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Team Evil vs Nudification…

by MyBaconPress

One of the “joys” of Artificial Intelligence is that one can generate “nude” photos of people, whether the subject of the photo likes it or not – or even knows about it or not. I put the ‘nude’ in quotes because, apparently, the final photo isn’t truly “nude.” The makers have the photo generator “dress” the subject in a single string or something. So some small-minded moron can “get even” with the girl who dumped him because he’s a small-minded moron by posting a “nude” photo of her online, thereby proving she was right to dump him in the first place. But she’s still out there, “exposed.”

One can generate “nude” photos of children, too. And guess what? There are people out there doing exactly that. The practice of ‘undressing’ people in photos – adult and/or child – has become SO commonplace, it has a name: “nudification,” a name that makes clear the subject wasn’t nude, then someone made them appear nude, right? Someone “nudified” someone else.

Politicians – always slow to move on any topic – have taken notice and are trying to craft legislation to rein in the AI companies. People and politicians want the AI companies to limit the abilities of less developed people to do things like that. To that end, Minnesota passed a first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps. The law is set to take effect today as Minnesota becomes the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nude images of real people.

“Not so fast,” says failed human being Elon Musk. “The whole point of Grok is to allow evil people to do evil things to innocent victims. Why would you want to stop that?” Yeah, okay, that isn’t what the lawsuit Musk filed said at all. Musk is evil, not stupid. What xAI actually said was that it does not contest the state’s interest in banning the distribution of AI-generated nude images of real people without their consent (wink, wink).

No, the problem xAI has with Minnesota’s new law is that it provides no “safe harbor” provision for companies that make good-faith efforts to prevent such images from being created by users. That’s the big tech bros excuse for everything their companies do. “Oh, we’re trying to fix that problem. Just because we provided the tools and the platform doesn’t mean it’s our fault!”

There are already laws on the books punishing users for creating deepfakes. Minnesota’s law intends to hold the makers of the nudification tools responsible for the fakes and they mean to charge the developers up to $500,000 per violation. See, all the AI companies have to do is pull the nudification tools. THAT would be – should be – the only good faith effort that qualifies as actually trying to solve the problem.

But Musk doesn’t want to do that. He went to a lot of trouble to add nudification tools. Now, obviously, he doesn’t want to be seen as supporting his nudification tools, either, so he’s pretending the law is just over-broad. He agrees with the goal, he pretends, but thinks this legislation goes too far. Uh-huh. He’s obligating states to try to use legislation to force him to remove the nudification tools he claims to dislike and could simply remove himself. How serious is he about wanting to protect victims?

Honestly? I don’t like AI. I’ve got it down as one of the two most likely things to destroy humanity altogether. Humans are having enough trouble with reality. We don’t need fakes, deep or otherwise, gumming up the works. So take that into account, here, because, frankly, once fake nudes and AI generated child porn started showing up, I would have banned AI entirely. And I STILL think that’s the right answer.

For clarity, I don’t think it’s a matter of free speech, either. Posting fake nude photos of real people should fall under the few umbrellas where we control speech, like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater when no fire exists, maliciously spreading ruinous rumors about someone, or threatening them.

If the tech bros can’t put out a helpful, harmless product, they shouldn’t be allowed to put it out at all. Intentionally adding tools like nudification doesn’t seem like they’re even trying to put out a harmless product. If the offset is “not at all, then,” I guess they’d police themselves more aggressively…

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It’s just another opportunity to learn a lesson the right WILL NOT learn. We should break our dependence on oil so we don’t need to worry about what happens in oil producing regions, right? That lesson became clear way back in the 1970’s, when Saudi Arabia proved a point by shutting off the spigots. Americans were stuck in gas lines and could only buy gas on designated days.

The US economy suffered greatly. That, right then, was the moment a smart nation would have said, “Hey, let’s find a better answer and get off of this stuff.” We did, too. Well, we tried. Big oil didn’t WANT us breaking our addiction and, like any good pusher, has worked to maintain our dependence ever since. Now that dedication to antiquated technology is going to bite us in the butt again.

The US has pulled Saudi Arabia into that stupid, ill-advised war-that’s-not-a-war in Iran. Iran will respond, of course. Most likely, that will involve attacking oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. That will hurt supply AND take years to rebuild. It also widens Donny’s stupid war. We’ve had lots of opportunities to learn. We refuse to. That’s going to be costly…

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It looks like Donny is trying to ratchet up the pressure on his Republicans in Congress to pass the SAVE My Ass Act and eliminate the filibuster to do it. He sent Susan Wiles, his Chief of Staff to Congress to huddle with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Thune has maintained consistently that he doesn’t have the votes for either. 47 wants him to do it anyway. No, it doesn’t make sense but then, less and less of what he does makes any sense…

Quick question: what do YOU think Donny is going to do to try to interfere or stop the upcoming midterms completely? It’s not a rhetorical question. We all (except MAGA, and even some of them) know he’s going to do something. The whole world hates this guy with a white hot passion. If a free and fair election takes place, he loses as badly as we can manage. Then he faces honest investigations, criminal indictments, and, likely, impeachment. He CAN NOT let that happen. SO…what do you think he’s going to do to intervene?

Grilling Fauci…

by MyBaconPress

So, does it matter any more where Covid-19 came from? Did it ever? There are two schools of thought on the topic: either it was a natural jump from animals to humans or it came from a US-funded lab in China. Okay, great. How does knowing where it came from affect anything? We still had to go through it. All the same people died. It was a big fight once between left and right, though. Apparently, for the right, it still is.

They called Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the nation’s infectious disease expert during the pandemic, to testify before Congress about Covid-19. Fauci knows, from experience, what the cons want: an excuse to harass Fauci and his family. He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights on over 100 questions.

At the time, Fauci was trying to understand and manage a new health threat while fully a third of the population challenged every word he said because they had spent a few minutes online doing their “own research.” Fauci only had years of education and decades of practice to work with. How could HE know what they learned in five minutes from some conservative talking head?

Fauci DID get some things wrong, too. He was working blind, having to determine courses of action in real time with little information. Much of what he said was ‘best guess’ or ‘best practice’ stuff that was later modified as information became available. Cons often can’t accept that. They think once a thing is said, that’s the thing and nothing can change it. Smart people know that new information requires modification of thought and that was the battle between left and right on Covid-19.

