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Okies, Swifties, and Walmart…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Oklahoma is now going to institutionalize wrongheadedness. Lovely. Students in Oklahoma schools now have to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election. Specifically, the new curriculum standard says the students need to, “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”

I’d be in trouble if I attended school in Oklahoma, these days. With that kind of standard, they will likely start teaching kids that Japan won WWII, as well. I mean, why not? If you’re just going to make things up anyway, why not go all out? I’ll tell you this: I didn’t like Oklahoma’s new standard, so I fixed it. It should read like this:

“Identify fictional discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at fake graphs and other fraudulent information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states that never happened, the security risks of mail-in balloting that don’t exist, sudden batch dumps that never happened, an unforeseen record number of voters furious at the Feckless Fuckup’s handling of, well, everything, really, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends that come with being such a complete loser of a President.”

This is simple, folks. Donny got his ass handed to him in 2020 because he did a terrible, terrible job. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly and he flat-lined the economy. The only President in history who has done a worse job than 45 is 47, who is working overtime to be worse in every measurable way – his only “success” and, sadly, succeeding at THAT brilliantly. The only real mystery is how he won so many people back to support him in 2024. Of course, Americans could offer an actual and honest class about how to steal an election based on 2024 but I’m guessing The Felon and his minions don’t want anybody looking any too closely at that “election…”

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Oh, crap, have you heard? Taylor Swift isn’t “hot” anymore and, apparently, Bruce Springsteen is “not a talented guy.” He was talented enough for 47 to use his song without permission during the campaign but, apparently, not any more. If the Failure President has declared it, it must be (the opposite of) true.

The dude’s skin is a thick as the papery skin of an onion, isn’t it? Swift preferred the other candidate during the election, and she said so. She might not have, except Donny tried to lie her into his camp. He claimed she supported him. She set the record straight. Now he doesn’t like her, publicly, at least. As a general rule, Donny doesn’t like ANYBODY that tells the truth. Springsteen was a little more direct.

Springsteen stopped his show in England to declare 47’s corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous regime, “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.” That just seems accurate, to me. He called on “all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us.” He also called on his audience to “Raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.”

Apparently, that infuriated Donny. Apparently, 47 doesn’t WANT to let freedom ring. So, he got mad at Springsteen and declared him lacking in talent. Secretly, I think Donny is just jealous that both Springsteen and Swift have earned more honest money than him, but that’s just a suspicion.

Oh, but when Donny’s panties are in a wad, he simply can not let it go. He wrote, “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!)” [Editors note: look who’s talking.] “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.'” He added, “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

Wait, let me guess: ’86 47′ is a clear “threat,” but “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!” is just standard Donny-being-Donny kind of funny, right?

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Have you seen the Don of Destruction’s latest? Well, I don’t know if it’s his “latest.” He’s so stupid, so fast, so often, it’s likely he’s been outrageous thirty or forty more times since, but this is a good one. He told Walmart they aren’t allowed to increase their prices based on his tariffs. I honest-to-God did not know 47 had a voice in Walmart’s board room.

MAGA used to understand this. They’re not allowed to, now, so they pretend they don’t, but they used to. Try to implement a tax on something. MAGA will say… no, MAGA used to understand that retailers would simply add the cost of the tax to the end-sale price of that product. Increased sales taxes lead to higher prices. ‘Tariff’ is simply another word for ‘tax’ – and it’s a sales tax. But The Felon has been lying to his base that the tariffs won’t increase prices.

Amazon said they were going to highlight the added cost of products by showing the additional cost of the tariffs but they backed down from that after The First Felon spoke with Bezos. The prices are still going up, there’s just no breakout number to highlight the added cost of tariffs. Walmart warned their customers that things were going to get more expensive because of the tariffs – so 47 told Walmart they can’t raises their prices. Instead, he suggested, Walmart should “eat the tariffs.”

I don’t like Walmart. I don’t trust them. I don’t shop in their stores if I haven ANY other option. I think Walmart – and every other national retailer in the country – will raise prices based on the tariffs whether they need to or not. It’s an opportunity, and Capitalists NEVER take a pass when they have an opportunity to screw customers. At the same time, tariffs are taxes and taxes get passed on to the consumer.

So, while he’s over in the middle east illegally securing billions of dollars in business for himself based on the Presidency, he’s ALSO telling Walmart they’ve earned enough, so they should just suck it up and eat the tariffs.

I’ll tell you this: it’s one thing to attack and destroy defenseless Americans. It’s another thing, entirely, for him to start telling billionaires they have too much. Poor people? Sure. OBVIOUSLY, they’re taking far too much, but billionaires? Billionaires are twisted people. They don’t know what “too much” means and they’re certainly not going to let a proven dumbass tell them. I expect Walmart’s prices will increase based on the tariffs, just like Walmart said they would. And I would NOT be surprised to see some serious push-back from the billionaires now, it seems, in 47’s crosshairs…

Pseudo-Theocratic Lunacy…

by MyBaconPress

James Comey used to be the director of the FBI. He ran afoul of 47 years ago, when he didn’t help cover up The Felon’s ties to Russia, Russia, Russia enough. Obviously, the two men don’t much like each other. Comey posted on Instagram: “cool shell formation on my beach walk” under a picture of seashells that appeared to form the shapes for “86 47.” Now MAGA is outraged, claiming Comey is threatening The Drumpfster’s life. Apparently, somewhere along the way, “86” has gained an additional meaning, at least for the moment: to kill. Who knew? I didn’t.

If you asked me what it meant to “86” something, I would tell you it means to toss it out or throw it away. I LOVE the idea of throwing him out, but I mean impeach him. I imagine that’s what Comey meant, too. But now Comey is being investigated by the DHS and the Secret Service for threatening 47’s life. Thought police on patrol. So much for MAGA freedom.

