Crime

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve noticed the cons are trying to attack AOC as something less than intelligent – despite the fact that she regularly runs rings around them. One of the things they highlight is that she was a bartender before running for Congress. That’s it. She was a bartender. What could SHE know?

I used to debate a right-leaning woman on issues in social media. She seems to have disappeared recently. She probably decided I’m irredeemable. But she used to try to denigrate me by pointing to the fact that I own a swimming pool service. That’s how I make my living, so I must be a dumb-dumb.

I think it speaks VOLUMES that they attack what people do for a living as evidence of intelligence. The GOP genuinely has no respect for the working class or they wouldn’t try to use it as a put-down…

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Bobby Sherman has passed, aged 81. When I was a kid, it was possible to get a working record on the back of cereal boxes. It was a promotional thing. One time, ‘Alpha-bits’ put a record out of Bobby Sherman doing a song called ‘Time.’ Remember, these records were for kids. So, here are the opening lines from Bobby Sherman’s song, ‘Time,’ for kids:

“Time. We all die, some time.
No matter who you are, you answer to time.
And now I can see, we’re all running out of time.”

That’s my Bobby Sherman experience…

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Here’s a number worth noting from ‘The Guardian.’ Since the inauguration, in the United States of America, arrests of people without criminal histories have increased 807%! It’s estimated that ICE is holding something like 59,000 detainees in various facilities across the country. Key phrase, ‘without criminal histories.’

These are NOT gang members, rapists, or murderers. These are just people trying to live their lives and go about their business. These are people working jobs and paying taxes. I presume Fox Not-News and the rest of MAGA media say otherwise, but the facts do not support the story they’re selling…

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“Let’s keep it going, people! We’re SO close. We’re about to achieve our goal of raising the global temperature by 3 degrees centigrade. And there’s no going back from there!”
“GOAL? No, that was a warning! We were supposed to be avoiding that increase, if possible.”
“A warning? No, you must be wrong. It MUST have been a goal. Otherwise, we would have done less to achieve it and more to prevent it, right?”
“Climate scientists have been screaming their heads off about it. They’ve been trying to get people to take action to slow the process.”
“Scientists? Pshaw. What do they know? Now we’ll be able to plant crops where we couldn’t before. More crops, more food, right?”
“Well, except that we won’t be able to grow where we could before, either. And we’re facing the hottest summer on record. We’re already breaking heat records, year after year. The heat is already killing people.”
“Only old people, and we collectively decided they were expendable during Covid-19, remember? More for us!”
“This is about to get irreversibly ugly…”

And on Friday, the DOD announced it will halt a critical atmospheric data collection program – at the end of June! Hey, a few days to prepare for the loss of irreplaceable, critical information on hurricane development just before hurricane season should be enough, right? The program, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) helped scientists predict hurricanes with far better accuracy. Climate scientists say it will set hurricane forecasting back by “decades.”

Team Moronic Evil is insisting it’s just one piece in a lot of pieces and won’t be missed. The scientists who rely on it say it’s a vital piece of the puzzle and WILL be missed. One guy said, “It, frankly, is an embarrassment for the government to pursue a course with less data and just pretend everything will be OK.”

So according to the team that has YET to get even ONE THING right, less information will be a-okay. I’m sure that’s comforting for the people who live in hurricane zones. Red states, right? Well, they can hold Donny’s promises up to the hurricane as they discover the hurricane’s intensity when their roofs blow off. I’m sure they’ll be just fine…

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See, THIS is why MAGA is so completely in the dark when it comes to what’s actually happening. Right now, the lying regime is in a full-court press, trying to convince people that the US bombing of Iran “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Team Evil doesn’t care what’s true. They just want people to agree with 47. HE said it was obliterated, it was obliterated, whether it was or not, right?

The thing is, many people are saying that it was NOT obliterated. And, as we all know by now, the source “many people are saying” is unimpeachable, right? A CNN reporter, Natasha Bertrand, reported on the existence of an intelligence assessment that said the attack had done LESS than obliterate the facilities. She just said the report exists, not that it was perfectly true.

But KKKaroline Leavitt tore into Bertrand during a press misinforming session. She spent nearly two minutes lying about Bertrand, really smearing her name. Remember, all Bertrand said is that the report exists and this is what it says. Even Leavitt has acknowledged the report exists but for some reason, Bertrand saying so is some kind of betrayal.

But none of that is the point. The point is this: during her diatribe, Leavitt said, “It was Natasha Bertrand who had 51 intelligence analysts falsely lie to her, but she still put it on paper for some reason, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. We all know that’s not true, right?”

Well, no. It IS true, there was a Hunter Biden laptop and that fact was covered up during the 2020 race. But the reason MAGA got a chubby about the laptop was because it was going to prove all the various crimes and other wrongdoings of the Joe Biden administration. It turned out to be nothing more than an opportunity for MTG to show a little revenge porn on the House floor. Ongoing investigations have revealed that many of the documents on the laptop were tampered with. In short, there is no “there” there on the Biden laptop and there never was.

But Leavitt keeps the Hunter Biden story going by repeating the part that works for Team Evil and simply disregarding the part that doesn’t. MAGA media will put Leavitt’s comments on a loop and reinforce for MAGA that the Biden laptop was the pinnacle of evil and MAGA will be forever trapped in a miasma of misinformation…

What A Confused Mess…

by MyBaconPress

Our story so far: As nearly as I can work it out, Israel has been murdering Palestinians at a shocking rate in Gaza, claiming they’re wiping out Hamas. Apparently, EVERY Palestinian in Gaza is Hamas as far as Israel is concerned. Israel claims Iran has been financially backing Hamas in the fight, so they decided Iran should be involved, too. Never mind that Israel could NOT continue this fight without backing from the US. In Israel’s calculation, a country backing Israel is good, a country backing Israel’s opponent is an unforgivable outrage.

Israel repeats a long-ago debunked claim that Iran is working toward building a nuclear weapon and gets the Foolhardy First Felon to bomb some facilities in Iran. Then, the Felon posts in social media that he has brokered a cease-fire between the two countries. Iran “responds” to the US bombing by launching some cruise missiles at a US base in Qatar. Qatar is upset that Iranian missiles violated Qatari airspace but seems to be taking a measured response. Israel uses the launch of Iranian missiles at a US base in Qatar as a pretext to unload a huge number of bombs on Iran.

