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He’ll Do It…

by MyBaconPress

I know a story about a man who was born to a woman who had never had sex. He traveled around the countryside with a group of people performing amazing feats – and they were not magic tricks. God had blessed him. He’s even said to have brought people back from the dead. There are no objective, living witnesses to challenge or confirm the story.

One day, he ran afoul of local authorities and that eventually led to his execution. According to the story, he died, as one will after being executed, but only stayed dead for three days, essentially avoiding the consequences of his actions. Then, he got up and went for a walk.

According to the story, he never did die again. He promised he would come back for a visit before that generation perished from the Earth. To this day – and, coincidentally, many, many generations later, people are still waiting. But his followers will tell you: promises made, promises kept.

It’s not a story I’ve ever been able to accept, as presented. It goes against everything I know about where babies come from and the permanence of death. But there are plenty of people who DO believe that story, exactly as written, or, more accurately, exactly as presented today.

It’s a very old story. I suspect through the years, it has been corrected, adjusted, and embellished. Even the protagonist’s name changed through the years, from ‘Joshua’ to ‘Jesus.’ First editions often need later edits. The fact that there’s not a shred of evidence to support the story doesn’t shake the beliefs of those who DO believe. By and large, they believe because they’ve been conditioned to believe.

Someone told them their special friend would protect them and they believe they’re being protected, despite that fact that successes and setbacks visit them at about the same rate as those who don’t believe. In faith, facts are problems to be overcome, not reasons to reconsider.

Because the story was written for a simpler audience, one can easily find conflicts and contradictions. I could spend hours talking to a believer – and have done – pointing out the problems with the tale and never shake their faith – because it IS a matter of faith. But THIS faith, at least, is faith rooted in morality, if one follows the actual teachings of Joshua/Jesus…

I know another story about a man born to vast wealth but who managed to pull himself up by his bootstraps, anyway, and become super-de-duper rich and it did NOT have anything to do with crime. God had blessed him, too. He is said to be a brilliant businessman and negotiator. There are no objective, living witnesses able to confirm the story. One day, he ran afoul of local authorities and was prosecuted. He, too, managed to avoid the consequences of his actions. Then he got up and ran – for public office.

So far, his actions have not been in keeping with his words. He has made many promises but has failed to keep most of them. In fairness, he DOES seem to be all in on the cruelest of them. Where he promised salvation, he has delivered only distress. He has a tendency to MAKE people dead, rather than bring them back, but those are the kinds of niggling details that can be corrected in later editions. Meanwhile, his followers will tell you: promises made, promises kept.

It’s not a story I’ll ever be able to accept, as presented. It goes against everything I know about where hyper-wealth comes from or how a brilliant negotiator operates. But there are plenty of people who DO believe that story, exactly as written, or, more accurately, exactly as presented today.

See, this is a newer story, clearly in need of correction, adjustment, and embellishment. THIS story is still in it’s first edition, though the protagonist’s name has already changed. The fact that there’s not a shred of evidence to support the story doesn’t shake the beliefs of those who DO believe. By and large, they believe because they’ve been conditioned to believe.

Someone told them their special friend would protect them and they believe they’re being protected, despite the fact that serious harm and setbacks are being visited upon them at about the same rate as those who don’t believe. In faith, facts are problems to be overcome, not reasons to reconsider.

Because MAGA is a simple audience, one can easily find conflicts and contradictions in their story. I could spend hours talking to a believer – and have done – pointing out the problems with the tale and never shake their faith – because it IS a matter of faith.

This is WHY they can move so quickly and easily from one position to the next, as though the original position never even existed. When he said he would fix a given problem on day one, they KNEW he would fix the problem on day one. They didn’t NEED to hear the plan. Their faith told them so. When he changed his story to “This is going to take some time, so be patient,” they made an easy pivot. “Oh,” they’ll adjust, “he meant he was going to START fixing it on day one.” They KNEW he had only ever said it was going to take some time. Their faith told them so.

The MAGA faithful are currently defending his latest shift: “Christmas is probably going to suck” as the only message he has ever delivered. Any one of them will tell you, all he ever said was it was going to take months and months to fix the problems, but he’ll do it. Their faith tells them so. When he gets to his final shift, “I can’t fix this. It’s too hard,” they’ll defend that, too. Faith.

I’m not sure MAGA realizes theirs is a faith-based movement, but it helps ME to realize the fact. I watch them shift their positions with the shifting stories and find it quite mind-boggling, but I understand. They have no choice but to adjust. Faith can’t withstand evidence if the evidence is accepted. So it isn’t. HOURS of video evidence proving their story false does nothing. It never even penetrates. “Fake news,” they call it.

Personally, I prefer fact-based reality. I remember the line that went around after 9/11. “Science flies people to the moon. Faith flies people into buildings.” That’s commonly true. MAGA faith, sadly, is the worst kind of faith. It’s faith completely removed from morality. It’s very dangerous. But it perfectly explains why Uncle Jim-Bob can’t be convinced of anything based on facts. He doesn’t need or care about facts. He has his faith. And if that faith asks him to fly into a building…

Too Much Insanity…

by MyBaconPress

This is spillover. This crazy regime is getting SO far out of control, I can’t fit it all into a single, 1,000 (-ish) word column. I published on Monday morning. By Thursday, there was SO much insanity, it rolled over to Saturday. That’s a LOT of crazy in only three days…

So, 47 sits for an interview with a guy named Terry Moran and the subject of Kilmar Abrego Garcia comes up. 47 says Abrego Garcia was MS-13 because that’s the lie the regime is pushing. Moran pointed out that there’s a dispute about that. Donny replies, “Wait a minute. Wait a minute, he had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles, tattooed.” Moran tried to help. He pointed out that Abrego Garcia has some tattoos but they’re not associated with MS-13.

“It says M-S-1-3,” 47 insisted. Moran pointed out that the ‘MS-13’ that appears in THAT photo was Photoshopped in. I think whoever did that was trying to smear Abrego Garcia in order to justify his deportation. But Donny doesn’t seem to able to understand the photo was altered. He even offered to pull out the picture and show Moran. (Pro tip: showing a Photoshopped photo to someone doesn’t prove it wasn’t Photoshopped.)

