The always wrong MAGA cons get very close to accidentally being correct about a thing when they whine that prosecuting their criminal idol is just a meanie-pants thing to do that has never happened in the history of this once-great nation. They have a point. This has never happened before. But, they’re right for the wrong reason.

They fervently pretend, like a wildebeest being eaten by a lion, that this ain’t happening. It isn’t real. Trump never stole documents, sexually assaulted women, orchestrated a coup, stole from a kids-with-cancer charity, manipulated his business books, threatened government officials if they couldn’t “find” 11,780 non-existent votes, nor fleeced his true believing followers out of millions of dollars. Hundreds (thousands?) of people are just lying for…reasons and the accused, their poor (rich), little (very much NOT little), victim (perpetrator), boy (grown man) – the ONLY benefactor of the deception – is the ONLY one telling the truth. I mean…obvs… What criminal would ever claim innocence? (Um…all of ’em?)

I agree, this has never happened before. We’ve NEVER had a criminal president (and possible Russian asset) on the scale of 45 in the Oval Office. As a result, we’ve never needed even one post-presidential criminal prosecution, let alone prosecutions for a national crime spree that stretches up and down the eastern seaboard and across the nation.

I’ll tell you this: The idea that we EVER had such a low person in such a high place is simply mind-boggling. But not nearly as mind boggling as the reality that he might actually make it back there…

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45’s team of “lawyers” went to “judge” Aileen “loose” Cannon and said the date suggested by the prosecution for the trial of the guy accused of stealing all those classified government documents MAGA cons are always pretending were just paper airplanes – December 11 – was just too quick. Apparently, reading is hard. So they suggested their own date: never.

Yeah, it’s stupid but it’s stupid/clever, you know? Her predisposition to accommodate the desires of her idol has already been established. Why NOT ask her to just never schedule the trial? Maybe she’ll bite. She didn’t. She seems to know reading is hard, too, so she set the date for May 20 in Ft. Pierce, Fl, a quick 20+ minute drive from her home. They get nearly a year to shine up their “but my client doesn’t want to go to jail” defense. It makes one wonder why other accused criminals have never tried that oh-so-clever response to charges.

That’s going to plop the trial right in the middle of what this country euphemistically calls the “campaign season.” (I call it a euphemism because – really – when aren’t American politicians “campaigning” and taking bribes…er…raising funds “for their next campaign?”) 45’s team said it just wouldn’t be fair for the accused criminal and known sexual predator to have to defend himself in court AND run for president – so they should just let the whole “court” thing go. They seem never to have even considered letting the whole “run for president” thing go, but they could do THAT, too.

By the time they get to that trial date, trump could already be sporting an orange jumpsuit for his myriad other crimes. If he wins the “election” – and never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups – do they perform the oath of office by having him stick his hand out between the bars to put it on the Bible? (I suspect he uses a ‘Bibel.’ I suspect that if he ever touched an actual Bible, he’d burst into flames…)
“Repeat after me: ‘I, inmate number 6732185, do hereby solemnly swear or affirm…'”

I’ll tell you this: I’ve never been more proud to be an American… (cough!, cough!)

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You could receive these lovely little thought pieces directly to your email inbox! All you have to do is go to ‘MyBaconPress.com‘ and click the button at the bottom that reads: “Follow.” A little pop-up appears asking for your email address but you aren’t joining anything and, as far as I know, you don’t get a bunch of spam if you do follow. It’s just the only way to deliver the thing to your email inbox. That way, you’d never miss an issue again. Wouldn’t that be great?

I woke up yesterday morning, started reading the news, and realized: Jack Smith is smarter than me. See, I’ve been very concerned about Aileen “loose” Cannon overseeing the classified documents theft case, since she so clearly holds trump as dearly beloved. I kept wondering why Smith didn’t object. I know now. She’s going to do whatever she can to help her idol. That’s a given. But if she goes too far, Smith can object to her failure to recuse in view of her obvious bias or use her terrible rulings as a basis for an appeal. Moreover, I think she’s a bit restrained by other events so she can’t go TOO far off the rails – at least, she can’t go too far off the rails without absolutely devastating her reputation as a judge.

Truth be told, I wasn’t sure we, the people would EVER see any actual indictments for our very criminal ex-president, the sexual predator Donald J. Trump. Now? Now they’re coming so fast and furious I’m having trouble keeping up! We’ve already got Florida. We may get Washington DC next and we’re all expecting Georgia to drop in August. There’s still New York state. (No, not that case, the other one.) Peripherally, the slates of fake electors are starting to reap the rewards of their malfeasance, too. Michigan just dropped indictments on the people who insisted that THEY, and not the actual electors, were the real electors, and there are several other states waiting in the wings. Hundreds of people have already been convicted of answering trumps call on January 6th.

