It’s as predictable as sunrise, isn’t it? Team Evil takes some stand based on their wrongheaded beliefs. Their goal is to prove their beliefs are not wrongheaded. Then come the actual, honest-to-God, real-life consequences of their stand and – BOOM! – they’ve proven their stance is wrongheaded. Over and over and over again, it happens.

Take their stance on vaccines, in general, and, in this case, the flu vaccine in particular. Getting the flu vaccine in the military used to be seen as a strength force issue. If the army gets sick, they aren’t fighting as well, or at all. Oh, but MAGA knows science is bad and stupid and a tool of the devil or whatever so they choose to believe the voices in their heads, instead. (It’s actually the voices in their televisions but the voices might as well be in their heads.)

So Whiskey Pete tells the army that, no, they don’t have to get the flu vaccine if they don’t want to. Many, apparently, didn’t want to. Then one of them got the flu. Then another. And another. Now the army is having something of a flu epidemic at training centers like Lackland AFB in Texas and many of our recruits are sidelined. One died! Wrongheaded.

So now the military is requiring flu vaccines again and trying to get them used up before they expire. They’ll run out soon and don’t expect replacements until September, maybe August so they’re not out of the woods, yet. Excellent planning, as usual, from Team Evil. As it happens, the problem with putting a moron in charge is that you have an effing moron in charge! That should have been obvious…

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Fox Not-News tried to help boost 47’s stupid “State Fair” by going to the event. They broadcast with the fair in the background and had “reports” from people at various specific locations. That should help, right? Highlight individual bits and show the overall thing as you America-bash and boost the Drumpfster.

What became obvious immediately? The vast, empty area. No one was there. The thing is a bust, mostly because of how closely it’s associated with Donny, whom everybody on the planet hates with a passion except MAGA, who support child rape and theft. I’m not sure I’m all that interested in their opinion, you know?

So Fox Not-News accidentally exposed the unpopularity of the event? “Accidentally?” Murdoch and the Drumpfster are not the great friends they once were. Maybe Fox was trying to help. Maybe Fox was not. Either way, they certainly didn’t…

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Okay, you can hem and haw all you want to. But you can no longer deny that Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. He went all the way through the court system trying to overturn the decision. Literally, all the way to his toady-laden Supremely corrupt court. They let the decision stand. Obviously, people are free to lie away from courts, but in court? That’s a different matter. So he’ll continue to say he didn’t do it – when he’s not in court. But in court? That’s a different matter. After testimony and a trial, the courts agreed he DID do it. He DID do it…

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Birthright citizenship is upheld. Who knew? The Way High Court has indicated in the past that they rule according to the Constitution if the writing is clear and direct. That’s not always true, but in this case, they went with the text. Surprisingly, not Clarence Thomas. He’s one of those guys who prefers to pull the ladder up behind him. Alito and Gorsuch also dissented.

The dissenting justices tried to pretend the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States to gain citizenship to mean birthright citizenship is not automatic because some foreign citizens are not. Subject to the jurisdiction, that is. Of course, that’s wrong. Let a non-citizen visitor to this once-great nation commit a robbery or a murder here. They’ll find themselves seriously “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States tout de suite.

Hey, I believe at least a couple of these so-called “justices” get paid to rule in Donny’s favor. Their job is only to find a way to comply and they do that pretty well. Sometimes, like this one, it just leaves the bootlickers looking like fools and idiots, like they can’t read the words in front of their faces…

And idiots they may indeed be. They’ve allowed for even more dark money to flood and corrupt our political system. In 2010, they ruled in favor of corruption in Citizens United vs the FEC. Also in 2010 they ruled in favor of corruption in their Speechnow vs FEC ruling that lifted the caps on individuals contributing to elections. Then, in 2014, with the McCutcheon, et al. v. FEC, they ruled in favor of corruption when they eliminated the caps on corporate contributions and now they’ve ruled in favor of corruption by eliminating caps on political committee spending.

If you’ve got the money, you can buy a politician, though they’re all bought and paid for at this point. You’ll need to sponsor your own. If you don’t have that kind of money? You can suck eggs while you watch the political system serve the wealthy at the expense of the masses. That’s not the system our founders envisioned and our country has gone steadily downhill since the One Percent took over. Well, for the masses. The One Percent are enjoying benefits and opportunities not seen since the Gilded Age…

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Speaking of which, reports suggest that 47 has pocketed over $2 billion dollars since taking office this term. That mostly seems to come from his requirement to get his beak wet if you want to do anything. But if you DO get his beak wet, you really can do anything.

Anna Kelly, a White House spokesliar, said that “neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest.” That created a spit-take from me. Kelly added that “all actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”

That’s good enough for MAGA. All of Team Evil enjoy the morality of your average sewer rat. Lies like that flow so freely from their lips they may not even know they’re lying anymore. But when the Drumpfster openly declares he doesn’t care about affordability, he loves the inflation, he’s not going to help with the housing crisis caused by Wall Street, he’s not showing even the slightest interest in the American people, let alone taking actions in their best interest…