Donny glared. But it wasn’t an “I effing HATE you” glare. It looked more like he was trying to use mind control to get Moran to agree. 47 had that same look on his face Sheldon Cooper gets on ‘The Big Bang’ when he thinks HE’S mind-controlling someone. The only difference is that the fictional Sheldon Cooper is FAR smarter than the actual Drumpfster.

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia's left hand.

Okay so, let’s consider this, shall we? This is a photo of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s left hand. It’s a little hard to see but it was, surprisingly, the only one I could find. Still, it serves. You can see that he has a tattoo on each finger. You can ALSO see there is no ‘MS-13’ on his hand. What IS there is this: on his index finger, he has a cannabis leaf. On his middle finger, he has an picture of a dead guy, as indicated by the x’s in place of eyes. It’s an old animator’s trick to indicate a dead person in animation, x’s in place of eyes.

His ring finger sports a cross and the pinkie has a skull that looks like it’s smiling, as they do. The White House is pretending those are secret code pictograms that mean “MS-13.” The thing is, MS-13 members don’t make any effort to hide their affiliation. They tattoo MS-13 all over their bodies, often in large, stylized characters. The truth is, if I was interpreting any possible meaning to that group of tattoos, and I should say, here, Kilmar and I have never met so we haven’t talked about it, I wouldn’t get ‘MS-13.’

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to presume Kilmar’s tats of a cannabis leaf, dead guy, cross, and smiling skull could mean “Marijuana kills, Jesus saves.” I do NOT say I’m right, only that it’s a reasonable interpretation. FAR more reasonable, in my mind, than ‘MS-13.’ But 47 MUST maintain his lie for MAGA. If they ever figure out how gullible and downright stupid he makes them look, they might turn on him. Then what?

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A bright side? Trump is showing the entire world how horrifying and destructive today’s conservative policies are. Conservative media is non-stop. Using the internet and other side-steps to licensed broadcasting that requires more truth, they’ve been injecting conservative talking points into people’s minds for a long time. Some of it has taken root, the way cancer takes hold and spreads. The end result is the same, too.

Like cancer, the conservative talking points metastiasized. Unlike cancer, people were thinking they’d like to give it a try. Then Musk stole the election for Donny and the wrecking crew came in and began destroying everything, seemingly just for the sake of destroying everything. Now, the rest of the world can see the reality behind conservative talking points. Apparently, the world isn’t so thrilled with the reality of conservatism.

Canada recently had an election. The conservatives in Canada were WAY ahead and expected to win the thing in a walk. Then Donny began his rampage. After a brief peek at what conservatives have in mind, the liberal candidate won. 47 single-handedly turned around Canada’s recent election as people realized what a nightmare conservatives actually have in mind for the world.

Not to be outdone, Australia also took a look at the conservative agenda, which they had been openly flirting with for a time, and immediately re-elected their liberal leader to a second term. 47 really IS leading the way, or rather, the “No way.” Now that the world sees what the conservative agenda looks like in real life as compared to the lying and empty promises of conservative media, they get to reconsider their support of conservatism and go with “sane” instead.

I suspect his stunningly stupid incompetence is hurting conservatives in Europe, too. The cons have gotten out of control and they mean the world harm. There’s no more question about that. They must be stopped and it seems that nothing convinces people of the inhumanity of the conservative mind than the displays of conservative “thinking” that come from The Don of Destruction…

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The anti-American, criminal regime has settled a lawsuit with Ashli Babbitt’s family. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. You remember Babbitt, right? Well, in case you’ve forgotten, she’s a woman who was violently storming the Capitol, looking for someone to kill on The Felon’s January 6th “day of love.” As she was crawling through a smashed out window trying to access a Congressional chamber in which Congress critters were still present and frightened for their lives – as people often are during days of love – she was warned by US Capitol Police Lt Michael Byrd to stop or he would shoot. She was in a “love” rampage, though. She refused to stop, and got shot in the head. Appropriately, she died.

She died while committing a violent crime, and now, the family is going to get paid. It’s really mind-boggling. Here’s a basic truth: if you’re an American citizen and you violently attack the Capitol threatening to kill people based on pure, easily-provable lies, you’re a traitor. You’re not a hero and you certainly do NOT deserve to get paid…

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I think Elon thinks he’s funny. Have you noticed? He says really stupid things but he thinks maybe they’re funny things and people around him laugh. Apparently, it never crosses his shriveled and evil little mind that the lickspittles around him laugh because he has money.

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how blinded, self-deluded, and just plain downright stupid the crew in the positions of power right now really are. But OMG, they really are…

In Only 100 Days…

by MyBaconPress

100 days. The First Felon held a rally. He wanted to celebrate all of his success. Who wouldn’t, right? Now all he needs is some success. I guess I’m being presumptuous. I thought “success” would involve doing good for people. I presumed “success” might have looked like some of the things he promised on the campaign trail. He clearly knew what the American people wanted. Those are the things he promised.

End Putin’s war in Ukraine? Hell, yeah. Reduce the price of…oh, what IS that totally old and archaic word? Oh, yeah, groceries. He promised to reduce the price of groceries AND opined on how clever he is to use such an outdated word as “groceries,” just like a big boy! He promised to bring down the price of gas at the pump. I’m for that. He said he was going to end the inflation Biden had already controlled. He said he was going to end the ‘weaponization of the Department of Justice’ that had never happened. (His delusions are dangerous.)

He said he wanted to end the “Deep State.” I guess I’d have to give him half credit for that one. He has pretty much ended the State, deep or otherwise. But he hasn’t done ANY of the other things. Just the opposite, in fact.

Putin’s war continues unabated. Groceries are more expensive, not less. Gas, too. Job losses are mounting. He has weaponized the DOJ in a way never before seen in our once-great nation. He is weakening the government and the nation, reducing our position to “avoid them” status. He wants to claim success? The US has lost stature and treasure. We gave away our leadership role. NOBODY respects the US today. If he calls that “success,” that was his goal, right?

In short, his first 100 days HAVE been consequential. But only in the sense that there are consequences to incompetence, for rank-and-file Americans, anyway. HE, personally, is increasing his personal fortune by vast amounts. Pretty much every economic indicator is moving in the wrong direction and the worst effects of his regime have yet to play out. In short, the nightmare of the Pale Rider is just beginning. B-B-B-Baby, we just ain’t seen n-n-nothin’, yet.

