joe-biden

Abominations…

by MyBaconPress

It’s a United States government office, but Donny has plastered his name on it. It was, properly, the United States Institute of Peace. Now it’s called the ‘Donald Jessica Trump Institute of Peace,’ or something like that. (At least, that’s what I think his middle name is. I learned it from Randy Rainbow, but can’t verify Randy’s research methods.) After all, Donny DID “win” the FIFA Peace Prize they made up for him. And he HAS murdered many people in the Caribbean, supported genocide in Gaza, AND refused to help victims of an illegal invasion in Ukraine, despite a promise from the US that we would help Ukraine if Russia attacked in exchange for giving up nukes.

Donny fired the hand-picked architect he selected to build his new White House abomination. Like other things in his world, it’s not big enough to make him happy. He really, really wishes it were bigger and he keeps looking for someone who can help him out. That effing barfroom is already bigger than the White House, itself, and he wants to make it bigger? Someone ought to explain to him about gaudy ostentation. Then again, he just fired the architect who tried…

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In Donny’s diminished and delusional state, he has randomly decided that if a person is rich and was prosecuted for crimes under the Biden administration, the charges must be made up and the prosecution a fraud. He has no basis for this belief. He presses it because HE was nearly convicted for so many of his crimes during the Biden administration and he is STILL trying to convince someone – anyone – that he was being framed.

He wasn’t. He was being prosecuted for crimes he committed, if one believes the evidence. The only reason he wasn’t convicted is because he and the Heritage Foundation had a long-term plan for a coup that included corrupt (read: loyal to a fault) judges named by the Federalist Society. Many of those “judges” had been put in place already and they helped a brother out, you know?

So when he received a request for a pardon from one-time Democratic House Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas – along with a generous “donation” check, of course – he granted it. Cuellar apparently said the magic words, “Biden did it for political reasons.” In my mind, it’s rather important that Cuellar and his wife, who was also charged, were not yet convicted. They were charged with accepting bribes.

Apparently, when Donny granted the pardon, he assumed Cuellar would be so grateful he would switch parties and run as a Republican. Okay, so, first, run?!? He was busted taking bribes. How does one run for office, having accepted a pardon to escape the felonies he was facing? I guess if you’re brazen enough, you run anyway. This IS happening in Texas, after all.

And Cuellar IS running again. He filed the paperwork. He’s running in Texas as a Democrat and Donny is irritated about that. Donny expects loyalty he never, ever displays himself. I’d like to say that Texas is facing something of an IQ test to see if they’re dumb enough to elect an accused felon to public office, but they’ve already elected a convicted felon to public office so I guess the test is finished and the Texans can put their pencils down…

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Apparently, this doesn’t make sense to Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Destroying Education, but it turns out, if one reduces staff, one also reduces productivity. When this wrecking ball of a regime came in and started smashing things, most of the workforce of the Department of Education was laid off. That was supposed to save money. It didn’t, because a penny saved somewhere in government gets shoved into Donny’s pocket instead.

Look it up yourself. Donny came in and thrashed the government by laying off thousands of employees, yet his maladministration has spent more money so far than any other group in power in US history – even his own, who held the spending record before THIS group of clowns set the current record.

Now McMahon is calling back a bunch of Department of Education employees in an effort to reduce the backlog she created when she laid them off – but only temporarily. I guess if one hasn’t procured new employment by now, going back makes some sense but I’m not sure I would if I had an alternative. Why help the Bozos be clowns? Woeful mismanagement brings woeful results. Are we surprised? Every day, the extreme incompetence of this regime comes into clearer and clearer focus…

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Well, the Niners didn’t play this weekend. Bye week, you know. Still, they improved their playoff position. Pretty neat trick. It’s one of the things I like about this time of year. If you have a shot at making the playoffs, EVERY game you play now is very important. Many of the games other teams play become important, too. The Niners moved from the seventh seed to the sixth because the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears.

Meanwhile, game by game it’s looking like the Kansas City Chiefs’ dynasty is coming to an end. It happens. I learned ALL about it, the hard way, when the Bill Walsh Niner dynasty finally came to it’s end. The NFL is kind of structured to make dynasties hard to maintain. Eventually, your team will be picked apart by other teams. The players you keep? They get old. In football, “old” starts at about 32.

This is only tangentially related but I hear Taylor Swift has set a date for her upcoming nuptials. June, 2026. This means nothing to me. I’m not saving the date as I don’t expect an invitation. BUT, Tay-Tay is marrying Travis Kelce, the star Tight End for the Kansas City Chiefs. In June, Kelce would normally be in ‘football’ mode, getting ready for the upcoming season. THIS June, he’ll be in ‘gettin’ married’ mode. To me, this date foreshadows Kelce’s impending retirement, yet another sign of the decline of a dynasty…

Fraud, Fraud, and More Fraud…

by MyBaconPress

I’m pretty sure this “story” is distraction trolling but if you were going to execute Joe Biden in 2020 and then replace him with a robot, why would you NOT make the robot work better? Then again, Biden did a pretty good job, so the robot did okay with policy and just looked like it was in cognitive decline at a key moment? Why would one NEED a robot that acts like it’s in cognitive decline? Humans do that just fine, all by themselves?

Is it possible this is just the right’s response to Biden’s success a President? I mean, he should NEVER have run the second time, but his time in office was quite successful. He cleaned up the mess 45 left him and had the strongest economy in the world again, which he then left to 47, who has ALREADY decimated the good Biden did. It took him less than 100 days. That’s some serious incompetence. The best incompetence, the strongest incompetence.

There are really only two ways this thing can be: either 47 really WAS trolling (likely) or he really believes Biden was executed and replaced in 2020. I wish I could guess definitively but based on some of the other crazy things 47 claims to believe, one cannot simply dismiss the idea that he might actually believe it based only on how completely stupid it is…

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While he was on the campaign trail, 47 used to whine that foreign countries were releasing criminals onto the streets of America. SO… have you noticed the number of criminals HE is releasing onto the streets of America? He started, of course, with the J6 rioters he sent to disrupt the 2020 election, many of them violent and, thankfully, several of them already re-arrested and returning to where they belong. Now?

