Crime

A Daily Decline – Into Madness…

by MyBaconPress

SO… we’ve come to the “attack judges” portion of our rapid slide into fascism. JD Vance said, “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” completely ignoring the fact that the judges ARE allowed – required, in fact – to control the executive’s illegitimate abuse of power. And the places the judges have stepped in have ALL been abuses of executive power.

In order to support THIS lie, Vance added, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.” That depends on whether the military operation was in keeping with the law or not. It MIGHT be illegal. It might be appropriate.

President Musk took to Brand X on Saturday and boosted a post from a user who wrote, “I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us?” That’s an EASY one. The Republicans could just obey the law. Simple.

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Pete Hegseth has brought back the Fort Bragg name. The original Fort Bragg was named after a confederate traitor who lost many battles for the confederacy. During a Democratic effort at political correctness, the name was changed to Fort Liberty. Americans think things should NOT be named after traitorous confederates. (MAGA disagrees.)

SO, one of the first actions of this maladministration was to slap the Fort Bragg name back on the post. Well, kind of. The original Fort Bragg was named after a confederate general, Braxton Bragg. That’s why it was changed in the first place. The NEW Fort Bragg is, apparently, named after a Pfc Roland L. Bragg, an American soldier of WWII who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart.

I have no heartburn with that. Sure, it’s a smoke and mirrors trick, putting back ‘Bragg’ by naming it after a different ‘Bragg.’ But it’s STILL a hat-tip to the idea that American military bases should NOT be named after traitors…

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I saw a SwastiKar the other day with one of those stickers, “I bought it before I knew what an asshole he is.” Then I see that sales of the SwastiKar are falling and the stock is dropping. I would never own one, knowing what I do about their tendency to burst into flame in crashes, burning the occupants alive. But if I DID have one, I’d be focused on unloading the thing at the first possible opportunity. (It wouldn’t be easy. Those things are stupid expensive and people who buy them are, likely, trapped in them, financially, for a while, too.)

As Muck has burst onto the scene, the sales of his cars have become, well, verboten. Or at least discouraged. Cons have been conditioned to hate electric vehicles (EVS). They’re told they should stick to fossils, so, mostly, they do. The left embraces EVS, but they aren’t interested in buying from a guy who throws Nazi salutes. NOW who is Tesla going to sell to?

I’m going to make a prediction, here, connecting those two dots. First, MAGA has been conditioned to believe that ALL electric vehicles are bad. Second, recently, sales of the SwastiKar have fallen off badly around the world. Not coincidentally, the stock price is falling, too. So here’s the prediction:

I believe that MAGA conditioning will be updated very soon to include the idea that Musk and Musk alone has solved the “environmental damage” of the EV, making it okay for MAGA to buy SwastiKars. Then MAGA will be “encouraged” to buy Teslas. If MAGA doesn’t start buying them, soon, nobody will be buying them.

Otherwise? What happens to companies when nobody buys their products? Tesla’s board ought to dump that anchor around their necks while they still have a chance. Musk is killing the brand…

UPDATE: Also, Thursday, 2/13. Wrong, already! I’m still trapped by all that time I lived in a decent, honest country, so I completely overlooked the possibility that the now corrupt US government would order several hundred armored SwastiTrucks. That, too, will bail out Tesla. It’s a good thing Elon and Donny are being so fucking transparent about the obvious conflicts of interest…

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Gulf of America. What a moron. Which one? There are three, North America, Central America, and South America. Calling the US “America” has always been wrong. Then again, maybe he meant to be inclusive. In order to get it right, at the very least, it should be the Gulf of the Americas. (I know, when has MAGA ever been concerned about getting things right?)

Google has updated their maps app so it reads ‘Gulf of America’ if you’re in the US. People have been suggesting ways to send feedback to the algorithm. I went through the steps and sent my feedback. THEN, I realized, there’s a better way.

Google has now made clear they will readily deliver false information if they have a reason to do so. THAT makes them an undependable source. Go through the steps to send feedback if you want to, but then? Stop using Google! Not just the maps, the whole thing. There ARE alternatives.

There are other search engines. I use DuckDuckGo. (Yes, that’s what it’s called. I didn’t name it.) Dump Chrome. I use Firefox. It works fine. In ANY browser, there’s a place where you can choose a default search engine. Find that place and put in one of the others. (They usually offer a list.) Don’t use Chrome, don’t use Google. If you want to ‘send a message,’ send it by impacting their money by NOT using their products where you have a choice. Your money is what gave them the power to destroy your nation. Take it away from them by not using their products…

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As a closing thought, after WWII, curious people went to Germans and asked them how such a thing could have happened in a country full of thinking people, in a functioning republic. The general answer was that people were waiting for a big moment, some grand abuse that made it clear they were sliding into fascism. No such moment ever came. It was all a slow drip, one smaller outrage after another, that culminated in what the world knows today as Nazi Germany.

We’re now living the SAME slow drip here in the United States. There will never be a big moment, so don’t wait for it. These slow drip abuses ARE the big moment…

Fakes and Frauds…

by MyBaconPress

This is weird. Some of the people who call themselves MAGA, ALSO call themselves Christians. Now, as we all know, MAGA is a group that thrives on other people’s tears, just like Jesus taught, right? Apparently, MAGA has a new definition of Christian, the kind where nobody has to follow any of the teachings of Christ, but they STILL get to call themselves Christian and they STILL think they’re going to Heaven.

Trump, though, has a personal pastor he prefers. She’s a “prosperity theology” minister. The First Felon signed an executive order establishing a White House Faith Office and chose Pastor Paula White-Cain, his personal spiritual advisor, to lead it. Just look at this woman.

Possible woman, possible mannequin.

When I first saw that photograph, I thought someone had set up a sex doll in the White House as a joke. Then I realized the mouth is wrong for that so I suspected a mannequin. But, no. This is an actual person. She’s SO heavily reconstructed, she doesn’t look real anymore. No wonder she advocates prosperity theology. I’m guessing she needs a LOT of money for all that plastic surgery and hair dye and those dead, distant eyes.

“Prosperity theology” is pretty much the exact opposite of every word attributed to Jesus. It teaches that the most faithful people are rewarded with great Earthly wealth and power. Can you see why rich people cling to the concept? It justifies all that selfish evil they commit in order to become rich in the first place. As a bonus, it also blames poor people for being poor. If they only had more faith… Uh-huh…

But SOME of the MAGA so-called Christians, hate-filled though they are, correctly reject the idea of prosperity theology. They’re very unhappy 47 chose this particular person for the role. They wanted someone THEY count as Christian. They’re surprised Mr. ‘Two Corinthians’ has a distorted view of the Bible.

