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C’mon Montana…

by MyBaconPress

At this point, I’m thinking props to Montana – the state, not Hannah. Come this July Fourth, the US will pretend to celebrate 250 years of the United States, but the fact is, in 2010, our Constitutional Republic was corrupted by a “decision” of the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court called ‘Citizens United.’ It wasn’t presented this way, of course, but it basically said rich people get to buy our government, if they want to – and Oh! Em! Gee!, did they want to.

The US has been suffering ever since. It was a corrupt decision by a corrupt court and it corrupted our once-great nation. The corrupt court said corporations could buy our democracy because it was within their rights, a corrupt concept based in the corrupt idea that corporations are people. Rights are hard to mess with in our once-great nation, unless you’re evil Donny.

But Montana is coming at it from a new and rather original angle. They’re not attacking the idea that a corporation has rights. Instead, they’re attacking the corporation’s powers, which are created by individual states. The idea sidesteps the Corrupt Supreme Court and doesn’t require a constitutional amendment. That is to say, this could work.

A guy named Tom Moore wrote a paper that basically boils down to this: All American corporations are chartered and given their powers by state governments, which means that state governments (or voters in states where initiatives and referendums can enact or change laws) can rewrite their charters to deny corporations the power to involve themselves in elections.

Now, you may know that most corporations are chartered in Delaware. You may ask yourself, what good does it do for Montana to pass laws on corporations chartered in Delaware? Well, an 1869 ruling from an actual decent Supreme Court says that “foreign corporations” – which, in this case, includes corporations chartered in other states – must comport with the corporate charter law of every state in which they do business.

That’s some pretty juicy stuff. Montana can pass a law saying corporations do not enjoy the power to participate in elections and the law applies to all corporations doing business in Montana regardless of where the corporation is chartered. Really, lovely. At first, I suspect corporations will threaten to bail on Montana but I ALSO suspect that if this works in Montana, most states will follow suit as quickly as possible. No, not some of the red states, but they should be too few in number to help corporations corrupt too many more elections. This could be a very good thing. Stay tuned…

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If (When) the Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court strikes down late-returned mail-in ballots this summer, as expected, it seems to Alaskans like it will hurt Alaska the most. Alaska is a very rural state. Many people send and receive mail via airplanes, not roads. The geography, alone, makes voting more challenging.

These anti-American efforts out of the White House to restrict as much voting as possible will hurt red voters as much as blue voters, and blue voters, I think, are STILL more motivated to come out for the mid-term election than red voters, who are, and should be, extremely disappointed that their Precious turned out to be just another mealy-mouthed politician, lying to them for personal gain…

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Team Evil did everything it could. Really, everything. They sent people to offer support. Jarringly Dumb Vance went over and told everyone how happy it would make 47 if corrupt Viktor Orban was returned to his corrupted office. Little Marco Rubio went over, too. JD and Marco explained to the Hungarians how much trump like Orban and how happy it would make trump if Orban won.

Even trump, himself, got involved. He made a video endorsing Orban. He explained that he’s very good at endorsements, which he most assuredly is not. I have to acknowledge, he was. The people he endorsed had a tendency to win because if Donny said “That one,” MAGA voted accordingly. Blindly, but accordingly.

But an endorsement from the Dotard doesn’t carry the same weight, anymore. He recently endorsed a candidate for Governor here in California, Steve Hilton. “He was on TV,” seems to be Donny’s “thinking,” “so he must be good.” I think the guy must be freaking out. Associations with Donny just ain’t what they used to be. Donny’s endorsements have taken on a ‘kiss of death’ feel.

So, anyway, Vance, Rubio, and trump all tried to make clear to the Hungarian people that the typically conservative, typically corrupt misleader of Hungary, Viktor Orban, should be returned to power and, after sixteen years as an iron-fisted strongman, Viktor Orban was voted out of office. Trump’s endorsement failures have gone international.