Donny knew it was going on. He says he got Bibi on the phone and told him not to drop those bombs. Bibi said he had to, the mission had already left. Donny claims he told Bibi to turn the planes around and posted to social media that the planes would do a “friendly plane wave” to Iran and go home. But the planes did a very unfriendly bombing of Tehran, instead. Iran fired back, because of course they did.

It should be noted, Israel is doing pretty much whatever it wants despite any agreements, international laws, or war crimes that might be involved. After the way they’ve been behaving in Gaza, I don’t trust the Israeli government. (The government, not “Jews,” so blow it out your ear.) The fact that the two countries were still exchanging fire after the announcement of the cease-fire really irritated Donny who said, “I gotta get Israel to calm down now,” as he left the White House, Reuters reports.

“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen…We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”

But speaking of not know what one is doing, he came out immediately after the unprovoked attack and claimed Iran’s nuclear facilities had been completely obliterated. It turns out, Iran’s nuclear facilities were mildly damaged and should be back up and running in a few months.

MOSTLY, this raid proved that the vaunted ‘Bunker Buster Bomb’ doesn’t work very well. Each one of those bad boys costs $20 million dollars. Each one. The US dropped 14 of them during the raid. $280 million dollars in bombs alone, that doesn’t count the cost of the B-2 bombers required to carry those bombs or the support planes to protect the B-2s for a setback of only a few months. Hell, that’s not even good business.

The Felon and some of his followers are all giddy now. Oh, he’s going to get the Nobel Peace Prize THIS time. The dude is obsessed with trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got one (that he, candidly, didn’t deserve) and now Donny desperately wants one. He’s obsessed. And, apparently, he’ll kill anyone to get one.

Personally, I’ll be surprised if one gets a peace prize for an illegal bombing raid. “No,” MAGA will say, “it’s for the cease-fire.” Yeah, the cease-fire after the illegal bombing raid. You can’t just eliminate that part of the equation. The Nobel committee won’t. Besides, Netanyahu is still in charge in Israel. Do you really think he’s going to stand down? Especially now that the world knows America’s great big, very expensive, vaguely suggestively named bomb (“Massive Ordnance Penetrator”) only did minor damage?

But the plot thickened on Wednesday, when a new intelligence assessment from Israel was issued. It determined that the bombs really DID do bigly damage to Iran’s nuclear capability. So, to review: that’s Hyperbolic Donny and Netanyahu – both of whom desperately want to look tough, decisive, and successful – saying the bombing was the bombing of their dreams and everyone else – including Donny’s own intelligence services – saying it was just a scratch.

There’s no sense in arguing about it at this point. The whole world will know which was correct by how quickly Iran gets it’s nuclear program up and running again. But, based on the veracity of every other thing 47 says, I’m guessing that will be sooner, rather than later…

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Right now, as far as the world is concerned, the only thing keeping the American dollar going is Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve. He serves a predetermined term and that term runs another eleven months. He’s solid. He knows his stuff. He keeps standing in the way of Hyperbolic Donny’s efforts to obliterate the US economy. So, of course, 47 hates him and attacks him as “stupid” and “very dumb.” But Donny’s too stupid to know what stupid looks like, clearly a widespread affliction today in this once-great nation.

The Felon’s attacks on Powell are political, so, of course, he claims Powell is acting politically. As of today, the Fed doesn’t do that. It’s an independent group that is supposed to act on economic data alone and, as of today, it does. That means Powell doesn’t toady up to 47. THAT means 47 wants him gone. But because of the rules, he can’t just fire him.

Instead, Donny says he’s going to name Powell’s successor early, before the end of Powell’s term. THEN, every time Powell makes an economic decision, the regime can trot out their preferred monetary moron to say HE would have done things differently, politically, whatever Donny wanted, undermining Powell’s decision.

So, the dollar has fallen to a low not seen since the world was trying to crawl out from under the wreckage of Donny’s epic mishandling of Covid-19. It turns out, there are a LOT of ways Donny can destroy the US economy and he’s going full throttle on all of them…

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Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions.’ He’s right about that. These guys KNOW that what they’re doing is wrong and the masks are the proof. But it’s worse than that. Now, bad guys are cosplaying as cops (copsplaying?) so they can do bad guy things, inadvertently supported by potential actual cops hiding fearfully behind their own masks.

SO, what stops, say, a terrorist from, oh, I don’t know, Iran maybe, from dressing up as a cop to gain access to some sensitive area and do some severe damage, possibly in retribution for some recent bombing?

Masked cops are just bad in every measurable way, and they’re likely making the whole country far LESS safe. Is there ANYTHING Donny doesn’t destroy? Anything at all? I’ll wait…

Regime Change Begins At Home…

by MyBaconPress

Let the spinning begin. Yes, I mean the head-spinning. Apparently on orders from Bibi Netanyahu, the US bombed Iran in an effort to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb the world agrees they were not trying to build, but which Donny has pretended they were trying to build for some three decades. Wait, actual bombs fell in response to a delusion? Absolutely.

The US is blaming Iran. Bear in mind, the US and Iran had entered into an agreement that prevented Iran from building nuclear weapons and, by all accounts, they were honoring that agreement. But because Donny is an irrational moron, he unilaterally pulled out of that agreement, for no reason other than Obama had negotiated the thing, and tried to force a new one on Iran, which Iran declined.

By all accounts (except Donny’s) Iran was sticking to the framework of the Obama agreement anyway. But they got attacked by Israel and they responded. The Israeli attack was kind of superficial and the response was also “measured.” But then it happened again. Israel attacked, this time with more devastating effect and Iran responded again, also with more devastating effect.

So now, because Iran responded to Israeli attacks, the US just HAD to bomb Iran, see? Clear as mud. It reminds me of nothing so much as an abusive husband beating his wife over some trivial “offense” while saying, “See what you make me do?” But the US sends in some planes, bombs three locations, then withdraws the planes safely. A “successful” mission, based on the fact that all of the planes that went in came out again. They DID hit their targets, too. Yay! Let’s celebrate US power.