He keeps pardoning people convicted of fraud. He has pardoned so many fraudsters, I’ve lost count. You don’t suppose it’s one of those “kindred spirit” kind of things do you? Like, it takes one to know one? HIS kind of people? When he does it, he SAYS it’s because they’re all (conveniently) “victims of Democratic injustice,” but the common factor among the pardons seems to be million dollar contributions to him or his PAC (which means him).

To be clear, these people were investigated, charged, tried, and convicted. It didn’t happen because of any political party. It happened because they were criminals engaging in crimes. Oh, and for clarity, they were NOT only defrauding liberals. On the up side, there doesn’t seem to be any political consideration surrounding these decisions. It’s just pure greed on The Taco’s part. It’s simple: pay a million dollars, buy your loved one (or yourself, but that might be redundant) a pardon.

I’ll tell you this: I’d bet that even MAGA doesn’t like that so much. It’s just straight up pay-to-play. The GOP used to see themselves as the party of law and order. That’s a pretty tough image to maintain when there’s a sign on the White House back door: ‘Pardons, $1 million dollars, each.’ I’m pretty sure that’s not what MAGA voted for…

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I suppose this will be the beginning of the rift. Musk has come out against The Felon’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ You know the one. It’s the one that promises to add trillions of dollars to the national debt while gutting the social safety net and hurting millions of Americans, just so rich people can be richer.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Muck posted on X. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.” It’s weird to say this, but Musk is right on this one. He wasn’t done, either. He added in a second post: “Congress is making America bankrupt.” Then came the threat: “In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.”

In this Citizen’s United corrupted government OF the rich, BY the rich, and FOR the rich, he can do it, too. The fix to America’s financial woes will NOT be found in tax cuts, no matter how many times that failed and ridiculous story gets floated. It’s probably the single dumbest economic move a government could make at this point so, of course, the GOP is all in.

I get it, MAGA. The ONLY thing you care about is seeing my liberal tears. They may prove harder for you to see through your own tears, though, and I guarantee you, you’re going to suffer everything I suffer. If you live in a red state, you’re, likely, going to suffer even more…

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Okay, so, tell me. How many Republicans have YOU seen since the House passed 47’s “Big Beautiful Bill” expressing dismay about some provision in the bill they “didn’t know was in there?” I’ve seen several. They didn’t even read the thing. It could have a provision in it that says all Congress critters have to give ALL of their money to Donny, and they wouldn’t know it because they didn’t read it – but they voted for it because they were told to vote for it.

I guess, on some level, that makes sense. That’s the problem with such an absolute lockstep compliance with party orders. Since you’re going to vote as ordered anyway, why bother reading the bill? And now the GOP members are answering that question. We should have read the bill because someone might slip some really stupid stuff in there. If nothing else, it would have given them a chance to come up with a better defense for their indefensible actions had they known what their constituents might ask them about.

“Freedom” for gun silencers? That’s in there. Shackles on states trying to regulate AI? That’s in there, too. Courts can’t enforce their rulings? You betcha, THAT’S in there. All Congress critters with initials ‘MTG’ must regularly humiliate themselves and publicly grovel before the President? No, they didn’t put that in there. They didn’t have to. That happens already…

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Hey, speaking of idiots, Joni Ernst. When one of her constituents noted that people will die because of the provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill and the decimation it brings to Medicaid just so rich people can be richer, Ernst trotted out her “defense.” “Oh, we’re all going to die.” Do you think she drives with her eyes closed? Sure that would be dangerous but, hell, we’re all going to die anyway, right?

I suspect that her eyes are wide open. I suspect she knows darn good and well that, while we ARE all going to die, we ALL do what we can to forestall that outcome as long as we can. Killing people and justifying it with a blithe, “we all die” didn’t play well and it shouldn’t play well…

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My, how the mighty have fallen! And in only 136 days. It’s impressive, in it’s own way. To be the leader of the free world one day, and be a humbled, failed, laughing-stock of a state only 136 days later. C’mon, that’s big stuff. That took effort. It was no accident. We’re now run by the stupidly blind leading the stubbornly stupid. These days? It’s downright embarrassing to be an American. Thanks, MAGA. We owe it ALL to you…

Burning Themselves…

by MyBaconPress

I’m not sure car makers are required by law to be self-serving assoholics. It just works out that way, apparently. Today, we have Elon but the LAST time the United States of America flirted with Fascism, it was car maker Henry Ford at the front of the charge. In fairness to Henry, the Nazi nightmare had not played out yet. Though, in fairness to history, he didn’t seem to mind, even as it did…

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I’m okay with people protesting the actions of Muck and the trumpster in front of Swasticar dealerships. I’m not a fan of setting them on fire or shooting them up. I mean, I get it. I understand the impulse. Once they’ve burned, they can’t be sold, right? It hits Musk right in the wallet. But it crosses a legal line and my concern is it will become the excuse for a crackdown.

Mostly, though, nobody NEEDS to break laws to have an effect on Swasticar sales so just stand down and let the cars burn themselves. The protests are accentuating Musk’s destruction and the car and stock are nearly in free fall. It’s gotten so bad, I saw one story where a high-dollar Swasticar investor is publicly expressing his anger that the CEO is AWOL while the company crashes and burns. You know, like the car, itself, does so often.

So THAT seems to have prompted Elon to attempt a little damage control. He found himself a media safe-space on Fox Not-News and pretended to be shocked, shocked, I tell you. “It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left,” Musk said. There you go. He DID get the requisite dig at the left in there. “Oh, it’s just crazy lefties” is a standard MAGA slur. My guess? There are people there from both sides of the aisle in these protests, though I suspect it’s MORE thinking people than Trump supporters.

“I always thought that the left, you know, Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas,” Musk said. Suddenly he sounds less like he’s trying to protect the Swasticar and more like he’s trying to demonize Democrats.

Still, it’s a bit of a revealing comment. The Democrats ARE the party of empathy (or what’s left of one). MAGA dogma holds that the left is comprised of “snowflakes,” soft and weak. And they cry when you challenge them on that. Then they’re surprised when the left comes out swinging. Guess what? ‘Empathy’ and ‘milquetoast’ are NOT synonyms.

“Tesla is a peaceful company,” Musk said. That part is probably true. The company just wants to sell cars. “We’ve never done anything harmful.” Okay, I can only give him half credit on that one. A ridiculous number of people have died in his cars. It feels like a shopping cart bumps a “Tesler” and the car bursts into flames.

