Trump

No One Is Safe…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve long suspected cons are so loyal to Trump because they think AS cons, they’re safe from his attacks. But are they? As he melts down trying to find a decent and not hackneyed attack on Kamala, he has taken to lobbing insults at other Republicans, too. Their sins? Speaking truth about Trump. He hates that. He WILL work to tear you down, Republican or no, if you don’t kiss his ring.

But it’s not just that. He tore into Tennessee Governor Billy, no, Bill Lee, the chair of the Republican Governors Association, for being a “RINO.” (That’s a ‘Republican In Name Only.’ One can be a DINO, too…) What did Lee do? Well, months ago, Lee endorsed a candidate. More recently, Trump endorsed that candidate’s opponent. That puts Lee on the outs.

Meanwhile, the racist, criminal, and very OLD weirdo Donald Trump is trying to distance himself from his Public Display of Racism at the NABJ by calling Kamala “Kamabla.” Yeah, that should work, name calling. How VERY second grade. Except, nobody knows what Kamabla is or means.

I’ve digressed a bit. The point here is, even cons aren’t safe from his attacks – and one doesn’t even have to actually DO anything to him. If he even THINKS you’ve done something he doesn’t like, he works hard to bring you down, Republican or no, and right now, he’s just flailing at anybody and everybody as he falls further and further behind in the race…

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Recently, there was an economic blip, a huge sell-off in the rich people’s casino. The GOP immediately dreamed of an economic crash and started trying to pin the hoped-for economic slowdown on Kamala, calling it the ‘Kamala crash.’ Had it been an actual crash, I STILL think it would be more closely associated with the specter of Trump seizing power in January, after losing the election in November.

The cons CAN steal the election. They want to, they have a plan to, and they can. They’ve put the pieces in place. But would the country just sit idly by and let it happen? Or, would the largest economy on Earth, the one so many other countries depend upon, be destabilized? Are the world markets spooked by the prospect of a Trump return, either in November OR in January?

MAGA lives in a dream world of delusion but the rest of the world remembers Trump’s first term. The rest of the world knows that the American economy was already suffering under Trump’s mismanagement even before Covid-19. His stated plans for his return promise to do even greater damage than he did the last time. Maybe, the closer we get to the possibility of his actual return, the more rich people feel like they need to protect their own positions…

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So, this mystery buffoon (I’ll let you see if you can guess whom) goes on Fox Not News and takes questions from bikers at the Sturgis rally in South Dakota. One person explained that rents are too high and asked what our mystery buffoon (it could be any MAGA) plans to do about it.

His answer? Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive! Yeah, you think I’m kidding. You think I’m poking fun at a mentally challenged person. You think I’m treating him like he treats disabled reporters. None of the above. Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive.

Okay, so that isn’t an exact, word-for-word quote. But it was absolutely his message. He said energy costs were causing high housing prices. (He’s wrong.) This is one of the falsehoods MAGA holds on to. The US is currently – that means right now, today – producing more oil and gas than we ever have before in the entire history of the once-great nation. But nobody told MAGA and they think we’re not drilling at all. (They’re wrong.) Besides, the US is mostly incapable of refining the oil we take out of the ground under our feet. In short, we HAVE to sell it. Drilling more just improves oil company profits. It doesn’t lower prices at the pump one cent.

The food gouge HAS increased the price of bacon – just like they’ve increased the price of everything else. Greed kills. Greedy grocery chains aren’t the reason that guy’s kids can’t find a decent place to live at an affordable price. That’s Wall Street greed. Totally different.

Drill, baby, drill because bacon is expensive. Dear MAGA, I know you love him. I know you’re going to vote for him, but you’re voting for a moron…

Walz Vs Vance…

by MyBaconPress

When Harris announced Walz as her running mate, most people I know said, “Who?” The more we find out about Walz, though, the happier I think most lefties are. He was a good pick. He was an unknown pick the day he was announced but his approval numbers just keep climbing. Walz is bringing people into the fold, increasing the number of people excited to vote for the ticket.

When Trump announced Vance as his running mate, MAGA said, “What?!?” The more we find out about Vance, though, the LESS people like him. Not just MAGA, everyone. He was an unpopular pick the day he was announced and his approval numbers have only fallen since. Vance is alienating entire voting blocs at an alarming rate, driving voters away. He’s lost women, independents, and Black voters. His approval among college-educated voters has declined 28 percent! By their own words, they prefer the “poorly educated” anyway.