Regime 47 officials took turns stepping up to the microphone to tell Americans how awesome we are. We hit our targets. We set back their nuclear program. We did amazing and wonderful damage and we came away unscathed and, take their word for this, there will be no repercussions whatsoever because that’s the way things work in most fantasy lands.

It turns out, Iran had an inkling that Donny might bring bombs and had moved everything important out of those facilities. Yes, the US did damage but they didn’t destroy the facilities, despite Donny’s hyperbole. Israel has since followed up by bombing access roads to those facilities but the roads and the facilities, themselves, can be repaired.

Iran can be back up and running in fairly short order – and THAT assumes the three sites bombed were the only sites available. Is it at all possible Iran had a fourth site that had gone undetected and, therefore, unbombed? Here’s the really ironic part: the very best way for Iran to put an end to all of this aggression over whether or not they have a nuclear weapon, is to develop a nuclear weapon. The US tends to shy away from bullying nuclear nations.

All of this hand-wringing over whether Iran can have nukes is kind of stupid. I mean, what are they going to do with them? Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a real thing. Israel plays coy but the whole world knows Israel has nukes already. Iran can’t nuke Israel without Israel responding in kind – and BOTH sides face a very high risk of radiation blowback.

Are we really so afraid that “a madman might get nukes?” Well, guess what? A madman has full control over an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons right now! If that’s a legitimate basis for regime change, shouldn’t the US start at home? I say we get rid of our own madman with nukes before we worry too much about some guy somewhere else who doesn’t even have any.

Matthew, Chapter 7, verse 5 sums it up nicely: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye…“

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Don’t be distracted by Donny’s dirty little war. Remember, the GOP is trying to take away your health care so they can give tax cuts to the wealthy. For as long as I can remember, the GOP motto is: comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted…

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Here’s a weird one. Some nutball opened fire at a church in Detroit on Sunday. Please note the LACK of speculation as to the shooter’s motives at this point. All we know, for sure, is that a 31 year old, white gunman opened fire. He shot a security guard in the leg. The newspaper article I saw in the Guardian said the security guard then shot and killed the gunman. That’s all kind of normal stuff, right? Standard American carnage.

But it turns out, the wounded security guard managed to shoot back only AFTER a church member ran over the gunman in a truck. You’ve got to admit, that’s a twist ending you didn’t see coming, right? Apparently, another thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a truck. THEN the guard shot and killed the gunman.

Okay, first, props to the driver of the truck. His quick thinking and bold action almost certainly saved lives. But then a weird little thought popped into my head. If I’m attacked, I’m allowed to use whatever force I need to use to protect myself – but no more. You’re allowed to defend yourself. You’re not allowed to escalate. If I manage to subdue my attacker, I’m not allowed to then grab a board and start pounding. The guy’s not a threat anymore.

I know it isn’t going to happen, but I found myself wondering if the security guard might get into trouble. I presume that once the congregant drove over the shooter – in a truck – the shooter was likely disabled long enough for someone to get the gun and secure the shooter. That is, I’m not sure the security guard needed to shoot and kill the gunman. It seems like excessive force.

The details on this shooting are still a little murky, but no, I would NOT have the guard face charges. It just crossed my mind that he could. If the gunman was down, having been run over by a truck, why did the guard open fire? But, like I say, murky details. Maybe the shooter was getting back up, like the Terminator. Either way, I don’t have any sympathy for the gunman and I feel like he should have holstered his weapon instead of shooting at people.

MAGAmerica is an insane, bloodthirsty place and and we have all just come to accept these regular shootings as part of our daily lives. It’s MAGA “freedumb.” You’re free to get shot anytime some nutball chooses…

The Pale Rider Rides Again…

by MyBaconPress

Donny says HE invented the term “America First” so HE gets to choose what it means. Here’s the thing. HE did NOT invent the term “America First.” He revived it from Nazis. It was a slogan used by American Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. 1930s Americans can be forgiven for being attracted to pretended Nazi ideology. The Nazis hadn’t Nazi’d yet. The modern Nazi, these days calling themselves MAGA, deserve no such grace.

This is all in relation to whether or not Felon 47 should use America’s biggest, non-nuclear bomb in Iran to “stop Iran from having nuclear weapons.” The question of whether or not he should bomb Iran and drag America into yet another moronic and wrongheaded Middle East war created quite a rift in MAGA-land. Should he or shouldn’t he? Two firmly held camps. The left started to get a little excited that it might be a “MAGA civil war.”

I don’t think such a threat actually ever existed. Remember, this is the crowd that actively killed their parents and grandparents during Covid-19 just to score what they thought were a few political points. Do you really think they’re going to split over bombing Iran? Now that he’s done it, he’ll just tell the “don’t do it” crowd to sit down and shut up – and they will. They’ll fall in line because that’s what they do. Independent thought is NOT a virtue in MAGAmerica.

This bit is funny: Pakistan announced on Saturday – before the bombing – they were going to nominate Felon 47 for a Nobel Peace Prize. He really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. He just doesn’t deserve one. He thought he might get it for ending Putin’s war in Ukraine. He brought his best game to that one, inducing the infamous “Stop it, stop it, STOP it!” chant – but it didn’t work and he was out of ideas.

He has been FAR too supportive of Israel’s attempted genocide, too. It turns out, one cannot supply weapons to a maniacal government and encourage that government to use those weapons to murder as many women and children as they can and be in the top running for a peace prize. The whole world knows Israel would not be able to continue in Netanyahu’s insanity but for American weapons – now happily supplied by Felon 47, for a small fee, of course.

He failed in Ukraine and he failed in Gaza so he apparently decided his best path to a peace prize might be in bombing the crap out of a foreign sovereign nation over a fraudulent and made up story. Damn, it feels like I’ve seen this movie before. The actors are different and it’s set in a different country but the plot… the plot is very familiar. Hackneyed, even.

Here’s an interesting tidbit. Outside of American (and probably Israeli) media? The entire world agrees that Iran does not have nuclear weapons, is not planning on having nuclear weapons, does not have enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons, is not building nuclear weapons. Even Tulsi Gabbard, his own National Intelligence Director, said Iran isn’t trying to build a bomb.

