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Games Over. Things Are Real Now…

by MyBaconPress

Look, it was one thing when people were debating the relative merits or demerits of trump’s policies or comparing his intellect to various fruits and/or rocks or pretending he might be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. The “My Team/Your Team” thing was obnoxious even then but we all seemed to be having some kind of fun with it. Still, we, the people, should never have aligned in teams just to be loyal to colors, red or blue. For all of us, our first loyalty should always have been to the principles of the US Constitution. We did, anyway.

But now? Now the conversation is about Federal agents gunning people down in the streets. No more games. No more gaslighting. It’s time to stand up and be counted. Do you support Federal agents gunning American citizens down in the streets without cause or don’t you? It’s a pretty straightforward question.

I ask because I saw a photo in social media of the murderer of Alex Pretti pointing his gun directly at Pretti’s head just before firing. A MAGA posted “AI” as a comment, trying to pretend the events went down differently than what we’ve all seen with our own eyes in video after video from every angle imaginable because everyone there had cameras.

Writing “AI” and nothing else in a drive-by post suggests the MAGA in question disapproves of the murders but can’t quite pull themselves away from the murderers yet. The person doesn’t WANT to be on the team that’s gunning American citizens down in the streets without cause. They just are on that team. So maybe they can convince somebody, somewhere that the murders weren’t murders or they were less intentional than they look in the photos and videos.

Oh, but then again, MAGA gonna MAGA. Right now there’s a struggle but the one thing MAGA has proven, over and over and over again, is that they will, eventually, reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. That is, after all, their most essential command…

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“One-way arguments that cannot be universally applied are bad arguments.”
– Rand Paul on Trump’s criminal invasion of Venezuela

Little Marco Rubio was trying to pretend that invading a foreign, sovereign nation and kidnapping their leader is somehow not an act of war. Rand Paul, a Republican, mind you, asked Rubio to reverse the situation. What if someone invaded the US and kidnapped the President of the US? Rubio, of course, couldn’t answer so he rambled and dissembled.

After Paul got tired of listening to Rubio’s lying sidesteps, Paul said, “Of course it would be an act of war. I’m probably the most anti-war person in the Senate, and I would vote to declare war if someone invaded our country and took our president.”

Paul insists it’s an act of war but he means it’s a war crime…

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I hear Melania’s movie is crashing and burning. You can tell because Donny is calling it the most successful film ever made. It keeps opening to empty theaters. That’s not hyperbole. It’s being screened to theaters with nobody in them (except the poor projectionist, that is). That’s going to cost the theaters a LOT of money. Maybe Donny should lower the price to get in by 500%, 600%, in some cases, 1,500%!

Naw! Nobody wants to see that garbage even if the theater paid the viewer to go in…

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Well, the Senate reached a funding deal! No government shutdown, right? All they have to do is get the newly passed bill over to the House of Representatives for their vote and – boom! – no government shutdown. Unexpected, sure, but a welcome development nevertheless. Okay, let’s get it over there and…

Wait, where the hell is everybody? There’s been no legislative activity in the House for a week, now? MAGA Mike, the Johnson put the House into recess for some reason. Someone probably wanted him to DO something and he’s not allowed, so he has mastered Sir Robin’s battle technique.

“Brave Sir Robin ran away! Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared it’s ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.”

So we get a shutdown after all. It will be short, we’re told. The Johnson might peak out of his hidey-hole come Monday and take the risk of coming out into public. They can vote on the bills then, reopening the government. Of course, they might opt to continue blasting away at their own feet. It’s hard to tell with this crowd…

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Speaking of cowardly retreats, I’m happy to know that The First Felon won’t be coming to California for the Stupid Bowel. We don’t need him here, we don’t want him here. In fact, now that the Trump/Epstein files are blatantly showing him to be a raper, maybe we should just deport him somewhere. The worst of the worst, you know. I hear there’s an appropriate facility in El Salvador…

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Cheater Bill Belichick didn’t make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. What do you know? He shouldn’t have made it, of course. He should never make it. One shouldn’t get to be enshrined into any Hall of Fame if one’s “accomplishment” is predicated on cheating.

He will make it, though, eventually. Probably the next round. Professional sports associations don’t really care about the cheating. They care about the “accomplishment.” Remember the Mark McGuire/Sammy Sosa “race” to break the home run record? All we hear about is the “record.” All I remember about it is that both men were juiced to the max. Pump them full of steroids and watch them hit. The guy we’re supposed to pretend the record was taken from wasn’t juiced. He set the record with his own body, sans enhancements.

It’s the same deal with Belichick. Six Super Bowls – and all you’ve got to do is cheat! Anybody can cheat. That isn’t the way the other teams were competing. Why should he get credit for coloring outside the lines? I honestly think NONE of us should stand for this. We live the lives we live today because we overlooked one little trespass after another. After awhile, we can’t seem to distinguish between right and wrong. Then look what happens…

I Need A Stronger Word Than ‘Stupid…’

by MyBaconPress

Okay, I’m not making this up. It’s from CNN. President War Criminal was blathering on about whatever it is he blathers on about when he mentioned that Venezuela’s President had been captured using a weapon he identified as a “Discombobulator.” Then he said, “The Discombobulator, I’m not allowed to talk about it.”

See why I think he’s a moron? That IS talking about it. And the ‘it’ in question doesn’t exist. A senior US official said the “president” (sic) may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn’t exist. Even if such a weapon DID exist, I’d bet a lot of money the Pentagon would come up with a much better nomenclature than “Discombobulator.” That’s a truly stupid name coined by a truly stupid person…

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I’ve said in the past that it will be Donny coming for people’s guns. Now, after the Alex Pretti murder, 47 posted on social media, “HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS, WE NEED LAW AND ORDER.” “Only criminals carry guns on our streets?” Really? I thought open carry was everyone’s right – no, obligation – because only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. I thought the goal was to arm every American in every situation so that morons could start blasting away at the slightest provocation.

How many times have YOU engaged in some form of this conversation, “Hey, maybe some gun regulation?”
“F*CK YOU! What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t you understand?!?”
Now they’ve switched to “He had a gun, what do you expect from the agents?”

The right thinks the left is suddenly supporting the Second Amendment, even as the right abandons their dedication to it. In truth the left is, once again, mocking the right for their complete lack of principles. But there IS some truth to the fact that if Federal agents can kill you for having your gun in public, you don’t have the right to bear arms anyway, right?

I think the whiplash as MAGA changes it’s position from ‘shall not be infringed’ to “He had a gun, what do you expect?” is going to be painful for them. One can hope, anyway. Stupid really should hurt…

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One shot… followed by approximately nine more. There was a delay. One shot… delay… then, Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Afterward, Pretti lay dead. My guess? The ICEholes thought they had a way cool trick. They shoot one shot, see, then they pause. Then they shoot lots of shots. Later, they lie. They say the first shot came from Pretti and the others came from ICE, in self-defense.