Oh, “feels like.” What am I, MAGA? Of the 393 people who have died in incidents with Swaticars, 95 have died from fires or using the Autopilot “feature.” During the 1970’s, Ford (remember? The OTHER fascist car maker) sold a car called ‘the Pinto.’ It had a design flaw, too. It, too, commonly burst into flames in certain crashes. 27 people died by fire in those crashes and by 1980, the car was removed from sale.

One would think the NTSB would bar Musk’s rolling crematoriums from sale, as well – which might explain why Musk keeps trying to shutter agencies that oversee his products. While I HAVE heard of the death traps (sometimes ALL of them) being recalled to address various design flaws, I haven’t heard of any major design improvements. I’d call that “harmful.”

I’ll tell you this: because of the dangers associated with driving one, I wouldn’t buy a Swasticar in the first place, but the Tesler isn’t really the issue, here. The CAR has become a symbol of the CEO and his attack on the American people – and people are fighting back. Rather than being surprised people are fire-bombing his cars, he should probably be thankful people are NOT fire-bombing him! (For clarity, I am NOT suggesting nor endorsing fire-bombing Elon Musk…)

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Holy gods, is this real? The Felon is out and about, claiming that Biden’s pardons aren’t official because, according to the lying Felon, Biden used autopen, a machine that signs for people. Bear in mind, the trumpster hasn’t provided any evidence that Biden used autopen. Like so many things that come out of his mouth, he may have just made it up.

I suppose a handwriting expert might be able to discern but, of course, we’ve been told never to listen to anyone who knows what they’re talking about, right? Experts suck. So who can say? Oh, I know, Joe Biden could say. He hasn’t yet, but he could. He should.

But is 47 REALLY so desperate to “get even” with people who said he’s a criminal based on nothing more than all of those crimes he’s said to have committed, he’s actually having handwriting experts examine Biden’s signature on documents? Oh, AND, that means Donny trusts experts, right? Well, unless he just made up the autopen story.

I think we all know, now, that Donny is going to ignore laws he doesn’t like. Even if Biden says he didn’t use autopen, 47 will just insist he did, anyway. It really doesn’t matter, though. The courts ruled some time ago that a President can direct a subordinate to use autopen to sign an official document. The subordinate can’t decide an issue, but once the President has made his decision, he CAN direct someone to use autopen to “sign.”

That means that even if Biden DID use autopen, the pardons are still solid. THAT leaves The Felon hanging his hat on “Maybe Biden didn’t know about the pardons.” All he has to do is ignore the “Maybe Biden DID know” bit. Biden knew and the signatures are legal. Donny just wants an angle to harass people. I’m sure MAGA is all in. I’m sure the rest of us are not.

Yo, Donny, just go play another round of golf. You suck at THAT, too, but at least you’re not hurting anybody…

Brawndo In Action…

by MyBaconPress

Joe: For the last time, I’m pretty sure what’s killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes. 
Attorney General: So wait a minute. What you’re saying is that you want us to put water on the crops? 
Joe: Yes. 
Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet? 
Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that’s the idea. 
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. 
Attorney General: It’s got electrolytes. 
Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren’t growing, so I’m pretty sure that the Brawndo’s not working. Now, I’m no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow. 
Secretary of Energy: Well, I’ve never seen no plants grow out of no toilet. 
Secretary of State: Hey, that’s good. You sure you ain’t the smartest guy in the world? 
Joe: Okay, look. You wanna solve this problem. I wanna get my pardon. So why don’t we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave? 
Attorney General: Brawndo’s got what plants crave. 
Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it’s got electrolytes. 
Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know? 
Secretary of State: It’s what they use to make Brawndo. 
Joe: Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo? 
Secretary of Defense: ‘Cause Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
– Joe vs the MAGA mind in the movie ‘Idiocracy’

I’ll tell you this: the right-wing disinformation machine is VERY good. People on the right actually believe Gavin Newsom is withholding water to fight fires in an effort to protect a smelt. It’s not true, but now that they believe it, of course, it’s gospel. Meanwhile, a Republican US Congressman has said the government should withhold disaster relief unless and until California reforms it’s forest management practices.

Never mind that this is NOT a forest fire. It’s conservative zeitgeist, now, and it isn’t going anywhere. The point is to politicize the fires. Accuracy isn’t important to them. Only blame. And blame, of course, ONLY falls on Democrats, never Republicans. That’s Rule Number One. Oh, and when blame DOES fall to a Republican? See Rule Number One. Sure, because that’s the way life works.

I’m not sure what kind of craven thought process it takes to politicize such a destructive natural disaster and think it’s a proper, or even a decent, thing to do. You know? I can’t say it’s unexpected, though. This is just how some people are. I would say it’s boring except for one thing. Cons have taken to actually responding to their delusions. They decide a thing – evidence never a factor – then they act on their decision.

I don’t really care if someone wants to think a fire started because someone failed to take their broom to the forests. There’s not much I can do about that. I believe comedian Bill Engvall coined the now-famous saying, “You can’t fix stupid,” and it’s true. But now the MAGA mob is acting on stupid.

You just watch, this crowd is going to start watering crops with Brawndo because Brawndo has what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes!

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There’s a MAGA Republican out there, James Comer. He led an “investigation” into Joe Biden. It never went anywhere or found anything because it was REALLY just an harassment campaign. To be clear, Comer kept shouting to anyone who would listen that the investigation DID find something and Biden is too guilty – because he said so, that’s why. He never produced even a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing.

Now we learn that Comer has written a book smearing Joe Biden but he also decided to smear Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame. Comer claims in his book that “Woodward explained that everyone in DC knew that Joe allowed his family to sell access to him, but as far as he was aware, that was not illegal. He added that it should be, but it wasn’t. ‘You will have to prove all of Joe Biden’s wrongdoing,’ he said, ‘and you will likely not be able to do that.'”

Comer also pretends that he asked Woodward “what he thought about my investigation. He replied that he thought Biden had obviously worked the system his entire political career, and that his son and both brothers had a troubled financial history. He predicted that my investigation ‘would either be bigger than Watergate or it would end up being a big nothing burger’.”