Look, I get it. MAGA needs a win. They need something. Ever since this boob took office they’ve been on the defensive. During the campaign, 47 promised them everything. He was going to work miracles. He had all the answers. He would solve every problem America ever had and he would do it on day one. It would be easy, he said. No, he didn’t want to tip his hand by telling anyone any of his plans but trust him, he said, he had the answers. Turns out? He didn’t.

The left kept pointing out that he couldn’t do the things he was promising. The solutions just weren’t that simple. These issues were difficult and it was going to take more than a magic wand or wishful thinking to fix the problems. MAGA was left to choose between the promises of a madman and the warnings of the left. Of course, there WAS no choice. Donny said it, they believe it, that settles it.

So far, with the exception of his promise to be cruel to brown people, his major campaign promises have fallen by the wayside. Yes, he has offered up excuses and “explanations,” none of which hold water with even the slightest scrutiny but MAGA won’t check. Still, very little, if anything, he promised has come to pass.

Now he’s about to take away health care from millions of Americans so that he and a handful of others can have a tax break. MAGA has been told the $880 billion the GOP is gutting from Medicaid is all fraud, waste, and abuse. They’re determined to believe it, but it isn’t true. It’s money the government provided to help make health care more affordable. Now the GOP wants to take that away. Nearly 11 million Americans will lose health care coverage so a small handful of billionaires can have even more money they don’t need.

Up to five trillion dollars he’s adding to the national debt, depending on the source one uses. Lower income people will have a higher tax burden. Some of the tax breaks lower income people get will increase, temporarily, but will “sunset” after a few years. Several of the tax breaks people used to rely on will be eliminated resulting in a net increase of the tax burden. Work-a-day Joes get less so billionaires can have more. It’s kind of a theme.

MAGA knows it. They won’t admit it. Hell, they’ll even argue about it, but they know it. MAGA is very definitely the abused spouse. It doesn’t matter WHAT he does to them, they just stay. So when they got a chance to pounce on even the possibility that Comey might have, maybe, if you squint and look at it from exactly this angle, threatened the life of The Felon? It’s like a breath of fresh air. Finally, something they can “celebrate” and pretend to outraged about. Just ignore the fact that it’s made up. Enjoy the moment…

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Is the plane a White Elephant? I think the very worst part about this whole flying bribe story is that the plane is inefficient and old. The Qataris have been trying to offload that plane for years, now. It was listed for sale in 2020. No one wants it. It’s too expensive to operate. It’s too expensive to maintain. It’s SO big, it can’t land at just any old airport capable of accommodating other 747’s. That means limited access.

And that’s while the old plane is just sitting there, unused. If they gave it to 47, it would have to be stripped down to the metal to check for bugs, then it would have to be upgraded to the standard of Air Force One. The President is supposed to have a job to do, even in the air. The fact that this guy doesn’t DO the job doesn’t cancel out the need to outfit the plane properly.

People are out there debating whether or not he should be allowed to accept a bribe and it’s not even a good plane. Sure, it’s exactly the kind of gaudy The Drumpfster admires and finally, he’d have the big one he’s always wished for, but it’s an old and inefficient airplane. It’s not just a bad idea because it’s a bribe, it’s a bad idea because the plane, itself, isn’t even any good.

Ted Cruz came out in opposition to the bribe. Who knows where he’ll end up in the long run, but at first he said, “I’m not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding theocratic lunatics who want to murder us… And that’s a real problem.” That checks. Donny is definitely a theocratic lunatic. It’s just that HIS theocracy has HIM at the front and center. He IS the golden calf.

How To STAY Losers…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bribes and Capitulations…

by MyBaconPress

So…Qatar (rhymes with ‘guitar’) wants to “give” 47 a luxury plane, a Boeing 747 that has been fitted out to the most opulent (read: gaudy) standard. The MAGA lie is that the plane is being gifted to the Department of Defense, not the Don of Destruction. They want to gloss over the fact that, should Donny leave office, the plane will leave with him and become the property of his presidential library foundation.

On paper, the plane will always “belong” to someone else. In reality, only The Felon will enjoy the use of the thing. Have you ever read the US Constitution? You really should. It has some good stuff in it, things like this: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

That’s called the ‘Emoluments Clause.’ It was put into the original Constitution (you “originalists”) in an effort to keep foreign governments from bribing American officials. Obviously, THIS “official” likes… wants… needs to be bribed to get him to do anything except play golf. I think a $400 million dollar airplane qualifies as a “present,” but I’ve still got it down as a “bribe.”

Fortunately, lying Leavitt has pronounced that all of the cronies and bootlickers that toady up to the Drumpfster and are incapable of defying him have declared that if Dear Leader wants it, it’s legal, so just don’t you worry. So HE gets a $400 million dollar plane and YOU get… to lose your health care and Social Security.

Yes, I know MAGA is a cult, enthralled to this nightmare but even THEY must have noticed how much nicer life is getting for their ‘Precious’ and how much more difficult it’s getting for them. Even MAGA can’t keep blaming Joe Biden forever.
“Oh, yes, we can! Nothing is ever our beloved’s fault – most especially the things he does!”

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I’ve been watching the way 47’s boneheaded tariffs have been playing out. Like most people, I’ve noticed the vast empty spaces where ships were supposed to be offloading. I’ve listened to reports of idled dockworkers and truck drivers. But I’ve been playing closer attention to the China/US “talks.” The lying officials from the US have been insisting that China and the US are in talks on a trade deal. China has been steadfast in denying any such talks are occurring.

