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Sleepy Don…

by MyBaconPress

It has certain side effects. It can cause drowsiness. Of course, so can simply being a dotard, an old, old man suffering mental decline. He’s been falling asleep a LOT in public recently. We never saw “Sleepy Joe” sleeping. Sleepy Donny, on the other hand? Oh, he’s snoozing more and more. Hey, at least when he’s sleeping, he’s not hurting anybody.

Trump sleeping instead of working

It can cause bruising at the infusion site, for example, his hand. I presume they didn’t use his arm for the infusion because it can be difficult to use blood vessels in the arms of people with severe cardiovascular disease. But if they could have used the arm, it would have saved a bunch of questions. We were told this bruise is because he shakes so many hands. Uh-huh.

Trump has a bruise on his hand.

It can cause swelling, bleeding, and/or fluid leakage into the brain, requiring repeated monitoring MRIs. He’s getting the MRIs. Team Evil is just lying about why. But then, they lie about everything.

A letter regarding Trump's Nov, 25 MRI

Oh, the “it” in question? That’s an early Alzheimer’s medication called ‘Leqembi.’ The infusions happen every couple of weeks to monthly, depending upon the patient. The bruise on his hand and the near-constant falling asleep during meetings we’re seeing more and more of? The MRI? Alzheimer’s medication.

It’s kind of poetic justice. HE is being visited by every damnable lie he told about Joe Biden. He’s already wearing the chain he’s forging in life, making it link by link and yard by yard. Dear MAGA: Your Precious has Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is fatal. He’s dying. His brain is dying faster than his body.

I’m not interested in ripping on people struggling with Alzheimer’s. But I don’t want an Alzheimer’s patient for a “President,” either…

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Okay, quick question: how disgusting is it that puppy-killer Kristi Noem thanked the Drumpfster for keeping hurricanes away? Just how much of a brown-nose does one have to be to even suggest that Donny was able to keep hurricanes away? And for Donny to believe it? I’m sure he does. Hey, does this mean Donny gained control of MTG’s Jewish Space Lasers?

I know it’s just brain-dead, empty hero worship but it was a bad move. A hurricane is going to hit sooner or later. They just do. So now, when one makes landfall and kills a bunch of red hats, I suspect they’ll wonder why Donny let THAT hurricane hit after deflecting the others…

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I’ll tell you the truth, I thought the oil wars were over. I mean, I have great appreciation for what oil did for the US and for the world when we didn’t have any alternative. But I’ve also been somewhat bummed about the wars we’ve started just to get more of it with no cost to the company – just like “Capitalism” teaches, right? Instead, the “cost” was passed along to the American taxpayer and the soldiers who died and were maimed or otherwise damaged in combat in an effort to “protect American interests.” That’s rich person-speak for “they have resources we want but don’t want to pay for on the open market. Let the Poors pay the price.”

But now we DO have alternatives. We’re not tied to black gold anymore. Worse, we’ve used SO much oil, the world is running out. No, I don’t mean by day-after-tomorrow, but a decreasing supply is still a decreasing supply. We use oil for a LOT of things. Burning it up in car engines is not only bad for the environment (which I guess we’re supposed to pretend doesn’t exist anymore), it’s bad for other products. It’s a frivolous use of a limited resource. There’s a word for that: stupid.

So now that we have options, we quickly embrace those and preserve the remaining oil for other uses, right? Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. Instead, yet another American oil war, this one in Venezuela. Didn’t Donny promise he was going to get us out of foreign conflicts and keep us out of more foreign conflicts? You’ll make a fool of yourself, trying to pretend his assault on Venezuela is about drugs. It’s oil. With America, it’s always oil. Even though we shouldn’t even need it anymore. Yeah, stupid…

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On November 20, 2025, I wrote, “Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants.” Well, they have done, now. Texas gets to use their new map, just as I expected. Speculating on possible different outcomes was fun, but corruption runs DEEP in John Roberts and his cronies on the Way High Court. But it WAS fun while it lasted…

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There’s a new(ish) trend taking place in the workforce: rolling layoffs. That’s what they’re calling it. Basically, it goes like this. A company lays off a few employees. Then does it again the next week. Then they do it again the week after. And the week after. And the week after that. They’re trying to reduce staff quietly. They’re doing it stupidly.

I’ve been through this in my lifetime. I worked for a mortgage bank whose directors made a huge mistake at a bad time. As a direct result, the company’s fortunes began to spiral downward. They finally laid off a bunch of workers on a Friday. On the following Monday, those of us who survived all had notices on our desks explaining how that was such a bummer but they’ve cut the dead weight now and the company is “better positioned” to compete and things like that. Then Friday came around and more layoffs happened. Another memo on Monday. Another layoff on Friday. And so on, and so on, and so on.

Eventually, the “we’re done” memos became a running joke with those of us who remained – and the stress at the company was palpable. There’s a basic problem with that strategy that the high-ranking, self-important ‘C Team’ never seems to see. You’re laying off the people who do the work. Fewer employees means less work. Less work means lower revenues. Lower revenues means fewer employees, which means less work, which leads to still lower revenues. All the while the morale of your workforce has cratered.

They never did think of letting go any of their very expensive senior managers, those sitting on the fattest salaries while bringing little to no benefit to the revenues. Eventually, it became clear that the company was going to fail. It was offered for sale. The goal of those managers at that point was to keep employee butts in their seats. The company knew they would get more money for a going concern – even if the “going” part was really “going to hell in a hand-basket.”

So here’s my advice for anybody going through that. The minute you realize you’re living in a “rolling layoff” world, get the hell out. The company might not fail, but it’s definitely going to struggle for a while and in the meantime, the people at the top don’t give two figs about you. They’ll keep you or they’ll dump you – whichever serves their agenda best. Take care of yourself first. You should know that’s exactly the attitude the company will take about you…

Seeking Scapegoats…

by MyBaconPress

Hoo, boy. I would NOT want to be Vice-Admiral Frank ‘Mitch’ Bradley, I can tell you that. It looks like Team Evil is teeing him up to take the fall for the murders of the two survivors in one of their criminal boat strikes. That tells you a few things, or it should. They know the strikes are illegal. One does not protect themselves from legal activities. They’re concerned that down the road, they’ll be asked to answer for their crimes against humanity. The murders happened. Team Evil is a-okay with the murders happening, but they don’t want to be held responsible for their actions. So? Downhill rolls the shi— er, consequences.

