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Realities He Can’t Reshape…

by MyBaconPress

James Carville has a theory. He thinks after the mid-terms, trump will get tired of the problems and walk away from the Presidency after getting JD to pardon him. I disagree with Carville. Well, sort of. I agree Donny doesn’t like the problems, but he never has. That’s why he doesn’t deal with them. He just tries to talk his way out of them. So far, it hasn’t worked. I mean, he DOES squirm out of taking any responsibility, but the problems remain.

The thing Carville isn’t taking into account is the money. Trump loves money more than anything else. Did you ever see the 1968 movie, ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?’ There’s a scene in which the gang robs a train. Butch uses too much dynamite and blasts money everywhere. As the gang is picking up the money, a second train pulls up and a posse comes charging out.

Butch and Sundance take off and call the others to do the same but a few of the gang members want just one more dollar. They stay too long and end up dead. I think that will be Donny. Not dead, but impeached and that will be good enough. Even after he knows he needs to go, he’ll stay for one more dollar. Greed kills. I think Donny will stay too long. Maybe the posse can catch up to him this time…

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

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Now Operation Epstein Fury is going to include ground troops? In a war we’ve already won? No, not a war, of course. According to trump, if he calls it a war he has to get permission, so he calls it a ‘military operation.’ It’s still a war and I doubt the Founders intended to allow the President to circumvent their writing by playing semantic games. To my mind, it’s an illegal war. With regards to the Bard, a war, by any other name…

Donny has spent his life telling other people how things are and then he expects them to bend themselves into whatever shape they need to bend into to agree. If there’s ANY point of subjectivity in the topic, people might be able to and, based on MAGA, lots of them like to. But every once in a while, something comes up he can’t just talk his way out of.

Covid-19 was one such event. He couldn’t insult the virus away. He tried. He couldn’t tell everyone it wasn’t real. Too many people were dying. There was no story he could tell that reality didn’t smack him in his stupid face and refuse to go along with his narrative. Over a million Americans died while he tried to “talk them out of” Covid-19.

His war in Iran is the same thing. Iranians don’t care about trump’s opinion any more than the Covid virus does. (Or I do.) He’s still stuck in his only “management tool,” though, so he keeps saying the war is won. We beat them. We wiped them out. Speak it into existence. But the price of gas keeps going up. The cost in lives keeps going up. The cost in American treasure and reputation keeps going up.

Reality simply WILL NOT bend to his delusions when it comes to war – or even military operations – any more than Covid-19 bent to his will. There’s an old adage: when you find yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. So, obviously, Donny is escalating. What else might you expect? The guy’s not dealing with reality. He’s been in a battle with reality his entire life. Iran might just prove to be his Waterloo.

It’s a real mind-bender, isn’t it? We’ve won but we’re going to need $200 billion dollars. It’s over, so were going to have ground operations – not boots on the ground, ground operations – probably for weeks to come. I wonder how many people will die THIS time for no reason other than trump can’t handle the truth? To MY mind and way of thinking, it has already been too many…

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When grandpa Drumpf so disgraced the Drumpf name (through cowardice) that he had to change it, he chose ‘Trump.’ Remember, ‘trumpery’ means “showy but worthless,” “nonsense, rubbish,” or “deception, trickery, and fraud. When it comes to identifiers, I’d say grandpa Drumpf got it right…

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One can always count on the TACO, yes? The Drumpfster is trying to blockade oil from reaching Cuba. Well, he was. Mr. ‘No Regime Change’ is working on regime change there and wants to punish the population in hopes that they’ll revolt. But then, Putin told Donny to let him sell some of his oil despite international sanctions and Donny does what Vlad tells him to do.

So, Donny created an “exception” for Russian oil and the first thing Russia did was to send a tanker full of the beautiful black gold to… CUBA! Trump is blocking oil from Cuba, Russia was taking oil TO Cuba. Who would win that one? My prediction was Putin, because Putin owns Trump. I know, it wasn’t all that great of an insight. Every person not MAGA knows Donny does as Vlad says. He always has, he always will, because Putin owns Trump.