Some guy named Scott Ross posted that, “Arguably, this is the worst and most dangerous thing President Trump has done—putting a false teacher at the helm of faith outreach. Lord, have mercy on our country and this administration.” Mr. Ross has no concerns about the people Trump has already killed or the people he’s setting up to die in the very near future. THIS is “the worst and most dangerous thing President Trump has done…”

Do you know what she isn’t, though? A white male. 47 didn’t hire the best person for the job, right? She’s clearly DEI, right? I really wish that, for once, MAGA would pick a position and stay on it…

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During the campaign, Trump was invited to an interview with ’60 Minutes.’ He declined, knowing he can’t sit for a real interview with a real reporter. Kamala Harris was also invited. She CAN do real interviews. So she did. That really irritated The Felon. She came off looking good. He really hated that. So, of course, he sued CBS. He’s pretending CBS carefully edited Harris’ interview to make her look good. When he filed the suit, he claimed $10 BILLION dollars in damages. IS being exposed as too scared to sit for an interview really worth $10 Billion dollars, particularly since HE was the one, um… exposing himself?

CBS is battling the suit. Trump’s team demanded the full, uncut recording of the interview. I presume they were expecting to find the edited out parts where she drooled and stumbled over her words. CBS complied. They handed the footage over. Oh, THEN they released the footage to the public, both the raw video and transcripts. NOW how can Trump lie about it? Fear not, he will anyway.

Wait, what’s this? Oh, he has filed an amended petition, doubling the amount of damages he suffered to $20 Billion dollars. He has added completely impartial Ronnie Johnson, er, Jackson to the suit as a Texas consumer who was defrauded by the interview. Trump needed a Texan on the suit in order to justify having the case judge-shopped IN Texas.

When lying ‘Fox Not-News’ lost their defamation case against Dominion voting machines, it cost them nearly ONE billion dollars and they have, well, not straightened up, exactly, but they DO make more of an effort not to get caught just making things up these days. It hurt ‘Fox Not-News.’ So, obviously, Trump is filing for $10 Billion, no $20 Billion to make sure he hurts CBS and ’60 Minutes.’ It’s just an intimidation tactic.

I’ll tell you this: I remember when Republicans HATED frivolous lawsuits…

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Apparently, President Musk is coming after the VA, now, and Pseudo-President Trump seems on board. That’s certainly unexpected. It’s clear ONE of them expects to be dictator, here, in the very near future. They’ll have to fight it out between themselves to determine which one gets the nod, but either way, it’s unusual for dictators to anger the military. Dictators often rely on the military to protect their evil selves…

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Okay, so I watched. It became clear to me I was going to by Sunday morning but I never did get any too excited about it. Well, until the game started and Philadelphia dismantled Kansas City. That was something. Kansas City looked lost from the start. They couldn’t even score until late in the game when Philly started protecting players.

There was one odd call, early in the first quarter, followed by another odd call that kind of made up for the first one. After that, the officiating seemed pretty good. Mahomes got hit the way other football players get hit and didn’t draw any special flags. That really seemed to rattle him. Apparently, the special flags during the regular season really did help – a LOT.

In truth, a lot of Supper Bowls are one-sided blowouts and this game was no different. It’s weird to see a team that successful play like a cellar-dweller in the biggest game of the season, but it happens a lot. So, one starts paying attention to other things.

Apparently, MAGA booed Taylor Swift. That’s got to be weird for her. Who the hell boos Taylor Swift? MAGA, that’s who. Swift committed the unforgivable sin of supporting Biden in the last “election.” Oh, sure, they’ll still buy her music, but in public, when they want to make a show? Just consider the source, Taylor, and Shake It Off…

The LAST time 47 infested the White House, the Eagles won the Stupor Brawl. As is/was tradition, the winning team received an invitation to the White House. So many of the Eagles refused to go, the White House cancelled the event. So, naturally, when THIS game came up, The First Felon used his awesome powers of perception to pick the winner and, obviously, he’s going to choose Kansas City, whose Quarterback has a publicly MAGA wife. (That team might even have gone to the White House, had they won, and been invited.)

The game didn’t work out well for Trump (or Brittany Mahomes, for that matter) so he left early. The team that stood him up was throttling the team Trump had picked to win. I wonder if the Eagles will get an invitation to the White House. I wonder if they’ll go…

Paths of Destruction…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, the damage he does…
47 shows up and one of the first things he does is attack the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The NEXT thing that happens? Planes start falling from the sky (or crashing into each other) at a startling rate. Sure, MAGA will blame Biden… or Obama… or China or some other unrelated person, place, or thing. BUT…

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A new gold standard of evil?
Since 1945, Adolph Hitler has been the gold standard of evil for most of the world. Whenever anyone wanted to point to peak evil, they pointed to Hitler. I suspect, by the time he’s through, the world will point to Donald TRUMP as the new exemplar of pure evil.

Remember, you have to compare Trump to Hitler at the rise of Hitler’s power, not the end. BY the end, Hitler was responsible for 60 million deaths, but he didn’t start that way. Trump only has one million, so far. His move to compete for the title has seen him remove every environmental regulation he could get away with. And as soon as he can, he’ll remove the rest. Yet another move that’s great for corporations, terrible for humanity.

I suspect the ONLY thing that will prevent 47 from formally taking the title will be in rendering the planet completely unfit to support human life at all. I mean, killing off billions of people will easily grant him the title of “most evil,” but nobody will be around to say so…

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Let’s hold a different image…
I believe that people are composed of energy and that the energy of people can intertwine. The simplest example of what I mean is that thing where you get to thinking about someone you once knew and saw often, but you’ve lost touch with through the years. Suddenly, your phone rings and on the other end is the very person in question. If you’ve been alive for very long, you’ve experienced the phenomenon.

Mary Kay cosmetics (stay with me, here) has a message they teach their sales consultants: ‘What you think about, you bring about.’ They MEAN, picture yourself getting the sale. But the idea works with a lot of things. People write books about it from time to time. ‘The Power of Positive Thinking,’ that kind of thing. The catch is, the thoughts don’t HAVE to be positive to bring about results. Negative thoughts can yield negative results.

Right now, around the world, people are envisioning Trump succeeding in his efforts to destroy the US – even if they don’t mean to be doing so. MAGA, of course, is so happy as to be barely containable. Ecstatic, in fact. MAGA is wishing and hoping and hoping and wishing for him to burn the whole place to the ground. They can’t WAIT for him to start hurting people – the more harm, the better – and they don’t even care that they’re going to be among the harmed. They just want him to fuck things up and they keep a clear image of his “successes” in their minds. “Ooh, look what he’s destroying today.” (Can you imagine, living a life of cheering the Four Horsemen?)

On the other hand, sane people are living in day-to-day dread, anger, and sadness that he’s burning the whole place to the ground. We’re focused on it. We think about it. We worry about it. We fret the details. Yes, it’s for different reasons, but the end result is, WE keep a clear image of his “successes” in OUR minds, too. My concern is, what we’re worrying about, we’re bringing about.

The thing is, that means everybody, MAGA or otherwise, is maintaining a clear image of his “successes.” If you oppose what The First Felon is doing, you have to stop doing that. You don’t mean to be, obviously, but you might be helping him. You have to change the image you’re holding so you can change the energy you’re enabling.