At least Orban had the decency to concede when he lost, pushing trump even farther down the ranks of human failures. It means one less dictator in the world. That’s a good thing. This world has FAR too many dictators. We don’t need any others. Especially here, in the US. Let’s follow Hungary’s lead and dump our wanna-be dictator, too…

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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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Well, Jarringly Dumb Vance was unable to re-create the agreement Iran once had with the US. I mean, the agreement was in place. Donny tore it up because it happened under another, better President, Barack Obama. The thing is, Obama may not have pulled off all that great a trick, either. After all, Iran has had a fatwa in place banning the building, maintaining, or using nuclear weapons since 2004.

Muslims take their religion seriously, in a way no Christian could even imagine these days. Fatwas mean something to them. If they have a religious ruling that says no nukes, they weren’t building nukes. Every extra penny you pay at the pump, every extra dime you have to pay for goods moved by truck, every dead body coming home (or not) from Iran are the direct result of Donny’s malfeasance and incompetence. It’s completely unnecessary. The evidence is in and it’s undeniable. When all is said and done, Donny is terrible at this “Presidentin'” stuff. Just terrible…

Blockade The Blockade? Yeah, That’s The Ticket…

by MyBaconPress

All right, I have to make sure I have this correctly and I’ll presume this will be another TACO moment for our Fearful Misleader. He and Israel attacked Iran without provocation. Anybody who knew anything on the topic told him it would prove a terrible idea, but 47 insists he always knows better than everyone else – especially when he clearly does not – and went ahead anyway.

Mr. Insight, as it happens, was wrong. It wasn’t the quick and complete victory he had claimed he anticipated. Worse, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz using mines and drones and cut off international shipping of oil. This has caused an oil crisis and adds costs to any and all goods moved from place to place, so, everything.

Some of us came to realize just how desperately – and dangerously – addicted we are to Middle East oil during the 1970’s oil crisis. If you’re of a certain age, perhaps you remember odd days and even days to get gas. (I had a friend I could trade plates with if one of us needed gas on a “wrong” day.) It sucked. We should have learned WAY back then, we need to get OFF of oil as a main energy source, but some people just… never learn.

Many of us did learn -and never forgot the lesson – but the corporations weren’t about to let go of such a controllable cash-cow. We’re not fully powered by renewables, today, because Exxon and Shell and Chevron, et al don’t know to profit from them. But THIS oil war is the single most ridiculously stupid war in the history of the oil wars. We absolutely, positively, did not need this war for any reason, whatsoever. Ah, but I digress.

I was giving an update because of his latest dumb announcement. Okay, so we started this stupid war and Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz and choking off the oil supply to most of the world. Since then, the Drumpfster has tried everything his pea brain can think of. He talks tough. He makes threats. He hurls insults and foul language. Nothing works.

So now he has a new threat and THIS one, I think, will be withdrawn by lunchtime. Get this: now he says HE is going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz! Iran is blocking the Strait of Hormuz and in response, Donald Dork says he’s going to blockade Iran’s blockade of the Strait. That’ll show ’em!

Iran says they’re letting some ships through, but only if they pay a toll of up to $2 million dollars. Iran is trying to collect money for reparations for all of the damage the US and Israel have done. A few days ago, Donny was hailing the idea as a great way to make money. Then he found out HE wasn’t getting any of that money and now he thinks that’s a bad, bad idea.

So, any ship that Iran allows to pass because they paid the toll will be stopped, according to Donny, thereby exacerbating the oil crisis. We don’t like what you’ve done. We want you to stop. So we’re going to do it even more. That’s some quality thinking, there. Let’s hope he doesn’t decide to punish Iran by bombing American military installations, too. That’ll show ’em!

Oh, okay. I’m not even going to get to the ‘Publish’ button before he backtracks. Apparently, it’s going to take a little while – maybe two or three weeks – to get his blockade of the blockade up and running. So he’s definitely going to hold a blockade blockade but not before his magic cop-out time-frame of two weeks. Still the threat was worth a laugh. This mighty, mighty moron threatened to blockade a blockade to protest the blockade.

