Crime

How The Dems Win…

by MyBaconPress

Three. That’s the number of excuses, I’m sorry, “explanations” regarding Joe’s terrible, horrible performance at the debate. Three. The first was that he had a cold. The second was that his prep team overworked him. The most recent was that he had just flown around the world. Twice. He was tired.

The thing is, when Trump ran against Joe and lost in the fair and honest election of 2020, most of us were NOT voting FOR Joe. We were voting against Trump. Most of us had the attitude that we would have voted for a cold ham sandwich over Trump. We need to remember that – and do it again. The threat that is Trump still exists and, in fact, has become FAR more threatening than he was in his first term.

It’s a little funny that MAGA does exactly the same thing for Trump. That is, I’m reminding people to overlook Biden’s shortcomings and vote for him anyway, to block Trump. MAGA, too, will overlook Trump’s shortcomings and vote for him. The difference? Thinking Americans will be voting for a guy who has been a pretty good President and MAY be having “Senior Moments.” MAGA will be supporting a serial criminal – “a one man crime spree,” Biden called him, an adjudicated rapist, a person who lies like nobody has ever seen, the personification of the Seven Deadly Sins, AND the person who experts have agreed was the worst President in the history of this once-great nation.

You remember his first term, right? Those were the years the economy was destroyed, more people lost jobs and more Americans died than any time in our history – including the American Civil War. Yeah, that was great.

Trump inherited an economy that was humming along. He managed to kill it – and over a million Americans – in only four years. “That was Covid-19!” screams MAGA. Yep. His pathetic handling of Covid-19, you mean. Covid-19 was a pandemic, meaning it hit worldwide. NO other nation suffered the number of deaths America suffered.

Then we put Biden in office and no other country recovered from the damage of Covid-19 as fast at the US, either. Biden is better than Trump. Here’s the thing. Biden is better than Trump, even if Biden has full-blown Alzheimer’s. (He doesn’t.) But the point here is, it doesn’t matter what condition Biden is in.

Rational Americans were willing to vote for a cold ham sandwich against Trump last time. We MUST keep the mindset. Every American who loves this country, despite her issues, needs to get out and vote against Trump again. We weren’t enthusiastic about Biden last time and we don’t have to be this time. He was the anti-Trump and THAT, more than any other thing, is what we need to stay focused on. Biden is the Anti-Trump.

You won’t be voting FOR Biden. You’ll be voting against the Destroyer of Worlds, and that’s pretty important…

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But the election is just the first hurdle. MAGA has a plan to simply install Trump if he loses at the ballot box. In my last column, I asked for input. If you have any ideas how we might save this country, I’d love to hear it. Then, I had one! Sure, it’s a long-shot. Long shots are pretty much the option left so tell me what you think of this: Right now, today, Biden needs to appoint four more Justices to the Supreme Court. The Democratic controlled Senate could, should, have them all confirmed and ready to go by the time the next Court sits.

The now-rational 7-6 majority would be in charge of overseeing future legal challenges, not the insane, ideological 6-3 bullshit that has done so much harm and is just itching to do more. There would be nothing the cons could do to stop it. The now-rational majority might even be able to bring some past rulings back for review. I don’t know about that one. I’d need to ask a lawyer and I haven’t seen any since I got the idea. It doesn’t matter, though.

It’s no joke about MAGA trying to simply install Trump in the House if he loses at the ballot box. It’s an actual plan and they have all the pieces they need in place to make that happen, should they execute that evil, unamerican plan. And why wouldn’t they? Any legal challenges will, obviously, be taken to the SCOTUS to be settled. If the SCOTUS is still the SKCOTUS (meaning infested by Kangaroos), the decision is a foregone conclusion. “Who cares what the Constitution says? We love our guy!” If rationality has been returned to the court, America has a chance. Otherwise?

Yeah, yeah, MAGA would scream about how unfair it is – exactly the same way the left screamed when Moscow Mitch stole that seat to pack the court with crazies. The difference? Biden would be working to save the country, where MAGA is hell-bent on destroying her. Besides, MAGA is wrong about everything. Everything! Why the hell would any rational person listen to any MAGA about anything political, ever?

Biden has promised not to abuse his new powers as king. I appreciate that, but if USING those powers to save the nation would, well, save the fucking nation, I’d say do what you have to do. In fact, the ONLY way to get enough time to fix what the corrupt court has wrought is to change the structure of the SCOTUS. Not doing so only sets us up for evil king Trump, who will most definitely abuse his power.

But Biden wouldn’t BE abusing his power. Appointing Supreme Court Justices is a core power of the President, defined in the Constitution. He would just be doing his job. Expanding the court might be the only way to save the country. It would likely save his Presidency, too.

