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It’s A Little Bit Funny…

by MyBaconPress

I confess, I thought this was funny. Top Kangaroo – I think I’m supposed to call him “Chief Justice” – John Roberts wrote a year-end report on the status of his crappy and corrupt court. Roberts wrote that people need to respect the court. I think he believes it, but I laughed out loud. I think the Supremely Corrupt Court needs to respect the High Court – and maybe even the Constitution – but they have no more intention of doing THAT than I have of respecting them.

Here’s what KangaRoberts wrote: “Every Administration suffers defeats in the court system — sometimes in cases with major ramifications for executive or legislative power or other consequential topics. Nevertheless, for the past several decades, the decisions of the courts, popular or not, have been followed. Within the past few years, however, elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings. These dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected.”

In theory, I agree with that. But in practice? A bad ruling is a bad ruling, and this group has a slew of them. I submit that a bad ruling SHOULD be disregarded by all and sundry. And these guys haven’t just made ‘bad rulings.’ They’ve made rulings that say the EXACT opposite of the words in the US Constitution. We’re supposed to just accept that?

He IS right, though, that the entire political spectrum has kind of turned their backs on the Way-High Court. When they overturned Roe because they think they know what Jesus wants, people on the left suggested ignoring the ruling. But when the ‘roos upheld the use of Mifepristone, the RIGHT thought they had gone too far. That’s just one example, of course.

After providing President-Elect Thirty-Four Felonies with near perfect immunity, NOW Roberts is saying “…but he’d better follow our rulings?” That’s just embarrassingly stupid. “34” spent much of his FIRST maladministration defying Way High Court rulings. At one point back then, KangaRoberts issued a public rebuke – which 34 ignored. They made 34, effectively, a king and now they think they can rein him in? Do we laugh or cry?

It turns out, the kangaroos CAN NOT go around making rulings that defy the Constitution and are based on their political or religious preferences without surrendering their credibility as judges. Actions speak louder than words. Delivering bad decisions qualify as actions. Writing, “but we still get to count” won’t change that.

Dear KangaRoberts: if you want to be respected for the job you do, you have to do a respectable job. That’s just the way it works. But, hey, you’ll always have your bribes, I mean, “friendly considerations…”

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There is video out there of Trump, while telling everyone that in reality, HE will be President and not Elon – something he shouldn’t have to explain to anyone – saying he’s “safe.” The Constitution, he explains, won’t allow Elon to be President because he wasn’t born in this country.

So, they plan to burn the US Constitution, except for that one sentence? Weird…

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During a 2016 primary debate, President-elect Thirty-Four Felonies called the H1B visa program, “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. He said, “First of all, I think and I know the H-1B very well. And it’s something that I frankly use and I shouldn’t be allowed to use it. We shouldn’t have it.” Seems pretty clear (for him) but, hey, actions speak louder than words, right?

In 2017, he issued an Executive Order called, “Buy American and Hire American,” intended to discourage the use of H1B visas. Then, in June of 2020, his maladministration tried to issue new rules aimed largely at curtailing the use of H1B visas in general. Okay, that’s consistent. He said he doesn’t like the program, then he tried to limit and even eliminate the program.

But then President Non-elect Musk told him to shut up and that H1B visas WILL NOT be touched by 34’s criminal maladministration. For his part, Trump, having already declared and demonstrated his opposition to H1B visas and taken action to curtail their use, looked Musk right in the eye and said, “Look, you son of a bitch. Okay, you win. I love H1B visas, now, and I always have because you told me to. Please, sir, may I have another?”

So, it’s a “very unfair,” “bad” program people “shouldn’t be allowed to use” and he took action to make sure the “very unfair,” “bad” program people “shouldn’t be allowed to use” wouldn’t be used by people, only to back-peddle at amazing speeds and claim that he LOVES H1B visas and always has. You know, now that Musk has declared the program sacrosanct.

I’ll tell you this: I totally believe Trump is running the show, not Musk. Sure…

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It’s just petty, right? Jimmy Carter died. While we all knew that was going to happen, we didn’t know when. As it happens, it was December 29th. Since Jimmy Carter had been a US President, the American flag flies at half-staff for thirty days after his death. It has been so ordered and the flags are lowered appropriately. Here’s the rub: Donny’s inauguration falls within that thirty day period. That is to say, while President-elect Thirty Four Felonies is trying to keep from bursting into flame as he lays his hands on a Bible – or, at least, a Bible cover – the flags will be at half staff.