Fauci generally supported the natural transmission line but even he had doubts. It’s very difficult to say, for sure, and when the focus is managing the problem, where it came from is less important. Meanwhile, Donny was out there suggesting people drink bleach or shove a blacklight up their backsides to get rid of Covid and insisting Fauci didn’t know anything, and since it was uttered by the mouth of their Precious, Fauci had to agree or spend his days being bullied and harassed by blindly loyal MAGA.

Fauci stayed true to the science to the best of his ability and just took the abuse as long as he had to. But as quickly as he could, he returned to private life and has stayed there ever since. The cons won’t leave him alone, though. They’re STILL trying to prove he was just lying to make 47 look bad. (Generally speaking, it’s the truth that makes 47 look bad.)

He responded to the Congressional subpoena. He showed up. He refused to answer their stupid questions. Then he went home. Now Rand Paul, Homeland Security Chairman, wants to hold Fauci in contempt for invoking his Fifth Amendment protections. It makes sense. Having perfect information on a teeny-tiny, rather irrelevant detail of an event that took place over seven years ago is clearly more important than any of the minor challenges the US faces today, right? Leave it to the cons to keep their eyes on the wrong prize…

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Wow, this is going to hurt. On Monday, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ended for people from Haiti and Syria. They can no longer legally work in the US, and now they can be removed from this once-great nation. The bigots couldn’t be happier.

But there are 200,000 Haitians and 2,000 Syrians contributing roughly $5.9 billion dollars to the US economy. Plucking 202,000 people out of the workforce at once is going to hurt the economy. And for me? It’s not enough that bigots are going to be happy. Turns out, I don’t much care what bigots want…

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We have a little university, here in Sonoma County. It’s called, cleverly, Sonoma State University. The school ran into some money troubles. They ran out. So, something had to go. Did they lose benefits to school functionaries? No. Did they adjust salaries of administrators? Don’t be ridiculous. What they did was, they got rid of ALL of their athletics programs and stopped teaching other subjects.

Just what every student wants, right? A school that doesn’t teach the topics the students need. What a brilliant way to entice students to the school. When the academic program can’t bring enrollment, athletics often does. But, rats, Sonoma State got rid of that, too. Since then, they’ve recorded the steepest enrollment decline in the California State University system.

Who could have guessed? I mean, really, who could know that not teaching subjects and eliminating athletics would cause students to want to go somewhere else? But that’s what happened. No sports? No classes? I’m going somewhere else! Ok, the “no classes” is a bit of hyperbole. They still had classes. But they closed eight different programs entirely so there were “no classes” in those subjects.

But now? Now the sports are coming back. So are the cancelled programs, though stripped down. Cancelling programs and athletics didn’t do what people hoped it would. No doubt. It’s like a car dealership trying to improve sales by not selling any cars. Dumb, with a ‘b.’

Fortunately, the school ALSO got a new President, Michael E. Spagna, and Spagna is bringing back the sports and the subjects. He’s “reimagining” Sonoma State as a whole. That’s his spiel. We’ll see if it works. I hope it does. The old plan seemed to put the university on a death spiral. Hopefully, this will help…

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I know a young lady who just turned 16 years old. For her birthday, she wanted vinyl albums. Not a subscription to some online service. Not a playlist. Actual, physical vinyl albums. I like that. It reminds me of Sony’s choice to stop producing physical discs for their PlayStation game decks – and how people are angry about it. Finally!

I recently moved house. I dragged my CD collection with me. CD’s? Who the hell still listens to CD’s? I do. If some streaming service decides to withdraw music or movies or games or whatever else I’ve “subscribed” to, it’s gone. Oh, you bought it? No, you rented it. You never owned anything.

Look, I understand the value of streaming. It IS convenient. It does serve. It has a place. But it should never have replaced actual ownership of one’s favorite music or whatever. From the producers point of view, the benefit of the physical disc is the problem. I can share my owned discs. I can’t share my streamed stuff the same way.

I still have my disc after the service pulls it from streaming for whatever reason. For example, Sony is about to delete 551 movies and TV shows from the UK PlayStation store because its content licensing agreement with StudioCanal has expired. If you “bought” any of those titles, you’re just out. Had you purchased the physical copies and brought them home, you’d still be able to enjoy them even though Sony deletes them.

Young people seem to be figuring this scam out and they don’t seem to like it. Thank goodness. I’ve never liked it. They HAVE migrated to vinyl instead of CD’s. (One of her new albums skipped on the first play, a frustration I thought young people would never know.) Still, it’s a physical copy of the work, not some stream. There’s a movement afoot for gamers to boycott PlayStation this August in protest of the elimination of physical discs. I hope it works. I’d rather own a physical copy of the things I buy then a digital download that may or may not be there tomorrow…

Let The Traffic Flow…

by MyBaconPress

Back in February of this year, I told you about the Gordie Howe International Bridge. To recap, there’s a bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan in the US and Windsor, Ontario in Canada. It’s called the Ambassador Bridge and it is owned by a wealthy family named Moroun. It’s old (opened in 1929) and inconvenient. It connects surface streets on the Ontario side so if you use it, you’ll still have to wend your way through town. Oh, AND, it’s a toll bridge. The Moroun family makes money from the thing – and THEY get to say how much money. It’s an important trade route. They’ve been making a LOT of money from it.

So Michigan and Canada got together and decided to build a new bridge, the Gordie Howe International Bridge. It’s safer. It’s easier. It’s just better. So, obviously, the Moroun family has been filing lawsuits since the project started and when the span was completed anyway, they used their wealth in the way wealth works best. The bribed Donny. Allegedly. All I can say, for sure, is that the Moroun family has dumped large sums of money into 47 and when the Gordie Howe bridge was ready to open, Matthew Moroun visited President Pedo personally.

The next thing anyone knew, Donny was declaring the Gordie Howe bridge a national threat and he wouldn’t let it open. As usual, he was vague on the details of exactly HOW a bridge that makes travel safer, easier, and more affordable (there’s that word, again) constitutes a “national threat.” We DO know the Moroun family makes about $100 dollars per semi-truck each way, while the Gordie Howe Bridge will only cost them about $43 dollars. Sure, that saves money for the truckers but it takes money out of the Moroun family’s pockets. I’m not surprised to hear that Donny considers a billionaire losing money to a better way a national threat.

