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Lack of Understanding…

by MyBaconPress

Well, THAT didn’t take long. Mamdani wins in New York and the MAGA propaganda began right away. Mamdani said he wants to open city run grocery stores to make groceries more affordable for people. Price gouging corporations would HATE that idea. Mamdani said the stores wouldn’t sell alcohol, cigarettes, or lottery tickets. Mamdani said those thing would not be on offer because the city stores will target healthier options.

Oh, but you can’t fool a MAGA. Unless you try, of course. They just KNOW that Mamdani will leave those particular things out – are you ready for this? – because he’s Muslim. They know it’s the first step to Sharia Law, here in the US. Of course, they also “know” that he’s a communist. He’s not. He’s a Democratic Socialist, a form of Capitalist economics. A BETTER form, by the way. No wonder the Capitalists are scared.

Now the Democrats need to get a little scared, too. THEY think they “won” these elections so all is well. They didn’t and it isn’t. The GOP leaves little choice for anybody with any decency – vote for the Democrat. The Dems are taking credit for Mamdani’s win. They didn’t participate in it. In fact, they tried to torpedo the whole campaign.

Mamdani’s win proves that people are looking for change. Not the same ole, same ole that keeps making rich people richer and everyone else poorer and poorer – and, yes, I know the cons are FAR more aggressive and open about robbing the struggling, but you know the Dems have done precious little to change things when they’ve had the opportunity.

Oh, and as a side note, Mamdani’s win proves something else. Bernie would have won. If the Dems had not rigged the 2016 primaries to bump Bernie and replace him with a FAR less interesting and far more incendiary candidate – sorry, Hillary – the country might never have had to deal with the nightmare that is Donald Trump…

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Okay, so here’s why I think it’s important to maintain contact with MAGA. Just one example. California just passed Prop 50, the redistricting proposition. California passed Prop 50 in an effort to gain five more seats in the now-corrupted House of Billionaire’s Representatives. California passed Prop 50 in an effort to gain five more Democratic seats in the House of Billionaire’s Representatives, because Texas decided to redistrict in the middle of a term in an effort to create five more Republican seats.

Texas decided to redistrict in the middle of a term in an effort to create five more Republican seats because Felon 47 told them to. He said he “deserved” five more seats. Texas, of course, does as their Precious demands, bending the knee and dropping into a supplicant genuflect so quickly they’re often in danger of kneeing themselves in the nose. Texas politicians are like slugs: spineless and slimy – if you touch one, your hand feels nasty for hours afterward. But here’s the thing: MAGA doesn’t know Donny told Texas to redistrict.

MAGA thinks Texas was just finishing up a redistricting process begun after the 2020 census. The story they’ve been told is that Texas put up a map that was rejected. They had to rework it so it just got settled and this new map is the result. The thing is, much of that story is true. It’s all true, in fact, right up until the part about them just getting the maps settled now, in 2025. In fact, those maps were set in 2023 and intended to remain in place until the next census. This change happened because Donny demanded it. But telling MAGA that story causes them to believe it’s the left making the power grab, not themselves.

When I have these conversations with MAGA, I’ve learned NOT to try to convince them they’re wrong. Based on the information they have, they’re not. I focus, instead, on the fact that we get different information from the media we consume and I ask – and I really want to know – why?

MAGA media has downplayed Donny’s involvement in the Texas redistricting so they can paint California as an out-of-control rogue player trying to rig the election. That is to say, MAGA media is pretending that California is doing the very thing Donny is actually doing to rig the election in Texas. It’s just that MAGA doesn’t know it…

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Surely, someone has explained it to him by now. I know, one cannot dispute the nattering narcissist, but maybe someone could pull him aside quietly and explain that one CAN NOT reduce prices on anything by more than 100%. The first time he speculated otherwise, I teased him (of course) but let it slide as a misspeak, the kind of hyperbolic braggadocio he loves to use. He’s got the biggest hyperbolic braggadocio, the best hyperbolic braggadocio. Nobody’s ever seen hyperbolic braggadocio like his.

But he keeps saying it. I suppose MAGA media sane-washes him for their masses. MAGA just won’t be told what he actually said, only that he “lowered prescription drug prices.” But the rest of us see him blathering his bunk, the actual language. He keeps saying he lowered drug prices by as much as 1,500% and at his age, that does nothing to mitigate people’s concerns that he’s losing – or has lost – his mind.

