting a 6-3 decision saying the Precious gets to do whatever he wants, just like it doesn’t say in the Constitution.

On his crappy social media site, he wrote, “If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong.” The ONLY reason it would make us financially weak is because of his tax cuts. The tariffs were meant to offset some of the damage of the tax cuts – not ALL of it, but enough to potentially paper over just what a financial fumbler Donny really is.

Quick question: if the tariff decision stands – as it should since tariffs really are the sole purview of Congress – do you suppose Donny will repeal his precious tax cuts that do him so much good personally? You know, for the good of the country. I feel pretty certain that if the good of the nation comes into conflict with the good of Donny, the nation can pound sand…