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Dates That Live In Infamy…

by MyBaconPress

Today, Sunday, December 7th, 2025, marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 Americans. It was a tactical success for Japan but a strategic failure. They didn’t hit some of the most important targets of their attack. Oh, AND, (spoiler alert) Japan lost the war in the end.

Or maybe we all did. WWII changed the face of the planet and, upon further review, maybe not for the better. WWII brought about a new world order and, for a time, it looked like it might be an improvement. But we can all count on self-serving, self-important blowhards to decide they “deserve” more than anybody else to come along and ruin things for everybody.

Which brings us back to Donny and the One-Percent-serving Heritage Foundation and all of the damage and pain they’re intentionally inflicting on Americans and the world. History repeats (or rhymes) in roughly 80 year cycles. Roughly 80 years ago, the US pushed back authoritarian Fascism with extreme violence. Now authoritarian fascism is back.

I think Americans are hoping to stop all of this nonsense with the 2026 “elections,” non-violently. I have a hard time believing that the group that led this coup in the first place might let it slip away by allowing honest elections. I’ll wait and see. I’ll hope. But you’d better keep your powder dry…

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Twice, recently, I’ve seen Donny act exactly like a three-year-old boy who sees a big truck – and then the driver honks the horn for kid. We’ve all seen that young man. He’s the happiest he’s ever going to be until he discovers his newest favorite toy. The first time I saw Donny act like that was when he was hanging out with the Saudi murderer, you know, the one who killed Jamal Khashoggi, that guy. Yeah, Mohammed bin Salman, that’s the one.

The second time was this FIFA “Peace Prize” he was “awarded” on Friday. To be clear, FIFA does NOT have a long, storied history of awarding it’s well-known and prestigious “Peace Prize” to someone who has made a great impact on world peace for the benefit of nations. Instead, FIFA seems to be a rather corrupt organization that takes bribes and oversees world soccer. FIFA made up their “Peace Prize” for Donny and, one presumes, when Donny isn’t a factor in their world anymore, the “FIFA Peace Prize” will be a thing of the past.

But he was SO happy, giddy even. I thought he was going to literally clap his hands and jump up and down, “My peace prize! My peace prize!” It was scary. That dude is old. Jumping up and down on those cankles could break him in more ways than one. Old bones shatter. It was also mind-boggling. Can you imagine demanding a peace prize and then actually believing you’ve done something to “earn” it?

Donny grabbed that medal and put it around his own neck so fast I thought it might hit him in the face. (Full disclosure: I would have LAUGHED!) Then he stood, wearing his fake award, BEAMING. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a happier boy – even when the “Big Truck” honks.

This is a large part of the reason he’s as petty as he is: secrets he knows about himself. On some level, he knows he’s a fraud and he knows this is a fake award, created to placate his massive unquenchable ego. He acts like he’s done something to earn it but he knows that everybody knows – the thing was “awarded” by FIFA, fercrissakes. HE has to know it’s a meaningless award. And because HE knows the whole thing is trumpery, but wants YOU to believe he actually accomplished something, he gets insecure and belligerent.

Tough cookies, there, Donny. Most of the world knows you to be a fraud and we have always known you to be a fraud. You can act like the biggest assoholic on the planet, we’ll all still know…

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Speaking of recognizing Donny as the liar, conman, grifter, and general waste of human flesh that he is, it looks like there might be a bit of fraying at the edges of MAGA. It’s hard to say, for sure. MAGA isn’t going to confess their error, most especially not to me. I expect their support to drift away quietly. They’ll wonder in their own minds. If/When the scales fall from their eyes, the MAGA regalia will quietly disappear. They won’t fall out for rallies. They won’t come out to vote. They’ll get quieter in social media. They’ll just… step away.

So, instead of waiting for the mea culpa, we have to watch for signs of separation. Maybe they’re real, maybe not, but here’s one I’ve been hearing about recently. There’s a very definite date – well, dates – looming for Republicans who may have been caught up in MAGA thrall, but aren’t true MAGA in their hearts. Filing deadlines.

The major threat Donny represents to candidates is his ability to “Primary” them. That is, if he gets his knickers in a twist at someone, he can press another, more MAGA-friendly candidate to run. That might cost a Republican office-holder their phony-baloney job and they might lose all of that beautiful lucre that keeps them so happy. So they comply.

At the same time, one does not have to be Nostradamus to see what is going on with the right, these days. Donny can say all day and half the night that prices are down at the grocery store. Then, we ALL walk into grocery stores and – RATS! – prices are still going up. Donny can tell us until he’s blue in the face that medical care costs won’t go up. But the letters have gone out. Every American and every MAGA has seen the new, definitely-not-improved numbers.

Donny promised no more foreign entanglements. Not only has he NOT ended the major foreign wars he promised would be so easy to end, he’s actively ginning up a completely new, completely unnecessary conflict. Instead of less foreign entanglement, we’re getting more, like it or not. He promised to drain the swamp. He IS the swamp. By every measure, he’s the swampiest swamp monster ever to swamp the swamp.

And it is NOT that he is “just doing what they all do, just more transparently.” In the first place, taking bribes and committing crimes transparently doesn’t make them better. But no President in history has ever been so deeply involved with bribes, crimes, grifts, and cons. Everything, everything, EVERYTHING this boy does is about shoving more money into his insatiable pockets – YOUR money.