One of my favorite things about Walz is that he’s funny. He’s going to be fun to listen to in speeches. Oh, I also found out he’s not rich. Like, he has no investments and doesn’t even own a home. That sounds like a school teacher to me. LOTS of school teachers can’t afford to buy their own homes these days. Walz really IS just a regular guy.

For reasons I can’t imagine, Trump took almost all of last week off. He just sat at Mar-a-Lardo, perhaps trying to come up with some clever name to call someone, and sent Vance out to do the campaigning. Was that supposed to be a charm offensive? It didn’t work. People don’t like Vance. He’s weird.

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What the hell is it with that weird old guy? Trump held a news conference. He was trying to hit Harris on the fact that she’s been out campaigning and not doing pressers, but first, he had to have a presser himself in order to blunt criticism. But holding a press conference and spewing lies? I’m not sure that’s going to get you anywhere.

I’d sure like to know why he’s so obsessed with crowd size. It goes all the way back to his inauguration in 2017. He didn’t draw nearly the crowd most newly elected Presidents draw and it really frosted him. He has spent years trying to convince somebody, somewhere that he draws large crowds. It’s fairly easy for him, because when he doesn’t, he just pretends he did. Hey, I don’t care. Pretend what you want but I’m not going to pretend with you. During his presser, he claimed he drew more people than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did at his “I Have A Dream” speech. He didn’t. He never has. He never will…

He said no one was killed on January 6th. That’s in keeping with the MAGA lie that the whole thing was a peaceful, “unauthorized tour.” It’s also incorrect. Ask Ashli Babbitt. Oh, you can’t. She’s too dead, having been shot in the head trying to storm the Senate chamber. Maybe you could ask Brian Sicknick? No. He’s the cop that died after battling the crowds at the Capitol – as a direct result from having had to battle the crowds. Let’s set aside the five other cops who committed suicide later. Just one of those names was enough to prove the weird old man a liar.

Cons keep trying to pretend Kamala taking the nomination after Joe stepped aside is some kind of coup. They really need a coup attempt on their side to try and balance the scales from their own efforts, so they call everything a coup. For clarity, there was and is nothing criminal or even problematic about a political party picking it’s preferred candidate. Just because Trump wishes he was running against Joe and with a decent VP pick, doesn’t mean the Dems have to choose Joe or a lower, Vance-level VP pick…

He claimed the economy would be perfect in every way had he been elected in 2020. Easy to say, old man. I’m not sure anybody who knows what they’re talking about would agree with you and since you were NOT elected in 2020, it’s all hypothetical. Since we’re just making things up, I can just as easily say that if you had been elected in 2020, everybody in the country would be homeless and jobless, disease riddled, starving and suffering in every possible way. Go ahead. Prove me wrong in a fantasy scenario. It turns out? ANYBODY can just make crap up…

He said 20 million people came across the border during the Biden administration, maybe more. First, there’s no support for that number. He just made it up. Second, even though the cons keep trying to smear the Dems over the border, it was the Republicans who killed the best bill we’ve had on the topic in years – and they did it on Donny’s orders. Dear MAGA, you can TRY blocking meaningful action on a topic and then blaming your opponents for no meaningful action. But nobody is going to believe you. We all know what happened, regardless of how many times you repeat the lie…

He’s still whining about being caught in his criminal activity, too. He keeps claiming state cases are influenced by the Justice Department. They’re not. In fact, as nearly as I can tell, ALL of his cases were, essentially, initiated by HIM. If he hadn’t sexually assaulted that woman, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t stolen from his charity, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t cooked his books to pay off his illicit lover, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. If he hadn’t stolen all of those documents, he wouldn’t have to pay the price. See the pattern? I sure do…

He claimed he “went down” in a helicopter with Willie Brown. He said they had an emergency landing. He claimed, “This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was, he was a little concerned.” Willie Brown says it never happened. Did Trump confuse his Browns, Willie for Jerry? Nope. Trump DID tour fire damage with Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom. Jerry says no such thing ever happened with him, either. Newsom confirms Jerry’s account. Does Trump really think it happened? Is he THAT disconnected from reality? Maybe he was just scared up in that helicopter and it FELT like danger to him…

He even claimed to have protected Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign! “I was very protective of her,” Trump said at his press conference. “Nobody would understand that, but I was. I think my people understand it. They used to say, ‘Lock her up, lock her up,’ but I’d say just, ‘Relax, please.’” That’s his actual quote. He claims he tried to CALM the crowd chanting ‘Lock her up!” We were all there, Donald. We KNOW you’re lying, but, hey… Do you?