At one point, Team Evil started announcing that China is trying to call them, that China is desperate to make a deal. Some insider revealed that, no, in fact, the US is desperately trying to call China to make a deal and China wasn’t picking up the phone. It seems that while Donny was trying to figure out his next “4D Chess” move, China was just sitting back, waiting for idled dockworkers and truck drivers to hit the news. Donny lies to try to manipulate the news cycle, China sits quietly while the stock market ticks down.

Eventually, the US found out where in the world a Chinese official was going to be and they sent an envoy of their own. Now there’s going to be a 90-day “pause” in Donny’s self-inflicted trade war. Tariffs will be lowered, not removed. A Chinese spokesperson rebuked 47’s regime when he said, “We hope that the US side will, based on this meeting, continue to move forward in the same direction with China, completely correct the erroneous practice of unilateral tariff hikes, and continually strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation.”

“…completely correct the erroneous practice of unilateral tariff hikes…” That’s diplomat talk for “Stop with your stupid trade manipulations!” In short, China decided to let Donny off the hook. Now they just need to wait and see exactly how stupid he actually is. Will he stand down on his failed trade war or will his unmanageable, uncontainable ego get in the way again and cause him to double down?

In short, 47 is admitting defeat. We know how he handles things like that. Expect him to come out LOUDLY proclaiming his “victory” and how he totally handled his opposition. He just won’t mention that he “handled” them by giving them what they wanted while getting nothing he wanted. Is surrender REALLY the only game he has?

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The Felon was forced to withdraw his nominee for Surgeon General because the person he chose had some “issues” with her credentials. Issues? Yeah, she lied about them. She mislead everyone about where she went to school and how long it took her to get through. Obviously, putting forward a name with problematic credentials won’t work. Fortunately, Donny fixed that.

He put forward a person who has no credentials at all. None. Zip. Zilch. According to THAT standard, I could be Surgeon General. You really wouldn’t want that. You’ve got to give him credit for one thing: he has an amazing ability to be laser focused on finding exactly the wrong person, the least qualified, and/or the person who hates that function of government the most – and putting them in charge of the section where they least belong…

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It’s important to remember, especially if you live in a red state: red states take more help from the US government than they give. More residents of red states than blue states are dependent on, say, the Affordable Care Act if they want to go to the doctor. I don’t mention this in any kind of “neener, neener” way. It’s a simple fact residents of red states had better start thinking about soon, since they’re about to lose their health care.

Congress is about to eliminate $880 billion dollars in Medicaid funding to they can extend tax cuts for wealthy people. The big GOP lie on THIS issue is that they’ve found $880 billion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse. They haven’t. They just want the tax cut and if they’re going to get it by being cruel to those least able to defend themselves, they’d better pretend there’s a good reason, right?

The masses NEED the Medicaid funding to see a doctor when they need to. The rich people don’t need tax cuts. Sure, they WANT them. But they don’t need them. Several of the red states have “trigger laws.” A “trigger law” is a law written to become active based on a certain event.

In this case, the “event” is the reduction in funding for the Affordable Care Act the cons are pushing through right now. When that passes, Medicaid funding drops and the trigger laws take effect and the Affordable Care Act is canceled. How many millions of people will suddenly find themselves without heath care?

I’ll tell you this: if you’re willing to die just so some rich S.O.B. can have yet another tax break, you really shouldn’t be allowed outside without supervision…

Failed Morals…

by MyBaconPress

47 steals his way into office and illegally fires a bunch of workers in the FAA. Then planes and helicopters start crashing. 47 can’t point to his own actions as the cause – he’s never responsible for anything he does – so he goes to a back-up explanation: outdated technology.

That is one of those stories that starts with a kernel of truth. The government DOES rely on outdated technology. That’s one of the earlier impacts of government revenue starvation – known more commonly as “tax cuts for the rich.” I mostly point to the GOP when it comes to government revenue starvation. That has been their stated goal for decades – starve the government of the money it needs to function, then blame the government for not being able to function.

The problem at the FAA has been in the making for decades. It has become highlighted, recently, because the only way to overcome inadequate technology was more Air Traffic Controllers and support people – the very people currently deemed ‘redundant’ and fired by Team Evil.

The very worst part about it? This has become an issue during the most corrupt and criminal regime in the history of the United States, bar none. You’re going to see an announcement that the system will be “upgraded.” Billions of dollars will be allocated but the contract will go to a crony, likely one of Muck’s safely government-subsidized businesses. Maybe the ATC system will be better. Maybe control towers will start bursting into flame. Who can say? But well-placed people behind the scenes will pocket piles of taxpayer money, rest assured…

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I have to confess, sometimes I get compassion fatigue and when I see someone who supported Donny feeling the pain of that choice – pain they were hoping for others, not for themselves – I allow myself a little schadenfreude. Other times, though, I feel a little sorry for MAGA. I know that MAGA is the product of their conditioning but keeping up with that conditioning sometimes seems like it must cause whiplash.

MAGA has been screaming about a long list of various and sundry crimes and excesses they’ve been told are being pulled off by Democrats in government. (There’s rarely any evidence.) They’ve been made to understand these crimes and excesses – always and only committed by DemocRATS, of course – are bad things that must be stopped.

Remember Hillary’s emails? Of course you do. You heard about it 24/7 for, like, ever. It was a possible security breach. Lock her up! (What fun they had with that one.) But now? Now MAGA has a guy in the regime inviting reporters to confidential meetings – accidentally – while intentionally including people with no need to know. It’s not a possible security breach. It’s an absolute security breach. Lock him up? Oh, hell no. Instead, “It could happen to anybody.” It couldn’t. Oh, and it didn’t – until Team Evil took over.