When I realized all of this, I developed a different, random mental image of him. He’s just laying there, looks like he’s asleep. He even has a trace of that moronic smirk of his. He looks peaceful and serene and he’s cradled in a well-padded, well-appointed box. I make NO effort to determine HOW he got there. That’s not important. I’m going to let the universe take care of that part. What IS important, is that I’m no longer focused on his “successes,” either through happiness nor fear.

If I’m watching him on TV or something, of course, I see him, moving, talking, breathing, just fine (for him, I mean). But in my mind’s eye, when I think about him, the picture is different and I hold THAT image instead of fearing his success. If you oppose him, YOU need to change the picture, too. If we all use the same, basic, image, THAT will be the energy we’re putting forward.

I don’t know if it will work. Even if it does, I can’t say how long it might take. But I CAN tell you that since I took up the practice, it has gotten easier to do. It wasn’t difficult to learn to switch to my replacement image, and it’s only been about a week that I’ve been trying. Oh, and I’m very much happier, not adding energy to his destructive path. Try it yourself. You’ll be much happier, too…

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I really need to lighten the mood…
I know it can be hard to tell, but I DO try to be fair. I’m definitely in the camp of those who suspect the NFL has “managed” the outcome of games in an effort to sell tickets. I think the fact that they’re legally registered as a ‘Sports Entertainment League’ puts them roughly, on par with ‘Big Time Wrestling,’ a “league” famous for fixing outcomes. But nobody was betting on the wrestlers. Most people KNEW it was fixed and wouldn’t be so stupid. I doubt it was even possible.

Now, though, the NFL has “partnered” with sports betting site ‘FanDuel.’ They’re expecting over a BILLION dollars to be bet on the Stupid Bowel, alone. “Managing” the outcome of games would also qualify as bet-rigging, wouldn’t it? Fixing games might be okay under their legal makeup but would definitely open the NFL up to civil lawsuits over rigging the games and affecting bets.

I wanted to mention it because I think it’s the best argument against those (of us) concerned that some unnamed players (rhymes with ‘catacombs’) have been receiving helpful calls all season. It IS possible the NFL is just trying to take extra-special care of their extra-special star. They didn’t used to do that. Quarterbacks used to be football players, too.

Actions Speak Louder…

by MyBaconPress

Illusions…
It’s weird, but it seems the ONLY person on the planet who thinks Donald Trump is the actual, acting President IS Donald Trump. EVERYONE else seems to believe the person running the show, title or no title, is Elon Musk. ‘Time’ magazine put a photo of Muck behind the Resolute Desk on the cover. 47 pretended not to care, but asked if ‘Time’ was still around, suggesting he didn’t know that. That’s Trump-talk for ‘I don’t like what they printed.’

But then Trump failed to follow through with his usual bluster and start calling Elon names. Remember when people started suggesting Steve Bannon was really in charge? He got the ‘Trump Dump’ and was out, with a few insults on the side. But with Musk? Trump just tucks his tail and lets Elon run wild. In Trump world, that suggests Elon has something on Trump so Trump has to behave…

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Confusion…
The truth is, we shouldn’t get confused. In a very real sense, this is not the coup. This is simply the culmination. The actual coup took place January 21, 2010. That’s the day the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court handed down their traitorous ‘Citizen’s United’ ruling. That’s the day politicians – ALL politicians, left and right – started being purchased by those with money. You either played the game of the rich and powerful, or you found work elsewhere.

That’s why it will prove to be a mistake to wait for the Dems to “do something.” For one thing, there’s not much they CAN do, but even if there was something, they wouldn’t do it. They’re not allowed to. They can pretend to fight back, but their job is to lose, so lose they will…

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Louder Than Words…
Finally, we’re starting to see some action in the streets. Signs are being painted. Bullhorns are being dusted off. People are protesting. It’s only a start, but it’s a start. We need a LOT more of this. Bigger, louder, and longer protests. I think people should follow Elon around, everywhere he goes, and warn everyone in the vicinity to lock their doors as he shows up. I think people should chain themselves to buildings. I’m glad to see people taking action. It’s the tool we have available, protest.

It’s not going to stay easy, though. Right now, the protests are smallish. This is not a huge thing, yet. As they become larger, 47 will push back. There will be confrontations that result in even larger protests. There will be confrontations that result in injury and possibly even deaths. “Overwhelming force” is the dictator way. He’ll call out cops. He’ll call out the National Guard. This criminal MAY call out the regular army.

But the American people are the “overwhelming force.” What we have working for us, perhaps the ONLY thing we have working for us, is the numbers. MOST Americans do NOT want these things to happen. MOST Americans recognize that, yes, the government has issues, but burning the whole thing to the ground is NOT the best answer to correct things.

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A Few Connections…
SO… 47 claims he “got the water flowing” in California. He did, too. It has long-since been part of MAGA dogma that California mismanages it’s water supply. It’s not true. California gets that blame because of droughts caused by the fact that much of California is a desert. But on top of THAT, there’s always MAGA’S climate change. (MAGA fought the truth. MAGA owns it, now.)

Much of LA burst into flame, recently, and the hydrants couldn’t do their thing because of the simultaneous demand all over the system. As far as MAGA was concerned, that was proof they were right. It turns out, they were STILL wrong. But, because The First Felon had flapped his jaws on the topic, he had to do SOMETHING to, you know, “show California how it’s done.”

To that end, he ordered two Federal dams to release a bunch of their water so the water could “get to LA” – and, of course, because of DEI. (I don’t know, you figure it out.) MAGA got to enjoy a little waking wet dream over their he-ro. But, of course, it was a show and in this case, a costly one.

In the first place, the fires were contained before he ordered his pretended-to-be-helpful water release. But the really important part? THAT WATER HAD NO WAY TO REACH LA! That water never got to LA. The farmers in the area had to beg the Feds to stop the release before their farms were flooded. The water flowed to an empty lake bed, where it will now evaporate, unused. Clever boy, Donny.

But that water wasn’t just sitting around waiting for someone to figure out how to use it. It was for farming. You know, during the time farmers actually farm and NEED THE WATER? In an effort to pretend he was “in command” and knew what to do, He WASTED up to 5 BILLION gallons of precious California water. Wasted. Now we ALL know who really mismanages California’s water: The First Felon, Donald J. Trump.

Dear MAGA, you’re going to feel that, right alone with everyone else, this summer, when you go to the grocery store and food is through-the-roof expensive because your “he-ro” wasted the necessary water trying to prove he isn’t an idiot (but accidentally proving he is). The farmers won’t have what they need. YOU will pay more. Of course you’ll blame Biden. Or Obama. Or “Newscum.” You’ll be wrong. And wrong. And wrong, again. Donald J. Trump is to blame. Nobody else. Donald J. Trump. What a waste…

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Don’t take the bait…
I don’t know who needs to hear this but when it comes to 47, one has to learn to give everything he says about 24-48 hours before reacting. It’s almost amazing how often that boy flaps his jaws about stuff he doesn’t understand and never intends to do. He’s just blathering. You can usually tell because one of his enablers will quickly step forward to “walk back” whatever stupidity he uttered on a whim.