A clever ploy and a free path to murder – except for all of those damnable cameras! The cameras recorded the fact that Pretti had been disarmed before any shooting started. That didn’t stop Team Evil from claiming the killers were simply defending themselves. They’ve got to say something. They said that. They’ll stick to that story, no matter how many different camera angles appear, proving they’re lying…

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People are fleeing the US dollar. Have you seen the prices of an ounce of gold or silver? Silver went over $100.00/oz for the first time. Gold tops $5,000.00/oz for the first time. Investors have mostly lost faith in the US dollar. They’re looking for safer places to put their money and hard currencies are a common safe harbor. We might need to start thinking in terms of wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Nice job, MAGA. We told you your moron didn’t have a clue…

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“This social media post crams a remarkable amount of inflammatory language and factually inaccurate assertions into a very short statement,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain of the California Institute for Water Resources. That’s polite talk for “The writer of this post is stupid and lying.” The social media post in question? Why, that came from the stupidest man on Earth. It read, “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???”

He’s referencing the winter storm that is blasting across the eastern part of the United States. He STILL thinks that if it snows, it disproves global warming. This has been explained over and over and over again. Weather is local and short term, climate is global and long term. It turns out, global warming is real and winter still happens anyway. If there’s still a MAGA out there that doesn’t understand that – and apparently, there’s at least that one – that person either stubbornly doesn’t WANT to understand what’s happening, or they’re suffering from a severe learning deficit that leaves them unable to comprehend even the most basic stuff.

There’s no other position possible at this point. The person asking that question – “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” – is either genuinely, amazingly stupid, or pretending to be. In his case? The evidence points to genuinely, amazingly stupid…

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Well, I’m getting exactly the Super Bowl I didn’t want: the cheatin’-ass Patriots vs the Seattle Seahawks. If the Broncos hadn’t lost their their starting Quarterback the week before, they might have prevailed. But they did, so they didn’t. The Rams gave the Seahawks a better game than I expected, too. For a moment, it looked like they might pull it out. For a moment. They didn’t.

I have to confess, we are getting the Super Bowl I expected. I was pulling for the teams that lost this weekend. I didn’t get either one of them. So, now, I think I’m pulling for a tie in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I know, no ties in the big game. I guess I’ll be disappointed. Then again, I’m already disappointed so I guess I’ll be disappointed, no matter what. Might as well root for the impossible.

I guess most fans of the NFC West won’t pull for Seattle. Personally, I can’t support the cheatinest team in NFL history, the cheatin’-ass New England Patriots. No, I don’t think they cheated this year. I just get sick of listening to how “great” they were when they weren’t great – they were cheating. The Stupid Bowl is going to be chock full of “looks back” at their “great” years. It turns out, I’m not good at replacing actual events with preferred narratives, whether that’s in the arena of politics or sports.

The last coach of the Pats, Bill Belichick, has no coaching tree because he never had anything to teach other coaches. The only remnant of his “legacy” is Mike Vrable, the current coach of the Patriots. He wasn’t a coach under Belichick. He was a player. Vrable has a chance to be the first guy in NFL history to “win” a Super Bowl as a player, then as Head Coach for the same team.

I’ve been a football fan far too long to pretend I won’t have the game on. I will. I’m not sure I’ll be paying all that much attention to it, though. The outcome will be the outcome but neither possibility excites me. One team wins, one team loses. I’m disappointed either way…

Martin Luther King, Jr Day…

by MyBaconPress

Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. I’d like to try to write only positive things to honor the messages he tried to bring. Unfortunately, we still have a megalomaniac moron infesting the White House so darkness prevails, these days. Still, here are some of his messages.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

“A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

‘Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”
Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?”
Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?”
But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”‘

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

That Martin Luther King, Jr was a pretty bright guy…

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Everybody is supposed to focus on Greenland so that we don’t focus on the Trump/Epstein files. So let’s focus on Greenland for a minute – then get back to the Trump/Epstein files. It seems to be a trick he can’t do, pay attention to two things at once. It’s likely he doesn’t know that other people can pay attention to two things at once. Sometimes more!

So, now, in his insane push to “own” Greenland for no good reason, he’s threatening extra tariffs on the EU. In order to force Denmark to hand over Greenland, he’s going to punish Americans with higher taxes. Lovely.

At this point, it’s pretty clear, there’s no good reason to do what he’s doing. He has a story or two but even his stories are stupid and they don’t hold up under even slight scrutiny. He DOES have a new angle, though. Now he’s writing the Norwegian Prime Minister and telling them that because Norway didn’t award him the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer has to think “purely of peace.” As you read his letter, bear in mind that the Nobel Prize is awarded by a private committee, not the country.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” the moron had someone write, adding he could now “think about what is good and proper” for the US. Apparently, that’s war with Europe, in his twisted pea-brain…

You know what, Donny? Even if they thought you deserved it – which you do not – maybe they denied you your coveted prize because you’re being such a dick around the world and it was a crappy thing they could do back to you. You know all about that, right Donny? Doing crappy things to people who irritate you just because they irritated you is right in your wheelhouse. Game should respect game, don’t you think?

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So, MAGA rank-and-file seem to have pretty much given up on the Trump/Epstein Files. The minute they realized Donny is ALL OVER those things, they’re like, “Oh, no, our Precious!” and decided the files don’t really matter, after all. Americans and other smart people, though? Our position remains unchanged. Release the files.

At this point, truth be told, I’m starting to have a little heartburn about the fact that the victims STILL have not named names. I know there are conflicts, here. Some of the victims want to remain in the shadows, and it’s hard to blame them. Others have already come forward, though. When MTG made her promise to read the names from the House floor – a promise she can no longer keep, having stepped down – she was surrounded by some of the victims. THOSE women are clearly okay with being known.

Why haven’t each of them made a list of the men who were forced upon them when they were underage? NO, you don’t give that list to this corrupt DOJ. But you could give such a list to a reporter or AOC or Thomas Massie. I understand 47 trying to protect himself and I understand his creepy little minions working so hard to protect their Precious.

Obviously, he’s concerned that when hard evidence comes out that he was not just a participant in the trafficking ring, but one of the ringleaders, he might lose support from MAGA – and he needs fools to sing his praises and provide him cover. But have you seen these fools? He needs to have a little faith. One could release a 100-photo essay showing him raping twelve-year-old after twelve-year-old and MAGA would spring to his defense, suddenly pretending raping twelve-year-olds made one an “Alpha.”

At least now we know where cons got the idea to accuse Hillary of running a pedophile ring: they just announced what they were doing, but pretended it was Hillary. Every accusation is an admission with these clowns. But I digress.

