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Operation Epstein Fury…

by MyBaconPress

It’s not unheard of for a sitting President to get a boost, sometimes a large boost, when they become a “wartime President.” Do you suppose our Feckless Misleader thinks HE will get a popularity boost by starting a war? There’s no legitimate reason for his actions in Iran. Most of the excuses we’ve been offered don’t make any sense. But the one we haven’t heard about? An attempted popularity boost? Yeah, that seems like exactly the kind of manipulative thing he would try.

Then again, maybe being a “wartime President” means he gets to try to cancel the mid-terms he’s so afraid of right now. Either way, the attack is a distraction, not the proper response of a country that has been attacked. We weren’t. We would have noticed.

I guess it’s just bad luck for the soldiers who die in the coming months (years?) that he just HAD to rape kids so many years ago…

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I read on Tuesday that if Paramount Skydance acquires Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max and Paramount+ would be combined into a single streaming platform. It said the platform would have over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers. Will it, though?

The whole point of Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery is to turn Warner Bros Discovery into a conservative propaganda shithole. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to find something better to do with my money than subscribe to pretty much any of their services…

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Okay, if you’re going to start an illegal and unconstitutional war, shouldn’t you have made some plans for it? Like, how do we get Americans out of the combat area? Team Evil waited until the bombs started falling before realizing people might need to get out of harm’s way. They did suggest using busses, because busses are a great way to move people around combat zones.

Retired Major General Randy Manner has pointed out that the US State Department isn’t in a position to help Americans evacuate because of all of the widespread budget slashing that left the embassies far too short on personnel. That is to say, Team Evil’s earlier stupidity set the stage for the stupidity of today.

One of the scarier lines I’ve heard about the war is how short it’s going to be. I can’t say it won’t. I’m not good at predicting the future. What I CAN say is that governments commonly declare wars will be short and decisive. “Oh, we’ll have this settled in a few weeks.” Three years, four years, five years, ten years later, we’re still fighting.

Whiskey Pete: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump we are finishing it.” I think that’s a straight up lie. I think “we” DID start this war. Israel and the US initiated a joint operation, a first strike. They didn’t even have a decent reason. I think we’re currently on “Oh, they were going to attack us.” Uh-huh. Prove it.

There are questions about the action in Iran. IS it a war? Since it’s illegal for the President to start a war without the consent of Congress (We’re pretending laws still apply in this shithole MAGAmerica), normally illegal wars are called anything, everything else. “No,” we’re told, “this isn’t a war. It’s a police action. Except our current crop of misleaders. Both Felon 47, himself, and Whiskey Pete Hegseth have referred to events in Iran as a war.

Trump held a presser to talk about his stupid war in Iran. Obviously, that must include ramblings and ravings about curtains and a ballroom. Apparently, it was important to remind us that he likes gold. Yeah, we know.

Senator Markwayne Mullin referred to the memories of the horrors of war and how, once they’ve been experienced, one never forgets, despite the fact that Mullin has never seen combat personally, nor has he even served in the military. Then, more than once, he praised the fact that we have “President Hegseth” running things. Then he went on to confirm that Congress can still declare war on Iraq. No, I wrote what he said, “Iraq.” One would think he would at least know where the war he supports is being fought. The quality of our current “leadership” is breathtakingly, astonishingly dumbfounding…

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The White House has offered up it’s first excuse about why Barron “can’t” serve: he’s too tall. So, obviously, someone finds a service member who is taller and points out that if HE can serve, Barron can serve. SLAP! That excuse falls to the ground, ruined. I guess Barron is about to develop a serious case of bone spurs – just like his cowardly daddy and all the Drumpf/Trump cowards before him…

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Remember early on when the Trump team was attacking law firms? President Pedo sanctioned the firms using Executive Orders as punishment for representing people Donny doesn’t like – and the law firms rolled over and showed their bellies. These were supposed to be some of the best law firms in the country and they didn’t even have the cojones to defend themselves? Then, to make matters worse, some firms that hadn’t even been attacked volunteered to roll over.

Now the courts have struck down the Executive Orders and Team Evil is not going to fight it. I would never do business with any of those firms. They wouldn’t even fight to defend themselves, what should I expect them to do for me?

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Boy, these MAGA really, REALLY hate the US Constitution, don’t they? I mean, that’s their right, under said Constitution but it’s still surprising they would just toss away their country. No war powers act? I’d suggest they go live in Russia, but it seems Russia is coming to live here…

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In the 1970’s, women had this idea that they were primarily interested in “men who could cry.” Yes, that’s a little simplified, but not much. I called myself the 1970’s era, prototypical, Alan Alda-style sensitive male. Guys heard the message from the ladies. Guys, being guys, realized that if they wanted to get laid, they’d have to be more sensitive. Guys started crying. Surprisingly (or not), guys started finding themselves “friend-zoned,” too. It turned out, women wanted a man who could cry, just so long as he never effing did.