What he does is feed soundbites into MAGA media so MAGA can lap them up, ignore the reality on the ground, and continue to sing his praises. (Hosanna’s ass. A little divine intervention would be great, right now, but it seems whenever someone really needs divine intervention, God’s off taking a powder.) You know what I mean. You’ve heard him saying things that are the exact opposite of the truth.

You’ve heard him saying things that sound absolutely insane. Not the word salads. Those ARE insane. I’m talking about claims impossible to prove (because they’re lies) and promises that won’t be kept. When Americans hear them, we KNOW he’s lying – but MAGA doesn’t. And that’s a key: the soundbites are to keep MAGA confused, not to convince thinking Americans of anything. He knows we know better. He doesn’t care. He needs to keep MAGA on board so he says whatever they want to hear.

Everything is great. Hey, it’s been 100 days. Let’s celebrate! You know, before the economy collapses completely, store shelves start emptying, everybody loses their jobs, and the police state starts invading homes and disappearing American citizens. Oh, I guess they’ve started on that last one already…

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“This is Biden’s stock market, not Trump’s,” Trump lied. “I didn’t take over until January 20th.” 47 seemed to be responding to the Commerce Department report that came out Wednesday. It showed the US economy had contracted 0.3% in the first quarter. I’m going to stipulate, here, that Biden WAS the President right up until January 20. It’s just true. But a first quarter report covers January, February, and March. 90 days. Biden was in charge for 20 days of that. 22% of that time.

Just think about how much worse the report would have been if it had ALL been Donny! Everyone (except MAGA) knows that the economy at the end of Biden’s term was one of the strongest in the world. The Drumpfster was actively taking credit for it, because of course he did.

Everyone (except MAGA, of course) knew it was empty blather but he was still taking credit for it. So, if I’m to believe the Felon – and I don’t – when Biden was actually in charge and making decisions, the economy was so strong Trump was claiming credit. Now that Trump is in charge and making decisions, Trump is trying to blame Biden as the economy tanks.

I’m the first to point out that most of the time, there’s a residual impact of the outgoing administration. But you would be hard pressed to find an incoming administration that went to so much trouble to change so many things so fast as this regime. He started swinging his wrecking ball on day one. He stayed up late undoing actions Biden had taken – just because they were actions Biden had taken. Had Donny not touched those things, the economy would likely have continued the Biden expansion that was already in place.

But just reversing anything ‘Biden’ as quickly as he could wasn’t the only damage he inflicted. He ALSO inflicted tariffs for no real reason. People who understand these things began warning him that it was an unforced error immediately. He did it anyway because he’s too stupid to know how stupid he is. Now we’re looking at soon-to-be-empty store shelves and higher costs on everything.

Because of the way the economy works, toy stores are already warning there won’t be enough toys for Christmas. (100 days in and 47 has ALREADY hurt Christmas!) At least he’s finally coming clean about the damage his tariffs are doing. Kids might get “two dolls instead of thirty dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.” There it is, the admission. Fewer things on the shelves that will cost more. Nice work, there, Donny.

He still, mostly, has MAGA bamboozled. “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” Well, that’s an easy question for both sides. MAGA will pluck their offending eyes from their skulls, but I don’t believe Donny any further than I can throw him. And I’m telling you, I can’t throw that lard-ass at all…

Another Day In Bizarro America…

by MyBaconPress

It’s a real-life ‘he said, Xi said.’ Felon 47 claimed on April 22, during an interview with Time magazine that Chinese leader Xi had called him to discuss The Felon’s trade war. As usual, he offers NO details or evidence. He just claimed it happened. I guess we’re supposed to just take his word for it. More, it looks like the Chinese are supposed to just take his word for it, too. It’s simply inexplicable, in his tiny mind, that they don’t.

Asked about the comments, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said: “As far as I know, there has been no phone call between the two heads of state recently. China and the United States are not conducting consultations or negotiations on tariff issues.”

Meanwhile, I’m seeing news stories about idled truckers and empty shipping ports. That means store shelves are going to start emptying and prices will be on the rise. The bumbling buffoon has managed to artificially re-create the economic shut-down he brought about with his feckless handling of Covid-19.

This self-inflicted, totally avoidable economic upheaval was not caused by Joe Biden. It wasn’t caused by Barack Obama. It wasn’t Bill Clinton. It wasn’t Hillary Clinton. It sure as shootin’ wasn’t Bernie or AOC. It wasn’t Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, Elizabeth Warren, George Soros, or any of the other lefty boogie-men the right likes to blame for their own shortcomings. This was all, 100%, absolutely no one but the failing and flailing Donald J. Trump…

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You just wait. They’ll be saying she was in BOTH Tren de Aragua AND MS-13. They’ll claim she has the gang tats to prove it. She has a rap sheet as long as… some very long thing. She’s been a menace to society for years and years and years. She’s a legal nightmare and simply had to go. Of course, the fact that she’s only two years old is going to have to be downplayed.

Focus on the story, ‘She’s bad.’ Ignore her age. She’s two. Oh, I’ve got it. “We’ve ALL heard of the terrible two’s. THIS girl takes it to the extreme!” Say some scary words, as though they might apply to her. “Murder.” “Rape.” “Poopy-pants.” Oh, did I mention this two-year-old “terrorist” is a US citizen? That seems like it might have been relevant.

Well, she’s been deported now, so, I guess the Bizarro United States is safe. For now. One can never tell when that little sneak will toddle back across the border. Stay vigilant! Hey, at least she wasn’t sent to a maximum security prison!

In fact, Team Evil deported the child’s mother, who opted to take the child with her. Bear in mind, the child’s mother didn’t do anything wrong, either. She was arrested during what used to be a routine check-in meeting. It was just an opportunity to inflict a little cruelty on a brown person and these guys are NOT going to pass that up.

Even MAGA seems to be noticing how things aren’t going the way Donny promised. His approval ratings are plunging. He has poor ratings on the economy and on immigration, as he should. He sucks at both of those things. But, according to an article in ‘The Guardian,’ “a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe [the anti-American Trumpster] has focused on the right priorities as president.”

24%? That number cuts into MAGA. The Drumpfster maintains about 30% support on most issues and that 30% represents MAGA. (The rest of us understand what’s really happening in this once-great nation.) MAGA is normally steadfast. True believers. It’s a solid 30% and it often seems impossible to shake. 24% means some 6% of MAGA has noticed he’s hurting them, too.