I often feel like the left plays the “Washington Generals” against the right’s “Harlem Globetrotters” which is a bit ironic since the Globetrotters are mostly black and MAGA is mostly racist but that’s a different column. (For the uninitiated, the Generals are the “team” the Globetrotters play against in their “games.” The Generals are expected to lose to the Globetrotters…)

I hold that actions speak louder than words. When the Dems could win a fight but don’t? I can’t explain that any other way than they didn’t WANT to win the fight and I honestly believe the left has been throwing the game to the right for decades. They LOOK like they’re putting up a fight but their job is to lose, so lose they do. But I’m STILL suggesting this because it gives America a fighting chance.

In the best tradition of Six Degrees of Separation, if you know a way to get this idea in front of the President, please use it. NOW IS the time.

Expanding the court by adding four more rational people is perfectly legal, and even if some think otherwise, it’s a core power and not to be questioned – according to the very court Biden would be expanding. Such a bold move would, I believe, re-energize the Biden campaign, too. He could save the country AND himself as President. It’s a win-win. The only question is, do the Dems WANT to win?

Hey, Maybe We Can…

by MyBaconPress

No, it’s too late. Since the SKCOTUS ruled that the President is really a king, I’ve seen some ideas about what to do. AOC has suggested impeaching some of the Kangaroos. A House Democrat, Joe Morelle, has promised to introduce a Constitutional Amendment to reverse the way-high court’s ruling. I read a very good editorial urging all Americans to get out and vote, the idea being that if we all band together we can save our nation at the ballot box.

Impeaching the Kangaroos will take too long and will NOT have the cooperation of our corrupt House. That’s the same impediment to any Constitutional Amendment. Sadly, getting out the vote isn’t going to get ‘er done, either. Dems could, should, win the election. Cons have a plan to steal it, anyway.

People I’ve spoken to about their plan can’t or won’t accept it as a possibility, let alone the reality. When I first heard of it, I wasn’t sure I bought it, either. But consider; think of every vile thing the cons have done in the furtherance of their goals, the lies and obfuscations, the incompetents installed, the bribes happily and gratefully taken, the corruptions of the rule of law. Think of every time you’ve been shocked by some new, egregious effort it took you a day or two to even wrap your arms around. NONE of those things have been opposed successfully.

This once-great nation was a smoking wreckage even before the Kangaroos put the final nail in her coffin on July 1, 2024. The Kangaroos horrifying Citizens United ruling made the country a pay-to-play nation, basically Fascism, the merging of corporate and government power. Their recent, “Hell, YES, we can take bribes!” ruling in Snyder vs United States made the country less trustworthy than we might ever have imagined.

Now, in that light, tell me what it is you think will cause the cons to stop, right as they sit on the precipice of total, appalling “success.” Win or lose in November, they have a plan to simply install Donald Trump into the Oval – and it’s all in keeping with the tattered remains of our beloved Constitution. All they have to do is tell one more big lie. Think about that. The tool they’re going to use to finally destroy the Constitution, once and for all, is the Constitution.

Their big lie? The election was SO fraught with irregularities and problems, we simply cannot trust the results. That’s it. Nothing else. They just have to tell it and stick to it. Hell, they’ve already started that one and they’ll KEEP pounding that drum until the votes are counted. The ONLY thing that will stop them is if the votes fall Trump’s way as a matter of course, a very real possibility since the Dems won’t change horses. If that happens – Trump wins – suddenly it will be the fairest election in the history of elections. But in the MAGA “mind,” it’s only “fair” if their guy wins.

Sure, Dems will pretend to fight back. They’ll file lawsuits, ultimately decided by the corrupt Kangaroos, so, good luck with that. They may try to pass laws, obstructed by the corrupt House – and any that DO pass will be “reviewed” by the Kangaroos. Consider this: the Kangaroos have already MADE Biden king. He has the same protections as Trump would have. Biden, too, could order Seal Team 6 to take out a threatening political rival with total immunity in order to save the nation. Biden could stop this thing with a word. But he won’t.

He’s already said he’s going to stick to the rules we know and depend on decorum and propriety. Hell, the cons don’t even know what ‘decorum’ and ‘propriety’ mean and if they looked them up, they’d just laugh. The Dems are forever fighting according to Marquis of Queensbury rules and the cons are in a kickboxing cage match – and using knives. So, even after the obvious cheating of the House, the Dems will dutifully attend the inauguration and hand over the keys to the White House on January 21st, 2025.

And that will be that.