Our fearful misleader “has complete faith” in Hegseth’s decisions, but Whiskey Pete doesn’t want that role, at least so long as these might be war crimes. He has his story ready. Well, kind of. “I didn’t, personally, see survivors,” Whiskey Pete told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. “The thing was on fire. It was exploded in fire and smoke. You can’t see it. This is called the fog of war.” Uh-huh. Good story, Whiskey Pete. Uh, just one more thing, if you didn’t know there were survivors, why order the “double tap” attack?

No, not him. Just ask him. Despite claims that Hegseth gave the order to “kill them all,” Hegseth thinks Bradley “made the right choice.” So, it was Bradley’s choice? Well, Bradley has subordinates, too. He can blame one of them. That just keeps going until they find some private first class to take the fall. THIS, right here, is the reason Congress critters got together and reminded low-ranking soldiers they have an obligation to refuse illegal orders.

Remember Abu Gharib? That was a prison in which American soldiers were torturing prisoners. First we were treated to semantic games. “No,” we were told, “it’s not torture. These are ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.'” When decent humans rejected that bunk, Bush 43 and company started looking at who to blame. Specialist Charles Graner, Jr. Private First Class Lynndie England. Specialist Sabrina Harmon. Specialist Jeremy Sivits. Specialist Roman Krol. Specialist Armin Cruz. Sergeant Javal Davis. The highest ranking person convicted? Why, that would be Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick.

Do you know what all of those people have in common, besides being the scapegoats for the torture? They don’t set the policy. They don’t make the rules. They did a lot of terrible things, so they should have been punished – and were – but they didn’t do those terrible things in a vacuum. Someone made that “okay.” Someone with lots of rank set the tone, made clear what was expected – and how it was expected. But only low ranking soldiers paid any price. And isn’t that the way? There’s even a poem about it:

“I’m not allowed to run the train, the whistle I can’t blow.
I’m not allowed to say how far the railroad cars will go.
I’m not allowed to shoot off steam, nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the track and see who catches hell.”

I don’t know. “The party of personal responsibility” seems to be going to an awful lot of trouble to make sure they don’t have to take any responsibility. I mean, why should they take the blame just because they did it, right? As of Wednesday, Team Evil was trotting out a new excuse. “No, we were just sinking the boat.” What, the one you had just blown up? You didn’t think a freshly blown up boat would sink on it’s own?

I preferred it when men of honor said things like, “The buck stops here…”

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On December 1, 2025, I wrote, “Donny has now promised to pardon a guy, Juan Orlando Hernández, who ran hundreds of pounds of cocaine into the US.” That was technically correct but it didn’t tell the whole story. Hernández brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US. One ton is 2,000 pounds.

400 tons is 800,000 pounds! 800,000 pounds of cocaine and Donny thinks a pardon is right. Meanwhile, do you have a little vial of cocaine in your pocket while you go out fishing for the day? Death to you, because the death penalty is how we handle all “drug dealers,” right? Well, those who can’t pay us, anyway.

The truth is, Hernández hit Donny where he lives. Donny had no choice, couldn’t fight it. Hernández said Donny was pretty and that BIDEN made him bring 400 tons of cocaine into the US, so of course Felon 47 had to pardon him. Well, the flattery and the BBS were important, necessary, even, but the multi-million dollar bribe was pretty important too. Do I know Donny took a multi-million dollar bribe? Do I have evidence? No. That’s just my opinion. But it’s based on the reality that he takes bribes all the time from anybody who wants anything from him and in Donny’s criminal world, if you can’t pay, you don’t get to play.

Meanwhile, I’m happy to report, a family down in Columbia has filed a lawsuit against US airstrikes on defenseless fishermen. Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a 42-year-old fisherman, was among over 80 people murdered in 21 confirmed airstrikes carried out by Team Evil since September. His family says he was fishing. They insist he didn’t have any drugs.

I know, a lawsuit isn’t going to have much impact on a guy trying to antagonize a foreign sovereign nation into a war so he can steal their oil. What it DOES is, it gives us more evidence that these victims of Trump/Hegseth war crimes were innocents than evidence we’ve seen from Team Evil that they’re drug runners. That, along with our knowledge that Donny and company are inveterate liars, causes me to seriously doubt his claims…

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Felon 47 pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) and his wife. Democrats, fercrissakes. They hadn’t even been convicted, yet. They were indicted last year on charges of receiving almost $600K in bribes from Mexican and Azerbaijani companies. I would guess they used the formula: “You’re the prettiest, my Glory. I sure wish Biden hadn’t set us up and rigged the whole thing. Oh, yeah, here’s a million dollars.” It likely didn’t hurt that Cuellar is considered one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress…

The Sgt Schultz Presidency…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, come on. Shouldn’t SOMEBODY have explained this to him by now? He’s trying to convince the rubes that he’s the “affordability” President by insisting he brought down drug prices by (in his latest rant) “500%, 600%, 700%, and more.” The ONLY truth in his moronic post is that “No other President has been able to do this.”

HE insists health care prices are coming down while people across the land are opening up envelopes to their new, significantly increased health insurance costs. Sadly, it’s an open question as to whether MAGA is going to believe the lying words spewing from his lying mouth, or the paper right in front of their noses…

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Remember Sgt Schultz? He was a character in an old comedy show called ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ set in a German prison camp during WWII, back when Americans didn’t like Fascism. He often said, “I know nothing! I see nothing!” That’s who I think of when Donny tosses out yet another, “I didn’t know about that.”

In view of what seems obvious diminished capacity, though, I’m starting to believe old Donny when he says he knows nothing of this thing or that thing. And he says it a LOT. He says it so much, I have an impression that he isn’t involved with any of the “Presidentin'” stuff any too much. He likes the pageantry parts. He’s not much into the work parts. Those parts are boring and there are no cameras.

So when his answer to Whiskey Pete murdering two survivors of an initial, illegal, murderous attack on a boat was, “I hadn’t heard about that,” I thought, “Well, possible.” I believe him because we hear it too often for it to be just an excuse. He “didn’t know” about Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer after she said helpful things about his raping-girls-with-Epstein problem. He claimed he didn’t know about payments to Stormy Daniels before being convicted for payments to Stormy Daniels.

He claims not to know things so often, many people are referring to his evil regime as the “I don’t know” Presidency. It kind of makes me wonder just who the hell is running the show right now. I suspect the answer is the Heritage Foundation, the authors of Project 2025, which Donny also claimed to know nothing about but then started implementing, as instructed. Donny’s too demented to get into anything more serious than what color the tablecloths in his new ballroom should be.

