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Thanks, MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bondi ignores Epstein survivors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another Day In MAGAmerica…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

Lucy Harrison, forever 23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even ICE Says It Wasn’t Good…

by MyBaconPress

Well, this ought to settle an argument. It won’t, of course, but it ought to. The ‘ICE Firearms and Use of Force Directive’ is a handbook guiding interactions between ICE agents and their victi–, um, civilians. It outlines requirements for certain engagements including what actions agents should take before resorting to deadly force.

“Deadly force is not authorized solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect,” the handbook states, so we know Ross messed up right there. “Deadly force against a fleeing subject is only authorized if there is probable cause to believe that the escape of the suspect would pose an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another person.”

Good didn’t pose a danger, imminent or otherwise, to anybody. ICE had already recorded the license plate of the vehicle. If they needed to – and they didn’t – they could have gone to her house later. To me, everything I saw in the video said, “bad police work,” and now ICE’s own handbook says “bad police work” too.

As Good was turning her vehicle to ensure that she did NOT hit her killer, the laws of physics dictated that for a very brief, momentary instant, the car pointed directly at Ross, who was standing where he should NOT have been standing, according to the ICE handbook. Had he been a better agent, he would not have been standing where he was and would never have even appeared to have been in danger.

Maybe this is confusing so I’ll sum it up for you: according to ICE directives, Jonathan Ross was the problem in that encounter, not Renee Good. Ross’s poor procedure put his safety at risk, not Good…

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So, since 47 posts to social media all night and he sleeps all day – save it, we all watch him snoozing – when the hell does this guy do any Presidentin’? The malingerer-in-chief must have delegated all of his responsibilities because he sure doesn’t seem to be doing anything except bitching about how hard life has been for him and how mean everybody is to him. He really is a whiny little bitch. Just a little something to remember the next time you hear him whining about Biden’s autopen…

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Well, this is weird. I’m starting to think maybe these ICE raids aren’t so bad, after all. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re terrible. But since this policy has been put in place – by Stephen Miller, by the way, because Donny’s too busy posting to social media or sleeping – the Dems keep winning special elections. I haven’t checked too closely but I think the GOP has won exactly ONE election since Donny infested the White House a second time.

I don’t believe red voters are voting blue. Instead, I think red voters are staying home, unable to support what they’re seeing on their televisions and, sometimes, right down the street. It leads one to a conclusion that if ICE just keeps up their ICEhole ways, the left should be able to manage a sweep of Congress, followed by an impeachment that won’t be corrupted by compliant toadies. Like it or not, this November is the very last chance the US electorate has to put the country back to right – and we may not even get that chance.

It’s a real moral quandary. It looks like one might simply begrudgingly tolerate the ICE harassment for a greater good down the road, the ability to restore sanity to a once-great nation. On the other hand, the future is never guaranteed. Tolerating one outrage in the hopes that it might lead to something better down the road STILL leaves one tolerating outrage.

But if we’ve learned anything at all about Americans over these last years, it’s that Americans are an amazingly stupid bunch of people. As a group, I mean. If ICE stops attacking people in the streets today, most Americans will have forgotten all about it by November. It will lose it’s impact.

I guess it’s less of a quandary than I thought. We don’t have any control over it and I do believe the raids will continue so, really, the idea that these ongoing raids are contributing mightily to the outcome of the upcoming elections is less of a quandary for me more of a possible bright side to the ongoing abuse…

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The previous section, of course, depends on Americans get to vote and getting a fair and honest election. At this point? Odds are long. Look, this is simple. Our Fearful Misleader knows as well as everybody else that if he leaves office, he has to stop shoving all of that beautiful lucre into his pockets and, more importantly, he goes to jail. EVERYBODY knows it. The Left knows it, the Right knows it. Everybody knows it. So it’s cute as hell, when people talk about the upcoming elections and this possibility or that possibility. I do it, myself. (See the previous segment, where I talk about how ICE raids might help decent people in elections.)

I already don’t believe any of the claims the regime is going to make about all the “problems” they found when they raided a Georgia election office. No, they didn’t find 11,780 more votes hidden under a table. But Donny is clearly setting the stage to corrupt the midterms – assuming he can’t find a way to cancel them completely. I suspect he’s using his Father-of-Lies complaints about the lost 2020 election as cover to get into voting centers and corrupt 2026.

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Word is, Donny isn’t going to attend the Stupid Bowel because California is too far away from Washington, DC. Or maybe because he doesn’t care for the musical choices the NFL made, Green Day in the pregame show, Bad Bunny during halftime. I don’t care why he doesn’t contaminate the state, just so long as he doesn’t.

But it turns out, he’s not coming because he doesn’t want to hear an entire state “Boo” him at the same time. His advisors made clear that getting booed in a long, sustained chorus of the hatred the world feels for him might be poor optics. I wasn’t sure if that was the real reason or not until I read that the Delusional Dotard himself said he would be welcomed by the crowd if he went. “They like me,” he lied.