Perhaps they’ve noticed he’s spending more time on retribution and golf than on the cost-of-living and he seems to be making America a laughingstock around the world. That’s hardly “great.” What’s more, if 6% are willing to confess their concerns for a poll, there are likely even more who have noticed, are not happy, but still trying to keep the faith.

So, what happens if MAGA were to find out that all he’s really done is harm tens of thousands of lives but the government, to date, has spent MORE, not less, than any other President in history? They might, they should, begin to question his actions. If it gets bad enough – and it will – they might even start saying so out loud.

24% is the kind of number I’ve been waiting for. Sooner or later, MAGA HAD to notice. His attacks on, well, everything, really, haven’t been limited to the “lib-tards” or the pretended “Deep State.” He’s doing real-life, actual harm to anyone and everyone not lucky enough to have been born into huge piles of money. That is, most of us. Even MAGA. But, hey, we’re safe from scary toddlers…

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Universal health care? I think it’s a better plan. Here’s one reason. I know a person who is 100% disabled. This particular individual receives health care through California’s Medi-cal program and has for quite some time. Now, she’s about to turn 65. As a result, she is being “shifted” over to Medicare.

Medicare comes with costs. Medi-cal does not. So, when she is shifted to Medicare, Medi-cal stays in the picture, to pick up the costs Medicare won’t. The shift serves, mostly, to add a layer of bureaucracy to the process. It got me thinking. How stupid is that? Wait, here’s another.

I recently had a bit of a health dust-up. A little cancer on my ear. I’m a Kaiser member, but I also have access to the VA. Even though I pay Kaiser premiums and have insurance, thanks to the glories of Capitalism, having Kaiser deal with the problem would have cost me thousands in co-pays and share-of-costs. That represents thousands I don’t have. So I used the VA.

Medicare. Medi-cal. Private insurance. VA. Four different systems. Actually, because “Private insurance” has so many different permutations, parameters, requirements, options, and obligations, it’s a LOT more than four. Each different track has to be managed. It’s just stupid. Oh, AND expensive.

Americans who have been conditioned to oppose universal health care always complain about how their taxes would, likely, go up to pay for it. So, instead, they’ll pay thousands MORE out of their own pocket – just to preserve that ‘freedumb.’ It’s an incredibly inefficient, absolutely stupid position – but absolute stupidity seems to be the standing order here in Bizarro America, these days, so I don’t foresee any corrections any time soon…

The Decline Continues…

by MyBaconPress

I’m not sure arresting a sitting judge is a great move, but here we are. The FBI arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. They say she helped a man avoid immigration officers in her courtroom. The current regime wants the man out of the country. We all know it’s because he’s brown, but they’re pretending it’s because he’s accused of three counts of misdemeanor battery.

By noon today, EVERY MAGA will just KNOW that she helped a “violent criminal” escape. Meanwhile, on the left, we’ll be arguing that he hasn’t been convicted of anything at this point. That’s the judge’s position, by the way; due process counts. Let the “debates” commence!

The agents on scene didn’t have a proper warrant so the judge didn’t recognize the legality of their claim. She surmised, properly, in my opinion, that ICE would, no doubt, ignore the improper warrant right along with all of the other due process they think is wasteful in these matters. It’s not like she pulled that right out of the air. ICE is ignoring the law all over the country.

Obviously, we’re not talking the same scale, here – not yet, anyway – but I think Judge Dugan finds herself in the same company as Harriet Tubman, who help slaves escape, and Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. Both women were violating law – but serving justice, clearly a higher calling.

I believe these kinds of confrontations are created BY the current, America-hating regime. They keep insisting that due process is a luxury the American people can’t afford. “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” That’s an exact quote from the (checks notes), right! The Constitution of the United States. (Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1.) Please note: “any person.”

One of the many, many, oh-so-many things cons are wrong about is the incorrect belief that the constitution ONLY applies to American citizens. It applies to all people on any American soil except where noted. Only citizens can legally vote, for example, but ALL people are entitled to due process. Even if it’s hard.

I don’t care which side of the aisle you stand on, you should NOT support elimination of due process for anyone, anywhere, at any time. Obviously, if one is not a criminal, one never expects to be accused of a crime or worse, to be punished for a crime based on nothing more than some abstract accusation. But just because one doesn’t expect it, doesn’t mean it won’t happen. I mean, look around you. It’s happening already.

I quoted the 14th Amendment, earlier, but the words of the 4th Amendment are just as clear, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures SHALL NOT be violated.” (I added the emphasis, there.) And there it is, again. “…persons.” Certainly, the writers of the 4th Amendment, if not the 14th, had lived their lives under a regime of wanton incarceration. They KNEW how that played out in real life because it was their lived experience. They knew better!

Legally, in decent America, Judge Dugan would beat these charges easily. The law and the Constitution are on her side. Here in Bizarro America, though, the regime might just decide to forego HER due process, as well. I’m in her corner because I, for one, support people standing for justice…

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I see they put George Santos away for seven years. Good. Ultimately, they convicted him of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in his scheme to defraud his constituents. See? It CAN be done. I’ve always thought of George Santos as a much less practiced trumpster. The two run the same con. Santos was just less skilled at it. Or maybe just less protected. Santos got what Santos deserved but Santos got what Donny deserves, too: seven years behind bars…

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I note that despite promises to end the war on day one, the Don of Destruction… hasn’t. It seems he can’t. You’ll hear MAGA regurgitating, “Promises made, promises kept” like there’s some truth to that. There isn’t. He’s more of a “Promises made, screw you” kind of guy. In fairness, he HAS tried. I would say he has tried to the limits of his VERY limited capabilities. He really, really wants a Nobel Peace Prize and he thought he was going to get it by ending the Russia/Ukraine war.

The problem is, he’s too stupid to even understand who started the damn war, so how can he fix it? It seems (full disclosure, I haven’t been included on any of Hegseth’s regime-leaking Signal chats) Donny’s “solution” to end Putin’s war is for Ukraine to simply surrender everything Russia has stolen and call it a day. Not surprisingly, Ukraine has rejected the concept. They seem to reject the notion that Putin should benefit from his criminal invasion. Go figure.