Wow, strong stuff. It would have been stronger had Woodward actually SAID any of those things to Comer but, according to Bob Woodward, himself, he never did. Woodward insists Comer is “peddling stories.” Specifically, Woodward wrote to ‘the Guardian,’ “The dinner with Comer was tape-recorded with his knowledge” (emphasis added), and said that he had listened again to the tape, which was “two hours and 55 minutes” long.

“The statements attributed to me in what is apparently his book are false,” Woodward said. “I made none of those statements he attributes to me. I repeat none, and not even in a paraphrased form – either about Biden or about the media. I never said Biden was corrupt or sold access.”

Just to drive the point home, Woodward added: “In the course of the interview Comer made a series of wild and over-the-top allegations about various people and political figures. It was an endless stream. None checked out.”

And, by the way, Comer’s investigation ended up a big nothing-burger. But he’s going to sell books to the ‘water the plants with Brawndo’ crowd based, apparently, on crap he just made up out of whole cloth and is now MAGA doctrine, or soon will be…

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Okay, so The Felon ran on anti-immigration and American jobs for Americans. His base liked that and voted for him. VERY shortly after he was “elected,” his boss, Elon, told the world that (paraphrased), “Yeah, American jobs for Americans unless it causes ME to pay more for employees, so SOME immigrants are coming, no matter what.” Wage-theft billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy took it even further when he said, flatly, that Americans are too stupid and too lazy to do the work they need done. That upset MAGA, who think The Felon is honest, but the billionaire’s comments didn’t bother them as much as Trump agreeing with Musk and Ramaswamy.

A little mini MAGA war started, led by Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon. Loomer lost right away, apologized for her insolence, and bent the knee. Bannon, though, is still fighting. NOW, Bannon has decided he’s going to get rid of Musk. “I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he’s inaugurated,” Bannon told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “He won’t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He’ll be like everyone else.” So… Bannon is planning to have Musk excommunicated by inauguration day. Oh, but he wasn’t done.

In the interview on Wednesday, Bannon said, “He (Musk) suffered a major defeat in America on H1B visas, he derided our movement as racist and retarded, and he lost. He has the maturity of a child. He has tried to change the conversation, after losing credibility in the United States and the fact that, frankly, people around Trump are tired of him.”

Truthfully, I thought Musk and Trump WON the H1B visa fight, based on the idea that they’re going to continue to use them at will. Where was the defeat? Oh, right, facts don’t matter, so then came Bannon’s next salvo: “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

Someone is about to find out where the power actually lies. It will either be Bannon and the MAGA faithful, or it will be the Billionaire Boys Club – and Bannon ain’t a member. I have no idea how this will play out but like all criminals, The Felon follows money. That can’t be a good sign for Bannon…

Um…Pardon Me?

by MyBaconPress

Every once in a while, I get a little irked by the left. I’m not sure I mean the rank and file left. This is very definitely the politicians. They keep coming out and condemning Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter. Even though everyone… no, EVERYONE knows Hunter was being used as a political pawn in a smear campaign, the left is saying it’s bad that Joe protected his kid.

The story is, the left just handed Trump the excuse he needs to pardon the most vile people in the country and get away with it. Really? Do you think Trump needs an excuse to pardon the most vile people in the country? Because I remember him doing exactly that the last time he infested the White House – no excuses needed. All he had to do was pretend the justice system had been “weaponized.”

Sometimes, I hear people saying the left should learn to fight like the right. I’m not sure I agree with that all of the time. I don’t think one can adopt the tactics of a scoundrel effectively without becoming scoundrels themselves. But the left shouldn’t avoid doing the right thing because it hands Trump “an excuse.” Trump makes up his own excuses if he doesn’t have one and Trump’s odious behavior shouldn’t have a bearing on, well, anything, really. Sometimes, doing the things the right does isn’t underhanded and this is one of those times.

Anytime anyone wants to start comparing the “crimes” of the left with the crimes on the right and the nature of those pardoned by the President, I’m in. Hunter checked a box on a form. Now, compare that to the thieving, sexual assault, and downright traitorous behavior from the right – much of which Trump pardoned.

And then pipe down, yeah? Joe did the right thing…

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The right is trying to dismiss criticism of Trump’s pick to destroy the DoD, Fox Not-News liar Pete Hegseth, by pretending that, because the charges come from anonymous sources, they’re probably false. Um, have you SEEN what MAGA does to people who come forward with charges against a rightie? Doxing, harassment, and death threats. (This is based in the now infamous ‘Scream facts away’ doctrine.) I think I’d prefer to keep a low profile, too.

Of course, one person DID come out, if involuntarily, describing his horrifying behavior in great detail: his mother. His own mother thinks he has some serious problems and needs to get help. From what I hear, his mother is correct. Hegseth looks like a mighty uphill battle and worse, he looks like a mighty uphill battle Trump would likely lose.

Trump apparently thinks so, too. According to Politico, Trump is now considering Ron DeSantis for the job, among others. That’s likely just a feint, though. Keywords: “among others.” Trump chose confirmed bootlicker Marco Rubio to serve in his maladministration. Rubio is/was a senator from Florida. Trump wants DeSantis to name Lara Trump, Donald’s daughter-in-law to the post. So Trump is dangling a carrot to DeSantis.

I hear MAGA is unhappy with the pick. DeSantis stood up to Trump, you know. I don’t know why they’re okay with Rubio. Rubio is the guy who pointed out how small Donny’s hands are. If I were DeSantis, I don’t think I’d trust Trump to keep his word…

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Joe Rogan says he just had to vote for Trump because Tim Walz was caught in a couple of lies. Just think about that for a minute. Walz intimated he had carried a gun “in war,” but he never really faced combat. Walz also suggested he was in Hong Kong during the Tienanmen Square crackdown but he wasn’t. He WAS in Hong Kong, just not during the events in question. Those “lies” – an inflated resume, really – were just too much – a bridge too far for Rogan.

So he went with honest, puritan Donald Trump, instead. Uh-huh. That certainly checks…

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Corrupt judge Clarence “Buy me” Thomas recently said he was considering retirement – but only if Trump won the “election.” Of the move, Moscow Mitch McConnell said, “It’s a brazen admission. And the incoming administration would be wise to explore all available recusal options with these judges, because it’s clear now that they have a political finger on the scale. This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary.”

