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Eat Tiny Tim…

by MyBaconPress

Did you see Donny wandering off during his visit to Japan? He tried to look very intense and solemn doing it, wandering, but the serious look on his face was really at odds with him wandering, alone, across a room, while the brand new Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi, looked on in disbelief. She had to catch up to him and redirect him to where he was supposed to be.

Don’t you think somebody briefed him before the event? Big somebody, brave somebody, tears in his eyes and said, “Okay, Mr Greatest President of All the Presidents in the History of Presidenting, you’re going to walk with that woman up to the flags. Do you see the flags, sir? No, the two great big ones at the front of the room. No, sir, THOSE flags. Yes, very perceptive of you, sir. Nobody could have found those flags better than you, no sir.

“You salute the American flag and then take one step to the right. Yes, the hand you write with. That’s right, one step. Yes, sir. ONE, sir. The woman is going to bow to her flag. Yeah, you got something she can bow to right here, yes sir. Good one, sir. Anyway, you take one step to the right, let her bow, then the two of you turn around together and you’ll walk to the raised platform for a photo-op, got it?”

He didn’t have it. I’ll give him points for not trying to have sex with the flag this time. He saluted, she indicated the one step to the right, he wandered off aimlessly. The look on Prime Minister Takaichi’s face? Priceless. I can’t say, for sure, he would have walked straight into the wall, but I can’t say, for sure, he would not have, either…

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Well, here goes nothing. I guess I should say, ‘here comes nothing.’ And I DO mean ‘nothing.’ That is, if you’re an American citizen. And why would an American President look out for American citizens when he has Argentinians he can care for? If you’re Argentinian, you’re about to gain a boon – up to $40 billion dollars for your country and America importing (apparently diseased) Argentinian beef – even though that harms American ranchers. A new ballroom for the boss, no food for everyone else.

But if you’re an American? Starve, bitch! Let them eat cake! The GOP will be cutting off Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as of Saturday. That’s money people have needed and counted on for a long time. It’s just… gone, now. Happy Thanksgiving. That will certainly destabilize things. The GOP message? “Eat Tiny Tim. Solve two problems at once…”

The official story is that it’s all about the budget battle. I suspect the GOP was planning on doing this anyway, because it’s cruel and it hurts millions. The shut-down simply became a convenient excuse. Now they get to shut down SNAP AND use it as an excuse to take away health insurance, too. That’s a pretty good deal for the GOP.

The Republicans will try to blame the Dems by claiming they can’t issue SNAP payments because the government is shut down. Democrats will retort that SNAP has a rainy-day fund for just such an eventuality. That is to say, Congress could authorize the payments. They just don’t wanna. And why not?

Cons* think authorizing the payments takes political pressure off of Chuck Schumer. The GOP plans to starve American children in an effort to apply political pressure. And what do they want Schumer to do? Why, vote for their Continuing Resolution to fund the government but not the Affordable Care Act subsidies for millions and millions of Americans is all.

Allow me, please, to summarize.
GOP: “We’re going to gut your Affordable Care Act by taking away the subsidies needed by so many to cover premiums.”
Dems: “We oppose that idea. We not going to support your efforts.”
GOP: “Then we’re going to starve babies. We have no choice. See what you made us do?”

Americans know that this is the one moment, their only opportunity, the only leverage the Democrats have. If they don’t fight back right now, they won’t be able to fight back later. The GOP is claiming that if only the Dems will open the government, THEN the GOP will come back and negotiate in good faith. Uh-huh. I’ve seen this movie before.

The psychopath is holding a gun to the head of a hostage. The psychopath orders the cop to surrender his gun or the psychopath will shoot the hostage. The cop relinquishes his gun. The psychopath murders both the hostage AND the cop. It’s the whole ‘psychopath’ thing and there’s a whole group of them running the show, these days.

Meanwhile, MAGA has been convinced by their conservative corporate media that the DemocRATS are responsible because they keep trying to protect the interests of the citizenry. Starting Saturday, the debate moves from theoretical to practical. People will simply have no food. Empty stomachs will belong to both left and right. Interestingly, though, more red stomachs will suffer than blue.

Don’t get me wrong, there are millions and millions of needy people who depend upon government assistance to make ends meet in this, ‘The richest country on Earth™.’ But more of them wear red hats than don’t. In order to convince his supporters they need to let him take away their health insurance, he’s taking away their food, too.

The saddest part about that whole reality? MAGA is going to keep cheering for him. “Yes, Precious! Beat us! Starve us! Make us suffer! We love you!” I’m just shaking my head…

* I haven’t explained this in awhile, so really quickly: I use the term “cons” to describe conservatives often. It IS shorthand for ‘CONservative,’ but in my mind, it also correctly identifies the movement of ‘CONfidence men,’ AND identifies them as ‘CONtraians.’ It’s a three-fer! It was only later that I learned that it’s a three-fer with a bonus. In French, ‘Con’ is a slang term for ‘Asshole…’

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I sure do wish he would stop challenging people to take cognitive tests. Remember when he said America was a laughing stock? Obviously, it wasn’t at the time, but it is now. It’s just straight-up embarrassing. He genuinely doesn’t know these aren’t IQ tests. The thing about being an evil dictator nobody is allowed to challenge and certainly not correct, is that nobody can TELL him he’s challenging people to see if they can identify elephants, too. If HE thinks he’s taking IQ tests, everybody around him will pretend he’s taking IQ tests.

But the rest of the world knows he’s being tested for dementia on a regular, on-going basis. Doctors don’t do that without a reason. You don’t just get a brain scan as part of a standard physical. As I watch him wander aimlessly in Japan, I understand: there’s a reason…

Crueler By The Day…

by MyBaconPress

Forty-two million Americans (and MAGA) are about to lose SNAP benefits. Just before Thanksgiving. Lovely. This is the result of the Republican shut-down. The cons are SO intent on taking health insurance from millions of Americans (and MAGA), they’re willing to also starve millions MORE Americans (and MAGA) to make the point.

Sadly, I think the cons are about to “win.” The end of this week ends the month. November 1st is the date the new Affordable Care Act rates are locked in with open enrollment, though they actually kick in January 1st, 2026. All the cons have to do is ignore the needs of the people for a few more days and the fight becomes moot. Health insurance rates skyrocket and millions fall off the insured rolls. Having a nation of ailing and sick people with no access to health care probably won’t be too much of a problem, right?

I find myself shaking my head at this crowd on a regular basis, but it’s not the unbelievable insolence of their actions that causes it. It’s the effing cruelty that has me shaking my head…

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Apparently, Donny is very upset that the Democrats are trying to do to the Republicans what the Republicans are trying to do to the Democrats. All of this gerrymandering stuff is creating real trouble around the country. California’s Prop 50 looks strong. Virginia is working a loophole that might allow them to remove three Republican seats.