So now, the First Felon says he’s just going to call everyone names and walk away. ‘The Art of the Deal,’ indeed. The United States was obligated by more than one treaty to support Ukraine in the event this exact thing – an unprompted Russian invasion – happened. Donny is showing the US to be an untrustworthy, undependable ally. Our worldwide reputation has never been worse…

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All attendees had been informed of the dress code: dark suit with long, black tie. Everyone knew. Then Felon 47 shows up wearing a blue suit. There’s no doubt in my mind as to why he wore blue, when the dress code clearly stated black. He wanted to be easily able to find himself in the crowd on television. Based on other things I’ve seen about the guy, he doesn’t much care about anything else. He was thinking of himself. He’s like the sister of the bride who shows up to the wedding wearing white…

Smoke And Mirrors…

by MyBaconPress

I think it’s important to remember: Executive Orders are not laws. They DO carry some legal weight. They do NOT have the force of laws in this sense: a subsequent President can reverse an EO with the stroke of a pen. The Legislative Branch can overrule an EO by passing an actual law. The Judicial Branch has the power to strike down EOs, just like they do normal laws.

The Executive Branch doesn’t make laws, it’s supposed to enforce them. When The Drumpfster successfully manages to scribble his name on an EO, it’s STILL not a law. EOs were once used to detail how a President intended to execute a law. That is, what steps might be taken, which department might oversee the law, that kind of thing.

They were and are “law adjacent,” if you will. Justice Hugo Black wrote in his opinion in the case of ‘Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co vs Sawyer’ that “The President’s power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker.”

He’s using EOs because he has to. He can’t get these things passed as legitimate laws so he’s doing an end run on his own Republican-controlled Congress. If Congressional Republicans had any self respect… I guess there’s no point in finishing that sentence…

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Once again, the Felon deceived the market by pretending he is just about to get sane and reconsider his tariffs on China. He stated quite clearly that his anti-American regime was in talks with China and that things were going very well. The market started going up. Unfortunately for the predatory prevaricator, China gets a say in these things, too. And what THEY said was, “Nope. We’re not in talks.” They added, “We don’t see the point.”

Okay, specifically, Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said, “For all I know, China and the U.S. are not having any consultation or negotiation on tariffs, still less reaching a deal.” He wasn’t alone.

Commerce Ministry spokesman He Yadong said, “China’s position is consistent, and we are open to consultations and dialogues, but any form of consultations and negotiations must be conducted on the basis of mutual respect and in an equal manner. Any claims about the progress of China-U.S. trade negotiations are groundless as trying to catch the wind and have no factual basis,” the spokesman said.

Two different Chinese spokesmen said no talks are happening and He Yadong said it would be like trying to catch the wind, which I understand as “What’s the point?” In the long run, I expect the US is going to suffer FAR, FAR more than any other country involved in The Felon’s trumped up trade war. I’m not looking forward to that but it seems right and proper to me.

The Bizarro US started this mess and the Bizarros deserve every bit of the blow-back that results. The rest of us are just “collateral damage,” though WE “deserve” it, too, because we haven’t done enough to stop him. The Drumpfster is the world’s problem, but he’s OUR responsibility.

A lot of people, big people, strong people are saying it to me, they say, “Why doesn’t he just dry up and blow away?” A lot of people are saying it. You’re hearing it a LOT. And, as you know, when “a lot of people are saying it” and “you’re hearing it a lot,” one has no choice but to do what those voices are saying…

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Bill Maher likely doesn’t realize how deeply he’s stepped in it. He became a “useful idiot” to the regime and there was quite a bit of push-back. The entire rational world is trying to get him to realize he was a pawn, used to put a nicer face on a madman. Larry David noticed and wrote an op-ed called ‘My Dinner With Adolf.’

It purported to be a report about a “vocal critic” of Hitler who got invited to dinner with the man himself and found him surprisingly warm and gracious. “Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning,” David wrote.

Replace ‘Hitler’ with ‘Trump’ and you’ve got a nearly perfect transcript of what Maher said of the Don of Destruction after their dinner. I suspect Maher is trying to white-knuckle the whole controversy away, hoping it blows over sooner, rather than later. Initially, he didn’t respond to David’s op-ed at all. Apparently, the two are friends and don’t want to get into a public spat. But eventually, Maher had to respond so he… oh, get this, he played the Jew card.

Maher, a life-long, avowed Atheist who is half-Jewish by birth, said of the op-ed written by full-blooded, practicing Jew Larry David, that it was, “kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews.” I think Maher needs a new mirror. To my mind, Maher snuggling up to the Fascist madman was “kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews.”

I fully support talking to MAGA. I absolutely believe we and they receive different information from our various sources. We should ALL compare notes, find out who’s being told what. But that applies to the rank and file. One is not going to get one of the Deceivers to change their ways. One does not fight evil with understanding…

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47 did this with Covid. He kept saying, if we stop testing, we’ll stop finding cases. His twisted, tiny little mind probably thought that made sense, too. If we don’t talk about Covid-19, there IS no Covid-19. He killed a little over a million people with that stupid outlook. He and his regime are trying the same trick with Climate Change. These clowns seem to actually believe that if you don’t talk about it, it goes away. (Pro tip: it doesn’t.) Now he’s doing the same thing with polling.

Fox Not-News MADE him. They built him up on a tower of lie after lie after lie. Ever since their loyalty cost Murdoch nearly a billion dollars, though, the network has been a little, and I mean just a touch, more balanced in their coverage of the dotard. They recently published a poll that showed the Felon’s approval rating is lower than any other President in history at this point in his tenure, with the SECOND worst rating ALSO belonging to the Felonious Failure.

Naturally, 47 went ballistic. He does that whenever anybody tells a truth about him. He doesn’t LIKE it when people tell the truth about him. Now he wants pretty much everybody at Fox Not-News fired. This seems like a hopeful crack in the GOP shield wall that protects 47. If Murdoch and 47 fall out, there’s a risk Fox Not News and/or the Wall Street Journal will start reporting honestly on the Felon’s actions – and that would be very, VERY bad for 47. Fingers crossed…

The Immorality of the Regime…

by MyBaconPress

Is THIS what MAGA wanted? Is this what MAGA had in mind? A government that is SO cruel, it will attack it’s own citizens for asking questions? This… distortion of humanity currently destroying our nation deported a man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to a maximum security prison with no charges, no trial, no chance to defend himself AND, not coincidentally, no chance for anybody to question the regime’s actions, either. The deportation was illegal as the man in question had a protective order that allowed him to stay in the US.