I have a similar example in my life. My father shuffled off his mortal coil before HIS father did. The thing is, my grandfather was so deeply into the throes of senility by then, the family decided not to tell my grandfather that my father had died. The hitch, you see, is that first, they would have had to remind him of who my father was. I suspect that’s how Team Evil is handling Donny – AND why…

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Hey, speaking of Hegseth murdering people with a so-far unsubstantiated claim of “drug runner,” Donny has now promised to pardon a guy, Juan Orlando Hernández, who ran hundreds of pounds of cocaine into the US. An investigation was held. The man was arrested. A trial was held. Evidence was presented. He had a chance to refute that evidence. He was convicted by a jury of twelve. He was sentenced to 42 years in prison.

We’re told that despite all of the evidence against Hernández, Donny’s gut told him something different, no evidence required. I suspect it was Donny’s wallet that told him something different. But when Donny was asked about it? “They said” it was a Biden set-up, that was all he knew. It seems relevant that the guys in the boats never even get the chance to bribe him and probably don’t have the resources in the first place. But if you’ve got the money…

And it IS possible to manipulate such a deeply, deeply uninformed person. It’s actually kind of easy. He doesn’t have enough information of his own – nor interest, sadly – to make a decent decision. They tell him what he wants to hear. I think it always starts with how pretty he is today, then, for example, “Look what Biden did!” The Drumpfster is so triggered by all things Biden – it’s his BBS, or ‘Blame Biden Syndrome’ – he’ll automatically do the opposite.

He pardoned a guy named Ross Ulbricht, too. Remember him? He’s the guy who founded an illegal drug market called ‘the Silk Road.’ At least he didn’t claim ignorance on that one. He just showed it. Ulbricht received his pardon because he was convicted under Biden. That’s it. BBS, you know. Word is, Ulbricht was convicted after moving over $200 million dollars of illegal drugs.

Donny murders unknowns in the Caribbean, ostensibly to fight drug dealing, and lets known drug dealers run free in America. Donny ALSO sends the National Guard into Chicago to fight a crime wave his delusions have convinced him must be real. ALSO, Donny commutes the sentence of Larry Hoover. Who’s Larry Hoover, you ask? According to Ron Safer, a former U.S. attorney in Chicago, Hoover was the leader of a gang called ‘Gangster Disciples.’

Safer points out that Hoover’s gang was one of the largest and most violent drug syndicates in the U.S. Hoover was convicted of state and federal charges including murder and use of a firearm while trafficking drugs. “Larry Hoover was the head of perhaps the most pernicious, efficient drug operation in the United States,” Safer said. “They sold over $100 million of drugs a year in the city of Chicago alone. They were responsible for countless murders. They supported their drug territories with ruthless violence.”

Frankly, Donny has been SO friendly to drug dealers through the years, it kind of causes me to wonder if there’s something else about Venezuela, some unknown, unknowable draw that compels him to invade Venezuela. Something it’s hard to put one’s finger on. It’s a dark reason, a buried reason. Some slippery, dark, liquid reason. If only I could see (oil) the hidden secret (oil) that might cause the US (oil) to invade a foreign sovereign nation (oil) without provocation (oil). Nope. It’s a complete mystery…

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The last time the Forty-Niners (9-4) beat the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland, Joe Montana was their Quarterback. They went on to win the Stupid Bowl. I doubt THIS team will do what THAT team did, but hope springs eternal. The Niners are beat to hell but they keep playing. True, they’re playing teams that are struggling this year, but they’re winning games they should win.

The team gets a bye this next week to rest and recuperate, with Tennessee after that. At 1-11, Tennessee is struggling, too. The Niners should pull off a win there. After that? Ouch. They face the Colts (8-4), the Bears (9-3), and the Seahawks (9-3). Those last three games are the real test. The Niners need to beat good teams if they’re going to compete in the playoffs. Any one of those last three, preferably more, would be a good start…

Dirty, Dirty Bear…

by MyBaconPress

I’m an advocate of teaching children all about human sexuality. No, not by doing. In class, by a teacher, from a textbook. Where do babies come from? How does that happen? What are the risks? How can they prevent pregnancy? That kind of thing. I do NOT hold that young children need the details of some of the corners of human sexuality. How babies are made is a far cry from bondage and role-playing.

The reason I mention it is, a toy company has created an AI bear that started talking some really adult stuff. The toy bear, FoloToy’s Kumma, ran on an OpenAI model and responded to questions about kink. Granted, some kid would have ask it questions about kink, but the bear suggested bondage and role-play as ways to enhance a relationship, according to a report from the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the consumer protection organization behind the study.

“It took very little effort to get it to go into all kinds of sexually sensitive topics and probably a lot of content that parents would not want their children to be exposed to,” said Teresa Murray, PIRG consumer watchdog director.

Shoving AI into anything and everything – most especially before we have it all worked out – is going to be a problem. It reminds me of when everything, everything, everything had to be “smart.” It was still stupid, of course, but it was smart enough to pass along your private information to corporations that mean you harm.

Now your refrigerator is listening to you having sex in the kitchen, then telling your children all about it from their toys! “Mommy and Daddy used two ounces of whipped cream to…” I’m a big fan of human ingenuity but I think maybe we should slow down a little, at least until we understand how it all works and interacts…

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I wasn’t so off-put by the fact that Steve Witkoff explained to the Russians they needed to convince Donny to support their plan. It was HOW he told them to do it: flatter, flatter, flatter, he’ll love you forever. Tell him he’s pretty. He WANTS to believe it, he’ll believe it. And he did…

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Reporter: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted and it came up clean.
Felon 47: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting.
Reporter: Actually, your DOJ IG just reported that there was thorough vetting of Afghans who were brought into the US. So why do you blame Biden?
Felon 47: Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.

Just to be clear, in this exchange, DONNY is the stupid person, suffering from the most severe case of BBS (Blame Biden Syndrome) anyone has ever seen. If you still believe that Biden is responsible for everything Donny does, you might want to reflect on what makes such a moron appear “smart” to you…

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Donny convinced the rubes that he was going to fix everything on day one. He has, obviously and of course, backed away from that plan with excuse after excuse (after excuse). He’s a terrible businessman, but he is expert at excuses. The thing is, reality keeps exposing his lies AS lies. Donny’s standard solution in those cases? Suppress reality.

TO that end, he has cancelled the jobs report, the inflation report, and the GDP report. It’s probably just a coincidence that Americans are losing jobs at an alarming rate, inflation is up and climbing, and the GDP is down and falling…

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Did he or didn’t he? Whiskey Pete Hegseth, I mean. Did he order survivors of one of the regime’s criminal boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela killed? Murdered, of course, not just “killed.” Seal Team Six is said to have carried out the murders. So much for the glory days of having taken out Osama Bin Laden. Now they’re reduced to murdering fishermen.