Now, young guys seem to have gone in the opposite direction. Young men have adopted this ‘you’ll do as I say, woman’ attitude. They’ve been influenced by so-called Alpha Male podcasters and have adopted the male-as-dominant attitude championed by cretins everywhere. Women, on the other hand, have not. Women decided in the 1960’s they were probably equal to (or even better than) men and, as of this writing, they haven’t seen any reason to change that stance.

I’m going to bet that the rise in what is called “incel” culture is directly related to the chasm. “Incel” is short for “involuntarily celibate.” This should not be a surprise to young men. You can’t expect a positive response to your “Bitches ought to know their place” attitude. It turns out, women DO know their place and it ain’t under your thumb – and it isn’t going to be in your bed, either. Perhaps they never heard the joke.

A man and a woman get married. On their wedding night, the man hands the woman his pants and says, “Here, put these on.”
She says, “I can’t wear your pants.”
He replies, “That’s right. I’m the man of the house, I wear the pants, and you need to remember that.” The woman goes into the bathroom to finish getting ready for bed. When she comes out, shes’ wearing a full, flannel nightgown, that reaches from neck to ankle. She hands her new husband her panties and says, “Here, put these on.”
He says, “I can’t get into your panties!”
She says, “That’s right. And you won’t as long as you have that attitude!”

I suspect this hyper-macho pretense is a problem that will work itself out over time…

MAGA On The Case…

by MyBaconPress

I hear that Team Evil tried to work out a cease fire with Iran shortly after attacking her without cause or provocation and killing their Supreme Leader. I hear that Iran has declined the opportunity. It turns out, when one lights a fuse in the Middle East, one most commonly gets exactly the explosion they should have expected. President Pedo thinks the world is so impressed by US military power he can just bomb and leave as he pleases.

The headline in this morning’s ‘Guardian’ says, “Kuwait mistakenly shoots down three US fighter planes, as US says Iran’s “reckless” attacks threaten regional stability.” Kuwait mistakenly shoots down THREE US fighter planes? It’s being described as a ‘friendly fire’ incident. The crews are all safe but the planes? Not so much. I know MAGA is going to lap it up, but blaming Iran for threatening regional stability is pretty much what the DOJ is doing with the Trump/Epstein files and ICE: blaming the victims.

“Oh, those little girls shouldn’t have been so alluring,” and “Oh, those people shouldn’t have been so brown” are both terrible positions. “Iran responding to our unwarranted, unprovoked, illegal and unconstitutional attack destabilizes Middle East stability” is equally nonsensical.

I honestly can not believe people are going to die as a political maneuver by Sleepy Don in an effort to maintain power. I’ll tell you what’s worse. Cadet bone spurs said flatly, “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war.” I’m not the first to notice the similarity to the character Lord Farquaad in the movie ‘Shrek’ who says, “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

Trump, declaring his contempt for the common man.

Yet again, Trump is displaying his fundamental contempt for work-a-day Joes. He does that a lot. He pretends he loves them. He makes MAGA laugh. They love him. He does not truly reciprocate the feeling. I think after the revolution, any legal age offspring of the political “leaders” should be required by law to take up a position on the front lines of any war or battle these warmonger cowards decide to start. If it’s important enough to send my children, it should be important enough to send their own…

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I remember during one of the Gulf wars, Saddam started sending SCUD cruise missiles pretty much everywhere they could reach. We were told here in the US that Saddam’s missiles were being taken care of by American Patriot missiles. We were told that the Patriots were shooting down, literally, 100% of the SCUDs Saddam shot off. Ha, ha, isn’t Saddam silly?

Then, one day, as support for the war began to wane a tad, here at home, ‘Time Magazine’ was emblazoned with a cover photo of a great big crater right in the middle of Riyadh. What a threat Saddam posed! So, we claimed to be shooting down 100% of Saddam’s SCUD missiles until they needed to whip up a little support, then, suddenly, the magical Patriot missiles magically missed one. It turned out, the Patriots weren’t quite as perfectly devastating as the American people had been led to believe. The already rich contractor who built the things made tons of taxpayer money, though, so no one is allowed to complain.

Israel is said to have a “Golden Dome” of protection. Nothing can get through. But if you’re like me, you noticed that Iranian missile falling into Tel Aviv. You know, having gotten through. I mention that because Sleepy Don wants to build a “Golden Dome” for America, too. That, I’m sure, will be expensive. Oh, AND, it doesn’t seem to work.

I’ll tell you this: I think I’d rather see them stick to the defenses we already use and divert the money they were planning to pass on to their rich friends to universal health care for Americans…

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According to the CDC, as of February 26, 2026, there are 1,136 confirmed measles cases in the United States. In all of 2025, there were 2,281 cases. We’re on track to bury that number – along with several of the victims who contract the illness. In 2024, there were 285 total cases in the US. In 2023, there were 59.