Remember when the worst thing in the world was the possibility that Hunter Biden might be selling access to the White House? Oh, the huMANity! Heaven forfend! All one had to do was ignore the fact that virtually NO evidence of such action existed. MAGA just KNEW it was true. Now 47, himself, is starring in late-night infomercials directly selling access to the White House, along with a wide variety of cheap crap. “NOW how much would you pay?!?”

In fact, the grifter-in-chief has so many illegal schemes working it would take pages and pages to cover them all. But we all know them. Even MAGA has an inkling of what’s going on and that’s the part I’m empathizing with right now: how does MAGA blame the left for ANYTHING now that the right has come out with solid evidence of doing the same thing to a FAR worse degree?

They KNEW they were just pitching theories about the Democrats. No valid evidence was ever presented, but it didn’t matter. It was just part of the game. NOW they know they’re having to bat away actual evidence which, less face it, isn’t going away. They can choose to forget it for a while but it’s going to be there later, too. They can’t even blast into social media with “Whataboutisms” since nothing the left has done even holds a candle to the corruption of this regime.

Donny has taken the fun out of their social war by being far worse in every way than anything MAGA ever accused a Democrat of doing. Now they have to start defending actions they were just condemning only months ago – or risk facing the hypocrisy of their own positions. A stronger moral compass, a determination not to lie, for example, would have protected them from this trap…

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We’ve all been watching the deportations, right? Americans have been horrified by the defiling of the Constitution. MAGA has been thrilled to get rid of “those people” by any means necessary. I think MAGA would bristle at that characterization. “It’s not racist!” Uh-huh. Were we not supposed to notice that the ONLY people being deported are brown? Are we supposed to believe there are NO undocumented white people in this country?

No, that’s wrong. One does not even have to be undocumented to get booted from the Bizarro United States, these days. 47 is even revoking permissions and legal statuses of many legal residents – but, again, only if the person in question is brown.

All of that could be debatable. Maybe it’s just a coincidence. Maybe it’s just because it’s easier to find brown people. So, 47 had to take special action to make sure people knew it was specifically because they’re brown. He seems to have found the perfect, racist answer.

He’s bringing in some white South Africans as “refugees,” a status he automatically denies brown people. Just to make sure the racism doesn’t go unnoticed, he says, out loud, that he’s doing it because they’re persecuted white people. The cherry on top? He says he’s giving them a quick path to citizenship. DACA “Dreamers,” people who have lived here their entire lives, can’t get that but he’s going to do it for White South Africans. Because they’re being “persecuted.”

A person is known for the company they keep. If you’re still supporting an obvious racist, it seems likely that you’re at least okay with it. ‘Racist-adjacent’ isn’t a moral position I would defend and it’s not a badge I would be interested in wearing…

The Gaslight Gang…

by MyBaconPress

Hey, I thought 47 wanted to be the Pope. Aw, Jeez, does this mean we’re going to have to listen to MAGA blathering on about how the conclave was “rigged” for the next million years?

Instead, we should probably focus more on the $2 billion dollars a United Arab Emirates group just dumped into 47’s crypto. In Bizzaro United States, the President is for sale. He’s not cheap, but if you’ve got the money, honey, he’s got the time…

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I think the record for shortest Drumpf Team Evil is still held by Anthony Scaramucchi, who lasted all of ten days. Cameron Hamilton lasted longer, but it still wasn’t very long. Hamilton is – was – the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was put into that position by Donny when Donny seized power. Hamilton went before Congress on Wednesday and testified that he thinks FEMA does a fine job and should NOT be dismantled. On Thursday, he was escorted from FEMA headquarters, out of a job.

It’s an article of MAGA faith that FEMA does a poor job. No, as always, it isn’t true – or wasn’t, when we were a decent country – and when there IS an actual emergency, red hats line up for assistance right along with everybody else. (“It’s wasteful government spending – except when I need it!”) They get it, too, or used to – before their chosen precious started telling them they have too much.

But it’s an article of faith. If The Felons says it, in their mind, it MUST be true. So when he tells them they didn’t get any Federal assistance money, they regurgitate that line – while simultaneously pocketing the assistance money they just received. That’s just crazy-making, which, upon reflection, explains a lot.

Hamilton simply told the truth. How was HE supposed to know that’s the ultimate sin in this regime? He knows now…

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“Um… I don’t know.”
“Oh, you’re just telling me about that now.”
“I don’t know, you’ll have to ask someone else.”
“First I’ve heard of it.”
“I don’t know, that’s up to them.”
“Couldn’t tell you. Ask whoever’s in charge.”

It’s a tough call. Is he completely out of touch from, perhaps, playing so much golf on the taxpayer dime that he honestly has no idea what’s going on in his name, or is he pretending he doesn’t know anything in an effort to create a blanket of plausible deniability, a layer of separation from accountability?

Isn’t it irritating, the number of times 47 accused Joe Biden of being completely out of touch with the actions of his administration, then listening to him insist he has no clue what’s going on with Team Evil? Yet another example of accusation being confession, yes?

When he was asked if his tariffs were permanent or temporary, he answered, “It could be both.” He spent several minutes trying to convince a reporter that a Photoshopped picture was not Photoshopped. He’s choosing people to work with because he’s seen them on TV. ALL of those indicate some serious mental failure.

Then again, he IS the captain of Team Evil and he’s perfectly capable of pretending to be a blundering, blowhard, buffoon while planning his next, even more despicable, evil move. I don’t know, though. Maybe it IS both. Maybe he’s easily evil BECAUSE of his serious mental failures…

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Quick question: when you’re driving down the highway and you see a traditional, black and white California Highway Patrol (CHP) car sitting on the side of the road, what do you do? You check your speed. You lower the joint or the beer. You set your phone aside (for a second). You fold the map, close the book, or put the mascara wand down.