In a late night social media post, 47 wrote, “Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our “President!” Yeah, Donny, we’ve all noticed. Americans wish you weren’t there, too. He’s sending “election observers” to California to oversee the Prop 50 special election coming up. They’ve already written up their “discoveries” of “irregularities.” They want to get ahead of the “problems” they make up.

I’ve been writing about the fall of a once-great nation. It’s pretty clear, it’s all coming down to the 2026 mid-terms. If Americans win, there’s an outside chance to rein in the insanity. If MAGA wins? The insanity gets steroids…

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Yesterday, I said I expect our once-great nation to devolve into smaller, separate countries. I hope for a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. This is in response to the fall of the United States and the abdication of the Constitution. If I may paraphrase evil Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the United States of America. The United States of America left me.

I’d call one of the new nations ‘The Republic of California.’ (Guess where I think it will be.) It’s government would be a Constitutional Republic, based on an updated and corrected version of the same US Constitution MAGA just abandoned. I happen to have created just such a document for just such a time. My updated Constitution addresses some of the inherent failings of the original document.

The economy of my proposed new nation would be Social Capitalism.
“Social Capitalism? Never heard of it.”
Right. Social Capitalism is really just Democratic Socialism. The thing is, I’ve learned through the oh-so-many years of my life, that a group – any group – has to wait for it’s slowest member. It’s a kind of a curse but that’s the way it is.

Americans have been conditioned to crap their collective panties every time they hear the word ‘Socialism,’ despite the fact that we ALL benefit from the few areas we’ve dabbled in it. It MUST, we were told, equate to “Communism.” It turns out? Not so much. Socialism is a continuum. At one extreme is the United States’ current system, brutal, so-called “Free Market” Capitalism, and at the other extreme is Communism. Neither system best serves the largest number of people.

In simplest terms, Social Capitalism is regulated capitalism for private industry, with public control and ownership of the commons. It features high taxes on high incomes.
“High taxes on high incomes is income redistribution!”
“Yes, it is. In fact, EVERY financial transaction is ‘income redistribution,’ so you’re not saying anything. Like, remember when the boss kept all of the revenues generated by the workers? THAT was income redistribution, too. You did the work, the boss “redistributed” the result to himself. Why aren’t you bitching about that?”

I’ve always thought ‘Democratic Socialism’ was a stupid name, almost a taunt, intended to ridicule those who can’t think beyond what they’re told. I developed Social Capitalism independently – then discovered it already existed, it was clearly better than alternatives (as I had suspected), and it already had a name. It was a dumb name, but a name, nonetheless.

But the key phrase is, “Americans have been conditioned to crap their collective panties every time they hear the word ‘Socialism.'” The moment some of our slowest members hear ‘Democratic Socialism,’ they lock up. “I ain’t no DemocRAT!”
“No, it refers to the process, not the party.”
“I ain’t no Commie, either.”
“No, it’s not Communism. It’s sociali– Oh, never mind. Let’s do Social Capitalism, instead!”
“Yeah, Capitalism. That’s for me.”

I’m not even the first to THAT particular revelation, either – that some people need a more comforting name for a thing because they’re just not able to quickly update their thinking. When FDR was sprinkling elements of Democratic Socialism into the American economy – the elements that created the greatest middle class in history – he, too, knew it needed a more palatable name for Americans. He called it ‘The New Deal.’ It was The New Deal that made America great in the first place…

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The violations and outrages just keep coming, don’t they? It’s distraction mode, turbocharged. It’s like he doesn’t want us thinking about certain things. I don’t get it. Oh, is NOW a good time to remember that Donald Trump was best friends with an accused and convicted child sex trafficker named Jeffrey Epstein for fifteen years? Is NOW the time to recall that much of this noise is about burying the Epstein story by simply overwhelming it with fresh, new outrages? When it comes to 9/11 we say, “Never forget.” I think we owe the same to those girls who Donny and his friends so violently attacked…

If They Only Knew…

by MyBaconPress

Billions for Argentina, not one penny for Americans. Obviously, millions and millions for the minions, too. Puppy killer Kristi Noem is getting not one, but TWO new jets. $172 million dollars.

Maybe that’s a clue as to how he can fire everybody and stop paying most of the government’s bills – and that was before the shutdown – and STILL be showing a nearly $2 Trillion dollar deficit. (It would be far worse if he hadn’t imposed those massive tax increases on everybody through his tariffs.) That money’s going somewhere, by the gods. More on that from Ronald Reagan in a moment…

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Yeah, this just figures, doesn’t it? Remember back when Donny was seriously mismanaging the Covid-19 pandemic, creating so many unnecessary deaths? MAGA doesn’t like climate change. (No, stay with me.) Because science kept betraying their faith that climate change was fake, they decided they didn’t like science, either. So, when Covid-19 reared it’s ugly head – see? We’re getting back to it – MAGA, after an initial brush with complying with science – decided to denigrate any and all scientific input on the topic.

When masks and social distancing were the only weapons we had, they wore eye-masks or none at all and held “Covid Parties.” Lots and lots of them “showed the libs” all the way to the morgue. THEN, when a vaccine was developed, MAGA refused the shot. Well, except Donny. HE gets it. He gets it to this day. He tells the minions not to, but he does. Now, obviously, MAGA didn’t have any decent reason to refuse the shot. So, they made ’em up!

That’s no big deal to MAGA. It’s part of being in the cult. The truth is their enemy. They came up with some good ones, some seriously scary stuff. Each shot contained a tracker. People who get the shot die from the shot because of the complications it caused. Get the shot and then get hit by a truck on the way home? That was the shot’s fault, obviously. (MAGA is not good with correlation.)

I have a second, generalized position about MAGA: every accusation is an admission. I say “every accusation” knowing full well one should avoid absolutes and I keep waiting for the exception MAGA would use to paint me a fool, but so far, every accusation proves, eventually, to be an admission.

The reason I mention that is this: it turns out, even MAGA claims about the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccine are the exact opposite of the truth. It’s early days, yet, but it turns out, Covid-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment! Granted, not by itself. But combined with Immunotherapy – the last ‘revolution in cancer treatment’ – the vaccine helps bodies target tumors that might otherwise go undetected.

Get yourself a MAGA friend. Ask them for advice. Always do the opposite. You can’t go wrong…

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Canada, eh? They spent $75 million dollars to show an ad in the US featuring Ronald Reagan explaining why tariffs are bad policy that hurts a country’s own people. In the ad, Reagan says, “When someone says: ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes, for a short while it works, but only for a short time.” There’s more. “But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.”

He added, “High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens: markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs.” That’s Ronald Reagan explaining 47’s tariffs.