So guess what? The tanker reached Cuba and will offload thousands of barrels of oil in Matanzas, granting relief to the Cuban people. Suddenly, TACO Trump has ‘no problem’ with other countries sending Cuba some oil. Yet another reality he can’t speak into existence…

Even More No Kings…

by MyBaconPress

As I watched the sea of humanity flowing across the whole world, ALL in agreement on one thing: Donald Trump and the Republicans in general suck, suck, SUCK, I found myself wondering how many of those people left their red hats behind to attend. It’s weird thought, isn’t it? I mean, he still does well with MAGA in the polls. His overall approval remains strong at roughly 33%. That’s MAGA.

But I’ve seen plenty of things that cause me to believe that MAGA is increasingly frustrated by all of this insanity, too. I don’t have evidence, but I suspect they’re answering pollsters the “correct” way, but feeling betrayed and let down. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that some of them are so off-put by the outrages that they might come out and march in a ‘No Kings’ Protest.

The No Kings rally in Maryland, March 28, 2026

There were rallies in every state and in sixteen countries around the world! They even had ‘No Kings’ rallies in places where they have actual kings, like Britain. (No word on how Charles feels about that.) It’s a pretty encompassing movement. At various rallies, people focused on different aspects of the madman’s reign, but all under the headline: No Kings.

I guess the “flagship” event was considered Minneapolis/St. Paul, in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two American citizens murdered by ICEholes. But the truth is, there were plenty of rallies, LARGE rallies for people to attend, pretty much anywhere you live. The whole world hates this guy just as much as I do. I’ll tell you this: It’s comforting to know I’m not alone…

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Republicans have an annual event known as CPAC. I’m pretty sure that stands for ‘Crappy People Acting Crappily.’ Donny used to be a fixture there. That’s where the first golden idol was unveiled. Ooh, they loved him. Did you catch that? ‘Loved.’

He didn’t go this year. Worse, when a person onstage asked the crowd how they felt about impeachment, the crowd cheered! The speaker was trying to whip them into a frenzy of fear that if the Dems won in the mid-terms, 47 would end up impeached. He wanted the crowd to affirm that would be a bad thing so he told them, flatly, that cheering was the wrong answer, then he asked again. How did they feel about impeachment?

The crowd cheered a second time. They clearly understood the question and they knew the answer they liked best. It looks like there might be more Marjorie Taylor Greenes out there than we might have imagined…

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It was as predictable as sunrise, wasn’t it? Donny is, reportedly, bored with his war now. Israel, I suspect, convinced him to get on board and hit Iran. You know, in a “manly” and “strong” way. He apparently thought he could just stumble in, rain down a few bombs, and walk away. Iran sees things differently.

Now the Feeble Failure is asking for $200 billion dollars and calling up as many as 10,000 troops. Overwhelming force, right? Well, Iran has mobilized a million troops. Okay, we’ll just keep bombing. Reports say we’re running out of Tomahawk Missiles. Meanwhile, they can produce their drones relatively cheaply and, apparently, they have a LOT of them.

This seems to be one of those situations that really confuse him. He’s just sure he should be able to tell you what he thinks and you’ll agree with him. In the past, that has largely been true of MAGA. But it’s hard to tell people you’ve won the war when they see the price of a gallon of gas every single time they pull up to a pump – and the price of a gallon is going up every single day.

Try telling people – even redhats – who lost their health insurance because ‘we couldn’t afford it,’ that we CAN afford $200 billion dollars to kill foreigners. Yesterday, I paid $13 dollars for one pound of ground beef. Go ahead, try to convince me things are affordable – OR try to convince me that “affordable” is a made-up word. We were clearly already on the wrong track. His war made everything worse.

