Epstein

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…

An Awful Lot Of Stupid…

by MyBaconPress

It’s the law, right? The Epstein files must be released by Friday, 12/19. Today, 12/20, some of the files have been released, though heavily redacted. Democrats are pointing out that what was released and how it was released is not in compliance with the law. Cons are insisting this is the most transparent presidency in history, clearly proving they do not know the meaning of the word, ‘transparent.’ Here’s a hint: if Team Evil was being transparent, the world would be able to read the words in the files. Pretty simple, really.

Based on Donny’s behavior around all of this mess, I believe – and I mean I genuinely believe – Donald J. Trump raped or caused to be raped underage, adolescent girls. There is simply NO other explanation for the way he hides and obfuscates the information the FBI collected. I suppose he’s free to sue me for saying so, but the first thing I’ll demand in discovery is the entire Epstein data cache. Unredacted. But, for clarity, it’s just a personal belief. Sure, it’s one I think I share with millions, perhaps billions, of people on planet Earth, but it’s just a personal belief.

I wonder if anybody is surprised he released a pile of useless information that does nothing to move the case forward. Over 550 pages were completely redacted, just a series of black lines. Yeah, that’s helpful. The part the confuses me the most about his reticence to release the files is the why.

Look, if you’re not MAGA, you already know who and how he is. You already really don’t like him and you can’t wait for him to go away. You don’t NEED him to die, but if that’s the only way to get rid of him, you’re hoping and praying, daily, for Divine Intervention. If you ARE MAGA, you don’t care that he rapes kids. Hell, you’d drive your daughter to his house and leave her there – or even hold her down – if your Precious asked you to.

I might expect some pushback on that last sentence but MAGA’S moral malignancy is already clearly apparent for any and all to see. You happily killed family members when he wanted to pretend Covid-19 was a hoax. Why wouldn’t you sacrifice your daughter or grand-daughter to the darkest whims of your Precious? Yet, here he is, cowering in his hidey-hole, afraid someone might notice the reality of him…

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Okay, really? The Trump-Kennedy Center? That’s just disgusting. Maybe ‘putrid’ is a better word. I DID throw up in my mouth a little when I heard. He infested the Kennedy Center when he stole his way into the White House and the board was all hand picked by him. Primary criteria? Soothe and nurture his tiny, fragile ego. It’s the same job description as every person who surrounds him. So, when he said he wanted his name on the Kennedy Center, they put his name on the Kennedy Center. Keep the baby from having a tantrum.

I think he killed the Kennedy Center for the foreseeable future. I mean, the only performers that will show up are MAGA has-beens or never-weres. Who wants to see that? Once he goes away – and at this point, that can’t be soon enough – we’ll have to have the place fumigated. Maybe we should bring in some medicine men to exorcise the demons. Probably, we’ll just have to knock the place down. He just ruins everything…

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Because we’re following Donny, we’re moving from putrid to petty. I’d say he acts like a three year old but that’s an insult to three-year olds. He put bronze plaques under photos of the previous presidents – except Biden, of course, whose “portrait” is a signature done by Autopen, because one can NOT be petty enough. I thought that was bad but then, as usual, he out-pettied even himself. The plaques are supposed to be blurbs about each President. A normal human would have said something nice about the guy and moved on. Not these. Keywords? “Normal human.”

Apparently, these are attacks on the people who have held the job before him. Petty, minuscule-minded attacks that, in summary, leave him described as the best President ever, despite ALL of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But, look, Donny trying to convince somebody – anybody – that he is in any way competent or qualified to do this, or any, job while stroking his own ego just as hard as he can is nothing new. That’s just 47. But, quick question.

