Charlie-Kirk

Billions For Me, Nothing For Thee…

by MyBaconPress

Have you noticed that the only time Donny has any concern, whatsoever, for “legal authority,” is when he wants to do some harm? He said he wasn’t going to pay SNAP benefits, in an effort to pressure Democrats in Congress into letting him take health insurance from millions of Americans. A court – no, TWO courts told him he had to pay.

His response? “Our Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP with certain monies we have available,” he lied. Since when does he care about “legal authority?” He says the two courts issued “conflicting rulings.” One said, “You’ve got to pay,” and the other said, “Yeah, you’ve got to pay.” Some conflict. It’s just a stalling tactic. Now he can ask another court to “clarify” and that will buy him some time to be even crueler to the American people. He loves that, petty cruelty to others.

He seems able to come up with money for whatever project he wants to undertake or whatever foreign country he thinks we should bail out. The money is flowing freely for himself and his friends. The shutdown doesn’t seem to be slowing him, even a little bit. But when it comes time to do something good for the American people? Suddenly, he may not have “legal authority” and he just can’t get ‘er done. There’s no money or there’s no will or both…

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Let me ask you something. The cons keep pretending that all the Dems have to do is give the cons what they want, THEN they’ll come to the table to discuss health insurance. They insist they want to address the problem and that they will, they pinkie-swear, if only the Dems will voluntarily surrender the only leverage they have in the negotiation.

But surrender isn’t the ONLY way to address this, right? Since Team Evil insists it wants to address health care and it plans to address health care, and since the one thing keeping the Dems from voting for the Continuing Resolution (CR) re-opening the government IS health care, why not open the government BY addressing health care, right?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been paying attention. I suspect that if the Dems DO sign off on the CR, the cons will just… forget about their “promise” to address the heath care collapse in this, the “Greatest Country on Earth™.” If, ultimately, everybody wants the same thing, as they claim to want, why should the thing everybody claims to want be such a deal-killer? You know what? I think Republicans are lying…

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I keep watching this criminal empire known as the Trump regime working. I keep thinking of a phrase I know. It might be Biblical, I’m not sure. It goes like this: for whenever two or more of you are gathered, it could be a conspiracy. It depends upon the conversation…

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Erika Kirk seems to have gotten over the loss of her husband Charlie. She appears to be getting quite comfortable with Junior Dumbass Vance. Did you SEE that hug? She’s running her fingers through his hair, fercrissakes. At one point, she just held him, looking up at him. His hands lingered on her waist, only for a moment, but it was a moment that stretched into an eternity as they gazed deeply into each other’s eyes. It looked like a full body hug, to me. Not the kind one gives a friend. The kind lovers do.

Except for that passionate, lingering embrace at Ole Miss, I have no evidence that JD and Erika are having an affair. But Usha Vance had better start planning for upheaval now, because it sure looked like they want to have an affair. Erika solves some of JD’s racism problem. Usha makes it look like he might not be racist at all and by today’s MAGA standards, that’s pretty much unacceptable. Usha is Indian by heritage. She’s Hindu. She’s… OMG, is this right? She’s 39 years old. She’s looking older, these days. Her close association with evil seems to be taking a toll.

But Erika? Erika is blonde. Erika pretends to be Christian. Erika is younger at 36. Erika wears leather pants and if she holds her legs together really tightly, they feel an awful lot like couch cushions to JD. Okay, I don’t really know about that last one. But her close association with evil just seems to energize her. Erika never really struck me as all that broken up by her husband’s murder.

Hell, she immediately turned it into a marketing opportunity. She stepped right in as new CEO of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s very personally profitable non-profit that seeks to distort reality to young people. Now she trades on Charlie’s name to keep support. “Oh, Charlie would have wanted this!” I’m not sure Charlie would have felt all that good about that hug but I’m pretty sure Usha shouldn’t. It didn’t look right at all…

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Quick update: MAGA Mike has adjourned the House yet again, ONE MORE TIME, in an effort to keep from having to deal with the Jeffrey Epstein fallout. Donny must have done some pretty terrible things to those girls…

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Every time a new poll comes out showing how unpopular MAGA is, Team Evil just dismisses the poll. “No, I don’t believe that.” They’re SO certain the polling is wrong, they’re hiding from their constituents and refusing to do Town Halls and such. But I DO believe much of the polling.

In this redistricting fight, the GOP is likely to win. That is, they’ll be in a position to keep control over Congress whether that’s what the American people want or not. Just like the founders intended. But if Team Evil keeps attacking everybody, left and right alike, people on the right are likely to rebel. Maybe Dems get one chamber back because the right stays home. It’s possible.

Polls suggest the right is getting more fed up with the pols, especially the rightie pols. MAGA KNEW Donny and Company intended harm to people. They were eager for it. They just thought the harm was intended for other people. Now that it’s becoming clear, even to a MAGA, that the regime intends harm to ALL Americans, even to a MAGA, they’re less ebullient about Donny’s promises. That might have an effect in upcoming “elections” the right doesn’t expect.