Donny, of course, is angry. He cancelled all trade talks with Canada for “as long as his tantrum lasts.” (I may have added the quotes.) In response, Canada pulled the ad. It’s too bad. It was good information. But Canada has to contend with Tantrum Donny so they stood down, being the grown-ups in the room…

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I’ve got to say, if MAGA ever finds out what’s really going on in this once-great nation, I think they’d be just as mad as everyone else. I know, that sounds strange, but I hold that MAGA does NOT know what’s actually happening. Virtually every evil deed committed by Team Evil is “sane-washed” by MAGA media. They receive a constant stream of curated “information,” carefully managed to keep The Deceived deceived.

Do you remember the other day, when Donny read off a list of things he has reduced the costs on? It was wondrous. The only real problem? It was also pure bunk. Costs are not down on, well, anything, really. As he sat and read off the list, I knew he was lying and so did most other people. But that soundbite wasn’t FOR Americans. It was for MAGA. That clip got played on a loop in MAGA media and by the end of business, Friday, they KNEW prices were down on everything. Donny had told them so.

But they’re going into grocery stores. They’re pulling up to gas pumps. Maybe they need a new washer. They need medications. They’re getting their price increase notices on their health insurance right now. Their media is telling them one thing. Their day to day lived experience is showing them something else entirely. I say again, if MAGA ever figures out what’s really going on in this once-great nation, I think they’d be just as mad as everyone else…

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Yeah, he’s TRYING to be as cruel as possible to Democrats in an effort to “punish” them for trying to keep millions of Americans – Democrats AND Republicans – from losing their health insurance. But Donny doesn’t CARE if people lose their health insurance. He wants to keep all the money for himself and those medicare subsidies would take away from the billionaires – and, apparently, from Argentina.

The thing is, he kind of can’t hit the Dems without hitting Republicans and Red hats, too. Worse, the red states tend to be taker states – by definition, states that take more money from the federal government than they pay in. Red states depend FAR more heavily on federal aid. When he slashes programs, they impact those red states, not to mention red districts in blue states.

He’s claiming the programs he’s hitting are all “Democrat” priorities but every state has been working on renewable energy for no reason other than it’s the obvious smart move. So how does he cancel renewable programs that don’t impact red states? The answer is, he doesn’t.

No, he can’t really hurt only Democrats. He’s taking out Republicans and Red Hats, too, just as collateral damage. But the MAIN point, I think, is that he intends to inflict so much damage on Americans. What a piece of…um…work…

Just Doing Their Jobs?

by MyBaconPress

Keeping it classy, I guess. By now, you’ve seen the AI generated video of Cadet Bone Spurs pretending to be a real life pilot – wearing a Burger King crown, of course – and dumping a load of, um, poop on Americans. Nice, right?

It’s so…juvenile. FAR beneath what anybody expects from a President of the United States. This is only Donny, though, so… keep it in perspective. Unsurprisingly, there’s now a “response” video, too – an American Bald Eagle pooping on Donny. I like that one better…

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Erik Siebert was the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 47 appointed him after seizing power. 47 wanted Siebert to file charges against James Comey and Letitia James. 47 didn’t care that there we no legitimate charges, but Siebert did. Seibert wouldn’t do it. So, 47 pitched a fit and Siebert resigned. (The Drumpfster insists he fired Siebert, but The Drumpfster lies about everything.)

So Donny tried to make a second interim appointment as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, a wholly unqualified toady known as Lindsay Halligan. Halligan filed the charges against Comey and James in “Yes, sir! Right away, sir!” fashion. She faces two burdens before she ever GETS to an actual trial. One, Donny publicly ordered the vindictive prosecution in writing, and, two, it wasn’t legal for Team Evil to appoint Halligan at all.

See, The First Felon keeps naming incompetent fools to high level positions. He knows the unqualified bootlickers can’t get through a Congressional hearing – his appointees really, really suck – so they have been appointing many of their people on an interim basis. That way, see, they get to skip the confirmation part.

Section 546 of Title 28 of the United States Code authorizes an Attorney General to appoint an interim United States Attorney for a term of 120 days. Under section 546(d), once the 120-day term expires, “the district court for such district may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.”

Acting Attorney General James McHenry (a temp) appointed Erik Siebert (another temp) as interim United States Attorney on January 21, 2025. After his 120-day term expired, the judges of the Eastern District of Virginia appointed him to continue to serve. So, clearly, he wasn’t doing a bad job of it.

On May 6, 2025 Donny nominated Siebert to be US Attorney. His nomination had advanced to the Senate floor when Trump learned that Siebert had told senior Justice Department officials that he wasn’t going to prosecute James or Comey because there wasn’t any evidence of a crime. Donny had a tantrum and Siebert was out as United States Attorney.

So Halligan represents an attempt by the DOJ to appoint a second interim US Attorney and the law says they can’t do that. Since Halligan isn’t appointed legally, Comey argues, none of her indictments are legal, either. That’s the law and it SHOULD hold up. No one can say for certain what will happen in this Bizarro America.

Comey’s team cited an opinion written by a legal counsel for the Reagan administration right after that law passed, interpreting it just that way: only one interim appointment. That legal counsel? Samuel Alito! That makes it doubly interesting as to what will happen when it reaches the way high court. If they intend to issue one of their “Whatever the Precious wants” rulings, Alito will first have to overcome the opinion written by Alito…

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I really hate watching that madman tear down the White House, but you’ve got to admit, it’s the perfect metaphor for the disaster that is Donald Trump…

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The story so far: a woman named Adelita Grijalva was elected in Arizona to serve in the House of Representatives. Grijalva is a Democrat. Grijalva has promised to be the 218th signature on Republican Thomas Massie’s Petition to Discharge the Epstein Files. You remember the Epstein Files, right? The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ are a collection of evidence taken when Donald Trump’s best friend Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for trafficking in child prostitutes.

The information contained in that evidence implicates a LOT of rich, powerful men and Donny is definitely among those names. It appears Donny considered it among his special privileges as a rich man to rape children – and he really seemed to like doing that a lot. MAGA Mike, the Johnson has been ordered by his not-his-boss “boss” to never expose those files under any circumstances. You know, because of how innocent the files make 47 look.

There wasn’t much The Johnson could do to quell the surprise effort from his flank to get the files released. So, he cleverly – at least I assume he thinks it’s clever – shut down the House. Then he did it again. And again. It’s shut down right now, by choice of the Speaker and for no other reason. In short, he’s keeping the House closed with no business being done – most especially swearing in Adelita Grijalva so she can sign that petition.

Meanwhile, they’re not doing anything else, either. NO House business is being conducted with the exception of the occasional vote to advance the Continuing Resolution (CR) that re-opens the government, but does nothing for the millions of Americans who will start signing up to significantly higher prices for health insurance this November 1 or lose their insurance entirely.

