Epstein

There CAN Be Consequences…

by MyBaconPress

Arresting the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew? Man, Europe has jumped to action against the perpetrators who show up in the Trump/Epstein files. That must be nice. I wonder what it’s like to live in a country with laws that apply to everyone. It seems like a good thing. I wish we had that here.

As the revelations about the files come out, big-wigs across Europe are, at the very least, losing jobs. Now not-a-prince Andrew has actually been arrested. This appears to have been quite the process. One does not, apparently, just arrest a Royal.

An image of Andrew, Virginia, and Ghislaine.

But since this photo of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre came out, his star has fallen steadily. First they stripped him of his honors and duties. Then they stripped his titles. They they tossed him out of his house. They made him as much of a “non-Royal” as they could. THEN came the arrest. Now we need to get the US serious about consequences of raping minors.

I really don’t like this attitude that they “get to” because they’re rich. If we don’t follow up, it won’t just be an attitude. It will become a truth that they get to rape our children because they’re rich. I genuinely hope we don’t let that happen…

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Trump keeps saying he’s been “totally exonerated” in the Trump/Epstein Files. I wonder if he keeps saying it in an attempt to convince somebody, somewhere, or if his mind has devolved to the point where he has randomly decided on his own that he’s been totally exonerated in the Trump/Epstein Files.

Does Trump really believe no other country uses mail-in ballots? He keeps saying no other country has mail-in ballots but that’s not true. So I wonder if he keeps saying it in an attempt to convince somebody, somewhere, or if his mind has devolved to the point where he has randomly decided on his own that other countries don’t use mail in ballots…

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Oh, you want yet another example of Trump lying just to lie? Easy. He keeps saying he’s fighting the illegal drug trade. He keeps murdering people in the Gulf of Mexico, pretending he’s fighting the illegal drug trade. But he has moved huge numbers of law enforcement officers and agents who used to actually fight the illegal drug trade over to immigration so they can arrest people facing a possible misdemeanor charge – and maybe not even that.

So how does one fight the illegal drug trade if one takes the officers and agents that DO that and put them to work chasing undocumented immigrants? The words say one thing, the actions say something else…

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“Him calling me that [a traitor] has become a badge of honor because I’m not in his cult, I refused to bow to his demands to cover up the Epstein files to protect his friends…” That’s a statement by Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on Brand X about Felon 47 attacking her.

For his part, Felon 47 says he’s been “totally exonerated.” He means “totally redacted.” We have yet to see what the files actually say about him in full…

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At this point, the trumpster has done just about everything he promised not to do and has NOT done any of the things he promised to do. He hasn’t drained the swamp, for example. He has brought in new and worse swamp monsters. He invaded Venezuela in exactly the kind of unprovoked, nation-building move he promised not to engage in. Now he’s threatening to do the same in Iran.

Only… I doubt Iran is going to capitulate as easily as Venezuela. It’s a tough call. CLEARLY, the people of Iran are fed up with their leadership. Will they fight to defend it? Then again, people often fight because some moron outsider attacked their nation. A US assault might actually bring Iranians closer, common enemy and all that jazz.

Trump needs to stay out of jail by staying IN power. The whole country (read: world) hates him and there’s no way he can win honest elections. Even MAGA, while dutifully reporting total and absolute fealty to their Precious, seem to be staying home rather than participate. The GOP has won exactly one election since 47 infested the Oval Office again. The mid-terms loom. If control of Congress switches, Trump gets impeached, at the very least.

HE knows that as well as you know it and I know it and everybody else knows it. The primary difference is, I’m holding my breath in hopes for that day and he’s scared to death of it. At this point, Trump actually needs a war in order to try and mess with our electoral process. He’ll SAY it’s about securing the vote. He lies. It’s really about securing his freedom.

So there you go, MAGA. After lying to you about everything, all the time, now there’s one more. He’s going to start a nation-building, war of choice, just to try to stay in power and out of jail. American taxpayer money will be wasted and American youth will be destroyed, just so one craven, failed human being can try to avoid the consequences of his actions. Thanks, MAGA…

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If you ever talk to a MAGA, you’ll learn pretty quickly that they have no idea about what’s actually happening in the world and, most especially, in this once-great nation. Their information sources keep certain stories from them. That’s literally true. MAGA media simply doesn’t report certain things and/or offer weak tea reasons for some other things. The information divide has been the primary basis for the left vs right battles for quite some time and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find a way around it.

The problem is, part of MAGA conditioning is to never seek or trust information from non-MAGA sources. (There’s a reason MAGA has been conditioned to revile smart people.) The result? MAGA has nowhere to check information. They’re left asking Laura Ingram if what Sean Hannity said is correct. (It isn’t.)

One possible answer is Ground News. It’s a website, (click here). I don’t work for them. This is not an ad. Ground News gathers news stories from across the political spectrum and groups the stories by topic. They identify the political leanings of the publishers, left, right, or center. They also show the factuality of a given story, high, low, or mixed. They have little boxes called ‘Blind spots’ where they highlight stories being reported on one side of the dial but not the other. Both ways, by the way.

The main down side to Ground News is that it only covers actual journalism sources. Most of the information MAGA receives in their media is “opinion.” Take Fox Not-News, for example. They offer a few minutes each day of actual, hard news. They’re even pretty good at it. Then they bury that news under hours and hours of opinions dressed up as news shows. They call it “opinion” because an opinion can be anything from a considered thought on relevant and valuable information to an outright lie. And the vast majority of MAGA “opinion” consists of outright lies.

So it’s not perfect but it’s an outlet they might be able to trust and find out if they’re on the right track or not. You, too, by the way. I think you can send your MAGA there to get a full array of information. Tensions are getting pretty high, out there. The very least MAGA should do before the shooting starts is to make sure they’re killing people for the right reasons – or for any reason at all…

Thanks, MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

The article I saw had a tiny but relevant error. The headline read, ‘Inflation eases more than expected, hits nearly five-year low.’ But the error was in the first line, which read, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday reported the consumer price index rose 2.4% year-over-year in January—down 0.3% from December and the lowest since May.” See the error? It should say, ‘The Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics…” That small adjustment explains the rest of the numbers.

If they had wanted to be really accurate, the article would have read, ‘A trump toady at the Bureau of Labor Statistics provided numbers intended to make the pedophile fraudster happy.’ I mean, really, do prices feel like they’re rising at slower rates these days? And then there’s this: if inflation is rising at a nearly textbook rate, doesn’t that mean Jerome Powell is doing a good job and his policies are working perfectly? Doesn’t that call trump’s claims of incompetence into question?