How much did all of that cost? Bronze plaques and gaudy golden fixtures are disgusting to look at and not cheap. I keep wondering, how can he have the highest deficit in the history of the nation when he hasn’t been spending on the American people? Where’s the money going? No, I don’t think he has spent a trillion dollars on plaques and gold fixtures. But that just begs the question: where is all of that money going? He’s putting it somewhere, by God…

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47 didn’t even WANT to give that speech. Maybe that was why he seemed so angry. He had other, FAR less useful things to focus his attention on. His whole bit was about how awesome he is and how successful he’s been and how much better than everyone else he is and what a great job he’s done and oh, yeah, how great he is and you can, too, afford your life because he said so and he’s great and you’re not so just Shut The Facts Up! (I confess, I’m not sure that ‘Facts’ is the F word that goes there.) I mean, for such a resounding success, he sure sounded angry.

Susan Wiles made him do it, at least according to him. He didn’t really have anything to say so he just rolled out mostly a greatest hits speech and repeated many of his favorite lies. By the way, I read in ‘The Daily Beast’ where they reported he “fired off mistruth after mistruth.” More euphemism. Why? Why not just call them what they are: lies? What’s so hard about that? Donny lied and lied. It’s easier to read and it’s easier to understand. But I digress.

One of the lies he told was about a “warrior dividend.” He promised some troops were going to receive checks in the amount of $1,776 dollars. He said it was coming from his tariff dividend, which he has promised to various groups at various times but not one of them has seen a dime because, despite his lying claims, the tariffs are a disaster. But worse, that money that he promised HE was going to send from the tariffs was already authorized by Congress from your tax dollars.

It’s a housing allowance for some service members who don’t live in base housing. Congress authorized the money earlier this year. Donny has rebranded the money as some largess that came from him. Ho hum, just another lie from the Father of Lies.

In fact, Paul Simon summed up Trump’s entire speech in a song called ‘the Boxer’ years ago when he wrote: “Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.” Perhaps not Simon’s best poetry, but succinct and dead on years before Donny became the problem he is for the world. THAT is some quality insight, right there…

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Could someone please explain to me how Venezuela “took away” oil from America? What did they do, hide it underground in Venezuela just to pump it back out again later? Is that moron REALLY trying to convince the rubes that war is okay because Venezuela STOLE our oil? I simply can NOT believe that the recipient of the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize is going to lie his way into a foreign war – and for the ridiculously stupid reason of stealing their oil, an outdated energy source we should no longer be using. It’s a stupid act for a stupid reason endorsed by a stupid person. That’s an awful lot of stupid…

Backfires…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failing and Flailing…

by MyBaconPress

It just makes your head want to explode sometimes, doesn’t it? The “Justice” Department is joining California Republicans in their lawsuit to stop California from doing what Texas did: gerrymander the state to favor one party, the Democrats. California ONLY did what they did a) temporarily, and b) because Texans gerrymandered Texas to favor one party, the Republicans.

Not only did the “Justice” Department NOT sue Texas, the Texas rigging was 47’s idea. He proclaimed he “deserved” five more seats in the House and Texas gerrymandered to accommodate his selfish ambitions. In joining the suit against California but not Texas, the administration made some pretty startling comments.

“California’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process,” mused Pam Bondi, the US attorney general. “Governor Newsom’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Californians will not stand.”

“Texas’ redistricting scheme is ALSO a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process,” Pam Bondi could have added, but didn’t, “but Governor Abbott’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Texans will be just fine.”

The thing is, this whole kerfuffle kicked off when the Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court ruled that Federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases regarding partisan gerrymandering. A federal court can still step in, for now, if the gerrymandering is seen as racial, though, so that’s how the GOP and the criminal regime filed their official California whine.

They claimed the new map was drawn “to favor Hispanics.” Well, they had to say something, right? The suit had to pretend the gerrymander was racial. So, that’s what they did. Evil is evil, not stupid. But “We want to cheat but we don’t want YOU to cheat,” isn’t a very inspiring message. Nor is it particularly convincing. I’d bet racial considerations were not a factor so I imagine Team Evil will lose the fight…

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I saw a headline in Friday’s ‘Guardian.’ It read, “Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud.” When I read it, I laughed out loud. I guess Team Evil thinks they’re really on to something with these pretended charges. The thing is, we all KNOW the regime is just making things up in an effort to harass their political opponents.