The whole threat of Iran’s “nuclear weapons” is Iraq’s WMDs all over again. Remember how that worked out? Remember when Kindasleazy Rice terrorized people with this lie, “The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. It couldn’t have been. Saddam didn’t HAVE WMDs.

He had been thoroughly defanged by the time the US went in the second time. MAGA was left pretending that some rotted and rusted chemical weapons found buried deep in the sand in the middle of a desert counted as WMDs, despite the fact that Weapons of Mass Destruction had been clearly associated with nuclear weapons.

Iran does want a nuclear power plant and such a beast requires enriched uranium, too. But the level of enrichment is vastly lower than that required to build a nuclear bomb and, again, Iran is making NO effort to enrich uranium to that extent. Well, they weren’t. It’s pretty clear the best path to avert American bullying is to HAVE a nuclear device, and Donny has now, likely accidentally, made that fact very clear to Iran.

Another promise made, another promise broken…

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I often accuse MAGA of lacking morals. I make the point because of all the immoral stances MAGA supports. It’s a judgement call, subjective. But the more I hear about 47’s big bill, the more sure I am. Remember, one of the main themes of this nightmare is to inflict as much pain as possible on struggling Americans in order to make a very small segment of our country – rich people – I was going to say “more comfortable,” but they won’t BE more comfortable. How could they? They’ll just have more money on their pile.

It turns out, one route to all of that suffering is this slashing of Medicaid. That’s going to have widespread effect on the whole nation, things one might not initially think about, like closing rural hospitals. Obviously, the White House minions are pretending that cutting needed money won’t hurt anybody or anything. In fact, the less people have, the happier they’ll be, right? So, who needs medical care?

Are you having a heart attack because you were rage-screaming at the television about “Libtards?” Did you shoot yourself in the leg while you were cleaning your gun? Did your wife go into labor unexpectedly, three months early? Wow, you need a doctor, and fast. Too bad, though. The nearest doctor will be roughly two to four hours further away now that the only medical facility in the area lost funding to the Medicaid cuts and had to shut down. Try not to bleed out, okay?

Oh, I know, MAGA was told the Medicaid cuts actually only represented fraud, waste, and abuse. You’d better check that out more closely. The GOP – I should say, the very wealthy GOP – is taking money people need so they can give it to people with no need. Rural hospitals WILL shut down. Here’s the thing: one cannot just close down a hospital, realize it was a massive mistake, then reopen the thing as though nothing had happened.

This is not like DOGE firing everybody in sight, realizing the people they fired did an important job, and bringing them back a few days, weeks, or months later. Once those hospitals close, it will be very difficult to re-open them. Once rural Americans have lost their only local access to health care, that local access will likely be gone for a long, long time, maybe forever.

Only MAGA can stop this thing. I’m a lefty. I live in California. My representatives are already against this monstrosity. If I lived in a red state, my representative would just dismiss my input as radical lefty stuff. Only MAGA can make clear to MAGA politicians that this bill will cost those politicians more than they cost the victims of the bill and they’d better do it soon – or hope that no emergency medical situations come their way…

Too Weak…

by MyBaconPress

Israel is outraged – OUTRAGED, I tell you – that Iran targeted a hospital in Tel Aviv for attack. What kind of animals, they wonder, would target and attack a hospital? Don’t they have any humanity? A hospital? Oh, I get it. *A* hospital. THAT seems to be Israel’s dilemma. Iran only attacked one. Israel knows that one must attack ALL of the hospitals in a given place – say, GAZA – or it’s some kind of humanitarian crisis. Nobody should attack just one.

You do NOT do to Israel what Israel does to others. (See? They really DON’T believe in Jesus.) Doing to Israel what Israel does to others must constitute some kind of war crime, right? One rule for one side, another rule for the other side.

I know, Israel justifies their attacks on every hospital in Gaza by claiming their enemy, Hamas, is hiding inside the facilities. We just have to take their word for it. But, but… aren’t Iran’s enemies, Israelis, “hiding” inside Israel’s hospitals? I’d call that a distinction without a difference.

Look, I’m not defending Iran’s actions. I deplore this conflict and I hope it stops. But if it does keep going, I’m not going to take one position for one side and another position for the other side. If it’s okay for Israel to target hospitals (and it’s not), it’s okay for Iran to target hospitals (and it’s not).

Either way, it’s looking less and less like Felon 47 is going to get a Nobel Peace Prize any time soon. One doesn’t get Nobel Peace Prizes by moving the world ever closer to World War III. On the other hand, I’m feeling better about US involvement in the war because Friday morning reporting said 47 would decided “in two weeks.” “Two weeks” is Donny-talk for ‘not gonna happen’ in most cases. He uses “two weeks” to put everything off.

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Dear MAGA,

Have you noticed yet? All you ever get from him is excuses. The only thing he EVER delivers is excuses. Oh, he’s getting things done – just none of the things he promised you. The guy has a never-ending litany of things he’s promising to do to make your life better. It’s just that he has an even LONGER list of excuses why they don’t happen. I mean, we know he CAN. He can do ANYTHING, remember? Ask him. He’ll tell you. HE is the “only one.” But for some reason? All you ever really get is excuses. Some of the excuses even mix and match so he can use one excuse today and a different excuse tomorrow – but he’s STILL only delivering excuses.

He’s got a LOT of them, excuses. If he promised something on the campaign trail, he has since moved the goal post. In some cases, he has moved the goal posts more than once. He promises everything will be great – “in two weeks.” It’s ALWAYS two weeks, with this guy. Sure, you’re suffering more today than you were six months ago but that’s just the pain before the glory, right? Hey, he didn’t mention any ‘pain before the glory’ while he was promising things, did he? He SAID he was going to fix everything “on Day One.”

Don’t be like that, MAGA. *I* didn’t promise everything would be hunky-dory on day one. HE did. Even the one promise it looked like he was trying to keep – ridding our society of dangerous criminals – has fallen flat. He’s not rounding up violent criminals and, worse, HE is releasing dangerous criminals into our society, depending upon their ability to pay.