The point is, this has become SO apparent, even MAGA sees it and cons in Congress who have been compliant but not truly MAGA? They have to win back their seats in an environment where it’s clear and undeniable that Republicans hate America and Americans. That’s a pretty hard run, right there. So the moment the filing deadlines pass, that is, the moment there’s no immediate danger that Donny might primary them, they can start to separate themselves from Donny and the MAGA nightmare, hoping they haven’t already been too tarred.

The final filing dates vary from state to state but, generally speaking, they all come around August 25th, give or take. I know, that’s a long time from now. These pricks can do a LOT of damage between now and then. But let’s see how GOP candidates react after that date…

BIG Lies…

by MyBaconPress

Dr Ooze, said in a speech that Americans were on track to lose 135 BILLION pounds before the midterms. 135 billion pounds? Wonderful! We’re EACH going to give up around 400 pounds. Actually, I’m a little concerned. I confess, I carry a little extra wight – but not 400 pounds! For most of us, losing 400 pounds is like the Dumbass insisting he can lower drug prices by 1,500%. First you get to zero, then you keep going.

This regime just LOVES to make up numbers and they MEAN for the made-up numbers to be as impressive as they can be. THAT means BIG. The numbers have got to be BIG. If the numbers are BIG, the achievements are big, too, right? So Donny can’t just lower drug prices by 100%. Anybody could do that. (They can’t.)

It’s GOT TO BE 1,500% to impress MAGA, and Dr. Ooze isn’t impressing anybody by claiming Americans will merely lose 40 pounds each. Who could be impressed by THAT? No, it has to be 400 pounds because that’s a bigger number. Idiocracy, thy name is America…

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Well, there’s talk of a plan to end the shutdown. It comes out of the Senate. It would have to since the House has gone walkabout. It appears to have support from enough turncoat Dems to pass the Senate. It does not include the health insurance subsidies the Dems have been holding out for. The Senate’s Republican leader, John Thune, has promised he would allow a vote on a bill to deal with the credits by the second week of December.

He won’t. The GOP has gone so far as to withhold food from hungry people in an effort to put pressure on Democrats to surrender their demands. “You want health care? STARVE, peasants!” Now, all of a sudden, they’re going to just get reasonable and do the right thing? Uh-huh. You bet our lives!

Even if Thune does do the right thing, MAGA Mike the Johnson has said he won’t bring such a measure to the House floor. Besides, how can he bring anything to the House floor when the House Republicans are out quivering in their hidey-holes, fearful of having to address the problem of Donny’s very close friend Jeffrey Epstein in public and on the record.

My feelings on the topic were best summed up by Greg Casar, chair of the congressional Progressive Caucus. He said: “A deal that doesn’t reduce health care costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans counting on Democrats to fight for them. Republicans want health care cuts. Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from Republicans isn’t a compromise – it’s capitulation.”

I guess it’s back to desperation catastrophic coverage and preexisting condition denials for “The Land of Opportunity™!” A citizen of ‘The Greatest Country On Earth™?’ These days, I feel more like a victim…

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Have you SEEN the ramping up of disdain from all corners when it comes to Democratic Socialism? If you’re a talking head on American television, left or right, you MUST come out against Democratic Socialism. It’s BEST if you also mischaracterize Democratic Socialism. Call it Communism, that scares ’em!

I heard Bill Maher talking about how it never works, socialism. That’s wrong. He MEANS communism. Right now, the happiest, the freest, the most successful (if you measure success by best-serving the largest number of people) countries on Earth are Democratic Socialist. The act that made America great in the first place was FDR sprinkling in elements of Democratic Socialism to the US as a way to stabilize normally erratic so-called “Free-Market” Capitalism. He called it the New Deal.

This latest round of pearl-clutching started because Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, just became the mayor of New York City. The so-called “Free-Market” Capitalists run scared every time socialism rears it’s head. The thing is, socialism rears it’s head from time to time because it seems to be a better system and the masses keep figuring it out, then figuring it out again.

Mamdani once said in passing during a speech in 2021, “But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel), right, or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”

“Ooh, he said, ‘…seizing the means of production,'” terrified Capitalists cry, “He MUST be a commie! If seizing the means of production means one MUST be a commie, look to Donny, who just strong-armed his way into a deal giving the US government a stake in Intel. And MP Materials. And Lithium Americas. And Trilogy Metals. Not to mention the US government’s “golden share” of US Steel Corporation. Apparently, we’re communists already, da comrade?

Here’s what all the naysayers have in common: they’re all rich. Okay, maybe not rich rich but they’re doing very, very well, compared to most of the regular working stiffs. Pick a system, any system. The people who are doing well in that system probably like it very much. Why would they see problems? The very BEST one could hope for is a flaccid acknowledgement that it could use some “tweaks” here and there.

The thing people have to understand is this: Democratic Socialism is a capitalist system. It’s just controlled Capitalism. Those of us being crushed under the weight of so-called “Free-Market” Capitalism think it could use a little control…

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The Niners had a football game yesterday. Somebody should have told them. It looked like the team failed to show up so the coaches went into the streets and grabbed up anybody they could find who might fit the uniforms and put them out on the field. They played accordingly. If the game HAD been played by amateurs, well, they did a fine job. Hats off!