According to John Bolton, you can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie. Bolton says you can’t tell the difference because you simply don’t care. You just say whatever you need to say in the moment and trust that no one will challenge you. It works when you’re surrounded by sycophants. Not so much when confronted by normal people who see you only for what and who you really are. I suspect that’s why you get to talk for two hours at one of your rallies but get whisked off the stage after thirty minutes when talking to actual journalists.

So I think the Trump presser has not worked well for Trump. It only exposed him more. He’s flailing. Mr. ‘I can solve everything easily’ can’t even come up with a decent campaign response to Harris/Walz? It’s been two weeks. So far, he’s come up with ‘Kamabla.’ That one is right up there with ‘covfefe,’ Donald. You’d better stay home longer and keep trying…

I’ll tell you this: The strangest election in modern American history continues to deliver. It’s been frightening, exhilarating, scary, comforting, predictable, confusing, exciting, AND boring – and there are STILL just under ninety days remaining…

Another Piece In Place…

by MyBaconPress

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the cons have positioned as many as 70 pro-Trump election deniers in roles as election officials in battleground states. They work on local certifying boards. At least 22 of them have already tried to disrupt previous elections by claiming they don’t believe the results. No, they never – and I mean EVER – have or even offer any evidence. It’s just something they feel, something they choose to believe.

We all know the standard by now. If Trump wins, the election was “fair.” If he loses, it was not. Sure, it’s a stupid standard but that’s the one they insist on using. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all suffering election conspiracy theorists who will simply refuse to certify the results, even though that’s their job. It’s not optional. It’s their duty – and they intend to NOT do it.

I should add, the author of the article made clear that there was no evidence of some national movement to foist these loyalists on certifying boards. These are, apparently, just your average, true-believing, Trump loyalist MAGAS who moved themselves into those positions because they believe the lies being spewed from MAGA media. But the Deceived are always more dangerous than the Deceivers. The Deceived truly believe they’re there to “stop the steal,” never realizing THEY are the ones doing the stealing.

The reason this is important is that this is the first step in their coming January coup. Now, listen, I know people think that’s some kind of crazy conspiracy theory and maybe it is. But I know they have a plan to steal and the plan revolves around denying the results of any election Trump doesn’t win outright. Discovering the cons have already installed 70 people willing to do exactly that to subvert elections in favor of their beliefs adds support to the idea.

The only real way to stop it is lawsuits, though a handful of states can impose criminal penalties on certifiers who refuse to do their duty. Lawsuits, ultimately, end up in front of the Kangaroos of Roberts Corrupt Court, who rule for Trump. That will NOT be good for America. This is the reason I’d like to see Biden add four seats. Yes, it would start a tit-for-tat but it would save America in the meantime.

At this point, I believe Kamala is going to win the election. I believe the cons will try to install Trump anyway. They have the plan. They have the pieces in place to execute the plan. They’re ONE LIE – “The election was rigged” – away from initiating the plan. I can’t see a single, peaceful way to stop them. They went to all the trouble to put the pieces in place. They are so close to success, I can’t see any reason they would just…stop.

So the question is, how do you think this country will react? Will we just sit back and let a felonious, rapist, lying, little man steal our country? Will we hit the streets for some France level protest? How do YOU think America will react to such a chain of events?

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Apparently, Trump thinks that showing a photo of Kamala wearing a Sari proves she has always and only embraced her Indian heritage. He needed to do something after he told the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) that she had only recently “turned black.” He did that. He doubled down. “See? She wore a Sari once. That’s not black.”

Sorry, man, that’s not the way it works. One can embrace many aspects of one’s heritage. There’s no rule that says I can’t honor my mother’s (and, therefore, my) Indian history AND my father’s (and, therefore, my) Jamaican history.

You’re just wrong on this one, Donny. She didn’t just turn black. She’s been half black all of her life. You’re just wrong…and really weird.