He said he was going to find and eliminate wasteful spending. As of April 30, he had spent $200 million dollars MORE than any other president over the same time period, nearly ALL of it on wasteful bullshit. Golf. A parade. Golf. Zipping around a racetrack. More golf. Fixing up a second-hand brib— er, airplane. Still MORE golf.

I know that faith springs eternal and this guy is going to keep promising good and great things. But I’m thinking he’s never going to actually deliver anything but excuses…

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So, this is curious. The LA Dodgers baseball team says they denied ICE entry to their parking lot during a recent game. But the agency says they didn’t have any agents at the game on that day. ICE says they weren’t there. It’s possible both statements are true. Well, kind of true.

The Dodgers may well have rebuffed an effort by people pretending to be ICE agents. Maybe the imposters were hoping to destroy the lives of a few brown people. On the other hand, maybe the imposters thought they had found a free way into the game. “You’ve got to let us in so we can find murderers and rapists,” then wander around the stadium “looking for bad guys” until, coincidentally, the end of the game. I’m just noodling, here.

That nutball conservative killer who took out the Minnesota legislators pretended to be a cop to gain access to them. Another guy told a woman he was undercover ICE and took her to an ally – where he tried to rape her. It’s becoming common for non-cops to cosplay AS cops – and they’re succeeding because the actual cops are hiding behind masks, too. To me, that possibility is an excellent reason to unmask ALL of the official, actual agents. Those guys should be required to show a warrant, wear a badge, and identify themselves, as well. Law enforcement officers and agents doing good law enforcement work shouldn’t need to hide their identity, anyway…

No Tribute…

by MyBaconPress

There’s a LOT of commentary about how badly the US soldiers marched during Felon 47’s tin-pot dictator parade. Anybody can watch the video and see that it’s true. These guys weren’t marching. They were walking. Casually. Just out for a stroll.

If you haven’t served, you’ll just have to take my word for this: once you learn to march as a unit, you kind of CAN’T not march as a unit. While they’re teaching you to march together, they ALSO teach you how to self-correct if you’re out of step and after drilling for hours and hours and hours (and, just for good measure, a few more hours) you get good at it. When someone tells you to march, you march. I’m not sure the leadership stressed the marching part.

Some are calling it a silent protest – a Foxtrot Delta Tango* – and I think that’s true, but it ALSO has the effect of preventing future numbskulls from using footage of the event. Our army, the one I certainly wouldn’t want to face, looked like a bunch of rag-tag wanna-bes out there. Nobody is going to use the footage of them casually strolling down the street as a projection of power and I suspect that was the military’s real goal. Nice work, DOD…

*Foxtrot Delta Tango is the phonetic alphabet language used in the military. The first letter is the important part, FDT. In this case, it translates to ‘F*ck Donald Trump…’

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I have to say, it looks like the evidence that the 2024 election was stolen is piling up. I know, the GOP “inoculated” the country against such accusations by insisting the 2020 election was stolen, even though everyone – MAGA included – knew it was not. The thing was, they never offered any reliable evidence. The truth is, I want honest elections. If the GOP had shown anything, anything at all, that enjoyed a basis in reality, I would have looked at it. But they didn’t. They didn’t have anything to point to.

WE do, though. Sure, the bomb threats in Democratic districts and the fires in mail-in ballot collection boxes in Democratic districts were suspicious but, could be, if you look at it in just the right way from just this angle, coincidences. The late purges of Democrats from voter rolls are more concrete evidence. Felon 47’s comments about how well Elon “knows those machines” qualifies as consciousness of guilt but not proof of action.

Now, investigators have uncovered a vast scheme to distort vote tabulations. A company called ‘Pro V&V,’ one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election. But they permitted the changes without any independent testing, public disclosure, or a proper, full certification review.

Worse, they labeled the changes “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial adjustments. But they weren’t trivial. They affected ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files – and they were all rubber-stamped, apparently with zero oversight.

I used to be a tech-oriented guy. Originally, I thought computerized voting machines would be a great idea. These days? Put me down as vehemently anti-voting machine – and I mean ALL of them, right along with tabulating machines. I believe EVERY election should take place on paper ballots and be hand-counted, one at a time, by human beings.

I know, the “complaint” that results from such an idea is that we don’t get the results fast enough for networks to predict who might win on election night. So what? If I have to choose between fast and accurate, I want accurate. And the ONE thing that seems to be true ever since the introduction of voting machines is that elections keep coming out skewed. Wrong. The outcomes don’t match the exit polls, for example, so we were told exit polls shouldn’t be trusted.

But exit polls were once understood as the gold standard of polling. Exit polls are how experts test elections in countries where elections need monitors, like Bizarro MAGAmerica. If the outcome doesn’t match the exit polls, the outcome has been altered. Period. It really IS that simple.

We saw distorted outcomes in 2016 and we saw distorted outcomes again in 2024. The only reason we didn’t see distorted outcomes in 2020 is because Felon 47 had allowed the Covid-19 pandemic to rage out of control for so long people were forced to use paper ballots – and the forces of MAGA evil had not yet attacked tabulating machines. Elon is said to have addressed THAT shortcoming – and it was DONNY who said it.

So right now, there’s no doubt in my mind that the 2024 “election” was stolen. Kamala won, as we all suspected she would, but the outcome was altered. I doubt it will change anything but, at the very least, it DOES increase my faith in the American people – that we did NOT voluntarily return this moron to the Oval Office…

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After that conservative Christian nutball shot those Minnesota state legislators, many people on the right began a taunting campaign against Democrats. They tried, they tried oh so hard, to convince people it was some disgruntled lefty responsible for the shooting.

Utah Senator Mike Lee wrote on Brand X: “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.”
Elon Musk, still trying to worm his way back into Felon 47’s good graces, shared a post from a pro-authoritarian, anti-American that read: “The left has become a full blown domestic terrorist organization.” Elon responded to that with this: “The far left is murderously violent,” which Mike Lee shared adding, “Fact check: TRUE.”
Loony Laura Loomer suggested the shooter had ties to the ‘No Kings Day’ protests.

