Crime

Closing In?

by MyBaconPress

Ro Khanna (D) says he and Thomas Massie (R) have the votes they need to try and force the release of the Epstein files. Well, okay, WILL have the votes they need by the end of September. There are special elections coming up. There are currently four vacant seats in the House, three of them from deep blue districts. Two of THOSE have already committed to signing the petition so Khanna and Massie have the 218 they need – or they will.

This is just a first step. A discharge petition is a tool to bypass a committee report that might be held up for political reasons, thereby holding up a floor vote. The petition forces the floor vote. Donny and MAGA Mike the Johnson are working overtime trying to keep the Epstein files secret – as one does when one knows how innocent one is. Like, exactly how “innocent” one is.

47, of course, is pretending the whole thing is a democrat hoax and is willing to prove that by keeping the files completely secret (except the parts that were previously known anyway) and shoving them down into a deep, dark vault. Everyone knows, the best disinfectant is deep darkness and further coverup. That never elicits questions. No wonder it’s working so predictably for Donny, et al.

Sometimes, I wonder what he’s worried about. MAGA morality is SO disrupted, Donny could show Polaroids of himself with young girls and MAGA would find a way to justify the photos. Would he lose any support? I doubt it. Those of us who oppose pedophilia would continue to oppose pedophilia and those who defend pedophiles would continue to defend pedophiles – just like what’s happening now – so why all the concern?

In the past, he has embraced whichever of the seven deadly sins he stands accused of committing and MAGA just admires his “honesty.” I’m pretty sure they would extend the same grace to him raping kids…

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Judges are pushing back against the regime’s illegal agenda. Many of the things the First Felon have done are, not surprisingly, crimes. Judges keep saying so. The White House blasts the judges in conservative media as “judicial activists.” MAGA knows to hate “judicial activists” – except when the judicial activism benefits conservatives.

The reason MAGA is so easily deceived by the details? MAGA media isn’t reporting on the lower court rulings at all. That means the faithful don’t get the details. They only get the bluster from the White House and that’s bluster they WANT to believe, so they do.

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As this redistricting battle heats up and degrades the US, it remains possible that Republicans who still love OG America might turn on the party. Just because a district has been gerrymandered to benefit one party or the other doesn’t mean the district will necessarily go in that direction. The benefited party has to come out for the election. If they’re unhappy and they don’t come out? The other party can win – even in a gerrymandered district.

I know that every single downturn of the economy or the society or the law in this bizarro America will be met with excuses by MAGA media. Somehow, everything bad that happens will trace back to Joe Biden or even Barack Obama. All they have to do is ignore the actions Donny took to bring about each day’s new disaster – and ignorance is easy for a MAGA.

But a year from now, even a MAGA might figure out that Donny has been playing them for gullible fools. He has lied to them, tricked them, and stolen from them. If they figure it out, they might just sit out an election. Key phrase? “IF they figure it out.” Odds are long…

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Well, the Niners won. It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was just lucky – but they won, and a W is a W. They started off with a bunch of injuries, then TE George Kittle got injured during the game. The team held together. The defense looked good. The offense has looked better. Special Teams? The headline this morning should have been about Jake Moody looking for work. Apparently, the guy was money in college. Apparently, he hits like a machine in practice. Clearly, he is – at best – “undependable” during an actual game.

He doesn’t have a preference. He pulls them left and he pulls them right. He has demonstrated a rather remarkable collection of ways to miss, in fact. He can miss Field Goals. He can miss Extra Points. He can miss from any distance. But when Moody takes the field to add points, one expects the score to remain the same.

I’ve seen this before, a coach who takes on a ‘less-than’ player as a project. Head Coach Kyle Shanahan seems to have done exactly that with Moody. I can NOT figure out why Shanahan stays so loyal to that guy. Moody’s job is to kick the ball through the uprights. Moody kicks the ball everywhere BUT through the uprights. Moody keeps his job anyway. Moody cost the Niners games last season and he’ll cost the Niners games again THIS season if he sticks around…

One Fraud After Another…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, the latest report is that job growth is VERY low and unemployment is up. Whaddaya know? And remember, he fired the last person who put together that report and replaced her with a toady yes-man who would massage the numbers. So AFTER massaging the numbers, the best he could do was 22,000 jobs?!? My gods, I wonder what the real number is…

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Yeah, yeah, there’s crime everywhere. But the oh-so-clever trick that seems to be deceiving so many MAGA out there? He finds a city he doesn’t like (Democrat run, preferably black mayor) and announces it’s the worst, crime-riddled city in the world. (It isn’t.) He sends in a bunch of troops who do some gardening and stand around a while. Meanwhile, whatever work those troops were supposed to be doing goes undone. THEN Donny declares the city “cleaned up” and withdraws the troops.

Then he, wait, I hear a noise. Hang on. OH MY GOD, there are space aliens out in the yard. They’re killing all of my neighbors. It’s a horrifying bloodbath. We need a hero! Wait, I’ll get my pea-shooter. That’ll do it. BAM! POW! ARGHH! OOF! Oh, thank the gods, I got them all. They’re all dead. I, Mark Bacon, just saved the entire planet from a space alien attack with my trusty pea-shooter! You’re welcome. Gimmie my noble prize now.

See how easy that was? All I had to do was describe it. Now I expect adulation. MY story, after all, is every bit as true and accurate as all that “crime fighting” the First Felon is doing in target cities. And I didn’t only save a city from “crime.” I saved the entire planet from space invaders…

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I sure hope the video of that boat being blown up by the US off the coast of Venezuela is AI because if the video isn’t faked, the act is straight up murder, isn’t it? CAN you just blast a boat out of the water and declare it was full of drugs later? Quick question: what if it was a boatload of drug enforcement agents taking a load of seized drugs out to the deep ocean for disposal? What if it was Gilligan? The Skipper, too? A millionaire and his wife? What if it was a movie star? Or the Professor and Mary Ann?

The maladministration can’t describe the people on the boat. No info on the pretended drugs. How many people were aboard? Genders? Ages? How did they know it was a drug run? It was off the coast of Venezuela. How did they know it was going to the US?