But if the people who showed up for the Niners identify as professional football players in the NFL? They might not want to tell anybody for the next couple of days. Maybe, let the memory of that stinker fade a bit. The Rams were firing on all cylinders and the Niners were still looking for their keys.

It seems strange, but that loss put the once-first-place Niner’s playoff hopes in jeopardy. They still have a winning record. They’ll still show on the “in the hunt” sections of playoff predictions. But the NFC is very competitive and the Niners are trending in the wrong direction. With their defense collectively in the Intensive Care Unit, they don’t have much hope of turning things around. RATS! Oh well. There’s always next season. Always. Next season…

Ballots Online? Be Careful…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so this is important. California has done a confusing thing. (What? Again?) I know! I opened my mail-in ballot. You know, the safest kind of ballot a voter can use? The ones with all of those protections built into them to ensure security? Yeah, that one.

Along with my ballot, I found a little card. One side of the card is emblazoned with the words ‘Business Reply Mail.’ The other side is an application for a thing called a ‘Remote Accessible Vote By Mail Ballot’ or RAVBM. I suppose such a thing has value if you spoil your mail-in ballot, but I don’t like them putting the application in with the other ballot. It could cause confusion.

What it is, see, is your ballot online. BUT… you don’t file the ballot online. You access it online, mark your ballot online, then print it out, put it in an envelope, and mail it (or carry it) in. Meanwhile, filling out the application voids the mail-in ballot the county mailed to you – and you STILL have to get it back by the end of business on “election” day.

My concern is that someone might get confused and think they’re signing up for a new service for future “elections” while filing this year’s mail-ballot, and not realize they’ve voided this year’s mail-in ballot in the process. That would be bad.

We enjoy a secret ballot in this once-great nation so you’ll never know which ‘yes’ box I filled in for Prop 50. To be clear, I oppose gerrymandering. I worry we’re starting an even faster downward spiral by supporting this idea. Worse, I fear that in a nationwide tit-for-tat, Dems will lose.

But I don’t see any other idea that might work. Texas started this when they rewrote their districts with the specific intention of creating five extra GOP seats. It left California little to no choice but to respond in kind. We might lose the gerrymander battle – but this vote, at the very least – reflects an effort. It’s a statement: “We do not agree. We will not acquiesce.”

Personally, I just thought of it as a finger to Donny’s eye and that made it all… wonderful…

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Well, rats! Donny didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – again! I mean, how many people does he have to bomb, maim, and murder to prove he’s a peaceful guy?

Okay, here is where I should probably mention that all of the hostages in Gaza have been released and people are giving Donny credit. We’ll have to wait and see if it equates to “peace,” but releasing the hostages is a good thing…

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It’s called ‘Inoculation,’ ironically enough. One side ‘inoculates’ an argument by advancing a given position themselves and baselessly blaming their opposition, thereby blunting later criticism when they do what they accused their opponent of doing. Here’s what I mean: Donny spent the last four years whining and moaning about the government “weaponizing the Department of Justice (DOJ)” because they were trying to convict him for all of his crimes. The government, then, was NOT weaponizing the DOJ. They were simply trying to convict him for all of his crimes. They would have, too, if he hadn’t already strategically installed so many corrupt judges.

The DOJ was just doing it’s job. But the point for the GOP wasn’t to whine. The point was to create a story. The idea is, they whined and whined and cried and bitched and moaned and whined some more. NOW, when THEY actually weaponize the DOJ and the Dems say, “They’re weaponizing the DOJ,” the cons will just say, “Yeah, yeah, you didn’t care when we said it, we’re not going to care when you say it.”

MAGA is celebrating these fraudulent, harassment suits against James Comey and Letitia James. They don’t realize that establishing this precedent of weaponized prosecutions could just as easily come back to bite them down the road, too…

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MAGA Mike: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.” I have to agree with that. With the GOP in charge, it’s not just being done poorly, it’s downright treasonous…

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It isn’t true on the national level, yet, but I’ve noticed a trend in which Democrats seem to be flipping seats in red areas down ballot. The most notable in my mind was when a Democrat won the mayoral election in Fairbanks, Alaska. Alaska, including Fairbanks, is dependably red. But they voted blue this year, at least for mayor.

Democrats flipped a legislative seat in Iowa, too. They flipped one in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Last May, Democrat Sam Sutton defeated his Republican opponent to win New York’s 22nd State Senate district – a district Donny won by 55 points in 2024.

I don’t mean to overstate it. Dems are also crowing about “over-performing” in other areas. That’s usually a euphemism that means “we lost by less than we lost by last time.” It’s still a loss, but it’s promising.

To me, it’s reflective of the havoc and chaos Donny and Team Evil are inflicting on the country. I mean, c’mon, do you really believe the Dems have improved their messaging and clarified their vision of how to improve the daily lives of Americans? I assure you, they have not. At least, not on the national level. On the national level, Dems seem stuck in “We’re not Donny.” Sure, it’s true, but it’s also not very… informational.

It’s like… people WANT to vote for “We’re not Donny” but you’ve got to give them something more than “not Donny” to vote for. Candidates in these down ballot elections have done exactly that – and they’ve won. It’s a hopeful sign for the mid-terms.