Now, in the name of his hyperbolic braggadocio, he has taken to telling people, all people, even MAGA – people who actually go into grocery stores – that he has lowered food prices, too. But I say again, people who actually go into grocery stores! People who actually have to pony up a LOT more money than they used to for the same groceries. (He thinks he invented that word, ‘groceries’).

We KNOW he is – at BEST – wrong. Most of us believe he’s flat-out lying. He seems to actually believe he can LIE his way to success. That has been a pattern of his life, though having millions of dollars surely greased the wheels. But everyone is feeling the pain of corporate coddling, assuming one took their ID to go grocery shopping. Sure, the on-again, off-again tariffs create price instability, but anyone who thinks the corporations aren’t taking advantage of Donny’s dumbassery and padding their bottom line, probably isn’t qualified to comment honestly on the topic.

During a Fox Not-News interview, he said, “They have this new word called ‘affordability.'” THAT’S NOT A NEW WORD, DUMBASS! ‘Affordability,’ as a word AND as a desire, has been around for a long, long time – at least for those of us who weren’t born into millions of dollars. Donald Trump is an out-of-touch elitist who is definitely showing signs of dementia. I wonder if MAGA will ever notice…

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We all pretty much know that the double helix of DNA was unlocked by a duo named Watson and Crick, right? That happened in 1953. Dr. Watson just died yesterday, aged 97 years. Watson was a bit of a racist so his legacy is somewhat marred, but the DNA thing was pretty big and he was part of it. It’s just weird to think that our understanding of DNA is so… new…

In The Dock…

by MyBaconPress

Well, the world got a little bit brighter Tuesday morning with the announcement of the passing of that Dick Cheney. He was 84, meaning he likely lived 83 years too long. Cheney once set the standard for American evil, corruption, and greed. Donny has long-since shattered every low Cheney ever hit, of course. Donny makes Cheney look like a choir boy. After all, Cheney was bad, but he wasn’t the anti-Christ. (Though millions in Iraq and Afghanistan might disagree.)

See, Cheney was one of the main architects of George’s Wars. Remember when Bush 43 invaded the wrong country looking for Osama Bin Laden and when Bin Laden wasn’t there, he invaded a second wrong country? Yeah, that Dick was leading the charge. Coincidentally, and purely by accident, I’m sure, that Dick’s company made lots and lots (and lots) of money, so, for them, it was all worth it. After all, HE didn’t know any of the people who died.

Cheney once shot a friend in the face with bird-shot – and made the friend publicly apologize! “Sorry, Dick. I didn’t mean to be where you were shooting your gun.” Way to follow the rules of gun safety there, Dick. The best summary of Dick Cheney is that people took to calling him ‘Darth Vader’ – and he liked that.

To be fair, Cheney did NOT like 47, not one little bit. In a weird way, he thought of himself as a patriot – despite the damage he did to the nation – and he did not like nor endorse Donny’s destruction. Dick and his daughter, Liz, both, decried Donny’s J6 insurrection and Dick publicly endorsed Kamala in the 2024 “election.” I don’t know. When your standards aren’t violated until you get to Donny-level corruption and incompetence, I suspect late-in-life conscience development is too little, too late. Now, if we can just get Donny to follow Dick’s lead…

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This really sucks. Hundreds of previously unpublished documents have been uncovered that prove that Exxon funded right-wing stink-tanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. We – humanity, that is – missed our mark of staying under a 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures. Did you know that? We’re… I want to write ‘slowly but surely,’ but the sad reality is, we’re surely destroying our own living environment very, very fast. All in the name of profit and in the service of stupidity.

In the US, the oil companies did this exact same thing with climate change going back some seventy-five years. They got out in front of climate scientists who warned of the danger of ongoing fossil fuel use and spread their message that climate change is a hoax far and wide. They hired “people” to create fraudulent and misleading charts, graphs, supporting data, and any other information they could create to combat the challenge to their profits.

Obviously, the denials haven’t changed anything. Our demonic misleader can remove all of the information he wants from government websites. He can deny it’s happening until he’s blue in his orange face – OMG, he would be BROWN! Would the ICEholes have to deport him? Climate change isn’t going away.

Truer than it should have been...

That cartoon says a lot. See the kids? Do you want to sacrifice children to a future that looks like that? No, neither do a lot of other people – so they’re not having kids. I do not claim that’s the only reason, but it IS a factor often cited by people who chose not to have kids…

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Was there ever a more apt metaphor for the state of our once-great nation than to have The First Felon throwing a “Great Gatsby” themed party at Mar-a-Lardo on the very night he was denying food aid to millions by withholding Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) payments? Well, I suppose it could have been a Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette party. That would have been appropriate, too.