From MY point of view, it’s quite appropriate. It’s a sign of respect for a one-time president – the kind ALL presidents get – even him, once he graces the world with his death. But also, most of the nation, most of the world, will be in mourning over the passing of a once-great nation. There can be NO greater symbol to mark that final passing than Trump being inaugurated to his dictatorship with American flags flying at half staff.

I’d like to address how he whined on his social media site. He wrote, “The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ (he means ‘half staff.’ ‘Half mast’ refers to a flag on a ship) during my Inauguration.” (This is true. The left noticed and we DID think it was appropriate.) He wrote: “They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves.” (Yeah, Captain Bone Spurs? Tell me your dates of service before we discuss who is more dedicated to America.)

But he can’t help himself. He continued: “Look at what they’ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years – It’s a total mess!” (Biden cleaned up the mess he left, which proves 34 made a typo. It WAS ‘a total mess!’) Trump said “In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast.” (STILL ‘half staff,’ dumbass.) “Nobody wants to see this,” (I’m okay with it.) “and no American (he means MAGA. Americans are fine with it.) “can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out.”

Biden has already said the flags would be flown to show respect for President Carter’s passing for the full 30 days, as they should be, and I suspect THAT’S how it will “play out…”

Jimmy Got His Wings…

by MyBaconPress

Well, I’m sorry to note the passing of James Earl Carter III, ‘Jimmy’ to you and me. Jimmy Carter was a VERY good man. He did many good things in his life and worked every day to make other people’s lives better. It turned out, he was not so good at politics on the national level – most especially the dirty politics of the Reagan campaign. But he spent the rest of his life proving he HAD been the right man for the job and if it hadn’t been for alleged machinations by the Reagan team, he might have had a more successful presidency.

His two biggest problems? Well, inflation was high. He worked to get it down but it was stubborn. Our society was reacting to the return of Vietnam soldiers and the new paradigm of women NOT returning to the home when the men returned from war. For a while, there were too many workers for too few jobs and only time can fix that. The One Percent used it as an excuse to pretend Keynesian economics was dead. THAT allowed them to introduce the new economic “idea,” so-called “Supply Side” economics.

It’s nonsense. The implementation of “supply side” economics in 1980 has led us directly to the economic struggles we all know and hate today. It’s a direct line. It set us on the road to the fascism we live under now. “Supply Side economics” has always been nonsense (George Bush, the elder, dubbed it “VooDoo economics” because the concept was so stupid), so the cons needed someone with charisma to bring the story to the masses. Enter Ronald Reagan. No one can say how Reagan would have fared in the election left to his own devices. All we know is that earlier attempts had failed. But then Reagan got lucky.

Some people, ‘college students,’ we were told at the time, seized the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, and held the embassy workers hostage. Carter tried mightily to secure the release of the hostages. He took every action he legally could as President of the United States. He even attempted a military intervention, though he was philosophically opposed to using the military to solve problems.

What he didn’t know – couldn’t have known – was that the Reagan team was allegedly working behind the scenes WITH the Iranian “college students.”
“Wait, you’re saying an American Presidential candidate was working WITH American adversaries AGAINST American interests in an effort to win an election?”
That’s the allegation. There was much evidence to support the charge, too, but, as we all know now, if you “win,” there ARE no charges. (Kind of, in this case.) “Keep the embassy workers hostage,” the ‘students’ were told, “and the US will provide you with weapons for your fight against Iraq if Reagan wins. You can let them go once Reagan is elected.”

And that’s what happened. Literally one half hour after Reagan’s election, the hostages were released. Of course, we were told it was because of Reagan’s awesome leadership and how the ‘students’ were afraid of Reagan because he was oh-so-tough. We didn’t know about the arms deal until it blew up on them during the administration.

See, Congress had refused to fund arms to Nicaraguan “Contras” due to human rights abuses, but Reagan supported their cause. AND, they had made a promise to Iran. It wouldn’t have looked good for the “students” to come out and describe the deal in detail, so the Reagan team did what they could. You remember, that was when the CIA started IMPORTING cocaine from Central America to the US (black neighborhoods only, please), then using the proceeds to secretly buy and ship weapons to Iran – AND send some of the money to the Contra rebel groups back in Nicaragua.