None of this even counts the civil defamation suit he’s already lost – twice – and the next one he brought upon himself by doubling down after losing the first one. (Trump’s psychopathy isn’t helping him one little bit…)

Did you hear about the time(s) Donald Trump, when he was infesting the Oval Office, initiated IRS investigations on people who gave him answers he didn’t like, actually weaponizing the government? And that’s just 45. His deluded sycophants are lining up to defend him by trashing everything and everyone connected with the investigations. That’s a lot of people and organizations since there are so many investigations over so much criminal activity. Cons just don’t seem to grasp that a government THEY twist for their own purposes might well, once twisted, be used against them just as easily – so they dismiss all accusations against 45 as conspiracies. Sure, thousands of people are “in on it” and the ONLY honest one is the target of all of these investigations. Of course! If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. But it makes MORE sense if you don’t think about it…

MAGA cons in the House are “investigating” Hunter Biden and using their above-the-law rules to protect themselves from things that are crimes for anybody else to do. MTG just showed large photos of Hunter, nude and in compromising sexual positions, to the House. (Your tax dollars at work!) Outside of Congress, that’s called “revenge porn.” Please bear in mind, being nude and/or having sex? Not a crime. But if someone posted nude photos of MTG having sex with Kevin McCarthy without their consent? THAT would be a crime. MTG gets away with it – on the floor of Congress, no less – because it’s a “vital” part of some House “investigation” of some kind. Really, it was just an opportunity to try to embarrass the White House.

So, just to be clear…
– Which party worked very hard to present fake votes and fake electors? Republicans.
– Which party lied to courts in an attempt to disqualify actual, honest votes? Republicans.
– Which party tried, and is STILL trying, to steal an election? Republicans.
– Which party has “weaponized” the government? Republicans.
– Which party actually, physically attacked the Capitol in an attempt to interfere with an election? Republicans.
(I’m sensing a pattern, here…)
– Which party is conducting fake, unnecessary, wasteful-spending “investigations?” Republicans.
– Which party is aggressively defending a multi-indicted, sexual predator? Republicans.
– Which party keeps screaming about defending “freedumb” all the while stripping freedoms from every vulnerable group they can figure out a way to attack? Republicans.
– Which party denies climate change, even as the world burns and/or drowns? Republicans.
– Which party insists that, because oil was once the best answer for energy, it must ALWAYS remain the only answer – even long after it isn’t the best? Republicans.
– Which party hates journalism and embraces the conspiracy theories and conjecture of Bullshit Mountain? Republicans.
– Which party pretends a fetus must be brought to term (because they’re “innocent”), but a six year old who gets shredded by bullets is an acceptable loss? (Because, what? Not “innocent”? At six?) Uh-huh. Republicans.
– Which party corrupted the Supreme Court by diabolically manipulating the advice and consent process? Republicans.
– Which party wants perfect freedom for themselves but also wants to control who you love, how you love, what you read, what you think, what you wear, how you look, where you go, what you do with your body, what you learn, how you earn, what gets banned, and what gets burned? Republicans.

Those are just off the top of my head. I’d bet that if I gave it a little thought, I could come up with more. But I’ll tell you this: Republicans these days are bad for America, bad for Americans, bad for the world, and bad for humanity. Those seem like real vote-getting traits. It’s no wonder they have to cheat…

George Santos (R-NY), if, indeed that is his name, originally got elected to the House of Representatives through lies. He “inflated” his resume beyond the breaking point. He has become the punchline of jokes. Since he has claimed so many outrageous accomplishments, people took to assigning him new accomplishments. His “legend” grows, just not in the way, maybe, he had hoped. People were SO impressed with this amazing and accomplished young man they sent him to Congress. Then people found out he lied about, well, everything, really. (There really IS the possibility George Santos is not even his real name.)

Now the good people of New York are interested in sending him to jail. He could have avoided it, possibly, by just stepping down. He refused. Criminal charges were preferred. (Basically, he collected lots of money under false pretenses. Classic con job from an unusual con…) But George doesn’t know when to quit any more than the Dumbass and, instead, he’s running for his seat again! (Just like the Dumbass.)

I guess I’m not surprised. With access to lying conservative media, lying is part of the game and why wouldn’t he (and trump) guess that he’ll get away with it? The part that surprises me? In this campaign season, Santos has raised what AP referred to as a “paltry” $138,000, most of which he used to repay himself for personal money he contributed for his first campaign. Paltry? He’s the most outrageous, egregious liar since Donald Trump (though not as good at it, I submit) and he STILL raised $138,000?