That is, you end whatever distracted driving you might have been engaged in and you behave for a few moments. That tends to be true, even when there’s no cop IN the CHP car on the side of the road. You have the same reaction when you look into the mirror and see a police car cruising along with traffic. You mind your ‘P’s and ‘Q’s.

If traffic control and safety were the true and only goal of the CHP, their cars would be painted some bright, maybe fluorescent color because, for the most part, the mere sight of a CHP cruiser controls traffic AND driver behavior.

TO that end… no, wait. To some OTHER end, California has now purchased a bunch of brand new, shiny, “stealth” patrol vehicles. They’ve been specifically designed to blend in with traffic, to be hard to see. The CHP is highlighting how awesome it is that the lights they’ll use to pull you over aren’t on a light bar on top of these new cars so the cars are harder to see.

More, the cars have been painted in a way one doesn’t expect from a CHP vehicle. These cars hide in traffic, making it easier for the cars to pounce when they get the chance. CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said, “The new vehicles give our officers an important advantage. They will allow us to identify and stop drivers who are putting others at risk, while still showing a professional and visible presence once enforcement action is needed.”

That statement is a bit of gaslighting, isn’t it? California is trying to sell it’s residents a bill of goods. Since we all know that very visible cruisers “stop drivers who are putting others at risk,” hidden cruisers must be intended for some… other purpose. And, the whole bit about “showing a professional and visible presence” makes me choke a little. The whole idea of a stealth vehicle is to NOT “show” at all. Eliminating the “visible presence” is the entire effing point!

I suspect it’s more about revenue enhancement and/or worse, the “important advantage” of being able to stop and check out vehicles just to see what’s going on in those vehicles. Are they being driven by brown people? Maybe they need a closer look.

I’ll tell you this: one does NOT go stealth when transparency and “visible presence” are the goal…

Destruction Du Jour…

by MyBaconPress

Who knew we were going to need this reminder? I mean, it’s Fifth Grade stuff. Still, it’s important. The ‘United States of America’ is NOT the land she occupies. It’s not the food we eat. It’s not the common culture. It’s not even the people who live here, citizen or not. The ‘United States of America’ IS the US Constitution. Without the US Constitution, there IS no ‘United States of America.’

If you’re one of the people cheering the bravery of ‘The Precious’ for violating court orders and taking a wrecking ball to government, you’re cheering the destruction of the US Constitution. You’re cheering the destruction of the United States…

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When reporters ask 47 if he’ll take military force off the table when it comes to seizing Greenland, the Felon says no. He says he won’t rule out anything. In truth, I kind of get that. I’m not sure I would project which tactics I might use in a conflict, either. I CAN say I wouldn’t be talking about invading or taking over foreign, sovereign nations so I wouldn’t be in a position of having to consider military force, but if I was looking at an actual conflict, I wouldn’t tip my hand about possibilities, either.

On the flip side, it’s not the same cagey strategy to avoid questions about respecting due process. When he was asked in a recent interview whether both US citizens and non-citizens deserve due process, he said, “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” It could just be me, but I’m of the opinion that the President of the United States of America should know whether they need to respect due process.

I’ve heard that Donny doesn’t read. There’s some question about whether he CAN read. (I suspect he can. He just doesn’t.) But maybe he could take a few minutes and read the Constitution. He might learn some things. I know, it doesn’t have his name in it, so he’d get bored right around the “…in order to form a more perfect union” bit. But he really should give it a look.

I would ask him to start with the Bill of Rights. I think he’d STILL nod off about eight words in. But if he could stay focused long enough to get through the thing – and it really doesn’t take that long – he’d eventually get to the Fifth Amendment. I’m going to highlight the key bits, here, but it says, “nor shall any person…be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

He says he can’t do that. He says it would take too long. In short, he’s saying that following the law is too hard so he doesn’t think he should have to. I, for one, think he should have to. I’m sure there are others, like me, who think he should follow the law, as well. Not MAGA, of course. They won’t understand the implications of their support for these crimes until the system lands on them, personally.

That’s because he lies and then MAGA media pretends the lies are the truth. In the same interview, he said he was pushing to deport, “some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth,” but cried that courts are getting in his way. “I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,” Trump said. The courts are trying to hold him to the Constitution.

47 terrorizes his base by pretending each and every person he has deported is a violent criminal, a rapist or a murderer or, more likely, both. He pretends that those he STILL intends to deport are even worse. To hear The Felon tell it, this country is RIFE with murdering rapists. They’re, like, everywhere, man. Look to your left. Murdering rapist. Look to your right. Murdering rapist. That guy over there? Murdering rapist. That two year old baby? Yep, murdering rapist.

It seems that in his fetid mind, this country is made up of two groups: white people and murdering rapists. Why, there are so many rapes and so many murders and so many rapes AND murders that every house in this nation MUST have been visited by the violence. Ask him. He’ll tell you. He knows a murderer when he sees one. He knows a rapist when he sees one. According to the courts, he sees one every time he looks into a mirror, but he’s only interested in the brown ones, obviously.

Apparently, this guy looks at a brown person – ANY brown person – and sees a violent criminal. That is some serious racism, right there. CAN you find me a brown person who is a violent criminal? Absolutely. No question. You can also find white people who are violent criminals. In fact, I’d say violent criminals come in every hue, shape, size, and gender (or not). But he’s only concerned with brown people.

It’s genuinely embarrassing to have such a pin-headed bigot in the White House. The US used to be about higher ideals. We were never perfect, but we continued to strive to be better. Now we’re stuck with… this. Each and every one of us should be ashamed we’ve allowed this to happen AND that we’re allowing it to stand…

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We’ve been watching the cruel regime aggressively dismantle the government since 47 stole the office. For Americans and the world, it has been horrific and stupid. Each attack is being met, though, with lawsuits pushing back. Move after move after move on the part of these clowns has been met with lawsuits and the regime wins some but loses more.