But now the bridge is opening anyway. I was curious about how that happened. Donny’s demented mind sees demons in Canada and he really wants to punish them for all of that nothing they’ve done to us. So I was curious about what changed. Why is the Gordie Howe International Bridge no longer a national threat? Well, it turns out – and you won’t be surprised to hear this – Donny extorted Canada.

Canada paid for the bridge – all of the money, up front – and arranged to recoup their investments with the toll revenue, but intended to share some of the revenue with Michigan, as well. Team Evil claimed the bridge was a threat until Canada gave up some of the revenues they expected. Donny says it’s a better deal. Canada says, “We’re dealing with an administration like we’ve never seen before. They renege on deals. They don’t follow agreements. It’s like dealing with pirates.”

That’s an honest look into how other nations view the US today. “It’s like dealing with pirates.” So? Expect more typical trumpery. You just KNOW Donny will be out there telling his base the world respects us more than ever, but “like dealing with pirates” doesn’t sound like respect, to me. Still, the bridge is open now. Well, until Donny has another fever dream and throws another tantrum, that is…

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‘Narcissistic Collapse,’ they call it. When you see or hear Donny rage-tweeting at 2 am or listen to one (any) of his speeches, he’s really on more of a rant than trying to deliver any new information. He attacks one time supporters and he uses very aggressive words.

One author on the subject, Tina Swithin said, “Narcissistic collapse occurs when a narcissist’s carefully constructed self-image is threatened or shattered, often by criticism, public humiliation, perceived abandonment or a loss of control.” She added, “Basically, narcissistic collapse is ‘the moment the mask slips.’ A narcissist’s facade of power, authority and unique greatness goes away as their vulnerability is exposed ― laying bare negative behaviors that were previously hidden or controlled.”

In short, he’s melting down as more and more people see who he really is and just how bad he is at, well, everything, really. He sucks as a human being. HE has always known that about himself. He’s just terrified YOU might be seeing it, too. Many of us do, Donny, and more will see the real you every day…

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There’s this law. It’s called the ‘War Powers Act of 1973.’ It requires the president to end military operations within 60 days unless Congress authorizes an extension. Team Evil is trying a workaround. At one point in their illegal war, they declared a cease-fire in Operation Epic Fury. Now, obviously, the fighting has resumed. But Donny doesn’t WANT to turn to Congress for permission to keep bombing innocents – so Team Evil is trying to pretend THIS US vs Iran fighting is different from the last US vs Iran fighting.

Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, wrote in social media, “Let me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been TWO Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire.” It really IS absurd. It will lose in court if it ever gets there, but it buys the regime time, and time is what they need to create even more confusion.

This is all coming up because the regime wants to hide the number of American war dead and wounded. If they can convince somebody of their ‘two wars’ delusion, they can separate the number of casualties and obscure the body count, which currently stands at 18 US soldiers killed and 624 wounded since his illegal invasion…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He’s trying very hard to distract people because he wants people to forget that. As he declines, his behavior becomes more outrageous and more dangerous, he’s slowly pushing the Trump/Epstein files off the front pages. But people are not forgetting his pedophile past. Don’t you forget it, either…

An Address in Prime Time…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, gods, his prime-time address. Look, Donald J. Trump is a liar. He lies about elections, among other things. That lying piece of human waste never, never, NEVER presents even a shred of evidence. That’s because there IS no evidence to support his stories, and THAT is because his stories are lies. He’s desperately trying to convince somebody, somewhere that American elections are untrustworthy because HE tried to steal 2020 and lost anyway.

He’s been telling these lies for years. The charges do NOT just spew into the wind where everyone ignores them. They get investigated. Extensively. Over and over – every time he starts accusing someone, somewhere of meddling, another investigation. He filed lawsuits but never presented any valid evidence. His election lies have been investigated by the intelligence community, the FBI, DHS, DOJ, bipartisan state election officials, audits, recounts, and the courts.

Never ONCE have they found evidence of extensive cheating – the level one would need to change the outcome of a national election. In fairness, each election DOES usually turn up a Republican or two who tried to vote more than once. But a single vote, here and there, doesn’t have much effect on the outcome.

So trump is definitely lying. Well, I suppose he could be delusional. Maybe he really believes he was cheated. Some people really believe they can see six foot tall, pink rabbits, too. That doesn’t mean they can. Mostly, though, I think evil Donny is crazy like a fox. He knows the elections were secure. He didn’t like the outcome. And now, he’s terrified there’s going to be another fair election.

By every measure, Donald J. Trump has been a terrible President. He has done more harm to America and her reputation around the world in a single year than anybody could have imagined. There’s not a single metric to which one can point that shows positive results for the largest number of people. In fact, he’s hurting as many work-a-day Americans as he can, as badly as he can, as quickly as he can.

Cons like to point to the border and pretend that’s a success but even that effort has resulted in American law enforcement gunning down innocent people – including Americans – in the street with no charge, no trial, and commonly, no crime. People are dying of maltreatment in detention. The program is brutal and cruel and actually and honestly dangerous – AND, it’s damaging the economy! I’m not ready to call that a success.

By now, even MAGA knows this. I know, they’re telling pollsters they’re still fully on board. They’re still, mostly, not ready to confess their disappointment publicly. But they know. They buy gas. They buy groceries. They pay rent. I’ll tell you this: even if all of that WAS Joe Biden’s fault – which it absolutely is not – Donny is still in the driver’s seat now. Whether he likes it or not, it’s his responsibility. He doesn’t get to ignore that responsibility based on the idea that Joe did it.

It’s Donny’s job to address and correct problems. Who did it isn’t relevant. That’s what his supporters voted for him to do. That’s what he promised. Then, after he’s in office and the money starts flowing into his personal pockets, suddenly “affordability” is a made-up word? He’s really just going to TELL you inflation is down and you’re supposed to believe him, despite actually going into grocery stores?

Although he’s failing completely in Iran, he lied. He said (again), “We are…winning big in Iran, and you will see the fruits of that labor very, very shortly.” Uh-huh. Let me guess. In about two weeks, right? Right after you release your new and improved health care plan? Should we hold our breath?