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I also liked that Trump got called out for one of his racist scare statements at the NABJ. We all know, by now, scare statements are part of the MAGA mind control. Trump keeps them scared or angry, always. It’s BEST if he can keep them both scared AND angry. People responding to strong emotions are not people thinking at their best. One of his more common stories is that undocumented immigrants are taking “black jobs.”

It’s a line that works well when talking to racists and scared, angry minds. Fearmongering. Someone “different” is taking something from someone. The jobs most of these undocumented immigrants end up with are menial labor. To suggest they’re taking “black jobs” pretends that black people only work in menial jobs. MAGA eats that crap up. Not surprisingly, black people seem a little offended.

The thing is, he wasn’t talking to MAGA. The NABJ is made up of educated, thinking people who understand the inferences of that comment. So, one of them asked, “What IS a “black job?” Trump had an answer. “Anybody that has a job.” There. Not racist at all, right? The audience groaned out loud.

I believe gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles put him in his place the best. After winning another gold medal, she tweeted, “I love my black job.” Oh, no! You don’t suppose someone is going to cross the Rio Grande and just push Biles off the US Gymnastics team and take her job, do you? Trump thinks so. Yeah, that sounds like a guy who should lead a nation.

I’m glad the Dems started with their “weird” campaign because, you know what? They ARE weird. I’m glad I finally have the right word for it: weird.

Hinky…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, the crazies come out, don’t they? Something maybe happened to Trump’s ear. Maybe a bullet, maybe not. Maybe shrapnel, maybe not. Hell, maybe he cut himself. Maybe not. No one knows because no one trustworthy will say. But the whole thing healed faster than most people expected from a gun shot that took “the top of his ear off” – as reported by Ronny “Candy man” Jackson-Johnson, once, apparently, a doctor but no longer because of his casual distribution of drugs throughout the Trump White House.

Photos taken less than two weeks after the shooting show no sign of any damage to Trump’s ear whatsoever. No scab. No scar. No piece missing. Nothing. Trump’s ear looks exactly the same as it always has in the photo. So, of course, MAGA came out in droves – to attack the photographer! They trolled him pretty heavily. So badly, in fact, he had to pull his brand X account. All because he took a picture that shows a perfectly healthy, intact ear.

Dear MAGA, that’s not the photograph’s fault, nor does the fault lie with the photographer who took the effing picture in the first place. If the photo offers evidence that something hinky is going on with Trump and his story, that’s not the fault of the evidence. You should check with your lying dear leader. Something isn’t right with his story…

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He can’t even fix it. Trump told a group of maybe-Christians they had to come out and vote for him one more time, then they’d never have to vote again because he would have it “fixed so good” he won’t “need their votes.” That caused rational people to think he was telling the world he was going to put an end to voting. No need, when we have a dictator.

So, he did an interview on Fox Not-News with Laura Ingraham and tried to clear up the “confusion.” Cleverly, he doubled down, even after she tried to help him. “You meant you won’t have to vote for you because you’ll have four years in office,” Ingraham pressed, trying to give him an out, suggesting he only meant he’d be at the end of his second term.

“I’m saying go out, you must vote,” Trump replied. “I said to the Christians in the room … you have to vote on Nov. 5. After that, you don’t have to worry about voting anymore — I don’t care — because we’re going to fix up, the country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore because, frankly, we will have such love.”

That answer still leaves me feeling like ‘no need, when we have a dictator.’ But I don’t WANT a dictator. MAGA might be looking forward to the end of the country and the Constitution, but I’m not. I prefer the rule of law to the rule of loyalty. Whatever you do, do NOT vote Republican…

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It’s STILL a great indicator. If a conservative is “warning” people about something, it’s because their scheme is at risk of being stopped. For example, Trump toady Bill Barr and Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO and chief counsel for First Liberty Institute, a “Christian” conservative organization, wrote an op-ed “warning” cons that the left wants to pack the court with additional liberal justices. (I know I do…) They wrote, “The last thing we need in this country right now is a Supreme Court coup that would threaten our democratic republic.” They’re correct on both points.

I want to pack the court with four more liberal justices in an effort to offset the criminally corrupt cons currently infesting the court and making decisions based on what’s best for rich people and Trump and NOT based on the Constitution. THIS court, the Roberts Court, has already done so much damage to our democratic republic, it could take decades to fix, if it’s fixable at all. The longer the kangaroos hold sway, the more damage they’ll do.