We also know that several of the minions working in the regime could easily face the exact same charges – and, apparently, the evidence is stronger against Donny’s Dumbasses than it is against the Dems facing those charges. So far, the charges haven’t held up and I doubt this one will, either. Swalwell will start at ‘Selective Prosecution’ and move from there. I remember a time when Republicans pretended to think that frivolous lawsuits were a bad thing…

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Part of the “clean” GOP Continuing Resolution (CR) that just passed when the Dems took a dive is a provision that allows GOP Senators to give themselves up to a million dollars each if their name and phone number appeared in a legal document during one of Donny’s many, many trials. The list wasn’t released to the public. No other information was presented. They weren’t violated in any way. But they get a fistful of dollars – ’cause they want it.

Other members of the GOP are pretending the provision was a surprise. They say they’re angry about it and they’re going to remove that provision. You know, eventually. They’ll get to it, sooner or later, you betcha, cause it was bad, bad, bad. Or they won’t and the GOP will gift themselves millions.

But if you’re a working American who can’t make ends meet in our corrupt society? No, nothing for you. In fact, you’re already leeching way too much, living way too high on the hog with all of those generous SNAP benefits. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps – assuming you have boots, of course. You don’t even get a penny, cause we don’t make those anymore…

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From time to time, I get called out by conservatives for calling them Nazis. I get that. I wouldn’t want to be called a Nazi, either. Now, for the record, I don’t actually call them Nazis. I say they’re acting like Nazis. Maybe they’re NOT Nazis but when one lives life like a Nazi, one should not be surprised when others suspect that maybe one IS a Nazi. Okay, so maybe I’ve misjudged. Let’s take a look, shall we?

When the Nazis – the actual Nazis – were sending people to prison, literally by the trainload, they stole the personal effects of their victims. They took wedding rings and gold crowns from teeth. If the victims of the Nazis had owned cell phones, they would have taken those, too. Anything of value, the Nazis stole it.

As it happens, when the ICEholes roll up one of their victims and haul them away, they steal their personal effects, too. Wedding and engagement rings, cell phones, anything of value, the ICEholes steal it. If (when) it turns out a victim was detained “in error,” you know, because they’re an American citizen or some other frivolous reason like that, they victim in question is released – but the ICEholes keep their valuables.

I say again, if people are going to do the same things the Nazis did, I’m going to continue to insist that they’re ACTING like Nazis, because they are. If you don’t like it, change the behavior…

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As the walls close in on Donny and his Epstein involvement, he has decided to focus on Democrats. He’s siccing the DOJ on various high-profile Democrats to ascertain the association between them and Jeffrey Epstein. I suspect, the idea is an attempt to frighten lefties into standing down. “Oh my God,” he thinks liberals will say, “He might implicate our hero Bill Clinton so we’d better disregard our desire to see what Trump did to those girls.”

Here’s the thing: Bill Clinton isn’t my hero. Furthermore, I’m not MAGA. I don’t make decisions about guilt based on political affiliation, like MAGA does. My determinations are based on the facts at hand. If it turns out Bill Clinton – or any other Democrat or independent, for that matter – took advantage of the “delights” Jeffrey Epstein had on offer, they should stand trial and go to jail if convicted.

I don’t know a lefty who feels differently. I don’t know a MAGA who can say the same…

MAGAmerica Today…

by MyBaconPress

It’s only nepotism when the left does it:
Remember when cons were all apoplectic about the possibility that Hunter Biden might have been trading on his famous father’s name? They couldn’t beLIEVE the outrage! Now, a company backed by Donny Jr has been contracted by the US military to build drone engines.

Somehow, cons don’t see any problem. Curiouser and curiouser…

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A tale of two countries:
Andrew, the Andrew formerly known as a prince, isn’t a prince anymore. In fact, he’s lost all of his titles. He has to move out of the royal mansion he has lived in for more than twenty years and get (and pay for) his own digs. He won’t be part of any royal functions going forward. He is as “out” as a royal could possibly be short of one of England’s rather infamous beheadings.