I mean, not to MAGA, obviously, but to everybody NOT locked in thrall to 47? Either Powell’s policies are working well to curb inflation, making trump wrong about Powell, or the numbers are fudged making trump wrong about the numbers. Either way, trump is wrong…

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MAGA has been dutifully defending the actions of the ICEholes just as they’re told to. They repeat the tales they’re told as though the tales have some validity, like they’re straight out of the gospel. It’s pretty clear to thinking Americans that the stories don’t hold up. When we have side by side comparisons of the evidence versus the comments from ICE, we can see for ourselves the ICEholes are lying.

I confess, being caught in lies over and over about the public events kind of scares me for the people we’ve heard stories about who have suffered abuse and even died in ICE custody behind closed doors. Now the federal government has opened a criminal probe into statements made by two immigration officers about the nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis last month of a Venezuelan national named Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

To be clear, THIS government, this corrupt, evil government working overtime to inflict as much pain and cruelty as possible into people’s lives opened a criminal probe into a shooting. Apparently, the shooting was caught on camera and proved the story the agents told was false. But it has to be worse than that, right? Pretti and Good were both murdered in broad daylight, both caught on camera. Agents lied about what happened in those cases, too, and video proved it. THOSE agents aren’t facing any legal action, so why these guys? I’m thinking it must have been pretty bad. Thanks, MAGA…

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Speaking of shootings, yesterday was the anniversary of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which 17 people were killed and 17 more injured. THAT shooting, according to MAGA, was impossible to stop and should have resulted in every human being everywhere carrying as much fire power as they could manage every time they stepped out the door. I mean, obvs.

It was totally unlike that completely provoked Alex Pretti killing in which Pretti dared to have a gun he never even drew, let alone used. See how that works? I pay attention to what MAGA says about one shooting, then I listen to what they say about the next shooting. It becomes pretty clear MAGA positions shift quickly, as needed. It’s no wonder nobody believes anything they say…

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During Pam Bondi’s tantrum on Capitol Hill the other day, she was asked at one point to acknowledge the Trump/Epstein survivors sitting in the room. She had been asked if her corrupt DOJ had interviewed any of the survivors. They haven’t. They don’t wanna. The survivors were asked to stand and raise their hands if they had reached out to the DOJ to provide information, but were rebuffed. This was Bondi’s response.

Bondi ignores Epstein survivors.

That’s some pretty aggressive, intentional “not-noticing” going on, there. I like how the survivors are looking at her. They don’t seem to feel the same shame Bondi is pretending not to feel. But that look, or non-look as the case may be, speaks volumes to me.

We now know Bondi is a co-conspirator. I mean, even if she wasn’t before, she certainly has embraced the cover-up wholeheartedly. At a minimum, she’s aiding and abetting after the fact. This photo makes it clear that Bondi has no intention of prosecuting anybody who engaged in the sex trafficking ring. None of the perpetrators, none of the clients.

There’s nothing about the Trump/Epstein files that doesn’t appear to be a cover-up, and one doesn’t cover-up honest, decent behavior. Thanks, MAGA…

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It remains true, as conservative doctrine has taken hold of the world, every aspect of life has taken a serious downturn, or is about to. In this case, I’m referring to Measles making a spectacular comeback all over the world. The UK just lost it’s “Measles free” status because the illness is so widespread there now. All of it – ALL of it – is unnecessary. This is just what the world looks like when people govern by hope and wishful thinking instead of relying on facts and verifiable information.

I recognize my own propensity to pitch the occasional (cough) epithet here and there but all kidding aside, it seems the world is currently being run by some of the stupidest people in history and we’re getting exactly the stupid results people might have predicted. No, DID predict. At this point, the main question is which stupidity is going to kill us first.

It could be the spread of easily preventable diseases. It might be the return of smog-filled skies. Maybe it will be the effects of climate change. Maybe it will be violence. Maybe it will be something else, I can’t say. But all of those treats are on the way. They represent completely unnecessary pain and suffering and they’re all being brought to you by conservative orthodoxy. Thanks, MAGA…

Another Day In MAGAmerica…

by MyBaconPress

MAGA morality. That’s an oxymoron, like Jumbo Shrimp, but at least there’s such a thing as Jumbo Shrimp. There’s no such thing as “MAGA morality.” They have exactly ONE principle: what’s best for Donny? I’ve long said MAGA will do anything if they think it might please 47. Americans suspected as much when MAGA started lying about everything, all the time. Then Covid-19 hit and they killed their elders – over a million of them – because they couldn’t confess trump’s failings.

But not only did they kill them, they celebrated killing them. After all, they died from “comorbidities” and everyone knows that if you die from comorbidities, you deserve to die. That MAGA attitude killed over a million people in this country. They pretend to support law enforcement – until trump tells them to attack the Capitol building and “fight like hell.” Then they’ll fight – and even kill – law enforcement. They pretend to love the Second Amendment. Guns everywhere, for everybody all the time. Until someone they don’t like has one. Then? Having a gun is clearly a death penalty offense.

Now we have this story about a father living in Texas. He’s an immigrant. He got into an arguement with his daughter, Lucy Harrison, aged 23 years. First, he defended trump from charges of raping girls by telling his own daughter that if SHE had been a victim, he wouldn’t care, since he has two other daughters who live with him. And I guess he wouldn’t have cared because then, he killed her. This is a photo of the woman, a young pretty blonde women killed by an immigrant.

Lucy Harrison, forever 23

According to MAGA, we’re supposed to focus on those. None of the other murders that happened that day “count” and none of the immigrants who didn’t commit crimes that day count, either. We just strip it down to the most basic, single focus photo and scream, “IMMIGRANT! ARGH!”

Oh, I should mention, this immigrant, a white guy, seems to be getting away with it. The details behind what happened came down to just a matter of his word against his dead daughter’s word and, being Texas, authorities readily accept the “accidental shooting” story because they prefer to. But make no mistake. I believe this man murdered his own daughter because she said something about trump that he didn’t like.