Knowing what we know now, who would give this guy bus fare, let alone a campaign contribution? It’s one of those situations where I find myself wondering what the hell is wrong with people? If that “paltry” money isn’t from his family, it likely came from people contributing to the “R,” no matter whom that may be. People do it for the “D,” too, but the “D” doesn’t have anything like George Santos or Donald Trump. Those guys seem detached from reality, at the very least, and the Dems would have booted them, had they gotten that far in the first place…

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Have you heard this? The temperature of the water off the coast of Floriduh was measured at 97 degrees Fahrenheit! For comparison, hot tubs tend to run around 103 – 104 degrees. After years – no, decades – of “debate” about the existence of Climate Change, we’re ALL going to get what the deniers deserve. Thanks, cons. Your corporate loyalty was…killer…

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We might have seen this coming. As part of their campaign to “own libs” the always-wrong cons decided expertise was for idiots. If you listen to your buddy rather than your doctor, you might well shorten your life. If you let some talking head re-roof your house, you’ll likely spend the next rain storms running around with pots, trying to catch the drips. Ask a toddler to fix your car. See how long it takes… Hey, at least they’re not experts, right?

The Republican Party of at least two states, Michigan and Arizona, looks like they eschewed the services of expert accountants and financial managers. Now they’re broke, or nearly so. At $98,000, the Michigan GOP has almost as much money as George Santos raised. Suddenly, party members want to know where their money went. The party is breaking into factions and in Michigan, a violent brawl broke out. Cops were called. Looking good, GOP…

Despite appearances, there are STILL some smart Republicans out there. One guy in Michigan donated over $4 million dollars but won’t anymore because he questions “whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money wisely.” (Spoiler alert: they don’t. Why would they trust experts?)

Apparently, the two states backed trump’s play to overturn a legal and proper election (aka, traitorous coup). They’ve also supported trump-lite candidates who do not appeal to the general population so much as the radical right and, therefore, have decreasingly slim chances of success as the nation finally catches on to the national GOP campaign of bunk and braggadocio. Curiously, seemingly inexplicably (if you’re a MAGA con), the red states that did NOT support the ridiculous, moronic claims of the traitorous, sexual predator Donald Trump are not suffering the same fate. It’s a mystery – to MAGA cons…

There’s an old adage: a fool and his money are soon parted. MAGA GOP decided to put the concept to the test. Bad idea. (Just another in a long line…) The smart money dried up and the foolish money is running out.

I’ll tell you this: I expect the GOP will figure it out. In our vicious Capitalist society, the money has spoken so I expect the parties to start moving left again as they seek more mainstream appeal. MAGA doesn’t sell anymore. Expect the “movement” to go the way of the pet rock…or at least the way of the Libertarians…

I think it’s common knowledge that insurers don’t make money paying claims. They’re very careful to pick and choose coverage they offer from place to place. The more likely you are to need coverage for something, the less likely the coverage will be available (or affordable). Now insurance companies have taken that standard strategy one step further: they’re simply not selling insurance in some places. Clearly the idea of some “visionary” CEO somewhere…

Several companies have abandoned California due to fires and earthquakes and sinkholes and crop loss due to drought and, well, the odds an insurer might have to actually pay out are just too high. Then I learn that they’re starting to do the same thing in Florida. That seems an odd strategy. “Hey, let’s just not sell any more policies. That should strengthen our business!” Will it, though?

It’s a tough spot for insurers. If they sell a policy, they may have to pay out and that’s bad for business. If they DON’T sell policies, they certainly won’t have to pay out but there will be no revenues and that’s bad for business, too. It seems climate change has been – and will increasingly be – hard on the insurance companies.

I’ll tell yo this: If they hadn’t been such manipulative, corporate jerks through the years, I might be able to muster some sympathy for them…

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There’s an old joke: if “pro” is the opposite of “con,” then the opposite of “progress” is “congress.” It turns out, though, it’s not much of a joke. Our Congress Critters have LOTS of ways to NOT do their jobs – all “procedural.” One such is the ‘hold.’ A hold isn’t a formal procedure. It’s something the Critters started doing as a courtesy to some member who couldn’t make a scheduled debate date but wanted to participate. It pretty quickly became a weapon to stop things from happening. A hold isn’t exactly a filibuster but can be used the same way in some cases.