No, wait. No, that’s not right. Moscow Mitch didn’t say that when Thomas conditioned his retirement. Thomas’ condition was a-okay with the right. It made perfect sense to them that a judge may or may not retire based on the person who would name their replacement, assuming that judge was conservative.

Moscow Mitch is pretending to be all upset that two Democratic-appointed federal judges decided not to retire for the same reason. No, the McConnell quote from above is what he said about the Democratic-appointed judges. I see. When a Republican conditions their retirement on who gets to fill the seat, that’s okay. When a Democrat does it, that’s some kind of underhanded trumpery. Got it…

This Coup Brought To You By MAGA…

by MyBaconPress

Trump is running a campaign ad in California. It’s probably just a national buy since there’s no reason for him to waste money in the Golden State. Too many of us are FAR too smart. The thing I noticed, though, is that even his ad is chock full of lies. There’s only one I would like to address.

The ad says something to the effect of “Kamala broke it, and Trump will fix it.” Two lies in one. First, even if it HAD been this administration, this is the BIDEN administration. Kamala has been the Vice-President, not the President. We’re ALL pretending the VP is way involved in decisions made in the Oval Office.

The left is pretending in order give Kamala credit for work she hasn’t done, but it makes her look like she’s more ready to be President than she maybe is. The right is pretending in order to blame her for things Biden did. But we all know, and we have all long-since known, the Vice President is more of a placeholder.

The second lie is bigger. It was TRUMP that “broke it,” not Kamala OR Joe. The Biden administration has been working to fix it and they’ve done an amazing job. I know MAGA doesn’t know it, but it’s true. The reality is, we have an economy that Trump would be taking credit for if he were in office, but he isn’t – so he’s attacking.

The catalyst for the economic damage was Trump’s incredible mishandling of Covid-19. Not the illness, itself. We had a plan in place for exactly that eventuality and the Trump administration dismantled the program – to save money. THEN, when we DID get hit, Trump went into wish mode and tried to wish the thing away. Over a million Americans died.

That’s HOW Trump broke it. He left the nation in a shamble. Biden fixed it. Kamala will keep Biden’s economic programs and add her own. I’d rather have Kamala, who can do it, than Trump, who clearly can not…

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There’s an article in the Guardian, this morning, titled, ‘What if Trump’s campaign is cover for a slow-motion coup?’ Well, duh. It hasn’t seemed like Trump cared, much, about the election for a while, now. A person running for office who, nevertheless, doesn’t care about the campaign is likely more focused on his after-election coup. He just NEEDS the election to happen so he can pretend horrible things happened. It’s not just cover, it’s catalyst.

They’re ALREADY screaming about problems in the election and lawsuits have already been filed. It suggests to me that Trump KNOWS he’s not popular enough to win an election on merit. He KNOWS he’s losing this thing but can not afford to lose this thing, so he has moved into desperation mode. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, except that so many deceived MAGA are right there with him.

Truthfully? I’ll never understand WHY so many people believe in this person but they do. Many of them are deceived. Their information sources have presented such heavily massaged “information,” they genuinely don’t know the facts about Trump. They honestly think THEY are the people defending the Constitution, even as they support the person most likely to destroy the Constitution.

Many would actually LIKE to have a dictator. These are not the brightest among us and they don’t grasp the reality of a dictator. They don’t understand what made America great in the first place. They think a dictator will be more efficient. They are comforted by the easy answers Trump promises (but never delivers).

The election is tomorrow but the actual fight starts Wednesday. We know Trump will declare victory early. Hell, maybe he already has. It’s part of his plan. The GOP flooded the media landscape with false “polls” intended to make Trump look competitive, if not actually winning. (He’s neither.) We ALL know how this thing proceeds. The only question is, do we let it?

My whole life, worries of the people have been addressed with the same answer: vote. Most of my life, that answer has been solid. I have voted. Most people I know have voted. We’ve DONE that part. We’ve been holding our collective breath trying to get to November 5th to put this debacle behind us, but November the 5th is a start, not a finish. It’s the start of Trump’s next coup attempt.

MAGA will tell you ‘no.’ MAGA will SCREAM ‘NOOOOO!’ MAGA will insist I’ve lost my mind, my perspective, my reason. Why, Trump would never, NEVER do anything like that. MAGA is wrong. Trump IS doing that, right now, in real time. MAGA is making it possible.

I have a friend who says he thinks when Trump loses, again, the GOP will be finally done with him, once and for all, and kick him to the curb. He thinks they’re just waiting for the election to play out, then they’ll collectively turn on Trump. I think my friend is overly optimistic. The GOP has had plenty of opportunities to dump Trump. They simply will not.

It’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out. We ALL know Trump is working to steal the election, even before election day. It’s plain and obvious. MAGA will deny it, but they know it, too. (Hell, they’re counting on it.) Americans are supposed to have that “revolutionary spirit.” WILL we fight for our country, or just tune in to the next episode of whichever program we’re into in the moment.

Allow me, please to state the obvious: I never thought I would find myself in this position. I’m guessing I’m not alone in that observation…

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Win or lose, I hope Joe Biden pardons Hunter after the election. Hunter got caught up in a campaign event. He became a political pawn for the right and could end up in prison for it. Even the conservative prosecutor intending to smear Joe via the vindictive prosecution thought Hunter’s crime was not worth prison – until a conservative outcry. At the very least, Biden should do something about that…

Hogwash…

by MyBaconPress

I think it’s hilarious that cons can’t accept the idea that both Kamala and Walz are gun owners. We’ve fallen DEEPLY into a false narrative in this country, one that teaches that righties own all the guns and lefties would never, ever, in a million years, own a gun. Turns out? Nope. I know LOTS of lefty gun owners. Turns out, owning a gun is NOT a righty thing.

The reason it’s important is this: cons have come to the conclusion that, should shooting be “required,” they have all the advantage because they’re the only ones with guns. I’m pretty sure there are some surprises in store for the cons, should they choose that course…

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Okay, so here’s something I’ve been wondering. Recently, Trump started naming names of cities where atrocities are definitely occurring and “everybody knows it.” For example, Haitians are eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. Gangs have completely taken over and sacked Aurora, Colorado. MAGA buys these stories and laps them up – even MAGA in Springfield and Aurora.