As always, the cons say it backwards. From ‘The Hill,’ ‘The op-ed painted a grim picture for what “court packing” could look like, suggesting civil and religious liberties will be limited and First Amendment rights for the left’s political opponents would be “trampled.”’ You know, exactly the results cons are calling for in their Project 2025, except they intend to do it TO the left.

The op-ed continued. “In truth, ‘court reform’ is nothing more than a desperate attack to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and originalism,” Barr and Shackelford lied. “If this coup succeeds, the rule of law will be over as the judiciary will become little more than a political tool of whomever holds power.”

Yeah, that would suck. But not as much as the corrupt court we have now that is little more than a political tool of one party, MAGAGOP, regardless of who holds power. And remember, the cons started all of this when they stole Merrick Garland’s seat and gave it to Neil Gorsuch, meaning their actual complaint is that the left might do to them what they did to the left. Suddenly, it seems really unfair, to them…

Fakin’ It…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, Trump’s choice of a running mate, JD Vance, seems to be hurting the ticket. What, for having a little sex with a couch? I’ve never done that, never even thought about it. But hey, maybe it was a really sexy couch. For being a fraud? MAGA doesn’t care about frauds. MAGA depends on fraud. MAGA is built on fraud.

Now, suddenly, it’s MAGAGOP that wants to replace a candidate. To be clear, Trump keeps saying he’s fine with Vance. Possibly, Vance wrote the biggest check and it cleared first, so Vance is the guy. But the base doesn’t seem happy.

Apparently, he’s not too magnetic at the microphone. So far, he’s been nothing but storms for the campaign. He’s pretend Appalachia, and very likely pretend MAGA. He was once a ‘Never Trumper’ but seems to have gotten over that.

It’s weird. I know how they feel. The left was just in the exact same conundrum a mere two weeks ago. Knowing you have a candidate who doesn’t appeal to people is challenging. But what does Trump do?

If he keeps Vance on the ticket, he’s hurting his own chances in the election. If he dumps Vance, I guarantee you the left will pounce on that as an error Trump made. (At least, this corner of the left will.) Trump picked him. Trump named him as the running mate. Trump thought he would be good for the ticket. Trump was wrong. WAY wrong. I wonder if MAGA will be able to see that their infallible leader made an egregious mistake.

No, I don’t. They see it. They just re-write it to make Trump a hero anyway. Or, they’ll suddenly embrace Vance. Either way, they won’t have to face the reality that Trump messed this one up pretty badly – just like everything else he touches…

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MAGA keeps trying to convince somebody, somewhere that it’s absolutely unacceptable that people in the White House may have lied about Joe’s situation. (They haven’t.) They’re acting like it’s a major breach of ethics to lie. Excuse me a moment.

A-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Oh, tears! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha – Oh, my sides hurt. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha… heh, heh… ohh…

I think the party that LIVES on lies trying to make a single, possible lie into the worst thing ever might be among the funniest things we see all summer…

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One of the stories MAGA loves to tell is that illegals are bringing Fentanyl into the country. It turns out – you’ll never guess – they made that up! It turns out, if you ask former head of Border Security Gil Kerlikowske, nine out of ten convicted Fentanyl traffickers are US Citizens. He even says the cons KNOW that most of the traffickers are US Citizens. It’s just a nice, little attack line they made up out of whole cloth because they don’t have anything real to complain about.

I guess that’s why the cons were so comfortable shooting down that bi-partisan border bill, written by a Republican, supported by Dems AND the border patrol, and denounced by Donald J. Trump because he didn’t want Dems to have a “win.”

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Wait, was it just yesterday I wrote, “I find it ironic as hell that it’s the pseudo-Christian community ushering in the age of the Anti-Christ by putting their faith into this Earthbound clod but, hey,that’s how the Bible said it was going to happen…”

In fact, it was. So, here. A little bit of support for my position. Shall we open our Bibles to Second Timothy? Not ‘Two Timmy,’ as some Trumps might have it. It’s toward the back. A lot of the pseudo-Christians never got that far. Ah, here it is.

2 Timothy 3, “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…but they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all…”

Does any of this sound like any (every) MAGA you know? It seems, to me, to be a pretty accurate (read: perfect) description. Leave it to the “lovers of light” to lead the world into the darkest darkness…

Losing Strategies…

by MyBaconPress

The GOP seems to be having some difficulty coming up with an attack line against Harris. They’ve tried all their usual stuff. Racism, misogyny, nothing is working. They’ve attacked her laugh. The Russians have, too. STILL, not much traction. In fact, those attacks seem to be hurting his campaign.