MAGA thinks he’s playing 10-demensional chess. It looks like demented chess, to me…

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FINALLY, after fifty years, the US goes back to the moon. No, we didn’t land, that comes later. Or, uh, does it? The Mega-maniacal Moron wants to cut funding – by as much as 47%. He’s got pockets that need more money in them, I guess. NASA calls it an “extinction level” funding cut. I call it yet another attack by the greedy swamp monsters. Always enough for war, never enough for anything else is the mantra of a dying empire. It always has been. It always will be…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is predicting a bloodbath for Republicans in the mid-terms. Rachel Maddow is talking about a report Mark Warner is highlighting in which the evil trump regime is planning to come up with some national emergency that allows the regime to control the election. MTG is expecting free and fair elections, and, if we do get them, I think she’ll be proven correct. The right should get shellacked in this next election.

If Warner and Maddow are right, though, MTG may not even get the free and fair election her prediction depends upon. Here’s the thing, MTG isn’t making some deep, insightful prediction. Everyone on Earth can see with their own eyes, trump has failed at nearly everything he has touched. He’s done more harm to Americans than any President in history and he’s done more harm to Americans than most of our historical enemies have done.

The horrifying Robert’s Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court has assisted him at nearly every turn, and don’t even get me started on the Corrupt Republican Congress. MAGA Mike, the Johnson goes so far as to just shut down Congress and ignore his job in order to facilitate trump’s criminality. He’s still picking up his paycheck though. The One Percent have done a very good job of corrupting every branch of our government.

Essentially, it’s all corruption, all the time and we, the people, are paying the price. I absolutely believe Donny will do anything, everything he can to disrupt fair elections. He KNOWS he can’t win but he also knows he HAS to win if he wants to stay out of jail, let alone keep all of that beautiful, ill-gotten lucre coming his way. Find your pitchfork and prepare your torches. If we let this son-of-a-bitch steal this election, we’re surrendering our Democratic Republic to the One Percent. That never, EVER, works out well for the working class…

Over? Not So Fast…

by MyBaconPress

The announcement of the so-called cease-fire came Tuesday night. I wrote this next bit on Wednesday morning, before I left for work:

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It appears Trump surrendered. Unilaterally. I’m not sure how well that’s going to work. If Israel doesn’t stop bombing, does Iran hold the US responsible? Can Israel kill the ceasefire deal? If they can, I presume, they will. When the US presented various bombastic threats, scary promises, and demands, Iran gave a kind of “ho-hum” attitude. They sent back a 10 point plan, calling it the only plan to which they would agree.

It looks as though 47 has acquiesced to all ten demands. One of those demands is that Iran gets to enrich uranium. Again, the US has agreed. Today, Donny said Iran would stop enriching uranium. Here’s a weird bit. According to the Guardian, Iran released it’s 10-point plan. In Farsi, the language they speak in Iran, the list included “acceptance of enrichment” for it’s nuclear program. In the English version, that list item wasn’t included. I suspect that means Iran gets to enrich uranium, but the US gets to say otherwise.

I think Iran has the stronger hand, going into negotiations. It looks like the US isn’t getting anything it was trying for, making the deaths of those American military members just wasted flesh. It’s even worse for the Iranians. Donny was just trying to look like a tough guy but people, real people, died. Kids. I wonder which talking point in the negotiations brings back those kids.

I’m not surprised that ‘Team Fake-Tough-Guy’ would present their surrender as a win. That’s not for people paying attention. It’s for MAGA. Iran is also claiming complete victory. The one thing we know about the Pedo President is that he’s undependable as hell. His “word” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. A good word to describe him? Erratic.