My main point is that we have many of the victims available. THEY know who abused them. They said they were going to make lists. Where the hell are the lists? Let’s get them out there. Remember Algebra? Remember how, sometimes, it was easier to find the answer in the back of the book, then work the problem backwards to show your work? Let’s do that with the Trump/Epstein Files.

Name the names. THEN, we can work the problem backwards from the Trump/Epstein Files. Cause I gotta tell you, I don’t CARE who knew Trump, Epstein, or Maxwell and didn’t rape kids. Let’s get the names of perpetrators from the victims and skip all the drama of the DOJ slow-walking the files…

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I’m surrounded by fellow Niner fans who think it’s some kind of betrayal to support a fellow NFC West team after the Niners are eliminated. Although I know I’m in the minority, I don’t share that attitude. I figure, once the Niners are out, they’re out. Maybe the NFC West should represent, to show WHY the Niners got bumped.

First and foremost, I’m a fan of the Red and Gold but I have other teams I like, too. I also have teams I don’t like. A LOT. When I was in the Air Force, the team I got to watch was the Denver Broncos. I developed an affinity for them. When I was a child, I was raised by an LA Rams fan to BE a Rams fan. (It didn’t take.) I support the Niners, but I have fond memories of the Rams. Yes, I know they’re a rival of the Niners but the Niners aren’t a factor anymore, right?

On the other hand, f*ck the New England Patriots. I’m so sick and tired of hearing about their “greatness” and all they accomplished. They cheated. For seven years! Because in the eyes of the NFL it was better for business, they got away with it with a slap on the wrist. (It didn’t hurt that Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, is on the committee that pays the commissioner.) Then the league buried it. They swept it under the rug and now we’re all supposed to pretend it was just “greatness.” But as we all know, now, friends don’t lie. New England cheated.

SO, the Conference Championship games are set. The Broncos will host the Patriots and the Seahawks host the Rams. The Broncos just lost their star Quarterback to a broken foot so he’s out, making the road for New England much easier. BOTH the Seahawks and the Rams are in the NFC West. According to my friends… and family… and neighbors… and my barber and strangers I chat with in line at the grocery store and the teller at the bank and people I work with and it seems everybody else, I can’t support the Rams or Seahawks because they’re in the NFC West.

But that means I’d have to pull for New England, and I will not do that…

Stupid Memes For Stupid People…

by MyBaconPress

Recently, in response to the Renee Good murder, I’ve seen posts from MAGA in social media showing the faces of young women ostensibly murdered by undocumented immigrants set next to a photo of Good. The meme claims Good was trying to protect killers and the left mourns her loss, but ignores the murders of other young women. Have you seen this?

MAGA bullshit about murders.

In MAGA land, it’s big drama, a devastating burn. Typically, it’s MAGA stupid. It’s just false that Good wanted to “stop ICE from deporting illegals who kill American citizens.” If your position relies on a lie for support, your position doesn’t deserve to be supported. That’s a scare tactic. NOBODY is standing for murderers.

No, that’s wrong. NOBODY but MAGA is standing for murderers. Good was monitoring ICE harassment of people who are living and working here and contributing to society. Undocumented? Maybe. Maybe not. ICEholes regularly take American citizens into custody and rough them up. They’ve killed and maimed several American citizens.

I don’t know that all of the other women you’re showing were actually killed by immigrants, documented or otherwise, but for the sake of argument, let’s just agree they were. Also, it would be nice to have a time-frame on those deaths. Are we talking about last year or over the course of the last twenty-five years?

But all of that is nit-picking. Here’s your real answer: we all know that bad people do bad things and place of birth isn’t relevant. I would bet that on each day one of those women was murdered, so were a LOT of other people in this country – killed by Americans, probably a LOT of them white. MAGA ignores those people so they can focus on brown people only and pretend that if there were no “illegals,” there would be no crime. How stupid is that?

Also, we could only know that those women were, in fact, murdered by illegals if we know who the killers are, right? They’ve been, likely, arrested or identified but not around to be arrested, right? So, those killers are currently in the system and facing consequences of their actions. Bad people do bad things and face the consequences. What’s to protest?

On the other hand, and this is where it gets challenging for MAGA, Renee Good was murdered by a Federal agent practicing piss-poor police procedure. He was on Federal business, wearing a Federally-issued uniform, shooting Federally-issued bullets, from a Federally-issued firearm – then hiding behind his Federally-issued badge and driving his Federally-issued vehicle to make his cowardly escape.

See the difference, MAGA? If the government arrests murderers, there’s nothing to protest. When the government protects murderers? Yeah, count on some protest. It’s the proper response. If you loved your country the way you pretend you do, you’d be out there, too…

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This is tangentially related. MAGA is also posting memes that point out that Obama deported more people than 47 and that, for many, their only crime was to cross the border. So, Barack did a better job and he did it without all of this disruption and violence to the day to day lives of people? AND while Barack’s ICE agents wore windbreakers and not combat fatigues and how anyone could see their faces while they worked rather than coward masks?

“Barack did it better and we’re too stupid to understand.” Quality burn, there, MAGA…

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Have you noticed? Nobody wants to be associated with Donny. He doesn’t earn accolades – he steals them. And he’s SO reviled, he needs the power of the Presidency even to do that. We may not be able to stop him, right now, but it sure will be fun tearing his vile name off of every building and sign that ever bore it. Hell, his name is SO reviled, I expect the card game of Bridge to change their top category. How about ‘Biden?’ as in “Three no Biden?”

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Well, that was ugly. I wish I could say I was surprised. The team just reached the end of their run. They kept digging down, deeper and deeper. Finally, they reached, but there was nothing left. Yesterday, I predicted a Niner victory, 24-17. I DID qualify the prediction by saying, “but mostly that’s because I want them to win.” They never even sniffed the End Zone. As it happens, it was a perfect prediction. It’s just that I was predicting the Seahawks final total, 41, not the final score of the game. Genius, eh?

Our Niners gave us a better show than we had a right to expect. As usual, injuries hobbled the team nearly from the start. Injuries, alone, are bad enough, but in this case, WHO got injured was relevant, too. Worse, the injuries kept piling up during the game. It turns out, one cannot sit most of their first string and hope to be competitive. But the Niners were competitive through most of the season, anyway, and that says a lot.

If I’m being honest, I’m not sure the Niners could have beaten this Seahawks team even at full strength. They’re very good and they’re playing like it’s a sacred obligation. It’s a very well-coached team and they’re very disciplined. Having seen the remaining field of teams, I strongly suspect the Seahawks will win the Stupor Bowl. I thought that would be against the Denver Broncos, but their Quarterback, Bo Nix, broke his ankle in their playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills and he’s out for whatever is left.