Word is, Hegseth gave the final order. A boat gets blown up and people survive. They’re floating in the water, clinging to wreckage of the boat when a US Navy vessel pulls up alongside – and opens fire. Straight up murder. Hegseth has responsibility, having given the order. But Seal Team Six shared in that responsibility, having pointed the guns and pulling the triggers.

Suddenly, Whiskey Pete is out there insisting he didn’t give the final order. THAT started when Congress suggested they might look into the matter. I don’t believe Whiskey Pete. For one thing, he’s an known liar. Second, he plays tough guy all the time. Third, he’s as stupid as anybody, dumber than most. Stupid people often turn to the quickest, easiest answer because they’re too stupid to understand further implications.

Based on everything I’ve seen from Horrible Hegseth, I’m in the “he ordered it” column. Put him on the list for a murder trial after all of this collapses. See? Even accused of murder, I’d give him a trial, not a summary execution. Seal Team Six, too. This is one of those examples where a soldier should have refused the illegal order, according to Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ.

ARE they illegal orders? Well, there’s no evidence these boats are carrying drugs, so the attacks are violations of international and moral laws everywhere. But for the sake of argument, let’s say they ARE running drugs. How do we handle people who move drugs around? I mean, how DID we handle them when this was a decent, more ethical country?

Cops could watch a drug transaction go down and bust every person associated. Each of those people would be put on trial. They’d get a lawyer. They would have a lawyer assigned to them if they couldn’t afford one themselves. If/When they were convicted, they went to jail, served their time, and got out. Maybe they went back to their drug-dealing ways, maybe they didn’t – but they were still alive to make the choice.

Here, let me put this another, more clear way. Even when we KNOW they’re guilty, we don’t execute drug dealers. There’s no legal basis for these killings. There wouldn’t even be a legal basis for these killings if the US was actually at war with Venezuela, which, remember, Congress has not declared. We’re NOT, legally, at war.

I’ll tell you this: I don’t see how anybody can justify these murders, but then, I’m not privy to the workings of the MAGA mind…

Overreactions…

by MyBaconPress

Jeez, overreact much? Look everything is wrong with the recent DC shooting of two national guard troops, starting with the shooting itself. One of the victims, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has passed and the other, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life. Twenty and Twenty-four years old. They shouldn’t even have been there. Donny put them in harm’s way when he deployed them in a delusional show of force to fight imagined crime waves that don’t exist.

The shooter was an immigrant, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghani immigrant. He had worked with the CIA in Afghanistan during Bush 43’s illegal war there. He came to the US in 2001, while Biden was President. Remember when MAGA was all aflutter about the “disastrous withdrawal,” and all the people that had been left behind? This guy was one of those brought out. He was granted asylum this year, 2025, under Donny’s evil regime. Biden said he could come, Donny said he could stay. So, of course, Donny blamed Biden.

All of this blaming of Biden for everything seems to be a new offshoot of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ or TDS. TDS causes it’s victims to be completely and irrationally enthralled by another person despite all of the evidence against that person, but believe that anytime a rational person points out even the tiniest flaw of the object of affection, it’s a blind, wild-eyed, unwarranted attack. A curious characteristic of TDS is that the victims normally think it’s the person noting the flaw that has it, not the person so enthralled they’ll believe anything.

This offshoot is less complex. This one is ‘Blame Biden Syndrome,’ or BBS, and many of it’s victims seem to have found their way into this maladministration. It’s primary characteristic is that it’s victims blame Biden for everything bad. Tariffs you imposed hurting the economy? Blame Biden. People losing heath care because of your legislation? Blame Biden. At risk of being exposed as a pedophile, or, I guess, an Epheophile? (Because of TDS, MAGA is trying to minimize Donny’s rapes as ‘probably not-so-bad’ because the victims weren’t KIDS, kids.) Whichever “inappropriate sex with a minor” name you prefer? Blame Biden.

It works with everything. Remember the Hindenburg? Biden. WWI? Biden. WWII? ALSO Biden. The Great Depression? Biden. The fall of Rome? Black Plague? Collapse of the environment? The Dark Ages? Slavery? War? Famine? Death? Biden, Biden, Biden. Victims of BBS never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong – most especially when they’re responsible. It’s the latest variant of TDS offshoot ‘Blame Obama Syndrome,’ or BOS, and, really, it’s just plain “Blame Syndrome” or, BS.

Anyway, the shooting suggests the shooter was upset at what the ICEholes are doing. So he shoots two national guard members? That’s the wrong target. I mean, look, we’re all upset that The Felon keeps sending the military all over, but we’ve also noticed they’re mostly picking up garbage and planting flowers. I say again, they should not have been where they were and they were put there BY the evil Felon 47.

Right after the shooting, in a well-thought-out and clearly rational post to social media, Donny has promised to “permanently pause migration from all third world countries.” The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that, pending further review, it was indefinitely suspending processing of immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals.

Later, the Department of Homeland Security said the administration was expanding that to include a review of all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration. One presumes this does NOT include white immigrants, like the Afrikaners from South Africa. I mean, anybody can tell they’re not going to do any harm just by looking at them. They don’t even need a background check. If you’re white, you’re all right.

I’ll tell you this: that DOES seem like an incredible overreaction. ONE GUY commits murder so nobody gets to come? That seems like it may have been the plan all along. I expect a concurrent uptick in official violence, as well. They have their excuse…

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Hey, ladies, have I got news for you. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be sexist. My news is really for anybody who uses talc-based makeup products. Remember when the US spent billions, maybe trillions, of dollars getting rid of asbestos because asbestos was and is really, really dangerous and causes cancer? We tore apart and even tore down buildings that had asbestos in them, a particularly difficult process because we couldn’t even let the asbestos float free a little bit because it was so damn dangerous.

Well, Donny’s dumbass FDA is going to kill a proposed rule that would require testing for asbestos in talc-based makeup products. You know, the products you put directly on your face on a daily basis? Walking through a room with “popcorn” on the ceiling is taking your life in your hands because of asbestos, but smearing it – I’m sorry, carefully brushing it – all over your face is not a concern? Sure, bitches be gettin’ cancer, but all of that product testing for safety cuts into the bottom line. I mean, where are your priorities? Certainly we can see where the priorities of the Trump regime are…

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Donny’s demons told him that fossil fuels are better than renewables and Donny always believes his demons. So, he has attacked renewables in every way he can and boosted fossil fuels in every way he could do THAT, including ordering an ageing and unneeded coal-fired power plant that was scheduled to close in Michigan to remain open. Bear in mind, the plant was scheduled to close because it had aged out. It wasn’t about political correctness. But Donny ordered it to stay open because demons are demons and you can’t fix stupid.