Are these people SO self-deluded that they go outside into their own cities every day and never lose a pet to a Haitian, or they go about their business freely in Aurora without suffering gang violence, and then convince themselves that Trump is speaking truth anyway? HOW, fercrissakes? What does it take to convince oneself that their own, lived experience should, properly, be set aside in favor of Trump’s deranged rantings?

And yet? Here we are and that, they do. As it happens, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is real. It’s just that it’s MAGA who suffers from it…

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The polls just don’t make sense, to me. One minute, Kamala is up by four points, the next, she’s down a point. How? Why? What changes from day to day that causes such wide swings? Who in the HELL is Trump picking up? I mean, look, MAGA is forever faithful (for a while, anyway). We all know that. But outside of MAGA? Not so much. How does one GAIN voters with obvious, insane lies like Trump (and Vance) spew? What might Kamala have done to turn people off?

What I know is that since Kamala signed on as the nominee, voter registration has been through the roof. When Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala (because Trump forced her to), 400,000 new registrations were reported by Vote.org, a voter registration site. We’ve also heard from that site that, besides the Swift surge, nearly 200,000 OTHER registrations have occurred since Kamala’s entry. That seems like 600,000 new voters, likely inspired to vote FOR Kamala.

So where did she lose and, more importantly, where did he gain? It’s like we’re getting “Dueling Polls.” Pollsters aren’t supposed to be partisan. Nonetheless, some are. It turns out there are several polls out there “affiliated” with Republicans and several non-affiliated polls but only one affiliated with Democrats. Do you know what that is? That’s the Republicans, gaming the polls to make Trump look like he’s doing better than he actually is.

I suppose different results could reflect different polling techniques or different questions. I KNOW polls can be affected by the questions asked and I KNOW some of those techniques aren’t considered ethical, but they happen anyway. It turns out, one can’t trust polls too much unless one has access to the details of the poll. What questions were asked and HOW were they asked?

During one election, potential voters were asked, “If you knew John McCain had a black child, would it change the way you think about him?” As it happened, McCain DID have an adopted, black child. But the question was intentionally vague and it left the impression that McCain had fathered a child out of wedlock and with a black woman.

That’s called a ‘Push Poll.’ The pollster is actually “pushing” false information to the subject, while pretending to be simply asking a question. Their weasel words when they get caught? “We didn’t say that. We simply asked a question.” “If you knew…”

I’m not a polling expert. That’s just one, unprofessional technique I know about that gets used on a fairly regular basis. Is that, or something like it, why the polls swing so wildly? That kind of thing is the only thing that makes sense to me as an explanation of Trump’s success. HIS numbers shouldn’t change. You’re either MAGA, and therefore impervious to accurate information and loyal to the core, or you’re not. If you’re not MAGA, you’re not impressed by Trump. In fact, he looks the fool most of the time.

So, where are his new supporters coming from? In Pennsylvania, ballots are already coming in and being counted. Of the ballots that have come in, 285,072 have come in from Democrats, 95,666 have come in from Republicans, and 35,914 have come in from Independents based on recent reports. (The numbers have likely changed a little since.) That looks like advantage Kamala, even if one assigns ALL the independent ballots to Trump, which would be a huge mistake since I’m an independent voter and WILL BE voting Kamala. (Today or tomorrow, in fact.)

Those aren’t polls. Those are actual ballots, actually counted so far. I know, Trump has been pushing voting machines again instead of mail-in, but the Democrats have a huge lead so far, and I just don’t see where normal people are going to walk into a voting booth and pull the lever for “insane.” MAGA, sure. Rational Americans? Absolutely not. I guess I’m praying there are STILL more rational Americans than MAGA…

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If you bet on the NFL, you’re…well, for now, I’ll go with “not smart.” There’s a rule of thumb many people know, ‘The simplest answer tends to be correct.’ Oh, there’s another one, too, ‘Once you’ve eliminated all other possibilities, whatever is left, however unlikely, must be the answer.’

On Thursday night, the Forty-Niners played the Seattle Seahawks. At one point, a Seahawks player touched the ball on a kick return after letting it bounce, and the Niners fell on it. It SHOULD have been Niners ball but the “officials” gave the ball to the Seahawks. The Niners challenged the call and replay clearly showed the Seahawks player touching the ball. But the final word comes from New York and THEY said, no, give it to the Seahawks. (Seattle lost anyway, despite the assist.)

EVERYONE watching saw the player touch the ball and KNEW it should have gone to the Niners. The NFL finally claimed, “Oh, we didn’t have the enhanced image the viewers had. We used what we had and made our call from that.” THAT, to me, is some first-class bullshit. How does the NFL, a multi-BILLION dollar corporation, NOT have a feed the rest of the world has? Specifically, how does the team expected to make final calls on controversial plays not have the best possible image to work with? No, I don’t believe them.

I started noticing “hinky” calls from NFL officials a couple of years ago. Since then, the NFL has “partnered” with FanDuel, a sports betting site. Now we see calls all the time that just don’t make sense. Currently, the broadcasters will go back and show a replay to find the offense being called and show the viewers. Commonly, the calls don’t make sense. What they DO, is boost one team.

Sports betting by the leagues has been against the rules since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, in which the Chicago White Sox were accused of accepting bribes to throw the World Series. The scandal hurt the popularity of the leagues, so they took action. The leagues wanted to ensure there wasn’t even a suggestion of impropriety. It worked for decades. But then, the rules changed. (Hey, there was money to be made.)

Now, the NFL has “partnered” with a betting web site, FanDuel. “Partnered” means the NFL makes money when the web site makes money. The NFL has control over the outcome of games via the calls the officials make. They don’t need upsets in every game but they can still profit by point shaving. Based on everything I’ve seen from the NFL over the last twenty years, if they CAN profit, they WILL profit.

So why would anybody believe the NFL isn’t working in the background to make sure they make money by manipulating the outcomes of games? So, here’s my advice. Don’t bet on the NFL. But if you’re…um…”not smart,” and you DO bet on those games, try to determine what outcome you think the NFL wants and bet on that. Don’t bother with which team is best and which is worst and who has the best whatever against the other team’s whatsits or whatever. What does the NFL want? THAT is the only question you need to answer.