The worse the beating became, the more befuddled Shanahan appeared to be. When he needed to have more answers, he had fewer. I’m confused by this guy. On the one hand, all praise to Shanahan for staying competitive during the season. That took some pretty solid coaching. On the other hand, injuries keep this team from ever taking the big prize and injuries have been a feature of his teams for years.

The Niners lead the league in injuries. Kyle overuses certain key players and just runs them until they break. Also, I find his play-calling frustrating when the team is losing. He gets locked into certain things and tries to force them. It has cost him games in the past. I suspect Kyle simply can’t get the Niners to the big game and win. But next season is coming, and I expect to be there…

His Contempt For Americans Is Showing…

by MyBaconPress

The Pedophile Protector got upset when someone called him a Pedophile Protector. Do you think a toaster gets upset when you call it a toaster? He’s just pretending, though. Gaslighting. Donny is doing everything in his power to protect pedophiles – allegedly including himself – by slow-walking the release of the Trump/Epstein Files.

Cadet Bone Spurs was on a photo-op at a Ford auto plant and an auto worker named TJ Sabula used the opportunity to pitch the nomenclature at Dim Leader. Donny, ever the clever word smith and inspiring orator, came back with exactly the third grade response one has come to expect from his putrid little mind: “Fuck you” and a middle finger.

Our classy and distinguished so-called 'President' demonstrating his feeling for Americans.

Sabula was suspended with pay from the plant. Someone set up a GoFundMe page to help during the suspension. As of Januray 15, the GoFundMe page had taken in $811,010 dollars! I suspect every one of those dollars had a “No, fuck you, Donny!” written on it. You either hate that evil weasel or you’re MAGA. There’s no in-between anymore…

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OMG, he’s beaming. He’s SO proud of his non-accomplishment. He hasn’t done one thing to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize – which is why he’s never won a Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee has been quite clear: No Peace Prize for Donny. He hasn’t earned it, he doesn’t deserve it.

Instead, he pressured María Corina Machado to hand over the Peace Prize she was awarded. She wants to run Venezuela, you see. Donny won’t let her because he’s so completely, absolutely jealous that she actually won the Prize and he didn’t. So, she made the same calculation everyone else makes: flatter his teeny-tiny, oh-so-fragile ego. She “gave” him her prize.

Bear in mind, as far as the Nobel committee is concerned, The Felon is merely holding Machado’s Peace Prize. It’s still hers. It’s still recorded only in her name. He just gets to hold it. Think of Michael Phelps letting you hold one of his Olympic Gold Medals. Obviously, you can hold it, but he earned it. 47 looks like he really thinks he’s done something and he claimed credit. He wrote: “María presented me with her Peace Prize for the work I have done.” I mean, just look at this beaming, pathetic loser:

The Stench and María Corina Machado.

Her ploy doesn’t seem to have worked, though. He gets her medal, but then he repeats his line that she doesn’t have the support. So she still doesn’t get to lead Venezuela (he hasn’t forgotten that she won the Prize and not him) and now she doesn’t even have her Nobel medal. She’s keeping the money, I presume…

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If every accusation is a MAGA confession, and MAGA is convinced Democrats are paying protestors, we can know for certain that MAGA pays protestors…

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I’ve been able to track the rise of MAGA by looking back in history at the rise of the Nazis. Checking Nazis to gauge MAGA has worked like a dream since the movement started, but MAGA hates that comparison. They’re not sure why, because they talked all through history class. They’re having trouble figuring out exactly how they’re like Nazis – because they know nothing of the Nazis. The rest of us see it as clearly as day, though. So, we mention yet another parallel to Nazis and they scream, “Waaaa!”

Tough. I’m in the, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck” camp and MAGA very definitely looks and quacks like ducks Nazis. The parallels have been startling, truth be told. One of the main reasons the Nazis got so powerful was nobody really knew what they were about. There was very little push-back. The good news?

Americans are pushing back. We DO know what MAGA is about. We’ve seen it in history. We’re not just standing on the sidelines in shock. We’re pushing back. That’s a difference from the rise of the Nazis and it’s a big one. All of the noise. All of the cameras. All of the eye-witnesses. ICEholes complain it’s harassment. Good of them to notice. But it’s not violence, is it?

So far, that hasn’t stopped ICE from using violence. They’ve killed a bunch of mostly defenseless people. They’ve hurt and harmed many more. One ICEhole shot a guy, Kaden Rummler, 21, right in the face with a “less-lethal” projectile – ALSO an improper use of the tool. He lost an eye. Then they did it again to a guy named Britain Rodriguez, 31, who said it felt like his “eye exploded in my head.”

A spokesliar from DHS described the protestors as a mob. She lied about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. She tried to paint a, “They deserve what they get” picture but actual pictures keep making their way into the world and we can all see for ourselves that, really, the protestors are showing great restraint in the face of abusive force.

But the pushback is one difference between the rise of the Nazis and the rise of MAGA. It’s hopeful. It’s positive. It’s making their evil work more difficult. Keep pushing. Collect names where you can (Jonathan Ross). We’ll prosecute later. We can send these evil weasels packing if we just stick to it long enough…

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Here we go, Niners. This team, this year, has been the hardest team to evaluate that I’ve come across for a long, long time. On paper, the team has lost a plethora of starters. They’ve been playing with rookies, backups, and plug-ins. On paper, they should have been booted from contention some time ago. But they keep winning. Mostly.

They lost their Week 18 tilt against the Seattle Seahawks and, let’s be real, they lost BIG. The score wasn’t so lopsided but the game itself? Seattle looked like a lean, mean, fighting machine. They knew exactly what they wanted to do and they did it. The Niners looked like they weren’t sure the game had started. The Seahawks pushed our Niners around like the Niners were second-year players. It was ugly.

The Niners face the Seahawks again this afternoon. It will be their third meeting this year. The Niners won the first game, but lost the second. Now we get a third. The thing is, the Niners have lost in the past and sometimes lost big. It’s common for them to come back the next week and thrash whatever opponent they face. This third shot at the Seahawks comes only two weeks after the second. We have a lot of current game film to study. For our part, the Niners couldn’t do ANYTHING in that game – so the ‘hawks have very little to look at.

The Seahawks beat the Niners like an adult shaking a baby but those kinds of losses often cause the Niners to bounce back with a vengeance. For their part, the Niners are playing with their second string but they’re still finding ways to win. It’s really quite astounding. Everything I know about football tells me they can’t keep doing what they’re doing, but they DO keep doing what they’re doing. I’ve decided to “settle” the matter by… watching the game.