While Democrats and Republicans bicker about who’s doing what to whom, constituents – Americans and MAGA, alike – are getting notices from health insurers informing them of significant increases in premiums. HUNDREDS of dollars in increases. MAGA loves bitching about Obamacare but they’ve sure enjoyed having health insurance these last years.

I doubt any of my MAGA friends are going to confess, to me, their frustration with the wreckage being inflicted by Donny and the Dumbasses. But they will confess it to each other and it might very well play out in the voting booth. Even if they don’t vote blue, not voting at all sends a message, too.

There’s even a possibility the Democrats could lose the redistricting debacle and STILL win enough seats to flip one or both houses of Congress. One can contrive a bright red district, but the bright red voters still have to come out and cast a ballot and I’m not sure taking away health care and creating artificial price spikes is the way to get that done…

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…

When You Can’t Win, Cheat…

by MyBaconPress

In an effort to stop the gerrymandering Donny has demanded from Texas, the state’s Democrats have fled, leaving insufficient votes to move forward with the evil plan – for now. Evil Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to “remove” the Democratic lawmakers from their office if they don’t come back. That seems unconstitutional, to me, but I’m not very familiar with Texas state law.

The GOP knows the policies they’re pursuing are incredibly unpopular. Every day, more and more people are speaking out. When this country was a constitutional republic, the people could get rid of lousy lawmakers at the ballot box. It’s part of the reason there has been so little pushback to the insanity coming out of Washington, DC. Americans figure they’ll just vote the scoundrels out in the mid-terms.

That used to work. The GOP, and, specifically, evil Donny, are afraid it might work again so they formed a plan and the plan is simple: cheat. The anti-American GOP intends to gerrymander districts to eliminate Democratic seats and give the state five more Republican seats, thus extending the artificial hold Republicans have on the House of “Representatives.”

It’s not like this is back-room politics. They’re doing it right out in the open, where everyone can see. There’s not much the Texas Democrats can do about it, except leave the state, depriving the legislature of a quorum. So that’s what they did. But, come on, how long can they keep that up? They get fined $500 a day while they’re gone and their campaign funds aren’t allowed to pay the fines. Besides, historically, it only serves to slow, not defeat, legislation.

Texas is already considered one of the more gerrymandered states in the nation. Other known gerrymandered states include North Carolina (Swing, red in 2024), Maryland (Blue), Pennsylvania (Swing, red in 2024), Kentucky (Red), Louisiana (Red), Arkansas (Red), Utah (Red), Texas (Red), Ohio (Red), West Virginia (Red), and Wisconsin (swing, red in 2024).

Maryland seems to be an outlier as a gerrymandered blue state. It should be noted that the swing states that went red in the last “election,” likely went red as a result of Elon Muck’s money and his ‘knowledge of the tabulating machines’ – according to 47. But if the red states are already heavily gerrymandered – really, the only way the GOP can hold seats – all they can do is gerrymander more.

There are some blue states threatening to respond in kind, California and New York among them. California was once heavily gerrymandered to favor the GOP and we suffered terribly under the heavy hand of conservatism. The citizens managed to eliminate the rigging and California went blue again but the method we used to get back to fair also makes it very difficult for California to respond with it’s own, blue gerrymander. Newsom is trying anyway.

When I re-wrote the US Constitution, I included a bit that required each state’s congressional districts to be “as close to square shaped as possible.” The hope is that the requirement eliminates gerrymandering altogether. It’s cheating, pure and simple. Because of that, I’m not wholly on board with the idea of blue states gerrymandering to bring more blue seats. On the other hand, the red-hats are openly cheating and the country is suffering.

Do we really just stand around, squawking about honor and playing by the rules when we KNOW our opposition is openly cheating? In this case, losing with honor means losing the country. Like, entirely and forever. In view of the GOP nightmare we’ve already been treated to, I see blue-state gerrymandering as the lessor of two evils.

IF California can pull it off, we can bring as many as six more blue seats to Congress, offsetting the five Texas is trying to add. But it’s a big ‘if.’ Democrat Jared Huffman called the ploy a “race to the bottom” and I agree, but bringing a Marquess of Queensberry rule book to a gunfight seems like a losing tactic. I’ll tell you this: MAGAmerica sucks in every way…

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I’m very sorry to learn of Loni Anderson’s passing just a few days shy of her 80th birthday after a prolonged illness. I was a great fan of the original ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ and her character, Jennifer Marlowe, along with Gary Sandy’s Andy Travis, was one of the two “adults” in the room…

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Speaking of evil, Donny’s problem with Epstein seems to be leaving the news, just as the GOP hoped when they abandoned their jobs early to go on vacation rather than risk forcing 47 to release the files he promised to release. Yet another promise made, promise broken.

I understand why Donny wants the whole thing to go away. Based on the information currently available, I suspect he wasn’t JUST having sex with minors, he was part of the trafficking ring, supplying girls to Epstein via Mar-a-Lardo.

I have never seen such a unified, concerted effort to protect a child-raper as I’m seeing from the GOP and MAGA, though. This isn’t “shame,” it’s disgrace. I don’t have first-hand experience, of course, but my understanding is that in prison, fellow inmates are absolute in their “handling” of child-rapers. Murderers have better morals that MAGA!