Why? His known association with Jeffrey Epstein. To be clear, there have been no charges to answer (yet) and no trial confirming criminal behavior. He hasn’t – and likely won’t – confess to his participation. He denies it, entirely. And STILL, he’s losing it all. That’s England.

Across the pond, Americans have someone with a known association with Jeffrey Epstein, too. To be clear, there have been no charges to answer (yet) and no trial confirming criminal behavior. He hasn’t – and likely won’t – confess to his participation. He denies it, entirely. But he gets to be ostensible President of the United States and stuff his pockets full of stolen money while punishing anybody who has ever ruffled his feathers.

The Brits handled it far better…

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Profiles in negotiation:
So, if I’ve got this right, after Donny’s visit with Xi in China, there now exists a trade environment between the US and China that matches the trade environment that existed in January of this year. Let’s look at the same idea another way, shall we?

After over eight months of shenanigans, unnecessary pain, suffering, and expense, Donny has now managed to get US/China trade relations back to where Joe Biden had them in the first place. Art of the Deal, I guess…

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Okay, this is weird. There’s a guy named Taylor Taranto. No, that’s not the weird part. He’s a MAGA convicted of live-streaming a bomb threat. He was arrested as he drove near President Obama’s house with a bunch of guns and ammo. You know, because of all of that violence from the left. The DOJ issued a sentencing memo in which they asked for 27 months in prison. When a prosecutor issues a sentencing memo, they include other, pertinent information about the defendant so the judge knows exactly with whom he’s dealing.

The original filing mentioned Taranto’s J6 charges – and briefly described the day’s events, writing that “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.” Uh-oh. That’s an accurate, if short, description of Trump’s Insurrection at the Capitol. But Donny doesn’t allow accurate descriptions of Trump’s Insurrection at the Capitol.

Most especially when it turns out, as it does in this case, that the defendant, Taranto, was one of the many political pardon beneficiaries Donny issued on day one, only to see the guy re-arrested for other violent crimes and threats later. Those stupid pardons are pretty much the only “Day One” promise he’s kept. Well, that and being a dictator on Day One. He seems to be keeping that “promise” too. (It’s more of a threat, really.)

And HOW did Tartanto gain access to President Barack Obama’s home address? I mean, is it in your Rolodex? I suspect one does NOT just call information and ask. Well, I suppose you can ask, but you ain’t gettin‘. So how did Taranto get it? Why, the filing covered that, too. Taranto got the address when Donny posted it online.

The two prosecutors who signed the sentencing memo, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, found themselves locked out of their government devices a few hours later. Now they’re on leave. They’ll probably be fired. They dared to tell the truth. The judge praised them both at the sentencing hearing for doing “an excellent and commendable job” on the case and said it was some of “the best” work he’s seen with the “highest standards of professionalism.”

That’s the most vicious and damning thing a judge could possibly say to a Trump regime prosecutor. “Highest standards of professionalism?” Screw that. The only thing that matters to this crew is the highest standard of loyalty to the lowest standard of a human being. “Highest standards of professionalism?” How is THAT a compliment to the team that wants to water crops with ‘Brawndo?’ (You’ve got to watch ‘Idiocracy’ to understand…)

That original filing, the one that mentioned Donny’s J6 insurrection, was replaced with a shorter sentencing memo that did NOT mention Donny’s J6 insurrection. Nor did it reveal that it was Donny himself who had “doxxed” Obama, giving Taranto access to the Obama home. It still asked for 27 months, though.

So, here’s the weird part: The original filing seems to have… disappeared. The judge in the case, Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee, said it’s “not entirely clear, to me, how that first brief was sealed,” noting that he had not authorized it’s removal. The judge said he had read both prosecution briefs and if the DOJ wanted to keep the first one hidden they would need to file a motion to seal it or strike it. The DOJ, the judge said, is “going to have to justify that.”