Of course, as is nearly always the case, the shooter was a far RIGHT conservative pseudo-Christian who had a long list of names of Democrats and other left-leaning individuals he intended to attack. This dude is SO right wing, I expect 47 to pardon him – even if he doesn’t have the normal million dollar “tribute…”

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Happy Juneteenth! I guess we’re supposed to say “happy” anyway. It’s always been kind of a sad day, to me. I mean, it’s good slavery finally ended, don’t get me wrong. But Juneteenth recognizes the day when slaves in Texas were finally told they had been freed – two years earlier!

Two years! The south certainly did NOT easily give up their “freedom” to take away other people’s freedom, did they? I guess I’ll focus on the fact that the slaves were, eventually, freed so, Happy Juneteenth!

Insanity Plus Power…

by MyBaconPress

I guess the very successful No Kings Day protests in the face of the failed tin-pot dictator military parade has pushed demented, old Felon 47 even further over the edge. Frankly, I’m not sure that everybody who participated in the protests was a Democrat. I’m sure there were a LOT of independents and probably even some Republicans, those who still have higher regard for the Constitution than they do for one evil man.

But this morning, he’s on the war path against Democrats. In a post on his stupid site, he wrote, “ICE Officers are herewith ordered…to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” “Herewith ordered…” So now his social media posts act as policy directives? By what authority?

“In order to achieve this,” he continued, “we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democratic Power Center.” He rambled on a little more but it was mostly regurgitating MAGA culture war stuff. Gotta keep the faithful in a frenzy, you know…

I don’t think it’s protest vs parade related but the vile Felon has also issued an Executive Order – I’m not making this up, it’s in ‘The Guardian’ – that VA doctors are now free to refuse to treat Democrats and/or unmarried veterans if they so choose. Technically, I suppose a doctor so inclined could refuse to treat a Republican, too. According to the article, “Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.”

According to the Guardian article, “Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity.”

I suspect refusing to treat people based on political affiliation would violate a doctor’s Hippocratic Oath but I also suspect there are MAGA doctors out there who might actually refuse treatment to a veteran wearing a blue hat. On the other hand, based on the hiring stuff, perhaps the VA could use the opportunity to purge themselves of MAGA-infected doctors. I mean, what’s good for the goose, right?

In what can only be an amazing coincidence in this atmosphere of GOP-induced, anti-Democrat fervor, a MAGA nutball, Vance Boelter, decided to help out with the “problem” of Democrats existing and murdered Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding John Hoffman (shot nine times) and his wife (shot eight times). He had a long list of other people he thought should die because they hold different opinions than his. It’s important to note in this era of “cops” doing police work while wearing masks to hide their faces, that he gained access to the legislators he shot by dressing up as a cop.

This insane, loyal MAGA texted his friends and said, “…I wish it hadn’t gone this way.” Really, dude, all you had to do is NOT murder people and it would NOT have gone that way. YOU had all of the control in this situation. To the best of my knowledge, to this point, Felon 47 has not issued any statement whatsoever regarding the murders. He seems to only decry attempted violence aimed at Republicans for some reason. It’s almost as if he’s okay with violence toward Dems.

Boelter is in custody, right now. In OG America, this would be the end of his life. He would be charged, tried, likely convicted, and spend the rest of his days in prison. But in Bizarro MAGAmerica, this dark and evil SOB might well enjoy a pardon from the criminal-supporting, so-called “President.” What was it he said about emptying all of the prisons and putting criminals on our streets? MORE accusation as admission. I mean, it NEVER fails…

I’ll tell you this: I think he’s losing – or has lost – his mind. I really do. I mean, I KNOW there are other very old, very feeble MAGA out there, just as terrified by Democrats, just as angry about all the false stories they believe about Democrats, just as wrong-headed, fear- and anger-driven and fuming that people are allowed to think things other than what they think. But none of them have access to the Oval Office. That makes the demented Orange Man the most dangerous MAGA in the world. Insanity plus power never ends well…

No Kings Day Wins…

by MyBaconPress

Well, I’m happy to report… no, I’m VERY happy to report that HUGE crowds of people turned out for the No Kings Day protests. In city after city all across this once-great nation, thousands of people came out to protest him. You can search on ‘No Kings Day’ in YouTube and then watch video after video of people in one city after another carrying signs and singing songs and decrying the guy.

By and large, the marches were peaceful events. I’m sure some bonehead caused some problem someplace. All told, there were thousands, maybe millions, of people out there. There has to be a weakest link. But for the most part, the protests were peaceful. LA is an obvious exception but Donny inflamed LA for days before THIS day. I’ve got 47 down as the instigator of violence in LA.

Santa Rosa put out quite the crowd. People lined Farmers Lane from one end to the other on both sides – and Farmers Lane is one of the longer streets in Santa Rosa. It was quite heartening to see. Just for fun, I searched on ‘No Kings Day counter protests.’ I literally got nothing. No, I got a long list of the No Kings Day protests, including protests in other countries. No counter protests to be found.

I’m even happier to report that his stupid and ridiculously expensive, very wasteful, very damaging, tin-pot dictator military parade drew, what, hundreds? A couple of thousand? I don’t know, but it was a very sparsely attended event. I’m pretty sure more people came out for the No Kings Day march in Washington DC before his big, stupid parade, than attended his big, stupid parade. So he just sat there, pouting. At one point, it honestly looked very much like he was going to cry.

There were rows and rows of bleachers set up, giving you an idea of what his expectation was. He thought this was something people were really going to want to see, so he put up plenty of seating. That was a mistake. Donny forgot his stagecraft. He KNOWS to group the few attendees closely together to make it look like a larger crowd than it is. He does that at his rallies all the time. But he didn’t do it this time. Clearly, he hoped for more people. But more people were out protesting him than supporting him. Good.

They should have set up just one bleacher section. Then everyone who came would have grouped up in the one stand and the bleachers would have appeared, I don’t know, maybe nearly full. By allowing them to spread out, the whole world got to see exactly how unpopular the stupid thing was – AND how unpopular the stupid thing is. Mostly, the people who showed up, were ordered to show up. The vast majority of people who had a choice, chose to NOT attend.