Senator Tommy Tuberville, the bigot-supporting Republican (of course) from Alabama has a hold on military promotions and nominations. See, he has realized that women in the military STILL have control over their own reproduction and he effing HATES that. So? No more military promotions or nominations until Tommy says. The result? The Marine Corps doesn’t have a permanent leader for the first time in 100 years and the Army, Navy, and Joint Chiefs are all looking at the same fate in the next few weeks if he doesn’t stand down. Currently, he’s blocking more than 270 positions from being filled. So much for supporting the military…

It’s not ALL Republicans, though. My boy Bernie Sanders (D, Vt) has a hold on Biden’s nomination to lead the National Institute of Health along with other nominees to the health department until the administrations sends over it’s comprehensive plan to lower drug prices. (Biden should write Sanders a note: “My plan is to get Congress to do it’s effing job…”)

I don’t like either one of the holds, but at least Sanders’ goal is help people by lowering drug prices for ALL Americans – or at least highlight the problem. Tuberville wants, maybe needs, someone to suffer. It’s STILL the Republican way, these days.

Last month, Senator J.D. Vance (R-Oh), placed a hold on all Biden nominations to the Justice Department in “protest” of the indictment against Donald Trump, proving, once again, cons are caught up in a delusional fever-dream that pretends crime is okay if committed by someone on their team. Cons are always on about “slippery slopes” but never seem to realize when they’re actually on one…

Last year, Senator Rand Paul (R, Ky) put a hold on additional approval for $40 million in aid to Ukraine until the bill included language for an Inspector General to scrutinize the spending, which is laughable in view of the fact that military spending is sacrosanct to both parties and the Pentagon – by FAR the worst offender of “fraud, waste, and abuse” – has never once passed an audit.

I’ll tell you this: these guys – all of them – should just do their jobs. I DO NOT LIKE that one person can hold up ALL business of Congress on a given subject just by saying “Hold.”

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Every Republican accusation is a confession. The cons are out, in force, claiming the Biden Administration is “weaponizing” the government by allowing the Department of Justice to investigate the many, many, MANY crimes of the trumpster. Turns out – and you may want to sit down for this – it was the TRUMP administration that weaponized the government. When people gave trump an answer he didn’t like, he had the IRS open “investigations” into them. These were simply harassment cases, the very definition of weaponizing government.

I’ll tell you this: Of COURSE cons are screaming. They would HATE it if someone did to them what they do to people on a daily basis…

I didn’t used to believe them. The cons, I mean . When they spouted all of their drivel about how everybody is out to get them, I dismissed it. I thought THEY thought it was a winning rhetorical strategy of politics and nothing more. Now? Yeah, I believe they actually believe the words coming from their mouths.

Ask ’em, they’ll tell you. You CAN NOT fool a con. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it sure as hell AIN’T a duck. In fact, it’s probably a scheme Joe Biden cooked up to distract from Hunter’s legal troubles. And don’t try to fool them with facts. Facts are folly.

Everything, everything, everything, is conspiracies and paranoia. Liberals, Democrats, the “deep state,” Hillary (of course), Sleepy Joe (natch), “mainstream media” (except lying Fox Not-News), Obama (if you didn’t spit that, you didn’t say it right), anybody with facts and/or evidence, lawyers, doctors, the butcher, the baker, AND that lyin’ candlestick maker. Everybody who doesn’t agree with them, anybody who knows better than them? In on it. Obviously. Clearly, a deep state operative or mindless rube, blindly following along for…reasons.

Do you know how you can tell who’s in on it? They’re the people saying things like, “Climate change is a real and present danger.” “Cops shouldn’t kill unarmed suspects.” “Maybe there should be a little gun control.” “Working people should be paid a fair wage.” “Maybe rich people should pay their fair share of taxes.” “WOW! The mountain of evidence against lying criminal, sexual predator, and alleged traitor Donald Trump is huge!”

They’ve got “answers” for all of those, of course. “Huh-uh!” “They should comply.” “What part of ‘…shall not be infringed’ don’t you get?” “They should get a better job.” “Rich people already pay ALL the taxes.” “Every bit of so-called ‘evidence’ – all 482,593,678,912 pounds of it? Made up – oh, and planted.”

Is there a single issue on which the cons have the correct position? Honestly, I can’t think of one. I used to commonly refer to “always-wrong cons.” I kind of moved off of that position for a time. I thought, “There must be something they’re right about.” Alas, (hey, when do you get to use ‘Alas?’) nope. Not one thing. And it’s not just this week, either. Cons have been wrong about everything for the last 40 years or so. Even when they get close to right on something, “Hunter Biden’s laptop is a problem…” they get there for the wrong reasons, “…for Joe Biden!”

It’s not entirely their fault, of course. Not entirely. They’ve been led astray by conservative media, designed and built to lead them astray. But they’ve had 40 years to catch on to the con and it just eludes them. They’re having so much fun “owning libs,” they don’t notice what it’s doing to them or their reputations. Nor do they much care. Their “true” friends, those who know that, say, Hillary is a master of “wet work” for the CIA and just murders people for fun, will support them. And if they don’t? In on it.