Virtually the ONLY thing left that might stop Trump, realistically, is his death. Note to those who care, no, I’m not calling for his death. Besides, who the hell listens to me? I’m simply making the point that Trump is an old guy in terrible shape. Old guys in terrible shape commonly die, okay? I’m no threat. But the fact remains, however it might come about, Trump’s passing is the only way to stop this freight train, so I wouldn’t count on that, either.

If you can think of some other way to save the country, I’d love to hear it…

Immunity Day…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so today is Immunity Day. Does Donald Trump have perfect immunity to do anything he wants while President? No, of course not, and that’s NOT what the Kangaroos are going to rule on. But, remember, these Kangaroos are weasels. (What? How is that possible?) The decision they’re going to hand down is that, yes, the President DOES enjoy great latitude in his official functions. In fact, the President IS immune from prosecution for much of his official role.

The only part the Kangaroos are going to have to weasel, is the part where “officiating” an election, especially from the White House, must be an official role of the President (it’s not), so Trump IS immune for his actions in trying to overturn the election. In a VERY partisan, 6-3 vote, they’ll simply pretend to agree with his claim of “testing the election integrity.”

Yes, it will be a severe bastardization of the law every American should be outraged about. But MAGA will celebrate because it will save their guy and they don’t understand that the corruption will continue and spread. More importantly, though, it will let Trump off the hook for his attempts to steal the election without setting a precedent that allows, say, Biden to simply order Seal Team 6 to strike Mar-a-Lardo, while Trump is at home.

The sane sector of this once-great nation will have to walk around with J6 and “I just need you to find me 11,780 votes because that’s one more than we have” in their heads while the Trump defense team of RATKG&B allows Trump to walk because that was some kind of “official function.”

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I hear Biden met with his family to ask if he should stay in the race and, what do you know? They apparently think he should. Look, I don’t think any Biden voters (or, more accurately, anti-Trump voters) are going to see Biden’s age and vote Trump. Nobody is going to flip. But too many people are going to be off-put by Biden’s age and aged performance at the debate and will simply stay home. This, at a time Biden (and more importantly, the survival of this once-great nation) will need every vote he can possibly get.

Outside of the MAGA “mind,” (I mean in reality) Biden has done a pretty good job as President. The only real rap cons can lay on him is his age and they’ve been hammering on that for years, now. So when Biden comes out and mostly confirms their charges by his performance, he puts the metaphorical noose around his own neck – along with ours.

Yes, Biden has a proven record of success but the “old” thing is a weight he can’t escape. Replacing him with someone else would be a problem because the Dems would be starting from scratch with an unproven candidate. But the candidate for the right, Donald Trump IS “proven.” He’s a proven, convicted Felon. He’s an proven, adjudicated sexual assaulter. He’s a known, proven thief and con man. He’s a proven liar. He lies like it’s his sacred obligation to lie. He is an proven embarrassment to the country. (See below.) Hell, he’s an embarrassment to humanity.

I’ll tell you this: There shouldn’t even BE a race, here. Can it possibly be true the Dems can’t field anybody who could compare well against the personification of the Seven Deadly Sins? More than anything, THAT is a sad and sorrowful commentary on America…

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I hear Trump saying we’re a laughing stock to the world because of Biden. I just want to remind everybody, it was TRUMP the entire world laughed at – right in his stupid face! Remember that? At the UN? Trump made a cockamamie, trump-like statement (“My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”) and the entire general assembly burst into laughter. Click here to see it for yourselves.

Once again (and it NEVER ends) a conservative accusation that is, in fact, a confession. The United States was laughing stock under Trump, not Biden, and if Trump gets back there, we will be again…

Ducking Out…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Steve Bannon still seems set to begin his four month prison sentence on July 1. He didn’t want to. He tried to suggest to the court that he is somehow special because he lies for the cons. The court didn’t buy it and said, “No, start your sentence.” Bannon wants to take his case to the Supremely Kangaroo Court and ask them for a mulligan. NOW he wants to appeal THIS call to the same court. (I’ll bet. I don’t know if those guys are in the bag for ALL high level, criminal cons or only for Trump but it’s still the best bet he’s got…)

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The Kangaroos took a recess. Their session ends in, like, eight days. They STILL haven’t issued some of their most important – and likely most egregious – decisions. Does a President have perfect and total immunity? No, but who knows what this embarrassing court will do?

The corporate media seemed surprised. “Why, oh why, won’t they issue those rulings that are so important?” That’s easy. NOT issuing them helps their client, Trump. They’ll wait as long as they can, then issue the decisions late, as they skulk out the back door to go collect their bribes, er, “gifts.”

