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That Which Is Foretold…

by MyBaconPress

It’s odd, isn’t it? For decades, we’ve listened to cons clamoring for “state’s rights” over Federal government. They use it, mostly, when they want to do some evil or crappy thing. But suddenly, state’s rights don’t seem as important. I wonder what happened to change the stance? I suspect it was when they discovered they could do those same evil and crappy things more effectively with the power of the Federal government.

Minnesota banned “prediction markets.” A prediction market is like any other gambling site, but often without the gambling. The person placing the “bet” might well have insider information that makes it less of a “bet” and more like a no-risk investment. Say, for example, you (somehow) knew the US government was about to set back negotiations in a trumped up war with an unexpected bombing. You could make a prediction market “bet” and clean up.

Our Inglorious Misleader has said he “was never much in favor” of prediction markets. Of course that’s what he says. Meanwhile, he and his family are involved in the industry and according to the New York Times, Dumbass Jr has ties to two top prediction market companies. (Remember how angry the right was when they just thought Hunter Biden might be trading on Daddy’s name? Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA.)

And of course the Drumpfsters are involved. Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, described the markets as, “designed to be addictive and prey especially on young people and low-income folks.” He said they, “help the ultra-rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer.” I suspect the Drumpfsters are the kinds of people who would gleefully get rich with pay-day loans, too.

So, state’s rights be damned. The National Embarrassment wrote that it’s “critically important” that the federal government retain control over the multi-billion dollar prediction market industry. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit to stop Minnesota and other states from protecting their citizens from this, particular scourge.

It might just be me, but I think the Federal government should NOT have the power to FORCE states to allow their citizens to be victimized by gambling sites…

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Well, whaddaya know and who coulda guessed? 47 bombed Iran again, just as the now-infamous and obviously-better-than-Obama’s deal was just about to be set. Oh, so close. Now we don’t get the deal that was better than Obama’s after all. I wonder which markets paid off on that one – and to whom? And now he has added a new poison pill: all the Arab nations need to sign on to the so-called Abraham Accords.

The Abraham Accords created a framework for Arab nations to recognize Israel. The Arab nations that haven’t signed it, don’t sign it because Israel has never been open to the idea of creating an independent Palestine. Those nations are not going to sign the thing until that changes. So? Poison pill. He gets to claim he’s working to end his stupid war while keeping the thing going with unworkable demands. I suspect there’s profit in it – for him, anyway.

I’m thinking that next comes more threats and tough talk from a weak guy before an “unexpected announcement” of being THIS CLOSE to a deal, a great deal, the best deal, a deal like no other deal, a big deal, a strong deal, a deal with tears in it’s eyes as it says “Sir, nobody could have negotiated a better deal than this deal.”

Then? Why, more bombs and another payout. It IS a pretty sweet arrangement if you just happen to have access to all of the beautiful insider information…

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I’m writing this early Tuesday morning. Lying Donny has a physical scheduled for today at Walter Reed Hospital. It’s his regularly scheduled, quarterly, “annual physical.” The increased visits seem to support the notion that doctors are monitoring the progress of his dementia. But the announcement, I expect, will be that he’s the healthiest human being ever to walk the planet.

Update: Yep. Word is, he’s in great shape. Oh, AND, he can still identify an elephant, too…

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London in a heat dome? On Tuesday, London hit 95.2 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time record. All of Europe is said to be sweltering. The heat is expected to hang around for the rest of the week. Lovely. London isn’t built for heat. I suspect it might want to start getting ready.

It’s a good thing all of that talk of climate change is fake news or I’d be thinking we, the species, might be in trouble…

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Where ever conservatives hold sway, life gets crappier for the working class every single day. Have you noticed that? I mean, the cons will TELL you things are great. They’ll insist on it, in fact. But metrics are metrics and it’s measurable that where ever conservatives hold sway, life gets crappier for the working class, every single day.