I guess he’s STILL trying to look tough and I readily acknowledge my lack of a JD but I don’t know of any authority anywhere that allows the US to go blow up private boats for the “sin” of simply being in the water hundreds of miles to the south of the US. ‘Will murder to distract from Epstein,’ I guess…

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His lie during the campaign was that he would fix the economy on day one. HIS words, not mine. Of course, that lie blew up in his face and the economy started tanking. So he did what he always does, he lied about it. The worse it gets, the greater he declares it. Oh, and he updated his timeline. First the economy would boom later this year, then it became next year. Most recently, he has move the timeline to 2027 before the economy responds.

All he has to do is keep pushing off the timeline and MAGA will stay loyal and enthralled, so that’s what he’ll do. That boy NEVER delivers. He just pushes off the deadline and the deadline never comes. So by 2027, we should ONLY expect he’ll be promising happier days by 2028. But even at 2027? At the rate he’s going, at the rate prices are going up because of him, at the rate jobs are being lost because of him, businesses are being hurt because of him, income is down because of him do you think you’re going to be able to survive until 2027? I think it’s a fair question…

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Wealth taxes in Norway are under fire. In an effort to enlist the support of people who will NEVER pay the wealth tax, rich people have put out an advertisement with a little song. The message of the song is, “Don’t come to Norway, we will tax you till you’re poor, and when you have nothing left, we will tax you a little more.” Does that sound like anything you may have heard before?

“Tax the rich. Feed the poor. Til there are no rich no more.” That’s from ‘I’d Love to Change The World’ by Ten Years After. It’s not a risk. No one is talking about taxing rich people into poverty. But it’s a common lament from rich people – and people who pretend they might become rich like that some day soon. It’s ALWAYS a lie, but it gets sold to low information voters over and over and over again.

A wealth tax is a tax paid on the value of an asset. People pay taxes on the income from an asset but in most countries they don’t pay a tax on the value of the asset itself. So if you have a million dollars in stocks, you pay a tax on the dividends you receive but not the value of the stock themselves. A wealth tax fixes that.

It’s calculated by adding up the value of properties, savings, investments and shares, and deducting any debt. Private companies count as part of their owners’ wealth. There are discounts – for example, only 25% of the value of citizens’ primary residence is taxable. In countries where a wealth tax exists – and there are only three in Europe – it’s often the only tax the richest people pay – so it ensures they pay something.

Rich people like to pretend they’re “self-made.” They’re not. The closest you could get to an actual self-made millionaire would be an entertainer but even they have teams of people who help them. NO ONE is “self-made.” Rich people benefit from the societies in which they live. They get educated employees from the schools they don’t want to pay for, they move their goods on roads they don’t want to pay for, they get a stable society in which to conduct their business they don’t want to pay for, they’re protected by police and firefighters they don’t want to pay for.

We should have a wealth tax here in the US. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have each proposed such a thing but, of course, the rich have many minions in this once-great nation. And as we’ve all seen a million times, what we SHOULD do, we rarely actually do. It’s really rather embarrassing…

The Voices of Victims…

by MyBaconPress

Listen, some of you guys out there might have a hard time believing this. In fact, some of the dudes out there should probably sit down before reading this because it’s definitely going to be a shock. Okay, comfortable? Here goes. It turns out – and I’m not making this up – but it turns out, women don’t like being sexually assaulted nearly as much as you might imagine. I KNOW! “But, what kind of bitch might reject MY glorious seed?”

Hey, I hear you, man, but it turns out, women want to have a say in their own sexuality. No, really. It’s like, THEY want to decide who does what with them and when and under what conditions. I think we all know that, by and large, most women have been ‘spared’ the burdensome responsibility of deciding with whom they should have sex, fortunately or unfortunately. But apparently, they weren’t fond of that reality.

It really DOES seem like THEY want to make those decisions and not have some man decide for them. No, I don’t know WHO the f they think they are, but that’s the way they seem to feel. Wait, it gets worse. As it happens, when some random man DOES decide it’s time for her to have sex, ready or not, she doesn’t take that as casually as you might imagine.

Women don’t forget it, and NOT in a “Aren’t you a stud?” kind of way. It’s more like a “Why did you do that to me?” kind of way. For her, it’s more like a trauma and less like a treasured memory. And even if you could find a woman who hasn’t experienced SOME form of assault – and good luck with that – SHE would very definitely know and love a woman who has.

The reason I mention it is this: it looks like there may be a possible breach forming in the stonewall the GOP has been trying to build in an effort to protect President Pedo. The vulnerable point? Women. Specifically, the GOP women in congress who understand that protecting one pedophile is protecting all pedophiles. Making sexual assault safe for some makes it safe for many. The breach will very likely occur with the GOP women in congress who have, themselves, been assaulted.

Nancy Mace is one such. You may recall, she bolted the interview room where the victims were testifying with a panic attack. She was clearly upset. She signed on to the petition to release the Epstein files. It’s true, she also issued a statement declaring her certainty that Donny isn’t in the files, despite the simple and basic fact that we all KNOW Donny IS in the files. But the statement was political, the result of her being in a cult, while the signature on the petition was visceral and reflects her feelings on sexual assault. She’s against.

Now, except for Thomas Massie, who co-authored the petition to release the files with Democrat Ro Khanna, the GOP men – who really don’t understand all the hoopla and think there’s not a thing in the world wrong with a little “slap-and-tickle” from time to time – are still fully on board working all day, every day to protect the Precious, no matter what he did.

But the women? They didn’t like it when it happened to them and they’re willing to take a stand in an effort to protect other women and girls from suffering similar fates. So far, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene have signed the petition. I cannot TELL you how weird it is to be on the same side of an issue as Mace, Boebert, and Greene but if they’re willing to take an honorable stance on an issue, I’m willing to let them – and I’ll stand with them.

Massie and Khanna need 218 signatures to force a vote and they have 215. 211 Democrats, 4 Republicans. Eric Swalwell is the only Dem who hasn’t signed but will when gets back to Washington DC after dealing with the passing of his mother, meaning Massie and Khanna need only two more cons to sign. There are more than two Republican women in the House who have yet to sign, so that’s where MY energy would go, if I was Massie or Khanna.

