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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…

What A Confused Mess…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regime Change Begins At Home…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pale Rider Rides Again…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another promise made, another promise broken…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Captain McCain vs Cadet Bone Spurs…

by MyBaconPress

“All gave some.
Some gave all.
One had bone spurs…”

This, increasingly, seems to be how our military feels about their cowardly Commander-in-Chief. He wants a military parade. He pretends to honor soldiers but privately calls them ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ He had a chance for military glory. Instead, he got a letter that said he had “temporary bone spurs.” That was AFTER four college deferments.

47’s daddy was landlord to a podiatrist, Larry Braunstein, who, according to his family, wrote the bone spur “diagnosis” as a “favor.” The scheme involved a second podiatrist, Manny Weinstein, who also leased space from Fred Trump. Meanwhile, 47 competed in sports in the school he was hiding in. He says he was “the best,” but when does he ever say anything else? From MY point of view, the only thing he’s ever been “the best” at is evading responsibility.

I think somewhere in the dimmest recesses of is puny little mind, he KNOWS he doesn’t measure up to the soldiers who answered their country’s call. Because he’s such a shallow person, he seems to actually resent the military. He couldn’t stand John McCain, for example. He said McCain was NOT a war hero because he got shot down. Captain McCain vs Cadet Bone Spurs.

McCain DID get shot down, too. He was taken to an infamous POW camp called the Hanoi Hilton. It turns out, though, McCain was well connected back in the states and, as a result, was offered the opportunity to skip all that POW ugliness and just come back to the US. He said, “No.” He stayed with his comrades. That segment of his life cost him the use of an arm for the rest of his life. I didn’t agree with his politics, but McCain was a proud and brave man – a war hero, the likes of which Donny couldn’t even conceive. (Can you imagine 47 making a selfless decision about, well, anything, really?)

So Donny didn’t think much of McCain and McCain didn’t think much of Donny, either. The difference was, McCain had the credibility of action Donny could never gain. During an interview, McCain said, “One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”

So military members have a fun little put-down of the orange man. “One had bone spurs.” As always with 47, words are just words and Lord knows he talks. But his actions give him away, and, in action, he ran and hid…

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The military isn’t alone. Wall street has taken to referring to 47 as ‘Taco.’ That’s an acronym. It stands for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out.’ The reference is to 47’s oh-so-stupid tariffs that do so much damage each time they’re announced. Then revoked. Trump has turned the United States into a laughing stock, an ongoing joke.

It’s rather heartening to see that the joke is on him. Taco Trump. Cadet Bone Spurs. People whose respect he craves are, instead, showing him the respect he deserves…

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“Trump is not corrupt because he commits HIS crimes in plain sight.” REALLY?!? That’s the line from the GOP in defense of their corrupt idol. This guy is grifting and grafting on a daily basis. I presume he’s trying to hide some of it but there’s just mountains of it he’s doing right out in the open, with no concern for what people might think.

This is the direct result of the Robert’s Kangaroo Court saying the POTUS has near-perfect immunity, coupled with a corrupt Congress who still could, but will not take action to stop him. Instead, they offer up defenses like that. It’s not corruption because it’s in plain sight.

The only reason MAGA hasn’t turned on him, yet, is because MAGA media is still misinforming them and they still believe it. But it’s GOT to be getting harder and harder to defend him and his actions. It’s GOT to be getting harder for MAGA to convince themselves that Donny has anything in mind other than taking everything he can from them and stuffing it into his own pockets.

I’ll tell you this: the fact that he commits crime in plain sight doesn’t make them any less criminal. I see it. You see it. Sooner or later, MAGA is bound to see it…

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Musk takes away your FEMA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes away your NOAA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes your education money. FAR too expensive.
MAGA Mike will take your health care, and, likely, Social Security, too. Too expensive.
But Musk accepts your taxpayer money at an amazing rate – billions of dollars. His rockets keep blowing up or tumbling into the ocean (and, sometimes, populated land!)

There are millions of people in this country who couldn’t be where they are without government assistance – something of an indictment of Capitalism, if you ask me. Government money intended to help the needy is being canceled as too expensive while government money given to make rich people richer just keeps flowing. Welcome to the Upside Down…

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Defenders of Israel went into this whole thing with the moral high ground. Hamas HAD attacked Israel. I can’t say it was “unprovoked,” but it was certainly not smart. When Israel “responded” to that attack, much of the world understood. 1,200 people had to be avenged.

Slowly, at first, then faster, Israel has surrendered the moral high ground. Okay, 1,200 for 1,200, sure. But then, Israel didn’t stop. 120,000 for 1,200? Is that where we’re going? Anybody paying attention has seen Israel tell refugees to go to such and such a location for “safety,” only to have Israel bomb and attack that exact spot.

I think that when Hamas launched rockets into civilian areas of Israel, they committed a war crime. But Israel has been committing war crimes ever since. I think it’s time for the world to intervene. Enough is enough – and Israel has inflicted MORE than enough…