It’s disheartening to discover that people will ignore the mountains and mountains of evidence that the conservative way is NOT the better way. But that’s what the evidence shows…

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Chalk up yet another successful “prediction” from Mike Judge in his unintentional documentary ‘Idiocracy.’ In the movie, the President of the United States is a clown named, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. He’s every bit as qualified for the job as the clown we have now. He turns the White House into a spectacle.

Now Donald “Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho” Trump is building an Ultimate fighting Champion (UFC) arena – on the White House lawn. Real classy-like, you know? He’s hosting a cage fight next month to celebrate his birthday – on the White House lawn. Apparently, he likes watching fit men in short-shorts grappling with each other…

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Megyn Kelly said “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been.” How is that NOT the same as, “Oh, I KNOW he’s corrupt. I just thought he would be more discreet about it.” The idea that they KNEW he’s corrupt and voted for him anyway fits into another point of view I’ve recently heard.

That idea suggests that MAGA doesn’t like what Lying Donny does, either, but they DO like that it irritates “Libtards” so they stay in line. Does MAGA really hate progressives SO much, they’ll celebrate 47 harming them, so long as it harms lefties, too? “Hey, Donald Trump burned your house down?”
“Nah, he burned down the house of that libtard, next door. Mine just got caught up in the blaze.”
“But your house burned down, too.”
“Did you HEAR the part about him burning down the libtard’s house?”
“But YOUR house?!?”
“Small price to pay to own a libtard!”
“Well, where are you going to live now?”
“Hey, what did Joe Biden do to my house?”

I don’t mean to be unkind, but, honestly, in many of these exchanges, MAGA – as a group – does not come off looking any too…um…intellectually sophisticated…

A Deal Is A Deal, Until It Isn’t…

by MyBaconPress

47 is threatening Iran. Yes, again. Apparently, the clock is ticking. Time is running out. Apparently, he’s just about to do something. Iran better do as it’s told or it’s facing a serious timeout, buster. Do you want me to start counting? Because you’re getting very close to your last chance. I mean it. It’s time to make a deal or else. One… No, I’m serious. Two… You’re really gonna get it. <later> 4,726… You’re getting close to your last chance. 4,727… I mean it, buster!

So Fred Mertz, no, that’s Lucy and Ricky’s neighbor. Friedrich Merz, the current German Chancellor, decided to help by telling the Iranians they had better get serious about negotiating with the US. He wrote on Brand X, “Iran must enter into serious negotiations with the USA, stop threatening its neighbors, and open the strait of Hormuz without restrictions.“

Easy to say. Not as easy to do. Iran must enter into serious negotiations with the USA? Is the USA seriously negotiating with Iran? Currently, because certain people think it’s a good idea, the US is governed by a group of the most untrustworthy morons the world has seen in decades. Team Evil lies about everything, all the time. How does one negotiate with that?

One thing everybody knows about Donald Trump: if he makes a deal and then decides he didn’t like that deal, after all, he’ll just ignore the deal he made. For a guy who talks about “deals” all the time, he’s not trustworthy in deals. HE, invariably, is the weakest link. Even if Iran does negotiate with the US, will the US honor anything it says? I think the hardest thing about ending Donny’s war-that’s-not-a-war is finding someone dependable with whom to negotiate…

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I saw conservative talk show host Bill Maher this weekend. He challenged his audience to support Israel or admit you’re antisemitic. Clever framing. Either/or, huh? Those are the only choices? I’m going with option C, which Bill pretends doesn’t exist. I think Israel is wrong and it has nothing to do with Judaism.

Israel is fighting a war of attrition, with an end goal of having no Arabs in “their” region. From the river to the sea, as a matter of fact. The idea that it was the Arab’s “region” before doesn’t much affect their thinking. For the record, I think it’s wrong to attack Synagogues and other Jewish organizations in protest of the Israeli government, too. Walk a picket line outside Israeli embassies. Don’t attack places of worship.