But he’s bored now. Big surprise. He has the attention span of a three-year-old. He wants to move on to other things. Apparently, he has a LOT more damage to do somewhere else…

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Isn’t it a fair question? If the trumpster can just sign an Executive Order to pay TSA now, why didn’t he do that earlier? Those TSA workers aren’t banking huge amounts that leave them able to absorb a cash-flow interruption. They’re working class, which, in America, means struggling financially. Some dumbass cuts off their wages, they feel it. They feel it fast.

Political gamesmanship. He allowed the pain in the airport in hopes it would deceive enough Americans into believing the Democrats were at fault. But most of America isn’t MAGA. We understand things. We know the problem is the cons, or more accurately, Donny himself, so the travel assault didn’t work. It got even worse when Republicans started reporting that they were willing to fund TSA but President Pedo told them no.

Now that the pain and suffering he caused is being tied directly back to him, he’ll do something about it. He really is a waste of human flesh…

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It could be big, this ruling against Meta and YouTube that they deliberately designed addictive spaces. I understood why they were given protections under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. (1934!) It protected platforms from the things users might post on it. If one person went on a racist rant, for example, others couldn’t sue the platform over it.

The idea was to let the platforms moderate what got posted and what got removed. I think we would all agree: they haven’t done a good job. But that was the deal and they were protected and people, often young people, suffer as a result. It seemed there might be nothing to be done about it.

But then a clever lawyer came up with a novel solution. He sued the platforms for intentionally building an addictive product. He just won. That was the second blow to Meta this week! Earlier, a New Mexico jury found that Facebook and Instagram misled consumers about the safety of its platforms. They were ordered to pay $375 million dollars, pocket change for Zuckerberg.

This new suit, their latest loss, is “only” for $6 million. Couch-cushion money in their homes. But, Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts. The test is to see if their platforms were designed to be addictive. Spoiler alert: they were.

You can almost hear the equivocations writing themselves. ‘No, we weren’t building an addictive product. We just built a friendly environment that encouraged users to return over and over again and then stay.’ The lawsuits are addressing the platform structure and not the content and the user concerns are, so far, prevailing.

It’s hard to say how this will play out. These sites have TRILLIONS of dollars behind them. We all know, for better or worse (though it seems always worse), money rules the day in this once-great nation. But it’s a chance. There’s an opportunity to clean up the mess now. I don’t know if we can, but I’m glad there are people trying…

Energy, Not Bombs…

by MyBaconPress

I didn’t know this, did you? In Iran, the now-dead Ayatollah had issued a fatwa against building, storing, or using nuclear weapons – in 2004. A fatwa is a legally recognized religious ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a qualified Islamic jurist in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge, or government. The fatwa still stands. By the way, my source for that is Tulsi Gabbard, under oath, testifying before Congress.

According to the Ayatollah Trump just killed because Trump pretended the Ayatollah was pursuing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons were a violation of Islam. This is not a he-said, she-said. There was a fatwa in place. Unlike Christians, Muslims take Islam VERY seriously. It’s a safe statement, if there was a fatwa in place banning nuclear weapons – and there was – Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons.

Iran has always maintained they’re trying to build nuclear power plants for energy, not bombs. Now I learn there’s a fatwa in place banning nuclear weapons. Even if I wasn’t inclined to believe the Iranians, I know they take fatwas seriously. I believe Iran was not building nuclear bombs, nor have they been trying to. Donny’s lying. Probably, Israel is lying.

Not only was Iran NOT pursuing nuclear weapons when Donny started this most recent bombing, they weren’t pursuing nuclear weapons when Donny bombed them before. In fairness, it should be mentioned that if said fatwa was issued in 2004, and it was, then Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons during Biden, Trump 45, Obama, or most of Bush 43, either. Since 2004 that we can prove, ‘Iranian nuclear bombs’ have been a boogeyman.