The stock market has hated this war and with word of the US surrender, seems to be responding quickly. The price of oil has come down and stocks are going up again. But technically, this is only a two-week ceasefire and the two sides have to come to agreement. I’m not paying much attention to the crowing of the two sides. We’ll have to wait and see what comes out of any final agreement, if anything.

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So now it’s Thursday. It’s likely that while I was writing Wednesday morning, Netanyahu was sending bombs into Lebanon. One of Iran’s negotiating points was no more bombing, including Lebanon. Israel declared the agreement didn’t cover Lebanon and bombed away. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. I suspect that’s our answer. Donny won’t be able to stop his stupid war because Israel won’t let him.

Netanyahu and 47 have something in common: if they leave their respective offices, they go to jail. Well, technically, they go to trial. Netanyahu needs to keep wars going to stay in his office. Donny is just dumb enough to think people won’t notice HE started his war of choice and will try to turn it into some existential battle that must be fought. 47 intends to use his war of choice to try to interfere with the mid-terms.

Donny’s in a panic about the mid-terms. His regime has been an unqualified, unmitigated disaster. The GOP in general has debased itself, groveling before their Precious, abdicating their responsibility to everything. MAGA Mike, the Johnson seems to be trying to keep the House in perpetual recess so he never has to do anything. Well, anything but accept his paycheck. He’s not doing his job but he’s taking the money. People – even conservatives – want this collection of corrupt clowns out. Donny was hoping a quick victory would change his fortunes.

To hear 47 tell it, it IS existential for Iran, though. President Pedo did say he was planning to wipe out “a whole civilization.” (He didn’t say which, theirs or ours.) Even the threat is a war crime. I believe old Bibi convinced Dumb Donald an Iranian invasion would be quick and easy. A quick victory for the Drumpfster might make him look decisive and tough. He wanted – needed – that. Instead, Iran has made him look like a weak, confused, and incapable dotard. Even MAGA can see it now…

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See? It’s not a lock, necessarily. Democrats have been sweeping special elections. It looked like that was going to be the knock-on effect of being Republican, what with the party looking so hapless, reckless, and downright anti-American. But yesterday, Republican Clay Fuller beat Democrat Shawn Harris in Georgia’s special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Dems CAN still mess this up…

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This is an odd little bit I wanted to mention. Landmines are a problem worldwide. Armies bury them during wars. Or conflicts. Or police actions. Then after the hostilities, the armies leave. Did you notice there was no mention of going back, digging up the mines, and taking them along? Yeah, they don’t. They just leave ’em.

In Cambodia, for example, estimates suggest there are as many as six million undiscovered landmines left over from the Vietnam war. For years, often decades after the end of fighting, people get blown up by landmines. 20,000 killed, 40,000 injured in Cambodia since 1979. (The war ended in 1975.) Yeah, I’d call that a problem.

Some clever sod out there figured out a way to train African pouched rats to find them. Their little noses are powerful enough to smell the explosives inside, but the rats, themselves, are too small to trigger the devices. It takes a human being four days to clear a tennis-court sized area. The rat can do the same job, with less risk, in twenty minutes.

Rats take a lot of heat from humans. That has a lot to do with them being freight trains for bubonic plague infected fleas during the Middle Ages. It’s nice to have a good thing we can apply to rats, now, as well…

Happy (ish) Easter…

by MyBaconPress

So today is Easter Sunday. Happy Easter, I guess, and I hope it is. But, personally, I think the US should be barred from recognizing Easter until we do at least one thing – just one – in keeping with the teachings of Jesus. Aspirational goals, I guess…

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This is something Donny actually said out loud, for everyone to hear, “On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem as crowds welcomed him with praise honoring him as king. They call me king now. Can you believe it?” For clarity, we mock him as a wanna-be, but he’s… kinda dumb.