Word is, measles kills about 95,000 people around the world every year. The sudden increase is said to be down to “vaccine hesitancy.” People are “hesitant” to get their kids vaccinated. Instead, they’re eager to risk their child’s life to measles because they’re afraid of a story an unethical doctor made up to try and make money. After the revolution, can we please make ‘Critical Thinking’ a mandatory class every year from Kindergarten through twelfth grade? Clearly, we need it…

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The economic fallout from Team Evil’s management continues to grow, unabated. The DOW dropped 521 points on Friday. It closed at 48,977.92, well below Pam Bondi’s sacred 50,000+, meaning the DOJ now has to release all of the Trump/Epstein files. No, I don’t understand the relationship, either, but Pam assured us she didn’t have to release the files because the DOW was over 50,000. Maybe she can explain it…

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Dubai is a playground for the rich and richer. Except now. Now everybody is trying to get the hell out. It’s a rather dangerous place to be, and rich people don’t like to be in dangerous places. They have poor people for that. So here’s the story of suffering you may not have heard. The price of private planes in the region has skyrocketed. Rich people are being gouged by other rich people just because they want to get out of harm’s way. Maybe they can start a GoFundMe…

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Some clever sod has created a “Walk of Shame” near the White House. It’s made up of stickers that resemble the “Walk of Fame” stars but they name people identified in the Trump/Epstein files. Each sticker includes a QR code that opens a link to information about that particular assailant.

It looks like Trump’s damned and dirty little war of distraction hasn’t distracted at all. I’m guessing we’re going to have elections, too. It’s almost like he’s going to waste all of those lives and all of that money for nothing. Oh, AND, expect the price of gas at the pump to go up, not to mention other imports that will likely be affected by the upheaval in stability. Thanks, MAGA…

Two Thoughts At Once…

by MyBaconPress

So, we’ve bombed Iran. Does that mean the DOJ released those hidden pages from the Trump/Epstein files? What does the elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei, mean? Not much, I’d guess. Iran has a system to replace the Supreme Leader, just like the US has. In fact, the unprovoked, surprise US/Israel attack on Khamenei’s compound killed several highest-ranking leaders, all of whom have been replaced today. The MAGA dream of regime change and nation building is in full swing. In 2012 and 2013, Trump insisted Obama would invade Iran in order to distract from domestic failures at home, so we KNOW he understood the strategy.

In the meantime, we found out that Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein for ‘the wildest party.’ That’s yet another close associate of Trump’s, partying with Epstein. If you’re not MAGA, you’ve seen the pictures and video of Trump partying with Epstein, too. (If you’re MAGA, you were told, instead, about how cute puppies are.)

It was a crime, the bombings I mean. We all know raping minors is a crime. Several countries have spoken out against the actions. The whole world knows it was illegal and unprovoked. Iran wants nukes. It’s hard to blame them. Do you know who doesn’t get invaded by the US? Countries with nukes. Consider Osama Bin Laden. When the US wanted him, we invaded Iraq. They didn’t have nukes. We also invaded Afghanistan. They also didn’t have nukes. When we finally found Bin Laden, he was in Pakistan. They DO have nukes. So, we just sneaked in real quiet-like and snatched Bin Laden up and whisked him away.

If Hillary and Bill can be called before Congress to testify in the Epstein case, why can’t Melanomia and Donald? We all know Bill flew on Jeffrey’s plane fairly regularly. I, for one, haven’t heard anything verifiable that implicates Clinton in Trump’s and Epstein’s sex-with-kids scheme. It’s still possible Clinton availed himself of legal age women they may have been trafficking, too, but I haven’t heard that, either. In short, Clinton used the plane, not the women.

I’m just not sure why the US gets to decide who gets nukes and who doesn’t. My preference is that NOBODY have them, but we do. (Humans, I mean.) So why do we get to decide? Are we afraid a madman might gain control of the stockpile? Well, we’ve got THAT now, too. And it ain’t in Iran. So Trump murdered Khamenei in order to destroy the Iranian enriching capability Trump insists the US destroyed only six months ago, which was only proceeding in the first place because Trump is jealous of Obama and unilaterally decided to walk away from a deal Obama made that would have stopped Iran from gaining nuclear weapons any time soon.

Do you suppose Trump can say the same? He used the facilities, not the girls, that is. There’s at least one filing of specific, graphic detail of Trump forcing a thirteen year old girl to perform oral sex on him. She apparently bit him and he punched her in the face. I’M not saying that. SHE is. And THAT came out even as the DOJ works feverishly to redact and remove the name Trump anywhere and everywhere it appears.