It’s yet another heartbreak for those of us who actually DO still love this country, seeing how corrupt the conservatives have made the institutions of a once-great nation…

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Now Donald Sutherland has passed? Say it ain’t so. Aged 88 years. He gave us a LOT of great movies. I’m a fan of his work. I know people have to go but I often wish they hadn’t, you know? Donald Sutherland, like Willie Mays only a few days earlier, was in THAT group, for me…

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Is he already running for the door? Trump is telling supporters he’s going to lose the upcoming (June 27) debate. He tried suggesting he’d do that on purpose to make some kind of point but even MAGA wasn’t dumb enough to buy that. So, now, it’s all pretending Biden will be amped by drugs, all the time.

The reality is that Biden is sharper, smarter, and better prepared than Trump and would win because the debate is about reality and not preferred MAGA distortions. But I submit that Trump is setting the stage for a chicken-out. First, he primes the deceived into believing that he can’t win because Biden will be aided by drugs, then he backs out because, he’ll claim, the whole thing is unfair and rigged.

I’ll tell you this: Trump is just a loser who can’t win if he can’t distort. MAGA doesn’t know it, wouldn’t believe it if they saw it with their own eyes, but Trump does. So, he’ll make claims. But it will just be cowardice…

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Well, it took THIS long for their stolen election lie to come back to bite them. The lie is that the 2020 election was “stolen.” It wasn’t. But the mouths have been wagging ever since. Oh, what an evil thing the Dems did to the cons. It’s a stupid lie, easily proven false unless one refuses to look at the mountain of evidence to the contrary. But “look” MAGA does not and so the lie persists.

Now it’s persistence is spreading like a cancer. There’s a politician from Virginia, Bob Good, who is a far right MAGA level con. He totally supported the “stolen election” lie. He’s running to retain his House seat. Oh, he ALSO endorsed Ron DeSantis in the Presidential primary. THAT, of course, is an unforgivable sin, so Trump endorsed Good’s opponent, John McGuire. Currently, McGuire is winning by a very small margin.

So, guess what? NOW Good is claiming HIS election was stolen! NOW it’s an evil thing the CONS do to cons. From his point of view, it couldn’t possibly be that he’s just losing. Something must be “rigged.”

This is one of the main flaws of the far-right ideology, ‘nobody counts but me.’ It doesn’t take long until they form a circular firing squad and start shooting. Good’s claim undermines Trump’s claim, which never had any credibility anyway. Every day, the “party of personal responsibility” moves further and further away from personal responsibility…

Oh, Those Lefty Rascals…

by MyBaconPress

Trump in a nutshell: When he was behind closed doors, with fellow cons, in a space he trusted, he said he thought Milwaukee was a “horrible city.” Then Wisconsin heard about the comment and responded accordingly. SO, Trump goes to a rally in neighboring Racine (and NOT Milwaukee) and claims he LOVES Milwaukee. His truth comes out behind closed doors. His lie comes out at the Racine rally. Don’t be fooled, Wisconsin. Trump thinks Milwaukee is a horrible city.

NOW he’s claiming the left did it, force him to say Milwaukee is a horrible city. Did we do that? Wow. I’m VERY impressed. I’ve got to tell you, “the left” must be pretty clever, the way we keep getting him to stick his foot into his own mouth and commit crimes. I don’t know how we’re doing that, he never goes into detail on that bit, but if we’re THAT good, if we have THAT level of control over him, his mouth, and his actions, and we apparently always have, what chance does he stand?

Think about it. Somehow, “the left” got him to have a year long affair with a ‘Playboy’ model and casual sex with a porn star instead of his wife a decade before he even entered politics! How’s THAT for a set up? THEN, “the left” got him to pay the ladies off to keep them quiet ten years later and somehow, “the left” tricked this gullible fool into cooking his own company’s books to cover the whole thing up. But that last bit was easy since “the left” had tricked him into cooking his own company’s books for decades.

Even though the “left” doesn’t go to his rallies, we manage to get him to stumble over words, lock up in the middle of sentences, and forget the names of people he interacts with on a regular basis – all while bragging about “acing” a cognitive test. (“Oh, he can STILL recognize an elephant? That’s my guy!”) AND we KEEP messing with the teleprompters he swears he never uses. How do we DO that?

But here’s the weird bit. How come “the left” couldn’t force him to do anything good? I mean, if we can force him to embezzle, lie, steal, molest, and forget names and places, why couldn’t we get him to, say, do some ‘Presidenting’ instead of playing golf for four years? Or, for that matter, why not just get him to drop out of the race entirely? Why couldn’t we get him to come up with some sensible gun control? Why didn’t we use that power to get better judges on our courts or some positive action on climate change? Why didn’t the left trick him into doing something – anything – positive for the majority of the American people rather than the wreckage he left behind?