The Johnson keeps pretending that 1) he can’t possibly swear in Grijalva during a shut-down (he can) and 2) Grijalva should just hunker down and do her job anyway. I guess we’re just supposed to ignore the fact that it would be illegal for Grijalva to ACT as a Representative when she hasn’t been sworn in, not to mention that fact that her computers and such don’t work until she’s sworn in. But I digress.

Tuesday, The State of Arizona and Grijalva filed a lawsuit against The Johnson for being, well, a Johnson. They’re making the obvious argument that not swearing in Grijalva is ‘taxation without representation’ for Grijalva’s district. A Speaker does not have the authority to simply refuse to swear in a duly elected or appointed member.

Here’s the hitch: yes, MAGA Mike, the Johnson is in violation of the US Constitution, BUT… pretty much everything this evil, criminal, corrupt and hate-filled regime has done and is doing violates the US Constitution. I know how it would play out in our constitutional republic. I have no idea how it plays out under a moronic dictator…

Is Team Evil ALWAYS Wrong? So Far…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, help me out, here. I mean, make this make sense. By now, we all know about Donny’s murder spree on so-called “Venezuelan drug runners,” likely really just fishermen. Team Evil sees a boat in the Caribbean and they blow it up, insisting the boat was full of drugs and drug runners from Venezuela. Normally, those attacks kill everyone aboard, but not the most recent attack, as of this writing.

In the most recent attack, two of the four people aboard survived. I see, this morning, that the US is going to “repatriate” the two “to their home countries of Columbia and Ecuador for prosecution and punishment.” Great. He randomly attacks boats out fishing or on a pleasure trip, killing everyone aboard because he wants to pretend he’s being tough on drugs, then finds out he accidentally killed people from Columbia and Ecuador? Now Columbia and Ecuador have to be dragged into this just because the Drumpfster can’t confess error?

He has yet to offer any evidence of his claims beyond his well-known prevaricating mouth, but this has been an effort to ramp up MAGA anger at Venezuela, for some reason. Discovering his most recent victims were from Columbia and Ecuador just adds to the confusion. I don’t know why he’s not going to prosecute them here, but I guess it’s because there’s no evidence. Even if there had been, he blew it up.

So let’s sum up, shall we? He kills a bunch of people on boats, insisting they’re dangerous and evil drug runners. He actually captures two of the dangerous and evil drug runners. Now he’s sending those same dangerous and evil drug runners back to their home countries – specifically, NOT Venezuela – and just… setting them free? That doesn’t seem like a very effective drug-battling strategy, if you ask me…

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Remember all the way back to, um, Saturday? When Americans held their ‘No Kings’ protest and the President of the United States decided to bomb the US in an attempt to intimidate protestors that didn’t intimidate protestors at all? Yeah, that time. The US fired artillery shells across I-5, claiming they were celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Marines, which occurs on November 10 so why wouldn’t you recognize it on October 18?

The military insisted it would be perfectly safe. GOP Representative Darrell Issa, who represents a district east of the base, called it “a spiteful publicity stunt” by Newsom. In a statement to the New York Times on Saturday, a spokesperson for Just Dumb Vance, William Martin, said Newsom misled the public about the safety risk.

That seems… less than supportive of Gavin Newsom’s call to close the highway for awhile during the live-firing-across-a-highway exercise. Newsom said it wasn’t just wrong – it was dangerous. He added that the President – or in this case, trump – “…using our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn’t strength – it’s reckless, it’s disrespectful, and it’s beneath the office he holds.” So who was right?

Well, this morning, there’s a report that one of the oh-so-safe artillery shells exploded early – right over the highway, in fact. Shrapnel rained down on a Highway Patrol car and a motorcycle that were part of JD Vance’s detail. Fortunately, nobody was hurt – because Newsom had closed the highway. It WAS a stupid and dangerous stunt and there WAS a problem that could have hurt or killed people. Gavin was right. Team Evil was wrong – again!

And STILL, ‘No Kings’ came off without a hitch, supported by millions of Americans nationwide…

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Well, the Niners sure served up a game yesterday, didn’t they? They’re not exactly inspiring confidence during the week as we hear report after report about injuries. This guy’s hurt. That guy’s out. What happened? Who’s next? The reports leave the fans feeling like the team will hobble out on walkers and do the best they can. Then they come out and beat the Atlanta Falcons 20-10. It was… convincing…

Christian McCaffrey came out and played so well he looked like, well, like Christian McCaffrey in his prime. McCaffrey has been struggling this season. Apparently, the Niners finally changed their run scheme and McCaffrey, um… ran with it. My first thought was, “Why didn’t they do that sooner?” But the reality is, you get it when you get it and I’m glad they got it now.

On the other side of the ball, we all thought the defense was going to collapse after the loss of Fred Warner and Nick Bosa. Well, that’s what we get for thinking, isn’t it? The defense looked sharp and tight and played very well. Very well, indeed. No, they weren’t perfect but they were very good. As I watched the replacements command the field, I thought, “Hey, Bosa and Warner once played their first down in the NFL, too.” Maybe the replacements are just as good. We’ll see.

Last season, we Niner fans were burned so often by our kicker, we seem to have PTSD. The kicker comes on to the field, Niner fans groan, “Oh, no.” But that was our LAST kicker, whose name I will not mention. Our current kicker, Eddy Piñeiro, has been perfect on field goals and only missed one kick all season. We fans need to get over ourselves.

And, listen. I’m a Brock Purdy fan. I’ve been a Brock Purdy fan since he exploded onto the scene. He’s a very good player. But Mac Jones is better. He’s making better reads. He makes them faster. He’s got very good accuracy and zip on the ball. He has a deep ball Purdy lacks. In fact, the only thing I think Purdy has on Jones is his ability to move. Jones isn’t a statue, but he’s not as mobile as Purdy.

It’s still Purdy’s job, of course. He JUST got the fat payday. The Niners are on the hook for that money now and they’re not going to let Purdy go and absorb that loss. But it says something that the deciding factor is the money and not the on-field performance. If it was strictly on-field performance, I’d say Mac Jones has the edge.

I say again, Purdy doesn’t suck. I’m not going be too upset that we end up with him under center. But I’m going to be sad to see Jones take his talents to another team next season. I actually and honestly think he’s the better Quarterback…

Decent People Hate That Guy…

by MyBaconPress

Well, did it work? Is he out? No? Okay, not yet, but is he leaving? No? Well, has he at least seen the error of his ways and promised to change? No, again? Yeah, I was afraid of that. I wouldn’t exactly call it a wash-out, though. Millions of people across the country came together to stand in solidarity against the abuses, excesses, and corruption of the current regime. Decent people hate that guy.

It’s a good visual. There are photos of protests from sea to shining sea with people shoulder to shoulder. Team Evil seemed to fear the event. They tried to smear participants before the fact by calling potential protestors all kinds of terrible names. Well, “terrible” to them. Antifa? Why yes, thank you, I DO oppose fascism. Marxists? I’d bet not. Un-American? No, those are the creeps dismantling our government, those who can’t wait to bend the knee to a king. It’s a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black.