So where did it go? It seems senior officials at the US Attorney’s office “persuaded” a court clerk to block online access to the filing. The original sentencing memo is now described in the court docket as “filed in error.” That’s some solid damage control. I mean, journalists have the filing, sure, but MAGA will never see it. They won’t accept anything not authorized by MAGA media and truth is definitely NOT authorized by MAGA media.

You know what? I’m not enjoying MAGAmerica…

“It Can Only Good Happen…”

by MyBaconPress

That’s a direct quote from 47. He was warning women that taking Tylenol when they’re pregnant might lead to autism. He just hammered the ‘don’t-take-it’ message, ending with this sentence, “Don’t take Tylenol. Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.” Eloquence in action.

He says things like that all the time. Corporate media tends to clean things up for him. They call it “sane-washing.” You take an insane statement, then “fix” it. If you can’t edit the thing to look good, you don’t show the event. You just report on it. “He spoke about the risk of taking Tylenol if you’re pregnant,” sounds a LOT better than, “It can only good happen.”

It’s important to note, while the CDC is changing warning labels on Tylenol and is putting out a notice to women, I hear there’s also a little disclaimer tucked into the text that says studies have not determined causality. It’s just a correlation. Some women who had autistic children took Tylenol when they were pregnant. That’s good enough for this crowd. SOME women who had autistic children ate asparagus. Why didn’t they pick on that? At least ‘asparagus’ sounds a little like ‘Asperger’s.’ It’s a much tighter link.

So here, to me, is the single most amazing bit about this startling new announcement from the crack team over there at HHS, these insane days: The most amazing bit is that we discovered the horrible side effect of Tylenol… before we had even discovered Tylenol!

Autism was first described in 1911. Tylenol was introduced in 1955. I suppose it could just be me, but those two facts sitting there together, side by side, cause me to doubt there’s a causal relationship between taking Tylenol when you’re pregnant and autism. I’m not surprised. Donny spends his days and half of his nights just making crap up, why not this? I DO wonder though, if Johnson and Johnson might be filing any lawsuits in the near future…

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“It can only good happen” in relation to a major new, incredibly stupid lie from the regime could have been the most embarrassing thing he did this week – but it wasn’t. Donny prefers to believe his own press and he occasionally forgets that if he gets away from paid sycophants, he doesn’t get the fawning he so desperately needs. He really doesn’t understand that – MAGA aside – the entire planet sees him as a blathering, blowhard, buffoon. So he went and spoke at the UN, where he came off as, well, a blathering, blowhard, buffoon.

I mean, c’mon. The dude was stuck on a stopped escalator, fercrissakes. He just stood there. It looked like he didn’t know what to do. I suspect he might have stood there until someone got the thing going again. It was Melania who finally realized, “Oh yeah, these are steps,” and started moving again, though I suspect she was just trying to make distance between herself and her orange moron.

Like everyone else, The First Felon was allotted fifteen minutes to speak. So, naturally, he spoke for over an hour. The teleprompter wasn’t working. MAGA likes to brag about how he never uses teleprompters despite the fact that he regularly uses them. When this one broke, once again, he just stood there for a moment, staring. Then he burst into a fairly standard tirade about how everybody sucks and is out to get him and never forget how great he is, but tossed in complaints about the escalator that nearly defeated him and the teleprompter he never uses that wasn’t working.

He seems to STILL be holding a grudge against the UN for that time when he bid on the remodel of the building but didn’t get the contract. He told nations they were on the road to ruin if they pursued renewable energy, because he’s “good at predicting things.” (He’s not good at anything but people lie to him.) That was while he was blasting climate change as the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” (Personally, I consider HIM to be the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, but… quibbles, right?)

He bragged on his “accomplishments.” He thinks that because he produced a hat that says he was right about everything, he was actually right about everything. He said so in his speech! He bragged on economic miracles that never happened. He bragged about ending wars that never happened. He warned other countries they were “going to hell” if they didn’t get as cruel and inhumane to their immigrants as he is to immigrants in the US.