I want the Niners to win. I’ll pick them, 24-17, but mostly that’s because I want them to win. If they do, they move on to the Conference Championship game. If they don’t, they go home. But this year, I don’t think I’ll be too disappointed with a loss. This team has already given us more than we could have asked for. It hasn’t always been pretty but they’ve done so much with so little for so long now, I’ve come to believe anything is possible. We find out today, starting at 5:00pm…

Crazy Is As Crazy Does…

by MyBaconPress

So, it seems at this point like he has dropped the whole ‘Peace Guy’ persona entirely. He has invaded one foreign, sovereign nation, Venezuela. He’s threatening another, Greenland. He’s bombing Nigeria. Now he’s saber-rattling about Iran. The ONE country, it seems, he’s reluctant to help, militarily, is Ukraine, the one country that has asked – begged – him for help. I can’t (Putin) understand (Putin) what’s keeping him (Putin) from helping in that one (Putin).

No, Nobel Peace Prize for you, Donny. We let you have the vaunted FIFA Peace Prize and you’ve crapped all over it’s hallowed tradition. And, no, you can’t even “share” María Corina Machado’s Peace Prize. I know, I know, you’ve ended, what, a hundred thousand wars? Sure, you have. But the demons you battle in your own head don’t count…

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47 said, “If we don’t take Greenland, you’re going to have Russia or China as your next-door neighbor. That’s not going to happen.” Will somebody please show him a map? Specifically, Alaska from where, we all know from that voice of wisdom, Sarah Palin, we can see Russia. They’re already our “next-door neighbor.” Dumbass…

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Donny keeps insisting that oil companies are lining up to get all that beautiful oil – somehow our oil, that we’re only storing under Venezuela – under their control. Obviously the oil companies want the stolen oil. It’s oil. But they’re not as interested in the problems of getting it, so they’re expressing hesitation.

Donny keeps insisting that oil companies are lining up to get all that beautiful oil but the CEO of ExxonMobile said, “If we look at the commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s un-investable.” But Donny keeps insisting that oil companies are lining up to get all that beautiful oil – so now he’s threatening to cut out ExxonMobile because they don’t see it as a dependable investment. But Donny keeps insisting that oil companies are lining up to get all that beautiful oil…

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Let’s visit an old friend, shall we? I’ve got to confess, his illegal invasion of Venezuela, coupled with the ICEhole’s murder of Renee Good served – very effectively – to push the Trump/Epstein files off of the front page. But the matter hasn’t gone away. No matter how desperately he wants it to and wishes it would go away, it hasn’t gone away.

We know Team Evil has been working hard to release pieces of paper showing as little information as possible. They claim those are the files, the pieces of paper. Most people think the “files” are the information on the paper, not the pieces of paper themselves. The 8.5 x 11 black pages aren’t cutting it. Worse, they’re releasing those pieces of paper as slowly as they can by claiming, “We’re working on it. We just read slow.”

So now Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have requested the court overseeing the release to appoint a Special Master – someone who CAN read. Massie wrote: “Attorney General Pam Bondi is egregiously violating the requirements of the ‘Epstein Files Transparency Act.’ Under her leadership, the Department of Justice is missing statutory disclosure deadlines, making excessive redactions, and illegally withholding the Department’s internal communications. Because the Department of Justice has shown it cannot be trusted with making the disclosures required by law, a Special Master should be appointed to oversee the release of the Epstein files.” See? It hasn’t gone away and it isn’t going away…

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Just a thought: racism among white men seems to be rooted in a fear, “Holy crap, what if they do to us what we’ve always done to them?” So, you could stop doing to them…

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As Iran cracks down on protestors, martyrs are being highlighted. Oddly, as the US cracks down on, um, who are they cracking down on, again? Oh, right, anybody who gets in their way for any reason, whatsoever, right. We’re getting some martyrs, too.

Iran has been in upheaval to one degree or another, ever since the United States overthrew the democracy there in favor of the Shah (and the oil, of course). It seems natural they’d have a martyr or two. On the other hand, the US has only been in upheaval since Donny the Dumbass seized power. He’s only been running the show (into the ground) for about a year, we already have a name or two to rally around.

Yes, your own country creating martyrs IS a badge of shame, but let us not let their tribulations and deaths be in vain. Word is, his criminal regime will fall if we can get just 3% of the population into the streets. Our current population is 345,297,879. That means we need about 10.3 million people marching – peacefully, please. The sooner we get out there, the fewer names of martyrs we’ll have to collect…

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I’ve got to say, these Forty-Niners are a rather amazing squad. They keep suffering injury after injury. They have a long list of starters sitting on the sideline. They just lost another in yesterday’s game. They won anyway. Now they’re going to play Seattle again. They played two weeks ago and it didn’t go well for the Niners.

The Niners Head Coach, Kyle Shanahan, has publicly requested a Sunday game instead of a Saturday game of the NFL. That’s pretty unusual. Normally, coaches just shrug off whatever day they’re assigned. “It is what it is.” I suspect he needs as much time as he can get to prop up what’s left of his team. Yeah, the Niners won, but they lost George Kittle to a torn Achilles tendon, the latest in a concerning, long line of soft-tissue injuries. The team leads the league in soft-tissue injuries.

There’s a story going around. Maybe a rumor? There’s a guy out there named Peter Cowan. He says he has an inkling as to why the Niners are the most injury-prone team in the entire NFL over the last decade. First he lists the injuries. It’s a pretty brutal list, and it’s long. Every Niner fan knows this team has suffered more than it’s share of injuries. We openly ask each other, “Why?” What’s going on? I mean, the injuries are a regular topic of conversation.

Cowan says he thinks the problem can be traced to an electrical substation next to the Niners practice field. He says the substation emits “low-frequency electromagnetic fields” that can “degrade collagen, weaken tendons, and cause soft-tissue damage at levels regulators call ‘safe.'” Cowan traces the pattern back to 2014, when the team started using Levi’s Stadium full time. It’s an interesting theory, if nothing else. Meanwhile, the Niner survivors are off to Seattle to face the Seahawks again…

One Fraud After Another…

by MyBaconPress

Through the years, I’ve picked up a thing or two about the Dow Jones Industrial Average. For one, it’s not that anymore. Now it’s the Dow Jones index. It tracks financial stocks, not industry. Another, and this is important, is that the Dow is not the economy. I mention that one because of this one: the Dow, specifically, is nothing more than a CEO happiness indicator.

Corporate “news” likes to trumpet increases in the Dow as if it means YOU are doing better. But you aren’t, are you? You’re struggling more than, what, ever? The Dow keeps reaching record highs and you keep finding your wallet lighter and lighter. Nobody’s telling you, but the two are absolutely related.