In Southern California, Donny decided to have the marines stage a war game, complete with live fire over I-5. The marines said the live fire wouldn’t affect the highway but California closed it for a time anyway. The demonstration was said to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Marines but that date wasn’t yesterday’s date. The 250th anniversary of the Marines is November 10. Apparently, they even failed ‘reading a calendar’ in school.

I haven’t heard about too much (any, really) violence at the protests. I imagine if I tune in MAGA media I’ll see nothing BUT violence at the protests – even if the visuals for the “violence at the protests” comes from other protests and around the world. Faking it is easy for MAGA media. They’ll show footage of J6 rioters and insist the pictures represent out-of-control lefties at No Kings, things like that.

Where violence DID occur, it seems to have been instigated by government. ICEholes in Portland, Oregon, for example, deployed tear gas at a protest outside their office. That wasn’t even an official ‘No Kings’ protest, though. That was the other Portland protest that’s been going on since The Felon deployed the National Guard to Portland because it was a “war zone,” his demented mind unable to discern what an actual war zone looks like.

I don’t mean to go all dark, here, but it seems the protests didn’t DO much. Sure, we got to enjoy some solidarity and demonstrate our anger at – and, dare I say – hatred of the Orange Moron. They KNOW we hate them. They don’t care. They KNOW we disapprove of their constant assaults on Americans and their overall failures. They don’t care. They KNOW Americans don’t want a king. They don’t care. I don’t think this chaos ends with marches and inspirational speeches…

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Huh. Who would have guessed? Didn’t Donny say this was over? Does he ever get anything right? I saw a headline in the Guardian this morning, ‘Gaza cease fire under pressure as Israeli army carries out airstrikes in Rafah.’ As nearly as I can tell, Israel pretty much hasn’t stopped shooting. At all. It looked promising for a minute as the hostages were exchanged, but that’s the Middle East: never promising for more than a minute. Good job, God!

Describing the ceasefire as “under pressure” when one side has ceased ceasing – never really ceased at all, actually – is pretty hopeful wording. Well, at least the hostages are home. But somehow, 47 always fails up. Somehow, this not-entirely-a-surprise collapse of the ceasefire might better position him for the Nobel Peace Prize he so desperately wants. No, I don’t get it, either. The only explanation I can think of is always the same: the devil takes care of his own…

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Remember Luigi Mangione? He’s the guy who murdered the pharmacy exec, Brian Thompson. There was some pretty loud celebrating at the equity of the attack until we collectively remembered, “Oh, yeah, murder is bad.” I suspect Mangione still enjoys low-key, but widespread support. There’s a reality to the idea that, yeah, the CEO doesn’t kill with a gun. That doesn’t mean his choices don’t kill people. Mangione’s actions were just less random and more focused.

Mangione’s family isn’t exactly destitute but they don’t have as much money as the Thompson’s. ‘When a lesser wealth kills a greater wealth, the book shall be thrown with full and unrelenting force.’ That’s a teaching from the Book of Mark. No, not the Biblical one, the me one. Punishment for crime is always enhanced when the victim comes from the upper classes. In keeping with that truth, Mangione has been charged with everything they could think of, then a few more things they made up just to really, really get the guy. They want to kill him right back.

Well, guess what? Mangione’s lawyers have filed to dismiss the indictment altogether, citing “false, damaging, public statements” made by Pam Bondi and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. They argued that at the very least the death penalty should be off the table, arguing that the staged, “Marvel movie” style perk walk on December 19 – “with dozens of agents needed to protect the public from the shackled monster Mangione” – “violated Mangione’s right to due process such that this death penalty case should be dismissed.”

Team Evil is just trying to whip up some support, of course, but their ongoing incompetence might be their own undoing when it comes to their eye-for-an-eye attitude…

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MAGA Mike, the Johnson, STILL hasn’t sworn in Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat elected three weeks ago. His lie is that he can’t. The shutdown needs to end, first, he says. The truth is, he won’t. And if he can find a way to keep from swearing her in AFTER the shutdown ends, he’ll do that, too.

MAGA has been running roughshod over the Constitution and the Democrats since January. There is precious little the Dems can do to stop them. THIS shutdown is pretty much the only chance they have to effect change in policy. Their votes are the only leverage they have and they’re withholding their votes until Team Evil relents on taking health insurance away from millions of people.

So, right NOW, the evil GOP is pretending Grijalva is their leverage. “We’ll swear in your member when the government re-opens, so drop your opposition to our evil plans.” MAGA Mike, the Johnson even suggested the Grijalva should just get to work representing her constituents. He fails to mention that it would be illegal for her to ACT as a Representative when she hasn’t been sworn in as a Representative.

Arizona is putting together a lawsuit in an effort to force the Johnson to swear in their representative. Americans still seem to believe the Constitution applies and according to that Constitution, Arizona has a legal right to full representation in congress. The Johnson is denying them that right.

MAGA Mike is trying to blow the whole thing off. “She has nothing, whatsoever, to do with what’s happening in Congress,” he lies. You see, she does. Adelita Grijalva represents the 218th signature on Rep Massie’s Petition for Discharge, forcing a vote on releasing the Epstein Files. At that point, the GOP has to go on formal record protecting their pet pervert pedophile – not to mention, apparently, themselves – from exposure in those files.

So far, in a desperate effort to keep from facing that vote, the Johnson has dismissed the House entirely – as though they have nothing to do – and refused to swear in a duly elected Representative from a red state. One could almost call their united front impressive – if only it weren’t being used to defend trump from his involvement with child sex trafficking and molestation. The things some people will overlook…

LOTS of Blather…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve kind of enjoyed all of the GOP hyperbole associated with today’s “No Kings” protests. It’s all so ridiculous. MAGA is calling Americans every name they can think of, the worst of the worst. They said participants in the No Kings protests are Hamas supporters, Antifa, and un-American. I laugh at these morons. Then, I remember that they’re going to govern according to their delusional fever dreams, and it’s less funny.

I oppose Israel’s attempted genocide in Gaza. I am NOT “pro Hamas.” For the record, in standing with No Kings, I’m aligning myself with the Founding Fathers and in proudly wearing the mantle of Antifa, I stand with the thousands of American soldiers who defeated the Axis Powers in WWII. I AM “Antifa,” or anti-fascist. Tell me why that’s bad.

As far as being un-American? You can go fu– well, what that Dick Cheney said. I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to hang around while traitors to the nation call ME un-American. If you oppose ‘No Kings,’ you must be pro king, right? It doesn’t get more un-American than that. If the fight against King George III was happening today, MAGA wouldn’t be donning red hats. They’d be donning red coats…

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It’s time for Americans to STOP trying to convince MAGA they’re engaging in fascist behavior. What, you don’t think they KNOW it? Of course they know it. This isn’t even the first time in history fascism has been even mildly popular, here, in America. Rich people love it and they convince failed, work-a-day Joes they should love it, too.