Just think about John Durham. Durham was supposed to find all the big, bad, evil evidence that would put Hillary and Obama and every other Dem in prison for life for trying to frame Donald Trump for dealing with Russians during the 2016 campaign. They KNOW it was a set-up. Durham came in, spent millions of dollars, took YEARS investigating, TRYING to find proof of malfeasance, and, finally? Nothing. Crickets. No evidence of crimes.

When one of their own, hand-picked guys, well-established in conservative circles looks into the charges for years, spends millions on the investigation, and turns up nothing, the cons, obviously, shrugged. “Oh, well,” they say, “we thought we had something there.” Ha, ha! Don’t be a rube! Clearly, Durham caved…or was bought off…or threatened. Either way, RINO and deepest of deep state operatives. All they need, they insist, is the right guy to find and present all of the totally incriminating evidence they’re just sure must exist somewhere.

I’ll tell you this: I’ve spent years trying to point out to them, very much against their will, that wild-eyed accusations only hurt their credibility rather than making them appear as intrepid sleuths. But Maya Angelou was correct: when someone tells you who they are, believe them. The cons keep insisting they don’t understand things. ANY things. I’ve come to believe them. Look for a return of the “always wrong cons” moniker soon…

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California has long suffered the greed of the oil companies a the gas pump. We pay higher prices than most places and there has never really been a good reason for it. I mean the oil companies have a list of “reasons.” They just always seemed…contrived. As an example, California requires a different gasoline blend for summer driving. Every year, this meant a huge price increase at the pump as the industry “re-tooled for the summer driving blend.” Even though they had done it every year since 1996, each year seemed to catch them off guard.

“Well, we didn’t know we had to do that again THIS year so we have to raise prices at the pump, say, oh, I don’t know…how about a dollar a gallon?”
“A dollar?”
“Dollar ten, bitch.”
“Wait, I was just asking…”
“Dollar twenty.”
“Okay, okay, here you go. Thank you for making the gas, oh great lords of petroleum.”
“That’s better…”

The oil companies pressed and pressed and pressed. Prices at the pump regularly flirted with $6.00/gallon or more. It did serious damage to the California economy and was a money tap the oil companies could open and close at will. Californians got sick of the charade pretty quickly. California politicians FINALLY caught on to the problem a year or two ago and in March of this year, passed a gouging oversight law. With the exception of one lone Democrat, the bill was opposed by always-wrong cons. (<– See? There it is…)

Since the passage of SBx1-2, gas prices (mostly) have not risen higher than $5.00/gallon – even as we entered the (gasp!) summer driving season! Despite all the doom and gloom guaranteed by the cons, the bill worked. For now.

I’ll tell you this: I’m sure the industry is raining money on politicians in an effort to attain “carve-outs” and other work-arounds to have a free hand in price gouging again but, for now, I’m glad the bill was passed. It seems to be working. It’s a good start…

I’ve long felt that the best way to reduce abortions (yes, really) was early education and easy access to birth control. Teaching children about where babies come from, and how, best arms them to deal with what becomes one of the most important aspects of their adult lives. Shouldn’t we at least offer them some guidance, like we do before we let them drive cars?

No, apparently. Not if you’re religious, anyway. Teaching children how babies are made isn’t, to them, “arming them with information.” Not at all. No, it’s “condoning sex” and, for some reason, “condoning sex” is a bad thing. There’s not a single human being alive today anywhere on the planet who didn’t get here because some guy went “ugh” and it’s supposed to be a secret? Oh, and, not for nothing but the sex is happening whether you condone it or not. The only question is: is it a blind, risky behavior or is it well-educated, better protected behavior?

So I was happy to learn that OB/GYN’s have taken to TikTok to present videos on the entire spectrum of the subject. LOVE. IT! Anything someone wants to know can be found there. FINALLY, the internet steps up for something good. It’s not a perfect solution and I, for one, am certain that if actual doctors get out there and pass along sound information, some ideological schmuck will start making them, too, supporting all the wrong, deceptive things. It’s the conservative way. Can’t make a valid case? Well, then, make up a lie! (It should be the Republican slogan these days.)

I STILL think we should teach children about human reproduction in school starting at about age 9 – is that Fourth Grade? – and for all the cons who can’t believe I might support telling children truthful things, I think every lesson should include the idea that abstinence is the ONLY way to ensure no babies and is a perfectly reasonable choice. And, no, I wouldn’t teach 9-year-olds about what ‘The Joy of Sex’ called, ‘Sauces and Pickles’ until later. But I live in the real world where real people do real things and one of those things is the big “it.”