After the Dow changed from an industrial index to a financial index, it’s meaning changed. When it was an industrial index, it measured the health and strength of the US economy. Now? Well, now it measures how well rich people are doing. Now, every uptick of the Dow means they have more and you have less. Every. Single. Tick, tick, tick. They have more, you have less. Tick, tick, tick. Celebrate a robust Dow at your own peril…

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It’s weird to realize, but do you know who – more than anybody else – does NOT believe in Capitalism? Capitalists! Oh, you don’t believe me? Watch them. Actions speak louder than words. The story is about buying and selling. Succeed you win, mistakes, you lose. But that’s just the story. In reality, their “Capitalism” often consists of stealing and selling, not buying and selling. While it seems true that succeeding equals winning, in practice, mistakes don’t equal loss. They equal Socialism, where the population bails them out financially and gives them a second run at it. Then a third. Then a fourth. Then… well, ad infinitum.

Even Capitalists think Socialism is better than Capitalism, and you can know it if you just ignore their words and pay attention to what they do. Actions speak louder than words. I’ll tell you this: Since even Capitalists reject Capitalism, I think I will, too…

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Okay, back to this. Sorry. I’ve been watching videos of the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis. I’ve also been listening to Team Evil describing the events surrounding the shooting of a person in Minneapolis – apparently on the same day. Question: was there a second shooting in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was murdered? One that nobody is aware of except the lying liars of Team Evil? Because the events they’re describing? Those events have nothing, whatsoever, to do with the events shown in the videos. None.

In the shooting Team Evil is referencing, the killer was run over by a vehicle and is now recovering in the hospital. In the Good murder, the killer kills the driver, spits an epithet at her dying body, then turns around and walks away. Then he gets in a car and drives off. That’s not what “recovering in a hospital” looks like.

Also, where is this driving school the puppy killer Kristi Noem pretends is out there? She said, it’s on video, that protestors are being trained to use their vehicles to drive into ICEholes. Really? Where? By whom? More importantly, why? How much training do you suppose that takes? But since it’s clear Good’s intention was to NOT hit Ross, either she didn’t get the training, or she failed the course, right?

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I’ve heard two different concepts from Donny recently that I suspect are intended to seduce his base into thinking he’s doing something for them. The first was his proposal to stop Wall Street from buying single family homes and the second was to cap credit card interest at 10%. Both of those ideas would benefit work-a-day Joes.

But stopping Wall Street from buying single family homes would hurt their bottom line. Capping credit card interest rates would mean less money for the issuing banks. If you think Donny is going to do anything, anything at all, to hurt rich-people investments just to benefit working class people, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. (Again.) That is to say, I’ll believe it when I see it.

But it DOES prove that he knows there are things he could do to help the American people, right? He knows what to promise. That means he knows where, and how, we, the people, are hurting. Honestly, I don’t think he’ll do one thing for the working class. But at least we know he knows – so we also know, he just doesn’t care…

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I really don’t understand The Felon’s obsession with Greenland. It’s important to note: Greenlanders don’t want to be part of the US, and why would they? Why would citizens of a First World nation want to move backwards into a failing, submerging nation like the US? It would represent a giant step backwards. Compared to Europe, the US is rather primitive. Greenland becoming part of the US would be like the US pulling out all of it’s plumbing and throwing it away.

Donny says he needs Greenland for national security. Not true. The US already has a huge military presence in Greenland. We already have permission to expand that presence. Owning the island won’t make any difference. I became convinced he really just wanted the natural resources available there, but then I saw Rasmus Jarlov, the former Danish business manager in an interview saying the US already has “unlimited military access to Greenland they that don’t use and they could extract all the minerals that they wanted if they would just put up the investments, so there’s nothing they need in Greenland that they don’t already have exclusive access to.”

So if he already has the military presence he needs and he already has access to the minerals, what’s the point? Based on everything else I’ve ever seen from the guy, he wants to steal something. Maybe the problem with extracting minerals from Greenland is that they might have to pay Greenland something for them. Then again, maybe he’s just insane and he can’t stop himself from starting WW III. It’s also an excellent plan to fracture NATO and we know his master, Putin, wants that.

There’s a case to made for pure stupidity, too, and Donny makes it, himself. “The fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land. [I’m] sure we had lots of boats go there also.” So, Donald Trump thinks the US had “lots of boats” going to Greenland? 500 years ago? He said it, and Joe Biden didn’t make him say it…

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Good football games yesterday. The Rams beat the Panthers and the Bears beat the Packers, both with exciting finishes. Bears/Packers was boring for three and a half quarters, then it really picked up. So next week’s schedule for the NFC is foreseeable. The Niners play the Eagles this evening. If the Niners win tonight, they travel to Seattle next week and the Rams go to Chicago. If the Eagles win tonight, the Rams travel to Seattle and the Bears host the Eagles. Either way, next week the Seattle Seahawks host an NFC West rival. That should be fun…

What’s Important and What’s Not…

by MyBaconPress

You’ve got to hand it to MAGA media, they’re very good. Fast, you know? Pretty much as quickly as Donny’s bombs fell on Venezuela, cons had been conditioned to answer the question, “How happy are Venezuelans that Maduro is gone?” A lot of them, apparently. Not all of them, I’ve noticed, but a lot of them. No one is interested in defending Maduro. But that’s the wrong question, isn’t it?

Look, if some foreign, sovereign nation decided to swoop into Mar-a-Lardo and bundle up our national nightmare for an unplanned visit to the Hague to stand trial, the vast majority of this nation – hell, the vast majority of the world – would fall out partying and celebrating. Not everyone, of course, but the vast majority of us. Would that make it okay? See, the question conservatives should be asking is, “What right does the United States have to invade a foreign, sovereign nation without provocation?” THAT, is the right question. Oh, and just for the record? None. The proper answer is none.

Oh, I know. It’s easy enough to blow off that question, “What if some foreign, sovereign nation decided to swoop into Mar-a-Lardo and bundle up our national nightmare for an unplanned visit to the Hague to stand trial?” We’re the biggest, meanest country on the block and you know no one could pull that off, so it’s easy to be smug. But that, too, is sidestepping the proper question, which is, ‘What right?’

Donny has no legal authority to take the action he took. He just did it. This is just a sidebar, but many are pointing out that the US is asserting that the US can enforce laws against Presidents of foreign nations, but simultaneously asserting that the US can NOT enforce laws against the US President. That’s just some pretty convoluted thinking, right there. But I digress.

In one action, he has instigated an illegal regime-change, nation-building, forever war – AND set the rest of the world on edge, wondering where his delusions might strike next – and MAGA seems to be all in. That part, I have to admit, blows my mind. 47 ran on “no wars.” MAGA used to throw the “no wars” thing in people’s faces – even as the US was still fighting in Afghanistan. No wars, no wars, no wars. Yeah, yeah.

Now he’s going to sacrifice American soldiers and American taxpayer money so he can illegally steal another country’s natural resources. In retrospect, he DID tell the oil companies that if they gave him lots and lots of money, they could dictate his actions vis-à-vis our government and their corporations. Apparently, they chose “Venezuela” and another oil war was on.