Iran can’t attack the US so they started dropping bombs around the Middle East, instead. Mostly, their bombs are aimed at Israel but they’ve dropped a few into other countries, as well. Mostly, those have been countries that host US military bases. Historically, it’s not a good thing when bombs start falling in the Middle East. It often leads to years of conflict. Increases in oil prices are one side effect but FAR more importantly? People die. Like the 148 girls (so far) killed and 95 wounded when a US missile hit a girl’s elementary school. “Targeted strikes,” indeed…

Still, I do have to confess that Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran seems to have pushed the Trump/Epstein rape conspiracy off of the front pages for a short time. But I expect it to be only for a short time. While I’m becoming increasingly convinced that corruption is going to protect the perverts and pedos – at least here in America – the very least we can do is name them and shame them…

From the way this is written you might discern that I suspect the bombing of Iran has everything to do with distracting from the increasing fallout from the Trump/Epstein files. The fact that people are actually dying in an attempt to distract from the Trump/Epstein files seriously boggles my mind. I’ve become increasingly disappointed by the gullibility of so many of my fellow Americans. The distraction might work. Think about this, not that.

But it turns out? You CAN think about two things at the same time…

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I’m not telling you I’m voting for Gavin Newsom. I’m not saying I won’t. But he has been put into a bit of a political trap. Bernie Sanders is backing a billionaire tax in California. Newsom opposes it. As it happens, I do, too. I’m all for a billionaire tax. I really believe the wealthiest wealthy should pay their fair share and a billionaire tax is a good start. BUT…

You can’t do it in only one state. The one percent are forever threatening to leave if we ask them to pay taxes. The obvious answer is, “Oh, yeah? To where?” Where might they go that offers the same combination of First World Luxury and such oh-so-low-to-non-existent taxes? But they CAN leave between states without suffering too much…

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At this point, is there anything, anything at all, that Trump “warned” his base about Kamala that he hasn’t done himself?

Collective Insanity…

by MyBaconPress

Are we all really supposed to just forget that the US had an agreement with Iran to stop nuclear weapon production? Felon 47 objected to it because it was negotiated by Obama’s team. So, in his first term, Trump unilaterally pulled out of the deal. He said it was a terrible deal but I’ve seen him work enough now to know that he wouldn’t know a terrible deal if it slapped the orange off of him.

After the ill-advised, unilateral pull-out from the Iran arms deal, Iran started enriching uranium again. To be fair, it should be noted that Iran says it’s nuclear ambitions are peaceful, intended for civilian power purposes. No, I’m not saying I believe them, necessarily. That’s just what they say. Anyway, Trump “decided” to bomb Iran’s enrichment facilities after Netanyahu told him to.

The US bombing raid met with some less-than-stellar reviews. The regime that always claims complete and perfect success, claimed complete and perfect success. Analysts around the world suggested the bombing raid did damage but not as much as was being touted by the regime, which was claiming complete obliteration. When questions were raised regarding the actual efficacy of the raid, the regime repeated, LOUDLY, “COMPLETE OBLITERATION!” and “WHAT PART OF COMPLETE OBLITERATION DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?”

Recently, workers rebuilt a bridge here in my home town. It took a little over a year. I suspect a bridge is a less complicated build than a uranium enrichment facility. The point is, Iran could certainly rebuild it’s facilities after “complete obliteration.” But wouldn’t it take more time than it took to rebuild a bridge? Isn’t it difficult to obtain uranium to enrich? Doesn’t that take time? Doesn’t the enrichment process, itself, take time? Doesn’t it take even longer to refine uranium to weapons-grade standards?

But only six months after “complete obliteration,” the new claim from the lying US regime is that Iran is only mere weeks from obtaining WMDs. WMDs?!? Where have I heard that one before? It’s a test, see? How stupid are you? CAN they take you to war using the exact same lie Bush 43 used to illegally invade Iraq? I guess we’re going to find out. Either they were lying about complete obliteration in the first place or they’re lying now.

If he hadn’t been such a teeny, tiny man, if he hadn’t been so desperately insecure, and so completely jealous of Obama, he might have just kept the deal that was already in place. Now he’s going to war in an attempt to get the deal that already existed that he walked away from unilaterally and voluntarily. Hey, MAGA, remember when he decried foreign entanglements and promised to stay out of them? Get your kids ready. It’s time for The Sandbox III.

MORE people dying because he’s a moron. A new war-of-choice. An illegal war, remember. He STILL has so much support among his base. At some point, one has to acknowledge the collective insanity of it all. And remember, we’ve all seen him “work” over this last year. Any deal he actually gets will be less than the deal he abandoned. I can practically guarantee it. I still want to see the complete, unredacted Trump/Epstein files…

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“We didn’t ‘intentionally withhold’ those pages from the Trump/Epstein files. We simply ‘did not provide them, with purpose.’ See? That’s entirely different.”