Of course, MAGA media will report the exact opposite. They’ll claim the marches were flops and the parade was a huge success. Then they’ll move on to something else as quickly as possible. I’m guessing MAGA media will be all in a tither about some culture war crisis today. They’ll want to get the topic off the failed parade and whip the devoted into a frenzy on something else. Change the subject.

The Felon, himself, will start insisting that the crowd at his stupid, ego-fluffing parade was as large as the vast crowd at his inaugurations, which may be true, considering the small number of people that showed up for those. I think the tiny crowd at his first inaugural is still the largest crowd he has ever drawn.

Honestly, I’m a little worried about how he might react to his parade failure today. He doesn’t cope well with failure. Because the whole world got to witness his humiliation, he might well order increased ICE raids or some such. It’s what he does. He meets failure with cruelty. Since he fails most of the time, he’s cruel most of the time.

That part sucks and I empathize with whomever he chooses to victimize in an attempt to make himself feel better, but for the moment, I’m going to enjoy the outcome. No More Kings whipped the ass of his ‘Look-at-me’ military parade. In America, that’s how it should be…

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As we all know by now, there’s a rule of thumb that seems to apply to Team Evil so perfectly, so completely, it might well be deemed an axiom in the near future. The rule? ‘From Team 47, EVERY accusation is an admission.’ It just seems to be always true. It’s almost mind-boggling how often it rings true.

For example, during the campaign, Donny said that Kamala would crash the economy. She didn’t get the chance – but he did. It seems to be his goal to destroy the American dollar. He said Kamala would take away your freedom. But it’s not Kamala sending in marines in an effort to deny Americans freedom of speech, it’s Donny. There are myriad more examples and I’m sure you can come up with a few of your own without much (any) effort.

But think about this: ‘From Team 47, EVERY accusation is an admission.’ During the campaign, The Felon threatened that Kamala would start World War III. “The world is in more danger than it’s ever been because of the power of weaponry,” 47 said, “and I will be the only one—I can say this with great surety—I will prevent World War III.”

So…um…holy crap! Have you SEEN the way he’s “preventing” World War III? Everywhere this clown goes, he brings aggression, ignorance, and violence – an extremely dangerous combination. Not only has he NOT stopped conflicts on Day One because of how easy it would be – promise made, promise broken – he has NEW conflicts boiling. ‘Every accusation is an admission’ meets ‘I will prevent World War III.’ This is going to get ugly, isn’t it?

No Kings Day…

by MyBaconPress

No Kings Day. I like it. I hope it catches on. Long after Evil Donny is dead (and…please, God, what are you waiting for?), I hope America celebrates No Kings Day, year after year. It should always be THIS date, too. You know, the anniversary of the founding of the army – just so we can remember the evil we managed to shuffle off in the end.

Now all we have to do is shuffle off the evil. I’ll see you there…

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Every decent economist in the world, people who deal in facts and numbers, say that 47’s Barfy Bill is going to add somewhere between $2.4 trillion and $5 TRILLION dollars to the national debt. SO, the White House, people who deal in wishes and delusions, have come out with an estimate of their own. THEY say it will drop the national debt by $8 trillion dollars because of course they do. That’s an $11 trillion dollar difference.

I know these guys are incompetent, but to miss by $11 trillion dollars? That seems like a bigger error than simply forgetting to carry the one, you know? They pretend, just like the cons have always pretended, that the tax cuts for the wealthy will stimulate such major economic expansion, they will pay for themselves AND reduce the deficit. They can say so with such confidence because of all of the other tax cuts cons have forced through that have never done any of that. “Hey, it’s never worked before, why wouldn’t it work now?”

In this moment, I’m trying to think of something these clowns have NOT lied about. It’s like, every word that came out of Donny’s mouth during the campaign was the exact opposite of what he intended. MAGA continues to lap it up, though. MAGA media puts Donny’s lies on a loop and pretends they’re honest statements that make sense if you look at them correctly, and MAGA just gets conditioned. They hear it so often, they just accept that it must be true and the fact that not one of his statements turns out to be true never sways their faith.

I can’t decide if that would be comforting or confusing. But MAGA seems to be awfully confused…

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Well, by now we’ve all seen the Alex Padilla video, yes? If not, here’s what happened. Senator Alex Padilla (D, Ca) went to a Press Conference held by incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He wanted to ask her a question. As he began asking, he was seized by cops. He quite clearly says, “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have a question for the Secretary.” He’s then forced out of the room and into the hall, where he’s placed, face down on the floor, and handcuffed! Is now a good time to mention, a sitting Senator? Apparently, he wasn’t arrested or even detained for more than a few minutes.

But this was a presser intended to spew a misleading narrative about how badly the ICE agents running around the country violating people’s rights are being treated by the citizens they run into who still believe in the Constitution. It was NOT intended as an honest give-and-take. Noem didn’t WANT to answer an honest question and, let’s get real, she couldn’t if she had to. In a statement, Padilla insists “We will hold this administration accountable.” No word on how he plans to do that.

The cruelest regime’s response? Oh, he didn’t identify himself. He wasn’t wearing his Congressional pin. They’re pretending Padilla rushed Noem in a threatening way. He DID, after all, enter the room. Scary stuff.

If you watch the video, he clearly DOES identify himself, so THAT lie dies an instant death. Instead of seeing Padilla rush Noem, I see agents pushing Padilla backwards, so, another clear lie? I could NOT see his Congressional pin so that part may have been true, but are we now required to have a Congressional pin to ask a question of our government?

Incompetent MAGA Mike the Johnson described it as “wildly inappropriate” – but, ever the loyalist toady, he was talking about Padilla because, of course he was. Johnson added that he thinks Padilla’s behavior “merits immediate attention” by Congress and “at a minimum, it rises to the level of a censure” by the Senate.

OG America had a thing called the First Amendment. It allowed for freedom of speech. It was a good thing, FAR better than this crap…

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MAGA is still, mostly, happily on board with everything 47 is doing because they think it’s the pain before the gain. Think of it like chemotherapy. Chemotherapy sucks – but it beats the alternative. Going through the trials of chemotherapy might be miserable, but if it gets rid of the cancer? Well, it was probably worth it, right?