The economy is struggling and headed down. The food supply is threatened, thanks to all of that beautiful deregulation. Once-eliminated illnesses in both humans and livestock are making grand comebacks, thanks to the anti-science stance. We’re voluntarily, unilaterally, surrendering any/every lead we had in technology because he prefers yesterday’s technologies. His ill-advised war continues. We’re paying millions to bomb a foreign, sovereign nation for no discernible reason – and these Bozos on Team Evil are laser focused on – sperm counts and algae blooms?

Yeah, a terrible, terrible President. And he’s being supported by terrible, terrible people, all of whom hope to profit, personally, from the corruption – and all at the expense of the work-a-day American people. The vast majority of the American people want this guy stopped and elections are our ticket to do that. But he doesn’t WANT to stop. He has literally made BILLIONS of dollars, grifting from the Oval Office. Worse, he faces criminal charges already and there’s a long and increasing list of new charges just waiting for him.

He knows that. He knows he’s looking at a shellacking at the polls and he knows that means taking responsibility for his actions. He HATES that more than just about anything. He simply can NOT afford a fair and secure election. He’ll lose, and he knows it. So he’s lying. He has cooked up a scheme. All he has to do is convince MAGA to ignore their own eyes and listen to him instead. Some actually will, or they’ll try. Some will know better but support him anyway. <Shakes head.>

I suspect everyone knew this was going to be nothing more than a tantrum. MAGA watched, anyway, just to get a glimpse of their glorious Precious. Most of the world looked away, unable to look at that ugly mug or hear that grating voice for one more second. Even most of the major networks refused to air the thing. They put it in their social media feeds, but not the airwaves. He whined about that, too. He just whines about everything. But, really, who needs to listen to more lies? And, really, that’s all this loser has…

Reality Bites Back…

by MyBaconPress

You DO realize, do you not, that the worst, most harmful effects of the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” are set to kick in AFTER the mid-terms, right? They passed the bill and it contains some real ugly stuff. They KNOW it’s ugly stuff and they KNOW it’s going to infuriate it’s victims (i.e., the American people). So they delayed it. Oh, to be sure, they DID it, but they delayed it so you wouldn’t feel it until AFTER the elections. The Republicans were trying to protect Republicans from the actions of the Republicans…

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Ah, rats! McConnell still pollutes Earth. He stuck his head out from his shell yesterday to explain that he fell down. Oh, AND he had a “mild case” of pneumonia. He says doctors have no explanation as to WHY he passed out. He just did. Actually, I suspect he’s on blood pressure medication and he stood up too fast. That gets REAL as you age. I once stood up too fast and blacked out. When I fell, I banged my head on a door, putting a nice little head-shaped dent in the thing.

This could be like a ‘Christmas Carol’ moment for him. Maybe he could read most of the stuff written about him by people who thought (hoped and prayed) he had died. Maybe he could understand how people feel about him, the legacy he’s leaving behind. Maybe he could reconsider being the evil jerk he is and do a personal “reset.” I mean, he won’t, but he certainly could.

It’s important to note that many people are pointing out potential flaws in the photo his team released. Even people on the far right are questioning the validity of the photo. They say – correctly, in my view – that McConnell should have released a short video instead of a photo. People ALSO want to know why all of the metadata has been stripped from the photo. That’s a fair question.

Perhaps the photo and statement are AI. People are also pointing out that rescuers were performing CPR on McConnell when he was taken to the hospital. Does one do CPR for a fall? Does pneumonia respond to CPR? It’s possible the cover-up continues. It’s possible McConnell can’t make a current video. It’s possible he really is dead. I wish I could know for sure. I’d like to know if I should be celebrating or just still disappointed…

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The thing about McConnell is that he might have fallen down as a result of the polio he contracted when he was a kid. He had only a minor case. His mobility was impaired but he got away without much worse. Another victim, Martha Lillard, contracted polio when she was five. SHE had to use an iron lung while she slept for her entire life. She just passed away June 26th. She was the last known polio survivor who used an iron lung. She was 78.

I imagine people like Lillard and possibly even ‘The Bitch’ McConnell were happy when a vaccine was introduced, so nobody else would have to go through what they went through. Then we get RFK, jr with his message of, “Heck yes we can stop it. We just don’t thing you should.” I can’t believe people – young mothers – started lining up to avoid the vaccine for their child. So long as stupidity rules the day, professionals should keep a few of those iron lungs around. We’re still going to need them. It’s very embarrassing to be an American, these days…

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This is just a passing thought, but the ONE thing I regret about Graham Platner having to drop out of the race in Maine is that we’ve missed the opportunity to listen to MAGA bitch and moan about how terrible, horrible, disgusting, and incomprehensible it would be to elect a person accused of sexual assault.

They wouldn’t even notice that their Precious has to pay E. Jean Carroll the five million he owes her for defaming her after he sexually assaulted her, and they’ve certainly “compartmentalized” the Trump/Epstein files. “OUR raper is okay. YOURS is an outrage!” That’s a hell of a case to make. American politics just ain’t what it used to be…

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Sad! Donny can’t get out of his stupid war-that’s-not-a-war in Iran. It’s got me wondering: how come he claims to have “solved” a bunch of wars nobody can see or knows anything about, but he can’t solve any of the active wars the entire world knows about? It’s almost as if he’s just lying.

Expect gas prices to jump again. The Strait of Hormuz is closed still/again/still/again. OPEC has increased their output but that takes a little time to affect the market. Missiles in the Strait take no time at all. I’ve got to tell you, I liked it better when the United States had competent Presidents…

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The GOP is considering a vote to end Daylight Saving Time. I support that. Their actual goal is to KEEP Daylight Saving – that is, to stay on that schedule instead of locking in on standard time. I do NOT support that. I only have evidence to rely upon, here, and we all know how cons feel about evidence, but I’m going to mention it anyway.

California tried that once, staying on Daylight Saving. It was a test program, intended to run two years. The first year was SO disastrous, they ended the program after the first winter. Too many dead kids. That’s real. It turns out, staying on Daylight Saving for more light in the evening, means more darkness in the mornings.

You know mornings. That’s when kids walk to school or to school bus stops. Making sure it’s extra-dark during those hours got lots of kids killed by drivers who just couldn’t see them. There’s no reason to assume the same thing won’t happen again.