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Well, it looks like Paramount is the winner in the Warner Bros/Discovery hostile takeover. That means everyone else loses. It’s going to be MUCH harder to find decent, trustworthy information from US sources. The One Percent are building a media misinformation empire intended to deceive and confuse. This merger will do tons of damage to an already teetering media landscape. Cons are trying to convert all media to a Fox Not-News format, that is, protecting the Pedo. All propaganda, all the time.

Cons are already attacking CBS news. Now they get to destroy CNN but they’ll also gain control of programming at HBO. What do you think that’s going to do to ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ and ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver?’ Do you think it will have any impact on HBO’s documentaries?

We can still get reasonable news from the BBC. There are other dependable foreign sources we can turn to but many of them involve reading and, apparently, Americans can’t be bothered anymore. There’s a guy, Seth Stern. He’s chief of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He pointed out that the new company will readily throw the news organizations under the bus for business or political reasons, then added, “But censorship is bad for business. WBD executives and shareholders should recognize that selling companies that depend on the first amendment to a censorial White House puppet is not only morally wrong but harmful to their bottom line.”

I know I’ll be cancelling subscriptions…

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So, last month, the on top of everything Trump regime shut down airspace around a New Mexico airport so they could shoot down a bunch of party balloons. In fairness, they thought the balloons were drug cartel drones. I would have imagined they could tell the difference but, apparently not. Now, just to make sure we know they don’t know what they’re doing, they’ve finally shot down a drone!
“Well, that makes it sound like they DO know what they’re doing.”
“Yeah, I wasn’t finished. It was a US drone being operated by the border patrol.”
“I think you just said we shot down one of our own drones…”

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Recently, for reasons I can’t define, I’ve been watching a lot of historical clips on YouTube about WWII and it’s aftermath. What happened to equipment? What happened to the Nazi leadership? What happened to complicit civilians? I recommend it. I find it comforting. It helps me remember that a once-civilized nation that loses it’s collective mind CAN find their way back to decency.

I’m always particularly unimpressed by the way so many of the Nazi leaders took their own lives rather than try to justify their positions to the world. It makes it seem, to me, like they knew there was no justification. Even if they thought it was because the world was so stupid, they knew they’d never convince anybody they had done the right thing. Call it the lack-of-courage-of-their-convictions.

After the war, Germany went through a “de-Nazification” program, in which Nazis were purged from government positions. We’ll have to do the same with our Nazi— er, MAGA conspirators. What, we’re just going to leave Aileen “Loose” Cannon in her judicial role? I don’t think we can afford that. People like her would just keep inflicted their faulty ideologies on the country. They’ll have to be removed.

It’s likely going to take a while to deprogram the MAGA rank and file, too. Those guys have been conditioned and they’ve been conditioned good. They’ll need help getting back to civilized frames of mind. Still, remembering that Germany went from sane to insane back to sane again is a comforting reminder that hope is still possible as the US descends into it’s own collective insanity…

What A Confused Mess…

by MyBaconPress

Our story so far: As nearly as I can work it out, Israel has been murdering Palestinians at a shocking rate in Gaza, claiming they’re wiping out Hamas. Apparently, EVERY Palestinian in Gaza is Hamas as far as Israel is concerned. Israel claims Iran has been financially backing Hamas in the fight, so they decided Iran should be involved, too. Never mind that Israel could NOT continue this fight without backing from the US. In Israel’s calculation, a country backing Israel is good, a country backing Israel’s opponent is an unforgivable outrage.

Israel repeats a long-ago debunked claim that Iran is working toward building a nuclear weapon and gets the Foolhardy First Felon to bomb some facilities in Iran. Then, the Felon posts in social media that he has brokered a cease-fire between the two countries. Iran “responds” to the US bombing by launching some cruise missiles at a US base in Qatar. Qatar is upset that Iranian missiles violated Qatari airspace but seems to be taking a measured response. Israel uses the launch of Iranian missiles at a US base in Qatar as a pretext to unload a huge number of bombs on Iran.

Donny knew it was going on. He says he got Bibi on the phone and told him not to drop those bombs. Bibi said he had to, the mission had already left. Donny claims he told Bibi to turn the planes around and posted to social media that the planes would do a “friendly plane wave” to Iran and go home. But the planes did a very unfriendly bombing of Tehran, instead. Iran fired back, because of course they did.

It should be noted, Israel is doing pretty much whatever it wants despite any agreements, international laws, or war crimes that might be involved. After the way they’ve been behaving in Gaza, I don’t trust the Israeli government. (The government, not “Jews,” so blow it out your ear.) The fact that the two countries were still exchanging fire after the announcement of the cease-fire really irritated Donny who said, “I gotta get Israel to calm down now,” as he left the White House, Reuters reports.