Americans expected MAGA to stand down when we told them it was fascism because of the price Americans paid to defeat the ideology the LAST time it reared it’s ugly head. They didn’t. We said, “Hey, that’s Fascism!” and expected them to recoil. Instead, MAGA said, “You bet your ASS that’s fascism! WE LOVE IT!”

So, give it up, would you? They know what they’re doing. They have NO idea what they’re doing to themselves in the long run, but ushering in fascism is their goal, they think it’s a worthy goal, and they’re going to do it…

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Zelenskyy came all the way to the US to ask Putin’s Puppet for Tomahawk Missiles. Donny said no. Do you know why? Because Putin told him not to! Those are not my words, they’re Donny’s. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Donny. But in the meantime, 47 is taking his marching orders from Putin…

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Our Fearful Misleader has taken to ‘harassment indicting’ his political opponents. So far, all of the fraudulent indictments have one thing in common: each was dropped as an investigation by qualified attorneys before being restored as charges by bootlickers.

The First Felon pushed out the federal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert – a trump appointee, because he refused to move forward with a fraudulent prosecution against James Comey. Donny installed unqualified loyalist Lindsey Halligan, who DID file the charges. She appeared in court with no other federal prosecutors, all of whom refused to sign the charging documents.

She also charged Letitia James after Siebert refused to destroy his legal career just to make a narcissist happy. Siebert has some integrity, Halligan does not. He cares about the law, she does not. He would not file the fraudulent charges, she did – happily. I can see a future where Halligan surrenders her law license a-la Rudy Giuliani.

So now there are NEW pretend charges against John Bolton. Bolton has maintained a journal throughout his entire career and Team Evil is charging him with putting national secrets in his journal and sharing pages with others. It goes back to the book he wrote in which he accurately described the chaos and incompetence of a trump white house, which irritated the thin-skinned orange man. This is Donny’s revenge. Oh, for the record, the Biden DOJ already looked into this and declined to pursue it due to lack of evidence. He’s just wasting time and wasting money…

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I know loyalty is loyalty but Donny seems to be actively attacking Americans and MAGA. I’ve said it before. At this point, the MAGA rank-and-file remind me of nothing so much as an abused spouse. Donny gives them a “see what you made me do?” and – they do. They DO see what they made him do. They just don’t understand what they did to make him do it.

Take soybeans. Donny’s tariffs wiped out the American soybean market to China in, like, days. This year, so far, China has purchased zero American soybeans. Instead, they went down to economically troubled Argentina. Donny likes Argentina because their leader is an incompetent, wanna-be dictator, called ‘El Loco,’ whose policies are harming his country. Birds of a feather, you know?

So Donny is sending $20 billion dollars to Argentina – and it could be as high as $40 billion – to help them stabilize their economy so it’s easier for them to sell their soybeans to China, and leaving AMERICAN soybean farmers out in the cold. Put another way, not one penny to help Americans, $40 billion to help Argentina. Loyalty should be a two-way street, but whenever Donny is involved, it isn’t. Donny is loyal to nothing but himself…

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When it comes to actually lowering prices, Donny is a complete, absolute, abject, and utter failure. He can’t lower prices. He doesn’t have a clue how to lower prices. What he CAN do is lie about it, so he does THAT, instead. The thing is, his lies are stupid. I suspect even MAGA figured out he didn’t get drug prices down by 1,500%.

I mean, hey, we were ALL hoping we’d go to pick up our prescriptions and get a fat check, too, but it hasn’t turned out that way at all. Instead, we’re all still paying – a LOT – for prescriptions. For reasons that seem to elude him, prices don’t respond to his fantasies or declarations.

This is one of the biggest problems with his failed and twisted personality. NOBODY in his circle can even suggest he might be mistaken, for fear of retribution. (Did you see the Comey, James, Bolton bit, above?) So when he claims he has lowered the cost of IVF by 800% – his latest claim – nobody can point out to him that it’s impossible. Labs are NOT going to pay women to have an IVF procedure. That’s not how they make money at all.

Maybe he knows he’s lying. Maybe he’s just lost his mind. It’s hard to tell the difference but the outcome is the same: he hasn’t DONE anything – except blather. He’s got LOTS of blather…

Today’s Republican Party…

by MyBaconPress

Can you imagine being Donald J. Trump and openly speculating about whether or not you might get into heaven? He’s been doing that recently, speculating. I guess with all of his recent health issues that are completely obvious but totally not happening, an afterlife is on his mind. But, I wonder if he really wonders. (He doesn’t. He knows.) Donny is the physical embodiment of ALL of the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Wrath, and Sloth. He doesn’t miss one.

I wrote a rather long and involved piece about the Anti-Christ and how Donny fit the bill in every way. When you fit – perfectly – the biblical descriptions of the Anti-Christ AND you embody ALL of the Seven Deadly Sins, I seriously doubt Heaven is your final destination…

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Twenty-seven. That’s the number of people Team Evil have murdered in boats off the coast of Venezuela as of Wednesday morning. Twenty-seven. He says they’re drug runners. He offers no proof. We just have to take his word for it. Oh, well, in THAT case… I’ll really need to see that evidence. That boy tells more lies before breakfast than I have in my entire life.

But, hey, best case scenario, okay? Let’s just agree, for the sake of argument, that, yes, those are drug runners and they are trying to smuggle drugs into the US. DOES that give the US the right to summarily execute them? The US Constitution says they have a right to a trial. They’re certainly NOT getting a trial.

Donny is calling his murders a “non-international armed conflict.” He really needs the US to be in a war in order to inflict some of the harsher things he wants to do to us. He has tried several times to claim things as wars to give himself special powers. So far, the courts keep telling him these aren’t “wars.” Murdering people in pleasure boats out for a grand day on the water hardly qualifies as a “war.”

“Hey,” says a MAGA, “you don’t know they were pleasure boats, just out having a good time.”
And you don’t know that they’re drug runners, either. My guess is as good as yours. It was once a bedrock principle of the United States that even the worst of the worst get a trial. They get to face their accusers and offer rebuttal evidence, if they can. Summary executions in international waters with no evidence presented and no chance for rebuttal qualifies as murder, in my book…

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Look, I know the right is trying to sanctify the guy, but Charlie Kirk was hardly the best among us and he absolutely does not deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Prove Me Wrong…

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Oh, and speaking of offensive mouths, well, in this case, fingers, have you heard about the Young Republicans and their racist and hate-filled comments? I’ve read many of them. Yech. One wrote, ‘I love Hitler.’ Another called rape ‘epic.’ They “joked” about sending their political opponents to gas chambers. One woman, Annie Kaykaty, a member of New York’s national committee wrote, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

Lovely. Such wonderful, well-developed people – the future (and the present) of the GOP. Apparently, there are 2,900 pages – 28,000 messages – of such oh-so-funny racist and/or misogynist and/or violent – yes, more violence from the right – “jokes.” Team Evil trotted out Junior Dumbass Vance, who is trying to dismiss the comments as youthful indiscretions, just the kinds of things kids do.