But now that the old guy, who opposed nuclear weapons as a violation of Islam, is dead, nobody knows how the new guy will react to that question. So, to recap, Trump killed the guy known to be opposed to nuclear weapons and put in place a guy nobody can say for sure, one way or the other. Nice work, Dumbass…

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Meanwhile, our delusional dotard has declared his war-that’s-not-a-war over, nearly over, and just behind us in a little while. Iran said, “Wanna bet?” He has claimed he’s negotiating with Iran. Iran says, “No he’s not.” He says Iran’s military is obliterated. You know, like he “obliterated” their nuclear capability last June. The results must be the same because Iran’s “obliterated” military keeps attacking various sites.

His war is over but he needs $200 BILLION dollars for it. Also, he needs boots on the ground. Cons are actually trying to make the case the “boots on the ground” doesn’t “count” in Iran because they won’t be in cities. So the war is very definitely over, kind of, but he needs $200 billion dollars and more soldiers. Got it. Sometimes it seems like even HE doesn’t understand what he’s doing.

He DOES seem desperate. His lies are simply of lower quality, these days. He seems to be just pitching stuff out there in a blind panic. His now-debunked claims about the talks were in response to the crashing stock market. It worked for a minute. Then all of the investors realized he seems to be talking to himself and nobody else so they started pulling back again.

His “Tales of Success” seem to crash and burn before they even finish leaving his lying mouth these days. He doesn’t seem like the large-and-in-charge, silver-tongued misleader so much as a desperado trying to find an out. Think of Butch and Sundance in that little Bolivian town – just as the Bolivian army moved in. I could be wrong. Satan clearly takes care of his own and Donny has survived a LOT.

But I’m not sure he’ll be able to get even MAGA onboard with his stories on this one. Every time they pull up to a gas pump, they’ll remember why they’re paying so damn much of their limited incomes to gas companies and no, it’s not Biden’s nor Obama’s fault. And that doesn’t even mention what happens if they have to, gods forfend, go to an airport…

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Democrats want the ICEholes to take off their masks and use body cameras when they’re “working,” so they held up funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans are fighting back. The thing is, in this fight about ICE, the TSA has also been captured and there aren’t enough TSA agents working to keep people moving through airports.

Democrats keep trying to pass a bill that funds all of DHS except ICE, meaning TSA agents would get paid, so they would get back to work. Republicans won’t agree to the partial funding so they keep voting no. No, that’s not quite right. According to John Kennedy, not the great one, the crappy one from Louisiana, the GOP was onboard with the plan to fund everything BUT ICE. Trump said no. Trump said.

Republicans keep blaming Democrats because Dems won’t vote for total funding without ICE reforms and Democrats keep blaming Republicans because cons won’t agree to the partial funding bill because The Felon told them not to. Meanwhile, people are still stuck at airports – and it’s ALL because Donald Trump won’t let his toadies pass a partial bill…

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Donny being the whiz-bang of a “thinker” that he is, has deployed ICEholes to airports to pretend they’re TSA. Qualifications? Pshaw! Since when have qualifications been important to this regime? But here’s the thing: in sending ICE to work TSA, 47 has also ordered the ICEholes to remove their masks while working TSA!

So, two things. One, the entire point of the funding battle is to get ICEholes to remove their masks. It’s a whole thing, with the end result being that ICEholes are removing their masks anyway. ALSO, since ICEholes are removing their masks in airports, people moving through with their phones should take photos of the agents, while their faces are uncovered. Then, later, when the masks go back up, we can match the photos with masks to the photos without masks and more easily identify killers…

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Mail in ballots are a fraud? He says this as he takes his own mail-in ballot to the post and mails it. Yet again, Donny has found something that HE gets that YOU don’t. Like, health care. Gasoline. A place to live. Decent food…

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Well, this should be interesting. President Pedo has set up an energy embargo against Cuba. Because he attacked Iran, the world is suffering oil disruptions like the world has never seen before. Big disruptions. Huge disruptions. Donny thought he would address that problem he made by lifting sanctions on Russian oil, thereby helping Russia in it’s fight against Ukraine with a sudden infusion of cash.