“…the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB)

Hmm, those two bits seem related, somehow…

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An American aviator went missing in Iran after Iran shot down his plane with some of that war fighting ability that has been so completely destroyed. We went looking for him. The Iranians were looking for him, too. Recently, Whiskey Pete Hegseth bragged that he had ordered no quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Tough guy. No quarter is a war crime. It means ‘take no prisoners.’ Based on the Hegseth Doctrine, if the Iranians had found that aviator before we did, the flyer might well be dead.

That’s the very worst part about Hegseth’s oh-so-stupid declaration. Setting aside the war crimes bit, what do you think it does to the attitudes of the enemy regarding our soldiers that might get captured? In this case, we got the guy first. But if the war is to be fought “no quarter,” the Iranians will fight that way, too. Hegseth is an idiot…

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“Open up that Strait!”
“You should not have bombed us, Donald.”
“Oh, come on, I didn’t mean anything by it. Netanyahu said he thought it would be a good idea.”
“You killed our children, Donald.”
“Did we? Or was that someone else bombing Iran at the same time?”
“It was an American missile, Donald.”
“Not our fault. Maybe it was a windy day. Let’s be done with this, now, k?”
“No! Donald, we are not done with this.”
(This part, ↑, I made up.)

(This part, ↓, I didn’t.)
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

That’s a crazy post from our crazy misleader, written exactly as he wrote it. (I cut and pasted.) I think the thing people admire about him most is his Presidential bearing and decorum, don’t you? I suspect there’s a TACO in the very near future. All he can do is make the terrible situation he created worse. So, hey, maybe if he cusses at them. Maybe that will do it.

Do you think cussing at them is going to work? I’m skeptical. And what’s his threat? Bombs? Isn’t that what started this? Yesterday, last I saw, diesel fuel was $7.99/gal. Regular gas is hovering around $6.00. Your information may be different. These are California prices and we get screwed by the gas companies pretty hard. High taxes don’t help, either.

Regardless of the numbers, though, your gas and diesel have gone up, too, right? A LOT! That’s going to keep happening and it ain’t Joe Biden’s fault. This is all the handiwork of Donald Dork…

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Donny so dumb…
How dumb is he?
Donny so dumb he thinks fraud only happens in blue states.

Trump doesn’t care about fraud. I surmise that based on the fact that he pardons one fraudster after another – after an appropriate “honorarium,” of course. But if you hate fraud, you don’t pardon fraudsters. I guess the message he intends to send to fraudsters is, “Go to the red states. We won’t look there. You’ll be safer shafting MAGA.”

Fantasyland seems to be collapsing. That was inevitable. One can perpetuate fantasies on some things for a while. But one can NOT re-write reality for long. Reality, it seems, bites back. MAGA media is still working to protect him. MAGA still, largely, has no idea who he really is. But the veil is slipping.

Every time they pull up to a gas pump, the truth smacks them in the face. When they lost their health insurance, smack! When the letters of regret start showing up announcing the death of their children in Donny’s War, that’s going to smack them in the face, as well. Reality, it seems, has decided to reassert itself, ready or not…

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Do you think Todd Blanche thinks he got a promotion? He says that all of the Trump/Epstein files that are going to be released have been released. Evidence suggests otherwise. Now HE’S in the hot seat. His job is to stonewall, but the law 47 signed is working against him. Let the out-of-a-job countdown begin…

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Captured on a video during a White House luncheon, President Pedo said, “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare – all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis.”

Meanwhile, just to back up that point, Little Marco Rubio, anchor baby, said, “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent the money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” We’re not supposed to notice the irony, I guess. Still, I did.

We should NOT be fighting this war of trumped up reasons. We sure as shi—, er, shootin’ shouldn’t use the illegal war of choice to justify harming Americans at home. Hey, is NOW a good time to point out that other Presidents, pretty much ALL of the other Presidents in our blood-thirsty history have managed to fight wars AND take care of the American people? Those not being disposed of in those wars, that is.

But Donny’s not smart enough to do both. He can focus on one thing or he can focus on another thing, but you can’t make him focus on two things at once…

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…