For clarity, this petition does NOT force the release of the files, it only forces a vote and that fact might stop even some of the GOP women from signing on. Presumably, the GOP men in congress will work to protect the attackers and not the victims and vote against it. Bucking the MAGA party line takes balls, which is why only GOP women are up for it.

The victims of the Epstein/Maxwell/Trump child sex trafficking ring have come together and said they’re going to put together a list of the men who assaulted them. The obvious question is why they haven’t done so before. The answer is fear. One woman names a rich and powerful man and the lawsuits fly. Even if she managed a win, she, likely, would be wiped out. In short, individual women couldn’t risk it. (Money sure does do a lot of damage in this country, doesn’t it?)

Hell, even as a group, the women really couldn’t fight back. They’d be sued into oblivion just for naming names. So Marjorie Taylor Greene – yes, that MTG – has agreed to read the list of names the women create on the floor of Congress. The women will be protected from being sued because THEY didn’t publicly disclose the names. MTG will be protected from action because Congress critters get to say pretty much anything they want on the floor of Congress without reprisal. But the names will be out there.

Donny must be filling his diaper right about now. I suspect his panic level increased a LOT when the victims held their press conference. On the one hand, 47 is trying to act nonchalant and pretend it’s all a democrat hoax. On the other hand, he’s doing everything he can to distract and redirect. He went so far as to arrange to have military aircraft fly over the Epstein victim’s presser in an attempt to disrupt the thing. Of course, planes move fast and were only a very temporary distraction.

It’s VERY expensive to fly military aircraft for even a few minutes. But when one is calling out military aircraft in an attempt to drown out the voices of the victims of one’s actions, one is clearly concerned about the words coming out of the victim’s mouths…

Donny Lives – And So Does Jeffrey…

by MyBaconPress

Well, I guess we have to put the party favors away for a while longer. He reemerged. He just had some old-guy thing that kept him out of the limelight for a short time. Maybe he was personally reviewing his participation in Epstein’s activities on the DVDs we know the FBI collected when it was still a decently run, respectable organization. He likes those DVDs. They remind him of the good old days when men raping children was just party time.

Meanwhile, Nancy Mace was in a briefing with an Epstein survivor and got so upset listening to what happened to those girls she had to leave early so she could get back to protecting President Pedophile from facing the consequences of his actions. She was crying. She was visibly upset. She’s a victim of Sexual Assault, herself, and she said she had a panic attack and had to get out fast. Oh, but she’ll still defend her Precious.

In fairness to her and for clarity, she DID sign the petition to release all of the Epstein files. That seems contradictory, but both statements are true. She signed the petition but she also defended President Pedophile. That indicates her belief that his name isn’t in the files – at least in any way that might implicate him. I have a hard time believing he would go to so much trouble to protect the contents of those files if Mace is correct.

Meanwhile, the Epstein/Trump victims held a presser and have announced their intention to create a client list of their own. These women were there. THEY know who abused them. In my mind, it’s about time. I mean, I understand why they’ve stayed silent for so long. Running into the buzzsaw of MAGA wrath (a deadly sin, btw) would discourage just about anyone, but as a group and now that they’re known anyway? Full disclosure is their best protection and the sooner the better.

It looks as though MAGA Mike the Johnson’s ploy of running away early from Congress back in July hoping people would forget about Epstein and Maxwell and Donny and the sex trafficking ring they ran and/or enjoyed has failed. The news cycle DID move on. But now the news cycle has moved back.

Oh, one last thing. 47, liar that he is, keeps calling this thing a democratic hoax. This is a possible learning opportunity for MAGA. They KNOW the Epstein files are no hoax. They’ve known it for a long time. Right now is an opportunity for them to realize that “democratic hoax” is just a lie he tells to protect himself. If they can just connect TWO freaking dots, just two…

Yeah, okay, never mind…

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Every once in a while, I just sort of… reconnect with some stupid thing 47 has done. Most recently, it’s his dedication to fossil fuels. He has it in for wind power because Scotland built some windmills within visual distance of a golf course the Drumpfster owns. Once he got down on wind, he lumped all renewables together and doesn’t like any of them.

Do you know the first solar cell was invented by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey? Now Donny is turning his back on the technology in favor of coal and gas. Do you know who is NOT turning their backs on renewables in favor of 19th century dominance? The rest of the world. Everyone else will continue to benefit from the developing technology. They’ll install renewables and realize the savings and benefits of using them.

Other countries will take the lead. No, that’s not quite right. Other countries will accept the lead that’s being freely handed to them on a gaudy, gold platter by a grotty, orange moron. And he’s just… giving away the US lead – because Scotland built some windmills he didn’t like. So, naturally, he has to be all in on yesterday’s technology across the board.

He’s not just giving up the health benefits of using renewables here in the US. He’s giving up financial benefits. Not only can the US lead in the area of renewables, we profit from that. There’s money to be made – and lost, if he sets us back – but set us back, he will. He already has.

Get ready for Conestoga wagons to replace 18-wheelers. Sure, the big trucks pollute well, but they’re just too fast. Donny likes Conestoga wagons better, Conestoga wagons it will be. I guess his path to world dominance is to sit down and watch everyone else advance. Really, it’s just plain stupid…

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Round two seems to have gone to Alabama. When Donny emerged from whatever hidey-hole he was hidden in, it was to announce that the Space Command would be moved from Colorado to Alabama. The same idea came up during the Biden years (so, of course, Donny claimed it as his own) but was rejected by Biden. Space Command stayed where it was.

The National Space Defense Center (NSDC) at Schriever AFB, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, and the satellite communication capabilities at Peterson AFB represent the nation’s premier military and intelligence space coordination entities and people decided it would be best to keep the Space Command near them.

But I presume Donny is moving the headquarters to Huntsville because he likes their nickname, “Rocket City,” Alabama. Okay, that’s a joke. In fact, he may not do it at all. His threat to do it is to punish Colorado. They still use mail-in ballots, the safest and most convenient form of voting. (And you KNOW that’s true because Donny says otherwise.) That’s the reason he cited. Mail-in ballots.

Right. That’s SO petty and stupid, you suspect I’m just projecting stupidity onto the guy, right? Here’s the quote, “The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting,” he said during the announcement. “When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections, because that’s what that means. So that played a big factor also.” See? It’s not me pretending he’s stupid. It’s HIM, actually being stupid.