He demanded investigations into the escalator and the teleprompter. ‘Escalator-gate’ was solved quickly when it was discovered a White House videographer had accidentally tripped the safety mechanism that stopped the escalator. The world will just have to wait for the in-depth look into teleprompter-gate. Meanwhile, Americans cringe as he turns the US into a laughingstock…

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This is probably my favorite story of this week, so far. Remember the drawing of the girl Donny made for Epstein’s birthday book? The one that includes the written line, “may every day be another wonderful secret?” The one he claims he didn’t draw that he definitely DID draw? Yeah, that one. Donny sued the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over the report that Donny had been lewd with his pedophile, child sex-trafficking best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. It was a frivolous lawsuit, intended to suppress newspapers from printing things Donny doesn’t like. But the WSJ decided to fight back.

I suppose now that Donny has cost Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox Not-News and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), nearly a billion dollars over the lies after 47’s insurrection, Rupert is not interested in parting with more money in Donny’s name. The Journal’s response, though, is a both-barrels response. Rupert ain’t messing around.

The first part was the most obvious. Along with his mountain of other lies, Donny claims the drawing is fake. The WSJ says it’s real and has been verified as real by the Epstein estate and the House of Representatives. But then the filing takes a turn. It explains that the WSJ couldn’t defame Donny’s reputation because Donny’s reputation on the topic is already so completely sullied by his own words and deeds that it’s not possible to defame him.

But they don’t just ask the court to take their word for it. They attach example after example. Um, after example, after example, after example. Pages and pages of it, from the ‘Access Hollywood’ recording, where he describes to Billy Bush how he sexually assaults women, to the E Jean Carroll case where he was found liable for doing exactly what he described to Bush, to the many various and sundry comments he has made publicly through the years – and there are a LOT of them.

They outlined the many times Donny said he’d love to sleep with his daughter, Ivanka. They noted the time he met Paris Hilton with a “Who the hell is that?” She was 12, at the time. He told Howard Stern he wasn’t interested in her because she was 12, but it felt more like a required disclaimer than an actual fact.

In a decent country, Donny would lose his frivolous harassment lawsuit. His case is so weak, he might well, even in THIS nightmare dictatorship. That means a court will agree that Donny is of such low moral character he can’t be defamed over low moral character. Fox Not-News will clean that up for MAGA, but the rest of the world will know. Then again, we already know…

Take It Up With 47…

by MyBaconPress

Donny was blathering at one of his golf clubs and he finally said an honest thing: “Smart people don’t like me.” That’s true. But what does it say about people who DO like him? HE knows smart people don’t like him. HE knows YOU like him. What is HE saying about his opinion of YOU? Hey, don’t blame me. Take it up with 47, the guy who said it…

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I suppose it just makes sense that 47 – the one-time, long-term friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a person who sex-trafficked kids – would reduce resources dedicated to human trafficking. “Oh,” the regime promises, “we’re still addressing human trafficking. We’re just repurposing the vast majority of the resources once used for that to, instead, deport and harass as many brown people as we can find.”

Donny’s people have declared human trafficking “solved” in America. That’s kind of their shtick. Donny sees a problem. Obviously, he has no idea how to address the problem. So, instead, he simply declares he has “solved” the problem. Perfect. That fact that the problem persists and now no one is allowed to follow up or even mention it because it has been declared officially “solved” isn’t relevant. It’s moronically stupid, but that’s not relevant.

As always, though, it isn’t what they say, it’s what they do. They’ve repurposed people who used to work against human trafficking. Now those people are chasing brown people, legal or otherwise. Yes, there WILL be fewer brown people here. But there will be fewer people working against human trafficking! For MY money, I’d rather have cops work to stop human trafficking before they arrest someone over a piece of paper, but that’s just smart, and stupid is on the ascension in this once-great nation and around the world…

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There are videos out there of Charlie Kirk’s bodyguards using hand signals for… something. The suggestion is that the hand signals were directing the shooter on behalf of… someone. The idea that Charlie Kirk’s own bodyguards were directing the shooter for some reason is… stupid.