Donald Trump is 99% mouth, and, really, too lazy to take action on the remaining 1%. He even sits to sign his illegal Executive Orders. If he tells you he’s going golfing, you can take THAT to the bank. Everything else? Wait a beat. Give him a minute. Someone, somewhere will explain to him why this plan or that intention won’t work – and he’ll walk it back.

Because he’s a psychopathic narcissist, he NEEDS you to believe that no matter what it is, no matter how obviously stupid, “people loved it.” He’ll always tell you, “People loved it.” But then he backs off of it and it goes away. I’m saying, don’t put your money down on a condo in Gaza. That ain’t happening. He said so. He said, “People loved it, (editor’s note: see?) but now’s not the time.”

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A Possible Positive?
Obviously, I bash The First Felon a LOT in these pages. He makes it so easy. But he’s got California’s pretended super-fast choo-choo in his sights and if he can put a stop to THAT boondoggle, I’ll be happy to give him credit (ACTUAL credit) for the deed.

That train has been a flop since the start. It has cost (read: paid someone) BILLIONS of dollars and there is absolutely, positively NOTHING to show for it. Even the scope of the project has been scaled back. Now, if it ever goes at all, it’s supposed to run between Bakersfield and Fresno. I don’t mean any offense, here, but who the hell wants to go to either Bakersfield or Fresno? And, more importantly, why would you need to travel between those two towns at a higher rate of speed? I mean, obviously, someone might need to get to Bakersfield or Fresno but nobody needs to get there quickly.

I’ve long since believed that train is funneling money to someone, somewhere. At BEST, it’s been a make-work program, generating jobs. I have to believe there are other jobs to be done that would, indeed, make work but ALSO be functional for something. If I have to root for 47 to get the thing stopped, I’m rooting…

It’s No Joke…

by MyBaconPress

Q: What’s the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump?
A: Greenland is not for sale.

That’s a joke Amy Klobuchar told. It’s funny because it’s true…

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The day his tariffs were supposed to take effect with Mexico, he lied and said they had reached an agreement. Mexico’s President has already explained to him that fentanyl is brought in by Americans and that they have ALREADY initiated a program to re-direct undocumented people. (You haven’t heard about any “caravans” for a while.) She also made clear that the Mexicans have a hard time stopping the drug trade because of how easy it is for the cartels to buy American guns. The Mexican President explained it to him right after his initial threats of tariffs. He knew all this from the start. He just wanted to look tough for the deceived.

The White House said Canada ‘misunderstood’ Trump’s trade war as, well, a trade war. I think 47 ‘misunderstands’ that words have meanings. Canadian stores are pulling American made products – even AFTER the tariffs were put on “pause.” The pause happened, incredibly, because Canada reiterated some of the things they were already doing anyway.

Hey, just as a sidebar, weren’t all these punishing tariffs supposed to pay for the massive tax cuts the GOP is planning to give the richest Americans? NOW how is he going to pay for those? I mean, he wouldn’t cut services to needy Americans just because he and his disgustingly rich cronies want even MORE money, would he? Would he?

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People think he’s crashing the economy because he’s a moron. While there IS no evidence to disprove the premise that he’s a moron, in THIS case, it’s all about the buying opportunities a crashing economy grants to the oligarchs. He’s tearing things down because HE can profit in that environment. You? Well, there’s always the Hunger Games…

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Wow, the Democrats are responding to all of this traitorous insanity with, wait… (checks notes) some VERY fiery words. Ooh. President Musk charged in and shut down USAID. Jamie Raskin “handled” it. “We are not going to allow this to happen,” he said, “This will not stand.” Oh, but he wasn’t finished. He kept going, “Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the treasury but you don’t control the money of the American people. The US Congress does under Article 1 of the Constitution.” THAT showed Musk. But Raskin STILL wasn’t finished, “We don’t have a fourth branch of government called ‘Elon Musk.'” Ooh, sick burn.

After THAT kind of tough talk, Muck, of course, apologized and left, realizing he had been outplayed. Or not. In REAL life, USAID is shut down. (Apparently, he DOES “control the money of the American people.” He has your Social Security Number, too.) In fact, a group of congressional Democrats from the House and the Senate were denied entry to the treasury building when they went down there to talk to the DOGE traitors – so they held a rally outside. Cons are acting, Dems are talking. You know? It’s only been two weeks, but I’m starting to think the Dems talking points aren’t having much effect.

In truth, I’ve long held that it’s the Democrat’s job to lose. They pretend to put up some kind of a fight, but they lose. It’s a facade. It’s meant to LOOK like there are two parties and they are in opposition. It’s even possible they’re beginning to realize the facade is failing, though. Democratic Senator Brian Schatz said he was “putting a hold” on all of the Felon’s State Department nominees until USAID is restored. To be clear, that won’t STOP the nominees. It just slows them down, a bit, so it’s basically nothing more than a show.

The two parties, though? The GOP is the “Assholes who support the One Percent” group and the Dems are the “Empathetics who support the One Percent” group. But either way, they’re ALL supporting the One Percent.

Work-a-day Americans have NO representation in American government anymore, and we haven’t since the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court issued their ruinous Citizens United ruling…

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I know this is a nothing-burger. I KNOW it. Still, I just wanted to point it out, even though I suspect YOU know it, too. A reporter asked 47 what would happen if Iran assassinated him. He looked a little surprised, then talked tough. “They would be obliterated. That would be the end. I’ve left instructions.”

He hadn’t “left instructions.” The thought never crossed his mind until he was asked. He just talked tough and pitched out a threat. I think the reason it caught my ear is, that’s his way. He just makes things up in the moment and then pretends they’re true and have always been true.

That’s just a stupid person trying to cover up the fact that they’re stupid. We’ve all known someone like that. But THIS stupid person acts on his random thoughts and that’s very dangerous to everyone else…

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This is from the Wiener Holocaust Library. For some reason, watching Trump and his goons attack the civil service triggered some history for me and I sought the details. If you’re an American, someone who loved this country, read it and weep. If you’re MAGA, you’ll read it and likely rub one out – but this didn’t end well for anybody…

“Gleichschaltung was the process of the Nazi Party taking control over all aspects of Germany. It is otherwise known as coordination or Nazification. The process primarily took place between 1933-1934.

The Nazi’s started with the Civil Service , issuing the Act for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on the 7 April 1933. This act legalised removing anyone of non-Ayran descent from the civil service.

In the judicial system specifically, this act removed any judges that were deemed non-compliant with Nazi laws or principles. This act was reinforced by the German Civil Service code of 26 January 1937, which retired any judges or judicial official who would not intervene in cases and rule in favour of the Nazis. The People’s Court, a court created by the Nazis in April 1934 with judges chosen specifically for their Nazi beliefs, replaced the Supreme Court. With these measures in place, the Nazification of the judicial system was complete.

Gleichschaltung was applied across every possible aspect of government policy.