Yeah, Hitler’s kids. I know, Hitler didn’t have any kids, it’s a metaphor. You know what? I was a kid, once. I popped off. I was flippant. I said stupid things. (Still do.) But they weren’t racist. They weren’t misogynist. They weren’t violent or threatening. They didn’t promote hatred. In short, yes, kids say stupid things, but these ‘kids’ were gleefully spouting a particular brand of evil and hatred decent people avoid.

Oh, and before we go too far down the ‘kids’ rabbit hole, bear in mind, some of these ‘kids’ in the ‘Young Republicans’ were forty years old at the time. These were like-minded people who thought they were in a safe space and let rip with the things they can’t say in public, but really, really want to. These ARE… today’s Republican Party…

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Out of the mouths of narcissistic dictators, eh? When he saw the ‘Time’ Magazine cover of him – which I agree is not the best shot of a person in the history of great shots – he wrote, “They “disappeared” my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.”

NATURE is “disappearing” his hair and the “something floating” on top of his head IS what’s left of his hair. When HE saw it, he saw a “crown,” and was irritated it was a “small one.” Speaking of which, remember the ‘No Kings Day’ rallies taking place near you this weekend, October 18. Frankly, I think the rallies are too little, too late and too few and too far between but anything we can do is better than nothing.

Anyway, I guess the photo was meant to convey power but the most prominent visual – the thing most people are commenting on – is his amazingly prominent waddle. He’s a very fat man with a substantial waddle and when he folds that thing up and forces it into a buttoned shirt collar, it starts to look like… well, I don’t want to say.

But Stephen Colbert suggested he had just delivered a baby from it. The director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs, Maria Zakharova, wrote, “Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred – perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo.” Perverts? What are YOU seeing, there, Maria? Yeah, me, too – right along with everyone else…

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I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but it looks like Donny’s amazing victory in the Israeli/Gaza war is falling apart. Netanyahu started looking for excuses and “work-arounds” almost immediately. Hamas was late delivering some dead hostages? Well, that’s it, then. The war is back on. As of this writing, Israel has killed 24 people in shootings since the “cease fire” was announced.

I don’t really know, of course. Nobody does. Hell, I hope I’m wrong. I’d rather the brutality stop – even if it means giving Donny credit for the win. But this is a fight that’s been going on for thousands of years and Bibi is motivated to keep the war going in an effort to stay out of jail…

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Our Fearful Misleader, The First Felon, says he has to fire workers from “Democrat” departments. I don’t know what a “Democrat” department is but, so far, he has attacked the CDC the hardest. This guy is suggesting that deadly illnesses can – or will – check someone’s political registry before infecting the person.

There’s a reason the entire world thinks he’s a dumb as a brick and twice as thick…

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There is a ton of stuff going on. It’s very hard to keep up. Is NOW a good time to remember that Donald Trump was best friends with an accused and convicted child sex trafficker named Jeffrey Epstein for fifteen years? Is NOW the time to recall that much of this noise is about burying the Epstein story by simply overwhelming it with fresh, new outrages?

Ballots Online? Be Careful…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, so this is important. California has done a confusing thing. (What? Again?) I know! I opened my mail-in ballot. You know, the safest kind of ballot a voter can use? The ones with all of those protections built into them to ensure security? Yeah, that one.

Along with my ballot, I found a little card. One side of the card is emblazoned with the words ‘Business Reply Mail.’ The other side is an application for a thing called a ‘Remote Accessible Vote By Mail Ballot’ or RAVBM. I suppose such a thing has value if you spoil your mail-in ballot, but I don’t like them putting the application in with the other ballot. It could cause confusion.

What it is, see, is your ballot online. BUT… you don’t file the ballot online. You access it online, mark your ballot online, then print it out, put it in an envelope, and mail it (or carry it) in. Meanwhile, filling out the application voids the mail-in ballot the county mailed to you – and you STILL have to get it back by the end of business on “election” day.

My concern is that someone might get confused and think they’re signing up for a new service for future “elections” while filing this year’s mail-ballot, and not realize they’ve voided this year’s mail-in ballot in the process. That would be bad.

We enjoy a secret ballot in this once-great nation so you’ll never know which ‘yes’ box I filled in for Prop 50. To be clear, I oppose gerrymandering. I worry we’re starting an even faster downward spiral by supporting this idea. Worse, I fear that in a nationwide tit-for-tat, Dems will lose.

But I don’t see any other idea that might work. Texas started this when they rewrote their districts with the specific intention of creating five extra GOP seats. It left California little to no choice but to respond in kind. We might lose the gerrymander battle – but this vote, at the very least – reflects an effort. It’s a statement: “We do not agree. We will not acquiesce.”

Personally, I just thought of it as a finger to Donny’s eye and that made it all… wonderful…

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Well, rats! Donny didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – again! I mean, how many people does he have to bomb, maim, and murder to prove he’s a peaceful guy?

Okay, here is where I should probably mention that all of the hostages in Gaza have been released and people are giving Donny credit. We’ll have to wait and see if it equates to “peace,” but releasing the hostages is a good thing…

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It’s called ‘Inoculation,’ ironically enough. One side ‘inoculates’ an argument by advancing a given position themselves and baselessly blaming their opposition, thereby blunting later criticism when they do what they accused their opponent of doing. Here’s what I mean: Donny spent the last four years whining and moaning about the government “weaponizing the Department of Justice (DOJ)” because they were trying to convict him for all of his crimes. The government, then, was NOT weaponizing the DOJ. They were simply trying to convict him for all of his crimes. They would have, too, if he hadn’t already strategically installed so many corrupt judges.

The DOJ was just doing it’s job. But the point for the GOP wasn’t to whine. The point was to create a story. The idea is, they whined and whined and cried and bitched and moaned and whined some more. NOW, when THEY actually weaponize the DOJ and the Dems say, “They’re weaponizing the DOJ,” the cons will just say, “Yeah, yeah, you didn’t care when we said it, we’re not going to care when you say it.”

MAGA is celebrating these fraudulent, harassment suits against James Comey and Letitia James. They don’t realize that establishing this precedent of weaponized prosecutions could just as easily come back to bite them down the road, too…

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MAGA Mike: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.” I have to agree with that. With the GOP in charge, it’s not just being done poorly, it’s downright treasonous…

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It isn’t true on the national level, yet, but I’ve noticed a trend in which Democrats seem to be flipping seats in red areas down ballot. The most notable in my mind was when a Democrat won the mayoral election in Fairbanks, Alaska. Alaska, including Fairbanks, is dependably red. But they voted blue this year, at least for mayor.