Trump has been courting black voters. Or trying to, anyway. I STILL don’t think black people, as a bloc, would have voted for the guy in the white pointy hood, but now they have Kamala and I’d bet Kamala can relate to black issues better than Trump. Just a hunch.

Trump wants people of color but keeps saying anybody who arrives in the US from south of the border are A) Mexicans (It’s like he doesn’t even know there are other countries down there.) and B) ALL violent criminals. How does that bring them into the fold? I imagine that if I were, say, an undocumented but not-violent, non-criminal from, oh, I don’t know, El Salvador, I’d be off-put by the idea of being depicted as a violent criminal.

So, they attack her gender. That seems like a losing strategy. But, I guess, you’re already doing great with the ladies, you might as well denigrate them entirely. Holy gods, the GOP has been attacking women hard and blatantly. They really, really want women back in the home, barefoot and pregnant and, by GOD, they’re going to use their freedumb to put women back where they belong, like it or not.

I would think trying to paint Harris as a DEI hire because of her race or gender could only offend women. I just don’t think it’s a winning strategy to suggest that successful women can only BE successful women if they somehow trick a man or get a boost from some program. I suspect that’s more likely to repel women than attract them.

Geez, come to think of it, I hope the GOP keeps it up…

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Okay, so, Trump keeps telling the Deceived he doesn’t care about votes. He says he doesn’t need votes. He says he’s got all the votes he needs. It’s not a one-off. He KEEPS saying it. To my mind, that should be a losing strategy. On Friday, he told a bunch of pseudo-Christians they only need to come out “just this time” and then they “won’t have to do it anymore” after the election in November. He said, out loud, “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”

Dear MAGA, you NEVER “have” to vote. (In fact, please don’t.) You GET to vote. Yes, it’s a little harder, that way. It requires you to keep up with things. It requires you to know things and I know how much you hate that. You don’t get to just stick your head in the sand and let someone else solve your problems for you. But it’s still an opportunity, not an obligation. It’s one of those “freedoms” you’re always on about. You should WANT to vote…

I find it ironic as hell that it’s the pseudo-Christian community ushering in the age of the Anti-Christ by putting their faith into this Earthbound clod but, hey,that’s how the Bible said it was going to happen…

I’m filing Trump’s comments under “Confessions of the Cons.” He’s telling them – and all of us, for that matter -that voting will be yesterday’s news if he gets back into the White House. He’s ALSO admitting that he intends to get back into the White House through fair means or foul. (How else could he “not need” their votes?) Thom Hartmann exposed their plan. Win or lose in November, the cons intend to simply install Trump in January by pretending to question the integrity of the election and throwing it to the GOP-controlled House to decide. Trump KNOWS about the plan. Clearly, he’s counting on it.

Sidebar: The only way I can think of to stop it, is if a couple of Republicans with integrity step down after the election, giving control of the House to the Dems and stopping MAGAGOP from just stealing the election outright. Depending on the integrity of a couple of Republicans, though, is NOT the kind of thing that just fills me with confidence…

Anyway, after he’s installed, they’ll have it “fixed so good,” no more voting. That doesn’t sound good, to me. That sounds like a dictator confessing. He has all the votes he needs – he gets them from his good friend Putin. Then? No more voting? He’s running around saying it out loud – and MAGA is cheering!

I’ll tell you this: Celebrating the end of our democracy seems…misinformed, at best…

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The Daily Beast is reporting that Trump was seen in public without that feminine napkin on his ear. He didn’t even have the smaller bandage on. In fact, there was nothing, and I mean exactly that. Nothing. No bandage, no wound.

Look if you have the top of your ear shot off, or even if it’s shrapnel, it takes a while to heal. I don’t think he still needs a bandage of any kind. He probably never did. He was barely hurt, but playing it up for his base. It was VERY disrespectful to the family of the man who lost his life for real. But losing the top of your ear is going to take a while to recover. Trump was shot at on July 13. Trump was seen on the 26th. 13 days to full recovery? Not even a scab?