I wonder if MAGA is going to start showing pictures of this particular immigrant who killed a pretty blonde girl like they do with others. At least the others have been captured, tried, and convicted. THIS guy, they’re giving a pass and letting walk. It’s almost as if their interest in immigrants who murder is limited to one group…

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Bill Kristol is a pretty well-established conservative, right? He posted on Brand X, in response to reporting that ICEholes shot a man ten feet away from them and then lied and said he was attacking them. Kristol: “Does DHS ever not lie?” Bill Kristol has noticed, but MAGA simply will not and there are none so blind as those who will not see…

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Gallup announced they were going to stop tracking Presidential approval ratings and people are surprised. Not me. Gallup hasn’t been a decent or respectable polling organization since the founder died and the son took over. And isn’t that classic MAGA? Donny’s poll numbers are in the tank. They reflect only the enduring love of self-deluded MAGA but it’s likely even some of them are lying. So, stop taking the polls, eh? If there’s no reporting of disapproval, there’s no disapproval, right? Jenius…

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That racist video Trump the Pedo posted? The one that shows the Obamas as apes? The one trump knows nothing about because somebody else did it without his knowledge on his account late at night? The “somebody else” has never been disciplined nor even identified. Worse, 47 STILL doesn’t see what the big deal is. It’s just a simple, basic, long-understood racist trope. Why is everybody so upset? It just confirms what I already know: racists very commonly don’t know they’re racists…

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In yet another weaponization of the law, Team Evil tried to prosecute six members of Congress over a video they made that reminded enlisted people they don’t have to follow illegal orders. I mean, how stupid is that? “Hey, they can’t make you break the law.” “Prosecute that man!” Weird, weird response. No, I get it. The video came out in response to Donny murdering people in boats in the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes, the Pacific Ocean.

So, see, maybe it was some kind of an affront to 47 so they have to be prosecuted. I don’t think saying things Donny doesn’t like is prosecutable yet. Neither do the courts, apparently. A grand jury would not indict the targets and now a judge has blocked the regime from punishing Mark Kelly for his part in the video by busting his rank. It’s the right thing to do, in view of the simple fact that Kelly only stated a simple fact. Military members DO have an obligation to refuse illegal orders…

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I thought MAGA would celebrate Pam Bondi’s asshole performance on Capitol Hill the other day. She was SO effective at not answering any questions while shouting like a child and throwing tantrum after tantrum, she became a co-conspirator. You know, assuming she wasn’t already. I thought MAGA would celebrate her whiny, screechy performance, then decry a similar performance from any Democrat that might show up on scene and do the same thing. I was thinking Bill Clinton.

But MAGA seems to be unhappy with her useless waste-of-time performance as well. At least for now. MAGA is still allowed to get mad at Bondi. Bondi isn’t Donny. But MAGA media will explain to the rubes that Bondi is doing Donny’s bidding and they’ll fall right back into line.

“The Dow is over fifty thousand dollars!” That was Pam’s explanation for why it’s okay for rich people to rape our kids. That’s a dumbass excuse no matter what the situation, but most especially when one realizes the Dow isn’t measured in dollars. She’s evil and she’s an idiot. Based on the current regime, there seems to be a connection…

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On the “bright” side, um, if one can call it that, none of this is going to be much of a problem for us, here, in the near future. Team Evil has rolled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. An analysis found that enforcement of laws against polluters is nearly non-existent. Trump was named ‘undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal.’

In a completely unrelated event, a couple of days ago, a headline appeared in ‘The Guardian’ that read, ‘Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say.’ The first line of the article read, “The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.”

Scientists estimate that since the dawn of life on the planet, Mother Earth has shuffled off 99% of all species that have ever inhabited the planet. Said another way, it’s pretty clear Mother Earth doesn’t give a fig about any particular species one way or the other. If we don’t save ourselves, she’s not going to step in with some magical fix. She’s just going to shrug us off and try something else. Feel free to connect those dots…

Corruption On Steroids…

by MyBaconPress

I saw this sentence in an article by the Guardian, “The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption…” Hey, no question, eh? I can’t speak to the UK, but the US has become a cesspool of corruption under this regime. The only real question is, “Where ISN’T there corruption?” The article specifically referenced trump and the trump/Epstein files.

Why did the US fall to 29th place on the list? The report cited “the use of public office to target and restrict independent voices such as NGOs and journalists, the normalization of conflicted and transactional politics, the politicization of prosecutorial decision-making, and actions that undermine judicial independence.” MAGAmerica sucks…

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It seems inevitable that that would lead to this. The ICEholes are hiding their faces while they harass and brutalize people. The wear masks. It’s a crime to grab the mask and expose their faces so they get away with it. BUT… there’s a guy out there, called Dominick Skinner. He’s a Netherlands-based, Irish national and he created a website called ‘ICE List.’ (Click here.)

See, puppy killer KLAN – those are Kristi Noem’s real initials – said anyone working to identify ICEholes was subject to arrest. Skinner’s attitude? “I reposted that and said, ‘well, we’re not in the US, so send them to us.'” People started doing that and now he’s got quite the database of names.

The DHS says the ICEholes have to cover their faces for safety because of the increase in violence, ignoring the fact that the increase in violence comes from the ICEholes. Skinner had the same observation and added, “I always say that ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety. What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.” Hmm, I’d guess these incel losers would be used to being socially excluded…

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Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Republican (of course) from Wyoming, has finally decided she might be just a little bit uncertain about events surrounding the Trump/Epstein files. She bravely did her level best to ignore the issue, fearing that if she gets the information she might have to react. She said, “Well, initially, my reaction to all this was, ‘I don’t care. I don’t know what the big deal is.'” At this point, one has to have their head WAY deep in the sand to not know what the big deal is.

“But,” she added, “now I see what the big deal is, and it was worth investigating. And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong.” What was it that prompted her to finally speak up? The revelation in the latest Trump/Epstein document dump indicating a nine-year-old victim. Apparently, the thirteen-year-old didn’t bother her all that much, but nine? So now we know that Sen. Cynthia Lummis draws the line on sex with children somewhere between the ages of nine and thirteen…

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This might be a Mars/Venus thing. Men are bad enough, but I never understand women who have a tolerance for rape – most especially when the rapes are of children. One would think women would work together as a group to protect each other from that kind of violation. But we already know about Ghislaine, a woman who found and groomed girls for delivery to men. That’s not a “tolerance” of rape. That’s a predilection.

Then yesterday, we got to see Pam Bondi on Capitol hill defending the perpetrators. And she did it right in front of several of the survivors. Smiling. It was a psychopathic level of social disregard in my untrained, unprofessional opinion. It was hard to watch. She made it clear she has NO intention of holding any of the perps accountable. Apparently, in Bondi’s mind, those girls got what they deserved.