If Donny is claiming we like him, it’s because he knows how much we effing hate him to the core…

Living The Conservative Dream…

by MyBaconPress

I have a correction to make. I wrote that Mr. Pretti was murdered by ICEholes. That is incorrect. Mr. Pretti was murdered by Border Patrol ASSholes. MyBaconPress regrets the error – and the assholes! But this is interesting. This could be related. Greg “Shorty” Bovino is out as Border Patrol “Commander at Large,” with “large” being a particularly ironic title, like when you call your overweight friend “Tiny.” Bovino is being relegated back to a local player in El Centro.

Bovino took the line the Border Patrol agents were the victims in the Pretti shooting, not Alex Pretti. I mean, obvs. A mob of Border Patrol idiots subdued and disarmed an innocent man, then murdered him where he was. We all saw it. How could the murdered guy possibly be the victim? No, that would be the agents who did the murdering. (Hey, shouldn’t we deport them now, violent criminals that they are?)

The White House is walking back some of the earliest claims about Pretti. There’s just too much video. There are too many angles. At least with the Renee Good murder, there was one angle they could pretend was her hitting him with her vehicle – and they DID make contact as a direct result of his bad police work. She was trying to steer around him. But because of the that look, they had a story they could cling to.

There are no stories in the Pretti murder. This was a good guy, an upright American citizen, a VA ICU nurse who was just trying to help people. Alex Pretti was an innocent man…

UPDATE: New video has surfaced of Pretti clashing with agents eleven days before he was murdered. Apparently, during the confrontation, Pretti kicked the taillight of an ICE vehicle. The taillight appears to have fallen out of it’s position. I’m still trying to figure out how that happened. Those lights are pretty well secured, normally. One would not imagine a single kick could knock it loose. Maybe break the lens, sure, but to have the entire assembly fall out? Weird. Anyway, an agent attacks Pretti. They struggle a bit. Pretti gets away, but he doesn’t leave.

That’s why we get to see that he appears to be armed in this video, too. Like the day he died, he never once touched the weapon, even as agents were roughing him up. I presume the right will be told that’s the “proof” he was violent. I see it as proof that he had great restraint. He never touched his gun. But it does pose a new question: was Pretti’s murder predicated on an encounter eleven days before? Was it retribution? I STILL don’t see one thing that might justify the shooting of Alex Pretti…

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That kind of thing leads directly to this kind of thing: the Doomsday Clock, which, since 1947 has metaphorically represented the risk that humans will succumb to human-made threats, with midnight representing Armageddon, has been moved up to 85 seconds. That’s the closest it has ever been in it’s history. That’s the end of humanity, closer than ever. Thanks, MAGA. You did that!

The clock is moved based on the opinions and expertise of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin members ask themselves two questions: is humanity safer than last year, and is humanity safer than it has been over the last 78 years from human-made threats? Based on their answers, the clock moves one way or the other.

They don’t just move it, of course. They explain their decision. They said, “Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence, and other apocalyptic dangers,” the Bulletin wrote in their statement.

That feels like a direct commentary on Donny, doesn’t it? I mean, Putin, too, what with his war of choice against Ukraine but Donny has done more worldwide damage than Putin in the last year so mostly Donny. They seem to have indicated Xi, too, but he seems content just to sit back, let the US blow it’s own brains out, then clean up the mess and claim the spoils.

Anyway, the Bulletin continues, “Far too many leaders have grown complacent and indifferent, in many cases adopting rhetoric and policies that accelerate rather than mitigate these existential risks. Because of this failure of leadership, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe.”

The clock originally started at seven minutes to midnight. It has been as far away as 17 minutes to midnight. Now? 85 seconds. Propaganda has increased conservative radicalism across the US and Europe. Cons have made gains and, in some places, have real power. They’re living their conservative dreams and as the conservative vision takes hold, experts agree: the world is a more dangerous place than it has ever been in history…

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We can fight the ‘Culture War’ all we want to – and if you’re like me, you really don’t want to. The so-called ‘Culture War’ is all about oppressing ideas some people don’t like. It’s the embodiment of taking away liberties. It’s all about keeping other people from doing things that have no effect on you. But do you know what does have an effect on you? The strength of the US dollar. When the strength of the US dollar drops, your buying power drops. That is, it takes more money to buy the same things. Wheelbarrow full of cash for a loaf of bread, anyone?

Since Donny stole his way back into power, the US dollar has dropped 10%. It’s the lowest it’s been since the US was trying to dig out of the economic hole created by Covid-19, only this time, there’s no disaster to point to. Well, no disaster beyond trump. Apparently, he’s all the disaster the world needs.

After falling at record rates for a couple of days, someone asked the Felon if he was concerned. “No, I think it’s great,” Trump said of the weaker dollar, during a visit to Iowa to promote his record on the economy. Asked whether he was concerned about the currency’s slide, he told reporters: “I think the value of the dollar – look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.”

There’s the tell. A weaker dollar can be good for great big, multinational corporations. It’s terrible for you. Donny thinks it’s in great shape because he cares about great big, multinational corporations and he doesn’t give two figs about you…