I’ll tell you this: Since I’ll never convince always-wrong cons that schools are the best place for such education, I’ll have to settle for the work-around of doctors on TikTok. Thanks, docs…

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Okay, that’s it for the good news. Back to paranoid Cult 45. Kevin McCarthy recently told lying Fox Not News “Someone has lied here. If we find that Garland has lied to Congress, we will start an impeachment inquiry.” Well, he’s right, someone IS lying. Um, that would be the CheetoJesus himself, Donald Trump. Of course, Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan tend to lead the pack. There are LOTS more. It’s just that none of them are Merrick Garland.

The cons really don’t like worshiping a criminal. Their “solution?” Destroy the evidence! Handcuff the prosecutors. Muzzle the whistleblowers. Fervently pretend thousands of people are in on the “conspiracy” – all of them jealous of what a great job the trumpster did as President. (Yeah, that sounds right.) They tightly close their eyes, shove their fingers in their ears, and shout, “La, la, la” as loud and as long as they can. They seem to think it’s not a crime if they don’t confess it…

The closer the walls get as they press in around trump, the louder Cult 45 screams. They don’t care if you’re a long-time con and full supporter of the dumbass who also happens to believe in the law. Nope, definite RINO. The “party of law and order” (I’m not kidding. That’s what they used to call themselves.) now wants to eliminate the FBI (still led by a Trump appointee) and maybe even the DOJ. After all, who needs justice? All in an effort to protect the lying, criminal, sexual predator, alleged traitor, Donald J. Trump. (Though Jim Jordan might have some more…personal motivations as well…)

I’ll tell you this: I’ve often wondered what it takes for people to so completely deceive themselves – and what it does to them over time. It looks like the final answer to the second part is? Madness…

Okay, I admit it, the recent “decision” by the morons on the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court that allows discrimination really irritated me. Worse? Finding out the whole “issue” they were “resolving” was made up in the first place. That has me angry, and I mean I can feel the physical surge, you know? Really angry. (I’m working on it…)

To summarize, a “Christian woman,” who is clearly NOT a Christian, pretended that, maybe, she would design web sites for weddings but had never done so and the one bit she knew was she didn’t want to risk having to design web sites for gays, none of whom had ever asked her to design a web site for them. She pretended to have standing in the court by making up an event and seemingly picked the name of the gay “offender” from, what? The phone book? Or rather, she and her lawyers cooked up the scheme. Now, thanks to ideological activism, discrimination is a-okay in America again. (Conservative America really sucks!)

You know what? These things – taking a case all the way to the Way-High Court – cost money. Lots of money. How many people can/would spend their own money to get a trumped up case to the Moron Court on a just-in-case basis? I think very few. To me, that suggests backers. Some shadow group somewhere likely paid the attorneys and, hell, maybe even Smith, herself.

There’s pretty wide-spread agreement there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The ruling is the ruling. Here’s the thing: at every level, she and her “legal team” lied to the court. Frankly, I want to know who her backers are/were. Which far-right “Christian” group fronted her as their “victim?” Who, exactly, conceived of the “pretend-offender” plan? (The “gay” man they claimed wanted to get married, despite already being married for 15 years – to a woman!)

Maybe the Court can’t or won’t stay the decision it made based on fraud. But can’t the fraudsters be arrested for perjury? They lied to every court they presented this case to. I thought lying in court, State and Federal, was a crime. Is it? It seems it was a conspiracy of like-minded morons. I think they all need to be rounded up.

I’m very concerned about the idea of Biden packing the court to 13 Justices for some sane balance but I’ve come to believe that if he doesn’t, the country will continue it’s wrongheaded backwards slide to oblivion. These activist ideological idiots are moving fast to do as much damage as they can in as short a time as possible. If they don’t get a case that helps them, they just create a fraudulent one! There can be no better proof that, like it or not, Biden MUST act – now! Saving the economy is good and all but if he doesn’t address this oh-so-corrupt court, there will be no United States to save – at least not the one most of us knew and loved.

I’ll tell you this: If the cons get away with this deception, expect more. They’ve learned if they can’t find an actual case to press, they can just make one up. Cons make stuff up all day every day. The ONE place that has been safe from their crazy is the courts – and now that’s called into question as well. Lorie Smith and her co-conspirators MUST be held to account for their fraud…

Tuesday morning, July 4:
Two headlines from “above the fold” at the Associated Press this morning? Shootings in Philadelphia, PA – 5 dead, 2 wounded, gunman arrested – and Ft. Worth, Tx – 3 dead, 8 wounded, no arrests as of this writing. I know… I write about this a LOT, but it’s not because I’m anti-gun. It’s because it happens a LOT. (There were two other shootings this last weekend, too.)