I think the photos of the event should be saved. I think we’ll need to identify the kinds of people who attend parties like that while SNAP benefits are being cut off and Americans are going hungry. You know, later, when the new Reign of Terror begins. Then again, maybe the hungry masses will be satisfied with the information that there’s plenty of money for remodeling the White House. Isn’t that worth missing a meal or two? I mean, sure, you’re starving but Donny gets to crap in a solid gold toilet, so, there’s that…

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Donny has come out and publicly said he feels “very badly” for the Andrew formerly known as a prince. Of course he does. He has said he feels badly for Ghislaine Maxwell, too. He probably felt badly for his one-time very good friend Jeffrey Epstein, too. He hasn’t mentioned feeling badly for the victims, I’ve noticed. Probably just an oversight…

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Well, THAT was fun. It was pretty much a blue sweep. Mamdani becomes mayor of New York. Democrat Mikie Sherrill becomes governor of New Jersey. Democrat Abigail Spanberger becomes governor of Virginia. Democrats maintained a 5-2 advantage on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court by keeping three liberal justices. Proposition 50 passed in California.

Here’s the part that bothers me. Democrats are going to think they’ve won something. Democrats are likely to think people support them. Democrats are probably going to decide they’ve fixed their likability problems and people are coming home to the fold. The Democrats will be wrong. The Democrats didn’t “win” anything. The Republicans – most especially ONE “Republican” – lost. That’s different.

People voted Democrat because in this once-great nation, voters get up to TWO choices: malignant, horrifying nightmare, or wholly incompetent confusion. People voted against the nightmare. People voted against the Republicans. Specifically, people voted against 47. Of course, he’s having none of it. Donny is NEVER at fault, most especially when he is. So his big comment? “‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.”

Trump wasn’t on the ballot? I think you were, Donny. I think you were…

Revisiting 1776…

by MyBaconPress

When the colonists got fed up with King George III in the late 18th century, they ultimately made a list of grievances to support their argument. They wrote the list down and presented it as the Declaration of Independence. These were the reasons the founders used to justify the removal of an old government and installation of the new. If one looks at the list today?

I don’t think everything on the original list applies, yet. Let’s just take a look at the justifications of the founders that DO apply. With only one small change to their language – they were referring to a king – the founders wrote:
“The history of the present [President of the United States] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is, at this time, creating an army of Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”

I’ve taken out some of the complaints that don’t apply to our wanna-be ruler, but I’m a bit stunned by how many of those complaints are identical. The original Declaration included 27 “proofs” of the tyranny of King George III. This list includes 21 of them. MOST of the list against George III remains valid today against Donny the Dumbass.

If those reasons were enough to exit the old government and start new, it looks like time to exit the old Constitution and start again, this time with a few controls over the inevitable excesses of the politically and/or economically powerful. It’s just a thought…

Billions For Me, Nothing For Thee…

by MyBaconPress

Have you noticed that the only time Donny has any concern, whatsoever, for “legal authority,” is when he wants to do some harm? He said he wasn’t going to pay SNAP benefits, in an effort to pressure Democrats in Congress into letting him take health insurance from millions of Americans. A court – no, TWO courts told him he had to pay.

His response? “Our Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP with certain monies we have available,” he lied. Since when does he care about “legal authority?” He says the two courts issued “conflicting rulings.” One said, “You’ve got to pay,” and the other said, “Yeah, you’ve got to pay.” Some conflict. It’s just a stalling tactic. Now he can ask another court to “clarify” and that will buy him some time to be even crueler to the American people. He loves that, petty cruelty to others.

He seems able to come up with money for whatever project he wants to undertake or whatever foreign country he thinks we should bail out. The money is flowing freely for himself and his friends. The shutdown doesn’t seem to be slowing him, even a little bit. But when it comes time to do something good for the American people? Suddenly, he may not have “legal authority” and he just can’t get ‘er done. There’s no money or there’s no will or both…

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Let me ask you something. The cons keep pretending that all the Dems have to do is give the cons what they want, THEN they’ll come to the table to discuss health insurance. They insist they want to address the problem and that they will, they pinkie-swear, if only the Dems will voluntarily surrender the only leverage they have in the negotiation.