Now one of the tankers full of oil Russia is suddenly allowed to sell, despite sanctions, is on it’s way to Cuba to help alleviate their energy crisis. You remember, the one caused by Donny being a dumbass. It’s expected to arrive in Cuba in the next five or six days. The world is wondering how the White House is going to respond.

My guess? Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil. In order to stop the oil, Donny would have to cross Putin. Donny never crosses Putin. What 47 needs now is an excuse, a story to tell. He needs a way to explain why, even though it goes against everything he’s been saying publicly, it’s okay that Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil. But either way, Cuba is about to offload about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil…

Donny’s Damn, Dirty War…

by MyBaconPress

I saw a headline that read: ‘Trump relied on unverified intelligence to blame Iran for deadly school strike.’ Quick question, isn’t ALL “intelligence” trump “relies on” unverified? I mean, I haven’t seen any evidence of intelligence, have you?

Ego? Hell yes. He has that in spades. When General Dan Caine warned him that attacking Iran would likely result in Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, 47 just randomly decided that Iran wouldn’t do that. He also talked all puffy chested about how the US military would handle it. The General has been studying war for his entire career. Donny likes boobies. The General’s opinion on war has higher value in my mind. Oh, and if you feel like debating the point, you lose. The General was right, the dumbass was wrong. Experts vs boobs. Same as it ever was.

The problem is this: if you get in a row with a bee, one bee, you can likely win that “fight.” If you smack an entire beehive, you aren’t going to beat them. You’re going to run – if you can. Donny smacked a beehive based on some of that unverified intelligence. Now he’s surrounded by drones and mines, flailing but failing. He’s gone so far as to ask Ukraine for anti-drone technology.

The irony is so palpable one could pick it up and snuggle with it. 47 betrayed Ukraine. His loyalty to Putin FAR outweighed his obligation under a treaty. He once told Ukrainian President Zelenskyy that he – Zelenskyy – “doesn’t have the cards.” Zelenskyy has some cards now, doesn’t he?

The US NEEDS Ukrainian drone intercept technology – ironically, technology Ukraine was forced to develop because the US betrayed their obligation to Ukraine. Yeah, it looks like Zelenskyy might be holding a winning hand, after all.

So, even though the US can do everything alone and better than anyone and doesn’t need any of YOUR stupid help, Donny asked for help from countries he has spent the last fourteen months castigating and insulting. They were sort of, “Nah. Your war, your problem.” The press reported the whole thing and our Fearful Misleader ended up looking like a moron, so, you know, accurate.

Trump keeps messing things up, then bitching that reporting his errors and failures is treason. Ah, I see. It’s the reporting that’s the problem. But if nobody can talk about him when he messes up, nobody can talk about him. I guess rather than reporting that our one-time allies refused his request, the press should have said they thought it was a great idea and they really wanted to help but they had to, uh, wash their hair that night…

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Holy crap, is this Donny’s latest plan to manipulate the 2026 midterms? Destroy the entire planet and wipe out humanity before November? More of that unverified intelligence. Sadly, he seems on track. He can’t lose in the midterms if there are no people left to vote…

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Chris Murphy wrote, “Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.” The thing is, The First Felon’s ego controls Donny, not his tiny, little intellect. His ego won’t let him stop.

Dear MAGA, you were saying something about Kamala starting WW III?

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Pay attention, MAGA. One of your own, Joe Kent – and, yes, he was, too, one of your own – stepped down from his position as Director of the National Counter-terrorism Center where he had overseen the analysis of terrorist threats. He said in his resignation that he didn’t think Iran was an imminent threat. He was in a position to know.

My understanding is that Kent is a terrible person in exactly the way a good MAGA is supposed to be. But he was a Green Beret. He saw combat in eleven deployments, fercrissakes. He understands threats AND he understands what it means to be in combat. He came into conflict with official MAGA policy over his lived experience. He didn’t directly criticize 47. That’s not allowed. But he DID say he disagreed with Donny’s determination that Iran was an imminent threat.