Look, I believe the bodyguards were using hand signals to communicate. They might well do that for the same reason baseball managers do it. You can communicate quietly, but effectively, in loud environments. As one example, Nick Fuentes’ group, the Groypers – the group the shooter has been tied to – had been harassing and heckling Kirk’s campus challenges for years. The group had been banned, but banned groups don’t necessarily stand down just because they’ve been banned.

So maybe one of the hand signals means, ‘Groyper at three o’clock.’ Maybe one of them means, ‘Sound problem from speaker on the left.’ Maybe one of them means, ‘Hey, check out that brunette in row three.’ But I doubt Charlie Kirk’s bodyguards were signaling, ‘Take your shot.’ It makes more sense to me that his bodyguards were using hand signals to communicate crowd concerns…

In the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder, the regime is pushing the message that they have to stop all the violence from the left. Now, any realistic review of history demonstrates quite clearly that most of the political violence in this once-great nation comes from the right. Worse, for them, even the DOJ reports that most political violence in this country comes from the right. Well, it did. Donny “solved” that problem the way he “solves” most of his problems – he had the report deleted. Because it’s best to attack problems with all of the wrong information, right?

I guess the shooter “got” Jimmy Kimmel, too. Kimmel said that the right is falling all over themselves to prove the shooter wasn’t one of them, meaning from the right. That’s all he said. Now his show has been “suspended indefinitely.” The regime threatened to pull ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t do something about Kimmel’s comment. That’s exactly the kind of thing Charlie Kirk would have wanted, right? In order to honor the memory of their free speech champion, they’re celebrating the squelching of free speech. I honestly don’t think they see it, though…

While we’re on the topic of Charlie Kirk, have you noticed – of course you’ve noticed – the effort by MAGA to sanctify the guy? They’re working overtime to fluff him into sainthood. The left keeps responding with little more than the actual words Charlie Kirk actually used and the right is furious the left is trying “smear” Charlie Kirk.

Using actual quotes from a person isn’t a “smear.” If quoting the words one actually uses even appears as a smear, that has more to do with the speaker than the person who reports it. The right won’t accept any of that, of course. They want to martyr the guy and by GOD, they’re going to martyr the guy.

Donny looks, more than anything, like he wants to use the Charlie Kirk murder as his Reichstag Fire. I know MAGA gets all butthurt every time someone notices yet another parallel to the rise of the Nazis in 1930’s Germany, but the “fix” for that is to stop following the Nazi playbook, not acting like a snowflake, so take it up with 47. Because he’s going to use this as a pretext to consolidate power and suppress civil liberties, soon allowing the government to arrest political opponents and abolish constitutional protections. Just like Hitler did with the Reichstag Fire.

Oh, you think I’m being hyperbolic? Look back, what, four paragraphs. Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air in response to a threat from the government over something Kimmel said. The pretense is that it’s to honor Charlie Kirk but Charlie Kirk was into free speech. He would not approve. The regime doesn’t care. They have their excuse – their Reichstag Fire – and they’re using it…

Well, Well, Well…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve got to tell you, I’m tired of all of this viscous, white-on-white, “christian” Nationalist violence and I want it to stop. This white-on-white crime is out of control! Because Charlie Kirk was an icon of conservative hatred, MAGA-land jumped straight to the conclusion the shooter MUST be a lefty. I can’t say that was a completely unreasonable conclusion, but they should have waited to bring out the venom until everyone knew for sure.