“No, it’s not a war,” many MAGA are saying, “it’s more of a… police action.” Oh, really? Were those police officers that invaded Venezuela? Or were they United States military troops? Wait, haven’t we heard that one before? Oh, yeah, over the war cowardly Cadet Bone Spurs worked so hard to avoid. Vietnam was ‘just a police action,’ too. 58,000 American soldiers lost their lives and countless more were injured and damaged – and that’s only our side.

All of that death and destruction over a “police action.” And now, Donny says he’s going to stay in Venezuela. He’s going to install his preferred government because when has THAT ever gone wrong? Then he’s going to “run” Venezuela – into the ground, if his past is any indicator. He actually said, “We can’t take a chance that someone else takes over Venezuela who doesn’t have the interests of Venezuelans in mind.”

What, like him? He went in to steal their natural resources and funnel the money – ALL of the money – to himself and his rich friends. How well do you suppose that’s going to serve Venezuelans? We really ARE living in the Upside Down…

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I put these two bits together because they reflect my day. The first, an issue of great weight and importance. The second, a low-level time-suck intended to bring pleasure through entertainment. I woke up to the news that 47 had bombed a foreign, sovereign nation. It cast a pall over my day. So I looked forward to a little entertainment in the evening – and got yet another bomb.

But there’s an obvious, huge difference between, “People died” and “My preferred team did not prevail in their sporting competition.” The juxtaposition was jarring. If it seems jarring here, too, well, that was my day…

So, yeah, they looked good – but that was just the uniform. Other than that, it was pretty ugly. Someone should have called the Forty-Niners and told them they had a real football game to play. Clearly, nobody did. The Niners apparently thought it was a scrimmage and didn’t show up. The Seahawks did, though. Kyle Shanahan got all stubborn again. The Seahawks are the very best at shutting down the run. So, Kyle kept trying to force the run. Oh, BOY did that not work. But Kyle kept trying.

I know, McCaffrey only carried the ball eight times, how stubborn is that? Well, considering the Niners only had the ball, like 15 times, that’s pretty stubborn. Yeah, okay, hyperbole alert, but not by much. The Niners only had 9 first downs in the whole game. How many carries is one going to get when one’s whole game is three-and-outs? McCaffrey could NOT move the ball on the ground. The recommended reaction is to throw quick, short passes until the defense softens up a little. Kyle didn’t do that or, at least, he couldn’t make it work.

When there was a hat-tip to the reality that the Niners weren’t going to run on Seattle, Kyle tried to pass from formations with the QB under center. The problem was, Seattle could blast right through our offensive line like it wasn’t even there. So after Purdy took the snap and dropped back, he kept finding Seattle players in the backfield with him. I think Purdy should have taken more snaps from the Pistol or the Shotgun to give him an extra beat. Kyle wasn’t taking my calls, though.

Okay, the truth is, the Niners should have been out of contention somewhere around Week 4 or Week 5. The team has had so many injuries, especially on Defense, it’s a bit of a wonder they were even able to field a team, let alone be playing for first place in the NFC. It WAS a terrible game and a sad portent of what the Niners playoff experience is going to be like this season – but it was an amazing season from a team that shouldn’t have been where they are (were)…

A Promise, Re-promised…

by MyBaconPress

Zelenskyy must be feeling pretty good. Safe and secure, you know? Word is, Donny promised Zelenskyy strong, 15-year security guarantees. Oh, good. I wonder if those “guarantees” are any more solid than the original US promise of security guarantees to Ukraine for surrendering the nuclear arsenal they ended up with after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1994, the US, the UK, and Russia signed an agreement with Ukraine called the Budapest Memorandum. It promised respect for Ukraine’s borders, no economic or military threat against Ukraine, except in self-defense, and that the US and UK would support Ukraine in case of invasion.

When Putin first invaded, the US, kind of begrudgingly, offered weapons. Some weapons, of limited capability. The US held Ukraine to a “limited war.” I define “limited war” as a war the “limited” side gets to lose. Biden finally figured out that his strategy was poor and changed, but it was very late in the game and Ukraine had worse to face: Donny the Dumbass.

Donny started off as a Russian asset, reporting to Putin. By definition, 47 has little to no choice but to try and deliver Ukraine to Russia on Putin’s orders. Donny also started off as a self-serving grifter who doesn’t – can’t – do anything for anybody – ever – unless he gets a taste of the profits. A large taste. So Donny reneged on the deal. Now Ukraine has to renegotiate.

Maybe 47 will keep his word, maybe he won’t. As nearly as I can tell, he rarely keeps his word, so I wouldn’t bet on it. More likely, Donny will take the vig he demands from Ukraine for “security guarantees,” then turn his back on Ukraine anyway. I mean, come on, name a person or group Donny has NOT betrayed. The very best you can do is name someone Donny hasn’t betrayed yet.

Hey, is NOW a good time to remember that this is a war The Felon promised to end in one day? He said it would be easy. He was counting on his close, personal relationship with Putin. Then Putin told Trump to pound sand. Now? Nothing but excuses. People can defend him all they want but I’m sticking with the idea that if he didn’t have a plan in place, he shouldn’t have made the promises – and he REALLY should honor the agreement the US already promised…

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Here’s a paragraph from an article from ‘Military.com:’ “Historically speaking, battleships have been obsolete since at least 1921, when a simple bombing demonstration off Virginia’s coast proved the large warships are vulnerable to air attack. That vulnerability has been validated repeatedly through World War II and ever since as aircraft, submarines and cruise missiles systematically demonstrated that bigger and more expensive warships are easier to sink. They are simply not worth the costs and risks involved in building, maintaining and using in active combat.”

Hmm, battleships are outdated technology that cost WAY too much to build and maintain with WAY to little return on investment? That sounds like the dumbest choice a person could make as far as upgrading one’s navy. So, obviously, Donny has announce a new battleship. You’ll never guess the designation. It’s a ‘Trump-class battleship.” If I was going to bet today, I’d bet the thing sinks the minute it hits the water.

Cadet Bonespurs claimed the new battleships will be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” Of course he did. Naturally, none of that is true. American battleships of WWII were larger and the Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship ever built. By now, Donny, of all people, should know: you can tell someone yours is the biggest, but eventually, they’re going to see it and they’ll discover the truth. There’s a reason he demands non-disclosure agreements…

Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell tried to warn the Navy battleships were vulnerable to air attack as far back as WWI. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. Mitchell proved it by sinking a captured German warship with air-dropped bombs. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. In 1924, Mitchell famously predicted that the Japanese would launch carrier-based attacks on Pearl Harbor using aerial torpedoes against anchored and vulnerable battleships. 1924.

The Navy still didn’t want to hear it. In 1925, the Army court-martialed Mitchell for accusing military leaders of “almost treasonable administration” after they refused to heed his warnings. In 1941, Japan did exactly what Mitchell had predicted. To this day, you can still visit the USS Arizona, laying at the bottom of the bay after having been bombed by airplanes and sunk exactly as Mitchell had warned.