Besides, Daylight Saving doesn’t provide any benefit. Americans live by clocks, not sunshine. Let’s stop the time changes, but stay on standard time. Americans lose nothing and school kids are safer. I call that a win-win…

Lie, Lie, Lie…

by MyBaconPress

The reflecting pool has cameras on it 24/7. Many people know this. That makes it a simple matter to release video of the evil-doer who dared cut a slash into the new liner with a knife which, according to 47, couldn’t be cut with a knife. That makes it sound like he just makes things up as he goes along, doesn’t it? In order to prove THAT point, the making things up part, officials DID release video of the evil vandal, asking for help locating the “perp.”

In the video, one can clearly see – well, no, it’s not really all that clear – a woman reach into the Reflecting Pool and, um, pull out a piece of the already floating liner. That’s “vandalism” in Donny’s book, seeing the results of his failure. Which means we’re ALL “vandals” because we’ve seen the East Wing. We’ve seen his gaudy makeover of the White House, or should it be the Fake Gold House now? And now we’ve all seen his makeover of the Reflecting Pool. I know he loves to brag on himself, but based on what I’ve seen, he sucks at building.

What I did NOT see in that video, was anybody using a knife to cut a gash into the uncuttable liner. But that was how the video was released, “proof” of the vandalism he claims. We all know who the actual vandal is. What we DON’T know is if there’s method to his madness or if he’s just completely incompetent. It turns out, one does NOT hire workers based on loyalty alone. All he had to do was hire a company that knew what they were doing, but he gave the no-bid contract – paid by your tax dollars – to a crony instead…

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When a group of people planned to attack Donny’s desecration of the White House with a UFC event, right wing media was quick to paint them as lefties but it turns out, nope. They were a collection of far-right nutballs. They came together over the internet. They verified each other’s identities and ideologies then moved to private chat rooms to rant anti-government slogans and plan an attack.

They were going to create a distraction, then bomb the event with drone-borne bombs, causing a panic. When people fled, so-called “high value targets” were to be picked off by snipers. I say again, these were far right nutballs, but they were targeting Republicans. The thing is, they chose their targets with the help of a left-wing website that tracks politicians who receive donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby group.

That’s what right-wing media seized on to “prove” the conspirators were lefties. It’s a two-fer. They get to smear the left AND they get to pretend the right isn’t as angry at Donny’s failures as everyone else. But the group’s focus seemed to be on Trump constantly taking the knee to Netanyahu. They didn’t like that one little bit.

I thought this was interesting: the would-be attackers talked a lot about the Trump/Epstein files and how the regime wasn’t releasing them. Right-wing media used those comments to note that they had “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” I added the emphasis to the ‘Democrat conspiracy theories‘ bit.

It was The Drumpfster himself who whipped the right up into a frenzy about the Trump/Epstein files, though he DID leave his own name out of it. Everyone, everyone, everyone NOT in those files wanted them released. But, apparently, MAGA has now been successfully conditioned to repeat the idea that the whole thing is a left-wing conspiracy.

By the way, have you noticed that not one of the people noted in the Trump/Epstein files has been arrested or even investigated in the US? Look wrong at the Reflecting Pool and you’re doing hard time. Diddle a child in the Trump/Epstein Pedo ring and 47 will “cover your six.”

Apparently, this particular group of not-so-much geniuses expected the attack to launch the second revolution. Why is it these guys always see themselves as some kind of savior? Racists in this country often relate to a book called ‘The Turner Diaries’ that paints a picture of one event triggering a race war so the glorious white people can finally get rid of all those “other people” once and for all.

They see themselves as heroes in their misguided efforts. They won’t get the glorious outcomes they expect, but they expect them anyway. Boneheads…

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Donny’s war-that’s-not-a-war looks like it might be devolving into war again. There’s lots of shooting going on and 47 keeps flapping his stupid lips, trying to tough-talk his way out of the nightmare he tough-talked his way in to. He said he wouldn’t start any foreign wars. He lied. He said he could solve it easily. He clearly lied. He told MAGA only HE could fix the problems. 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…

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Oh, yeah, yet another failure. His State Fair. Nobody seems all that interested. Nobody is going. Word is, nothing works there. The food is mundane. There are two rides. The Ferris Wheel doesn’t work half the time. Finally, he shut the thing down, at least for the evening, blaming the weather. He might be trying to correct the failures. My prediction? Things are about to get worse. That’s just the way it is with this guy. He touches something, it turns to crap.

They built a little replica of the arch he hopes to build in honor of his disgusting self. Remember, this thing has only been going on for a very short time. There’s no reason in the world their little replica should be in shoddy condition – but it is. It’s already falling apart and the failure is visible from the “Freedom 250 Ferris Wheel.” Classic Trump. Failure at every turn. It seems the only thing this guy is even remotely competent at is crime. THAT he can do, and he does it every day…

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Texas has passed a law requiring all public students to read the Bible, or at least, passages from the Bible. Lovely. That’s probably for moral teachings. I wonder if they’ll read the part about Noah’s daughters getting him drunk and having sex with him. How about the guy who gave his concubine to a group of drunken men to use as they please, then had HER executed and her body parts spread about the region, do you think they’ll focus on that? Will they focus on Abraham, who nearly murdered his own son because of the voice in his head?

It’s a good thing I’m not a teacher in Texas because those are the passages I would focus on. You know, until I got fired. Hey, I’d be reading from the Bible as the law requires. Full compliance. That shouldn’t be a problem…

Trying To Hide Reality…

by MyBaconPress

Really, what a coward. He got ordered to take his name off of the Kennedy Center. He fought it, but he lost. He ALWAYS loses fair fights. But he’s a petty and petulant little man and he put up a cover to hide the spot where his name had been but is no more. Now he won’t take the cover down. I suspect he’s embarrassed that he has been so completely, publicly rebuked, with his name NOT being there as the evidence. Excuses. It’s always excuses with that weasel.

Now, to be fair, the regime says they’re leaving the cover up until work is done repairing the damage he did when he slapped his stupid name up there in the first place. That could be true but it isn’t necessary. We all know what happened and how it happened. We all know Donny broke the law and was corrected by the courts. We all know his stupid name came down. We know the holes need to be repaired. We also know he knows he has humiliated himself and now he hopes nobody notices him putting up a great big cover that draws attention in an attempt to hide it. He’ll need a new excuse soon…

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Speaking of excuses, now Team Evil is saying the reflecting pool was vandalized. Yeah, that’s the ticket, it was vandalized. No, he doesn’t mean what he did. He means by someone else. They’ve even made arrests! For instance, they arrested three-time Olympian David Hearn as one of the “vandals.” According to him, he just stopped when he saw some of the floating paint and wanted to touch it to see how it felt.

