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Chinese Hegemony…

by MyBaconPress

Well, there he goes again. 47 came out and embarrassed himself and this country in front of Xi Jinping. 47 kept on about the great friendship between China and the US. Xi pointed out that CHINA, and not the US, is now the world’s leader. He told Donny just to accept his new position and they could avoid the “Thucididas Trap,” an academic theory that competition between a rising power and an established one often results in war. Donny just sat there, grinning like the idiot he is. He’s been voluntarily surrendering US leads in pretty much every area, though, so it’s easy for him to sit quietly while Xi tells him to sit quietly.

Donny said the Chinese leader is in full agreement with him that AI doesn’t need no stinkin’ regulation, just before Xi emphasized the need for human control. I wasn’t there, of course, but it looks from the outside like very little got done. Donny had a chance to publicly swoon over Xi and try to fluff him a little. Xi mostly looked like a bored little Winnie-the-Pooh. I’m not sure more got done than pageantry. That’s the Drumpfster all over, though, isn’t it? All pageantry, no substance.

There was a state dinner which the big tech bros all attended, likely the true reason for the summit in the first place. Hyper rich people got to meet Xi. A little glad-handing, a little profuse fawning, maybe some casual talk of business. Opportunities, people. I suppose it doesn’t hurt to have a relationship with the new leader of the world…

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It feels like Starbucks’ vicious management techniques are having an effect on the Starbucks mystique. Their workers, “Baristas,” felt the need to unionize. They voted on it. The union won. Starbucks has pretty much refused to negotiate with the workers. That information started becoming public. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores. This September, they’re closing 250 more. As far as I’m concerned, if they’re not going to take care of their employees, they can close them all…

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Gavin Newsom gave an interview in which he said Americans have to come out to vote in such overwhelming numbers that the National Embarrassment “couldn’t possibly contest” the outcome. I’m not sure Newsom is paying attention. The election could go 174 million to one and Donny would STILL contest the outcome and cry and whine about all the cheating. To be clear, the only cheating that will be occurring in this upcoming election will be done by Republicans, for Republicans.

And Donny sure is trying, isn’t he? His buddies on the Robert’s Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court have done what they can to help him, though, admittedly, it hasn’t been much. The Demented Dotard wanted to eliminate mail-in ballots or at least as many as he could. He has never tried to eliminate his own mail-in ballot. The way high court wouldn’t let him. But they have let him use a database to determine whether a given voter is a citizen or not. That was hailed as a “big win” for the Dumbass, but was it?

It’s expected that the ruling likely will have limited impact on the November midterms. Federal law, you see, restricts most states from systematically removing voters from rolls within 90 days of an election and the election is only 38 days away. Besides, the use of this database is voluntary for states. Oh, but he’s trying.

38 days away. The closer we get, the more desperate he gets. I can’t help but think he’s got something up his sleeve. I’m not saying whatever he tries will work, but he’ll try something. He has very little choice. I should be comforted, knowing a Democratic House can stop (or at least slow) the trump crime family. But Donny’s desperate and the more desperate he becomes, the more dangerous he becomes…

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Today in history, Thomas Jefferson was appointed the first US secretary of state in 1789. George Washington was setting up the first government under this constitution. I just thought I’d mention it as we watch our once-great nation circle the drain toward it’s ignominious end.

Speaking of Jefferson, a letter he wrote a friend in 1787 has been offered for sale. In it, Jefferson writes, “Peace should be our plan, and the payment of our debts, improvement of our constitutions and extension of agriculture our principal objects.” That’s kind of slap in the face to Donny, isn’t it? He doesn’t do ANY of those things and, oh, hey look – the nation is failing. Pretty prescient, there Thom…

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When the House first finally settled for the duplicitous MAGA Mike, the Johnson – after trying almost anybody else – he went for an interview with Fox Not-News’ Sean Hannity where he said, “People are curious, ‘What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? I say, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.'” That statement, on it’s own, kind of proved that the Bible does NOT represent his worldview.

It was a lie and according to the book he referenced, one is not supposed to lie. I mention it because of this: if the Dems go ahead and win the House in the upcoming mid-terms, we not only interfere with the trump crime family, we get rid of MAGA Mike, the Johnson as House Speaker. It’s a two-fer.

I’ve long held that over time in any hierarchy, the very worst people move to the top. The reason is simple. Decent people tend to self-select out. If I have ethics (and I do) and someone asks me to do an unethical thing in return for some consideration, I’m passing on the consideration. I count my ethics more important. But not everybody feels that way.

And people who don’t feel that way just think me a fool and do whatever they need to do to gain that promotion or payment or whatever other consideration was promised. Only the worst people are willing to do whatever it takes, good or bad, to get ahead. Because the worst people are the most willing, they tend to rise higher than others.

All one has to do is look around. You can see it everywhere. MAGA Mike is one very prominent example. Currently, what is thought of as the highest office in the land, the Oval Office, is occupied by possibly the worst human being alive today. That’s a tough call. There are plenty of bad people. He’s certainly the worst President the nation has ever suffered, by far. And he has achieved that lofty goal because he has no shame.