So far, that decision, according the company that owns the plant, has cost ratepayers in Michigan an additional $113 million dollars! $615,000 dollars – every day! That’s before we even discuss the toxins being spewed into the air all day every day – all because our inglorious misleader is a moron of the highest order.

Years ago, Donny lost a fight with Scotland about putting windmills offshore near one of his golf courses. Now golfers can see windmills from one hole on the course. Outrage, right? Donny bears a grudge, so he now hates all renewables – like it was the renewables’ fault – and has declared war on the entire environment. Talk about an overreaction. His new-found focus on gas, oil, and coal will accelerate climate change but the bottom line at gas, oil, and coal companies is looking great and in his tiny little mind, that makes it all okay. In MY mind, the boy’s priorities are all messed up…

A Touch Of Some Better News…

by MyBaconPress

You may or may not remember how the whole ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ thing started. You may or may not care. It was 2016. I’ve learned that insanity can move fast and 2016 seems like a long, long time ago. (No, not in a galaxy far, far away. My long, ‘long, long time agos’ are followed with “I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.”) You may or may not have ever known the actual way ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ started, most especially if you’re a consumer of MAGA media.

IF you’re a consumer of MAGA media, you’re convinced, certain, absolutely positive that it started when Dems started spying on Donny’s campaign for no other reason than they were so scared of him. That became part of the “Donny’s our hero” conditioning. It had the advantage of convincing MAGA that Donny was a target because he was such a threat to the status quo and the powers that be. That fact that it was a completely false narrative wasn’t – isn’t – relevant.

But for the rest of us, we remember that Donny’s campaign came under scrutiny for dealings with bad Russians because the FBI was monitoring the Russians – along with their contacts. There were known Russians of questionable character in the US. The FBI monitored their activities. The FBI was as surprised as anyone when their monitoring picked up a conversation between one of these known bad Russian actors and a representative of a Presidential campaign, George Papadopoulos, a low-ranking flunky on Team Trumpery.

Of course, like everything else Donny doesn’t like or can’t otherwise explain, it was rigged, or a set-up, or some other not-his-fault excuse. He has a LOT of those, doesn’t he? Nothing is EVER his fault – most especially when it is. As we all know, ANYBODY can use excuses to try and insist it wasn’t their fault. Many people do. The Felon, though, has enough money that he can follow through with lawsuits. He doesn’t even CARE that the suits are frivolous. He files ’em.

He did it again in 2022. Once he had convinced enough of the rubes that the whole thing was rigged and set-up “fake news,” he filed a suit against Hillary Clinton and some other Dems asking for $24 million dollars because apparently, he gets bored just stuffing money from the treasury into his pockets. No challenge, you know?

His attorney in this case is/was Alina Habba, an attorney with Halligan level qualifications and skills. I’ll cut to the chase, here. Halligan level qualifications leads to Halligan level results: Donny’s case was dismissed, thrown out like a dog. It turns out – and Donny’s lawyers never seem to grasp this – that one can NOT just walk into a courtroom, spew a litany of unsupportable lies and unfounded accusations, and expect to win their case. So, one cannot be surprised that that’s exactly what happened in this case.

Oh, but that’s not all. The case Habba presented was SO bad, SO poorly put together, SO full of unsupportable lies and unfounded accusations, the judge, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of Southern Florida, sanctioned Donny and Alina nearly a million dollars – $937,989.39 to be exact – for their “bad faith” arguments.

But Donny doesn’t just drop cases because they’re full of crap, nonsensical, and made up on the spot. How would THAT be harassing his target? When the lower court tossed out his frivolous claim and sanctioned him for wasting the court’s time, he appealed. Of course he did. That’s the process. Under all conditions he has to get the case to John Roberts so Roberts can make a fawning and supportive ruling that violates laws and common sense.

The lower court says, “Bullshit!” A three-judge appellate panel agrees: “Bullshit!” The full appellate court follows up with their own, “Bullshit!” Then he gets it to Roberts who simply coos, “Whatever our Precious wants.” THREE times, courts get it right before John Roberts brings shame and disgrace on himself, his court, and his family name.

Well, we’ve just passed the three-judge appellate panel agreement, “Bullshit, pay the money!” This is the part I enjoy: honest courts, getting it right. I’m rarely as fond of the final rulings from the Way High Court of Donny’s Last Resort. So, for today, I’m going to enjoy that fact that the law still exists in some form in this embarrassment of a nation. Donny being told he still has to pay $937,989.39 sure had a brightening affect on my day. I hope it does yours, too. My guess? Donny plans to let Alina pay…

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That’s all for today, something light and easy because it’s Thanksgiving. You’re probably too busy to read today anyway. So enjoy your turkey, if you could afford one. Enjoy the football, if you’re so inclined. Whatever it is you do, however it is you do it, Happy Thanksgiving!

Flips, Flops, Flaps, and Flubs…

by MyBaconPress

I don’t know what’s going to happen in the special election in Tennessee. It’s a heavily Republican district. The guy who just retired, Republican Rep. Mark Green, won his 2024 election by 21 points. The Drumpfster won that district – Tennessee’s 7th – by a similar margin. This election should be a walk for Republicans.

But the Republican, Matt Van Epps, is running on, “Ain’t Trump great?” at a time when NOBODY thinks Donny is doing great. Van Epps is promising to support Donny in every way. Like all of the other Republicans in Congress, he provides his own knee pads and has had his spine surgically removed to better serve his Precious.

Meanwhile, the Democrat, State Rep. Aftyn Behn, is running on the economy. The race is looking close enough that both team’s national committees are spending big money. Van Epps’ campaign asked Donny to come to Tennessee and Behn’s team got an appearance by Kamala, which may or may not be a good thing.

There’s a second conservative in this race, Jon Thorp, though he’s running as an independent. A normally Democrat-supporting PAC is pushing Republican voters to vote for Thorp, claiming Van Epps is a RINO. That’s a “Republican In Name Only.” There are also DINOS. Millions of dollars are suddenly being thrown at this campaign.

I don’t have high confidence the Democrats can flip a gerrymandered district that supported the Republicans by more than 20 points, but it says something that the district is seen as “in play.” If anyone can vaporize a 20+ point advantage in only ten short months, it’s Donny…

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Donny is suggesting he’ll send everyone a “tariff dividend” of $2,000. He won’t. He hasn’t made enough in tariffs to send everyone $2,000. Worse, now that his dinosaur-like brain is beginning to register the damage his tariffs have done to the economy, he’s going to lower some of them, reducing the amount of money available to send out. But he loves that $2,000 dollar number, doesn’t he?