It’s known to history as the Iran/Contra scandal and it might have brought down the Reagan presidency if one Colonel Oliver North hadn’t fallen on his sword and taken the fall for the scheme. Everybody knew, at the time, North had acted under orders from the West Wing, but nobody could PROVE beyond a doubt that North had acted under orders from the West Wing so North took the fall himself.

He was convicted of three felonies but the convictions were later vacated because he had been given immunity to testify before Congress. He has since been handsomely rewarded for his role in the treasonous scheme by wealthy but low-profile supporters of extreme conservatism.

I sat down to write about Jimmy Carter and his presidency. It ended up being all about Reagan and his criminal maladministration. I almost did a re-write but then I realized, that WAS Carter’s presidency. It was undone and overshadowed by traitorous actions of a political opponent – and that’s what I meant by ‘…he was not so good at politics on the national level.’

Carter couldn’t beat the Reagan team at that game because Carter was too good of a man to play on that level. He would have had to stoop to the same underhanded politics the Reagan team was using and he wouldn’t do that. Reagan and his henchmen got rich – and then ended up in Hell. North should be joining them soon. But Jimmy? Jimmy got his wings…

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I read a piece from ‘The Hill’ that suggested that Democrats haven’t learned anything from their recent campaign loss – because the GOP released the House ethics report on Matt Gaetz. No, it doesn’t make sense (the piece was written by a con), but it DOES show you the direction MAGA is moving on this issue. I WANT to call it ‘Gaetz-gate,’ since every scandal since Watergate has had the ‘gate’ suffix attached to show it’s seriousness, but I suspect ‘Gaetz-gate’ jumps the shark on that practice, being redundant, as it is.

Look, we don’t know, for sure, if Matt Gaetz did or did not sleep with a 17-year-old high school junior when he was 34. We don’t know if he KNEW she was 17 when he did. Possibly, he would have been happy with an 18-year-old high school senior if she had been available. But we DO know he was using illegal drugs and paid tens of thousands of dollars to prostitutes. We also know he was showing photos around the House floor and bragging about his “conquests” – photos and descriptions other people, apparently, didn’t want to see or hear.

In this, um, ‘article,’ the writer wrote: “…the left’s non-stop bloodlust to sensationalize, embarrass, gloat or fundraise off the report demonstrates that not only did they learn nothing from the election results, which embarrassed their candidate and their party, but that they continue to drown out the voices of the two constituencies they were once most identified with protecting: the working class and the disenfranchised.”

Huh. WAS it the left that used poster-sized, revenge porn pictures on the floor of the House to “sensationalize, embarrass, gloat or fundraise?” No, wait a minute. If I remember correctly, that was the GOP using photos of Hunter Biden. Yeah, Hunter had a drug problem, too. But he didn’t – allegedly – hire high school juniors for sex. (I’ve already acknowledged we don’t know but the GOP-created ethics report suggests Gaetz did. Take it up with them.)

The writer also wrote: “it seems as if Democrats instantly went back to their kneejerk strategy of sliming and smearing Republicans…” Yeah, that’s the left. Sliming and smearing. See how it works? When a Republican makes up claims about someone from whole cloth or overstates the importance of some small issue, that’s just good, solid work. When a Democrat reports actual, verifiable facts that just happen to make a Republican look bad, that’s ‘sliming and smearing.’

Here’s how you’ll know it was all performative BS. Sooner or later, someone will find Gaetz’s form from when HE bought guns and we’ll ALL see the check mark in the ‘not using drugs’ box. You know, the one that Hunter checked that caused MAGA such outrage. You just watch how ho-hum MAGA pretends THAT is…

Cons won’t think twice about this. They’ve been conditioned to see the left as “angry and even hate-filled” and see themselves as merely “concerned.” So, revenge porn on a private citizen as a cheap mechanism to embarrass a sitting President was simply good work, but referring to ‘President-elect Thirty-Four Felonies’ is an out-of-bounds slur?

I’m not sure ‘righteous indignation’ is the right position for MAGA. It calls to mind Matthew 7:5, “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye…“

Don’t Help The One Percent…

by MyBaconPress

No, you’re right, I didn’t post anything yesterday, even though I normally do on Sunday. Why, you ask? (No, we didn’t.) Well, I took a tumble and broke two ribs. Yeah, that sucks. It’s going to suck for a while. But just to put a cherry on top, my computer decided on Saturday it never wanted to boot again. I’m capable of opening the thing up and seeing if there’s anything I can do to correct the situation but, because of the ribs, I can’t move it to get it somewhere I can work on it. It has NOT been a great weekend for me…

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I keep seeing calls from my lefty friends to separate themselves from their MAGA, where ever MAGA might be. I would like to ask you to please reconsider that decision. I continue to believe MAGA is deceived. I continue to believe that, having achieved the goal for which they fought so hard, they’re about to find out, the hard way, what they actually voted for.