I mean, it’s one thing to disagree about the best way to balance the budget but protect the pedophile? I will never understand…

Mourning the Fourth…

by MyBaconPress

I won’t be celebrating our Independence Day this year. Or any year, for that matter. Our Independence Day, the Fourth of July, was a day celebrating the founding of a new country – a country that no longer exists on this planet. Oh, sure, you can go to a map and find a landmass outlined in heavy black ink with the words ‘United States of America’ carefully stenciled in the middle. But the United States wasn’t the land. It wasn’t the people. It was the Constitution, and, clearly, the US Constitution no longer applies.

I submit that one cannot find even a single aspect of the US Constitution that remains in place. Some will say, “Oh, the 2nd Amendment” but even THAT is corrupted from the original intent. Some people decided that only half of the sentence “counts.” The other half of the same sentence is some distant, unknowable thing.

One might point to the very structure of government. THAT still exists, right? I’d say no. It still LOOKS like we have three separate, but equal branches of government, but they all toady up to the one branch. The whole point of the three-branch government was checks and balances, but the “checks” part has been willfully abdicated and the only thing that matters to the GOP is making one branch happier and more powerful.

I peg the end of the United States of America of the founder’s dream to the corrupt Citizens United “decision” handed down by the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court in 2010. It was couched in all kinds of legalese but once all the b.s. is burned away, it basically said it was okay for rich people to buy the government – and they did. We’re no longer living in the nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people” that Lincoln described. Now we live in something else – and it sucks. MAGAmerica more closely resembles the country the founders fought a war to get away from.

Hell, the reason the Democrats won’t come up with any effective response while actively sidelining other Democrats who actually have ideas for change is because the Democrats are being paid by the same people who pay the Republicans: the rich. If they do as they’re told – talk tough but lose – they keep their jobs. If they stand up to do the honorable and moral thing, they’re out.

I had hoped for more. I had hoped that as people saw the reality of our descent into authoritarianism, they would hit the streets the way the French hit the streets to protect their own lifestyle. I had hoped that when faced with a choice of fight or acquiesce, we would fight. Sadly, we chose acquiesce. Like most of the world, I’ve been very dismayed. Americans used to pride themselves on their revolutionary spirit.

But we became complacent. Ironically, we became complacent through voting. All of my life, I’ve understood that if a “mistake” happens and we get a bad politician, we just vote him out in the next election. We could put up with just about anything because we had a next election. We “get him at the ballot box.” All of my life, that worked. As of this writing, that is, FAR too late, I STILL hear people suggesting this is an anomaly that will be corrected by election. It’s automatic. They can’t help themselves.

“What do the Democrats need to do?” “Oh, we’ll come out at the mid-terms and change the makeup of Congress. THAT will stop it.” “Oh, Donny will have done his second term. He can’t run again, so we’ll fix it then.” Quaint. Elections in this once-great nation haven’t been honest since the introduction of voting machines and the “election” of 2024 was corrupted and manipulated in ways American citizens (ARE we still citizens?) aren’t used to.

From that point (2024) going forward, the outcome of “elections” will be dictated by the wealthy who benefit. Every decent, right-minded person in the nation will come out to change the makeup of Congress in the next mid-terms – but nothing will change. Astoundingly, the GOP will retain control of Congress. In fact, I predict (always dangerous) that the GOP will increase it’s control, despite the damage they’re about to inflict on the vast majority of Americans through Donny’s Big Barfy Bill. I can’t TELL you how much I hope I’m wrong about that – but I’m not.

Worse, if he’s still alive, Trump will “win” the next Presidential “election,” too – very likely with something like 94% of the vote. (Dictators always seem to think that winning by 94% shows they are beloved and popular. In fact, it always proves the votes were manipulated.) Even as you read that, you think to yourself, “No, only two terms.” You can’t help yourself. It’s the way we were raised. But it doesn’t apply anymore.

Waiting for the next election means time passes. We sit on our hands, outraged at the trespasses, and time passes. But while we, the people are awaiting the next election, the powers that be are consolidating and perfecting their control. Our patience, our faith in our system, facilitates our downfall.

I referred to some of this as a “prediction” but it isn’t really a prediction. I’m not looking forward. I’m looking back. I’m looking at history. This is an old story. We just didn’t expect it here, in the US. History says bloodshed will be the inevitable result. The only real question is: how long?

The Nazis so-called ‘Third Reich’ lasted twelve years – something less than the one thousand years they had promised and expected. But in those twelve years, they did unimaginable and unconscionable damage. It took 60 million to 80 million deaths to correct THAT error. We have that as our exemplar. We KNOW how this plays out. What are we waiting for? Yeah, the next “election.”

The US is, after all, the most well-armed nation on the planet. We may be the most well-armed nation in the history of the planet. So, how long will it be before people get angry enough to rise up and take back their power? The One Percent are betting it will be a long time. I doubt even out-of-control greedheads would seize absolute power if they knew that in, say, 18 months they would meet a guillotine. Sure, they know that SOMEDAY, their progeny will face guillotines, but they don’t think it will be them. THEY get to enjoy the good life, the life of aristocracy.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10) I mention it because, when all is said and done, this is and has been about greed. Avarice, if you’re looking to the Seven Deadly sins. Greed for money, greed for power. Pure, unadulterated, uncontrolled greed. MAGAmerica is made up of three levels: the rich and powerful on the highest level, their toadies and bootlickers on the second level, and the rest of us – those of us on the bottom level, the vast majority of the American people – are victims.