It came up again with health care. Now, instead of the ACA supplements Americans need, he says he want’s to give each person $2,000 to cover their own health insurance. So, first question, is that the tariff dividend AND the health care cash? Is he promising to send everyone $4,000? Or is it the same $2,000, promised for two different things? Is that annually? No one knows, but it seems like it’s intended to be a one-time good deal. $2,000 to cover health care in the US – for the rest of your life. That seems like a workable plan. If you’re rich…

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Well, the great negotiator is offering his failed position on Ukraine again. The Drumpfster keeps offering up the same options: Ukraine gives Putin what he wants, and in return, Putin accepts it. That’s a hell of a plan, and for reasons no MAGA mind can fathom, Ukraine isn’t interested. When Ukraine rejects the surrender agreement, Donny just shuffles the talking points and re-issues it as a “new plan.”

The latest “new plan” being proposed is being described by many people as a Russian wish list. Some are saying it was written by Russia and translated by the US. The US denies that claim. Yeah, that’s convincing. Initially, Donny warned Ukraine they had to accept this plan by Thursday, but the regime have since walked that all the way back to “it’s just a proposal, at this point.” When all is said and done, it looks like there’s no “peace plan” at all…

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But speaking of Russians writing things, the latest revelation coming from Musk’s racist website, Brand X, indicates that many top MAGA accounts are actually foreigners manipulating Americans. X added a feature showing the country of origin on X accounts and people started using the feature to look up the origins of popular MAGA accounts. Russians are on the list. So is Chile, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Morocco, Eastern Europe, and Thailand.

Look, it’s possible there’s a MAGA living overseas for some reason who maintains a pro-MAGA account, but I’d bet the lion’s share of these accounts are actual foreigners who intend actual harm to the US – and they’re achieving their goal by feeding MAGA derangement and fear…

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Yeah, the NFL. Specifically, the Niners. More specifically, Brandon Aiyuk. He’s a wide receiver. (For the uninitiated, he catches passes.) He’s very good at it. In 2023, Aiyuk was ranked seventh in the NFL. He wanted to be paid accordingly. He actually wanted to be paid a little better. It turned into a conflict between him and the team. He ended up getting a four year, $120 million dollar contract. $30 million dollars a year to catch a ball? And $27 million for 2026 was guaranteed! Yeah, America’s priorities are right in order, aren’t they?

Anyway, Aiyuk came out for the next season and promptly got seriously hurt. Really seriously. He missed the rest of that season and hasn’t played a snap this season. All of this is standard stuff in the NFL. It’s a violent game. People get hurt, sometimes badly. The team, the player, and the fans all just wait until the player can return and we get back to it. But for some reason, as yet undisclosed, Aiyuk hasn’t been doing what he’s supposed to do.

This caused the Niners to void the guaranteed money in his contract, a notoriously difficult thing to do. Now it looks like Aiyuk will be leaving the Niners and it could well be sooner rather than later. Aiyuk was a great player before his knee got destroyed. He might never be the same. That, too, is common in the NFL. Whatever team picks Aiyuk up will almost certainly be desperate at the Wide Receiver position. So desperate, they’ll take a chance on Aiyuk. But it looks like the Niners won’t be on that hook, after all.

Aiyuk is ONLY a question mark at this point. He’ll want lots of money because he played one good season, but he’s been out two years and he really (I mean, really) damaged his knee. I’m kind of glad the Niners get to move forward without having to put up with any more of his rehab shenanigans. The team might be losing a very talented receiver. They’ll definitely be losing a big problem. That’s okay with me…

The Emperor’s New Clothes…

by MyBaconPress

Look, Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan didn’t want to lie to courts. They just wanted to please their Precious, so they had no choice. He wanted to harass someone who once irritated him so he ordered a baseless and frivolous prosecution. (Suddenly, conservatives LOVE baseless and frivolous prosecutions.) Pam likely knew there was no legal basis to do what Donny had demanded. Lindsey knows insurance law.

Neither wanted to tell Donny he couldn’t follow his whim because it was illegal. Donny effin’ HATES the truth. Instead, they did what they had to do to comply. Fake an indictment? Why not? Lie to courts? Sure, easy. Lose our licenses to practice law? Oh, crap, we hadn’t considered that!

Not being an attorney, I’m not familiar with the ins and outs of the details of the bar association and how that works. But I DO know that officers of the court are not allowed to lie to the court. Team Evil’s Rudi Guiliani lied to courts and lost HIS license. Now, Bondi lied in twice submitting affirmations to the court about the propriety of Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation – only to discover that Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation was improper enough to get HER disbarred, too.

No one knows for sure if Halligan failed so spectacularly because she’s a complete incompetent, in WAY over her head, or if she KNEW what she was doing was wrong, but couldn’t find another way to please Dim Leader, but she, too, tried to deceive the courts in an effort to harass a private citizen and for no other reason. It seems disbarment is the best, perhaps only, remaining option…

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Here’s another reason I think we should keep communicating with our MAGA counterparts: I asked a friend of mine, one who consumes MAGA media, if media on his side of the dial was showing the times Donny nods off during events. He (my friend, not Donny) looked at me kind of funny, like he was expecting a punchline, and when none was forthcoming, he told me, “No.”

I told him that he should look for them on the internet. I told him I think they’re funny and that, now that he’s falling asleep all the time, no matter where he is, he needs to give up the “Sleepy Joe” bit. I never once saw Biden fall asleep during events, although that “debate” might be arguable.

The point is, MAGA is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look good in the same way the left is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look bad. He’s a buffoon so left-leaning media has it easier. When 47 delivers a message that comes out like a word salad, MAGA media simply reports that Donny “spoke on such-and-such subject.” They don’t show the word salad. When Donny falls asleep during meetings and briefings, nobody TELLS MAGA. Those soundbites you see where someone is clearly lying? Yeah, those aren’t for you. They’re for MAGA and MAGA doesn’t know any better. They never get to see how their Precious is slipping. So if you cut off contact, and their media won’t tell them, how do they find out?

Don’t try to prove you’re right. Just point out what your “side of the dial” – and that’s how I describe it – showed you and ask if their side showed them. That’s it. It creates an opportunity to compare notes without making anyone feel defensive. It opens communication, if only a crack. Give it a try. You don’t want or need to prove you’re right and they’re wrong. You can’t do that. Just create an atmosphere in which you can compare what each side is being told. It’s rather enlightening and, who knows, maybe you’ll learn something, too…

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Donny keeps insisting he’s getting great poll numbers. I know, weird, right? I’ve seen the poll numbers. Either he thinks all the minuses are a good thing, or somebody is giving him “results” only HE can see. Honestly, I suspect that latter. The ONE THING we know about Donny is that he does NOT want to hear any bad news.