To take control of cultural policy, the Nazis appointed Joseph Goebbels as Minister for Public Engagement and Propaganda on the 13 March 1933. Goebbels became responsible for controlling the national media, film, theatre, arts, and other cultural aspects. Goebbels soon radicalised each of these areas, ensuring that they advocated Nazi ideas.

Whilst Gleichschaltung aimed to reach every aspect of rule in Germany, this was not always possible. Local governments proved more difficult to infiltrate, and even at the end of 1945 only 60% of local mayors were Nazi Party members.

Despite this, on the whole, Gleichschaltung was largely successful. By the end of 1934, the Nazis had managed to infiltrate and take control of every major aspect of German government.”

I just thought everyone should see where we are in the “MAGAfication” of America. And MAGA pretends to be all upset when thinking people say they’re behaving like Nazis. But, step by damning step…

Too Much, Too Long…

by MyBaconPress

Have you noticed the force around Luigi Mangione as they move him from place to place? It’s like every cop in New York is needed to escort this oh-so-dangerous man. Really, it’s one hell of a show. Yeah, he shot a guy in the back. Now, because the guy he shot was a CEO and, more importantly, rich, officials are charging him with terrorism – so they can put him to death.

Mangione was a very specific shooter. He’s not a threat to all of society. It’s not like he randomly shot up a school, killing anybody unfortunate enough to be in front of his barrel. Because he had – and achieved – a goal, I’d say he’s LESS of a threat. But 30 cops surround the guy like he’s Public Enemy Number One with a long list of murders to his name every time he gets moved.

It’s all a show. The masses are being “discouraged” from following his example by seeing the treatment Mangione receives as a result of his action. Expect it to be harsh. Publicly harsh. Expect it to end with Mangione sentenced to die. Hell, they might fast-track him to the gallows, just to make their point.

The message is, ‘don’t attack rich people’ but I’m not sure that’s the takeaway the public will go with. I haven’t seen any waning in people’s support for Mangione or his choice, despite the fact that we ALL think murder is bad. People see this killing as a kind of retribution, not murder. When they DO kill him, I suspect he’ll become a martyr, a rallying cry…

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Have you heard about this? A congresswoman from Texas, Kay Granger (R), has been living in a care facility for dementia patients at least the last six months. Her son tried to downplay the situation: “There’s nothing wrong with someone wanting to live in a community with other folks their age,” Brandon Granger said. He’s right. There IS nothing wrong with that. More, there’s nothing wrong with battling dementia. It’s sad, but it happens.

It’s the ‘battling dementia while holding a House seat’ part that concerns me. She hasn’t voted on the House floor since July. She hasn’t shown up at all, except for one photo op pretending she was a-okay. She has stepped down from her committee assignments. Oh, and she HAS continued to accept that sweet paycheck…

I’m not ripping on Granger, herself. We see this from time to time. We last saw it from Dianne Feinstein, who was no longer aware she WAS Dianne Feinstein much of the time, but maintained her position in the Senate. Useless, possibly even dangerous to her job, but holding the seat. The thing is, in Congress, this can only be about money, right?

Had Feinstein stepped down due to health issues, Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom could be expected to replace her with another Democrat, so the balance of power would not be affected. That’s the exact same situation with Kay Granger. Her Governor, Greg Abbott, would likely have appointed a Republican, so, same outcome. But they stay. And stay. And stay.

Yes, it appears Joe Biden is battling some age issues, himself, and Ronald Reagan, famously, no longer knew he was Ronald Reagan by the end of his term. It just comes up from time to time. People get old and they don’t have control over dementia. Once it hits, it hits. But they don’t leave their offices.

Theoretically, their teams take care of them by keeping them out of public view and occasionally issuing statements in their candidate’s name but it’s essentially a seat held hostage in Congress. I might go so far as to assert it’s a kind of theft. EVERYONE is getting paid – from tax dollars – but nobody is doing the job they were hired to do. It’s no different than if you went to work every day but never did your job. Well, there IS one difference. Once your employer found out you were accepting the check but never contributing, you’d be let go.

I’m not normally an advocate for age restrictions but I think I’m leaning further and further that direction when it comes to Congress critters. For one thing, FAR too many of them are FAR too old, even if they’re NOT battling dementia. One gets out of touch with things as they age. The world moves pretty fast, these days, and it gets harder and harder to keep up.

Since people clearly can NOT be trusted to just gracefully step aside when, say, health conditions demand it, there should be a defined upper age limit. I genuinely appreciate the wisdom and perspective that can come with age but it’s not guaranteed and some people end up with dementia, instead. They shouldn’t be allowed to continue in such important roles.

What if we say 70? It’s a random, round number. 70 is old, but one is still likely to be in command of one’s faculties. Yes, we WILL lose some good people early but we have an obligation to protect ourselves from being governed by people who don’t even know who they are, let alone that they’re supposed to be governing…

When You Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible…

by MyBaconPress

I wouldn’t live a life that caused people to want to celebrate if I got murdered in the streets. Early Wednesday morning, in the middle of Manhattan, a man named Brian Thompson was shot and killed by a gunman. Mr. Thompson was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance company. The shooter is still at large, so nobody can speak to his motivations with certainty. But the truth is, when I heard the person who got shot was the CEO of a health insurance company, my first thought was, “Someone who got a claim denied.” Wasn’t that your first thought? (Tell the truth.)

I don’t mind saying: I felt pretty badly about the fact that I didn’t feel more badly. There was even an element of “Well, that’s no surprise. The real surprise is why it doesn’t happen more often.” But I wasn’t proud of myself for a) dismissing other possible motivations so easily and b) maybe even feeling like one was struck for the little guy there, like it was a kind of justice. Who died – or is going to – because some bureaucrat sitting behind some desk someplace looked an some actuarial table and pressed the “Denied” button? (UnitedHealthcare is said to deny around one-third of all claims.)

Then we found out the shooter took the time to write “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose” on the bullets. That’s close to the name of an insurance industry book that teaches insurance companies how to deny claims, ‘Delay, Deny, Defend.’ Now I’m more certain that this is related to insurance denials – and I feel better about a Small-Folk “evening the score” than I feel badly about a human being getting gunned down in the streets. Oh, also? I feel a little more ashamed of myself for nurturing the schadenfreude.

Then, I saw a meme. It said, “I have seen at least 30 different news stories about one billionaire insurance company CEO’s death today. Wouldn’t it be great if every person who died today because an insurance company denied coverage got the same attention?” Okay, then. At least I’m not alone.

In fact, I’d say this is indicative of the failing nature of our health care system and, really, free market capitalism, in general. We all know that insurance companies like this exist only to add cost and extract money from people unfortunate enough to end up needing medical care. Just think about THAT for a second. One of the slogans of the United States of America is that we live in the richest, greatest country on the planet. And yet, we fear illness and think of the process as ‘unfortunate enough to end up needing medical care.’