I don’t think they care. In attacking the way they do, the damage gets done early on. By the time a lawsuit plays out, even if the petitioner wins, it may well be too late. So 47 and his criminal crew flood everything and are met with drips in return. One suit here (drip), another suit there (drip). The piecemeal response to the flood of destruction works to the advantage of the regime. It simply takes too long to adjudicate each case individually. (Ironically, the very argument the regime makes about why it can’t offer due process.)

So the opposition has finally gotten smart and pulled together one huge lawsuit that addresses the whole damn thing at once. The complaint is 115 pages. The caption, alone, usually a small box on the first page, is FIVE PAGES long. (That’s the list of who is being sued and who is doing the suing.)

The press release announcing the suit calls the plaintiffs “A coalition of Labor organizations, non-profit groups, and local governments that filed this complaint to hold unlawful and stop the unconstitutional dismantling of the Federal government by the President of the United States on a scale unprecedented in this country’s history and in clear excess of his authority.”

In short, the plaintiffs have realized that the one-case-after-another approach is too little, too late, so they’ve filed one massive lawsuit to just stop ALL of the crap, ALL at the same time. I can’t say how it will play out. Much of this country is corrupt and complicit. But this seems like the most coordinated response we’ve seen yet. Hope springs eternal…

Too Much Insanity…

by MyBaconPress

This is spillover. This crazy regime is getting SO far out of control, I can’t fit it all into a single, 1,000 (-ish) word column. I published on Monday morning. By Thursday, there was SO much insanity, it rolled over to Saturday. That’s a LOT of crazy in only three days…

So, 47 sits for an interview with a guy named Terry Moran and the subject of Kilmar Abrego Garcia comes up. 47 says Abrego Garcia was MS-13 because that’s the lie the regime is pushing. Moran pointed out that there’s a dispute about that. Donny replies, “Wait a minute. Wait a minute, he had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles, tattooed.” Moran tried to help. He pointed out that Abrego Garcia has some tattoos but they’re not associated with MS-13.

“It says M-S-1-3,” 47 insisted. Moran pointed out that the ‘MS-13’ that appears in THAT photo was Photoshopped in. I think whoever did that was trying to smear Abrego Garcia in order to justify his deportation. But Donny doesn’t seem to able to understand the photo was altered. He even offered to pull out the picture and show Moran. (Pro tip: showing a Photoshopped photo to someone doesn’t prove it wasn’t Photoshopped.)

Donny glared. But it wasn’t an “I effing HATE you” glare. It looked more like he was trying to use mind control to get Moran to agree. 47 had that same look on his face Sheldon Cooper gets on ‘The Big Bang’ when he thinks HE’S mind-controlling someone. The only difference is that the fictional Sheldon Cooper is FAR smarter than the actual Drumpfster.

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia's left hand.

Okay so, let’s consider this, shall we? This is a photo of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s left hand. It’s a little hard to see but it was, surprisingly, the only one I could find. Still, it serves. You can see that he has a tattoo on each finger. You can ALSO see there is no ‘MS-13’ on his hand. What IS there is this: on his index finger, he has a cannabis leaf. On his middle finger, he has an picture of a dead guy, as indicated by the x’s in place of eyes. It’s an old animator’s trick to indicate a dead person in animation, x’s in place of eyes.

His ring finger sports a cross and the pinkie has a skull that looks like it’s smiling, as they do. The White House is pretending those are secret code pictograms that mean “MS-13.” The thing is, MS-13 members don’t make any effort to hide their affiliation. They tattoo MS-13 all over their bodies, often in large, stylized characters. The truth is, if I was interpreting any possible meaning to that group of tattoos, and I should say, here, Kilmar and I have never met so we haven’t talked about it, I wouldn’t get ‘MS-13.’

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to presume Kilmar’s tats of a cannabis leaf, dead guy, cross, and smiling skull could mean “Marijuana kills, Jesus saves.” I do NOT say I’m right, only that it’s a reasonable interpretation. FAR more reasonable, in my mind, than ‘MS-13.’ But 47 MUST maintain his lie for MAGA. If they ever figure out how gullible and downright stupid he makes them look, they might turn on him. Then what?

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A bright side? Trump is showing the entire world how horrifying and destructive today’s conservative policies are. Conservative media is non-stop. Using the internet and other side-steps to licensed broadcasting that requires more truth, they’ve been injecting conservative talking points into people’s minds for a long time. Some of it has taken root, the way cancer takes hold and spreads. The end result is the same, too.

Like cancer, the conservative talking points metastiasized. Unlike cancer, people were thinking they’d like to give it a try. Then Musk stole the election for Donny and the wrecking crew came in and began destroying everything, seemingly just for the sake of destroying everything. Now, the rest of the world can see the reality behind conservative talking points. Apparently, the world isn’t so thrilled with the reality of conservatism.

Canada recently had an election. The conservatives in Canada were WAY ahead and expected to win the thing in a walk. Then Donny began his rampage. After a brief peek at what conservatives have in mind, the liberal candidate won. 47 single-handedly turned around Canada’s recent election as people realized what a nightmare conservatives actually have in mind for the world.

Not to be outdone, Australia also took a look at the conservative agenda, which they had been openly flirting with for a time, and immediately re-elected their liberal leader to a second term. 47 really IS leading the way, or rather, the “No way.” Now that the world sees what the conservative agenda looks like in real life as compared to the lying and empty promises of conservative media, they get to reconsider their support of conservatism and go with “sane” instead.