In a court filing, the regime even confessed Abrego Garcia was deported as the result of an “administrative error.” They apparently fired that lawyer for telling the truth. Then they doubled down on all of their lies about why they just had to do it. His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has been fighting to get him home. She’s been a real thorn in their side, continually pointing out the error of their ways and making a lot of noise.

So the effing regime doxxed her. They published a court document online that anybody could access but failed to, or chose not to, redact her home address. This means any MAGA zombie could find it and use it to harass her for daring to question their precious. Now she has to hide out in a safe house. She’s an American citizen and the ostensible government of the United States of America is actively attacking her for standing up for the constitution.

So far, the regime hasn’t commented on why they chose to publish her information. At least they haven’t claimed, yet again, simple incompetence. Hell, they haven’t claimed ANYTHING about it. They just did it. I know I shouldn’t attribute incompetence to malevolence but this seems pretty malevolent to me. The immorality of the regime is mind-boggling…

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Do you remember when our incompetent Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, invited a reporter to join a classified meeting on a public app while the US bombed Yemen? Apparently, none of the people charged with our national security even realized the reporter was there. It seemed like a pretty good summary of the competence level of the guys in charge right now.

But now it turns out that inviting a reporter into his classified group was only the SECOND stupid thing Hegseth did in relation to that bombing. According to the Guardian, he ALSO sent details of the attack plan, via a second Signal chat group, to his wife, his brother, and about a dozen other people. He reportedly used his private phone for that one, too, just to make sure the information was as unsecured as could be possible.

Frankly, I think this is what happens when one puts a talking head from a weekend propaganda show in charge of the Defense Department. To me, it just feels like Hegseth is showing off to his friends. “See how important I am?” We certainly see how stupid you are, there, Pete. He doesn’t (can’t?) trust that people think the Secretary of Defense is an important job. I’ll bet he mentions that he’s the ‘SecDef’ (they love their abbreviations in the DoD) to every person he runs in to.
“Um… okay. Uh… did you want fries with that?”

This is a paragraph straight from the Guardian: “Shortly after the news of the second Signal chat broke, Politico published an opinion article by Hegseth’s former press secretary, John Ullyot, which began: “It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president – who deserves better from his senior leadership.”

It seems Mr. Ullyot didn’t get the memo. ‘Total chaos’ is the GOAL of this regime. That’s WHY the Don of Destruction put Hegseth in that position in the first place. 47 sprang to Hegseth’s defense. He once again dismissed facts as “fake news” and said the idea of pursuing the issue of Pete’s security breaches was a “waste of time.” Oh, but ‘Hillary’s emails,’ right? Hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to MAGA…

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Ho hum. Another day with Felon 47 in charge, another nearly 1,000-plus point drop in the Dow. There have only been 11 since the Dow was formed. Donny has caused four of them – in one month. There’s a reason, of course. He’s an idiot. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he’s too narcissistic to confess either error or incompetence.

MAGA is right there with him of course. Due to their conditioning, they have no choice. But people free to think their own thoughts – that is, the rest of the world – can readily see the Drumpfster is just a blowhard, bumbling fool. They’re getting tired of it. The world is fleeing the American dollar and our markets. The Don of Destruction thinks he can shoot his own foot until other countries surrender to his stupidity.

He doesn’t seem to understand that grabbing a bigger gun and continuing to blast away at his own feet doesn’t increase the pressure on the world, either. The world DOES seem startled by watching the madman destroy his own country intentionally but since there is precious little they can do to stop him, they just move on in other directions. It turns out, the world has options and the world it choosing to exercise those options.

The actual problem, as we all know, is the capricious tariffs coupled with the dismantling of any and all financial security measures the world has relied on for generations. Rational people everywhere are left to wonder, is he a moronic, bumbling fool or a criminal, openly manipulating the stock market for his own personal gain? I’m going to hedge my bets and say, “Both!”

I’ll tell you this: I’m starting to think leaving an insane person in charge of the country is a mistake…

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As Elon has worked his evil on the nation, the nation has responded by refusing his crappy rolling crematoriums. Sales are down and stock has dropped rather distressingly, if you’re an investor. Apparently, Muck is leaving the illegal DOGE to go back and try to save the SwastiKar. Investors started buying the stock when they heard the news. BUT…

Will people buy the car? The stock will bump up as investors make moves, but if people don’t buy the car, that won’t last long. Do you think the country will breathe a collective sigh of relief and start buying them again? I don’t. We have better options, these days. The company’s reputation is, to say the least, tarnished as a result of their evil CEO.

I’ll tell you this: I hope people keep their faces turned away from Tesla, so long as Elon has any association with the company whatsoever…

Mostly Minutia…

by MyBaconPress

I’m sure glad we, the people, have so little to worry about that we can focus on an almost-to-space flight of a Jeff Bezos’ rocket with an all-female crew. There seem to be two prongs to the “outrage.” One, the behavior of the women involved and, two, that fact that going to space harms the environment, specifically, the Ozone layer, so we shouldn’t do so frivolously.

So, full disclosure, I’ve never been to space or even near space, just in case you were wondering. But I’ve been intrigued by space since I was a young boy. I’ve read and watched a LOT on the topic. There’s one thing that seems to be universal. It seems like everybody who goes to space, comes back a bit different. No, I don’t mean there are creatures about to pop out of their chests but going up there does seem to have a common thread: it’s life-altering in one’s perception of humanity and Earth.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but those spaceships have a tendency to blow up, especially since the program was “privatized.” (“Privatized” is never better.) That makes the journey very dangerous, or, at least, risky. Having gone up, experienced weightlessness, and safely returned – that is, survived – you might want to kiss the Earth, when you got back, too. I genuinely hope the crew of that ship can learn to tune out the critics until this oh-so-important kerfuffle passes, which I assume will be soon.

If anything, I can see taking issue with the environmental harm of sending ships up as publicity stunts, but that’s not on the crew. That’s on Bezos. He doesn’t mind destroying the environment because he has the cash to build a long-term, artificial environment for himself and a few lucky friends. Besides, I don’t know if you’ve noticed THIS, but the billionaires of this once-great nation don’t give two figs about what you think about them or what they’re doing, so long as you keep buying the crap they sell…

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I saw a headline that read, “Is it legal for CBP to search your cell phone at the U.S. border?” (CBP is customs and Border Protection.) I didn’t read it. The question strikes me as academic, at this point. One of the most terrible things about the destruction of our Constitution is that “legal” is now defined by whomever is making the determination and whatever whim is fueling the moment.

