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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So now he has a new threat and THIS one, I think, will be withdrawn by lunchtime.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…

MAGA On The Case…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

Trump, declaring his contempt for the common man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collective Insanity…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know I’ll be cancelling subscriptions…

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

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

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

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

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

Beggars Belief…

by MyBaconPress

Is there still any question that Israel is engaged in attempted genocide? Are there still apologists for Israel? (Check with Bill Maher.) Even Israeli citizens are hitting the streets, protesting the ongoing violence in Gaza. It’s one thing for other nations to comment. Israel has an out for that, “You weren’t attacked.” But when Israelis start protesting and calling for peace, Israel loses it’s pretended moral stance.

The enforced starvation of civilians in Gaza has been playing out in front of media cameras (when the reporters aren’t being targeted by Israel) and the whole world’s watching. Some people are trying to do something about it. If nothing else, they’re trying to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people by just showing up.

Well, they’re bringing food and supplies but it’s not nearly enough. It’s more of a show than an actual assist, meant to shame the rest of the world into stepping in. Noted climate activist Greta Thunberg – among others – has joined a flotilla heading to Israel with humanitarian aid. This is her second run. The last time she tried, she and her companions were intercepted, treated decently, and sent away. This time? Israel is promising to handle things… differently.

THIS time, Israel has threatened to toss Thunberg and her compatriots into “terrorist level” detention with a specific goal: “Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”

Israel is playing political games and, as always, actual lives hang in the balance. Israel has all the stories down pat. “We’re defending ourselves from Oct 7.” No, you’re not. Any moral superiority you once enjoyed – and you did – has long-since evaporated. Starving babies and other innocents is a war crime. It’s NOT self-defense.

“We have to impose a blockade to prevent weapons from getting to Hamas.” Uh-huh. Nobody is bringing weapons on these flotillas. These are high-profile protests against the above-mentioned war crimes. Thunberg, et al, are trying to help people. Israel knows that. But what Thunberg and company are doing flies in the face of what Israel wants: all the land for themselves.

I’ll tell you this: When Israel starts classifying activists trying to feed starving people as “terrorists,” I’m pretty sure Israel has surrendered ALL moral superiority…

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Meanwhile, there are still stories swirling that the US will begin taking control of Gaza and “administer” the area for the next ten years while “relocating” the people who own the land and live there. Then, Donny gets to try to carry out his plan to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

I didn’t realize MAGA was so into nation building and foreign interventions, but this, apparently, is what they voted for so I guess they’re happy. In fairness, though, even if they’re not happy about it, today, they’ll GET happy about it once Donny tells them to…

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I don’t guess I understand this. Donny has been rounding up not-white people and shipping them out of the country as fast as he can. Then, suddenly, he decides he’s going to allow 600,000 Chinese students to come to American universities? Okay, first question, why would they WANT to? I mean, now that Donny has seized control over various college’s curricula, what value will an American education have?

The only thing the Chinese students will learn is that Donny saved the day at the Alamo, Donny led the charge up San Juan hill, Donny led the beach landings on D-Day and single-handedly raised the flag on Iwo Jima, Donny was the first man on the moon, Donny invented vaccines but then immediately destroyed them since all vaccines are always bad, Donny was the first signer of the Constitution, Donny, personally, invented the atom bomb and personal computers with his “big, beautiful brain,” and it was actually Donny who discovered the double-helix of DNA. Watkins, Crick, Franklin, and Wilkins only got the credit because “the whole thing was rigged.”

Still, MAGA got pretty upset with the announcement that 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to come here for school. It’s hard to blame them. Earlier this year, Marco Rubio laid out the official position that the US was going to “aggressively revoke” visas from Chinese students, especially those “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

Now Donny has just opened the door and let them in. 600,000 Chinese students. That’s 600,000 people who are – shh – not white. Naturally, there was a backlash. Donny fixed it, though. He said, “I think it’s very insulting to a country when you say you’re not going to take your students” before insulting other countries by refusing to take their students…

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I think it’s important to remember that no matter where he was during the mysterious missing four days, he was still Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend for fifteen years and the two of them likely raped children together.

The White House is trying to float the story that the Drumpfster was out playing golf with John Gruden over the weekend, but the photos they shared had been previously shared by Gruden a few days earlier. I suppose it’s possible 47 just now got around to posting the photo from over a week ago. Things like that happen. They just become a bit more suspicious when there’s already speculation going on about where he was.

Posting a photo that COULD be interpreted as trying to distort the timeline seems like it will only aggravate the controversy. You know, the way his many efforts to distract from that fact that he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and the two of them likely raped children together has mostly served to keep that story alive…