Sadly, it’s an extremely solid observation. The worst people rise to the top of hierarchies. It happens over and over and over again. The thing is, I’ve never figured out a way to stop that from happening. That’s a rather frustrating quandary. But we have a chance to get rid of at least one of these horrible humans in this next election. I sure hope we can do it…

Goofballs…

by MyBaconPress

So, are ALL dictators goofball weirdos? I’m asking because I’ve noticed how weird 47 is. For instance, when he wants to look important, he physically puffs out his chest and gets a kind of silly look on his face – the kind babies get when they’re filling their diapers – as though important people have to adopt a specific physical demeanor to reflect their importance. You know who else used to do that, try to show how important they probably were by puffing up with a silly face? Benito Mussolini.

Both the Drumpfster and Mussolini adopt attitudes that, I guess, are supposed to project power, but somehow, it always looks to me like these are kids playing games and they have no idea how to do what they’re trying to do. They’re poseurs, hoping nobody notices. It’s a common characteristic among dictators.

Don’t get me wrong, I know they’re actually very dangerous guys. But everything about their body language suggests, to me, that they KNOW they’re out of their depth. That’s because they didn’t get there on their own. In each case of a new dictator, there’s a team of evil people behind the public face. What, you think Donald Trump is crafting all of those evil Executive Orders he’s signing at a furious pace? When, between the 8th and 9th holes?

If our judicial system hadn’t been so effectively corrupted during Donny’s first term, there wouldn’t BE a second term. You don’t think Donny, himself, knew which judges to focus on first, do you? No, that came from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative stink tank working to overthrow America one rule at a time. They’re a team, and they work together. So, one group works on corrupting laws, one group works on corrupting judges, the next group might work on corrupting the economy, that kind of thing. Good old-fashioned teamwork.

Buying Congress probably exceeded even the Heritage Foundation’s budget, though. That meant several billionaires banding together and putting their money to work – for them. They didn’t have to buy ALL 535 members, thank the gods. THAT would have been very pricey. But they had to buy enough of the cons AND enough of the Democrats to keep things going their way.

What, you think the Democrats lose because they’re incompetent? Please, these are national politicians. They know how to play these games. They know the rules as well as the cons. It’s their job to lose. They have to look like they’re putting up a fight, but they have to lose, so lose they do.

So you can see, Donny is surrounded by a team of evil enablers, it’s not just him. And it wasn’t just Mussolini. It wasn’t just Hitler. It isn’t just Erdoğan in Turkey or Kim in North Korea. It isn’t even El Salvador’s Bukele, who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” a pretty low bar when one considers the others. Dictators have teams. But all of the front men? Weirdos. Poseurs. Freaks and Geeks. I wonder why that should be so.

The reason I mention it is this: when the time comes, we’re going to need several guillotines, not just the one…

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I’m really having fun with these. Gavin Newsom has been copying the social media posting style of Jeffrey Epstein’s very good friend and possible co-conspirator, Donald Trump. Here are a couple more posts from Gavin Newsom’s office. This was during Newsom’s countdown to gerrymandering to offset MAGA cheating in Texas.

47, himself, couldn’t have written it better. I’m pretty sure this next one is just trolling, but it’s so spot-on. The press office has captured the style so perfectly, the all-caps, the rambling blather, the nonsensical grammar, even the self-important blowhard stuff, that I find myself wondering if they’re AI generated or just the work of some brilliant people. I hope it’s the latter…

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Okay, did you know there’s a company out there called ‘Crowds On Demand?’ It’s CEO is a guy named Adam Swart and he insists that he supplies paid protestors for events. Curiously, this information is being reported in MAGA media but not so much in center or left-leaning media. I think stories like this are why the right believes 47 when he dismisses protests as paid events.

The thing is, Swart makes claims that are a little weird. Swart claims he sends paid protestors to protests for either side, left or right. Fair enough. But then he says all of the protestors he sends to an event are “sincere advocates for the cause at hand.” Why? You’re essentially hiring actors. Actors don’t need to be sympathetic to the characters they play.

What, do you think Robert Englund, they guy who played Freddie Krueger, is actually haunting people’s dreams and murdering them? Spoiler alert: he’s an actor, playing role. He doesn’t have to actually “support” murder to play Krueger. So, why would it be important that I actually support the No Kings Day protests if I’m being paid to go there and hold a sign that says I support the No Kings Day protest? Is it at all possible that a claim that paid people are actual supporters is made to cover for the fact that reporters can never find anyone who says, “I’m just being paid to be here?”

It’s important to note that Swart refused to disclose which protests his company has been asked to participate in. During a back and forth with ‘Fox and Fiends’ co-host Lawrence Jones, he suggested his professional protestors had participated in the Tea Party protests. Jones was having none of it. He rejected, outright, any notion that a conservative protest might need or want paid protestors. In his (conservative, myopic) eyes, protestors are ONLY paid to protest at liberal events.

But that’s my next question. Why in hell would anyone have to pay protestors to come out for No Kings Day? Americans are angry about the ravages of Donny’s foolhardy regime and we don’t NEED no stinkin’ paid protestors. Crucially, not only does Swart dodge the question of which protests he has sent people to, he refuses to say WHO pays him, from either side.

So, in summary, Swart is a guy who claims he sends paid protestors to events but only if they already agree with the event they’re being sent to. He refuses to say which events he has been engaged to augment, and he refuses to identify who, exactly, is footing the bill for the paid protestors who already agree with the protest they’re in. Essentially, that’s a claim with no evidence. That means it’s exactly the kind of story MAGA will buy – every single time…