And it says terrible things about the state of the NFL – and sports betting in general – these days…

The Pampered Progeny of Privilege…

by MyBaconPress

Kamala went on Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’ and had a beer with Stephen. Trump’s campaign went nuts. A Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Chung, said, “Kamala drinks a beer to show Americans how relatable she is, but she ends up looking like an out-of-touch elitist trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them.”

Kamala, who was raised middle class, is “trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them” but the pampered progeny of privilege, the guy raised in wealth and luxury and who was given huge piles of money before his third birthday, that guy, is the REAL “down-to-Earth” guy to whom every working man should relate? Yeah, that makes sense…

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Can we all just agree, please, that Marjorie Taylor Greene is NOT a smart person? I mean, falling for standard MAGA mumbo-jumbo is one thing, but MTG falls for some of the weirdest conspiracy theories one can imagine. Jewish space lasers, anyone?

And now, she’s certain that “they” can control the weather. No word on who this mysterious “they” might be, but take her word for it, “they” are probably Democrats. She’s pretending Hurricane Helene hit the area it hit because Democrats wanted the storm to hit there to make it harder for Republicans to vote. Please do NOT inquire as to how Democrats in the area remain unaffected and free to vote as they wish. That would be VERY inconvenient. Otherwise, that storm makes it harder for EVERYONE to vote and it really loses steam as “an attack on cons.”

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Even when I want to, it’s just impossible to NOT write about Trump. That guy is just unbelievable. He’s out on the campaign trail, pretending that FEMA money has been commandeered by the Biden administration and is being misused to house illegal immigrants.

As it happens? That’s not true, BUT…he didn’t just make it up. What he DID, was…remember. He remembered when HIS maladministration stole FEMA money to house undocumented immigrants. Then, as is standard in MAGA land, he simply accuses the other side of doing the thing HE actually did.

Dear MAGA: If you think stealing FEMA money and using it to house illegal immigrants is a terrible thing that warrants withholding one’s vote from the offending candidate, remember that it was TRUMP who did that, not Kamala. If you were willing to not vote for Kamala because you thought she did that, then you shouldn’t vote for Trump because we all KNOW he did that…

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Trump spends a lot of time on the campaign trail pretending he gives a rats tail about the American people. He commonly says that he always puts the American people first. Does he, though? Let’s take a closer look at just one opportunity to put the American people first and how Trump chose to address that opportunity.

“I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you.” That’s a quote from Russia’s Putin to Trump, AFTER the traitor Trump gave him several Covid-19 testing machines, according to Bob Woodward’s new book. These aren’t just the test kits the government sent to everybody for free. These were special machines that could detect Covid in a matter of minutes.

At the time, the US was struggling to meet demands for equipment to battle the illness. Trump sent a bunch to Russia, to Putin. Hey, what are friends for? So, yet another example of Trump saying he puts America first, then actually putting America second, prioritizing the needs of Americans AFTER the needs of his buddy Putin. As it happens, actions speak louder than words. And MAGA wants to send this guy back to the White House? I wonder what favors he’ll do for Putin in the second round?

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Trump gets invited to participate in an interview on ’60 Minutes’ and, initially, agrees. Then he finds out the interviewer, Leslie Stahl, intends to ask real questions that require real answers. Of course, that’s unacceptable to him, so he leaves. No ’60 Minutes’ interview if the questions are going to be hard – or fact-checked. I ask again, what does it say about a person who complains about being fact-checked? If one is dealing in facts, checking shouldn’t be an issue.

As it happens, Kamala was also invited to participate in an interview on ’60 Minutes’ and, being braver, smarter, and stronger than Trump, agrees – and then sits through the thing, answering the questions about the border, her economic plan, and charges that she has changed some positions.

So…quick review: Trump agreed, then chickened out and walked away, mostly because the interviewer was focused on the truth. Harris agreed and sat through the whole thing. So, of course, Trump attacked her for the worst interview ever. He insisted she didn’t know what she was talking about. He thinks his lies about the administration not helping victims of Helene will cause voters to vote against her but I suspect the reality of the help that has actually arrived, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, might even HELP her in the campaign.

Kamala did what Trump couldn’t do. She sat for an interview that was NOT made up of softball questions and stayed through the whole thing. Trump cowered and ran – so naturally, he has to attack her. It’s just his way. He doesn’t DO anything. He just pretends. And MAGA, dutifully, pretends with him. It’s really weird…

Reality Can Be Very Confusing…

by MyBaconPress

I guess he just jumped right to the heart of the matter, eh? Trump was at a rally in Wisconsin. He said this – out loud, “Kamala is mentally impaired. If a Republican did what she did, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes and misdemeanors.” That’s a bit heavy on the assertion with NO detail. There is NEVER any detail from Trump. It’s always just the big charge. But he kept talking, “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.”

Now, even Republicans are disavowing the comments. They (correctly) think he should stick to the issues. Then, they (insanely) pretend that “The issues are, Donald Trump fixed it once. They broke it. He’s going to fix it again. That – those are the issues.” I’ve got to give them one out of two, there. Yes, they SHOULD stick to the issues but, no, Donald Trump never fixed anything, anywhere, at any time.

Dear MAGA, you’re asking us to believe one of your fever dreams. The fact is, Trump enjoyed the benefits of Obama’s economic policy before allowing the whole thing to crumble under his delusional mismanagement of Covid-19. That’s what happened. You can tell another story all you want. But that’s what happened…

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Yesterday, I wrote about JD Vance going to a restaurant and being denied entry because they didn’t want a “campaign event” or cameras in the place. Cons knew he was coming. They had filled the place up, made orders for food, and they were waiting for Vance. When Vance was denied entry, they cancelled their orders and went out and held their little mini rally in the parking lot. It’s still a little confusing, though. If the cons knew Vance was planning to be there, why didn’t Primanti Bros, the restaurant in question?

They didn’t want a campaign event? That doesn’t square with when Kamala stopped in. It was a little over a month ago. Nobody blocked her. She met with supporters inside the restaurant and cameras recorded the whole thing. She worked the crowd and glad-handed for a little while, then moved on. That seems like a campaign event, to me. Apparently, Primanti Bros. didn’t want a conservative campaign event.

Listen, given the toxic environment that IS the GOP, these days, I don’t blame them…

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Yet another of the people Trump worked closely with has commented on who and how Trump is. The fact is, the people who work with him and know him best, think he sucks. They can’t put up an image and desperately cling to it, like most of MAGA does on a day to day basis. They know, from direct experience, who Trump really is. And yet? They still don’t seem to get it.