“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen…We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”

But speaking of not know what one is doing, he came out immediately after the unprovoked attack and claimed Iran’s nuclear facilities had been completely obliterated. It turns out, Iran’s nuclear facilities were mildly damaged and should be back up and running in a few months.

MOSTLY, this raid proved that the vaunted ‘Bunker Buster Bomb’ doesn’t work very well. Each one of those bad boys costs $20 million dollars. Each one. The US dropped 14 of them during the raid. $280 million dollars in bombs alone, that doesn’t count the cost of the B-2 bombers required to carry those bombs or the support planes to protect the B-2s for a setback of only a few months. Hell, that’s not even good business.

The Felon and some of his followers are all giddy now. Oh, he’s going to get the Nobel Peace Prize THIS time. The dude is obsessed with trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got one (that he, candidly, didn’t deserve) and now Donny desperately wants one. He’s obsessed. And, apparently, he’ll kill anyone to get one.

Personally, I’ll be surprised if one gets a peace prize for an illegal bombing raid. “No,” MAGA will say, “it’s for the cease-fire.” Yeah, the cease-fire after the illegal bombing raid. You can’t just eliminate that part of the equation. The Nobel committee won’t. Besides, Netanyahu is still in charge in Israel. Do you really think he’s going to stand down? Especially now that the world knows America’s great big, very expensive, vaguely suggestively named bomb (“Massive Ordnance Penetrator”) only did minor damage?

But the plot thickened on Wednesday, when a new intelligence assessment from Israel was issued. It determined that the bombs really DID do bigly damage to Iran’s nuclear capability. So, to review: that’s Hyperbolic Donny and Netanyahu – both of whom desperately want to look tough, decisive, and successful – saying the bombing was the bombing of their dreams and everyone else – including Donny’s own intelligence services – saying it was just a scratch.

There’s no sense in arguing about it at this point. The whole world will know which was correct by how quickly Iran gets it’s nuclear program up and running again. But, based on the veracity of every other thing 47 says, I’m guessing that will be sooner, rather than later…

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Right now, as far as the world is concerned, the only thing keeping the American dollar going is Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve. He serves a predetermined term and that term runs another eleven months. He’s solid. He knows his stuff. He keeps standing in the way of Hyperbolic Donny’s efforts to obliterate the US economy. So, of course, 47 hates him and attacks him as “stupid” and “very dumb.” But Donny’s too stupid to know what stupid looks like, clearly a widespread affliction today in this once-great nation.

The Felon’s attacks on Powell are political, so, of course, he claims Powell is acting politically. As of today, the Fed doesn’t do that. It’s an independent group that is supposed to act on economic data alone and, as of today, it does. That means Powell doesn’t toady up to 47. THAT means 47 wants him gone. But because of the rules, he can’t just fire him.

Instead, Donny says he’s going to name Powell’s successor early, before the end of Powell’s term. THEN, every time Powell makes an economic decision, the regime can trot out their preferred monetary moron to say HE would have done things differently, politically, whatever Donny wanted, undermining Powell’s decision.

So, the dollar has fallen to a low not seen since the world was trying to crawl out from under the wreckage of Donny’s epic mishandling of Covid-19. It turns out, there are a LOT of ways Donny can destroy the US economy and he’s going full throttle on all of them…

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Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions.’ He’s right about that. These guys KNOW that what they’re doing is wrong and the masks are the proof. But it’s worse than that. Now, bad guys are cosplaying as cops (copsplaying?) so they can do bad guy things, inadvertently supported by potential actual cops hiding fearfully behind their own masks.

SO, what stops, say, a terrorist from, oh, I don’t know, Iran maybe, from dressing up as a cop to gain access to some sensitive area and do some severe damage, possibly in retribution for some recent bombing?

Masked cops are just bad in every measurable way, and they’re likely making the whole country far LESS safe. Is there ANYTHING Donny doesn’t destroy? Anything at all? I’ll wait…

Regime Change Begins At Home…

by MyBaconPress

Let the spinning begin. Yes, I mean the head-spinning. Apparently on orders from Bibi Netanyahu, the US bombed Iran in an effort to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb the world agrees they were not trying to build, but which Donny has pretended they were trying to build for some three decades. Wait, actual bombs fell in response to a delusion? Absolutely.

The US is blaming Iran. Bear in mind, the US and Iran had entered into an agreement that prevented Iran from building nuclear weapons and, by all accounts, they were honoring that agreement. But because Donny is an irrational moron, he unilaterally pulled out of that agreement, for no reason other than Obama had negotiated the thing, and tried to force a new one on Iran, which Iran declined.

By all accounts (except Donny’s) Iran was sticking to the framework of the Obama agreement anyway. But they got attacked by Israel and they responded. The Israeli attack was kind of superficial and the response was also “measured.” But then it happened again. Israel attacked, this time with more devastating effect and Iran responded again, also with more devastating effect.