It’s weird, watching Maher move right. He doesn’t even know it, either, though I think that’s common when it happens. People don’t realize. It’s often a single issue that gets hold of their minds. In Maher’s case – surprisingly, for a self-proclaimed atheist – it’s Israel and Judaism…

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Well, there’s a new delay in the ballroom. You remember. It’s the $200 million, no $300 million, wait, $400 million dollar ballroom that will be completely and totally privately funded and you can take that to the bank – where you’ll find all of the private funding has disappeared and now the Congress wants to give him a billion dollars in taxpayer money, instead.

This boy just keeps taking things away from the masses so he can give more and more to, um, <checks notes> RIGHT! Himself. But the Senate’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has shot down the line item as a violation of proper procedure. The cons can try to get it back by re-writing the bill, so it’s more like delaying, rather than killing the item.

Look, I know it’s a little thing. It’s most likely he’s going to get his ballroom. His toadies work on his behalf all the time. But the delays and challenges frustrate him and I like that. It feels like he’s getting back just a small amount of what he’s sending out into the world on a daily basis. Reaping as he sows, in a manner of speaking…

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I have a question. Do you feel badly for the poor, suffering Congress critters who have to try and survive on only $174,000 dollars a year? Things are tough all over, I guess. MAGA Mike, the Johnson, says it’s really hard trying to make ends meet on such measly income. His solution? Insider trading! That’s not even hyperbole, though he only mentions “stock trading,” trying to downplay the “insider” part.

He also trotted out that old saw about how less qualified people will come to Congress if we don’t pay them properly – which, in his mind, is a LOT. I always think back to the Founders, who built an entire nation on no salary and only a per diem income of about $8.00/day. (Of course, that works out to around $306/day in today’s money…)

Still the “unpaid,” all-volunteer congress laid out and established an entire nation that rose to empire and dominated the world before Congress gave way to well-paid weasels who don’t do anything of value and have pissed the whole thing away. It looks very much, to me, like better pay did NOT equate to better people. Exactly the opposite, in fact.

$174,000 dollars/year puts congress critters in the top 10% of income, and that’s before all of the other perks and benefits that come their way. Now they “need” to trade stocks in order to support their families? I suspect they may not be living within their means. Maybe they could pass up on that morning coffee from their favorite shop. That outta do it, right? Isn’t that their prescription for us?

Their best argument is about housing. They maintain housing in two places, their home district and Washington DC. They argue that because they have to do that, they need more and more and more money. The solution isn’t more and more pay. The solution is government housing for the congress critters when they’re in Washington DC.

I should mention, Johnson hasn’t talked about this recently. But a clip of him making the comments last year went around on the one-year anniversary of the whining, May 14th. I’ll tell you this: I don’t feel his pain. I can’t relate. I don’t have much sympathy for the person who has to “get by” on “only” $174,000 a year – before the perks…

Oh, Hey, Another Tantrum…

by MyBaconPress

I read an article that included this sentence: “Mr. Trump has repeatedly lashed out at critics of his Iran strategy.” My problem with the sentence? The suggestion that the Drumpfster has an “Iran strategy.” So far, the whole thing has looked like reaction and overreaction to whatever Iran does in response to the US/Israeli attack. He looks like he’s flailing, to me. And I’m not alone. Germany, for one, has noticed.

47 really is nothing more than a little petulant brat, isn’t he? If he doesn’t get his way, he comes up with some version of holding his breath until he turns blue. In this case, he’s mad at Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, for saying that the US is being “humiliated” by Iran, based on nothing more than how badly the US is being humiliated by Iran. Have you seen the Lego man taunts? They’re really very good.

Donny starts an illegal war, a war nobody supported nor wanted. Then, when it wasn’t just a two-day cakewalk, like fools always believe wars will be, he needed help and started taunting our allies for not stepping in to his moronic illegal war, the war nobody supported nor wanted. Pretty much the whole world has been thrown into upheaval because of his stupid little illegal war that nobody supported nor wanted. Europe doesn’t see the value in aiding and abetting war crimes. Go figure.