So I’m going to take a pass on celebrating our Independence Day for a lost nation and look to the NEW Independence Day, the day we shuffle off this abomination and return to a rule of law and democracy. Yes, it was messy, but it was better. Much, much better…

No Tribute…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How To STAY Losers…

by MyBaconPress

Well, the Democrats seem to be laying down to their old tricks, again. I’ve said before and I say again, the Democrats seem to be the Washington Generals of American politics to the GOP’s Harlem Globetrotters. That is, the Dems job is to lose.

30% of this once-great nation is solidly MAGA. But that means that 70% of us are NOT MAGA. Now that the country, no, the world has seen what conservatism looks like – graft, bribery, lying, bullying, economic upheaval, ideology over factuality, famine, pestilence, wars and rumors of wars – one would think all an opposition candidate would have to do is show up and promise something, anything, good.

There are elements from the Democratic party trying to do just that. There are people who see the Dems “strategy” of hiding and occasional “firmly worded letters” play out, failure after failure after failure, and say, “We need to change this. We need to be for the people. We need to do the right thing.” They work to act on that.

Then, the Dems work to sideline those people. The Democratic leadership has lost the House of Representative, the Senate, the Courts, AND the White House. True, they had to make some major moves to make that happen, but when it comes to losing, the Dems are motivated. Now, having seen loss after loss, they seem poised to present more of the same stuff that got us here.

Young people coming up are trying to re-direct the party in an effort to win… something. One of the more prominent and dedicated focuses of Democratic ire is a young man named David Hogg. You might remember the name. He was a high school student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when it was shot to pieces with the blessing of the NRA in 2018.

He became a rather active gun-control advocate, as did several of his fellow survivors. He chose politics as his route to achieve his means and has worked his way up to the role of being one of the five vice-chairs of the Democratic National Committee. He immediately began calling out Democrats who prefer to stick to the tried and true loser, “We’re not them.”

Hogg said he wanted to primary Democrats in “safe” districts if they weren’t interested in taking actual, effective action. He’s quite clear, he’s not trying to blow up the party. He only wants to send a message – AND, perhaps, get some younger blood with fresh thinking in there. As a direct result of his efforts at reform, some of the Dems were spurred to action. Apparently, it was inspiring.

They saw the young David Hogg trying to get the party moving and they – wait, is this right? It looks like the Democratic reaction to Hogg trying to win elections is to remove Hogg as a vice-chair! Yep, that’s what it says. The Dems want Hogg out. He just got elected to the role, but, apparently, trying to win elections is a deal-killer for the Democrats.

So the Dems have declared the election that put him in his role was, somehow, unfair to the women candidates and voided the February election that brought Hogg to his current position. To hear them tell it, it’s all strictly procedural. It has nothing whatsoever to do with his activism. They just happen to hate the activism on it’s own but they would never, ever, heaven forbid, remove a person for following his conscience. “Because we said so.”

I think the Dems answer to the One Percent, the same as the GOP. The Dems are supposed to lose and so lose they do. They pretend to put up a fight, but they lose. And they lose. And they lose some more. The GOP is as popular as head lice but the Dems can’t get traction? That just doesn’t make sense to me. These are professional politicians who managed to get on the national stage, but now, suddenly, they have no idea how politics work?

The Democratic leadership knows what it’s doing. They sideline members like AOC and David Hogg because they get people fired up. They seem to have lost interest in representing the US and their constituents and replaced that desire with greed. As long as the One Percent’s dollars are rolling in, the reform Democrats are out…

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Have you heard that the World Cup will be hosted, partially, by the US in 2026? It’s also being co-hosted by Canada and Mexico. The finals will be played in the US. That should be quite the revenue booster for the US. People will FLOCK into the country so they can watch their favorite…

Well, people were supposed to flock into the country and spend a bunch of their money. The US has become very hostile to non-Americans, particularly non-white, non-Americans. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world, but many of the game’s fans are <shivers> brown. A lot of them are white, too, but they ARE “foreigners.”

Ever since the rampage of destruction was launched by 47 and his minions, the US has become a very unwelcoming place. No decent person wants to be here, even to visit. Now we’re co-hosting an event that’s meant to draw thousands of visitors from other nations.

My guess? Canada and Mexico will do just fine during their turns at hosting. They’ll make lots of money. I suspect people will avoid coming to the US in droves. They can watch the thing on television and spare themselves the hassle of trying to visit. Meanwhile, American vendors of all stripes, people who thought this might be a great opportunity, are, likely, going to miss out on all of the beautiful revenue…

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This was posted by a guy named Paul Rudnick. “The main job of any Trump cabinet member is to deny whatever terrible thing just happened, blamed it on Biden, claim we’re in a ‘Golden Age’ and hint at a “Major Announcement” coming “sometime soonish.”

In one sentence, he managed to describe the current regime’s playbook perfectly…

MONEY Corrupted – Absolutely…

by MyBaconPress

Elon is out buying votes again. He says he’s not buying votes. He’s just giving a million dollars to certain individuals so they’ll vote a certain way. TOTALLY different. To be clear, both sides are pouring money into this race. It’s just the Elon is the only one out there, actually handing checks to potential voters. This is in Wisconsin. There’s an election to replace an outgoing state supreme court justice. The cons want to do to Wisconsin what they did to the SKCOTUS – corrupt it.