So, of course Donny wants to build new battleships. It’s outdated technology, easily defeated by air power. It costs huge amounts of money to build and maintain, a massive waste in view of how easily defeated they are by air power. Super expensive, nearly useless, yesterday’s technology? That’s right in the center of Donny’s bailiwick: useless, expensive, and wasteful…

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It would have been easier on the Niners had the Carolina Panthers beaten the Seattle Seahawks. But, they didn’t. The Seahawks won. The Niners had to beat the Chicago Bears to stay in the race for first place overall. The Bears are a VERY good team. The Niners have some issues this season. Nonetheless, the Niners managed the victory. It was a very good, back and forth game. At the end, it felt like the game could go either way right up until the gun sounded and the game went one way: to the Niners.

They’re playing for first place overall and that comes with a first round Bye, a chance to rest players. It can be quite the advantage. I understand why they’re putting so much into it. But it looks like they’re leaving it all out on the field, now, in these regular season games. I’m becoming concerned that what it will take to land the First Seed will cost them too much heading into the playoffs.

Then again, I’ve been underestimating this team all season long. Players keep getting injured and each injury brings a feeling of, “Well, that’s it!” So far, though, that hasn’t been it. They just keep plugging along and winning games. Next week, the Niners host those self-same Seahawks in Santa Clara. It’s yet another must-win for the Niners.

If they DO win, they earn the number one seed. They get to skip the first round and rest. THEN, for as long as they can remain in the playoffs, ALL of their games would be in Levi Stadium – up to and including the Stupor Bowl, should they get that far. That would be fun and good for the team, not having to travel at all throughout the playoffs.

If the Niners lose to the Seahawks, they’re still in the playoffs. They just get a lower seed and they WILL have to travel. Oh, AND they’ll have to play in every round and they lose their chance to rest players. I really hope the Niners win. It should be a great game. Hey, what can I say? Escapism is more important, these days, than it used to be…

TPtheUSA…

by MyBaconPress

Charlie Kirk started a group called Turning Point USA (TPUSA). It, or he, became very popular among a certain conservative crowd. TPtheUSA started an annual convention called ‘AmericaFest.’ This year, for obvious reasons, Charlie isn’t the host. His widow, Erika, has the honors. ALSO, this year, there seems to have been much infighting.

Ben Shapiro, co-founder of the conservative media outlet ‘Daily Wire,’ came out swinging and insulted conservative mouthpieces Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Tucker Carlson. Owens, Kelly, and Carlson then each took turns insulting Shapiro back. Steve Bannon jumped on the “Smack Shapiro Back” train, too.

Bannon’s complaint seemed to revolve around Israel. Israel was another area of contention. Some MAGA wonder if US involvement violates 47’s ‘America First’ policy. So, on the one hand, MAGA stands staunchly against antisemitism and on the other hand, they dismiss Shapiro as a Jew with a narrow focus on Israel. Of course, by now, the idea of MAGA holding two conflicting opinions most of the time is just normal day-to-day stuff.

JD Vance said anybody could be part of MAGA so long as they “love America.” Be advised, though, you have to hate the US Constitution and all of the beliefs and institutions that define America AS America. Every time they claim to love America most, I find myself wondering just what in the hell they’re talking about, the landscape?

It was nice to read about the infighting. It looks like there are cracks forming throughout MAGA as individuals split off into their own special interests and splinter groups. I’m not sure Erika Kirk is the dynamic leader Charlie was. At one point, she was presenting an award to a Utah Valley University student named Caleb Chilcutt and she said, “Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband at UVU, Caleb has persisted with the same grift.”

She quickly shifted to “gift” before settling on “grit,” but her accidental truth was a moment of unintentional humor. It clearly was not a smooth, easy event and the public disputes suggest trouble roiling just beneath the surface in MAGA. Stay tuned…

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Sure, 47 will keep murdering people in speedboats. He thinks he has a cover story. But it’s pretty obvious he wants Venezuela’s oil. I mean, he DID say so. Because of his dementia, he actually said that Venezuela was sitting on our oil. He was less clear about how and why the US put it’s oil under Venezuela. So now he has seized a second tanker.

Here’s a question: How long do you suppose China is going to stay quiet about all of this? The reason I ask is, 80% of Venezuelan oil goes to China. Donny ordering the seizing of tankers seems like it could be a problem. Right now, Donny thinks he’s seizing Venezuela’s oil but it seems he actually seizing China’s oil. I suspect Venezuela is going to show up for Donny’s war with quite a strong ally…

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I find it telling that the (in)Justice Department is dragging it’s feet releasing photos 47 is in because they have to be super-de-duper careful about making sure he’s not in a photo with one of his victims, and, apparently, that’s a very difficult thing for them to do. It suggests there are a LOT of photos depicting Donny with his victims…

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Tax season is fast approaching and I’ve been concerned. I suspect Donny will do everything he can to milk the working class dry. My suspicion is based on the observation that, so far, all he’s done is work to milk the working class dry. So I was surprised when White House spokesliar Kevin Hassett suggested we, the people, are just about to receive the largest refunds in history.

Then I remembered: he’s a spokesliar. Everything this White House says turns out to be the opposite of the truth. If we’re being told we’re just about to receive the biggest refund in history, be afraid. Be very afraid…

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We’re getting to the fun part of the season. You’re going to read more about the NFL, here, in the next few weeks. Like the fact that the Niners clinched a playoff spot this weekend before they even played a game. I think stuff like this is fun. The Seattle Seahawks beat the LA Rams and the Niners clinched a spot. Not only that, there’s a path for the Niners to end up winning their division AND taking the number one overall seed, giving them a first round Bye in the playoffs.

That’s wild, in view of the injuries the team has suffered this season. It’s important to note that the Niners have to win the next three games in order to achieve that goal, and winning all three is NOT going to be an easy task. The last three games are all against teams with winning records. The attempt starts tonight as the Niners take on the 8-6 Indianapolis Colts.

Indy got to where they are behind a Quarterback who got injured and is out for the season. So, the team went out and signed 44-year old veteran Philip Rivers. He’s a good player but he hasn’t been playing for a couple of years. He seems a bit rusty. Besides, in football terms, 44 years makes you Methuselah.

After that, the Niners face the 10-4 Bears, then the 12-3 Seahawks but to embrace an old Football cliche, they have to take them one game at a time. If they lose any one of those games, the attempt fails and they play the Wild Card round. Based on the injuries the team has suffered all season, just making the playoffs is a huge success. Claiming the top seed in the NFC seems almost greedy. I mean, I’m okay with it, but just making the playoffs was a hell of an accomplishment, if you ask me…