There are very few better signs that the conservative way is NOT the better way. The carnage in the streets, brought to you by conservatives, is all the proof you need. It’s outrageous. It’s needless. It’s heartbreaking. Frankly, it’s embarrassing. Thanks, Kangaroos. Your Heller “decision” was…well…killer…

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It was way, way back, um, three days ago when I wrote about the Christian bigot named Lorie Smith who “won” a case in the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court that allowed discrimination, so long as you did it in the name of Jesus. She thought maybe she would, someday, start to design web pages for weddings. She’s never DONE that, of course, but she might some day.

BUT, she did not want to risk having to design a web page for gays so she sued Colorado to stop a law that said she couldn’t discriminate – even if Jesus said. Colorado tossed her suit, saying she didn’t have standing. Not only had she never designed a web page, the court said, but she had never been asked to do so by any gay folk.

Suddenly, her attorney had an example: a guy named Stewart who wanted to marry a guy named Mike. Case proceeds, moron Kangaroos rule 6-3 (of course) that discrimination is a-okay. So, intrepid reporters go looking for Stewart to get his reaction. Turns out, Stewart never asked her to design anything. He certainly doesn’t need a web page for a wedding – he’s been married for 15 years. Oh, and he’s married to a woman. Kinda indicates a lack of gay, right? He didn’t even know his name was in the documents that supported the case.

I’m no lawyer, but I understand the ruling is the ruling and the fact that the ruling was based on a case that never happened by a plaintiff with no proper standing doesn’t change that. To my mind, that really sucks. Now you just KNOW the cons will be making up anything they can think of just to get some issue into the courts so the Kangaroos can press their religious agenda on all of us. So now people are free to discriminate, just like Jesus wanted.

Methinks our “good Christian” might-be, maybe, someday web page designer may have borne false witness, and I know what her oh-so-special storybook says about THAT! Thou shalt NOT. (According to the story, that’s direct from the Big Guy…)

The best indicator of how these super-duper (pseudo) Christians actually feel about their invisible super friend and the rules of their favorite book (they’ve somehow never read) is the evil they perpetuate on Earth without one second of regard for how it might impact their eternal souls in the afterlife. They’ve been told, flatly, their Lord God Almighty will set them on fire if they do things like bear false witness yet this bigoted buffoon blithely and easily lies. Apparently, she’s not worried at all…

I’ll tell you this: actions speak louder than words and that ought to tell you something…

A shooting in Wichita, Kansas left 7 people shot – and 2 more trampled during the rush to escape the nightclub. A person has been detained for questioning.

Meanwhile, another shooter, this one in Baltimore, tried harder. HE got 30 people at a block party. 2 dead, 28 wounded, 3 critically. Police are still looking for the shooter.

America’s been looking for a new identity since the class war was launched. I guess being number one at killing each other is…something. Before we settle on that, though, any other ideas? Please?

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Okay, so, according to USA Today today, the IRS has a whistleblower named Gary Shapely who knows without question that the investigation into Hunter’s tax issues was interfered with by the administration in power. He also said that if the investigation had gone the way he wanted it to, it “could have, potentially,” led, eventually, to Joe.

The cons are really, really pissed that Hunter “got off” with just the same punishment as others caught in similar situations. They just don’t understand why Hunter wasn’t executed immediately and his father right along with him – just for good measure.

So, I’m reading through this article and I come across this confusing bit in reference to Shapley’s charge: “He also alleged that while former President Donald Trump was in office, Shapley’s team was prevented from taking further measures that could have brought the investigation to Hunter Biden’s father, the sitting U.S. president.”

So…it was Trump’s people who interfered with the investigation in an effort to protect Joe Biden? That’s what the “IRS Whistleblower” said. Oh, and the plea deal Hunter reached was with a Trump-appointed US Attorney, David Weiss.

Of course, cons in Congress, specifically, Jason Smith of Missouri, then claimed the whistleblower implicated the Biden White House. They’re going to have an “investigation!” Well, bully for them.

The cons think they’re “evening the score” by “investigating” every delusional fever dream they suffer. First they fielded – and elected – the most corrupt person in the history of our once great nation. Then, as his crimes unfolded, one after another, actual, criminal investigations were launched. It turns out, that’s what happens when evidence of a crime is uncovered. Trump has already lost the cases that have come against him and they’re really adding up.