She didn’t like being called before Congress and she was sure as shootin’ not going to answer a single question that came from a Democrat. She brought a specially prepared binder called a “burn book.” It is what it sound like. It’s a book full of… well… burns, nasty things she can say instead of answering questions.
“AG Bondi, why was the name of that co-conspirator improperly redacted?”
“You’re stupid and crime was up in your district two years ago!”
“But you redacted the name of a co-conspirator only in the list of co-conspirators, apparently to try and protect said co-conspirator.”
“We fixed that twenty minutes after you pointed out that we’d been caught, you big bag of poo-poo!”

She had a page of “burns” for each of the Democrats participating in the “hearing.” Oh, and, likely, one for Republican Thomas Massie. What she did NOT have was a single relevant answer to even basic questions. I actually got angry watching. I mean, really mad. It took me a few minutes to cool off and regain my composure after I turned away. It’s times like this I wish I believed in Hell, where there should be a special place for people like Bondi…

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That racist video trump posted? The one that shows the Obamas as apes? The one trump knows nothing about because somebody else did it without his knowledge on his account late at night? A reporter noted that 47 frequently suggests Joe Biden didn’t know what was going on in his name and “now this racist video is posted on your social media – “

Donny interrupted and snarled, “I know a hell of a lot better than you do. You don’t know what’s going on. I know what’s going on.” So he doesn’t know anything about the thing he knows all about? Got it…

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Do you know how I know that even Donald Trump doesn’t believe there’s any evidence implicating Bill Clinton in the Trump/Epstein files? Trump hasn’t appointed Clinton to a high-ranking, White House position like he has with so many of his other co-conspirators…

Speaking of the Trump/Epstein files, I’m disturbed by a recent trend. We keep being told how many times someone’s name appears in the file, as if that’s something. It’s not, and I don’t care. I’m not impressed that trump, likely, shows up tens of thousands of times. I want to know about the people whose names come up in connection with illegal behavior. That’s all.

The rest is becoming a distracting noise. As an example, I believe Bill Clinton when he says his name is in the files, but not doing anything wrong. So do the Republicans, by the way. There’s a reason they want his testimony behind closed doors and it’s NOT because they want to be open and forthright. They’re working toward smear season because it’s all they’ve got, there…

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The jobs report came out Wednesday. It was expected to be so bad, the regime issued early warnings. Apparently, you just have to look at it right and you’ll see how great it is. “No,” we’re told, “lower numbers are good.” We were told to expect lower numbers going forward. Look, I know trump is crashing the economy and people are losing their jobs in record numbers so, yeah, I’m expecting lower numbers going forward. It turned out, the numbers were better than anticipated – even by the regime.

We DO still have to take into account the “Keep Donny happy” fudge factor, though. Maybe the number was real, maybe not, but they certainly expected lower numbers. The regime told us the lower numbers are related to all of the “illegals” they’re deporting. But wouldn’t that create MORE job openings? It’s a bit insulting that they just lie about everything all the time, but it’s quite insulting that they don’t even try to come up with believable lies. The economy is crashing and the jobs report is very low because every move trump has made has been to benefit the wealthy while harming the not-so-wealthy.

“Wait, that last sentence suggests he’s hurting the not-so-wealthy on purpose.” Yep. We’re being ‘put in our place.’ We got a little too big for our britches wanting decent working conditions and livable wages. Now we get to see what life is like when our overlords are NOT so generous and gracious. It either that, or they get to see what it looks like when you’ve so infuriated 300,000,000 people all you can see is an ocean of pitchforks and torches.

The jury has yet to decide how it plays out but, if we let them, they plan to hurt us…

Our ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Moment…

by MyBaconPress

We all know that Donny likes to give the game away. He says the quiet part out loud. Inevitably, he tells us what he did, even the criminal things, especially the criminal things. The left likes to portray that as stupid, like, maybe, he doesn’t realize he’s telling on himself. As the Trump/Epstein file thing plays out, though, I’ve started to see it differently. I don’t think he’s accidentally “telling on himself” like the moron we know him to be.

I think he’s bragging. I think he’s letting us know – he’s done something again, he got away with it, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Hell, his entire legal odyssey has been about getting away with crimes using the money he has. Most people simply don’t have the resources to buy their freedom by buying the judge. (I’m pointing at you, Aileen Cannon.)

We all know the wealthy elite live a life of privilege. I suspect we all know they get away with crimes the rest of us don’t, too. After that, the only question for them is, “How far can we go?” I think that’s the whole point to raping the girls. He (they) did it to prove they could. Raping our children is the special little “treat” they get because they’re rich and powerful. I’ve come to believe this is, very much, a “Let them eat cake” moment.

There’s no evidence Marie Antoinette ever actually said those words – she was ten years old the first time the phrase appears – but the phrase was illustrative of the attitude of the French nobles to the masses, who were starving at the time. It reflected the fact that the gentry were living high on the hog, enjoying all of the finer things in life and doing what they wanted to do, while the masses were increasingly starving and desperate. Does any of that sound at all familiar in today’s context?

There’s a story in history known as ‘Droit du seigneur’ (‘right of the lord’), also known as ‘jus primae noctis’ (‘right of the first night’). During feudal times, the idea was that the lord of the manor claimed the right to deflower any young woman on her wedding night. Although there’s no evidence of anyone actually doing so, stories like it go way back in history. Those stories reflect the power and privilege of the “haves” while reinforcing the subjugation and lower status of the “have nots.”

In both of those cases, the message is clear: If you’re rich enough and powerful enough, the law doesn’t apply to you. How better to prove that than get away with otherwise illegal things? And that brings me to the worst part. I think 47 brags that he gets to rape our children because of who he is, because he DOES get to rape our children because of who he is. We, the desperate masses, are being told right now, in real time, every day and to our faces, they get to rape our children if they want to.

Despite his lying claims, the Trump/Epstein files contain tons of incriminating evidence against the guy. Lots of other people, too. But I’ve come to agree with Jon Stewart who says nobody else in the files is going to jail. Jeffrey Epstein went to and died in jail. Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting, comfortably, it seems, in a minimum security prison still enjoying many of the finer things in life, though, admittedly, it IS still prison. But certainly NOT what most people envision when they think of prison.

We KNOW other people appear in the files. Rich and powerful people. We’re watching all of this garbage play out, “Ooh, whose name appears in the files and how many times?” So far, trump holds the record. I guess because he’s the biggest raper, the best raper. But all of that distraction is starting to feel like corporate media protecting rich and powerful people, possibly themselves among them.