Now, obviously, if Colorado eliminates mail-in voting, as Donny is extorting them to do, he will likely change his mind and leave the command where it is. But Colorado MUST comply or they’ll lose hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending. Not to mention the damage he’ll do to the Space Command just to try to make a political point.

I’ll tell you this: Every time I hear some new “thought” from this guy I think of Bugs Bunny’s description: ‘What a maroon…’

Beggars Belief…

by MyBaconPress

Is there still any question that Israel is engaged in attempted genocide? Are there still apologists for Israel? (Check with Bill Maher.) Even Israeli citizens are hitting the streets, protesting the ongoing violence in Gaza. It’s one thing for other nations to comment. Israel has an out for that, “You weren’t attacked.” But when Israelis start protesting and calling for peace, Israel loses it’s pretended moral stance.

The enforced starvation of civilians in Gaza has been playing out in front of media cameras (when the reporters aren’t being targeted by Israel) and the whole world’s watching. Some people are trying to do something about it. If nothing else, they’re trying to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people by just showing up.

Well, they’re bringing food and supplies but it’s not nearly enough. It’s more of a show than an actual assist, meant to shame the rest of the world into stepping in. Noted climate activist Greta Thunberg – among others – has joined a flotilla heading to Israel with humanitarian aid. This is her second run. The last time she tried, she and her companions were intercepted, treated decently, and sent away. This time? Israel is promising to handle things… differently.

THIS time, Israel has threatened to toss Thunberg and her compatriots into “terrorist level” detention with a specific goal: “Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”

Israel is playing political games and, as always, actual lives hang in the balance. Israel has all the stories down pat. “We’re defending ourselves from Oct 7.” No, you’re not. Any moral superiority you once enjoyed – and you did – has long-since evaporated. Starving babies and other innocents is a war crime. It’s NOT self-defense.

“We have to impose a blockade to prevent weapons from getting to Hamas.” Uh-huh. Nobody is bringing weapons on these flotillas. These are high-profile protests against the above-mentioned war crimes. Thunberg, et al, are trying to help people. Israel knows that. But what Thunberg and company are doing flies in the face of what Israel wants: all the land for themselves.

I’ll tell you this: When Israel starts classifying activists trying to feed starving people as “terrorists,” I’m pretty sure Israel has surrendered ALL moral superiority…

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Meanwhile, there are still stories swirling that the US will begin taking control of Gaza and “administer” the area for the next ten years while “relocating” the people who own the land and live there. Then, Donny gets to try to carry out his plan to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

I didn’t realize MAGA was so into nation building and foreign interventions, but this, apparently, is what they voted for so I guess they’re happy. In fairness, though, even if they’re not happy about it, today, they’ll GET happy about it once Donny tells them to…

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I don’t guess I understand this. Donny has been rounding up not-white people and shipping them out of the country as fast as he can. Then, suddenly, he decides he’s going to allow 600,000 Chinese students to come to American universities? Okay, first question, why would they WANT to? I mean, now that Donny has seized control over various college’s curricula, what value will an American education have?

The only thing the Chinese students will learn is that Donny saved the day at the Alamo, Donny led the charge up San Juan hill, Donny led the beach landings on D-Day and single-handedly raised the flag on Iwo Jima, Donny was the first man on the moon, Donny invented vaccines but then immediately destroyed them since all vaccines are always bad, Donny was the first signer of the Constitution, Donny, personally, invented the atom bomb and personal computers with his “big, beautiful brain,” and it was actually Donny who discovered the double-helix of DNA. Watkins, Crick, Franklin, and Wilkins only got the credit because “the whole thing was rigged.”

Still, MAGA got pretty upset with the announcement that 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to come here for school. It’s hard to blame them. Earlier this year, Marco Rubio laid out the official position that the US was going to “aggressively revoke” visas from Chinese students, especially those “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

Now Donny has just opened the door and let them in. 600,000 Chinese students. That’s 600,000 people who are – shh – not white. Naturally, there was a backlash. Donny fixed it, though. He said, “I think it’s very insulting to a country when you say you’re not going to take your students” before insulting other countries by refusing to take their students…

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I think it’s important to remember that no matter where he was during the mysterious missing four days, he was still Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend for fifteen years and the two of them likely raped children together.

The White House is trying to float the story that the Drumpfster was out playing golf with John Gruden over the weekend, but the photos they shared had been previously shared by Gruden a few days earlier. I suppose it’s possible 47 just now got around to posting the photo from over a week ago. Things like that happen. They just become a bit more suspicious when there’s already speculation going on about where he was.

Posting a photo that COULD be interpreted as trying to distort the timeline seems like it will only aggravate the controversy. You know, the way his many efforts to distract from that fact that he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and the two of them likely raped children together has mostly served to keep that story alive…

Dah, Comrade…

by MyBaconPress

As long as I can remember, the far right has been terrified of the word Socialism. In their mind, Socialism IS Communism. You know Communism, right? That’s a political/economic system in which the government owns the means of production. Cons are so scared of anything even approaching Communism, they are opposed to public fire departments. Well, they were.

Now Orange Man has taken a 10% stake of Intel on behalf of the US government. The government, officially, owns the means of production. Communism. It’s right there, right out in the open for all to see. Fortunately, MAGA can look away. Apparently, they’re okay with Communism when Donny does Communism. Why, it’s almost as if these guys have no beliefs at all.

It has happened before. The US has taken ownership stakes in companies that were considered important but badly run. Usually, though, only long enough to prop them up and spin them off. Even THAT is socialism, by the way. Cons cannot – WILL not – confess that Socialism is where Capitalism turns when Capitalism fails, but it happens on a fairly regular, ongoing basis.