But, no. Apparently, “the left” can only get him to bad things, like stealing all those government documents and share them with foreigners. Years earlier, “the left” convinced him to steal from a charity that supposedly fought children’s cancer. It was “the left” who forced him to steal from contractors and open and bankrupt business after business. It simply does not matter what bit of chicanery, theft, groping, or raping Trump gets caught doing all by himself, it’s somehow always “the left” that made him do it.

I mean, come on, that’s pretty masterful handling. We’ve managed to do it with NO visible mechanism or means of control. Even more impressive, “the left” got him to do all of these things for decades before he even entered politics, in apparent anticipation that, sooner or later, he would enter politics.

I’ll tell you this: If “the left” has that kind of micro-managed control over anybody and everybody who might be in or someday enter politics, who could possibly fight back? I mean, it’s a wonder Trump isn’t in jail right now, when “the left” wields that kind of power…

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I’m STILL waiting for an answer to this one. Trump is running around insisting he will pardon the J6 insurgents if he gets back into the Oval. So, why didn’t Trump pardon the J6 insurgents before he left office in 2021? He had from J7 to J20 to get it done, but didn’t. Why not? Is it possible he let them sit in jail for four years just so he could use them as a political talking point in an election?

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I guess it had to happen sometime, but it’s still sad to hear of the passing of the Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays. He was a great baseball player and, from all accounts, a great man…

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I keep hearing that black voters under age 50 are turning towards Trump and away from Biden in this upcoming election. Do you think that’s true? I mean, look, I know Biden has had some challenges in his administration but I don’t know that he has done anything in particular to harm the black community and I KNOW Trump is a racist.

Do you really think the black community is going to come out in large numbers for the guy in the pointed white hood? I’m not sure I’m buying…

Random Thoughts, June 15, 2024…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve figured out why MAGA can’t accept that Trump is a convicted felon: his conviction is a fact and it’s based in truth. Really, it’s that simple. Cult-45 has been so abused for so long, they no longer have the capacity to even recognize the truth. What a scary way to live…

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As you likely know, Alex Jones is finally being made to pay for his lies about the Sandy Hook massacre of first graders being a “hoax,” performed by “crisis actors.” He might even lose his beloved Mt. Bullshit site, Infowars.

Meanwhile, survivors of the Sandy Hook massacre graduated from high school the other day. They paid for his gun lust immediately and without choice. It seems wrong that he has been allowed to forestall paying, by choice, for twelve years…

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Now that we know a person can’t use drugs AND have guns, why won’t people start going after private gun owners who smoke marijuana – or even consume alcohol? In their zeal to “get” Hunter Biden, did the MAGAGOP just lay out the blueprint to slow gun ownership?

Nah! The ACTUAL rule is that a person can’t use drugs AND have guns AND carry the name Biden. It’s VERY specific, if you’re MAGA…

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The cons chose Milwaukee as their host city for their convention because Wisconsin is seen as pivotal in the Presidential race. Essentially, the GOP is pandering to Wisconsin. But not Trump. He thinks of Milwaukee as “a horrible city.” He said so, out loud. Way to woo ’em, Donny…

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Even when they get it right, they do so for the wrong reasons. Our crumbling SKCOTUS issued a ruling that supported continued use of what has become known as the “abortion pill,” Mifepristone. This is the “get it right” part. BUT – they based their ruling on lack of standing by the plaintiffs so the issue isn’t dead. It WILL be back. I saw a young woman on television saying so. Young women arguing against reproductive choice always confuse me.

They must be optimists, believing THEY will never be impregnated by their rapist. But they’re ALSO ignorant of history and the things women went through before Roe (and are starting to go through again, thanks to the cons) and completely lack empathy, a marking characteristic of all cons everywhere…

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When Trump went to the Capitol to visit with his toadies, he suggesting replacing income tax with an “all tariff” model. Economists have already said the plan would seriously harm middle and low income workers and seriously boost the wealthy. That’s JUST what we need in this submerging nation, a policy that harms the majority and helps those who need help the least.

Go ahead, MAGA, vote for Trump. He WILL make you bleed…

Competing Convictions…

by MyBaconPress

So…the presumptive nominee for the Roepublicon Party underwent his presentence probationary interview this last week. The interview is part of the sentencing process. It helps the judge gauge certain aspects of the defendant’s (now the convicted person’s) attitude. DOES Trump feel any remorse? Not based on any of his words. According to him, the fault lies, not with his crimes but with the people who punished him for them. He even sent out fundraising emails calling the conviction a “fraud.” That’s hardly contrition.