It’s just a waste of time to learn that Roy Wood, Jr or Micheal Ian Black appear in the files in the context of television shows they made. I don’t CARE who was using Epstein’s plane to get around, so long as they were just using Epstein’s plane to get around. It’s noise and innuendo and as long as it IS noise and innuendo, both sides can use the vague reports to insinuate wrong-doing on the part of their political opponents. But it doesn’t have to be vague.

There is (was?) recorded evidence against these wealthy, privileged elites committing their crimes with these young ladies in the form of DVDs. Each disc was labeled with “[rich guy]+[victim]” and the date. So, you pick up the first DVD, type the name of the [rich guy] on a piece of paper, and set the disc aside. Then you pick up the next disc and type THAT name. You keep doing that until you’ve gone through all of the DVDs. (Don’t skip Donny’s.) Then you release that list of names. Easy, right? Straightforward, right? It might not even be all encompassing but it’s a great place to start prosecuting.

But nobody is doing that and nobody is going to do that. It’s infuriating. I find myself wondering what the masses are going to do about it. When they say, “We get to rape your children,” do we just shrug? ARE we going to let them get away with THAT, too? There are clearly no cops on the beat to turn to. The cops are protecting the rich, not the kids. What do people do when the cops can not, WILL not act?

The French people rose up. Marie Antoinette found her royal head rolling regally down the street. Perhaps there’s a clue in that. John F. Kennedy said that when you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable. I’m now waiting and watching to see if the American people are really just going to accept what we’re being told, begrudgingly or otherwise…

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“I didn’t make a mistake.” More truth. He didn’t make a mistake. He did it on purpose. He posted the video that depicted the Obamas as apes, a classic trope of bigots everywhere. He knew what he was doing. He’s trying to distance himself and blame others today only because the reaction was so bad, even from his own evil people. But this is just more Donny, telling you a truth about who he is. It wasn’t a mistake. It was intentional…

Never-Ending Trumpery…

by MyBaconPress

A brief review: The worst President in the history of Presidentin’ steals his way into power then forces his way into control of the Kennedy Center. His teeny, tiny ego causes him to try to include his name in the name of the building. Nobody complies and it remains ‘The Kennedy Center’ regardless of what he does. But the performers scheduled to appear there – whatever it’s name – don’t WANT to be associated with Donny or anything about him so they start cancelling appearances.

Now, suddenly, The National Embarrassment has declared the Kennedy Center needs to close for renovation. Well, this should be… gaudy. Meretricious, even. (‘Meretricious’ means ‘attracting attention in a vulgar manner – and who is more vulgar than this waste of flesh?) I guess this is his clever ploy to keep from having quality performers canceling gigs because the values of the Kennedy Center, today, are in direct conflict with messages of decency…

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Well, Todd Blanche, one of Donny’s protective toadies working as hard as he can to obscure details of all those years when Donny was raping children for fun – but ALSO overseeing a prosecutorial review of the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell sex trafficking case because, why not? – has declared the review of the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell sex trafficking case is “over.”

You’ll never guess, so I’ll tell you: It turns out, after all of that, there’s nothing that might warrant further prosecutions. Blanche said. “But that doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there.” This from Team Evil, infamous for “just kind of” coming up with cases that aren’t there.

I guess that means there are no more impediments to getting the Trump/Epstein files out there, then, right? Just release the rest of the information and we’ll ALL take a look at the information and see if anything comes across as actionable by any, you know, competent attorneys. I’ll bet competent attorneys will be able to see something, even if self-blinded Team Evil chooses not to…

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Well, I didn’t expect this. According to ProPublica, the names of the shooters in Alex Pretti’s murder have been revealed. Weird. Well, maybe. The shooters are Border Patrol agents. Their names? Jesus Ochoa (43) and Raymundo Gutierrez (35). On the one hand, the government is working hard to protect the names of goons in their goon squad. On the other hand, we find out these guys did the shooting. It’s likely just the atmosphere in the world today, but I noticed that the names of the shooters sound rather… Hispanic.

Wouldn’t it be just like Team Evil and the Evil Regime to throw two of their agents under the bus just because those two agents happen to have the same skin tone as the people they’re supposed to be attacking? And how do you suppose Ochoa and Gutierrez made the team in the first place? One would think the minute they showed up at the ICEhole office, they would be hooked up and shipped out. Either way, there’s still no statute of limitations on murder. Add their names to the list for future prosecution…

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The dark but inevitable result of deporting people based on a random number (“We have to make 3,000 arrests a day!”) is that you start to arrest people just because they’re people currently available to be arrested. THAT means, that while your bosses are out there, pretending and insisting that you’re only arresting the worst of the worst, you’re actually arresting, say, five-year-old boys in bunny hats.

Right, five-year-old boys in bunny hats that happen to be here, in the US, legally. Five-year-old boys in bunny hats that happen to be here, in the US, legally and have committed no crime. Then, once you HAVE arrested five-year-old boys in bunny hats that happen to be here, in the US, legally and have committed no crime, you might as well ship them to a holding facility in Texas anyway. You DID, after all, go to all the trouble of violating that person’s constitutional rights.

MAGA has been told the father ran. He didn’t. MAGA was told the mother refused to take the boy. That isn’t true, either. In fact, the agents in question refused to let a woman keep custody of the boy. They had a number to hit that day. Arresting the child didn’t do anything to make America safer but it helped the agents to meet their quota. Personally, I think that’s a horrible reason to traumatize a child…

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All I’ve heard is that this new, useless “documentary” about Melanomia is being screened to empty theaters. Well, no. I’ve heard the thing is terrible, devoid of information and misleading, too, but the main thing is, empty theaters. Everywhere, all the time.

Now, suddenly on this fine Monday morning, her movie has suddenly broken all box office expectations and taken in more than $8 million dollars? I suspect a trick. One person, likely, “bought” one showing for $8 million dollars. Two people might have split the cost, $4 million each.

That’s how conservative books hit the bestseller lists, you know. Someone makes a huge investment up front. THAT purchase gets counted in initial sales and adds to the bestseller consideration. THEN, quietly, the books are returned or “remaindered.” It’s a trick to make it LOOK as though someone has written a bestseller when they haven’t done any such thing.