If they can get their con on the court, they can eliminate abortion rights and gerrymander districts to keep Wisconsin red. That will help in the US House of “Representatives,” too. (I mean, they still “represent.” The question is, for whom? It certainly is NOT Joe Six-pack.)

This should be illegal. It USED to be illegal. When I rewrote the Constitution, I added a bit that restricted political donations to the constituents of the candidate. If you don’t live in the state, you don’t get to donate to state issues, even on the Federal level. Wisconsin’s choice for, say, Senator, should be a decision of the people of Wisconsin. Nobody else should have a say.

When he went there to buy votes, he said, “And if the [Wisconsin] supreme court is able to redraw the districts, they will gerrymander the district and deprive Wisconsin of two seats on the Republican side,” Musk claimed. “Then they will try to stop all the government reforms we are getting done for you, the American people.”

Classic MAGA. When the facts ain’t on your side, lie, lie, lie. Who gerrymanders districts to keep artificial control over their government? Republicans! Oh, and all the government “reforms” we are getting done for you, the American people?” Yep, he’s “reforming” you right out of health insurance and your Social Security. The sometimes richest man in the world is “reforming” the American people right into poverty and reforming our position on scientific and technological advancement – all the way to the back of the bus. These are NOT “reformations,” they’re “deformations.” It’s just that MAGA lacks the moral clarity to understand…

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Oh, do you need to SEE what the cons plan to do once they successfully deport EVERY brown person in the country? NOW who do they get to do that back-breaking work? Well, in Floriduh, the “solution” they’ve chosen is (wait for it) – CHILDREN! There you go. Floriduh is trying to rewrite child labor laws to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts – even on school nights. They want to be able to classify children as “interns” and “apprentices.” AND, I’m sure there’s no connection, they want to pass a law allowing employers to pay interns and apprentices less than the minimum wage. Rather despicable, wouldn’t you say?

Obviously, Ron DeSantis is trying to sell the proposal by (checks notes) right, lying. He said, “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when teenagers used to work at these resorts? College students should be doing all this stuff.” Yep, that WILL sell it to the moral defectives. “These resorts.” Oh, is it the “resorts” that can’t get the crops in from the fields? Does Floriduh have a LOT of “college students” aged 14? Because 14 is the entry level the cons are looking for while DeSantis speaks of “college students.”

The cons are fluffing the outcome. It’s classic ‘lipstick on a pig’ stuff. They just want to get kids out there, working, producing for wealthy people. I mean, why wait? We can get them used to the idea that THEIR labor should fund someone ELSE’S opulent lifestyle at a young age.

Fortunately, there’s some push-back. A spokesperson for a group called, ‘the Florida Immigrant Coalition,’ Thomas Kennedy, said, “To recap, they made the state hostile to immigrants. They deported a bunch of people, or scared people into not coming, or moving out of the state. They exacerbated worker shortages, so now they’re trying to gut child labor protection standards, while at the same time passing a law that would allow them to classify these children and other workers as interns.”

“It’s insane, right?” Yes, Mr. Kennedy, it is. Totally insane. But welcome to Bizarro America, the America of MAGA dreams…

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I have to confess, I’ve been pessimistic about America’s chances, recently. I honestly believe the fascists have won, Better America is yesterday’s news, and it will take bloodshed to eliminate this Bizarro America. See? Pessimistic. When I hear people talking about voting strategies for the next election? I kind of throw up in my mouth a little. I wonder how people can be so self-deluded as to see this America-hating crowd illegally trample on people’s rights, illegally destroy the social safety net, illegally destroy people’s lives, and use the US Constitution to clean themselves in the bathroom, yet STILL think we’re going to have free and fair elections. Where in the F**K is the disconnect?

Oh, but hope springs eternal. Every day I wake up, hoping the headlines read “Trump Dead at 78,” even though I KNOW Satan takes care of his own and the Drumpfster ain’t goin’ nowhere. Hope. It can be VERY disappointing. Still, are you aware there are special elections taking place tomorrow? Recently, voters in Pennsylvania stood for the country and elected the Democratic candidate over the America-hating con. Apparently, it was something of a surprise.

There are TWO seats up for grabs in Floriduh. One is the seat vacated by the ever-clever Mike Waltz, he of the “let’s invite my journalist friend to sit in on our secret bombing mission” Waltz’s. The other seat is the seat abandoned by alleged statutory rapist Matt Gaetz. I mean, it really IS the best and the brightest who stand for The First Felon, isn’t it?

The other two seats are in Texas and Arizona, two states not known for “election integrity” or, hell, any kind of integrity, whatsoever. BOTH of those seats are available because the Democrats who held them died. (These seats are in addition to the “election” Musk is corrupting with his money in Wisconsin.)