So now, because Iran responded to Israeli attacks, the US just HAD to bomb Iran, see? Clear as mud. It reminds me of nothing so much as an abusive husband beating his wife over some trivial “offense” while saying, “See what you make me do?” But the US sends in some planes, bombs three locations, then withdraws the planes safely. A “successful” mission, based on the fact that all of the planes that went in came out again. They DID hit their targets, too. Yay! Let’s celebrate US power.

Regime 47 officials took turns stepping up to the microphone to tell Americans how awesome we are. We hit our targets. We set back their nuclear program. We did amazing and wonderful damage and we came away unscathed and, take their word for this, there will be no repercussions whatsoever because that’s the way things work in most fantasy lands.

It turns out, Iran had an inkling that Donny might bring bombs and had moved everything important out of those facilities. Yes, the US did damage but they didn’t destroy the facilities, despite Donny’s hyperbole. Israel has since followed up by bombing access roads to those facilities but the roads and the facilities, themselves, can be repaired.

Iran can be back up and running in fairly short order – and THAT assumes the three sites bombed were the only sites available. Is it at all possible Iran had a fourth site that had gone undetected and, therefore, unbombed? Here’s the really ironic part: the very best way for Iran to put an end to all of this aggression over whether or not they have a nuclear weapon, is to develop a nuclear weapon. The US tends to shy away from bullying nuclear nations.

All of this hand-wringing over whether Iran can have nukes is kind of stupid. I mean, what are they going to do with them? Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a real thing. Israel plays coy but the whole world knows Israel has nukes already. Iran can’t nuke Israel without Israel responding in kind – and BOTH sides face a very high risk of radiation blowback.

Are we really so afraid that “a madman might get nukes?” Well, guess what? A madman has full control over an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons right now! If that’s a legitimate basis for regime change, shouldn’t the US start at home? I say we get rid of our own madman with nukes before we worry too much about some guy somewhere else who doesn’t even have any.

Matthew, Chapter 7, verse 5 sums it up nicely: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye…“

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Don’t be distracted by Donny’s dirty little war. Remember, the GOP is trying to take away your health care so they can give tax cuts to the wealthy. For as long as I can remember, the GOP motto is: comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted…

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Here’s a weird one. Some nutball opened fire at a church in Detroit on Sunday. Please note the LACK of speculation as to the shooter’s motives at this point. All we know, for sure, is that a 31 year old, white gunman opened fire. He shot a security guard in the leg. The newspaper article I saw in the Guardian said the security guard then shot and killed the gunman. That’s all kind of normal stuff, right? Standard American carnage.

But it turns out, the wounded security guard managed to shoot back only AFTER a church member ran over the gunman in a truck. You’ve got to admit, that’s a twist ending you didn’t see coming, right? Apparently, another thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a truck. THEN the guard shot and killed the gunman.

Okay, first, props to the driver of the truck. His quick thinking and bold action almost certainly saved lives. But then a weird little thought popped into my head. If I’m attacked, I’m allowed to use whatever force I need to use to protect myself – but no more. You’re allowed to defend yourself. You’re not allowed to escalate. If I manage to subdue my attacker, I’m not allowed to then grab a board and start pounding. The guy’s not a threat anymore.

I know it isn’t going to happen, but I found myself wondering if the security guard might get into trouble. I presume that once the congregant drove over the shooter – in a truck – the shooter was likely disabled long enough for someone to get the gun and secure the shooter. That is, I’m not sure the security guard needed to shoot and kill the gunman. It seems like excessive force.

The details on this shooting are still a little murky, but no, I would NOT have the guard face charges. It just crossed my mind that he could. If the gunman was down, having been run over by a truck, why did the guard open fire? But, like I say, murky details. Maybe the shooter was getting back up, like the Terminator. Either way, I don’t have any sympathy for the gunman and I feel like he should have holstered his weapon instead of shooting at people.

MAGAmerica is an insane, bloodthirsty place and and we have all just come to accept these regular shootings as part of our daily lives. It’s MAGA “freedumb.” You’re free to get shot anytime some nutball chooses…

The Pale Rider Rides Again…

by MyBaconPress

Donny says HE invented the term “America First” so HE gets to choose what it means. Here’s the thing. HE did NOT invent the term “America First.” He revived it from Nazis. It was a slogan used by American Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. 1930s Americans can be forgiven for being attracted to pretended Nazi ideology. The Nazis hadn’t Nazi’d yet. The modern Nazi, these days calling themselves MAGA, deserve no such grace.

This is all in relation to whether or not Felon 47 should use America’s biggest, non-nuclear bomb in Iran to “stop Iran from having nuclear weapons.” The question of whether or not he should bomb Iran and drag America into yet another moronic and wrongheaded Middle East war created quite a rift in MAGA-land. Should he or shouldn’t he? Two firmly held camps. The left started to get a little excited that it might be a “MAGA civil war.”