Donny’s a bully. He’s used to saying horrible stuff about people, places, and things and being protected by his money or, now, the Secret Service, so he often gets his way. But the world is tired of Donny and the things Donny represents. The rest of the world is pushing back. He can’t bully the world, try as he might. And, oh, man, is he trying.

Pulling 5,000 troops from Germany is more of a symbolic gesture, sort of a low-key threat. It’s the guy coming in before problems start and saying, “Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” 5,000 troops leaving will affect the local German economy. That’s the point. Don’t give Donny his way – especially when he’s egregiously wrong – and he punishes you.

Germany will be fine. 5,000 troops is a drop in the bucket. The US has something like 35,000 troops in Germany. This is just another tantrum. He might even draw them down. But they’ll go back. After the big headlines, someone will explain that those troops were there for a reason and he’ll quietly start redeploying them. TACO, you know…

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It really is toothless, the War Powers Act. Team Evil stands in violation of the Act. They’re supposed to seek Congressional approval for military actions within 60 days of deployment in combat situations. Donny keeps insisting the stupid war he started is over. Bombing continues, the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked and blocked again. Oil prices continue to rise. People are still dying.

Donny says he has no intention of asking Congress for approval. He points out that nobody else has done it, why should he? The truth is, he has a point. The War Powers Act was passed after the Vietnam debacle. The idea was to reassert Congressional authority over war, like the Constitution says. But Presidents tend to ignore it and Congress tends to let them.

You’ll hear a bunch of whining from the left on this but the truth is, both Obama and Clinton could be said to have violated the Act and gotten away with it. There are work-arounds…

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Have you heard that Mexico City is sinking? Not just a little bit, mind you. It’s sinking 10 inches a year! That’s a LOT. Mexico City, of course, was built on a lake bed. It has 22 million people. That’s a LOT of water being pumped from the aquifer and it finally collapsed. This one doesn’t seem like climate change. This one is overpopulation.

Florida is Climate Change. Florida is breaking out in sinkholes. The ocean is finding it’s way in under the ground, undermining the stability of the ground. Sudden holes just open up. I’ve been wishing and hoping and hoping and wishing for one under a certain, unnamed piece of (Mar-a-Lardo) property but so far, the devil continues to take care of his own. Hope abides, though. Climate change isn’t going anywhere any time soon…

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If you ask MAGA, 47 stands at the forefront of a successful administration, just chock full of promises made, promises kept. But then, if you ask MAGA, they’ll tell you trump is a competent leader, out-thinking everyone else in his game of, what, 5D chess?

Rational people also saw his rallies. We heard the promises. We know what he said. We know how often he said those things. As far as we can tell, his is a long, long, I mean really LONG list of promises made, promises NOT kept. The latest is his oh-my-god-how-stupid ballroom. This guy seems awfully focused on decorating, doesn’t he? Do you suppose all that raping of women and children was just over-compensation for his internal, secret desires?

He promised, over and over, that the ballroom would be paid for with bribes, known these days as “private donations.” According to him, the bribes were all paid. He collected the money. Now Congress is out there trying to give him the money for the ballroom. So what happens to the bri— er, “donations?” I’m guessing he keeps that and We, the People pay for the ballroom. Promise made, promise not kept…

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Hey, 8647 okay? As far as I know, the expression “86” traces it’s roots back to soda jerks. When the shop (or, perhaps ‘shoppe’) ran out of something, the guy behind the counter would say it was ’86’d.’ It just meant, “we’re out of that,” and I would LOVE to run out of trump…

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When it comes to the cost of gas, the Republicans have decided to stick to their favorite tried-and-true tactic: lying. They’re just going to TELL you gas prices are coming down and, since you have absolutely no way to discover the truth for yourself (unless you use gasoline), you’ll just believe them. Oh, gas prices are down.