The vast majority of Americans live one serious illness from ruin. Now, from all indicators, we’re all moving into a fascist free-for-all that promises to pit Joe Six-pack against corporate interests at every turn. That is, economically, things are about to get MUCH worse, not better. So I suspect we’re going to see more of this kind of thing going forward. In fact, I’ve been struck by how many people are rallying…around the shooter.

There are online sleuths, people who take pride in helping law enforcement find bad guys. As a group, they seem to have collectively decided to stand down. Only one stood up and offered some information – and that person was attacked by other online sleuths. To me, it looks, largely, like the rank and file people – those of us who have been victimized by some insurance company somewhere so, you know, most Americans – stand on the side of the shooter.

John F. Kennedy (the good one, not the jerk currently in Congress) said, “When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable.” I think the vast majority of the country rooting for the shooter in this case is shades of that coming to pass. Now that our government has been handed over to the One Percent (the collective net worth of Trump’s cabinet nominees is estimated at around $340 billion dollars) and Project 2025 is a blueprint of how to attack the poor and defenseless, we can expect these out-of-touch rich prigs to inflict damage after damage.

Worse, they’ll do it blindly, because they really ARE out-of-touch. Because they really DON’T understand how decisions which don’t have any serious effect on them, nonetheless have devastating consequences to the largest numbers of Americans. Elon Musk, the wealthy, silver-spoon opportunist who has never invented anything in his life, has already warned the Small-Folk that they’re just going to have to suffer some “temporary hardship.” Not him, mind you. He’s going to get tax cuts and deregulation that makes HIS life oh-so-much easier. But you? Oh, yeah, YOU have to suffer. Suck it up, buttercup.

I can’t say when things explode. That part is always elusive in history. People put up with a lot of crap, just trying to get by. But everybody has a limit. Everybody has a moment. The One Percent have succeeded in rolling back FDR’s New Deal, which means all glory to the wealthy and the Small-Folk need to just do as they’re told and be grateful for the crumbs they get.

It’s a good thing we live in a bloodthirsty, brutal, and vicious society that’s already struggling mightily to survive on a day-to-day basis, pissed off about the inequities of America, and armed to the teeth. I mean, what could go wrong? I don’t think, long term, this shooting will prove to be an isolated event.

Right now, there are a large number of people who chose to support Trump, because they didn’t believe he’s actually going to do the things he promised he was going to do. As he DOES do those things – to them – and the work-a-day Joe’s lives are impacted, they’re going to wake up and get mad.

MAGA is a different story. MAGA was perfectly happy to kill their loved ones to keep Trump from looking bad about his horrific mishandling of Covid-19. They may well prove to be blindly loyal enough to kill themselves to protect their Precious, too. But one of the primary hallmarks of MAGA is selfishness. Killing their loved ones was one thing, a necessary sacrifice. Killing themselves?

I suspect when MAGA is asked to just forget about the Social Security they’ve paid into for so long, when they realize their gardener isn’t coming anymore because he got deported, when they lose their health care and can’t see a doctor anymore, when the price of eggs goes up, not down, when they lose their homes to some clever wall street type, when their granddaughters start dying in botched back-alley abortion attempts, they’ll start to wake up and get angry, too.

I’ll tell you this: I suspect the shooting of Brian Thompson and, more importantly, the ho-hum attitude people have displayed over the shooting (are we actually rooting for the shooter to get away with it?) represent an opening salvo in the impending culture wars. Trump isn’t even President, yet, and the shooting has already begun. This is going to be ugly…

Book ’em, Dano. Please? Finally?

by MyBaconPress

WOW! Just wow. I mean, like, wow, wow, WOW! Yet another criminal complaint against Trump has been filed, this one in Ohio. Guess why. No, you have to guess, but I’ll give you a hint. It involves cats and dogs and people eating them…

See it turns out, Ohio has a law that allows a private citizen to swear out a criminal complaint. If someone does, it goes before a judge to check the merits of the case. If it survives that scrutiny, it becomes just another criminal complaint to be handled. And all of that is what happened. A warrant for the arrest of Donald J. Trump and JD Vance has been issued by the State of Ohio.

During his debate against Harris, Trump insisted that Haitians were up in Ohio eating their neighbor’s cats and dogs. They’re not. It’s a made-up story and the woman who made it up has made that completely clear. Still, even after he was told, point-blank, that, no, that’s not a real thing and it’s not happening, he maintained his false story. Authorities in Springfield, Ohio insist no such thing is happening but Trump saw someone blathering on TV (or so he says) and decided to believe the blatherer. He probably wants to make that person Secretary of Ag or something.

The thing is, as we know, when Trump speaks, MAGA acts, and they have been faithful. Haitians in Springfield started getting death threats and enduring other threatening behavior. (MAGA likes to make clear: one does NOT tell the truth about Trump…ever! It’s the law – or soon will be.) That threatening behavior is the basis for the criminal complaint.

So our President-elect, aside from being a felon and adjudicated raper, is now a wanted man in Ohio. Bizarro America is NOT a great place, but it’s going to have it’s elements of fun, you know?

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Well, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, one of his “defense” ministers, and a leader of Hamas, Mohammed Deif. I’d say the hardest one to serve is going to be on Deif, who was reportedly killed by Israel. But all three are charged with committing war crimes. That seems appropriate, in view of events in Gaza and spreading.

Warrants from the ICC carry little to no weight. Theoretically, those three might be arrested if they travel to certain countries. In practice, that doesn’t really happen. The ICC has no enforcement authority. Israel goes around acting badly because they have a bodyguard, the United States, who will defend them, no questions asked. The ICC certainly isn’t going to get involved in that, and, again, Deif is too dead to be charged.

Besides, with Trump coming in, Israel is about to be unleashed completely and I see the Palestinians being “cleansed” from the river to the sea…

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The left just never seems to get it, you know? We keep thinking sexual assault should be a deal killer for people nominated to some of the highest offices in the land. We expect those charges to derail their confirmations because of, well, decency. Fools. Take a look at the list. It’s long and getting longer. Sexual assault is treated like a peccadillo to be overlooked and/or brushed aside but worse, it seems to be a requirement to working for Trump.

Apparently, Trump is surrounding himself with people who “get him…”

By Thursday afternoon, one of Trump’s fellow perverts – to be clear, I mean Matt Gaetz – had to withdraw his name from consideration for the job of Attorney General. It won’t be that big of a deal for Trump. I’m sure he has a long list of fellow child molesters totally unqualified to do whatever job Trump assigns so he’ll just get one of those. He must have seen SOMEBODY on television that he can choose.

It may be a bigger deal for Gaetz. He stepped down from Congress in order to quash the ethics investigation that was about to do him so much harm. (I base the ‘do him so much harm’ comment on the reality that whenever the idea gets floated of releasing that report anyway, Republicans crap their panties and run. MAGA Mike insists releasing the report would “open a Pandora’s Box.” One has no such concerns when the report says, “Nope, no evidence. All is well.”)