That whole thing stinks on ice. Bits just don’t add up. We never got a trustworthy medical report. As an ex-President, I would have expected as much information as anybody could find. I might have expected photos of the wound. It might have been a bit gross but it would have really driven home the “got shot” thing. The attending physician at the hospital should have given an update. All we ever got was a story from Trump, himself, and a “medical (-ish) statement” from “Dr.” Ronnie Jackson Johnson Jackson…Johnson.

But somebody died. Would Trump risk (end) the life of an actual human being for a political stunt? Actually, come to think of it, yes, he might. I can’t really get my arms around that, though, so I accept the idea that the shooting was real. But I say again, something stinks on ice about the whole thing…

Do Not Go Gentle…

by MyBaconPress

There are people who are upset that Biden may step aside, concerned that the Dems have no one else who can beat Trump. I know one thing, Biden isn’t going to beat Trump. Yes, he’s had a successful administration. But his age is an insurmountable issue and unless you can find the Fountain of Youth, that issue isn’t going away. It’s true, the Dems may not have anyone who can beat Trump. But Biden is surely NOT going to beat Trump. So, we lose for sure or change horses and maybe lose. Which do you prefer?

Besides, I don’t think Biden ever beat Trump to begin with. No, I believe the outcome of the 202o election, but I think people were voting against Trump, not for Biden. Dems are desperately hoping people will come out against Trump again but the enthusiasm just doesn’t seem to be there. We’re not currently in the throes of a pandemic that was SO mismanaged it killed over a million Americans and I fear Roe has receded in people’s minds. Women in blue states know they can still get required services and women in Red states may be able to travel.

But the GOP wants to impose a nationwide ban on abortion and, likely, birth control. Of COURSE they’ll tell you differently. Cons lie all the time. They KNOW their program is not popular so they have to bring it in secret. Ignore what they say. Pay attention to what they do. Once Trump is in, though, he’s IN. Only death will remove him, so his unpopular agenda will move forward, like it or not. That’s the weird part. People WANT to vote against Trump but Biden’s presence on the ticket is killing enthusiasm.

I think Biden is killing his legacy by staying in the race. I wonder if he knows how much people will revile him when he loses, knowing everyone wanted him to step down but HE wanted HE wanted and screw everyone else. HE says if he loses, he’ll be okay with that if he just ran a good race. But staying in the race doesn’t just hand it to Trump, it hands the country over to the One Percent, once and for all. If you believe Project 2025, it ends the Republic as we know it…

Wow. That’s some real ‘hair-on-fire’ stuff, isn’t it? Do you know what’s funny about it? It doesn’t matter. Some of us already know the cons have a plan to just steal the election in January if Trump doesn’t win it outright in November. I’m sometimes told that’s paranoid hyperbole. Do you remember Merrick Garland and his appointment to the Supreme Court? No, because the seat was stolen, outright. Neil Gorsuch stole it. (Moscow Mitch did the work. Gorsuch ended up with the seat.)

Why would they have ANY compunction about doing it again, especially for such a prize? What a Dem win in November MIGHT do is light a fire under the butts of the left and get them into the streets when MAGAGOP makes it’s evil move. There’s either going to be some France-style social unrest at the theft, or we’re all just going to go gentle into that good night. I wonder if there’s any revolutionary spirit left in Americans…

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Remember Bob Menendez, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey who was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for his influence in certain legal matters? He blamed his wife. He insisted he didn’t know anything about it. He said he was innocent. A jury said otherwise. It’s almost as if high-profile people ALWAYS claim to be innocent of the crimes they commit. Think Donald Trump.

Now he says he’s confident he’ll win on appeal. I’m confident there won’t even BE an appeal. It’s just what they say…

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On the left, people are shaking their heads at the complete and utter turnaround of the “Never Trump” cons to full-on MAGA. Nikki Haley said a LOT of anti-Trump things and she was right when she said them. A few days before her South Carolina primary, for example, she questioned his mental competency. “Trump and Biden are two old men who are only getting older,” she said. “We’ve all seen them fumble their words and get confused about world leaders. That’s not who you want in the Oval Office when Russia launches a nuclear weapon at our satellites or China shuts down our electricity grid.”

She said Trump had brought chaos to the GOP. She remained defiant and in a fighting spirit. “I feel no need to kiss the ring. I have no fear of Trump’s retribution. I’m not looking for anything from him,” she added. “My own political future is of zero concern. So I hear what the political class says. But I hear from the American people, too.”