But chemotherapy is about trying to kill the cancer before you kill the patient. It’s a delicate balancing act and, sometimes, one loses their balance. Sometimes, the chemo kills the patient before the cancer gets the chance. Chemotherapy isn’t something to play around with. It isn’t something you do unless you have no other good options.

And, the thing is, OG America didn’t HAVE cancer. I know, MAGA was told some stories. 47 said it was cancer. But it wasn’t cancer. Do I argue that OG America was perfect in every measurable way? No, of course not, but cancer? No. So NOW the patient – that is, America – is going through chemotherapy for no reason.

I find myself wondering if MAGA will EVER figure out that they’re being lied to. I wonder how they might react if they find out they’ve been suffering chemotherapy without having cancer? All pain, no gain. Well, for them, anyway. The prescribing doctor – 47 in this metaphor – is making BANK, along with those who own the process. For them, administering the “treatment” is very, very profitable. I find myself wondering if MAGA will EVER figure that out…

Dangerous Distractions…

by MyBaconPress

He manufactured a crisis in LA so he could engineer a disaster in Washington DC…
Okay, so, here’s the thing. Obviously, Donny is manufacturing a crisis in LA. Maybe he’s doing it to distract Americans – and MAGA, too – from Elon’s claim that 47 is in the Epstein files, information 47, himself, has inadvertently confirmed as “old news.” (But, not old enough, right?) Maybe he’s doing it to distract from his Big Barfy Bill that promises to do so much damage to so many Americans – and MAGA, too – just to comfort the comfortable.

Then again, maybe this is just his opportunity to begin introducing more authoritarian measures that lead to his complete control. I like choice D – all of the above. Clearly, MAGA doesn’t care about the Epstein files. MAGA is SO enthralled by him, they’d hold the poor girl down for him. They likely don’t know the details of the Big Bill being pushed through Congress by America-hating Republicans. Hell, even GOP Congress critters didn’t read it, why would the rank and file?

MAGA has been conditioned for some time to think violence against protestors, those protesting something they disagree with, anyway, is the right choice, the best choice. (They all supported that puke, Cliven Bundy, who thought he should be allowed to graze his cattle on government land for free.) So, right now, MAGA is probably quite happy. I guess they haven’t thought it through. They don’t seem to realize that ANY protests will be met with violence.

So as a quick recap, American citizens came out to protest (and probably impede) ICE raids against people decidedly NOT dangerous criminals. ICE thought force would be the best choice. That IS, after all, the first action of a small mind. The LA police were called out to provide crowd control. That should have been it. ICE eventually stands down or the protestors tire out and go home. We’ve seen protests before. That’s the way they play out.

As a kind of interesting sidebar, conservatives think (because it’s what MAGA media is telling them) that ICE was going into a dangerous, Tren de Aragua safe-house to bust some really bad dudes. They think lefties are trying to protect violent criminals. They are NOT being told it was a ‘Home Depot.’ I’ve never been fearful of running into Tren de Aragua working in a Home Depot in my life. Would they shank me or just direct me to the plungers, thank you very much?

By the way, 47 is lying about the whole thing, so one more on the pile is no big deal, right? He’s letting his believers think that all of LA is burning, just one big battleground where “libtards” are protecting the very worst of the worst and he has no choice but to face that with greater force. The entire protest is actually confined to a couple of streets in downtown LA. It’s not even all of downtown LA.

Anyway, Donny seized the opportunity to escalate events by calling out National Guard troops. THEN, he made it even worse by calling in the Marines. Now, this is 47, so you KNOW the decision is stupid. He called out 2,000 National Guard troops. 315 or so of them have been deployed. The others are milling about with nothing to do. So he called out 2,000 more. Where the hell is DOGE when you need them? Talk about fraud, waste, and abuse.

We’ve seen this movie before. In 1970, students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio were attacked by National Guard troops, killing four of the protestors and wounding nine others, and highlighting how stupid it is to ask people trained to kill to act as police, instead. Neil Young wrote a song about it called, ‘Ohio.’ “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming…”

Now everybody is wondering how the military is going to react. The actions of ALL military members are governed by a set of standards called the Uniform Code of Military Justice – the UCMJ. Weirdly, military members are MORE subject to the UCMJ than they are the US Constitution. That is, one surrenders some of their Constitutional rights when one signs on the dotted line. The military can, legally, tell you what you can and cannot read, for example. Did you know that? They surrender some of their constitutional rights while potentially risking their lives to protect yours.

The UCMJ requires military members to reject illegal orders. An illegal order is one that violates the Constitution or would be a crime in other terms. An officer can’t legally order a soldier to rob a bank, for example. By definition, our military is supposed to be apolitical and fight our nation’s enemies, not her own citizens. We have one law, the Posse Comitatus Act, that prevents American soldiers from acting in police capacities in the US. But we have another, the Insurrection Act, that gives the President (or, in this case, 47) broad authority to use the military in the US.

In my mind, the soldiers deploying is no big deal. It’s obviously legal for a commander to tell his troops where to stand. But when that commander tells his troops to open fire on American citizens? That will be a moment for the military member, a very risky moment. Two conflicting laws, ‘You absolutely can NOT’ vs ‘You have to.’ How does one decide? I, for one, would not fire on Americans, most especially Americans protesting criminal activity on the part of the government. I don’t want to be the focus of a new Neil Young song. “Tin soldiers and Trump is coming…” But I might face Court-Martial for that decision.

It’s possible the troops are hand-picked and loyal only to Donny and not the Constitution. Those guys will open fire. I wish I could say I was surprised by the events as they’re playing out, but I’m not. I’ve expected Donny to manufacture some crisis in order to try to clamp down and he seems to have found the crisis he likes. All he had to do was harass innocent, law-abiding, contributing human beings for a short while.

This fight is going to take up a lot of ink in the press for a short time, and it should. But please. Let us NOT forget 47 is working to distract us from the fact that Musk says he’s in the Epstein files, nor should we allow ourselves to be distracted from this evil Big Bill that promises to do so much harm to so many, just so the richest rich people can be a little more comfortable. We’re multi-tasking now, people…