But surrender isn’t the ONLY way to address this, right? Since Team Evil insists it wants to address health care and it plans to address health care, and since the one thing keeping the Dems from voting for the Continuing Resolution (CR) re-opening the government IS health care, why not open the government BY addressing health care, right?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been paying attention. I suspect that if the Dems DO sign off on the CR, the cons will just… forget about their “promise” to address the heath care collapse in this, the “Greatest Country on Earth™.” If, ultimately, everybody wants the same thing, as they claim to want, why should the thing everybody claims to want be such a deal-killer? You know what? I think Republicans are lying…

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I keep watching this criminal empire known as the Trump regime working. I keep thinking of a phrase I know. It might be Biblical, I’m not sure. It goes like this: for whenever two or more of you are gathered, it could be a conspiracy. It depends upon the conversation…

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Erika Kirk seems to have gotten over the loss of her husband Charlie. She appears to be getting quite comfortable with Junior Dumbass Vance. Did you SEE that hug? She’s running her fingers through his hair, fercrissakes. At one point, she just held him, looking up at him. His hands lingered on her waist, only for a moment, but it was a moment that stretched into an eternity as they gazed deeply into each other’s eyes. It looked like a full body hug, to me. Not the kind one gives a friend. The kind lovers do.

Except for that passionate, lingering embrace at Ole Miss, I have no evidence that JD and Erika are having an affair. But Usha Vance had better start planning for upheaval now, because it sure looked like they want to have an affair. Erika solves some of JD’s racism problem. Usha makes it look like he might not be racist at all and by today’s MAGA standards, that’s pretty much unacceptable. Usha is Indian by heritage. She’s Hindu. She’s… OMG, is this right? She’s 39 years old. She’s looking older, these days. Her close association with evil seems to be taking a toll.

But Erika? Erika is blonde. Erika pretends to be Christian. Erika is younger at 36. Erika wears leather pants and if she holds her legs together really tightly, they feel an awful lot like couch cushions to JD. Okay, I don’t really know about that last one. But her close association with evil just seems to energize her. Erika never really struck me as all that broken up by her husband’s murder.

Hell, she immediately turned it into a marketing opportunity. She stepped right in as new CEO of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s very personally profitable non-profit that seeks to distort reality to young people. Now she trades on Charlie’s name to keep support. “Oh, Charlie would have wanted this!” I’m not sure Charlie would have felt all that good about that hug but I’m pretty sure Usha shouldn’t. It didn’t look right at all…

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Quick update: MAGA Mike has adjourned the House yet again, ONE MORE TIME, in an effort to keep from having to deal with the Jeffrey Epstein fallout. Donny must have done some pretty terrible things to those girls…

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Every time a new poll comes out showing how unpopular MAGA is, Team Evil just dismisses the poll. “No, I don’t believe that.” They’re SO certain the polling is wrong, they’re hiding from their constituents and refusing to do Town Halls and such. But I DO believe much of the polling.

In this redistricting fight, the GOP is likely to win. That is, they’ll be in a position to keep control over Congress whether that’s what the American people want or not. Just like the founders intended. But if Team Evil keeps attacking everybody, left and right alike, people on the right are likely to rebel. Maybe Dems get one chamber back because the right stays home. It’s possible.

Polls suggest the right is getting more fed up with the pols, especially the rightie pols. MAGA KNEW Donny and Company intended harm to people. They were eager for it. They just thought the harm was intended for other people. Now that it’s becoming clear, even to a MAGA, that the regime intends harm to ALL Americans, even to a MAGA, they’re less ebullient about Donny’s promises. That might have an effect in upcoming “elections” the right doesn’t expect.

It kind of sucks that disgust on the right is the last hope of saving a once-great nation…

MAGAmerica Today…

by MyBaconPress

It’s only nepotism when the left does it:
Remember when cons were all apoplectic about the possibility that Hunter Biden might have been trading on his famous father’s name? They couldn’t beLIEVE the outrage! Now, a company backed by Donny Jr has been contracted by the US military to build drone engines.

Somehow, cons don’t see any problem. Curiouser and curiouser…

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A tale of two countries:
Andrew, the Andrew formerly known as a prince, isn’t a prince anymore. In fact, he’s lost all of his titles. He has to move out of the royal mansion he has lived in for more than twenty years and get (and pay for) his own digs. He won’t be part of any royal functions going forward. He is as “out” as a royal could possibly be short of one of England’s rather infamous beheadings.

Why? His known association with Jeffrey Epstein. To be clear, there have been no charges to answer (yet) and no trial confirming criminal behavior. He hasn’t – and likely won’t – confess to his participation. He denies it, entirely. And STILL, he’s losing it all. That’s England.