Except gas prices are NOT down. They’re up. They’re WAY up. MAGA would want me to add that they were higher under Biden so I will, but they ignore the fact that Biden was digging his way out of the economic crisis created by our National Embarrassment in his first run at the thing. Biden inherited a mess that 47 just said was the best. On the other hand, Biden left 47 a pretty solid economy, though 47 lied about that, too.

In an interesting variation on the ‘price isn’t high’ lie, Republicans are also claiming that gas started off SO high when Donny started his illegal war that they’re actually down, now. Here’s the thing: I know what I see when I roll up to a gas pump. I don’t CARE how “affordable” politicians tell me gas is. It isn’t. It’s just another brick in the ‘promises made, promises not kept’ wall…

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…

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…

Mueller Did NOT Clear Trump…

by MyBaconPress

Oh, thank goodness. It appears our brain-drained, national embarrassment has a plan after all. He told Iran that if they don’t open the Strait of Hormuz, he was going to bomb things. Why didn’t he think of that earlier? I’m sure the idea that bombs might drop will cause the Iranians to stand down and apologize for their “offense” of reacting to having been bombed without cause before.

Well, no, of course that’s not what the Iranians are saying. THEY seem to be taking a page from Donny’s “clever and cagey” book. Why would they tell you what they’re really going to do, right? So they say they’ll bomb US assets in the region, where ever they may be. But that’s probably just clever and cagey talk, right? Iran probably wouldn’t bomb things just because somebody bombed Iran, right?

That was Donny’s clever and cagey strategy with Hormuz in the first place. A General told him not to bomb Iran because Iran could close the strait so easily. Donny, instead, listened to his “gut.” That’s the same “gut” that’s going to tell him when the war is over, by the way. His “gut” told him Iran wouldn’t close the Strait. That was all the evidence he needed. He went ahead with his plan and discovered his “gut” is a lying son-of-a-bitch…

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Hey, I think this is related to the “Israel” portion of Donny’s stupid, illegal war. There has been an uptick in attacks on synagogues. It’s hard to say, for sure, living in such a blatantly racist nation like we do, but I suspect at least some of the attacks are in protest against the actions of the Israeli government. If you think attacking a synagogue is an appropriate response to the actions of a government, stop it.

I know what politicians say. They say what they need to say to appease their voters. But the Israeli government is no more loyal to Judaism than the US government is loyal to Christianity. That is, not at all. Lip service is required. Actual practice is not. Blowing up – or driving into – synagogues is not sending a message. It’s just killing innocent people who have no more control over what’s happening in their name than you have over control of what’s happening in your name…

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Robert Mueller has died. Mueller discovered that the Russians did, in fact, interfere in the 2016 “election.” The second line of Mueller’s report read: “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” That’s pretty clear. So, obviously, Donny effing hated Mueller.

Mueller also reported this: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state.” He added, “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Mueller added that the only reason he didn’t bring criminal charges against The Felon is because he thought he couldn’t because of a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel. That suggests that if there had been no memo, there would have been charges.

Mueller also noted that Donny tried really hard to obstruct his investigation. The primary reason he wasn’t as successful as he wanted to be is because many of his staff at the time were still more loyal to the law, the country, and their own futures than to him, unlike the staff of toadies merrily destroying things today. The result was, they often declined his requests, resigning instead.

Trump told White House Counsel Don McGhan to tell Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Special Counsel Mueller, then lie about his recollection of the President’s request. That’s probably completely unrelated to Trump, when answering written questions, claiming HE couldn’t recall things more than thirty times.

By the time the Mueller Report came out, Donny had a loyal toady in control of the DOJ. Bill Barr stashed the report – illegally, mind you – on a stand-alone computer and put out a “summary” that declared Trump cleared of all charges. Mueller gave a presser in which he insisted that was NOT what his report concluded but MAGA media ran with Barr’s false message and to this day, MAGA believes Donny was exonerated. He wasn’t.