He THOUGHT he was going to be USAG. That hasn’t worked out. But, hey, it’s possible he’s going to be closely associated with an AG office, here, in the very near future…

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In yet another example of how the corruption of the criminal courts is proceeding, Judge Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Trump’s so-called “hush money criminal trial” that was REALLY an embezzlement trial he lost, is hearing an argument put forth by the defense that the charges against Trump should just be dropped. After all, they argue, being convicted of the crimes one actually committed is VERY inconvenient to one’s future. Failing that, they’re asking the court to, you know, just wait for sentencing until after Trump is finished “Presidentin’,” despite the 40+ felony convictions connected with the case.

Some of us doubt Trump ever intends to leave office under any circumstances. If nothing else, such a ruling by Merchan would give Trump even greater incentive to stay in office.
“We’ll sentence you when you come out.”
“Well, then, I’m not coming out!”

In fairness, I can see how serving the time for your crimes might interfere with the duties of the President. I’m a reasonable guy. I’d move forward with the sentencing. But I’d let him out on a work-release program by day. He could just spend the evenings and weekends in the clink, and come out and harm the nation during the day…

I’ll tell you this: when laws stopped applying across the board, the US was in trouble. These days, the phrase “rule of law” sounds like a punchline of some kind…

Is My Hair On Fire?

by MyBaconPress

Corporate media keeps trying to offer up excuses as to how Trump won. He cheated, that’s how he won. Corporate media keeps telling us it was this failure or that failure but none of it makes any sense. Corporate media is trying to hide inconsistencies and get everybody to believe this was a fair and honest race. It was not.

Am I going to attack the Capitol? No. My plan is to let Trump be Trump. I believe certain things about him. I’m told by his acolytes I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’m wrong. I think Trump can’t contain himself and who he is will surely come forward. His last administration was disastrous, despite the lies the right (and apparently corporate media) want you to believe. And that was when he had some grown-ups around him, holding him even a little in check.

Now? No guardrails. No voice of reason. He’s going to do what he wants to do, when he wants to do it. How long do you think it will be until people – ALL people – are up in arms? The right has been carefully manipulated with lies they accept, believe, and defend. But those ARE lies. Sooner or later, the lies will fail and the scales will fall from their eyes. At that time, we’ll STOP being Americans vs MAGA and we’ll become the masses vs the would-be masters.

I mean, look. There are only two possibilities, right? Either I’m right about Trump and disaster is about to befall every one of us, MAGA included. Or MAGA is right and the world is about to become a utopia, perfect in every measurable way. Only time will tell which side was right about this whole thing so I intend to wait and watch. And listen, I actually HOPE I’m wrong. It would be awesome if he was even half as good as they think he is. But I’m a pretty good judge of people and I feel quite comfortable with my assessment of him. We are in very great danger.

One more thing. Despite hearing MAGA claim it was a beautiful, wonderful success, after four years of his last “effort,” medical facilities were piling bodies in refrigerator trailers as makeshift morgues. He had lost 2.7 million jobs. Unemployment was 6.4%. The number of people who had lost health insurance rose by 3 million. The Federal debt had jumped from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion. (That’s $7.2 trillion dollars – in four years.) Oh, and he had an approval rating of just 34%, which, I suspect, will be FAR lower four years from now…

I’ll tell you this: that doesn’t sound like Utopia to me…

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When a person joins the military, they take an oath to protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States. Not any one person, the Constitution. According to the Guardian, Trump’s advisors are considering a ‘Warrior Board’ to determine which officers are not loyal enough to TRUMP and remove them.

By that standard, every officer should be removed. NO officer should be more loyal to Trump than to the Constitution. An officer who is seen by this board as “acceptable,” according to MY thinking, would be in direct violation of their oath and unfit for their role.

And, what happens to the officers who are deemed “unacceptable” because they continue to respect the Constitution more than an individual and get purged? I think they’ll continue to have a role in protecting this once-great nation. The truth is, I suspect true Americans are going to need them to lead whatever fight is coming.

Yep. This is going to get ugly…

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As I watch Trump fill out his Cabinet of Destruction, I find myself wishing I could be a fly on the wall in the various planning rooms of the countries we once understood as our allies. They must be in quite the panic. They KNOW that Trump is a direct conduit to Putin, so they can’t share good intelligence anymore. Worse, they see the clown car filling up and, likely, know better than to trust anything coming from American sources as well.

EVERY non-MAGA on the planet expects the US to withdraw support for all things good and align themselves with the worst on the planet. All hail Putin, for example. How do our allies respond to THAT? They’ll have no choice but to withdraw themselves. I’m guessing they’re hoping that’s the LEAST of what they’ll have to do but there must be some planning going on for the kind of ‘worst case scenario’ the US is about to become.

As a metaphor, the United States is about to become the equivalent of a three-year-old waving around a loaded firearm. Pure danger. Not just to themselves but to anyone around them. I wish there was some positive spin I could put on this but…I just don’t see any. We the people are about to become the most dangerous place on Earth.

At this point, the next office betting pool should be about what’s going to destroy humanity first. There are SO many possibilities. Invariably, the fight comes down to this: what’s best for humanity vs profits. Sadly, this country has been answering ‘profits’ for far too long and now there’s going to be a focus on MORE profit at whatever cost. Sadly, humans are the cost.

Are you going to lose your health care? Yes. Of course you are. Will THAT kill you? It will certainly kill some. You lose the health care you’ve got when they repeal the Affordable Care Act – promising a “better” option any day now – and then can’t get replacement coverage because you have preexisting conditions.

Will it be pregnancy? For some, yes. I guess the dudes are safe on this one, but fertile women are in great danger. Sure, most pregnancies work out just fine. Many do not. Women just have to hope their own pregnancy goes well because doctors won’t be able to help, should the worst occur. If I was a fertile woman, I think I wouldn’t risk it and that means I’d close my legs – to men, anyway…

Medication? Do you take things? The FDA is about to become essentially useless and the pharmaceutical companies get to do what they want. I guess we’re all just supposed to rely on their professionalism and innate compassion. Remember Oxycontin and how they lied and lied and lied, addicting and killing thousands of people? THAT was what they wanted. Well, they didn’t necessarily want people to die. They wanted the profits. But IF people died? Hey, they got the profits. Feel free to use that as your model as to how corporations, in general, are going to respond to lack of regulation.

Will it be poverty? For some, for sure. Poverty DOES kill, and a society built around supporting an insatiable greedy few at the expense of the masses will certainly see increases in deaths – just not among those insatiable greedy few. And with the canceling of various programs designed to help people financially, poverty is sure to go up at an unimaginable rate.

Will it be societal instability? That’s surely around the corner, as desperation increases. John F. Kennedy warned us, “When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable.” We’ve seen the various plans they have to make peaceful revolution impossible. YOU make the leap. The dangers I’ve listed ahead of this one will LEAD to this one.

I suspect most people will try the ‘go along to get along’ route for as long as they can. But as the attacks on the masses continue, one after another, anger will rise. Do you remember the ‘Arab Spring?’ Egyptian cops had gotten quite comfortable beating people up to make their point and people just accepted it – until one video of a beating went viral and suddenly, they didn’t anymore. That’s how it happens. To be clear, I’m not advocating societal violence. I just expect it. That’s likely to kill a LOT of us.