Across the pond, Americans have someone with a known association with Jeffrey Epstein, too. To be clear, there have been no charges to answer (yet) and no trial confirming criminal behavior. He hasn’t – and likely won’t – confess to his participation. He denies it, entirely. But he gets to be ostensible President of the United States and stuff his pockets full of stolen money while punishing anybody who has ever ruffled his feathers.

The Brits handled it far better…

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Profiles in negotiation:
So, if I’ve got this right, after Donny’s visit with Xi in China, there now exists a trade environment between the US and China that matches the trade environment that existed in January of this year. Let’s look at the same idea another way, shall we?

After over eight months of shenanigans, unnecessary pain, suffering, and expense, Donny has now managed to get US/China trade relations back to where Joe Biden had them in the first place. Art of the Deal, I guess…

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Okay, this is weird. There’s a guy named Taylor Taranto. No, that’s not the weird part. He’s a MAGA convicted of live-streaming a bomb threat. He was arrested as he drove near President Obama’s house with a bunch of guns and ammo. You know, because of all of that violence from the left. The DOJ issued a sentencing memo in which they asked for 27 months in prison. When a prosecutor issues a sentencing memo, they include other, pertinent information about the defendant so the judge knows exactly with whom he’s dealing.

The original filing mentioned Taranto’s J6 charges – and briefly described the day’s events, writing that “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.” Uh-oh. That’s an accurate, if short, description of Trump’s Insurrection at the Capitol. But Donny doesn’t allow accurate descriptions of Trump’s Insurrection at the Capitol.

Most especially when it turns out, as it does in this case, that the defendant, Taranto, was one of the many political pardon beneficiaries Donny issued on day one, only to see the guy re-arrested for other violent crimes and threats later. Those stupid pardons are pretty much the only “Day One” promise he’s kept. Well, that and being a dictator on Day One. He seems to be keeping that “promise” too. (It’s more of a threat, really.)

And HOW did Tartanto gain access to President Barack Obama’s home address? I mean, is it in your Rolodex? I suspect one does NOT just call information and ask. Well, I suppose you can ask, but you ain’t gettin‘. So how did Taranto get it? Why, the filing covered that, too. Taranto got the address when Donny posted it online.

The two prosecutors who signed the sentencing memo, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, found themselves locked out of their government devices a few hours later. Now they’re on leave. They’ll probably be fired. They dared to tell the truth. The judge praised them both at the sentencing hearing for doing “an excellent and commendable job” on the case and said it was some of “the best” work he’s seen with the “highest standards of professionalism.”

That’s the most vicious and damning thing a judge could possibly say to a Trump regime prosecutor. “Highest standards of professionalism?” Screw that. The only thing that matters to this crew is the highest standard of loyalty to the lowest standard of a human being. “Highest standards of professionalism?” How is THAT a compliment to the team that wants to water crops with ‘Brawndo?’ (You’ve got to watch ‘Idiocracy’ to understand…)

That original filing, the one that mentioned Donny’s J6 insurrection, was replaced with a shorter sentencing memo that did NOT mention Donny’s J6 insurrection. Nor did it reveal that it was Donny himself who had “doxxed” Obama, giving Taranto access to the Obama home. It still asked for 27 months, though.

So, here’s the weird part: The original filing seems to have… disappeared. The judge in the case, Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee, said it’s “not entirely clear, to me, how that first brief was sealed,” noting that he had not authorized it’s removal. The judge said he had read both prosecution briefs and if the DOJ wanted to keep the first one hidden they would need to file a motion to seal it or strike it. The DOJ, the judge said, is “going to have to justify that.”

So where did it go? It seems senior officials at the US Attorney’s office “persuaded” a court clerk to block online access to the filing. The original sentencing memo is now described in the court docket as “filed in error.” That’s some solid damage control. I mean, journalists have the filing, sure, but MAGA will never see it. They won’t accept anything not authorized by MAGA media and truth is definitely NOT authorized by MAGA media.

You know what? I’m not enjoying MAGAmerica…

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…

Fragments…

by MyBaconPress

There’s been a “reveal.” He has decided on a name. He wants to call it – you’ll never guess – ‘The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom.’ Back in the days of Pharaohs, when a previous leader fell out of favor with the current guy, it was common to send out teams to literally deface statues of the former. I mean, they literally chiseled the faces off of statues, making the person unrecognizable. They went to great trouble, sometimes, to completely erase any evidence of the existence of the now-out-of-favor guy.