And there it is. One, momentary, accidental attack of conscience and he’s out. Not just out, though. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a report that the FBI is investigating Kent for allegedly leaking classified information. No, we’re assured, the investigation started LONG before Kent bent the knee to reality, even for a moment. It’s just a coincidence that we’re only hearing about it now, for the first time, after he stepped down.

No amount of loyalty with protect you, MAGA. Sooner or later, the Mad Despot might well cross something YOU understand and believe in. I know it’s hard to imagine. MAGA already supports him in killing their parents and in raping their kids, so I have no idea where a “line” might be, but neither did Kent. And when it DID happen to him, his previous faith didn’t – doesn’t – help him…

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The dumbass is forever claiming that he talked with this hidden person or that unnamed group and got exactly the answers – and support – he wants. Then when asked for the identities of the people or groups involved always, always, ALWAYS says, “I’m not going to tell you that.”

I’m starting to suspect he might be making stuff up…

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Speaking of making stuff up, this is a photo of a burial site being prepared for the bodies of all of those kids killed when the US bombed a school in Iran:

Grave sites being prepared after US bombed a school in Iran.

But if you ask AI, and that’s apparently any of the AI models out there, they’ll each tell you the photo is being misrepresented. They’ll each tell you the photo is from some other disaster in some other part of the world. They’ll tell you authoritatively, like the AI Model in question looked into it and “discovered” the photo elsewhere – but the AI model is making it up.

Industry best guess is that it’s downplaying the photo just as a measure of messing up, so you can feel good about the fact that “they” are putting AI into everything, everywhere, just as fast as they can and your life is being increasingly governed by computers that don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

BUT…I can’t help but wonder if AI is misdirecting information in support of the regime. I’m increasingly less convinced of the left vs right paradigm and more convinced that it’s actually upper vs lower. It could be the One Percent deflecting criticism by telling their AI to misdirect. That is, lie. The US bombing a school is a bad look. It might make people feel badly about a war-that’s-not-a-war and reduce already non-existent support.

To add to the confusion, photos DO get repurposed, purporting to show something that actually happened elsewhere. In truth, I see that more from the right than the left, but maybe I’m supposed to. Just know, this is a photo of a burial site being prepared for the bodies of all of those kids killed when the US bombed a school in Iran…

Who Hurts And Who Doesn’t…

by MyBaconPress

You don’t get health care. It’s too expensive. You don’t get housing relief. It’s too expensive. You don’t get any services or support whatsoever. It’s too expensive. But Whiskey Pete Hegseth gets to spend $93 BILLION dollars – in one month – on lobster, crab, and a Grand Piano…

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Insufficient information. It’s a hallmark of conservative “thought.” They keep prattling on about a 47 year war with Iran. That’s because Iranians captured the American embassy in 1979 and held the workers hostage for over a year. It turned out, the Reagan campaign had (allegedly) made an illegal deal with the hostage takers to hold them until after the election when he would reward them with weapons. They did and he did. Really, that was treason.

BUT… that wasn’t the first shot in our troubled history with Iran. That was a response to our first shot in Iran. During the 1950’s, one of the very first foreign entanglements of the at-the-time nascent CIA was to overthrow the Democratic Republic the Iranians had just installed and return the Shah – a king – to power. It was deemed better for the oil markets if Iran stayed tied to the Shah so the Democratic Republic had to go.

THAT is what led to the current political structure in Iran. THAT is what led the Iranians to capture the embassy in the first place…

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On March 7th, trump characterized his illegal war in Iran as an “excursion.” Some people think he recently learned the word “incursion” and tried to use it like a big boy, only to mess it up like a trump. So, quick question: if you’re the parent of one of the soldiers who have died because of Donny’s damn dirty war, how do you feel about hearing your beloved child died during a quick little excursion?