My money is on climate change, though. With everything I expect from this incoming group, I think climate change is going to get a turbo-charged boost. Humanity was already in great danger and now the US is being led by people who think climate change is some kind of scam, best ignored lest it interfere with any of those blessed profits. But, while facts CAN be denied, they can NOT be ignored. Climate change is happening and is about to burst forth with all new power.

Since it’s already moving faster than originally expected due to feedback loops, turbo-charging the process is about the dumbest thing humanity could do. So, of course, look for MAGA do cheer wildly and insist on doing even more, even faster. In THEIR mind, they’ll be “proving” how wrong scientists are – right up until their house floods or burns or falls down in an earthquake caused by fracking.

Yeah, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be dark, here. I see exactly two options in viewing the upcoming disaster. One, you can try optimism. Two, you can be realistic. I strongly recommend ‘realistic.’ Simply sitting back and hoping for the best is likely to get you killed…

Things Are Getting Crazy…

by MyBaconPress

“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”

Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I’ll bet he does. He used a bunch of AI-generated lies to pretend Taylor Swift was endorsing his criminal, raper ass. She wasn’t. In fact, because of his pretense, she felt she had to correct the record. She made a post endorsing Kamala. She’s honorable. She said everyone should do their own research and vote their conscience. It was just that HER conscience told her to avoid Trump because of how dangerous he is to society. The result?

Immediately after Taylor’s endorsement, something like 330,000 people showed up at a voter registration site! Swifties in action. Trump immediately started selling Swift rip-off merchandise. She should have her attorney’s send a cease-and-desist letter. All I DO know is that Trump hates her. Cry me a river. Oh, yeah, she’s worth more than him. A LOT more. And she didn’t grift hers or get it from daddy, she earned it.

Watch for MAGA to come out screaming. Celebrities shouldn’t endorse! They don’t mean that. They mean bigger celebrities than they can muster shouldn’t endorse Trump’s opponent. In truth, I suspect she would have endorsed Kamala sooner or later, anyway, but Trump forced her hand with his lie. I kind of feel like he got what he deserved.

But she won’t. Trump declaring, in all caps that he “HATES TAYLOR SWIFT” could be all it takes for some new nutball to try to “remove” Trump’s source of irritation – “Protect the Precious!” That could put Taylor Swift in real danger. In America, one is NOT supposed to be put in danger because the prefer a political opponent. And, yes, that DOES go both ways, in my mind…

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I think I should start this part by acknowledging that I don’t believe Trump ever got shot or even grazed. I know he pretended to in an effort to create sympathy. All I DO know is that the “hit in the ear” story does NOT comport with other, known facts. I can’t speak to any of the rest of it. I don’t know about the “blood.” It never looked right, to me. It was WAY too bright red. I honestly believe somebody actually died and others were actually injured. Trump just wasn’t one of them.

The lie is, a round from an AR-15 took off a piece of his ear. Nope. All you have to do is look at Evander Holyfield’s ear. Holyfield was a professional boxer. He fought a fight against Mike Tyson. Tyson wasn’t at his best and at one point, bit off a piece of Holyfield’s ear. BIT! IT! OFF! (Spoiler alert: Tyson was disqualified and lost the fight.)

To this day, Holyfield is sporting a “gap” where that piece of his ear had been. I mean, it has healed. But the ear never took on it’s old shape. The piece that was removed is still removed. Had Trump been shot in the ear, the piece that got “removed” would STILL be removed. Yeah, yeah, he wore a feminine napkin on his ear for a few days, mostly to highlight the pretense that he had been “shot.” Then he lost the pad and the ear was perfect again. Trump’s ear is pristine. It’s in perfect shape. But that is simply NOT the way ears heal – even Trump’s “god-like” ear.

I had a hard time accepting that. I couldn’t believe Trump might pull a political stunt that would actually get people killed just to gin up some sympathy. Was it a random coincidence that he just happened to look in the direction of the shooter just as the shots rang out? Or, was he watching for some signal, fully aware of what was about to transpire? I don’t know. It seems outside the realm of possibility. But Trump is the very definition of “outside the realm of possibility” and at this point? I wouldn’t put anything, no matter how horrific, past him.

Would Trump allow one (or more) of his loyal followers to actually die for political points? Well, from his point of view, the victim was ONLY “Small-folk.” He genuinely doesn’t seem to care about them at all (except to get their money). I suspect that, yes, he would risk the possibility of Small-folk dying in an effort to gain a few political points. But I don’t know any of that. All I know, for sure, is that Trump was never shot in the ear or anyplace else.

And now there are reports that there was more gunfire in the vicinity of Mr. Trump during one of his golf trips. He was never in any danger. As it happens, the gunfire was from a Secret Service agent who was patrolling one hole ahead of Trump. He spotted a rifle barrel sticking through a fence and opened fire. The guy with the rifle, reportedly, never fired a shot. When the Secret Service opened up, he ran. Somebody got a picture of his getaway car and the cops found the guy pretty quickly.

Now we’ll get all the details. Was he left? Was he right? So far, he seems to have spent most of his life left but he’s been moving right of late. He even voted Trump in 2016, though he later regretted the choice. MOSTLY, he seems tied up in Ukraine’s war and that’s where his sympathies lay. The current working theory – and it could change by the time you read this – is that he was mad at Trump for refusing to say he wanted Ukraine to win during the debate. Trump only said he wanted the war to “stop.”

I presume the right will now pile on the Secret Service as a “security failure,” but was it? Some guy breached the perimeter, sure, but he never even glimpsed Trump. The Secret Service neutralized the threat before Trump was in any danger, just like they’re supposed to. To my mind, that was a security success.

I don’t much like that people might be shooting at Trump, or trying to. All of the violence this culture promotes along with Trump’s own tough-talk is encouraging the wrong kind of discourse in this country. Vote him out. Don’t shoot him out. But I DO have to confess, after his fake at that rally in Pennsylvania where someone shot in his direction, I’m not sure I trust any of these so-called “assassination attempts.” It has crossed my mind that this is a prelude, the warm-up to get MAGA mad enough to pick up their own guns.

He suspects he’s going to lose in November again, even with Russia’s help. THAT leaves him his January coup and in order to pull the coup off, he needs confusion. For that, a MAGA mob, ready to “fight, fight, fight!” would be useful. And an armed MAGA mob would be FAR more effective – especially if they’re just itching to “get even” for the attempts on Trump’s life. One needs to sow those seeds early so they “sprout” at the right time. The attempts could be real but they could also be trumped up, staged events to inflame his supporters to violent action.

I’ll tell you this: I know how it sounds. Get out your tin-foil hats. It’s important to remember that much of this is (possibly/probably wild-eyed) speculation. But things just keep getting crazier and crazier out there and we KEEP learning that no matter how low things might get, MAGA always seems to find a new, lower low. That makes anything possible…