One of the two Floriduh seats looks vulnerable to being flipped to Democratic and the other two were already Democrats in red states. Who KNOWS how it will turn out, but I find myself hoping. Despite my pessimism, eternally, hoping…

Cowardice, Straight Up…

by MyBaconPress

Not one, but TWO major, national newspapers, the LA Times and the Washington Post, have declined to endorse a candidate for President in this election? Since when? Oh, THIS election? Because the owners want Trump, but don’t want to SAY they want Trump, and when the editorial staff decided to endorse Harris, the owners just “decided” not to endorse anybody? Now the Times, at least, is losing subscribers and staff. Why, it’s almost as if the moment a newspaper decides to surrender objectivity, they surrender faith in their product, as well. I used to turn to the LA Times for slightly conservative but solid information, occasionally, but now they’re JUST “conservative” and I won’t trust them anymore…

People really should have paid more attention in History class. Rich people think they’re going to control Trump once he’s in office.
“Hey, isn’t that the same thing the power base in Germany thought about controlling Hitler once HE was in office?”
Yep.
“How’d that work out?”
Mostly? That “power base” did as they were told or suffered the consequences. Hitler couldn’t be controlled. Trump won’t be, either…

Cons won’t want to actually live in the America that will be after Trump seizes power. They just don’t know it, yet. Meanwhile, I think the LA Times and Washington Post have done serious, likely permanent, harm to their credibility…

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Ladies? Um…no pressure, but we’re going to need you to step in and clean up the mess we dudes made. Yes, again. You seem to be the main line of defense against the threat American faces, these days, from Trump and the GOP. Help us, OB/Gyn Kenobi. You’re our only hope…

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Do you know who knows the damage Donald Trump will do if he gets back in power? Everyone! Everyone knows. There IS no mystery. EVERYONE knows! It’s just that some of us think the things he’ll do are bad, and some of us are celebrating the destruction…

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Okay, I need some help from MAGA, here. You’all maintain that Trump never makes mistakes and is the very best at, well, everything, really. Now Trump, himself, has gone on the Joe Rogan podcast and said that the ‘biggest mistake’ of his Presidency was picking ‘bad,’ ‘disloyal people.’ But, at the time, he said he always had the BEST people.

I need you to do some of that voodoo you do and help me understand how he could always have the BEST people, and yet he made the mistake of picking bad people who were disloyal. He had INCREDIBLY high turnover in his time because, apparently, he picked a LOT of bad people. According to him, anyway. It turns out, if they loved their country more than they loved Trump, he considered them bad people. What does THAT say about MAGA?

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Republicans believe that mail in ballots are used more often by Democrats (and other lefties) than by Republicans. I believe that, too, so, hey, an area of agreement, right? In their ongoing effort to disenfranchise as many left-leaning voters as they possibly can – a hat tip to the notion that their ideas have extremely limited appeal – they created a lawsuit regarding a standard practice of mail-in ballots.

Sometimes, people mail their ballots just before election day. The postmark on the envelope made by the US Postal Service proves the date the ballot was mailed. Nationwide, in 18 states and Washington, DC, if the postmark is on or before election day, the ballot will be counted – even if it arrives at the registrar’s office a day or two after the election.

Cons saw an opportunity, there, and filed a lawsuit. If the ballot isn’t received by election day, they argued, it shouldn’t count. They filed this lawsuit in Mississippi because Mississippi allows ballots to be counted after being received and, crucially, is in the US 5th Circuit Court district – where they KNEW they would get a favorable ruling because that court, infamously, is so loyal to Trump, having been packed by Trump.

The District Judge who first heard the case, Louis Guirola Jr., rejected that argument. He pointed out, correctly in my view, that the Constitution specifically lets each state set their own rules for managing elections except where Congress has created Federal law. For MY part, I would argue that when the Founders started this once-great nation, the vast majority of ballots were not received by the the registrar ON election day. (They had to be collected and sent by horse. It took a while.) CLEARLY, they never had that as an intent.

Oh, but the Trump-loyal court has decided, randomly, that, nah, they don’t like that idea. It might allow too many lefties to vote. They just did that thing cons like to do; “The Constitution doesn’t say what it says, it says what we want to hear. Neener, neener.” Of course they didn’t SAY it that way. What they said was that a ballot was not considered “cast” when it was, you know, cast, that is, filled out and dropped into a box of some kind. Instead, that vote can’t be counted as “cast” until it arrives at the Registrar’s Office and if that’s after the date of the election, it’s too late.

Bear in mind, this ruling applies directly to Mississippi but will affect ALL 18 states and DC if it’s allowed to stand. It’s very likely it will disenfranchise most of the overseas military ballots, as well. They often arrive “late,” if that’s how one defines “late.” Their professed love of the military commonly has harmful affects for the military. Weird, that.

At this point, that “ruling” came from a three judge panel (standard practice for Appellate Courts) but can be reviewed by the full panel. It should be, but there’s no guarantee the full panel will make any better decision. It could go up to the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court of the United States but, of course, “Supremely Corrupt” is right there in the name, these days. So, suddenly, eleven days before the election, a conservative court has handed MAGAGOPCORP just the ruling they need to a) disenfranchise mostly left leaning voters and b) create enough confusion about the election to give their claims of problems legitimacy.

It really irritates me that THEY create the problems, and then use the problems they create as excuses to wreak havoc on the election. Actually, the part that bothers me is that it works. The cons KNOW they can’t appeal to enough people to win an honest election. They KNOW they can’t get any more people to come aboard because their are only so many weak-minded (not stupid, just malleable) individuals to be had. They KNOW that if they can’t win, and they can’t broaden their appeal, the only way to gain power is to stop as many of their opponents from participating as they possibly can and they have sought trick after trick to accomplish that evil goal.

I’ll tell you this: If your ideas suck so badly that you couldn’t possibly win an election, you shouldn’t win the election. Period…