Busted for stealing from his kids with cancer charity. Busted for lying about paying hush money to a porn star. His company was busted cooking the books. Busted for sexual assault with a follow-up case close behind because he can’t shut his stupid effing mouth. Trump’s rap sheet is already as long as any petty crook – and he STILL has charges out the wazoo to deal with.

Crimes in New York, crimes in Georgia, crimes in Florida, and crimes in Washington, DC? That seems like a national “crime spree” to me. So, of course, his supporters – yes, he STILL has “supporters” – want revenge. They need something, anything, to balance the scales. For clarity, it doesn’t actually have to “balance” anything. They just need something with some teeth to whine about. Somebody gets video of Joe Biden jay-walking and the conservative press will treat it like the most egregious, heinous crime of the century.

I’ll tell you this: The self-proclaimed “party of responsibility” simply WILL NOT take responsibility for anything. BUT…I’m okay with them investigating everything they can pretend to think of. It keeps them from moving forward with any of their other, inherent evil goals…

As usual, the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court waited until they were absconding for their three month vacation to toss out their most reprehensible work. (By the way, $274,000 a year, before bribes, and they only work nine months? I think I’ve found some of that fraud, waste, and abuse cons are always on about…) Anyway, “No” to trying to help people with their student loans, “No” to Affirmative Action (unless you’re white or rich), and “No” to gay rights (so far).

Truth? I’m ambivalent about the student loans. On the one hand, I think higher education should be taxpayer funded. On the other hand, they DID take out the loans. On the other hand, it’s not like these loans were freely made choices. People these days are told they deserve to suffer financially if they don’t have a college degree. It’s kind of an “at-the-point-of-a-gun” thing. Besides, college is over-rated. Outside of the sciences, there are other, arguably better, paths to learning, like tech schools. I’m also old enough to remember that when student loans were becoming a thing, part of their appeal was that they were offered at reduced interest rates. (I think mine were at, like, two percent.) THAT is actually the help I think people should get: reduced interest rates – seriously reduced…

The cowardly court also ended Affirmative Action for minorities at colleges. Their excuse was, they pretended it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Of course, that’s the opposite of the truth. Attacking formal Affirmative Action for minorities leaves plenty of unwritten Affirmative Action in place. Others have already pointed out, they ONLY ended Affirmative Action for minorities and the not-so-rich. Legacy admissions, where the kid gets in because a parent got in, are still a-okay. Donor admissions, too. Build a building (or wing) on campus, your kid will get in – and pass with what is politely referred to as a “Gentleman’s C.”! That’s not only a guaranteed admission, it’s a guaranteed outcome. Minority considerations never guaranteed outcomes. The information is still coming in but I’ve already seen reports showing that states without Affirmative Action (and I live in one) show greater racial disparities in college admissions so…SMACK-DOWN of the minorities. (I wonder how many of the Kangaroos got into college because of Affirmative Action…)

The worst, though, is the gay web page controversy. No, the web page isn’t gay. There’s this hateful bigot (Christian, obviously), Lorie Smith, who wants to design wedding web pages but NOT for gay people. (I suspect she’s afraid that even the sight of gay people might overwhelm her desires and send her spiraling into a world of sin, sin, sin – but that’s just a guess.) SHE says her all-knowing, all-powerful, god-like, invisible, super-friend will effing HATE her and set her on fire for all time if she does unto her fellow human beings as she would have others do unto her. She really seems to have missed the point of Jesus’ teachings but… The Kangaroos agreed.

The moron Gorsuch wrote that the First Amendment “envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish…” Sure. Unless you’re gay, right? THEN discrimination is perfectly acceptable. Religious idiots still insist gay is a choice. They have to. Otherwise they have to explain why their “god” creates human beings everyone is supposed to hate, hate, hate! If he’s all powerful, can’t he just NOT create them?

The “court” tried to hide the evil of their choice by limiting the damage to businesses that engage in creative pursuits. Writers, photographers, artists, and videographers should be allowed to discriminate but, say, a restaurant should not? Why not? If cooking for a black person violates my oh-so-stupid religious beliefs, and I’m a very “creative” cook, why should I have to cook for someone my “God,” dislikes? (And, fortunately for me, my “God” dislikes the very same people I dislike. It’s very helpful.) No, try as they might, they can’t hide the fact that they’ve re-opened the door to discrimination, which, I believe, is the goal.

I don’t believe there’s any difference between gay and black (from a “natural” standpoint). Both are uncontrollable conditions of birth. But you know what IS a choice? Religion. And, hey, I’m a creative type! MY God effing hates religious people, especially conservative “Christians.” He says they keep using His words to deceive and attack people and that isn’t what He had in mind at all…

So now I get to discriminate against Christians? Fair enough…
Or is that not what they had in mind?