I suspect his stunningly stupid incompetence is hurting conservatives in Europe, too. The cons have gotten out of control and they mean the world harm. There’s no more question about that. They must be stopped and it seems that nothing convinces people of the inhumanity of the conservative mind than the displays of conservative “thinking” that come from The Don of Destruction…

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The anti-American, criminal regime has settled a lawsuit with Ashli Babbitt’s family. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. You remember Babbitt, right? Well, in case you’ve forgotten, she’s a woman who was violently storming the Capitol, looking for someone to kill on The Felon’s January 6th “day of love.” As she was crawling through a smashed out window trying to access a Congressional chamber in which Congress critters were still present and frightened for their lives – as people often are during days of love – she was warned by US Capitol Police Lt Michael Byrd to stop or he would shoot. She was in a “love” rampage, though. She refused to stop, and got shot in the head. Appropriately, she died.

She died while committing a violent crime, and now, the family is going to get paid. It’s really mind-boggling. Here’s a basic truth: if you’re an American citizen and you violently attack the Capitol threatening to kill people based on pure, easily-provable lies, you’re a traitor. You’re not a hero and you certainly do NOT deserve to get paid…

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I think Elon thinks he’s funny. Have you noticed? He says really stupid things but he thinks maybe they’re funny things and people around him laugh. Apparently, it never crosses his shriveled and evil little mind that the lickspittles around him laugh because he has money.

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how blinded, self-deluded, and just plain downright stupid the crew in the positions of power right now really are. But OMG, they really are…

Another Day In Bizarro America…

by MyBaconPress

It’s a real-life ‘he said, Xi said.’ Felon 47 claimed on April 22, during an interview with Time magazine that Chinese leader Xi had called him to discuss The Felon’s trade war. As usual, he offers NO details or evidence. He just claimed it happened. I guess we’re supposed to just take his word for it. More, it looks like the Chinese are supposed to just take his word for it, too. It’s simply inexplicable, in his tiny mind, that they don’t.

Asked about the comments, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said: “As far as I know, there has been no phone call between the two heads of state recently. China and the United States are not conducting consultations or negotiations on tariff issues.”

Meanwhile, I’m seeing news stories about idled truckers and empty shipping ports. That means store shelves are going to start emptying and prices will be on the rise. The bumbling buffoon has managed to artificially re-create the economic shut-down he brought about with his feckless handling of Covid-19.

This self-inflicted, totally avoidable economic upheaval was not caused by Joe Biden. It wasn’t caused by Barack Obama. It wasn’t Bill Clinton. It wasn’t Hillary Clinton. It sure as shootin’ wasn’t Bernie or AOC. It wasn’t Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, Elizabeth Warren, George Soros, or any of the other lefty boogie-men the right likes to blame for their own shortcomings. This was all, 100%, absolutely no one but the failing and flailing Donald J. Trump…

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You just wait. They’ll be saying she was in BOTH Tren de Aragua AND MS-13. They’ll claim she has the gang tats to prove it. She has a rap sheet as long as… some very long thing. She’s been a menace to society for years and years and years. She’s a legal nightmare and simply had to go. Of course, the fact that she’s only two years old is going to have to be downplayed.

Focus on the story, ‘She’s bad.’ Ignore her age. She’s two. Oh, I’ve got it. “We’ve ALL heard of the terrible two’s. THIS girl takes it to the extreme!” Say some scary words, as though they might apply to her. “Murder.” “Rape.” “Poopy-pants.” Oh, did I mention this two-year-old “terrorist” is a US citizen? That seems like it might have been relevant.

Well, she’s been deported now, so, I guess the Bizarro United States is safe. For now. One can never tell when that little sneak will toddle back across the border. Stay vigilant! Hey, at least she wasn’t sent to a maximum security prison!

In fact, Team Evil deported the child’s mother, who opted to take the child with her. Bear in mind, the child’s mother didn’t do anything wrong, either. She was arrested during what used to be a routine check-in meeting. It was just an opportunity to inflict a little cruelty on a brown person and these guys are NOT going to pass that up.

Even MAGA seems to be noticing how things aren’t going the way Donny promised. His approval ratings are plunging. He has poor ratings on the economy and on immigration, as he should. He sucks at both of those things. But, according to an article in ‘The Guardian,’ “a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe [the anti-American Trumpster] has focused on the right priorities as president.”

24%? That number cuts into MAGA. The Drumpfster maintains about 30% support on most issues and that 30% represents MAGA. (The rest of us understand what’s really happening in this once-great nation.) MAGA is normally steadfast. True believers. It’s a solid 30% and it often seems impossible to shake. 24% means some 6% of MAGA has noticed he’s hurting them, too.

Perhaps they’ve noticed he’s spending more time on retribution and golf than on the cost-of-living and he seems to be making America a laughingstock around the world. That’s hardly “great.” What’s more, if 6% are willing to confess their concerns for a poll, there are likely even more who have noticed, are not happy, but still trying to keep the faith.

So, what happens if MAGA were to find out that all he’s really done is harm tens of thousands of lives but the government, to date, has spent MORE, not less, than any other President in history? They might, they should, begin to question his actions. If it gets bad enough – and it will – they might even start saying so out loud.

24% is the kind of number I’ve been waiting for. Sooner or later, MAGA HAD to notice. His attacks on, well, everything, really, haven’t been limited to the “lib-tards” or the pretended “Deep State.” He’s doing real-life, actual harm to anyone and everyone not lucky enough to have been born into huge piles of money. That is, most of us. Even MAGA. But, hey, we’re safe from scary toddlers…

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Universal health care? I think it’s a better plan. Here’s one reason. I know a person who is 100% disabled. This particular individual receives health care through California’s Medi-cal program and has for quite some time. Now, she’s about to turn 65. As a result, she is being “shifted” over to Medicare.