But see, that was Donny getting away with it – again. (Satan really does take care of his own.) I see it, in part, as the reason Donny is so smugly certain he’ll get away with this Trump/Epstein cover-up, too…

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Remember when Texas said they were going to redistrict to make sure Texas turned red permanently? Remember when California, in response, said, “Okay, we’ll redistrict, too, to make California blue.” Republicans really loved the ‘cheat for red’ concept but felt tricked by the ‘cheat for blue’ response. And, yes, gerrymandering IS cheating, blue or red.

Texas’s map was challenged in court and shot down as likely illegal in lower courts but finally, the corrupt Supremely Kangaroo Court stepped in and saved them. California used a careful, well-thought-out process. We had an election and passed Proposition 50. The majority approved. The new maps were put in place. Lawsuits were filed but the process was found legal so it’s going forward.

Now there’s a sheriff in Riverside, California, Chad Bianco, who is “investigating” Prop 50. He has seized 650,000 ballots. He’s trying to prove that Democrats cheated in the election by adding votes. Sure, it’s a stupid position but it’s near and dear to the MAGA heart. They’re constantly amazed that their hate-filled, horrifying, failed and irrational positions don’t resonate with more voters. The only thing their microscopic minds can imagine is that Democrats must cheat.

Democrats don’t need to cheat for things like this. Proposition 50 was a rational and predictable response to an irrational attack from red states. California didn’t start this, Texas did. I don’t even like gerrymandering. I think both gerrymandering AND the winner-take-all electoral distribution corrupt elections and disenfranchise voters. Both should be barred by law.

I don’t care who counts votes, so long as the process is transparent and repeatable. Have at it. But it turns out, Chad is a Republican and is running for Governor of the state. That seems like something of a conflict of interest, to me. It’s to his personal advantage to find some “problem” with the voting. Some people have enough integrity to pull something like that off, but I haven’t seen it from a Republican in a long, long time…

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…

SAVE And The Shiny Shoes…

by MyBaconPress

So… he’s just straight up, flat-out insane, isn’t he? He has these delusions. He believes things that aren’t real. THEN, he wants us all to live our lives according to his delusions. That’s crazy. Totally effing crazy. Right now, I’m talking about his delusions regarding voter fraud but it could be anything. He says he’s not going to sign any more legislation until he gets his stupid, whiny way on voting. He thinks it’s very important to protect the vote from the failures he made up in his own weak-ass mind.

He’s looking for his base to pass the SAVE act, so called because it’s the only way he’s going to SAVE his ass from prosecution. If he can’t corrupt elections, he’ll be impeached and removed. Everyone – EVERYONE – knows it. It’s a laundry list of made up stuff. Well, except for one thing. He wants mail-in ballots banned for most people. That’s because he CAN manipulate the machines but he can NOT manipulate mail-in ballots. If we vote on paper, like we should, he loses, like he should.

For reasons that make no sense, whatsoever, he also wants his SAVE act to attack trans people. The assault has nothing to do with elections. Nothing whatsoever. Yet there it is, and he insists on it. Dems are refusing to participate and for my part, I hope the Dems hold the line. THEN, President Pedo came right out – as he does – and spilled the beans. The SAVE Act will, he assures everyone, “guarantee the midterms.”

To my ear that sounds like he’s confessing to the rigging of the election. How else might one “guarantee” elections? Putin can guarantee elections. Kim Jung Un can guarantee elections. A US President shouldn’t be able to guarantee elections, but the trumpster has just done it. The thing is, they would have to start again to get all of the provisions he’s demanding.

The House sent over a bill with fewer of the things Donny wants. The Senate hasn’t even passed that bill but Donny is demanding more. The Dems said they would not support the SAVE Act and I hope they don’t. I fear that the Dems are paid to lose to the GOP, though, so we’ll have to wait and see. But then, the GOP in the Senate isn’t working on the SAVE Act either.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he won’t move it because the Dems won’t support it. Felon 47 told them to lift the filibuster but Thune hasn’t made any move in that direction, instead saying he needs the House to send him a new bill. MAGA Mike the Johnson hasn’t made any move in THAT direction, either. Now, with trump openly boasting that the SAVE act will permanently rig elections in one party’s favor, it looks like politicians from both sides of the aisle are hesitant to act on it.