The difference, this time, is that Donny doesn’t seem interested in letting go of the government ownership stake. Not only that, his regime is running around extorting a lot of different companies into paying a vig to the US government. “Nice company ya got here. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”

There is no end to what MAGA will do for this guy. He wants Communism? Communism is a-okay with them for… reasons. Sooner or later, someone else is going to take a shot at this guy. Sooner or later, Donny is going to want to collect the guns “for everyone’s safety.” And you watch, the Second Amendment, “cold, dead hands” crowd will be searching for their assigned gun drop-off station so the can do their patriotic duty and voluntarily turn in their weapons…

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I’m saying this: conservatism is on the rise around the world. Misery is ALSO on the rise around the world. Coincidence? I think not. I think where conservatism goes, misery follows. It’s pretty simple, really…

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Well, that was fun while it lasted. I wrote yesterday morning that nobody had seen Donny in public for a while and people were speculating as to why. I, for one, was hoping the mantra “trump dead at 79” was taking hold. No such luck. 47 hit the golf course yesterday. Fourteen. That’s the number of cars Donny used to get to a golf course yesterday. They’re all big, heavy vehicles. That explains (in part) why every trip he takes to a golf course costs taxpayers millions of dollars.

Left unexplained is where he was. He STILL wasn’t seen in public from Tuesday through Friday. That STILL means Donny went four days with no public fawning or adulation – nor epithets or insults, either. His ego is FAR to tiny and fragile to not rush to any camera, so where was he?

This morning, we’re getting a lot of “Oh, the haters were wrong,” from corporate media. It sure seems like something was up. He avoided cameras for four days. For anybody else, that’s just normal living. For Donny? It’s evidence of a crisis. He simply CAN NOT stay out from in front of a camera. I wonder if this pretended “most transparent regime in history” will issue a statement. My guess, it will be issued shortly after the Epstein Files are released to the public. That is, don’t hold your breath…

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Um… while they’re fighting a fire? Really?!? ICE raided a team of firefighters. They were held while the ICEholes determined citizenship. Oh, let me rephrase that. The fire burned freely while the ICEholes determined citizenship. Two people kidnapped. Unknown number of acres burned while the process played out.

They keep going to where people are working. They never arrest the employer who hired the person illegally. Only the worker. I don’t pretend to be an expert but do you really think MS-13 gang members are dutifully holding down a 9 to 5? I suspect that if you’re arresting MS-13, you’re NOT arresting someone with a steady job. If you’re arresting someone with a steady job, you’re NOT arresting MS-13.

It looks like the ICEholes want the easy captures and don’t really want to focus too much on MS-13. Those guys are tough. Why would ICE want to mess with them? The ICEholes are cosplaying tough guys. They dare not face actual tough guys, so they’ll take the woman picking lettuce – or maybe a couple of firefighters working to stop a wildfire. Certainly nobody threatening. Then they can talk tough at a press conference and the fantasy is complete.

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People who know about these things are saying that not only have the Drumpfster’s tariffs (aka tax on the American people) been declared illegal, if the decision stands the US may have to pay back all of the money they collected under the criminal regimen.

There’s no word on how I get back the excess money I had to pay when I went to the grocery store because of Donny’s tariffs coupled with corporate greed. Of course, the whole point is a wealth transfer from the working class to the lazy class, so I won’t be holding out any hope. In fact, The Felon knows he has the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court in his pocket. He’s expecting a 6-3 decision saying the Precious gets to do whatever he wants, just like it doesn’t say in the Constitution.

On his crappy social media site, he wrote, “If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong.” The ONLY reason it would make us financially weak is because of his tax cuts. The tariffs were meant to offset some of the damage of the tax cuts – not ALL of it, but enough to potentially paper over just what a financial fumbler Donny really is.

Quick question: if the tariff decision stands – as it should since tariffs really are the sole purview of Congress – do you suppose Donny will repeal his precious tax cuts that do him so much good personally? You know, for the good of the country. I feel pretty certain that if the good of the nation comes into conflict with the good of Donny, the nation can pound sand…

Headway…

by MyBaconPress

So, uh, where is he? The Drumpfster is the most desperately needy insecure little narcissist the world has suffered for a long, long time. Maybe ever. This guy is SO desperate for attention, he pressed his face against the glass at Walter Reid Hospital when he had Covid just so he could be seen. Now nobody has seen him in a public appearance since Tuesday?

That makes today Day Five without any camera time, no fawning pressers, no public adulation from his toadies, nothing. There have been a couple of posts to his crappy social media site but even they don’t sound like 47. Some of the words are decidedly too big. That is, someone else wrote them.

Whatever is keeping him out of the public eye, it must be pretty serious. I’m pretty sure Donny is simply incapable of choosing to stay out of the public eye. His need for attention drives him the exact same way a heroin addict is driven to heroin.

When he has been seen recently, he shows signs of some health issue. I mean, he’s been trying NOT to show signs of some health issue, but people see it anyway. I heard a doctor say a great way to measure the likelihood of an infirmity, in Donny’s case, would be to pay attention to his golf. Donny comes and Donny goes but Donny golfs. It’s pretty much all he does. (And he even cheats at that when he’s playing alone!) Right now? Donny ain’t golfin’…

I don’t know. Hope springs eternal and maybe I’m just seeing what I want to see. And wish to see. And pray to see. But it IS a hopeful sign, right? Maybe the daily mantra, “Trump dead at 79” is having the desired effect. Let’s keep up the good work, people. Keep chanting. Hold it in your heart. Discuss it among your friends. “Trump dead at 79.” We seem to be making headway…

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The tariffs are illegal? To tell you the truth, I’m not surprised to hear that 47’s tariffs are illegal. I’ve read the US Constitution. I KNOW that the power of the purse resides with Congress. Taxation is very definitely within the purview of Congress. The fact that Congress has chosen, lackey style, to ignore The Felon’s encroachments into their territory doesn’t pass the power to the President.

The part that surprises me is that an appellate court said as much. The tariffs have been ruled illegal, correctly, by the DC Appellate court. He’s not worried. He knows he still has the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to come to his rescue. I expect them to issue their standard ruling, “Whatever our Precious wants,” which will save his tax increase on Americans.

But corrupt rulings from a corrupted court cannot change reality. His tariffs are illegal. He has no authority to issue nor enforce them. They ARE tax increases on the American people and he has no authority to unilaterally increase taxes on the American people.