Ty Cobb, a one-time lawyer in the Trump White House, has said he thinks Trump is “a deeply wounded narcissist.” Someone asked him about the GOP scheme to simply steal the election should Trump not win. Cobb said he didn’t think the GOP could come up with the goods, legally speaking, necessary to make the case of election fraud. He said, “the one thing they need in court is evidence. They didn’t have any last time and they’re unlikely to have any this time.”

In one sense, of course, Cobb is right. Trump never had any evidence of any impropriety in the 2020 election. He just made it up. His team tried to take their fever dreams into court and present them as evidence but court after court just threw the cases out. Over and over and over again. Over 60 times, in fact. They brought material they tried to produce as “evidence” that was SO lacking in support to SO many courts, SO many times, most of those lawyers are now being (or have been) disbarred.

Quick question: have you noticed a silly little thing like “no evidence whatsoever” to stop the wagging jaws of Trump or the faithful? No, me neither. As I reflect on it, the ONLY cases of voter fraud I remember hearing about were cons trying to stuff the ballot box with extra votes in one way or another. I suspect Cobb is right in his “diagnosis” of Trump’s mental condition but I think he might be just a bit optimistic about loyalty to reality in the case of elections.

Trump and MAGA don’t CARE that they’re lying. I mean, they KNOW it, they just don’t care. They honestly believe they’re doing it for the greater good. They honestly believe they can sin their way to purity. Hey, good luck with that.

I’ll tell you this: For some people, reality can be very confusing…

Stock Shifts…

by MyBaconPress

Largely, because most of what MAGA says is pure, unadulterated bunk, made up by some talking head to attract viewers, I dismiss pretty much everything MAGA says, pretty much all the time. They have absolutely NO credibility with me, whatsoever. But you know the saying, ‘Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.’ Every once in awhile, the cons bitch about something that we should all pay attention to because they’re right. I mean, even then, they don’t quite get to the meat of the matter because they always always, always excuse behavior on the right they condemn on the left. But at least they’re close.

They’ve got a good one going now and they’re right. There’s just no other way to put it, they’re right. The part they get right? Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, sold $500,000 worth of Visa stock – literally months before a DOJ investigation was launched against Visa on antitrust charges. Coincidence? Maybe. I can’t prove otherwise. But tell the truth, when you see that the one-time speaker of the House made up to a million dollars on a stock sale just before the stock dropped because of legal woes the one time Speaker very likely knew about in advance, you DO say, “hmm,” right?

It got worse. When people asked about it, we were treated to weasel words by one of her spokespeople, “Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks, and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions.” Right. It’s all Paul. They never talk about what goes on in Congress. He has no insider information and she doesn’t own stocks. That doesn’t pass the smell test and it really stinks.

The part MAGA misses, of course, is that insider trading is legal for Congress critters – unlike the rest of us – and they ALL do it, party notwithstanding. This isn’t a Pelosi problem, it’s a Congress problem.

Their story? Oh, we have to make laws and regulations about these companies and we have to manage our portfolios so how could we NOT use insider information? But trust us, we won’t – because we said so. And who can you trust more than a politician?

The true story? In my lifetime, it was common practice for Congress critters to put their portfolios into blind trusts, managed by people outside of their sphere who had no idea about pending legislation. Pols could work without regard to their portfolio position because they didn’t KNOW their portfolio position and the investments could happen cleanly because the people managing the funds were not privy to the insider news. See? It CAN be done. It just won’t be because who is going to walk away from all that beautiful, easy-to-get money?

But I’ll tell you this: it’s a practice that very definitely should be stopped, for Pelosi and everybody else…

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“Remember, there’s a hat that’s made that sells like crazy… Oh, there’s a fly, oh. I wonder where the fly came from? See, two years ago, I wouldn’t have had a fly up here. You’re changing rapidly. But we can’t take it any longer…” – Donald J. Trump

No word on who or what was “changing rapidly.” Apparently, he never finished the hat story. The fly distracted him and he was lost. A fly.

And MAGA just sees a genius who can do anything…

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Weird little JD Vance goes into a super market in a campaign event. He wanted to decry the cost of groceries like Harris and Biden are sitting in the Oval Office setting prices and not the corporate C teams in their various suites. He picked up some eggs and bitched about a dozen eggs costing $4.00. Yeah, that would suck.

It’s just my opinion, mind you, but I think he should have had his advance team take down the sign right behind him that showed a dozen eggs selling for $2.99. They ALSO might have pointed out to him that he was holding a flat of eggs (30), not a dozen (12). If the guy can’t tell the difference between twelve and thirty, the accounting of this once-great nation is in deep trouble. Then again, maybe THAT’S why these guys think everything is bad. They take any issue and randomly more than double the size.

So, his advance team sets up a speaking engagement in a restaurant in Pennsylvania. The place has plenty of patrons who came to hear JD speak. When JD showed up, one of the workers told them no cameras were allowed and they didn’t want a campaign event in their restaurant. So JD had to schmooze that crowd outside, in the parking lot. It has shades of Rudy setting up a presser at a landscaping company. You know, the one right next door to the porn shop. JD’s advance team needs a bit of a revamp, I’d say…

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Okay, before I go, big props to Bob Van Dillen this morning. I know, “Who?” Bob. Van Dillen. He’s a weather guy on a local Fox affiliate and he was doing a report, as they do for some reason, outside in the rain. He heard a woman calling for help. His team called 9-1-1 and tried to get back to their broadcast but she was scared, in danger, and still screaming. So? He cut off his report – and went and saved her. It was the right thing to do and he did it…

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Well, the Niners are off to a start. It’s a bad start, but it’s a start. They’re losing players to injury at a precipitous rate. It’s a rough time to be a Niner fan. I know, I know. Three games in is a little early to be raising the white flag, and I’m not. It’s just that this team has been together for awhile and consists of players who have been in the league for awhile and it’s starting to look like age is becoming a factor we fans had hoped wouldn’t start until next season.

At 1-2, the Niners are in dead last in their division. It sounds a bit worse than it is, since most teams in the NFC West are 1-2 as of this morning, but they really need a victory today…