I suspect a similar play here. Everything says this “documentary” is a vapid, vacuous bomb and theaters around the world are reporting ridiculously low ticket sales. The only way it could bring in $8 million dollars is trumpery. Fortunately, these things usually come out. Sooner or later, we’ll learn who the pigeon is. $8 million dollars. That’s the best trick SHE ever turned…

The Betrayals Never Stop…

by MyBaconPress

“People that own their homes, we’re going to keep them wealthy. We’re gonna keep those prices up. We’re not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that someone who didn’t work very hard can buy a home.” – Delusional Donny, the Dumbass.

Everyone knows the cost of housing is too expensive. By now, we all know that the costs are inflated by Wall Street buying up single-family homes as quickly as they hit the market. The euphemism the news likes to use is “inventory shortage.” That’s a misdirect. They use it to support “build more houses,” which Wall Street with also buy as quickly as they hit the market.

You can file this under yet another promise made, promise broken. He promised he was going to lower the cost of housing, or try to. Now he’s saying, blatantly, that, no, he’s not interested in doing that. Instead, he’s going to make sure the Haves keep what they have and the Have-Nots remain empty handed.

The frustrating part is that I still have a functioning long-term memory. I remember that the housing prices have been artificially inflated since the housing bubble created by the derivative market starting in the late 1990s and exploding in the early 2000s. Nobody made any effort to restore realistic pricing after the crash of 2008. Too many people had bought too many homes at inflated prices by then.

In an effort to get the housing market moving again, Wall Street was allowed, for the first time, to buy single-family homes starting in 2011. They didn’t really start digging in until 2014 but once they did, they began consuming with abandon. Donny promised to address the problem. The fix is so simple, even he could actually get it done so when he said it, I kept an open mind.

All we have to do is return to the days when Wall Street was barred from buying single family homes and require them to divest their single family holdings in a fairly short time period. I recommend two to five years. The only bill I’ve heard of that covers the topic says ten years. I think that’s too long, but I’d take it over the current, “Screw you, it’s mine!” we have now…

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Ariel in ‘The Tempest,’ and, somehow, the most accurate description of our once beloved government. That Shakespeare guy was really pretty good…

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Hold on to your wallets. There goes the dollar. Donny has made his pick for the next Fed Chair: Kevin Warsh, a loyalist toady with no more knowledge of the economy than the Orange Moron himself. Actually, Warsh’s level of understanding won’t be relevant. Warsh’s job will be to do what Donny tells him to do without question or hesitation. It won’t MATTER if Warsh knows a choice trump has made is a bad move, he’ll do it because he’s ordered to do it.

That destabilizes the dollar. People are already fleeing the US dollar in droves and, if I may bastardize a Bachman-Turner Overdrive song, “B-b-b-baby, we just ain’t seen n-n-nothin’ yet.” Messing with the money is a common last straw for empires throughout history. I don’t care how special we see ourselves, it will be no different for us…

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Remember, every accusation from a con is an admission. Donny is claiming protestors in Minneapolis are being paid to be there. Donny is a known liar and hasn’t got one shred of evidence to prove his lie. He just says it. His source? One should see his lie as proof that Donny pays people to attend his rallies, protests, and insurrections. We KNOW his campaign paid to have some of the violent criminals present on J6, for example. We also know – nobody has to pay Americans to protest this regime…

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Holy Gods, we’ve been coming at this from entirely the wrong direction. It’s a much, much shorter list to ask, “Which rich and powerful men currently in, or coming into, the current regime do NOT appear in the Trump/Epstein Files? Because the more information comes out – as slowly as possible, and now we know why – the more it seems that if you ever hung around Donny socially, you raped kids.

That’s got to be hyperbole, right? But, Jeez, it sure seems like everyone surrounding him now, makes appearances in the Trump/Epstein files. It’s important to remember, there are names, lots of names in those files, of people Epstein was trying to schmooze or testing the waters of interest but didn’t do anything sexual with any minors. But now we know, there are plenty who did.

And, listen, just as a sidebar, aren’t you amazed – boggled might be a better word – at the sheer volume of files these guys have under their control? I would have been happy with just a list of the names on the DVDs Epstein recorded, apparently secretly. Those are the pervs I’m most interested in because those seem to be the DVDs Epstein used to blackmail people for having sex with minors. Um… allegedly.

But millions of files? At some point, we, the people have to ask how long so-called “important” people knew about this and did nothing – except, maybe, participate. Why did Epstein get a sweetheart deal the first time he got arrested and why wasn’t he arrested again sooner? Sadly, we all know the answer. Under normal circumstances, rich people get to rape poor people. Special rules for special people, you know. But I digress.

It’s the casual emails giving away the game right now. Elon wanted to know “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Howard Lutnick wanted to have a family vacation on the island. Okay, sure a family vacation doesn’t seem like anything nefarious, but kinky is kinky and we don’t know Lutnick or his family. Or, perhaps, the “family” was just the excuse. The emails seem to confirm at least one dinner Lutnick attended on Epstein’s island, with no mention of any family. There are more. Many more.

AFTER the publicity started damaging reputations, both Lutnick and Elon puked out the same story, “I didn’t know the guy and I never hung around with the guy.” But both Lutnick and Elon have email exchanges with Donny’s best friend from back when things were still private, working out times to get together and hang around.

I’ll tell you this: It’s just me, but I’m giving higher consideration to the emails written under the comfort of assumed privacy than the public disclaimers. That is to say, I think Elon and Lutnick are lying when they insist they didn’t know or interact with Jeffrey Epstein and/or Ghislaine Maxwell and now, because of their own lies, I suspect they DID have sex with minors…

The Never-Ending Reveal…

by MyBaconPress

A MILLION more files? Good Lord, when the FBI – the old one, the one that did the job – got going, they didn’t mess around, eh? Team Evil has just announced the “discovery” of over a million new Trump/Epstein files from the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
“Wait, the Trump/Epstein files?”
“Yeah, the dude likes to slap his disgusting name on everything and he insists his name come first. I just beat him to the punch on this one. I think time will show how correct that is, too.”
Apparently, it’s going to take them a few more weeks to dig through them and redact Donny’s name from the possibly thousands and thousands of times mentioned. (Possible hyperbole alert, there. Possible.)

Donny said he had never been on Epstein’s plane. Well, that was just a lie and now the world has the documents to prove it. Word is, Donny traveled on Epstein’s plane to an island neighboring Epstein’s island, too. Do you believe Donny got so close to Epstein’s island for some reason that did not include going to the island? Wanna buy a bridge?