I’m not saying he’ll stop. Of course he’s going to do whatever he wants, no matter who it hurts. And oh, man does he seem to enjoy hurting people. It’s just like, a little breath of fresh air, hearing a court issue a ruling that comports with the Constitution. It’s rather rare, these days, and I’m glad to know it’s still possible. You know, for now…

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Mortgage fraud seems to be 47’s new go-to charge when he wants to smear someone, in this case Fed governor Lisa Cook. Hey, at least fraud is a topic he genuinely knows something about. In this case, the regime accused Cook of mortgage fraud because they claim she has more than one loan listed as her primary residence.

Okay, first, we don’t even know if that’s true but second, it certainly could be. One gets a better rate on a loan for a primary residence than for an investment property, so the concern is that people lie, pretending an investment property is their primary residence. And, people do. BUT, it’s also possible that she just moved.

One gets a loan for their new primary residence, then, say, a year later, moves to a new house, with a new loan, ALSO listed as a primary residence. The rule is, the borrower only has to stay in a primary residence for six months for it to satisfy the terms of the primary residence designation. Now two loan files exist, both showing different houses as the primary residence and both houses actually were at one time or another. That’s NOT mortgage fraud.

As ALWAYS with this lying and criminal regime, I’d need to see the evidence. No, I don’t want to hear sincere promises that the evidence exists. Show it or STFU…

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It’s a measure of how people feel about what this crooked crowd of cowardly creeps is doing. A guy named Sean Dunn throws a sandwich at an ICEhole, hitting him. The sandwich was from Subway and it was still wrapped up so the ICEhole didn’t get dirty just… hit with a sandwich. Still, that’s technically battery, if I understand correctly, so he was arrested and charges were filed.

The thing is, this performative pack of petulant pukes wanted to make maximum impact so they charged the guy with everything they could think of (actually felony assault) and made a grand announcement they were going to put the guy in prison for years and decades to come. And then? The Grand Jury wouldn’t indict the guy. It’s good to know there are still decent people around, eh?

This, after Jeanine Pirro, Donny’s hand-picked, and very pickled US Attorney failed to get an indictment against a DC resident named Sydney Reid – three times! (It is possible, likely, even, that Pirro is just a crappy, crappy lawyer.) Reid was accused of felony assault after scuffling with an ICEhole. But they couldn’t get the felony so Reid will be charged with a misdemeanor. Still, jury nullification in Grand Juries is not common and I’m happy to see people standing up for their fellow citizens against the worst, most vile impulses of this evil regime…

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Oh, I didn’t want to forget to mention, Donald Trump was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend for fifteen years and they very likely raped children together. MAGA doesn’t care but decent people do. And we haven’t forgotten…

Undercover Voters…

by MyBaconPress

Republicans are forever trying to break California in two. They don’t like living in a blue state, what with all that better lifestyle and all. But here they come again, this time, in pursuit of stopping California from doing what Texas did: gerrymander the state to give one party an unfair advantage. Oh, and please note, I wrote “…an unfair advantage.” I think gerrymandering is cheating and wrong every time it’s done. See how I didn’t specify party?

But if one side is bringing a gun to the boxing match while the other side is following Marquis of Queensberry rules, the fight ends very quickly in a very one-sided “victory.” The Republicans in Texas weren’t even subtle about what they were doing or why. It was straight up cheating and they said it was straight up cheating but they were doing it anyway. If Donny hadn’t asked for it, they wouldn’t have done it.

So, really, what is California going to do? What are ALL the states going to do? What choice is there? Oh, let’s stand on principle? Set the example? Or will each state follow suit, each time explaining they’re “fighting fire with fire?” The minority party in each state ends up disenfranchised and insisting it’s an unfair power grab. The minority party in each state will be right.

By now you should be able to tell, I’m VERY ambivalent. But the GOP isn’t. They KNOW it’s right and proper when they do it and an unforgivable sin when the Dems do it. So Texas was just good politics and California is an outrage. They seem to be in a real dither. I started receiving “don’t do what we did” flyers in the mail, the same day Texas passed their new map.

That was only a couple of days ago, but I’ve also already received a second “don’t you DARE do what we did” flyer and now a Republican in the state legislature has introduced a bill to start the process of splitting California in two. This comes up from time to time. It’s the dumbest idea since Donny but the cons STILL think they’d be better off destroying the state. (Hey, it’s a theme, isn’t it? They think they’re going to be better off after destroying the entire nation, too!)

The only real move the voters have is to destroy the plan and the only way we, the people, can interfere with this legislative race to the bottom is to change our voter registration. I first got this idea last Sunday. I wrote: “If you have a friend who is a Democrat and lives in a red state? Advise them to leave the Democratic Party.” The idea is to have liberals/progressives register as independents.

In the moment, the idea was simply to keep from being purged from voter rolls by hiding in plain sight. When the cons purge, they purge Democrats. So don’t register as a Democrat. You can still VOTE with the Dems. More importantly, you can still vote. The Dems, of course, will never, CAN never make this suggestion. They don’t WANT people to leave the party, but if the GOP is just going to remove Democrats from voter rolls anyway, what’s the loss? They’re actually better off if Dems re-register.

But I didn’t take it far enough, did I? The Republicans are evil, not stupid. They’ll figure out what the Dems are doing. Then, they’ll ‘call the conservatives home.’ That is, they’ll tell the cons to register Republican so they can purge all Democrats AND Independents. It pretty much looks like that’s the goal anyway. One party rule, and, what the hell, only one party vote.

When I realized that, I decided the best course is to re-register AS a Republican. I know, I wouldn’t want to, either, but it’s just a strategy. We can call them ‘Undercover Voters.’ As a registered Republican, you could vote in their primary, selecting the least MAGA candidate. More, as a registered Republican, you can STILL vote for the Democrat during the general “election.” They’ll have to find another way to remove your vote. The bonus is, when Dems see people fleeing the party, maybe they’ll realize their brand is toxic and do something different. Don’t bet any money on that last bit, though. Undercover voters. It’s a good plan. Let’s do it…

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Donny has already demonstrated his voracious appetite for destruction but this will be the worst, the most destructive, possible move yet. He keeps meddling with the Fed. He has no right to meddle with the Fed, but he keeps doing it, anyway. The Fed is supposed to be independent. He wants to bring it under his control. The very moment Donny brings the Fed under his control, the Fed’s value is compromised. Inflation will result because he’ll order the interest rate low just to make himself look better and the Fed will simply comply.