No details on anyone else, but if that’s the quality of the case, it seems like some patsies are going to have to face a legal fight just so 47 doesn’t have to admit being such a complete failure. Weaponized government, anyone? MAGA loves it because they don’t realize they could be victimized just as easily. All they have to do is be in the wrong place at time when 47 needs a fall-guy.

Now that the regime has it’s headline though, ‘Donny cries it is NOT is fault, see?’ the accused will likely enjoy a quiet dismissal of charges. Excuses…

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The guy just lies. Like, all the time. He went to the G7 conference, at which he was tolerated but not truly welcomed. Then he calls in to an Italian radio program and claims that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so ​badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.” He said, “She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her.”

That seems like projection, to me. HE was the one standing alone, with no one near him when the photo op took place and any informal gathering of the G7 attendees left him alone and isolated, each time. HE was the one who wanted some to talk to him. The world hates him and he knows it. Also, he cares a LOT more than he lets on. He really wants someone, somewhere to like him. I know, MAGA loves him, but he thinks they’re stupid. He doesn’t give two figs about their opinion so they don’t count.

He wants someone he admires to admire him back and he was hoping to piggyback to a bit of that feeling by claiming Meloni tried to get closer to him. She was having none of it. “Donald Trump’s statements are completely made up,” she said in Italian. “I am, frankly, astonished. I don’t ‌know why ⁠the president of the United States behaves like this towards his allies, and it’s not the first time.”

They used to get along. I suspect he hoped in citing her, she might support his lie. But no one – NO ONE – wants to be associated with the Drumpfster. Well, no one decent, anyway…

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Oh, so he’s rolling out his new Air Force One, the luxury jet “gifted” to him from Qatar. It’s painted darker than most of it’s predecessors. It costs more to fly a plane painted with dark paint. He doesn’t care about that. He’s not paying for that – you are! This plane is so big, it can only land at certain airports. That could mean his trips will take longer and require second legs, as he lands at the airport the plane CAN land at, then transfers to some other craft to reach his destination.

He doesn’t care about that. He’s not paying for that – you are! And it only cost $400 million dollars to renovate for his use for the next couple of years. That’s pretty extravagant but, of course, he’s not paying for that – you are! The planes he retired are still fine. They’re just old.

There are two brand new planes being readied to serve as Air Force One but they got delayed and won’t be around until 2028. Then he plans to “retire” this plane to his so-called presidential library, which, based on his apparent lifestyle, will be a run-down single-wide out in a field somewhere with broken down cars scattered around it – everything spray-painted gold, of course…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He’s trying very hard to distract people because he wants people to forget that. People are not forgetting that. Don’t you forget that…

Market Manipulation…

by MyBaconPress

It’s a simple enough scheme. He announces he’s going to bomb the crap out of Iran and the stock market drops. This represents a buying opportunity to anybody who happens to know the situation will change. Then, he announces he’s decided not to bomb them because peace is at hand. The market recovers, he makes tons of money. It’s called market manipulation. It’s a crime. He does it a lot. I believe the current count is twenty-seven times, or thereabouts.

Until very recently, Iran had maintained that no peace agreement is close at hand. Really, we the people of the United States of America ought to listen to the Iranian leaders when it comes to the question of peace. We know we can’t trust them, but nobody – nobody – lies like a trump, and among the trumps, 47 is the master liar…

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I thought I had seen video of workers removing his evil name from The Kennedy Center shortly after the judge ordered him to take it down, but I guess I was mistaken. A lawsuit was filed and a delay requested. The delay was refused and now his name is coming off of the building – for real, this time. Lovely…

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The headline said, “Palestinian American woman held without charge by Israeli military.” Held without charge. That’s the language. When a Palestinian grabs a person and holds them against their will, the press everywhere calls the person grabbed a “hostage.” When an Israeli grabs a person and holds them against their will, the press everywhere calls the person grabbed a “prisoner.” The person grabbed is a hostage in both cases. The world should use the correct term.

Speaking of Israel, did you see how Netanyahu just obeyed Donny’s commands? 47 insisted. HE calls the shots. Bibi doesn’t call the shots. Then Bibi called a few shots, once again scuttling any chance our Fearful Misleader had of getting out of his Iranian debacle. Donny fumed, of course, but didn’t do anything else. What’s he going to do, stop providing the weapons Netanyahu uses to trap Donny in Iran? I wouldn’t count on that, if I were you…

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Speaking of which, there’s word from various sources that an end to the hostilities with Iran is at hand. Even the Iranians have said so at this point. 47 says the deal will be signed today but only an idiot still believes 47 about anything. The Iranians have said a deal could be signed sometime this week, though. At this point, the Iranians have more credibility.

So, Bibi launched another assault on Beirut. It’s weird, but the deal between Iran and the US is contingent on Israel giving up it’s warlike ways in Palestine. Netanyahu says he won’t tolerate people shooting into Israel – as he should not. But it seems he won’t even tolerate CLAIMS that someone shot into Israel, which he can make anytime he wants. And he does.

Israel loves to run around claiming ‘victim’ status, but they’ve been running an aggressive war of attrition against the Arabs in the region since the 1948 purge. They’ve been relentless. Inexorable. And now Netanyahu thinks he can see the end, his ‘Final Solution,’ as it were. Either that, or he’s trying to keep the war going to stay out of jail. That’s a real possibility, too.

So Bibi keeps making claims and firing weapons and gumming up the peace talks between our Foolhardy, Felonious, Feckless Fuckup and Iran. I don’t mind the Drumpfster being shown up for the gullible fool he is before the entire planet. I enjoy it, in fact. But in this case, the financial burden is killing me…

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Hey, is now a good time to remind you that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends and likely co-conspirators in a sex trafficking scheme for years and years? He’s trying very hard to distract people because he wants people to forget that. People are not forgetting that. Don’t you forget that.