The (in)Justice Department is pretending to work feverishly to get all the Trump/Epstein files out in a timely fashion and for all the world to see, so long as it takes as long as possible to process them and the world doesn’t see anything. Meanwhile, Donny seems to be feeling the pressure when it comes to these files. Nothing he has tried has worked. He can’t deflect from his involvement. Every time he tries, some new tidbit comes out that supports his participation.

Hell, from my point of view, revelations keep making things worse for him. I’ve already moved from 47 as participant to 47 as purveyor because of the information being uncovered – and that’s while the DOJ is doing it’s ridiculously incompetent best to protect him…

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Before we get too far from these Trump/Epstein files, did you see what Donny wrote on Christmas? His Christmas wish to the world? Sometimes, Donny gives up the game when he doesn’t mean to. He wrote: “Merry Christmas to all (that part’s nice), including the many Sleazebags (Oh, oh, here we go.) who loved Jeffrey Epstein (like DJT), gave him bundles of money (DJT), went to his Island (DJT), attended his parties (DJT), and thought he was the greatest guy on earth (DJT), only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him (DJT), didn’t know him (DJT), said he was a disgusting person (DJT), and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump (sic), who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so.”

That’s a long paragraph because that’s what rambling looks like. If you ask me, it was awfully helpful of him to lay out so many details of the relationship…

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Donny The Dotard has faced numerous scandals since descending that escalator on that dark day in 2015. For reasons that defy all attempts and reasonable explanation, he has managed to lie his way out of the vast majority of them. But these days, there are two that seem to have stuck: The Trump/Epstein Files and the economy.

Most of his other scandals have been less in-your-face. He can lie about boats in the Caribbean, for example, because MAGA isn’t in the Caribbean. But MAGA IS in grocery stores and it doesn’t matter how many times he says prices are down when their wallets are so much lighter at the checkout stand.

MAGA media has worked as hard as they could to protect Donny from the reality of the Trump/Epstein files, too, but the more information that leaks out – and it’s legion, at this point – the harder it is to pretend the Trump/Epstein bromance was in any way innocent.

Donny seems to be feeling the weight of not one, but two millstones around his neck. It’s possible he can still survive the Trump/Epstein Files and the economy – the devil takes care of his own, after all – but if a third crisis rears it’s ugly head, and it sticks, I suspect Donny will be sunk, once and for all. C’mon third crisis…

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There’s this woman, Tina Peters. MAGA, to no one’s surprise. She really, really wanted Donny to win the 2020 election. So, with all of the integrity of a standard MAGA, she cheated. She was found guilty in a Colorado court of allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity. In truth, it was a team of people and they were so confident in what they were doing, they even ordered lunch in.

It turns out they worked with Mike Lindell, the failed pillow guy who just can’t conceive that Donny might have lost, despite easily having been the worst President in history until this current clown. Lindell has been shouting into the wind about having evidence the election was rigged, but has yet to show even a single legitimate document supporting his claims. Lindell is lying. Peters lied, too.

Peters ended up being convicted on three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Our moronic misleader doesn’t understand why she should be in prison just for helping him cheat in the election. He thinks she should be free to cheat again. So, he wrote her a pardon. It was performative. He thought it might pressure state officials to release her from their state prison on all of those state charges. His big problem? “State.” It turns out, he has no pardon authority over state crimes and Colorado helpfully reminded him of the fact – then refused to release Peters.

Then Colorado had some wild fires. As it happens, the fires occurred in a district represented by a Republican. Donny denied requests for assistance anyway. He’s now tying emergency aid to Colorado’s willingness to free felons from prison? Well, at least that’s the speculation. They haven’t said so specifically. In fact, they promised their decision was policy, not politics, which, coming from Team Evil, practically guarantees the decision was politics, not policy. Or that the policy IS politics. Take your pick.

These are MAGA voters he’s leaving twisting in the wind. I approve. They get to see what they voted for. They get to feel what they voted for. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll start to realize that they can stay conservative without supporting a politician that won’t support them. He has already moved soy farmers from productive, self-sustaining workers to welfare recipients. Now he’s doing the same to MAGA in Colorado. I’m watching to see how much abuse MAGA will absorb, but then, I’m often startled by how much abuse some people will take…

Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey…

by MyBaconPress

This is an ‘All Jeffrey, all the time’ post. Things are moving pretty quickly now that the Epstein Files are coming out. Team Evil is desperately trying to look like they’re cooperating with the law while working overtime to NOT cooperate with the law. “Here’s the file, but you can’t read it.” The cat and mouse game has inspired some thoughts and a caution on my part. Remember, this is just an overview. There’s a LOT going on right now…

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It’s the typical standard from Team Clownishly Evil. Unless and until they fix it, some clever person out there discovered that if one copies the all-black pages and pastes them into another text reader, the text that had been redacted is no longer redacted and now reads clearly. Apparently, it doesn’t work on all of the pages but I’ll bet there’s an army of people right now downloading file after file to read the contents.

The down side is that uncovering the text uncovers the names of victims, too, but at this point, many of the victims are already known. The obvious up side is that everyone gets to see what those files say AND what, exactly, the government is redacting. People investigating the issue have already discovered redactions that seem to have been done just to add some black to the page.

Also, in their search function, they blocked the ability to find “Trump,” but not the ability to find “Trump .” See the space after? So far, people have discovered well over 600 references to Trump. He’s all over those files. The incompetence of Team Evil is one of humanity’s greatest allies…

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I advise caution. Do you remember Dan Rather? He was a reporter with CBS back when CBS was an honest and honorable news outlet. That is, before Bari Weiss. He had gotten hold of a story about at-the-time President Bush 43. George, it seems, avoided service in Vietnam by signing up for a National Guard “Champagne Unit.” It was a typical dodge of rich kids back in the day.

But then, 43 couldn’t even be bothered to go to the weekend obligations. Apparently, he never reported for duty. That was the story. There was much back and forth on the subject until, miraculously, a letter appeared that supported the story perfectly. Too perfectly, as it happens.

When asked about it, the secretary said she did type such a letter for her commander. The letter in question summed up the details of 43’s “service” nicely, she said, but that particular letter wasn’t the letter she had typed. The letter was a fake, a plant. Dan Rather, a seasoned newsman, had fallen for it and reported it as authentic.

Not only did it end Rather’s tenure as a newsreader on CBS, it ended the debate. Even though the secretary had said the information in the letter reflected the letter she had typed, meaning it was accurate, because it wasn’t the actual letter, the entire issue went away.