It kind of sucks that disgust on the right is the last hope of saving a once-great nation…

Masks, Shadows, and Shutdowns…

by MyBaconPress

I like that California has passed a law prohibiting law enforcement – including federal agents – from wearing masks to hide their identity while performing official duties. I’m not sure how California will enforce such a law, but the law is the right thing. Cops should NOT hide their faces while doing honorable work. If they DO have to hide their faces, they must not be doing honorable work, right?

See, it turns out the ICEholes fear being harassed for all of that harassment they’re inflicting on other people. They’re not on board with the idea of others doing unto them as they do unto others. While the regime encourages the harassment of the population, it really doesn’t want it’s secret police force harassed. What’s good for me is different for thee, right?

The regime pretends they’re only arresting the worst of the worst, murderers and rapers and such. They just don’t tell MAGA about all of the “legals” their arresting, too, but it turns out, there are large numbers of people being swept up who were moving through the process the “right way.” The ICEholes are actually manipulating the system in order to create new victims, people working within the law, people following the process.

Before signing the legislation, Newsom tweeted that puppy killer Kristi Noem is going to have a “bad day.” HE meant, she would be irritated by the new legislation. Some Team Evil moron – specifically, Bill Essayli, the acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California – decided to turn the statement over to the Secret Service for a “threat assessment.” I expect the “assessment” to come back that Mr. Essayli is dangerously stupid. It SHOULD BE funny, but not with these clowns…

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Recently, a clip from the Twilight Zone went around. It was from an episode called ‘He’s Alive.’ It tells the story of how a “shadow Hitler” teaches a young new scoundrel how to be a Fascist leader. Shadow Hitler tells the young man there’s something he must do. He calls it “a ‘Cause Célèbre,’ something to cement the organization together.”

He says the movement needs a martyr to rally around. “A martyr. The organization needs a martyr.” When the young man asks how one finds a martyr, Shadow Hitler tells him, “You do not find one, Mr. Vollmer. You choose one. You take one of no value and you make him into a symbol. You wrap him in a flag and you make his death work for you. Find a man who is of no value while he’s alive but who can serve you when he’s dead.” Shadow Hitler knew how to make a movement.

I mention it, casually, for absolutely and positively no reason other than that I like ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘He’s Alive’ is one of the better episodes. It’s one I recommend, heartily. It was nice to be reminded how well the show was made but, obviously, it’s not really relevant to anything going on today…

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Charlie Kirk absolutely did NOT deserve to die. He didn’t deserve to be deified, either. But for whatever mysterious, unknowable, let’s call it a “shadow” reason, Kirk is being martyred on the right. When a Democratic Minnesota state legislator and her family, including the dog, were murdered, 47 said, “Who?” But when Kirk was murdered, flags were lowered to half-staff, garments were rended, and praises were sang.

Then, they held an event to honor the passing of Charlie Kirk. It was a large affair, held in a stadium. They really lifted him up. Thousands of people attended. Bigwigs from the regime made an appearance. The memorial was described as starting “with the feel of a megachurch service before veering into something more akin to a political rally.”

The First Felon spoke and even managed to not talk about himself and what a victim he is long enough mention Kirk – at least for a sentence or two. “He’s a martyr, now, for America’s freedom. I know I speak for everyone here today when I say that none of us will ever forget Charlie.” Then he promptly forgot about Charlie and launched into his standard tirade about how everybody is always picking on him and he’s such a victim but he’ll fight the good fight, apparently from the golf course.

He did tease a big announcement later today. Apparently, the insane misleader of the HHS and national embarrassment, RFK jr, has randomly decided that Tylenol causes autism, despite all of the medical information to the contrary. I mean, who needs science when you have wild guesses, right? But then 47 brought the whole thing home and returned to Kirk. He said Charlie did not hate his opponents and wanted the best for them. Then he added, “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.”

We know, Donny. We know…

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Did you know the US government is facing a shutdown? Yes, again. Every few months, these days, our government faces a “shutdown.” The GOP gutted heath care in this once-great nation in their Big Ugly Bill. The Dems are trying to reinstate some of the things the GOP took away. The Dems are refusing to cooperate with the GOP until something is done to help Americans in general, a position to which the GOP is aggressively opposed.

See, Americans know the GOP cut $880 billion dollars from the budget for Medicaid, the program that pays for the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Without it, thousands or millions of people will lose their health insurance. MAGA thinks the GOP only cut $880 billion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse. As you can imagine, that sets the stage for yet another political fight.

Although MAGA is wrong about what’s going to happen, the cuts don’t hit too hard until later, so we’re all arguing over future events, notoriously hard to prove. By the time MAGA realizes they’ve been played, yet again, and now they’ve lost their health insurance, it will be too late. So, the Dems are trying to help everyone, even MAGA, and MAGA is working as hard as they can to reject that help. Welcome to the shutdown.

A government shutdown means the US government will stop paying it’s bills and our credibility will be in the toilet. The US credit rating has already been downgraded as a direct result of this bull… um, hockey and I presume it will be again after THIS one. It’s probably a serious problem, so Congress went ahead and left for a short vacation. After all, they don’t need much prep time. MAGA blames the Dems. The Dems blame MAGA. The claims and charges of both parties will go back and forth and – voila! – shutdown.