In that spirit, if we ever manage to get rid of this waste of human flesh currently infesting the Oval Office, can we all agree to spend whatever money is needed to knock down his abomination of a “ballroom?” It would be a great first step toward eliminating this dark and ugly chapter from history…

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed (of course you have) but this once-great nation no longer functions like it’s supposed to. There’s not ONE branch of government that hasn’t been corrupted to the cause, that of making the One Percent great again. We only have three branches. The Judicial branch has become a rubber stamp for the regime. The Legislative branch has, quite literally, simply left the building, no longer interested in governance. The Executive branch?

The executive branch has become a cesspool of criminality and stupidity, not necessarily in that order. Not ONE branch of the government is operating as dictated in the Constitution. So here’s a radical, rhetorical question: if no branch of the government is respecting the Constitution of the United States, what does that mean for the United States?

Yes, you can find on a map, to this day, a land mass with a defining border labeled ‘The United States of America.’ But the United States of America is NOT the land mass. We called ourselves ‘The Great American Melting Pot,’ referring to the variety of people that once comprised the United States, but the United States of America is NOT the people that inhabit the land mass.

By definition, the United States of America is… well, was, the Constitution of the United States. But the Orange Moron and Team Evil have dispensed with all of THAT foolishness. “Constitutions,” they seem to believe, “are for suckers.” And NONE of this has been an accident. It has been an on-going, slow-motion coup going back as far as Ronald Reagan.

But this isn’t about how we got here or if or when we could have, should have, done something – anything – to stop it. (We should have.) It’s FAR too late for woulda, coulda, shoulda. I’m thinking about where we go from here. My answer? In a word, fragmentation.

Since day one, the US has been a collection of disparate people. Going all the way back to the revolution, we’ve weathered conflicts between those different groups, up to and including the American Civil War. We can all name the different regions, to one degree or another. New England, the South, the Midwest, the Coastal states. But it’s quite the trick to hold those differing groups together. Our differences were our strength – until they were only our differences.

We’re currently living through the end of an empire. That rarely goes well for the fading empire. I suspect the architects of our destruction – the One Percent – were hoping to mirror the Roman model, where the Republic fell, but was replaced with an empire that continued to rule for hundreds of years more. I don’t think our fall will follow that example.

In the end, I suspect the land mass once known entirely as the United States of America will fragment into several, smaller countries. Did you notice how I skipped over the part that gets us there? I’m not good at predictions but I DO know that past is prologue. We’re not the first empire to fail, we’re only the latest – and when an empire falls, it fragments.

The most recent example, I think, was the old Soviet Union. Like the US, the USSR was also a large land mass made up of disparate people all held together by a strong central government. When that government failed, the regions became independent nations. I suspect that’s the model that will play out here.

It’s pretty straight-forward. The powers that be have already dispensed with the Constitution. Financial mismanagement is threatening the power of the US dollar. Once Donny is successful at installing a toady to the Fed, investor confidence with evaporate. It’s already on terribly shaky ground. What do you think all of that investment in gold is about?

The almighty dollar in the hands of this buffoon, will crash and surrender it’s place as the world’s reserve currency. All we’ll have left is our ridiculously over-powered military – which will become increasingly difficult to pay for until the final, fatal collapse. These aren’t “predictions,” per se. This is really just how empires die.

In the same way one can still find Russia on a map, not to mention Rome and Great Britain, the US will still be there in one form or another. I think in the end, California will lead a separate nation. The Deep South may splinter off, as well. I can’t honestly tell you a breakdown of who goes where but I do think we’ll be essentially starting again.

The process isn’t always ugly, but there’s no way Donny is smart enough to shepherd through a slow decline. As we’ve seen with pretty much everything he touches – he’s more of a wrecking ball kind of guy. Destruction is his thing. This guy brags about all the wonderful things he’s done for the American people, but he hasn’t actually DONE any of them. It’s all just blather. His legacy is a trail of destruction, but not “failure.” The destruction is intentional.

Frankly, I think it’s time for California to leave the union – based entirely on the idea that “the union” no longer exists. The Constitution has been rendered moot and without the Constitution, there IS no United States of America anyway. I do not suggest it will be an easy transition, only that we have no other real option. I know Gavin Newsom wanted to be President of the United States but that job doesn’t exist any more. He’s going to have to settle for President of California, the Bear Flag Republic. But at least it can still be a Republic…

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…