As MAGA gets the world they wanted – a Hellscape of desperation and destruction – one of the very FIRST casualties was the death of the Rule of Law. No, not for work-a-day Joes. Don’t be ridiculous. WE will absolutely be held to “laws.” But the privileged elite and their cronies will get to do pretty much whatever they want to do. If they want to search your cell phone – and even download and privately enjoy your personal boudoir photos – they’re going to.

You can scream “illegal” all you want to. When no one enforces existing laws, there ARE no existing laws. It doesn’t MATTER if it’s a violation of your Fourth Amendment right to privacy. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause…”

I’ll tell you this: the Constitution was better. Yes, it was clumsy and not as quick as we would all like but that was politics, not the Constitution. Knowing the rules because they were written down and making them apply to everyone was just… better…

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In a rather spectacular display of dullness, people are STILL looking to the “election” of 2028. Oh, who’s going to run? What strategy should they use? How can they attract this bloc or that group? How do they tune their message?

I’m telling you right now, if he hasn’t already done the planet the service of dying – and Satan takes care of his own – Felon 47 is going to “win” the 2028 “election” with 94% of the vote. Dictators LOVE to “win” their “elections” with margins in the low 90’s. They think it gives them the imprimatur of a landslide.

But the name currently being floated around as a popular choice to run for President in 2028 is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NJ), commonly referred to simply as ‘AOC.’ She’s out on tour with Bernie Sanders, trying to whip up some support in an effort to maintain the republic – as though the republic hasn’t already been destroyed.

Don’t get me wrong, I respect the effort. I wish them all the success in the world. I really do. But I think it’s too little, too late. We the people needed to stop the Heritage coup LONG before it got to this point. We didn’t. Complacency, shock, disbelief, whatever, we failed to keep our republic.

So, on the one hand, I’d love to vote for AOC. I wanted her to run in the last election. I know, she’s too extreme for a lot of people. I’m STILL working on why it’s “too extreme” to want the best for America and Americans but “exactly right” to devastate the nation, the Constitution, and the economy. If you ask me, it’s the Felon 47 regime that’s too extreme. FAR too extreme.

On the other hand, I like AOC. I don’t WANT to hear that she has been arrested for “activities against America” or that she suddenly decided to jump out of a window, just as some con operator paid her a visit. Coincidence, of course…

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As Popes go, I thought Pope Francis was a good one. I was a bit surprised to hear of his passing. I knew he had been sick, recently, but I thought he was doing better. It seems like a pretty sudden turn of events. Still, at 88, things can change pretty suddenly.

Now the church enters into a period of mourning and the Cardinals all get together to elect a new pope. I hope they find a good one. The world is going through VERY strange times and a person of vision would be great…

Easter, 2025…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, yeah, Happy Easter! It IS Easter, the day we recognize the resurrection of Jesus and, um, some rabbit, for some reason. Maybe God’s Holy Recharge Blaster was on wide beam and the rabbit just got caught up in it by accident. It seems the Holy Recharge Blaster may cause side-effects. I can’t speak to any possible changes in Jesus, but the rabbit, apparently, started laying chocolate eggs – which is not normally a rabbit thing. Still, chocolate eggs are a much happier side-effect than ‘anal leakage.’ Good job, God! Well done.

‘For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son…’ That’s from the Bible. John 3:16. It’s not quite true, though, right? He LOANED his only begotten son. Three days later, he roused him and brought him up to Heaven, ostensibly for a cold beer and a hot shower and a two thousand year head-start on watching ‘Game of Thrones.’ (God is omniscient. That means He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and WILL happen. He knew ‘Game of Thrones’ was coming. HE’S been fuming about that b.s. last season for a LOT longer than the rest of us.)

But the rabbit abides. The chocolate eggs endure. Somewhere along the way, we got chocolate bunnies, too. That’s good, but I think it’s a ‘near-miss.’ (It’s a near-hit, fella…) In order to cover ALL of the Easter bases, shouldn’t God have given us a chocolate Jesus, maybe holding a chocolate egg? I mean, we should at least TRY to keep the religious part in there, somewhere, right? I think Chocolate Jesus would have to be solid chocolate. Hollow Jesus just sounds… disrespectful. Unfortunately, in view of the tariffs, solid chocolate Jesus is prohibitively expensive.

“Ask and it shall be given you.” (Matthew 7:7) If you do a search on ‘Chocolate Jesus,’ you’ll find it. Actual chocolate Jesus’s (Jesi?) but also a novel by Stephen Jaramillo, published in 1997 by Berkley Books and a song by Tom Waits. “Only chocolate Jesus can satisfy my soul…”

Okay, kidding aside, there ARE some lessons many have turned away from, say, about a third of this once-great nation. It might be good to revisit some of the more prescient messages from Jesus on this fine day. Let’s start with this one:

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” (Matthew 7 : 15-19, KJV)

Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing, right? We’ve all heard that. Now we’re seeing it, playing out on a daily basis by one of the most corrupt men ever to walk the Earth. Felon 47 is there and he’s a fact. FAR too many people are following him and his example. But they should pay closer attention to that last sentence from Jesus. “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” That’s a warning. If your efforts bring forth corrupt fruit, you WILL BE cast into the fire. Every tree.

“No,” you might say. “I tell EVERYONE I’m a Christian and I always make a great show of it.”
“But you follow the example of 47, not the teachings of Jesus.”
“I go to church every Sunday. I sing hymns the loudest and hold my folded hands in prayer the longest. You can SEE how religious I am.”
“Yes,” I answer, skeptically, “I can.”

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” (Matthew 25 : 45) I’m thinking, here, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly accused of being a gang member and criminally deported without due process. The case offered against him – only in the court of public opinion, NEVER in a court of law – is based, entirely, in lies. 47 even went so far as to show a photo that purports to be Abrego Garcia’s hands with ‘MS-13’ tattooed on the fingers.

The thing is, the photo isn’t what it’s held out to be. Abrego Garcia RAN FROM gangs. He didn’t join any. He has some tattoos on his fingers. The Felonious Fraudster says they’re symbols for MS-13. The “MS-13” part has clearly been Photoshopped onto the photo. The actual tattoos are other things. According to experts, actual members of MS-13 tattoo ‘MS-13’ all over their bodies. They don’t WANT you to need a super-de-duper decoder ring to know they’re MS-13.