When a bad jobs report came out – you know, because he sucks at this Presidentin’ thing – he fired the person who put out the numbers and replaced her with a toady. Now the numbers, when available, are looking fine. So how long does it take a lick-spittle to figure it out? They start telling him he has great numbers. He believes them. This is exactly what ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ is about. Tell a fool something he wants to believe and he’ll believe – no matter how unbelievable the story might be…

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I don’t know why corporate media uses euphemisms to explain things. Why not call a thing what it is? Trump’s murderous attacks on boats out on the water doing whatever it is people in boats do on water are NOT “extrajudicial killings.” They’re murders, straight up. Why not CALL them murders?

I’m reading a Guardian article right now titled, ‘Supreme court blocks order that found Texas congressional map was likely racially biased.’ It’s all about how the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Court has put a hold on a lower courts ruling blocking Texas from using their new maps, as predicted in these pages when I wrote: “Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants.” Why, yes. Corruption IS predictable in this regime.

The Guardian article includes this line: “Texas redrew its congressional map in the summer as part of Trump’s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House in next year’s elections, touching off a nationwide redistricting battle.” (Emphasis added.) It should read: “…Trump’s efforts to steal five more House seats through gerrymandering.” See how easy that is? And it’s FAR more accurate. I really want to see corporate media be better but, hey, it’s corporate media in a Capitalist society. Profit is all, accuracy if it’s not too inconvenient.

Still, I DO find the Guardian a pretty solid news source and in fairness to them, they also wrote: “The new redistricting map was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, but a panel of federal judges in El Paso ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the civil rights groups that challenged the map on behalf of Black and Hispanic voters were likely to win their case.”

California’s new, gerrymandered maps are also facing legal challenges suggesting they were based on race as well. I don’t know how the Supremely Corrupt Court can rule in favor of Texas’ maps based on race but strike down California’s map based on race – especially if California can prove their gerrymandering is NOT based on race. It’s all a pretty big mess. Corruption does that.

My guess? The Roberts court will find a way to give their Precious what he wants AND they’ll likely find a way to stop California. Texas’ compliance makes Donny happy. California’s defiance does not. That’s all the corrupt cons on the court need to know. None of it has anything to do with the Constitution, of course, but the SCOTUS stopped attending THAT quaint and outdated document years ago and there’s no reason to suddenly start now…

Not Legal Orders…

by MyBaconPress

Well, isn’t THIS a stupid discussion? Our Fearful Misleader took to murdering boaters, mostly in the Caribbean but there are some in the Pacific, too. Naturally, HE doesn’t do the dirty work himself. He orders the military to do it, commit the murders. Keyword, here? Murders. Yes, he’s making claims. He has never shown any evidence to support his charges that his victims are drug runners.

I’m not even suggesting they’re not. Maybe they are. But we’ve seen no evidence and when he had a couple of them in custody – THAT was an embarrassing mistake – he just sent them home. NONE of that is what cops are supposed to do with drug dealers. OG America arrested drug dealers and put them on trial before carrying out sentencing. You don’t get to end someone’s life – murder them – just by saying he was moving drugs. Not in a just and proper society.

People who understand things are trying to find a way to stop the murders but nobody has any real leverage to force a stop. So, Democrats in Congress – it HAD to be Dems – made a public statement. They reminded military members they are supposed to refuse illegal orders. It kind of surprised me when I joined the service, the amount of time spent in classrooms during basic training learning about that kind of thing. But we were ALL taught we had a duty to follow lawful orders and a duty to refuse unlawful orders.

The thing is, that’s a very difficult thing to determine, what’s lawful and what isn’t. To make certain it remains a near-impossible decision, nobody can say, for sure, if an act is lawful or not until AFTER the event – during a trial. So you refuse an order, get arrested, go to trial where you offer as your defense your belief the order was illegal. If you were right, you walk. If you were wrong, you go to jail. See? That’s a lot on the line.

Still, I’d say killing people who mean the US no harm and with no warning and no due process of law seems a pretty straight up description of an illegal order. Generals order their soldiers to kill, but they can’t legally order them to murder.

Throughout my life, from time to time, I’ve heard about some guy being arrested. He was a low-level guard at Auschwitz or some other such evil place. He managed to evade authorities for 20, 30, 50 years – then he was arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. I don’t pretend it was a daily event but it has been regular and it has been my entire life, one-time Nazis still being tried and convicted.

The guards argue they were just following the law or just following orders. Some of them argue they were forced into doing the jobs they did. In many cases, the Nazis HAD created “laws” to give their evil acts the imprimatur of legality. In many cases, these guards were “following the law.” But the law, itself, was flawed, so the acts that proceeded from it were flawed, too.

So, anyway, after the Dems reminded American military members they have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders, Donny had one of his “How DARE they defy Precious ME?” moments and declared the Democrat’s words sedition – punishable by death. I’d call that pretty bold talk for a half-brain, fat man.

It gave the Dems an opening to claim Donny is calling for the “execution of elected officials,” and he kind of is. Some MAGA nutball out there might very well respond to The Felon’s prompts. The thing is, the Dems are right. Military members ARE obligated to refuse unlawful orders. The GOP response, “If the President orders it, it’s lawful,” besides being blatantly wrong, also means there’s no debate. Nobody told the military to refuse lawful orders. They reminded them to refuse UNlawful orders.

That wasn’t sedition. It was a simple, straight-forward fact. Of course, the GOP these days considers simple straight-forward facts seditious so maybe it’s a point-of-view thing. From MY point of view, someone should just say to the Drumpfster, “Quiet, Piggy…”

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Please don’t be that stupid. Please, don’t be that stupid. PLEASE, don’t be that stupid. I hear the right is all in a dither because Zohran Mamdani is going to have “Arabic numbers” in New York schools before the year is out. New York already uses Arabic numbers, just like the rest of America. In America, Arabic numbers are just numbers.

It seems like a joke but the fact that MAGA got upset about it indicates they’re in full panic mode already. I’ll say, “Democratic Socialism is a Capitalist system,” until I’m blue in the face but MAGA won’t be able to hear me. Panic mode is often quite blinding and as we know, there are none so blind as those who will not see…

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In old movies, one could hold up a cross to fend off a vampire or other evil being. These days, I watch KKKarolyin’ Leveitt up at the podium, lying and lying and lying some more – all while prominently wearing a cross. It seems the cross doesn’t burn evil after all…

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This got real weird, real fast. So long as Marjorie Taylor Greene was a MAGA nutball intent on supporting Donny no matter how outrageous his unfathomable behavior, she was a member in good standing in the House of Billionaire’s Representatives. Then the Drumpfster chose not to release the Epstein files he had promised to release during the campaign.