Consider this: the day after the election, the three most popular searches on Google were: ‘Can I change my vote,’ ‘Did Biden drop out,’ and ‘What are tariffs?’ Now, the ‘Did Biden drop out’ thing could be people trying to see if Biden dropped on his own or was pushed out. But I seriously doubt any rational Americans wanted to change their vote TO Trump and, for my money, ‘What are tariffs?’ tells a great deal of the story.

We have started hearing, for example, about companies letting their employees know they will NOT be receiving expected Christmas bonuses this year. Sure, it could just be an excuse for corporations to avoid bonuses. Of course it could. But the story is, in anticipation of Trump’s tariffs, companies are using bonus money to, instead, try to stockpile materials and supplies as much as possible.

When the workforce complains that the foreign company pays the tariff (like Trump said), the CEO has to explain that, no, the seller will pay the tariff and pass the cost on to the consumer. Sure, MAGA can lie – or express their honestly held but mistaken belief that the foreign company pays the tariff. But prices – and inflation – are going up whether MAGA acknowledges it or not.

I’ve heard MAGA say they don’t care if the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) gets repealed because they have “Oregon Care” or “Covered California” or whatever name their state gave their program. They’re going to be very surprised to find their health care gone and no protection for preexisting conditions back on the table.
“Wait, I get my insurance from Covered California, not the Affordable Care Act.”
“Covered California IS the Affordable Care Act.”
“No, it isn’t.”
“Yes, it is. You lost your health insurance because YOU voted to lose your health insurance.” Doing ‘your own research’ AFTER the election? Too late..

I could point out these kinds of details all day and half of the night but MAGA isn’t going to believe it until MAGA lives it. It IS a bummer that ALL of us have to live it while they learn but that’s the way it is. By now, many people realize that the true fight is NOT left and right. It’s the One Percent vs the rest of us and, for the moment, the One Percent has won.

MAGA is about to discover how important they really were to Trump. He doesn’t need them anymore. He’s going to do what he wants to do and he’s not going to give two figs for what his small folk supporters think, want, or prefer. Sure, he will probably still hold rallies for awhile. He LOVES the adoration. But I suspect that as MAGA realizes what he’s doing to them, the crowds will get smaller and smaller and the rallies will come to an end.

The One Percent won this fight using a lesson Lincoln tried to tell us. A lesson HE got from the Bible, so I’ll go straight to the source. “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” (Matthew 12:25) Turns out? Jesus was exactly right about that. So, the One Percent went to a LOT of trouble to divide our “house.”

They set up “Stink tanks,” like ‘The Heritage Foundation,’ The American Enterprise Institute,’ and ‘CATO,’ (among others) to intentionally feed misinformation to the masses. They used Fox Not-News. They didn’t care who bought the false message, just so long as people started buying the message. They funded seats in colleges in order to spread “the conservative message.” But it wasn’t the “conservative message.” It was the “One Percent message.”

In short, MAGA is deceived because the One Percent WANTED them to be deceived, thereby dividing the house against itself, and using that division to seize power. I’ve got to say, so far, it has worked brilliantly. BUT… in achieving their “victory,” they have effectively eliminated the opposition. EVERYTHING that happens because of Trump’s installment will clearly BE Trump’s doing. No more blaming others.

The thing is, conservative media won’t stand down. In fact, I would guess they’re going to double down. I suspect they’ll continue to blame others even though there are no others to blame. I think they’ll need to ramp up their message in order to keep people in the fold. But even MAGA will start to understand reality as it invades their world, and many will turn away. That will be an opportunity to reunite the house.

To be sure, some MAGA will stay loyal. There are always true believers. But some people who supported Trump are already feeling the betrayal and more and more will every day. The only way the One Percent can maintain their current standing is to KEEP us divided. If you distance yourself from your MAGA, you’re doing exactly what the One Percent want – no, need – you to do.

Don’t help the One Percent keep control. This is going to be an ugly fight. We’re going to need every person we can get – and that includes reformed MAGA. If we all retreat into our own little bubbles, we’ll never come back together and that, I fear, really will be the end…