Apparently, they asked him if he understood that as a convicted Felon on probation, he wouldn’t be allowed to associate with other known criminals, specifically, people with criminal convictions. That pretty much lets out everyone Trump knows at this point. It seems to be a thing, hang with Trump, go to jail…

But his hearing was rather unusual; more of that Special Treatment he’s always bitching about. He got to do his interview via Zoom. He got to have his attorney present. His interview lasted a little less than a half-hour. NONE of that is, apparently, standard practice…

Weird, isn’t it? The impending election pits one guy who, yes, is old against the other guy who is ALSO old AND can’t travel freely around the world due to his status as a felon and will have to weave his criminal probation into his Presidency, wants to impose a far-right, extremist agenda, did a terrible job when he had it before, and fully intends to dismantle the Constitution. And millions of Americans are STILL voting for the second guy. I just don’t get what’s wrong with people…

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Oh, but the cons got Hunter, didn’t they? Everyone was so shocked, so surprised. Wait, no. That’s not right. Hunter had already indicated his guilt. The prosecutor investigating the case had looked at it and offered a plea bargain. MAGA couldn’t have that, just a plea bargain. Never mind that a plea bargain is the same sentence offered others in similar cases. This is Hunter Biden and they have to get Joe! (Dear MAGA, Hunter is STILL not Joe. If you need a President with a drug problem, look to your beloved Donny…)

They knew they could drag embarrassing details about drug addict choices out in public and put it in a court record somewhere, as though court records aren’t already full of the stupid things drug addicts do. Of course, after the conviction, MAGA was ready with all new conspiracy theories, freshly minted by their bullshit machine and injected into the body politic for ready rhetorical use. Suddenly, Hunter’s conviction was a set-up by – wait for it – JOE BIDEN! That senile old man is one clever and crafty son-of-a-bitch, isn’t he?

See, according to this insane conspiracy theory, the (stupid) plan was to convict Hunter for a petty crime, which naturally and automatically, of course, covers up all the vast web of crimes out there that Joe is committing and MAGA knows everything about but can NOT (for some weird reason) come up with a single shred of evidence for proof. So fear not, featherheads, the “investigations” will continue. They know Joe is guilty. All they have to do is find a crime now. Easy…

‘Uninformed’ is Winning…

by MyBaconPress

There is a song out in “Christian” media calling Donald Trump, ‘The Chosen One.’ Donald didn’t write it but he promoted it. The Chosen One? Isn’t that title already taken in the Christian religion? I believe it’s held by a guy named…um…Oh, Jesus Christ, what IS that guy’s name? Oh yeah, Jesus Christ.

So the next time you’re out there, scratching your head, wondering how MAGA can stay so loyal to this international criminal buffoon, remember that song. They believe he’s the next coming and they’ll support him as such. What a bunch of rubes…

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Here’s a question: if Donald Trump is as popular as he says he is, why is he faking photos to show huge crowds? Shouldn’t he just be drawing huge crowds? When a thousand people show up, he claims 100,000. Recently, he released a campaign photo showing a huge crowd and suggested the crowd was at his rally. But it wasn’t. The crowd he showed was from a local music festival – where Trump wasn’t.

As a sidebar, he had a rally in Las Vegas, where he told his fans that he didn’t care about them, he just wanted their votes. To be specific, he said, “We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.” He said he was kidding and the crowd laughed. But he wasn’t kidding, was he? He FINALLY tells a truth, and it’s an insult to his base. But, they’re still “the uneducated” and they didn’t get it. “Oh, idn’t he funny?”

If he’s lying about crowd size every chance he gets – and he is – why wouldn’t he lie about all the other amazing “successes” he’s experiencing, like how much money he’s bringing in from donors (to pay his legal and living expenses and get Melania $8,000 dollar haircuts)?

Oh, yeah, he’s also claiming something like 22% of under-50 African Americans are Trump supporters. I heard Raphael Warnock (D, Georgia) on the radio. Warnock insists there’s no way 22% of under-50 African Americans are voting Trump. I believe Warnock, not Trump. Especially since Trump keeps getting caught faking photos trying to show how much the African American community loves him. Once again, if you have to fake it, how true could it be?

I’ll tell you this: It turns out, the sexually assaulting, convicted felon, and international criminal Donald J. Trump might be a liar, too…

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I don’t know if it’s better or worse that Europe is also suffering a surge in far-right conservatism. Better because it means we’re not alone here in the US. It usually helps to know others have experienced something someone is going through. The panic on the left at the rise of backwards, ineffective thinking in the US can be felt by the left all over Europe.