Politicians never seem to worry too much about the effects and impacts their little political games have on the lives of real people, so you’d better buckle up. It’s going to be a rough ride…

Take It Up With 47…

by MyBaconPress

Donny was blathering at one of his golf clubs and he finally said an honest thing: “Smart people don’t like me.” That’s true. But what does it say about people who DO like him? HE knows smart people don’t like him. HE knows YOU like him. What is HE saying about his opinion of YOU? Hey, don’t blame me. Take it up with 47, the guy who said it…

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I suppose it just makes sense that 47 – the one-time, long-term friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a person who sex-trafficked kids – would reduce resources dedicated to human trafficking. “Oh,” the regime promises, “we’re still addressing human trafficking. We’re just repurposing the vast majority of the resources once used for that to, instead, deport and harass as many brown people as we can find.”

Donny’s people have declared human trafficking “solved” in America. That’s kind of their shtick. Donny sees a problem. Obviously, he has no idea how to address the problem. So, instead, he simply declares he has “solved” the problem. Perfect. That fact that the problem persists and now no one is allowed to follow up or even mention it because it has been declared officially “solved” isn’t relevant. It’s moronically stupid, but that’s not relevant.

As always, though, it isn’t what they say, it’s what they do. They’ve repurposed people who used to work against human trafficking. Now those people are chasing brown people, legal or otherwise. Yes, there WILL be fewer brown people here. But there will be fewer people working against human trafficking! For MY money, I’d rather have cops work to stop human trafficking before they arrest someone over a piece of paper, but that’s just smart, and stupid is on the ascension in this once-great nation and around the world…

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There are videos out there of Charlie Kirk’s bodyguards using hand signals for… something. The suggestion is that the hand signals were directing the shooter on behalf of… someone. The idea that Charlie Kirk’s own bodyguards were directing the shooter for some reason is… stupid.

Look, I believe the bodyguards were using hand signals to communicate. They might well do that for the same reason baseball managers do it. You can communicate quietly, but effectively, in loud environments. As one example, Nick Fuentes’ group, the Groypers – the group the shooter has been tied to – had been harassing and heckling Kirk’s campus challenges for years. The group had been banned, but banned groups don’t necessarily stand down just because they’ve been banned.

So maybe one of the hand signals means, ‘Groyper at three o’clock.’ Maybe one of them means, ‘Sound problem from speaker on the left.’ Maybe one of them means, ‘Hey, check out that brunette in row three.’ But I doubt Charlie Kirk’s bodyguards were signaling, ‘Take your shot.’ It makes more sense to me that his bodyguards were using hand signals to communicate crowd concerns…

In the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder, the regime is pushing the message that they have to stop all the violence from the left. Now, any realistic review of history demonstrates quite clearly that most of the political violence in this once-great nation comes from the right. Worse, for them, even the DOJ reports that most political violence in this country comes from the right. Well, it did. Donny “solved” that problem the way he “solves” most of his problems – he had the report deleted. Because it’s best to attack problems with all of the wrong information, right?

I guess the shooter “got” Jimmy Kimmel, too. Kimmel said that the right is falling all over themselves to prove the shooter wasn’t one of them, meaning from the right. That’s all he said. Now his show has been “suspended indefinitely.” The regime threatened to pull ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t do something about Kimmel’s comment. That’s exactly the kind of thing Charlie Kirk would have wanted, right? In order to honor the memory of their free speech champion, they’re celebrating the squelching of free speech. I honestly don’t think they see it, though…

While we’re on the topic of Charlie Kirk, have you noticed – of course you’ve noticed – the effort by MAGA to sanctify the guy? They’re working overtime to fluff him into sainthood. The left keeps responding with little more than the actual words Charlie Kirk actually used and the right is furious the left is trying “smear” Charlie Kirk.

Using actual quotes from a person isn’t a “smear.” If quoting the words one actually uses even appears as a smear, that has more to do with the speaker than the person who reports it. The right won’t accept any of that, of course. They want to martyr the guy and by GOD, they’re going to martyr the guy.

Donny looks, more than anything, like he wants to use the Charlie Kirk murder as his Reichstag Fire. I know MAGA gets all butthurt every time someone notices yet another parallel to the rise of the Nazis in 1930’s Germany, but the “fix” for that is to stop following the Nazi playbook, not acting like a snowflake, so take it up with 47. Because he’s going to use this as a pretext to consolidate power and suppress civil liberties, soon allowing the government to arrest political opponents and abolish constitutional protections. Just like Hitler did with the Reichstag Fire.

Oh, you think I’m being hyperbolic? Look back, what, four paragraphs. Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air in response to a threat from the government over something Kimmel said. The pretense is that it’s to honor Charlie Kirk but Charlie Kirk was into free speech. He would not approve. The regime doesn’t care. They have their excuse – their Reichstag Fire – and they’re using it…

Well, Well, Well…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charlie Kirk…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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