You think he’s done a lot of damage so far? You ain’t seen nothing yet…

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American troops on the ground – in American cities? Wasn’t that what the gotta-have-a-gun crowd was always using as their excuse to keep arsenals of weapons, oppressive government? Right now would be the time to act. Once they’ve got soldiers in place, they can come and take those arsenals from the gun-rights crowd – and I strongly suspect that’s part of the plan…

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Hey, I learned a new word: confabulation. It’s a common feature of dementia. A patient (or, in this case, 47) creates false or distorted memories without intending to deceive. They genuinely believe these fabricated memories to be true. So maybe he’s not the biggest liar in the history of lying. Maybe, just maybe, he’s just suffering from a severe case of dementia. That would explain a lot.

Like the story he tells about turning on the water in California. He wasn’t the hero in that story. Yeah, he sloshed some water around. He wasted that water. He flooded some farms. But to hear him tell it, he saved the day. He, personally, put the fires out in LA. (Never mind that they were already under control and essentially out by the time he wasted that water. Oh, and we have to ignore the fact that the water he wasted never got anywhere near LA and never could. As it happens, water does NOT just automatically flow from top to bottom just because north is above south on a wall map.)

But maybe it’s not a lie he likes to tell. Maybe it’s confabulation. Maybe he really believes his version of the story, despite all the contradicting evidence. Is it better if he’s demented and not just a straight up liar? I suspect it makes no difference. He’s reacting to his lies/confabulations the same way – badly – so I guess it doesn’t matter if he’s wrong about lies or wrong about delusions. Still, I like the word: confabulation, and, maybe it will help to understand the ramblings of his mind a little bit…

Paying More – LOTS More…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, here they come, the increased prices due to Donny’s tariffs. Companies held the line for a while but ran out of stock or just decided they can’t keep absorbing the cost. Now the consumer is seeing the increases at the grocery store register. The coffee I drink is nothing special. No offense to Folgers, but it’s Folgers. Gourmet blend. One pound, six point six ounces. It used to run around $15 bucks a container. The last time I bought coffee? $25 dollars.

So, look, this isn’t my first day with American corporations. Sure, the tariffs are playing into the cost increase but I would bet the companies see a chance to raise prices just to increase profits, too. We won’t know until they start reporting their earnings for shareholders. The tariffs are definitely part of it, though.

What, does he think he’s going to bring coffee growing back to the US? We don’t do much of that. We never have. So what was the point of a tariff on coffee? Then again, what’s the point of anything he does?

Just be advised. The country is becoming FAR more expensive to live in. Your money won’t go as far. Whatever money you might eventually see in your temporary tax breaks, you’re going to MORE than lose in your day to day life and all of it traces straight back to the fact that Donny doesn’t understand things…

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Oh, he’s threatening to send troops to Chicago? He’s threatening an “investigation” into Chris Christie? He started an “investigation” into John Bolton? None of it is serious. I mean, it’s serious but it’s not important. Sending troops to Chicago won’t do anything other than make a big show. It’s bluster. He tried it in LA. He tried it in Washington, DC. He hasn’t solved anything. He HAS hurt local businesses. All he actually ever does is damage. (It’s the Antichrist way…)

I doubt Bolton is worried about “mishandling classified documents.” I’d bet he didn’t. I don’t even LIKE Bolton but I’d bet there’s no “there” there. It’s the same with Christie. His big “crime” was to question something about 47. Well, kinda. Christie actually asked the same question every thinking American has been asking over the last couple of days: “Why should we believe a damn thing Ghislaine Maxwell has to say about anyone?”

Christie even tried to walk the fine line, question Maxwell’s account without implicating Donny, Jeffrey’s long-time bestie. Christie said, “Now, that doesn’t make Donald Trump guilty of anything.” He even said he doubts Donny was involved, although that was mostly just trying to protect himself from Donny’s wrath. NOBODY questions Donny’s involvement, not even MAGA. But he finished off with, “But we’re going to believe Ghislaine Maxwell? Give me a break.”

See, the “sin” there is that Donny NEEDS people to believe Maxwell. MAGA is desperately trying to, but even they know better. Maxwell is a child sex trafficker and an established liar who has everything to gain from lying. Yeah, that sounds like a trustworthy source.

Christie seemed to brush off the “investigation.” “He told you he was going to do this, that he was going to have a Justice Department that acted as his personal legal representation, and that is what they’re doing.” Donny has weaponized the DOJ. Nobody else did that. That’s all Donny…

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Here comes Gavin again. The Drumpfster has been threatening one university after another and one university after another has simply folded under the pressure and given him whatever it is he demands. It’s kind of a ‘Sopranos’ thing. “Nice school ya got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.” He finally brought the act to UCLA but when he tried to extort UCLA, he ran into Gavin, America’s favorite Governor.

Donny – America’s least favorite “President” – has accused the school of using ethnic information to pick and choose students. (California stopped using ethnicity on admissions forms several years ago.) He has also pretended he’s fighting antisemitism. He isn’t. At the end of the day, Donny just doesn’t like colleges. He has said, out loud, more than once, he loves the poorly educated. So, he cut off Federal research funds in an attempt to extort money, like he’s done with so many other colleges.

The Felon froze a half billion dollars in research funding, then demanded a one billion dollar tribute to open the spigot again. But Gavin said no. Gavin calls it what it is: extortion. Gavin says he’ll see the criminal regime in court. Gavin is encouraging UCLA to fight back, saying, “I’ll do everything in my power to encourage them to do the right thing and not to become another law firm that bends on their knees, another company that sells their soul, or another institution that takes the easy wrong versus the hard right.”

The obvious problem, here, is that the GOP and the Heritage Foundation have so thoroughly corrupted the higher courts, Gavin is likely to win early (because he’s right) but lose on appeal (because those courts serve Donny, not the law.) Still, it’s nice to see someone standing up to the would-be dictator and not just rolling over…

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Oh, speaking of “rolling over.” MAGA – America’s least favorite bloc – tried to make a thing out of the fact that Gavin – America’s favorite Governor – said that Texas governor Greg Abbot had “rolled over” for the trumpster. GOP was horrified, or, rather, pretended to be. See, Abbot gets around in a wheelchair, so Gavin was clearly making some reference to that. How dumb are we going to get?