It’s okay, though, because on March 9th, he declared the war “very complete.” What a relief. Gas prices were spiking in the way he was warned but didn’t believe. By the 10th, Whiskey Pete was simultaneously bragging about all that great bombing we’re doing but assuring everyone we can stop whenever we want.

Oh, but then the 11th got here. Trump insisted there was “practically nothing left to target,” and declared that “we won,” but then changed “we won” to “we still have to win this thing.” By the 12th he was back to tough talk and focused on bombing – in an illegal war HE started and that, according to him, we had already won. It could just be me, but I’m of the opinion that if a war is won, one can stop with the bombing, right?

On the 13th, Whiskey Pete again highlighted some damage done by the US/Israeli assault and declared Iran’s leaders desperate and in hiding. Iran responded by pointing out that OUR leaders all seem to be on Epstein Island. Then the trumpster insisted his record oil prices are a temporary blip and the war will be over when he feels it in his bones. Meanwhile, Iran doesn’t seem to know it’s over since they keep firing weapons we’re assured they don’t have at ships in the Strait of Hormuz, choking off the oil supply in exactly the way trump was sure they would not.

Today, word is -according to the most dishonest regime in US history – Iran wants to make a deal but the US isn’t ready because the terms aren’t good enough. Meanwhile, weapons Iran doesn’t have continue to wreak havoc and we’re still bombing despite his war being “very complete” days ago and, of course, people are still dying. That doesn’t sound over, to me.

Trump sure does look like a buffoon doesn’t he? So, you will not be surprised to notice, MAGA is coming to terms with his illegal forever-war of regime change and they’re increasingly on board, if polling is to be believed. No, it doesn’t make sense to me, either. The dumber that guy looks the more aggressively MAGA defends him – and, boy, are they having to be aggressive right now…

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Trump: “If I didn’t terminate the Iran Nuclear deal, this world, right now, would be a different place.” Sometimes, he tells the truth by accident…

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That moron has never said anything other than high energy prices are bad and destructive – until his damn, dirty war increased energy prices higher than most people can even remember. Now, all of a sudden, high energy prices are good for the US. Why? Because we produce more oil than any other country so more expensive energy means more money for us. “US,” he says, knowing full well it means more money for oil companies, not Joe Sixpack.

So, not only has he completely flipped on high energy prices, he has ALSO just discredited his own “drill, baby, drill” message by pointing that we already produce more oil than anybody. Why the hell would we need to produce even more? He’s just stupid on stupid…

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Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the Straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.” Well, duh. Except, you know, Iran IS doing that and they intend to KEEP doing that in response to Donny’s damn, dirty war…

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“…people have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is. But over the last year, the world has witnessed the supreme power of the United States. We’re the most powerful military country in the world.” That’s trump, during a speech. It’s unclear how the “supreme power of the United States” relates to a “good interpreter.”

I CAN tell you this, though. Being “the most powerful military country in the world” is often the very last “most” empires get. In fact, HAVING the most powerful military in the world is often the very thing that puts the final nail in an empire’s coffin. It’s very expensive. The US has been working feverishly, day and night, to reduce revenues to the state but increase output to the Pentagon for 46 years. Donny wants to add billions more – to well over a trillion dollars of the US budget.

It’s a last gasp. Of course Donny was running the show when it ran into the ground. It’s what he does…

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Speaking of which, his website for deplorables, so-called ‘Truth Social,’ is crashing and burning financially. The company that owns it, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has burned through a rather stunning amount of cash. $712.1 million dollars, in fact, on revenues of $3.7 million. At one point, shares of TMTG went for nearly $80 dollars/share. Now it’s down to $9.73 and dropping.

Fear not, most of the executives managed to enrich themselves by selling off their shares before the plunge got too bad. Now the shareholders are his day-to-day, rank-and-file loyalists. The little guys will be the only people hurt in the crash – just the way Donny likes it…

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…