That’s it’s own weird thing. ‘The Epstein Files’ used to be a hammer the GOP swung at government, trying to get them released and, as I’ve mentioned, promising to do so at the earliest possible opportunity. THEN, Donny comes to power and suddenly, the Epstein files are boring with nothing in them and the whole schmear becomes a Democrat hammer. Same files. Same implications.

So, anyway, MTG stayed on the first message, the files should be released. THAT moment, that single moment of sanity, seems to have opened a floodgate of reason in her that I had heretofore dismissed as even possible. I mean, I suspect she’s just positioning herself for a Senate run but still, suddenly, I found myself agreeing with MTG more and more – and I certainly had not gone MAGA. Message-wise, she came to me.

THAT, of course, was the last straw for Donny. He ramped up the attacks against her. Now she’s actually stepping down from her job and leaving the House. She resigned, effective January 5th, 2026. That might well lead to another Democrat in the House. Georgia will replace her with a special election. Now that California is taking five extra seats for Democrats in response to Texas’ failed attempt to take five extra seats for Republicans, the House is looking like a better and better bet for the Dems in the mid-terms.

It’s going to take some serious cheating on the part of the GOP to keep control of the House, I think. The part that bothers me? These guys can – and WILL – DO “serious cheating” and never bat an eye…

Backfires…

by MyBaconPress

It’s weird, isn’t it? Donny said many times, that tariffs don’t raise prices. People who DO know what they’re talking about said the tariffs would increase prices. Donny insisted the people who know what they’re talking about don’t know what they’re talking about. He imposed his tariffs and, inconceivably, prices went up, just like the experts warned. Donny continued to insist tariffs don’t raise prices. Prices went up even more, again, just like the experts warned. People started getting mad at Donny over the ridiculously high prices and finally, Donny responded – by lowering tariffs on several, select grocery items.

I guess we’re not supposed to figure out that tariffs that never increase prices, nevertheless increased prices, and lowering the tariffs, which clearly did NOT increase prices, is hoped to bring prices back down anyway for some ethereal, unconnected reason. I write “hoped” because Donny has handed corporations a perfect excuse to raise prices and I’ve NEVER seen a corporation that could pass up such largess, so, we’ll see…

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There was a headline in Tuesday’s ‘USA Today,’ “Trump’s dominance shows signs of slipping amid Epstein saga and affordability woes.” I think it’s more about the “affordability woes.” MAGA has been able to successfully overlook every moral failing of their Precious based entirely on the idea that as a successful businessman, he – and ONLY he – could save the economy.

There are only two problems with that thinking: one, he’s not a successful businessman, and two, even if he was, governments aren’t supposed to run like businesses. I mean, do YOU want your government operating on a profitability model? I surely do not. As it becomes undeniable that he has no clue how to address the economy, though, MAGA seems to be losing tolerance for his moral failings, as well.

Still, it was pretty nifty, the way Congress finally got it all together and passed the law to release the Epstein files. 47 said he would sign it but 47 lies about everything so we had to wait and see, but he did. Then, everything not related to an ongoing investigation can be disgorged into the public for detailed and intense scrutiny as both parties try to “out-evil” each other.
“We found eight democRATS in those files!”
“We found fifteen Republicans in the files!”
“We found Larry Summers in the files!”
“We found Donald Trump in the files – 27, 246 times!”

They really DID find a prince in those files and now the cloud has consumed Sarah Ferguson. Her latest children’s book has been withdrawn and “pulped.” (Why, yes, that DOES mean destroyed.) She stayed friends with Epstein even after his crimes were discovered. Now she’s having her royal titles withdrawn as well.

Oh, but hold the phone. That part, “everything NOT related to an ongoing investigation.” Didn’t Donny just order a frivolous investigation of Democrats – and only Democrats – that might appear in the Epstein files? Wouldn’t that mean that even with the passage and signing of the law he won’t “be able” to release the FBI files? He sure is a slippery eel, isn’t he? Or perhaps it’s just a coincidence…

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Okay, so, what now? This really IS my favorite story of the week. As you may recall, Texas launched a redistricting war with a midterm redistricting intended and designed to give Republicans five more House seats through the glories of gerrymandering. California responded by temporarily changing THEIR electoral maps to create five more Democratic seats, also through the glories of gerrymandering, to offset the Republican effort.

NOW, a federal court has ruled that Texas doesn’t get to use their re-jiggered map. The court ruled that it was pretty clear the map had been based on racial considerations. Surprisingly, that’s still a no-no in this once-great nation. California was only planning to use THEIR map if Texas used theirs and a court has ruled Texas can’t use theirs. Does California then abandon their plan? CAN they?

Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants. But what if they don’t? Because Texas is appealing the ruling and time is so short, California has little choice but to move forward with it’s own gerrymandered map based on the possibility Texas moves forward with theirs. The filing dates may well be passed by the time a ruling is handed down.

It’s only one way it could be, but I can see a reality in which the Corrupt court says Texas can’t use their map but California moves ahead with their map – giving California five more seats to “offset” five seats Texas DOESN’T get! That would be a jarring backfire of the GOP attempted steal, but I’m pretty sure I would laugh and laugh…

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“Quiet, Piggy.” Donny actually said that to a reporter who asked a question he didn’t like. A woman, of course. He’s really very disrespectful to women, have you noticed? My how very… juvenile. These days, Donny seems less like a master verbal fencer and more like a petulant and childish brat.

For some reason, “Quite, Piggy” seems to have hit a nerve all of the other horrible things he says to people have not. 47 uses rudeness as a defense all the time. He regularly mouths off at people. MAGA generally sees it as tough talk and they like it regardless of how boorish it shows him to be.

But this poor woman, a reporter, was simply asking a question. It wasn’t even an unreasonable question. His response was mean-spirited. That seems appropriate. He HAS a mean spirit. But for some reason, “Quite, Piggy” has started an avalanche of criticism from both sides of the aisle.

Now that he has taken to falling asleep pretty much anywhere he happens to be, he needs to drop his insult about Joe Biden being “Sleepy Joe,” and I really, really think he should take a gander at a mirror before he calls anybody else “Piggy.” Between him and Catherine Lucey, the reporter he attacked, I say he’s the piggiest piggy…