The term “rolled over” has existed longer than Greg Abbot and possibly every English speaker in the world knows it and has likely used it at some point. It means to surrender without a fight. It has nothing to do with mobility. More, I can say – for a fact – that mobility-challenged people do, in fact, use common expressions when talking about movement. If one says to a wheelchair bound person, “You walked out of the room,” the conversation just goes on. There’s no, “Oh, you said I ‘walked out,’ you meanie-pants.”

Every moment in this “culture war” makes me tired all over. It’s defining characteristic seems to be “stupidity.” It depends on stupidity. It makes an art form of not understanding basic things. It’s in my face on a daily basis so I have no choice but to notice but – damn! – it’s boring…

Relentless Stupidity…

by MyBaconPress

If Biden set a trap for him – any trap – meant to “go off” only AFTER Donny seized power, intended only to make Donny look bad, and then the trap triggered, successfully, and made Donny look bad, who’s the smarter man? The guy who set up the open-ended trap, or the guy who was unable to see it and stop it?

It’s a rhetorical question. Biden didn’t set any traps. The things that are going wrong in the country, today, are NOT Joe Biden’s doing. They’re not Barack Hussein Obama’s doing. This is all down to Trump. All of it. No one else gets the credit, no one else gets the blame. Well, that last part is wrong. EVERY one of the enabling lickspittles who help him and support him deserve some measure of the blame. They can form a support group as they all burn in hell together.

It’s been seven months since he and his cronies infested the White House. In seven short months, he has destroyed America’s reputation, America’s standing in the world, America’s relationship with trading partners, and he seems to be working as hard as he can to destroy the American dollar, once the fiat currency of the world.

A fiat currency is one that isn’t backed by a commodity or precious metal. The thing about a fiat currency? It only works if people trust the issuer. NOBODY – and I DO MEAN NOBODY – trusts Donald Trump. (Even MAGA knows better. Oh, sure, they’ll get in your face and SCREAM at you that nobody is greater that 47, but in their heart of hearts? They know who he is…)

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This is from the Guardian: “Gavin Newsom can mimic Donald Trump all that he wants to,” JD “Just Dance” Vance told Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week, “they’re still going to lose unless they get better policies that actually serve the American people.” See? Bizarro America on opposite day. This, from the team that is so sure they can’t win based on their policies they’re actively cheating, right out in the open, for all to see.

Speaking of which, I’ve already received a second flyer from the GOP, helpfully “explaining” to me the kind of damage that occurs when a party tries to gerrymander a state in an effort to control the outcome of an election. So when the GOP gerrymanders Texas to gain five extra seats, that’s just good politics because they “deserve” them, but when Democrats gerrymander California to offset Texan GOP chicanery, why, that’s a moral sin above all others and no decent person should support it? Right, that makes perfect sense…

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Okay, listen. If you have a friend who is a Democrat and lives in a red state? Advise them to leave the Democratic Party. Advise them to re-register as “Declined to State” or whatever that state calls undeclared or independent voters.

You see, as we get closer to “elections” in this rigged, bullshit MAGAmerica, you just KNOW the GOP is going to start purging voter roles. But they’re only purging Democrats. They don’t purge Republicans, obviously, and many conservatives still claim to be independents, right now, so they can’t easily purge independents from the voter roles without the risk that they might purge some of their own – and they need every vote they can steal, being so unpopular and all.

Your liberal (Smarter? Better informed?) friends can still caucus with the Democrats. In fact, in changing their registration, they increase the chances their vote will be counted. They can’t purge you if they don’t know you’re a Democrat, see? But you can still vote with the Democrats for decency and democracy…

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MAGA spent years bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching and moaning and whining and bitching some more about weaponizing the DOJ, which was not happening at the time. Now? Oh, they’re having a great time watching Donny try to “get even” with his “enemies” (people who tell the truth) through a weaponization of the DOJ.

Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA. I don’t know where he picked up this phrase he’s using, “mortgage fraud,” but, suddenly, everybody (hyperbole alert) who has ever uttered an unpleasant truth about the orange moron is under investigation for “mortgage fraud.” Although, in fairness, his fraudulent attack on John “walrus mustache” Bolton pretends Bolton mishandled classified materials.

I’m guessing these “charges,” like nearly everything else that vomits from his horrible face (he continues to brag, honestly, about his sexual assaults) are pure fabrications, but they will cost his targets, I’m sorry, I mean “victims” time and money. Even Fox Not-News has come out against the practice, highlighting the obvious political motivations from the tiny-handed trumpster.

So, a quick lesson for MAGA. When Donny was investigated and convicted it was because he actually committed the crimes of which he stood accused. He was/is actually guilty, see? Making up charges and then having your cops pursue the made up charges is the very definition of weaponizing the DOJ – and it’s Jeffrey Epstein’s very good friend, Donny, doing it to others, not the other way around…

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A measure of the popularity of MAGA? Nancy Mace, one of Donny’s favorite pets (for the moment) was supposed to speak at an event held by a far-right, anti-trans group called ‘Moms for Liberty,’ whose slogan might be, “We’re at liberty to block your freedom!” When she got there, she discovered the room meant to hold 100 people only held eight. Eight people, total. And this is a group of people who believe the same delusional bullshit Mace believes. She should have packed the room, right? She canceled.

At one event, Mace claimed she would “debate anyone.” Then, anyone who arrived at the event wearing a shirt that indicated their opposition to her stupid positions was asked to leave. That sounds more like “run from a debate with anyone.” Classic MAGA: tough in groups, not so much individually…

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If you take blood pressure medication, you know that it causes these… spots. I don’t know what they’re called but they can be quite large and quite noticeable. Most of us just wander around with a purplish spot on our hands or arms. Not Donny. He tried to hide them with what looks like foundation. Of course, blending isn’t his thing, so the effort to hide them with make-up serves, mostly, to highlight the area. In trying to downplay it, he draws attention to it.

That’s his relentless ego in direct conflict with his relentless stupidity…