According to recently released Trump/Epstein files, there was an FBI intake form in which a tipster claimed that President Pedo “knew and funded underage sex parties” at one of his golf courses. There is no record of the follow-up, and I have no evidence to support the claim. So, according to MAGA Mike the Johnson, it must be true…

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Okay, here we go. Kevin Warsh, 47’s handpicked sock puppet now running the Fed is about to chair his first meeting of the bank’s rate setting committee. Remember when Donny promised to reduce inflation? Yeah, yet another promise made, promise not kept. In fact, promise broken in spectacular fashion.

When inflation was high under Biden, it was because Trump had allowed the Covid-19 virus to spread so widely it crashed the world economy. One does not easily recover from that kind of damage, but Biden did it – well ahead of the rest of the world. That’s because Joe Biden was a FAR better, FAR smarter President.

Donny’s been infesting the Oval for about 17 months, now, and he’s already got inflation on the rise again. A three year high, in fact. And HIS only excuse is his own terrible judgement (though he blames everyone else). So inflation is going up and the Fed’s normal response to that is higher interest rates to cool the market. But Donny’s a dumbass and he wants interest rates lower.

Warsh is in the job in the first place because Donny knows Donny can tell Warsh what to do and when. The only saving grace is this: Warsh doesn’t get to make the decision alone. There’s a board. So, does Warsh try to do the right thing and maintain rates at higher levels to battle Donny’s terrible management of the economy, or does he try to present Donny’s wishes as somehow important, and lower rates anyway? Bear in mind, Team Evil never does the right thing…

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Congratulations to the New York Knicks. They won the NBA championship in five games, ending a 53-year drought. And, really, congratulations to the fans. They didn’t play, of course, but they stayed loyal. Players come and go. The fans stick around. The players likely didn’t feel that 53 year losing streak, but the fans did…

Objectively Lengthening Discomfort…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it’s official. I’ve been diagnosed with early stage Objectively Lengthening Discomfort, or O.L.D. I know, O.L.D. affects huge swaths of the population. Millions live with it every day. Still, I’ve got to tell you, it’s a little scary when the diagnosis comes your way. It’s early days, yet, but I have all the symptoms. In fact, I may be in denial. It seems I’ve contracted O.L.D., but I don’t FEEL like I have O.L.D., you know? At least, not in my mind.

It’s my body where I feel it the most. That’s what gets you to go to the doctor in the first place. Your body starts to hurt for no reason at all and often, it doesn’t stop. Then they tell you. “It’s O.L.D., and you have it. We can manage it,” they tell you. “We can give you some pills,” they say. Oh! Em! Gee!, do they give you some pills! It takes a LOT of pills to combat O.L.D.

It can be hard to believe. You hear the words, but you don’t really accept them. “You mean, I’m going to be this way for the rest of my life?!?”
“Well, the science is advancing,” they tell you. “We’re trying to find a cure, but O.L.D. is an elusive condition. It takes years and years to manifest in the first place, and then, when it does, O.L.D. is already there. Too late to start treatment.” Bummer.

Listen, I’ll learn to live with it, just like all of it’s victims before me. I just… never really thought it would happen to me…

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When it comes to the economy, it seems the strategy of Team Evil is to simply talk people into believing the economy is awesome. Do you think that’s going to work? I recently mentioned that the weirdo Kevin Hassett pretends that people paying more for everything actually means consumers are optimistic about the future. He suggested that the recent increase in delinquencies on credit card payments is really just optimistic consumers, taking a bit more time to make payments. No problem.

No truth, either. But it keeps coming. 47, himself, is constantly running around telling people the economy is great. “Never been better,” he claims. Then you stop at the gas pump on your way to the grocery story and it seems he might not have all of the information. I think he does, though. I think he knows he’s presiding over one of the worst economies in modern history, though it’s really humming along for him, personally. He just seems to think that if he TELLS you prices are down, you won’t know the difference. He must really think you’re stupid.

I mean, honestly, does his insistence that he thought gas prices were going to be much, much higher somehow make it okay that gas prices are through the roof right now? And, by the way, he’s telling us he KNEW his misadventure in Iran was going to trash the economy – and he did it anyway! He claims he’s feeling pretty good about the outcome because the damage isn’t as bad as he expected? What the hell was he trying to do to the American people?!?

I wonder if that’s what he told the girls he (allegedly) molested, it wasn’t so bad because he could have done it more. That just isn’t the comfort he seems to think. “Could have been worse” is NOT the same as “not at all bad.” Victims tend to focus on what happens, not the fact that it could have been worse.

This is one of the measures I use that indicate, to me, that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. The public part of an economic crisis is to reassure the public. He does that, or he’s trying. But GOOD presidents also work behind the scenes to try and fix the situation. That’s the part 47 seems to be missing. That’s the hard part, the boring part. So, he and the rest of Team Evil are left with just insisting the economy is good and you’re NOT experiencing any challenges in your day-to-day financial life.

It’s the ‘Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?’ defense. Now, apparently, what you’re supposed to do is ignore all of the information you collect each and every day with your own experience about soaring costs and take his word for it, instead. He must REALLY think you’re stupid…

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“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” That’s Matthew 12:34.

Sometimes, people try to hide natural tendencies. Sometimes, people over-compensate. If you, say, find yourself sexually attracted to a person of the same sex, you might suppress that feeling and then aggressively pursue members of the opposite sex to “prove” to someone – maybe someone else, maybe yourself – that you’re as straight as the day is long. You might be able to maintain the subterfuge for a long time, years, maybe decades. Over time, though, the clues add up.

One common sign that a guy might be pretending to be straight, for example, is overcompensating with masculine behavior. Another sign that a guy might be pretending to be straight is displaying an exaggerated interest in women. He might fixate on traditional gender roles. He’ll likely suffer a lack of genuine emotional connection with women. Just asking, here. Does any of that remind anybody of any current sitting “presidents?”

Let’s toss in a couple more. Another indication that a guy might be pretending to be straight is an overemphasis on his appearance, and one more sign is a pattern of consistent relationship issues with women. Yeah, all of that sounds like 47, to me.

I need to be clear, here. Gay or not gay is not an issue for me. I don’t care. Really, it’s none of my business and I think it’s hard enough just to find love in this world without restricting possibilities. But I suspect someone putting SO much effort into hiding the fact takes the “problem” VERY seriously. I’m not interested in, nor trying to, “out” Donny. That’s not my job and not why I’m on this.