The First Felon, the False Prophet, the Father of Lies, is offering his flock some of that evil fruit we just talked about. He CANNOT make an honest case against Abrego Garcia, so he makes a false case. Remember, a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

“Not every one that saith unto me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?’ And then will I profess unto them, ‘I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.'” (Matthew 7 : 21-23) ‘Iniquity’ is defined as a gross injustice, wickedness.

I don’t accept so-called ‘Christian Nationalists’ AS Christians. I classify them as ‘Christian in name only.’ (CINOs?) In my mind, one has to follow the teachings of Jesus – or at least TRY to – in order to qualify. But who am I? I think they’re putting a LOT of hope in that slogan, ‘Christians aren’t perfect – just forgiven.’ But that’s the thing. It’s just a slogan. You won’t find that in the Bible.

What you WILL find is, “And then will I profess unto them, ‘I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity,” and “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.“

So on this fine Easter, I’m here to remind the followers of the Felon, you are being deceived and you WILL suffer the consequences, even though you were deceived, because He gave you the tools you needed to keep from being deceived – and you turned away from them. I know you by your fruits. The world knows you by your fruits. Jesus will know you – or not – by your fruits, as well.

Go in peace…

Not Going Well…

by MyBaconPress

The B.U.S. – that’s ‘Bizarro United States’ – government is sending letters to American citizens telling them to “self-deport.” I get it. The idea is to run, rough-shod, over everything. Sending out mass letters to, what, a given zip code, seems a little… sloppy. It seems as though the regime isn’t really trying to get it right. They’re just trying to scare everybody. I don’t mean to minimize that. They’re doing a FINE job, scaring everybody.

Dr Lisa Anderson is an American citizen. According to a photo I’ve seen, she appears white. Yet she received a letter from immigration telling her to “self-deport” immediately. She currently lives in Connecticut but she was born in Pennsylvania. Does she “self-deport” to Pennsylvania? Will that satisfy the demands of immigration? The letter she received said, “If you are an alien, being in the United States is a privilege — not a right.” That may be true but I’m starting to feel like if you’re an American citizen, being trapped in the United States is a punishment, not a privilege.

The regime’s entire approach is based in lies. I believe this to be true because they WILL NOT present their evidence in court. EVER! I have lived my entire life KNOWING that a person who will not present their evidence is lying. It’s kind of “entry level” stuff, you know?

Attacking the immigrant community is simply a set-up. The Don of Destruction is laying the groundwork to kidnap Americans and make them disappear, too. Right now, MAGA thinks it’s a great thing, deporting brown people. MAGA will happily pretend those brown people are all criminals because that lie gives them the justification they need in order to be cruel to brown people.

MAYBE a case could be made that B.U.S. was “only” deporting undocumented people – until BUS started deporting legal residents. They’re STILL brown, though, so MAGA still thinks it’s great. I don’t think it will be too much longer, though, until B.U.S. “deports” an American citizen to a foreign prison based on assertions, not actual charges or convictions. I expect he’ll be a bad guy, or portrayed as one, anyway, but it’s coming, and soon…

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I saw a meme from ‘The Onion’ that read, “Sadly,” Felon 47 “was found alive and well this morning at Mar-a-Lago.” The sub-head read, “There’s always a chance for tomorrow’s obituaries.” This is a fast-growing sentiment here in this once-great nation. “Why doesn’t he just die, already?”

I think if he would do the world that service, MAGA would start to fall apart pretty quickly. I know he’s surrounded by a team of like-minded, anti-American authoritarians so it seems like MAGA would just carry on as normal. The thing is, 47 has some kind of weird charisma I don’t see from anyone else around him. I know, it seems wrong to apply that word, charisma, to The Drumpfster. We associate charisma, generally, with people we respect, and he clearly is NOT a good person. Hitler had the same charisma.

You see, “charisma” only refers to a person who arouses fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm. It could be – it was – JFK or Dr King. But it might also be Jim Jones or Charles Manson. And 47 certainly arouses MAGA. Sure, the rest of the world recognizes a clown when they see one but MAGA (and, apparently, Bill Maher) are easily fooled and Oh! Em! GEE! do they love that guy. I’m not sure there’s anyone who can replicate what the Don of Destruction is able to pull off.

Then again, when Caesar destroyed the Roman republic, he didn’t live long enough to take full advantage of it. But because of the actions he had taken, and with all the pieces in place, Caesar’s adopted son, Augustus, just stepped in and formalized the empire. The republic never returned. The thing is, Augustus was competent. Which of The Felon’s children could step up and take over? It takes a combination of charisma and skill. Donny has the charisma, evil though it may be. The Heritage Foundation brings the skill but the implementation still requires an audacity of trumpery. Those in The Drumpfster’s circle, generally speaking, have neither or, at least, have never displayed either.

The only way we’ll know, for sure, of course, is if he dies. I mean, to be clear, this is just a thought experiment, a kind of a guess. But I really would like the opportunity to find out what happens to MAGA when Donny dies and that’s an experiment I would like to see start sooner rather than later. Do you think he’ll accommodate?

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Donny promised on the campaign trail that he would end the Russia/Ukraine war quickly, on Day One. No, even sooner. He promised it was going to be so easy, he’d get it done even before the inauguration. He failed. Like, completely. It’s simple. He promised he would end the war, he hasn’t – CAN’T – end the war. That’s a complete failure, I don’t care HOW loyal you are. He failed.

On the campaign trail, he promised he would just get the principles on the phone and say, “Look, you son-of-a-bitch…” The gullible cons lapped that up with a spoon and cheered loudly. But it turns out, in REAL negotiations, the people on the other side of the table will wait for the rest of that sentence – and 47 had NO IDEA how to finish that sentence.

“Look, you son-of-a-bitch…”
“You were saying?”
“Um… stop this… or else!”
“Da. Or else… what?”
“Waaaaaah!”

He likes talking like a tough guy but in reality he ONLY ever punches down, at people with far less power than him. That’s NEVER tough. It’s cowardly. When he’s confronted by people who also enjoy a little power, 47 often LOOKS as stupid as he acts. In the latest example, he’s now saying that if they don’t stop fighting, he’s going to pull the ultimate trumpery: he’ll call them names and turn his back. Ooh, that’ll show ’em.

The Cowardly Liar is way, way, WAY out of his depth. It’s just sad. Bigly sad…