But, oh, no. It’s important to get out in front of it and get your hate-fueled rant in front of people’s eyes as quickly as possible, so the right sprang into action.
“No more mercy for leftists,” wrote the Malaysian MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong. “They want you dead. They truly want to kill you and desecrate your body and erase your memory.” (If we could erase their memory and reprogram them as decent people, why would we need to kill them?)
“THIS IS WAR,” wrote Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account. (It wasn’t…)
“The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk wrote. (As usual, the exact opposite of the truth…)

“The Left wants us dead,” wrote C.J. Pearson, a Gen Z conservative influencer. “This is not hyperbole.” (It was…) “This is now the ONLY logical conclusion that any sane human being can reach after a repeated pattern of demonstrated behavior and violence.” (I take issue with the self-proclaimed ‘sane human being’ part…)
Former congressional candidate Blake Masters wrote: “Left-wing violence is out of control, and it’s not random.” (Worse for them, it’s not even real…)
Scott Presler, a conservative organizer, wondered aloud: “How do you coexist with people that want to murder you?” (I’ve wondered the same about MAGA for a long time.) “In response, the anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines responded: “And they’ll kill you in the name of ‘tolerance.’” (In truth, the right is the source of most political violence and they actually DO kill in the name of intolerance on a fairly regular basis…)

None of that aged well because it turns out, the guy who murdered Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was far to the right of Kirk. Robinson was a white guy. A Mormon. Cis, not trans. A gun-totin’ conservative from a Republican family. When THAT piece of information came out, watching the right back-peddle on their hateful screeds was almost comical. Nancy Mace, the woman who fled testimony from Epstein victims in tears because of her own sexual assault, but continues to protect the attacker anyway, wrote, “Some crimes are so evil, the only just punishment is the death penalty.”

Then, after discovering the shooter was a far right, white nutball pivoted to, “We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ.” The death penalty for a “leftist”, prayers for “lost individual” from the nutball far right. Slick. And, probably, nobody even noticed the flip-flop.

Shooter Robinson was a disciple of Nick Fuentes. You may know the name. Fuentes is a far, FAR right nutball. Too racist and hateful for Charlie Kirk’s ‘Turning Point USA (TPUSA)?’ Then join Nick Fuentes’ ‘Groypers.’ Fuentes is a guy who thinks the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is just not quite hate-filled enough so he formed a competing hate-fest, ‘America First Political Action Conference.’ (Quick question: Why does ‘America First’ ALWAYS mean either overt racism or all praise to the rich?)

Fuentes was one of trump’s “very fine people” at the Charlottesville rally. He was also one of the fabulous people participating in Donny’s January 6th “day of love,” in which only a handful of people were killed, as is common at days of love. While we know Fuentes was at the Capitol that day, there’s no evidence he went inside, so he wasn’t charged. He just encouraged others to invade the building and kill cops.

Feel free to look up more horrifying information about Fuentes if you want to but… you don’t want to. All you really need to know is that Charlie Kirk hated just about everybody and Nick Fuentes thought Kirk didn’t go far enough. The young Robinson got radicalized by Fuentes and took it from there.

Fuentes didn’t like Charlie Kirk at all. No matter how much hate Fuentes foments and feeds into the world, he just can’t seem to get in good with 47. (It’s probably his name. ‘Fuentes’ sounds so… Mexican.) But Charlie Kirk did get in good with The First Felon and it seemed to make Fuentes jealous. So, Fuentes had his ‘Groypers’ heckle Kirk’s TPUSA events as often as possible. To the best of my knowledge, hate-filled though he is, he never called for Kirk’s death. Harassment? Sure. Death? Not so much.

The lesson, here, is to not jump to conclusions. Being the fastest doesn’t mean you’re correct. But I’d bet a dollar that the NEXT conservative nutball white guy with a gun will spawn a whole new raft of wrong-headed accusations and indictments from the right, blaming the left. Then we’ll get to watch them eat crow and back-peddle again. Lather, rinse, repeat – ad infinitum…

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Something more and more people seem to agree on, the implied breasts on the drawing Donny didn’t but definitely DID draw for Jeffrey Epstein appear more petite than large. I suspect that when Donny says he didn’t draw a woman for Epstein, he’s speaking a technical truth. He didn’t draw a woman. He drew a girl.

“May every day be another wonderful secret,” indeed…

Closing In?

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Voices of Victims…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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