But if this thing passes, peaceful revolution will be impossible…

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Even Bush 43, heretofore the worst President in history, stopped golfing after he started his illegal wars. (And, by the way, what IS it with the GOP? It seems every time one of them gets into the White House, they crash the economy and start some war someplace.) Anyway, George said he didn’t think the mother of some fallen soldier would like to see him out golfing and enjoying himself after getting that dreaded letter.

But there was trump, out on the course, giving thumbs up to imagined adoring fans, and wearing that same hat – the one he wore to the dignified transfer and never took off. Completely tone deaf, or just plain lack of caring?

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So, let me make sure I have a solid handle on this: we do NOT have money to help desperately poor Americans receive health care, but we DO have the money to murder children in schoolrooms in foreign countries? Yeah, I’ve got it. I just don’t effing believe it…

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I wonder if the whole shoe thing is a joke to him. If you haven’t heard (and you have) trump is now buying his co-conspirators new shoes. The thing is, he’s not checking sizes. He just buys a pair for someone and then they have to wear them. Also, the appear to be shiny shoes, like one wears with a tuxedo, not office shoes. So there’s Little Marco Rubio, wearing shoes clearly too large for him that are shiny and WILL draw attention. And they do.

JD is sporting a clearly oversized pair as well, making HIM look the fool, too, and I wonder if that’s the point. Is Trump dressing his staff to embarrass them on purpose? It’s a kind of making-them-crawl move meant to publicly humiliate them. I don’t feel sorry for them. Public humiliation is the LEAST of what they should expect when they hitch their wagon to that particular pony…

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First we had, “Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.” That was from our notorious misleader, the figurehead of Team Evil. Now we have some new ones. These are so stupid, they sound like they came from Bush 43 who was infamous for this kind of malapropism. These aren’t single words, though. Behold the wisdom of the Precious:

“All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.” Can you imagine the inhumanity of being dead AND having to walk around on no legs?

“They’re the ones that caused the problem, but we’re really down prices big.” That’s a bonus lie/word salad combination. Only the most addled can pull that one off and that boy is clearly addled…

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Did you notice the pattern? Felon 47 and Israel attacked Iran. Intel came out suggesting Putin was helping Iran. The trumpster and Putin had a phone conversation. Trump lifts some sanctions on Russian oil, helping Russia and harming Ukraine. Then, suddenly, Donny is declaring the war over. Or not. I mean, it is but not yet. We’ve accomplished our goals but not quite.

Then Israel attacked a fuel dump. “Woah, woah, don’t hit anything important!” The US said to Israel.
“You bombed a school full of children!” Israel retorted.
“Yeah, but we didn’t hit OIL! Like we said, nothing important.”
That’s genuinely how those people feel about the little guys. The oil must be protected at all costs. The kids? Collateral damage. Donny didn’t know any of them.

47 keeps barking orders and threats. Iran keeps bombing things – like ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The cost of a gallon of gas jumped by a LOT between last week and this making his damn dirty war a “twofer.” He’s squeezing the American household by radically increasing the cost of living to Americans AND he had initiated exactly the kind of nation-building, regime-change wars he swore over and over never to get into.

I don’t feel betrayed. I never expected anything better from the guy in the first place. Hell, I’m vindicated. But MAGA? I imagine MAGA is feeling a little let down at this moment, now that he’s done the exact opposite of nearly EVERY single campaign promise he has ever made. Now they have to start running around being PRO war and PRO pedophile and PRO job losses and PRO inflation. How humiliating. Hell, he might as well make them wear shiny, oversized shoes out in public. It must be tough to be MAGA these days…