Worse because it means the far-right propaganda machine is working much of the western world and making great strides. I believe I’ll NEVER understand how so many millions of people can be so deceived, so completely, for so long. But I’m watching it happen right now, with my own eyes, and it doesn’t matter if I believe it or not. It’s happening.

The general thinking among those who still do (think, that is) is that the rise in far-right conservatism is going to make it much harder to govern Europe, just as they’ve mucked up the political process here in the US. In France, the far-right showed so many gains, their President, Emmanuel Macron, dissolved their national Parliament and called for a snap legislative election, a kind of electoral re-do. Honestly? I can’t decide how I feel about that. It doesn’t feel very democratic. The election was the election. The people spoke. If they spoke in the manner of brain-dead morons, so be it.

On the other hand, the people supporting those movements in country after country are doing so because they’ve been deceived by a sophisticated propaganda machine and they don’t have the tools (or, in some cases, the capacity) to identify the deceptions. SHOULD a country suffer under the weight of wrongheadedness just because a large number of people were fooled? If there’s legal method for an instant re-do, shouldn’t they? I’d guess that if such a thing had been possible in the UK when Brexit happened, the Brits might have jumped at the chance for a do-over.

It’s weird. We’re watching a battle between informed and uninformed – and uninformed is winning…

Consequences…

by MyBaconPress

When I write these little bits, I use “tags” to help categorize the topics and such on the hosting website. I’ve noticed I use the three tags, ‘Trump,’ ‘MAGA,’ and ‘Crime’ together all the time, over and over. It’s a LOT of crime MAGA has been involved in, led and supported by Trump…

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Speaking of which, now that he’s a Felon, he can’t travel to several countries – even as President. Oh, he ALSO lost a lawsuit regarding the Steele Dossier in the UK and hasn’t paid THAT debt, either. (That really IS his thing…) Now, he could be facing legal enforcement in the UK if he ever shows his very bulky face there. That makes it official: Trump, possibly our next President, is an international criminal! Thanks, MAGA!

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Apparently, Trump insiders are saying that Trump plans to ramp up the heat on Judge Juan Merchan if Merchan sentences Trump to jail time. That’s from an article in the Guardian titled, ‘Trump to escalate blame on trial judge Juan Merchan if sentenced to prison.’ Way to take personal responsibility for your actions, Mr Leader-of-the-Party-of-Responsibility.

I don’t really expect Merchan to put Trump in jail, though I think he should. I think that way because I honestly believe that he would have put any other person in jail, by now, if they behaved the way Trump has behaved. Or, misbehaved, as the case may be.

He committed a crime. He felt good about getting away with it, until he got caught. Then, he blamed the people who caught him. Prosecutors collected evidence. He blamed the people who collected the evidence, dismissing the evidence itself. The evidence was presented in open court to a jury of his peers. (Kind of. Trump is SO mentally malformed, I’m not sure he has “peers…”) He blamed the people who presented the evidence. The judge ran a steady, honest trial. Trump blamed the judge for Trump’s predicament.

David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi and took a hammer to his head. He got sentenced to 30 years and at least some of that time, according to the judge in that case, was because DePape showed zero remorse. Judges commonly factor that in when considering sentences. Now Trump is issuing veiled threats against the judge in the case? Not only does Trump not show any contrition, but he’s out attacking and blaming the judge for doing his job? “It’s not MY fault I did that! It’s YOUR fault I did that!” That should land Trump in prison.

I’ll tell you this: It’s too bad Merchan is showing more respect for the office of the President than the substandard, criminal ex-President…

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Hey, Israel recovered 4 hostages. Yay! They only had to kill nearly 300 innocents to do it. What a deal! I know. Israel and her supporters don’t care about the Palestinians killed and would argue they don’t qualify as “innocents.” At one point, Israel killed a five DAY old baby. I’m surprised American media didn’t report the child as the “Number two man of HAMAS” in an attempt to justify the killing.

THIS time, Israel just HAD to attack a refugee camp. (Keyword: refugee.) You know, because of HAMAS. I’m glad they rescued 4 hostages. I really am. But I’m not sure the cost/benefit analysis is on Israel’s side. The world has recently heard about the discovery of several bodies who were once hostages. Of course, Israel blames HAMAS – who DOES deserve some portion of the blame for taking the hostages in the first place. But I suspect those hostages were killed by Israel, accidentally, as they use a cannon to kill a mosquito. I don’t know that, of course, and I never will. Wars always produce manipulated information.