The reason I mention that is this: it is not beyond the realm of comprehension that Team Evil might plant fake stories into the Epstein files. The idea would be to get people going on this or that fake thing then prove it’s fake, trying to undermine the entire issue. Based on their redacting skills, it might not take long to identify fake entries but I recommend moving slowly on “discoveries.” This team of morons is likely to try anything. Fortunately for us, they’re morons…

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I’m going to presume that Team Evil didn’t expect this particular response from Bill Clinton. I think they thought they could just release a bunch of pictures of Bill around Jeffrey and everything would come up roses for Donny. Maybe everyone would forget that Donny’s name has been redacted throughout. Maybe we’d all forget that it was DONNY who was Jeffrey’s best friend for so, so long. Maybe, the left would fear that Bill was going to be caught up in the whole mess and back down on the Epstein things to protect him.

That last part was never going to work. I’ve spoken to many people on the left. All of them say, if Bill is in there, let him suffer the consequences. The left just wants these perverted, insecure men to pay a price for their crimes. We’re not even looking at political parties in the scheme. Decent people consider party affiliation irrelevant.

Still, whatever it was Team Evil expected, they do not seem to have expected Bill to challenge them to bring it all out, every page, every photo. “Let’s stop with the innuendo,” Bill challenged, “Show us the whole thing, unredacted (except to protect the victims). Put it ALL out there, Donny. All of it. Let’s see who’s implicated.” You gotta love Bill’s brass…

Free, Premium Health Coverage

by MyBaconPress

Well, they’re gone. The House, I mean. They went home for Christmas. Isn’t that nice? WHEN they go home, each and every one of them – Republican, Democrat, Independent, et al, – ALL of them enjoy the safety and security that comes with having free, premium health coverage.

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans took health insurance from millions of Americans with their so-called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ It ain’t so “beautiful” to it’s victims, I can tell you that. While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans promised they were going to fix everyone up with a new, better way – but they never offered anything that might serve.

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Democrats tried to force Republican’s hands with a budget battle back in September. Democrats lost that battle by standing down after procuring nothing more than a promise to vote on the subsidies they had eliminated. That is, the Democrats relied on the word of Republicans. How stupid was that?!?

While enjoying their free, premium health coverage, the vote came but the subsides did not. The measure by the Republicans, which passed along party lines, does not include the subsidies and is considered a non-starter in the Senate, but while enjoying their free, premium health coverage, Republicans can tell constituents they voted on a package.

While Congress Critters are enjoying their free, premium health coverage, the estimate I’ve seen for the price increase on premiums is around $1,016 – PER MONTH! That’s the ‘Merry Christmas’ Americans get from Republicans in Congress. I don’t know if you’re aware, but all of this is occurring while members of Congress enjoy free, premium health coverage…

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Everyone is still angry at our moronic misleader over his Epstein involvement. The information that was released is a) insufficient, b) incomplete, and c) heavily doctored to implicate Democrats and protect Republicans – one Republican in particular.

The idea appears to have been to try to throw suspicion on Democrats and pretend no conservatives were caught up with Epstein. THAT, the hope seems to have been, will get people to stand down on this, right? Conservative dingbat Laura Loomer wrote, “It’s pretty rich how the Democrats falsely accused President Trump of being a pedophile, only for the Trump DOJ to release Epstein files that show Bill Clinton skinny-dipping with a pedophile in the pedo’s pool. Maybe now the media will stop obsessing over these files.” (Emphasis added by me.)

Then again, maybe not. It remains true that honest brokers don’t give two figs about the political affiliations of the people involved. Also, everyone – and I DO mean everyone – has noticed the release has been carefully manipulated to highlight Bill Clinton’s involvement while redacting Donny’s. Oh, AND there’s no evidence he was “skinny-dipping.” And it was all done so… skillfully. Why, I haven’t seen THAT level of clever since the last time a six-year-old tried to cover up a misdeed.

One year, our kids knocked over our Christmas tree. They knew they had messed up, badly, and they tried to “fix” it. To their credit, they managed to get the thing back upright. Then they put the ornaments back and – voila! – misdeed hidden, right? Well, it might have been – except that when they put the ornaments back on, they grouped them all in one place and no higher than their little hands could reach. It’s fair to say, we noticed. Secretly, we laughed. But their “fix” caused questions.

That’s how I feel watching this group of supposedly adult clowns trying to manage the release of the Epstein files that indicts anyone and everyone except Donny, who was probably not just a participant but part of the trafficking team. Their efforts at manipulating the files is SO poor, so… effing juvenile, well, now there are more questions, not fewer.

Personally, I just want to ask the victims. It has to be said, not every person is perfectly honest in every moment. Even if they mean to be, honest people make honest mistakes. But I’d guess these now women have a pretty solid memory of what happened, when, and with whom. I think we could ask the women, then corroborate their stories with information from the files. I think of that as a witness statement supported by evidence. What a radical idea.

It has the advantage of bypassing the stonewalling of Donny and Team Evil. It has the advantage of getting the information out there, without devolving into a ‘he said, she said.’ It has the advantage of NOT giving more consideration to the dead guy than the living victims. Witness statements supported by evidence is a pretty good standard. Let’s use that…

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Hey, MAGA, this last bit is just for you. I want to make sure we’re all clear about something. Look, nobody is asking you to become liberal. Nobody is asking you to betray core beliefs about fiscal prudence and smaller government. The rest of us are only asking you to stand against corruption. It just so happens that in this case, the corrupt politicians are Republicans but that part is just a coincidence. You don’t have to stop being Republican or conservative just because you stand up to corruption.

In fact, you stand up to corruption to defend yourself. You stand against corruption, no matter which party, because you love America and you want to preserve the Constitution. You stand against corruption to maintain your right to see things the way you see things, not the way you’re told to see things by someone else. Nobody is asking you to stand against Republicans. Nobody is asking you to stand against conservatism. We’re only asking you to stand against corruption.

I’m not even going to summarize the corruption in question. I don’t need to. I know you see it. The rest of us suspect you hate it as much as we do. We believe you know you’ll suffer from it right along with everyone else. (Check your health insurance cost right after you get back from the grocery store.) You defend it because you think this is a Democrat/Republican thing. It isn’t. If you acknowledge Donny hasn’t gotten the job done – for anybody but himself, anyway – you don’t have to switch parties.

It just feels like it needed to be said…