I don’t think such a threat actually ever existed. Remember, this is the crowd that actively killed their parents and grandparents during Covid-19 just to score what they thought were a few political points. Do you really think they’re going to split over bombing Iran? Now that he’s done it, he’ll just tell the “don’t do it” crowd to sit down and shut up – and they will. They’ll fall in line because that’s what they do. Independent thought is NOT a virtue in MAGAmerica.

This bit is funny: Pakistan announced on Saturday – before the bombing – they were going to nominate Felon 47 for a Nobel Peace Prize. He really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. He just doesn’t deserve one. He thought he might get it for ending Putin’s war in Ukraine. He brought his best game to that one, inducing the infamous “Stop it, stop it, STOP it!” chant – but it didn’t work and he was out of ideas.

He has been FAR too supportive of Israel’s attempted genocide, too. It turns out, one cannot supply weapons to a maniacal government and encourage that government to use those weapons to murder as many women and children as they can and be in the top running for a peace prize. The whole world knows Israel would not be able to continue in Netanyahu’s insanity but for American weapons – now happily supplied by Felon 47, for a small fee, of course.

He failed in Ukraine and he failed in Gaza so he apparently decided his best path to a peace prize might be in bombing the crap out of a foreign sovereign nation over a fraudulent and made up story. Damn, it feels like I’ve seen this movie before. The actors are different and it’s set in a different country but the plot… the plot is very familiar. Hackneyed, even.

Here’s an interesting tidbit. Outside of American (and probably Israeli) media? The entire world agrees that Iran does not have nuclear weapons, is not planning on having nuclear weapons, does not have enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons, is not building nuclear weapons. Even Tulsi Gabbard, his own National Intelligence Director, said Iran isn’t trying to build a bomb.

The whole threat of Iran’s “nuclear weapons” is Iraq’s WMDs all over again. Remember how that worked out? Remember when Kindasleazy Rice terrorized people with this lie, “The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. It couldn’t have been. Saddam didn’t HAVE WMDs.

He had been thoroughly defanged by the time the US went in the second time. MAGA was left pretending that some rotted and rusted chemical weapons found buried deep in the sand in the middle of a desert counted as WMDs, despite the fact that Weapons of Mass Destruction had been clearly associated with nuclear weapons.

Iran does want a nuclear power plant and such a beast requires enriched uranium, too. But the level of enrichment is vastly lower than that required to build a nuclear bomb and, again, Iran is making NO effort to enrich uranium to that extent. Well, they weren’t. It’s pretty clear the best path to avert American bullying is to HAVE a nuclear device, and Donny has now, likely accidentally, made that fact very clear to Iran.

Another promise made, another promise broken…

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I often accuse MAGA of lacking morals. I make the point because of all the immoral stances MAGA supports. It’s a judgement call, subjective. But the more I hear about 47’s big bill, the more sure I am. Remember, one of the main themes of this nightmare is to inflict as much pain as possible on struggling Americans in order to make a very small segment of our country – rich people – I was going to say “more comfortable,” but they won’t BE more comfortable. How could they? They’ll just have more money on their pile.

It turns out, one route to all of that suffering is this slashing of Medicaid. That’s going to have widespread effect on the whole nation, things one might not initially think about, like closing rural hospitals. Obviously, the White House minions are pretending that cutting needed money won’t hurt anybody or anything. In fact, the less people have, the happier they’ll be, right? So, who needs medical care?

Are you having a heart attack because you were rage-screaming at the television about “Libtards?” Did you shoot yourself in the leg while you were cleaning your gun? Did your wife go into labor unexpectedly, three months early? Wow, you need a doctor, and fast. Too bad, though. The nearest doctor will be roughly two to four hours further away now that the only medical facility in the area lost funding to the Medicaid cuts and had to shut down. Try not to bleed out, okay?

Oh, I know, MAGA was told the Medicaid cuts actually only represented fraud, waste, and abuse. You’d better check that out more closely. The GOP – I should say, the very wealthy GOP – is taking money people need so they can give it to people with no need. Rural hospitals WILL shut down. Here’s the thing: one cannot just close down a hospital, realize it was a massive mistake, then reopen the thing as though nothing had happened.

This is not like DOGE firing everybody in sight, realizing the people they fired did an important job, and bringing them back a few days, weeks, or months later. Once those hospitals close, it will be very difficult to re-open them. Once rural Americans have lost their only local access to health care, that local access will likely be gone for a long, long time, maybe forever.

Only MAGA can stop this thing. I’m a lefty. I live in California. My representatives are already against this monstrosity. If I lived in a red state, my representative would just dismiss my input as radical lefty stuff. Only MAGA can make clear to MAGA politicians that this bill will cost those politicians more than they cost the victims of the bill and they’d better do it soon – or hope that no emergency medical situations come their way…