I look at it this way: if you take hostages only to kill them, why incur the cost and difficulty of keeping some alive? If you see the hostages as a bargaining chip you need to use to protect yourself, why kill them? You need them. This far into the war, rescuing 4 living hostages suggests HAMAS isn’t killing them. So who might be? I’m looking at the side randomly blasting and killing everything in sight supposedly trying to “rescue the hostages…”

Law and Order? Not So Much…

by MyBaconPress

Hey, there was finally a Melania sighting. She was just leaving home with her son, Barron. She was carrying a $42,000 ostrich skin purse, likely another “gift” from MAGA. I know MAGA doesn’t care that Trump is fleecing them dry. He’s taking their money as fast as they can send it and using it for things I doubt they intended. Melania’s hair management? Okay, maybe, but a $132,000 dollar haircut? What, she couldn’t find a ‘Super Cuts?’

Alright, that’s a bit hyperbolic. I wasn’t ONE haircut for $132,000. It was a single payment for several cuts, each costing thousands of dollars. But do you know what? Paying thousands of dollars for a haircut under ANY circumstances is stupid.

MAGA doesn’t care, but I would. I doubt the haircut, alone, would have caused any friction for me but such bad money management when you’re using other people’s money? I don’t know what it takes to keep her hair looking like it does – nor do I notice anything particularly special about her hair, but LOTS of people have very nice looking hair and pay far, far less. I guess it costs a LOT for that natural looking dye job. But other people manage to get lovely dye jobs for FAR less, also. I guess the Trumps are just selfish people who don’t even bother to manage the money they beg for, and receive, from MAGA…

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I just want to make one thing clear to MAGA, who seem to be having some difficulty grasping a rather basic concept. When a prosecutor lays out a case in court, using evidence they’ve collected using legal means, and a jury of one’s peers convicts? That’s not a “rigged” trial. That’s a criminal trial. Trump didn’t lose the case for any reason other than the evidence that he did the crime. Trump is the cheater, not the cheated…

Meanwhile, MAGA is out there screaming and yelling and whining and crying about how terrible it is that someone in America is forced to go through a “political” trial and at the same time, thrilled as they can be at forcing Hunter Biden through a political trial…

Yes, I know Hunter did the crime. But his case had been handled in accordance with the way other, similar cases had been handled. He reached a plea agreement. But MAGA screamed, “NOOOOO!” MAGA needed to see Hunter tried and all that fabulous, salacious information needed to be made as public as possible, mostly for prurient reasons. MAGA has tried as hard as they could to make Hunter’s drug problem somehow reflect on Joe.

Dear MAGA, Hunter Biden is NOT Joe Biden. Hunter’s poor life choices are not Joe’s poor life choices. Hunter did the (oh-so-minor) crime, not Joe. The attack may give YOU a “chubby,” but it’s just not landing with thinking Americans…

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I remember when conservatives were all about “law and order.” I’ve noticed that as the law catches up with them, they suddenly lose all respect for the people and institutions that inhabit the world of “law and order.” Suddenly, everything is rigged against them. Uh-huh…

Alex Jones is the latest. As you recall, he kept claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was all made up, with the parents being “portrayed” by “crisis actors.” But it wasn’t made up. It really happened and it happened the way mainstream media said it happened. Alex Jones, it turns out, was the one lying about Sandy Hook! Finally, a court said so, to the tune of about $1.5 billion dollars in a defamation suit judgement.

Old Alex vowed he’d never pay. They’d never get any money and he’d just keep living the high life, manipulating the system endlessly. Fortunately, the Sandy Hook families never gave up. Jones tried to protect himself from his lies by filing for bankruptcy protection and then dragging the process out. The families finally got through to the court that he didn’t really have any realistic chances of making payments by reorganizing.

Jones has finally admitted as much and asked the court to go ahead and liquidate his assets to cover the debt, or at least, what portion of the debt it might cover. He might well (probably will) lose his hate channel, Infowars, where he waged war on legitimate information for years and hawked useless “diet supplements” and other questionable products to grift money.

So, who wins? The families haven’t seen any of the money. I’m not sure they ever really expected to. Now, with this decision, the families likely still won’t see much of the money, if any. This fight is about their children, though, and Alex Jones will be gone.

Personally, I suspect he’s been secretly moving what money he could when he could to some off-shore location, so he’ll be just fine. Still, he won’t be on air every day poisoning the body politic, and that’s a good thing. The families get vindication – Jones had to admit the shooting occurred AND that he does, in fact, owe the families the money – and they get rid of Jones…