Democrats flipped a legislative seat in Iowa, too. They flipped one in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Last May, Democrat Sam Sutton defeated his Republican opponent to win New York’s 22nd State Senate district – a district Donny won by 55 points in 2024.

I don’t mean to overstate it. Dems are also crowing about “over-performing” in other areas. That’s usually a euphemism that means “we lost by less than we lost by last time.” It’s still a loss, but it’s promising.

To me, it’s reflective of the havoc and chaos Donny and Team Evil are inflicting on the country. I mean, c’mon, do you really believe the Dems have improved their messaging and clarified their vision of how to improve the daily lives of Americans? I assure you, they have not. At least, not on the national level. On the national level, Dems seem stuck in “We’re not Donny.” Sure, it’s true, but it’s also not very… informational.

It’s like… people WANT to vote for “We’re not Donny” but you’ve got to give them something more than “not Donny” to vote for. Candidates in these down ballot elections have done exactly that – and they’ve won. It’s a hopeful sign for the mid-terms.

While Democrats and Republicans bicker about who’s doing what to whom, constituents – Americans and MAGA, alike – are getting notices from health insurers informing them of significant increases in premiums. HUNDREDS of dollars in increases. MAGA loves bitching about Obamacare but they’ve sure enjoyed having health insurance these last years.

I doubt any of my MAGA friends are going to confess, to me, their frustration with the wreckage being inflicted by Donny and the Dumbasses. But they will confess it to each other and it might very well play out in the voting booth. Even if they don’t vote blue, not voting at all sends a message, too.

There’s even a possibility the Democrats could lose the redistricting debacle and STILL win enough seats to flip one or both houses of Congress. One can contrive a bright red district, but the bright red voters still have to come out and cast a ballot and I’m not sure taking away health care and creating artificial price spikes is the way to get that done…

Spinning Plates…

by MyBaconPress

Have you ever seen a juggler doing the spinning plate trick? You know the one. The performer sets a plate on a long stick and spins it, balancing the plate on the stick. Then, the performer sets up a second one. Then a third. Then a fourth. Then they run back and spin the first one again, keeping it in action. How many plates can they spin before they can’t maintain it anymore? It’s pretty exciting, watching the plates, waiting for them to fall.

That’s how I feel, watching Donny’s Team Evil trying to spin so many lies at the same time. They’re just flying from story to story, trying to keep the spin going. I have to confess, they’ve done pretty well, so far. But it looks like some of the plates might be getting close to falling. I think the first one to go will be this health insurance subsidy fight.

During the Spring, when Chuck Schumer rolled over and signed off on the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open, people on the left were furious with him. We suggested he sold out. But old Chucky had a plan and it is proving a good one.

See, Schumer understood he had no leverage at the time. A shut-down battle, then, would have been nothing but a debate on philosophy. With no tangible results, it would have been easy for the GOP to do what they do best: lie. By the time the rank-and-file discovered the lie, it would be too late. So Schumer signed off then, moving the fight to now.

You see, the GOP went with their standard practice. The lies started flowing right away. Their official position is that the truth always hurts their “official position” so they avoid truth like a bad neighborhood. “The GOP is the party working to protect your health care. WE want to fix it. The mean old Dems won’t let us.” For their part, Dems are pointing out that everyone’s insurance premiums are about to shoot through the roof.

Payments are going to go up hundreds and hundreds of dollars, leaving millions out in the cold. Cons lie that they have until January 1 to address the problem, and they swear on everything they hold dear (they hold nothing dear) that they really, really want to fix it, just not now. Dems are pointing out that this has to happen now, before November 1 because November 1 is when the open enrollment of the exchanges starts. If it’s not settled by then, the higher premiums take hold.

“NOT TRUE!” shout the lying liars of the GOP. “YES, TRUE!” say the notices coming out from the insurance companies to customers telling them of increases of hundreds and hundreds of dollars in their premiums. Essentially, Schumer took the Dems out of the conversation. The GOP says one thing, the notices of increase from the insurance companies say something else. MAGA can pretend the GOP is telling the truth all they want to, but they’re going to pay the higher premiums or, more likely, lose their health insurance.

The GOP is having trouble getting their lie to stick, what with all of those actual increase notices going out. And it’s not the Dems sending the notices, it’s the health insurance companies. Every day, it gets a little more clear – even to MAGA – that the GOP is lying. That particular plate is looking pretty wobbly…

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One of the plates the GOP spun was in the Big Ugly Bill, when the GOP stole $140 billion dollars from rural hospitals. Rural hospitals warned they would close as a result. The GOP restored $50 billion dollars of the $140 billion they stole originally and declared “problem solved!”

Now? Rural hospitals have started closing due to inadequate funding. The stories are the stories and the lies are the lies but reality doesn’t give two figs about stories and lies. Reality just keeps being real. This one seems like a plate that has actually fallen. Rural hospitals are closing. They will be very difficult to re-open. Huge swaths of this once-great nation will become health care deserts. Thanks, GOP. I’m sure that’s what people were voting for when they voted for you…

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One of the plates they’re most worried about is, obviously, the Epstein files. MAGA Mike, the Johnson STILL has the House in recess. So far, it’s all he can think of to stop the Massie petition to release the Epstein files from coming to the floor. If the cons come back, they’ll have to swear in the new Democrat, Adelita Grijalva.

She signs off as the 218th signature on the petition, the release of the files comes to the House floor, and everybody – everybody – even MAGA, gets to watch the GOP protect the pervert millionaires and billionaires – who count it among their “special privileges” to have sex with minors – by voting down the release. Another plate, crashing to the ground…

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A Qatari military base? Here, in America? Honestly, I can’t wrap my arms around that. I wonder what brought it on? Do you think it’s the new golf course bribe Donny gets in Qatar? Was it the $400 million dollar bribe plane? The “investment” bribe into Jared Kushner’s firm might have been relevant. Perhaps it was just input from one-time Qatari employees, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.

In 2017, Donny declared Qatar “funders of terrorism.” Suddenly, they’ve turned into financiers of his personal comfort. So we’ve switched from the terrorist watch list to “How about a military base in the US?” We’re being told the base will be controlled by the US. It won’t be a “foreign” military base. It will just be a normal military base staffed with foreigners. Totally different. No, they’re calling it a “training facility.” In Idaho.

I’m not the only one irritated by this particular spinning plate. MAGA is angry about it, too. On this one, MAGA and I agree: foreign military forces shouldn’t be allowed to establish facilities in the US, most especially when said foreign military has such deep ties to Hamas…