It’s common knowledge that people in the throes of dementia often experience a loss of inhibition. It even has a name: disinhibition. A person might spend their entire lives trying to hide a reality about themselves only to expose the whole secret when dementia diminishes their capacity to maintain the facade. And that is one point. Donny’s noted interest in men and inability to hide his secret desires any longer might well be evidence of his dementia.

Trump has a long history of commenting on muscular men but, recently, his comments are getting less and less inhibited. He recently spoke at a John Deere plant and during his talk, he openly admired a man sitting next to him – several times. It was downright flirtatious. Then, a 22-year-old speed skater named Jordan Stolz gave 47 one of his gold medals, whether he meant to or not, after which 47 said, “I forgot to touch his leg. I didn’t want to do that, but I can tell you one thing, his leg is like a rock.”

It feels to me like Donny’s dementia is letting his “secret” out of the bag (or the closet), whether Donny likes it or not. IS it disinhibition and evidence of dementia? And then I find myself wondering how many women and girls have suffered through the years because trump couldn’t be honest with himself. How many people have died – and are dying – because trump is trying to overcompensate and prove he’s a manly man? Perhaps the secret to sating Donny’s insanity is simply to get him a boyfriend, maybe someone else trying to overcompensate, as well. Maybe someone named Jeffery, although any name will do…

The Benevolent Employer…

by MyBaconPress

I’m surprised people are surprised. Big Tech is pushing AI into everything. The developers have been pretty open about the notion that their fabulous new invention will put people out of work, possibly by the millions. People, as it happens, aren’t as impressed with that idea as the billionaire tech bosses. People are looking forward to getting jobs and living their lives. Every job AI replaces is one less for a person to do, and, obviously, that’s the whole point.

That’s why I’m surprised people are surprised. It’s as if people are just now discovering that “employers” don’t like employees and have wanted to eliminate them going back as far as time. If employers can get the benefits of the work without having to pay someone to do the work, they will. Previously, the best business model for “employers” was slavery, where the master got to keep all the surplus the slaves produced. He had to maintain them (kind of) but he didn’t have to pay him.

People seem to think employers employ people out of some altruistic impulse. That IS a story, of sorts, that gets sold in America. It’s called ‘The Benevolent Employer.’ It’s a fictional story about how people hire others for the good of the community and to do beneficial things in society. I don’t know why people cling to the story.

Everything we’ve seen in this world says otherwise. Capitalists hire because they have no choice. They don’t LIKE employees. Capitalists want profit, period. If they can increase profit with employees, that’s what they’ll do. If they can increase profit without employees, they’ll do that, too. And AI has them licking their chops they may have finally found a way to get revenues without suffering employees to do the work.

I mention it because college commencements are taking place around the country and people have noticed a phenomenon. Every time someone mentions AI, the crowd erupts into boos and cat-calls. The masters want us all to embrace AI as it destroys our futures. We’re not properly enthusiastic about it. In fact, it turns out we’re all a little angry about the implications. I think that, alone, is a good reason to pump the brakes a little. But I also think that ain’t gonna happen…

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Well, like everything else he touches, 47 seems to have put his curse on the World Cup. In fairness, it’s not ALL him. FIFA is a greedy and corrupt organization, trying to squeeze every nickle out of every penny regardless of what that might do to their product. Trump is a greedy and corrupt individual. Between the two allegedly criminal entities, people either can’t afford to go to the games or they don’t feel safe showing up.

The truth is, the masses WILL pay big bucks to attend a sporting event like this one. We see it at the Stupid Bowl every year. As long as people have credit cards, they’ll show up to these things. Well, unless the economy is struggling and everyone is worried about what happens tomorrow. THEN they tend to close their wallets. The point is, I think the high prices are having LESS impact on the World Cup.

But deploying ICEholes to the games? The thing we know is that the story about rounding up dangerous illegals is now and always has been bunk. They’re rounding up brown people, legal and otherwise. Would you spend all the money FIFA is asking just to show up and be detained by ICE? People have televisions. They can watch the matches in the comfort and safety of their homes without ever once being hassled by ICEholes. There was a lot of economic investment for this event and now it looks more and more like it’s going to be a bust…

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They’re calling it the ‘Great American State Fair.’ It was supposed to have a bunch of musical acts but as the acts realized they were being recruited to sing at a trump event, they cancelled. Whiny little bitch trump said he’d just give an epic speech, instead. He is, after all, more famous than Elvis – at least according to him and his overactive ego.

In an effort to suck up to the object of his affection, a Tennessee Representative named Tim Burchett has come up with a plan, an effort to “save” the ‘Great American State Fair.’ Burchett’s idea is to bring in unknowns, has-beens, and never-weres. If they sing patriotic songs, they should be in, whether anybody has ever heard of them or not. Also, there’s always Kid Rock, who I was a little surprised wasn’t on the original bill in the first place.

Burchett might be on to something. People already understand this is a political event. Team Evil tried to downplay that idea and it didn’t work, largely because most people aren’t as stupid as Team Evil thinks. But MAGA? Well, as we know, they can’t be fixed. So embrace the MAGA angle. Get Lee Greenwood to come in and croak out that song he has. Good thinking, Burchett. If they can’t get anybody good, get somebody MAGA…

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The LAST time 47 infested the White House, some contractor stole a bunch of records from the IRS and released them to the public. Donny’s tax returns were among them. So, Donny decided to sue the irresponsible government that allowed such a thing to happen, his own. That is, Donny sued himself over his own failure. He thinks that might be worth $10 billion dollars.

The whole thing came down to a settlement in which the trump family would be protected from prosecution for all time and a fund to pay off J6 rioters would be established, instead. Now the judge in the case, Judge Kathleen Williams, has decided to reopen the case. She said she wants to investigate some “grievous allegations,” suggesting that the hasty deal to resolve the case was “premised on deception.” She ordered Trump’s lawyers to tell her by June 12 whether the lawsuit should be formally reopened because “the court was the victim of a fraud.”

Thirty-five former federal judges urged Williams to reopen the case so she could examine the details of the settlement. They pointed out that the basic suit doesn’t represent an issue of controversy since The Drumpfster is at both ends of it. THAT, they conclude, constitutes a fraud on the court. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

Donny may slither out of legal danger – after all, Satan takes care of his own – but he may not get to sue himself and he might not even get his J6 slush fund. That would be a nice change, something decent…