Medicare comes with costs. Medi-cal does not. So, when she is shifted to Medicare, Medi-cal stays in the picture, to pick up the costs Medicare won’t. The shift serves, mostly, to add a layer of bureaucracy to the process. It got me thinking. How stupid is that? Wait, here’s another.

I recently had a bit of a health dust-up. A little cancer on my ear. I’m a Kaiser member, but I also have access to the VA. Even though I pay Kaiser premiums and have insurance, thanks to the glories of Capitalism, having Kaiser deal with the problem would have cost me thousands in co-pays and share-of-costs. That represents thousands I don’t have. So I used the VA.

Medicare. Medi-cal. Private insurance. VA. Four different systems. Actually, because “Private insurance” has so many different permutations, parameters, requirements, options, and obligations, it’s a LOT more than four. Each different track has to be managed. It’s just stupid. Oh, AND expensive.

Americans who have been conditioned to oppose universal health care always complain about how their taxes would, likely, go up to pay for it. So, instead, they’ll pay thousands MORE out of their own pocket – just to preserve that ‘freedumb.’ It’s an incredibly inefficient, absolutely stupid position – but absolute stupidity seems to be the standing order here in Bizarro America, these days, so I don’t foresee any corrections any time soon…

The Decline Continues…

by MyBaconPress

I’m not sure arresting a sitting judge is a great move, but here we are. The FBI arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. They say she helped a man avoid immigration officers in her courtroom. The current regime wants the man out of the country. We all know it’s because he’s brown, but they’re pretending it’s because he’s accused of three counts of misdemeanor battery.

By noon today, EVERY MAGA will just KNOW that she helped a “violent criminal” escape. Meanwhile, on the left, we’ll be arguing that he hasn’t been convicted of anything at this point. That’s the judge’s position, by the way; due process counts. Let the “debates” commence!

The agents on scene didn’t have a proper warrant so the judge didn’t recognize the legality of their claim. She surmised, properly, in my opinion, that ICE would, no doubt, ignore the improper warrant right along with all of the other due process they think is wasteful in these matters. It’s not like she pulled that right out of the air. ICE is ignoring the law all over the country.

Obviously, we’re not talking the same scale, here – not yet, anyway – but I think Judge Dugan finds herself in the same company as Harriet Tubman, who help slaves escape, and Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. Both women were violating law – but serving justice, clearly a higher calling.

I believe these kinds of confrontations are created BY the current, America-hating regime. They keep insisting that due process is a luxury the American people can’t afford. “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” That’s an exact quote from the (checks notes), right! The Constitution of the United States. (Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1.) Please note: “any person.”

One of the many, many, oh-so-many things cons are wrong about is the incorrect belief that the constitution ONLY applies to American citizens. It applies to all people on any American soil except where noted. Only citizens can legally vote, for example, but ALL people are entitled to due process. Even if it’s hard.

I don’t care which side of the aisle you stand on, you should NOT support elimination of due process for anyone, anywhere, at any time. Obviously, if one is not a criminal, one never expects to be accused of a crime or worse, to be punished for a crime based on nothing more than some abstract accusation. But just because one doesn’t expect it, doesn’t mean it won’t happen. I mean, look around you. It’s happening already.

I quoted the 14th Amendment, earlier, but the words of the 4th Amendment are just as clear, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures SHALL NOT be violated.” (I added the emphasis, there.) And there it is, again. “…persons.” Certainly, the writers of the 4th Amendment, if not the 14th, had lived their lives under a regime of wanton incarceration. They KNEW how that played out in real life because it was their lived experience. They knew better!

Legally, in decent America, Judge Dugan would beat these charges easily. The law and the Constitution are on her side. Here in Bizarro America, though, the regime might just decide to forego HER due process, as well. I’m in her corner because I, for one, support people standing for justice…

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I see they put George Santos away for seven years. Good. Ultimately, they convicted him of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in his scheme to defraud his constituents. See? It CAN be done. I’ve always thought of George Santos as a much less practiced trumpster. The two run the same con. Santos was just less skilled at it. Or maybe just less protected. Santos got what Santos deserved but Santos got what Donny deserves, too: seven years behind bars…

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I note that despite promises to end the war on day one, the Don of Destruction… hasn’t. It seems he can’t. You’ll hear MAGA regurgitating, “Promises made, promises kept” like there’s some truth to that. There isn’t. He’s more of a “Promises made, screw you” kind of guy. In fairness, he HAS tried. I would say he has tried to the limits of his VERY limited capabilities. He really, really wants a Nobel Peace Prize and he thought he was going to get it by ending the Russia/Ukraine war.

The problem is, he’s too stupid to even understand who started the damn war, so how can he fix it? It seems (full disclosure, I haven’t been included on any of Hegseth’s regime-leaking Signal chats) Donny’s “solution” to end Putin’s war is for Ukraine to simply surrender everything Russia has stolen and call it a day. Not surprisingly, Ukraine has rejected the concept. They seem to reject the notion that Putin should benefit from his criminal invasion. Go figure.

So now, the First Felon says he’s just going to call everyone names and walk away. ‘The Art of the Deal,’ indeed. The United States was obligated by more than one treaty to support Ukraine in the event this exact thing – an unprompted Russian invasion – happened. Donny is showing the US to be an untrustworthy, undependable ally. Our worldwide reputation has never been worse…

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All attendees had been informed of the dress code: dark suit with long, black tie. Everyone knew. Then Felon 47 shows up wearing a blue suit. There’s no doubt in my mind as to why he wore blue, when the dress code clearly stated black. He wanted to be easily able to find himself in the crowd on television. Based on other things I’ve seen about the guy, he doesn’t much care about anything else. He was thinking of himself. He’s like the sister of the bride who shows up to the wedding wearing white…