Now? Oh, she’s all-in. “…for the sake of our nation, we have to go with Donald Trump.” Yeah, that makes sense. He’s mentally unfit and thrives on chaos so he should be running the show for the good of the country. Oh-kay…

JD Vance was a firm anti-Trumper who has now transitioned so completely into MAGA, he’s Trump’s effing vice-presidential running mate. During 2016, he wrote in a letter to a friend, “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”

He said he thought Trump was “…the most-raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people.” In social media posts, he called Trump “reprehensible” and an “idiot.” Now he doesn’t seem to remember any of that. He has even deleted the critical posts.

These two Trump critics (and others) have one thing in common: they’re politicians. If you want to know why so many Never-Trumpers are suddenly all in on Trump, do what Mark Felt (aka, ‘Deep Throat’) told Woodward and Bernstein during the Watergate investigation: follow the money.

Trump put his daughter-in-law in charge of the RNC. She (and, therefore, he) controls the money. Politicians need money to run. It’s how the parties control candidates. What, you thought Dems just collectively chose not to run against Biden? No money, no political future. So? Bend the knee. Kiss the ring. HAVE a political future. No? Get a real job, you’re out of politics. It’s simple, straight-up control – and they’re all doing as they’re told. Good dogs…

It’s a little micro look at what the entire nation is going to look like, here in the near future as Project 2025 rolls out. Everyone will be loyal to Trump – or else.

Misrepresentations From The Right…

by MyBaconPress

I’ve got two sentences buzzing around in my head. One is a line from a Paul Simon song, ‘The Boxer.’ The other is a comment from Ayn Rand, of all people. Here, let me put them side by side for you:
‘A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest…’ (Simon)
‘You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’ (Rand)

I think those two sentences go together quite well to form a near-perfect warning. We’re about to enter what will likely be an ugly period brought on by people who chose to hear what they wanted to hear while disregarding the rest. Then, and only then, everyone will get to see, feel, and live the consequences of avoiding reality. There won’t be anything anyone can do about it.

MAGA is openly gleeful about it. They’re about to win and they know it. If I was excited about the end of our country, I’d probably be gleeful, too. But I’m not. History has already shown those of us who were paying attention where we’re headed. Most of MAGAS excitement is based on a reality that never existed and never will. They’ve been living in a world of illusion, brought to them by internet-based MAGA media that never hesitates to lie to them.

Do you know they think the LEFT has been responsible for the rise in violent rhetoric and actions in this country? The LEFT! It’s easy, see, if one just ignores, well, reality. Only one presidential candidate told his followers to “Knock the crap out of protestors,” promising to pay their legal bills (until he withdrew that promise). That was Trump during his 2016 campaign and political violence has been increasing steadily ever since, according to people who study such things.

The right planned to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. The right made jokes when Paul Pelosi was smashed in the head with a hammer. One of theirs intentionally crashed his car into a crowd, killing one and injuring several at Charlottesville, the ‘Unite the Right’ rally. We all watch whenever there is some headline grabbing shooting, waiting to hear which team THIS crazy comes from. By a wide margin, the crazies come from the right. So? The right lies. ‘When the truth doesn’t work for you, ignore the truth.’ What a stupid mantra.

Oh, yeah. J6. The right pretends it was just an unauthorized tour, a peaceful gathering so they simply don’t count it as political violence. The rest of us saw the video and believe in reality. According to Reuters, since the documented violence of J6, “Of the 14 fatal political attacks since the Capitol riot in which the perpetrator or suspect had a clear partisan leaning, 13 were right-wing assailants. One was on the left.”

You know what? This is stupid. I could keep noting political crime after political crime, each attributable to right-wing ideology for a long time. The list is long. But thinking Americans already know the right is lying about who is responsible for the upsurge in these types of crimes and MAGA doesn’t care. I mean, they know, too. They just won’t admit it. And when they feel like they’re in a “safe space,” they’ll even make jokes about it.

I’ll tell you this: The right promoting and engaging in violence but pointing the finger at the left? Why, that’s classic MAGA. All they ever have to work with is lies. Ever. That’s okay with them. They’ll lie. The part that bothers me so much is how easily they’ve been deceived – and what it’s about to cost us all…

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OMG, have you SEEN the bandage? Look, I know Trump got hit by a bullet, but he wasn’t “shot” in the sense most Americans think about when thinking about “shot.” Trump is among the LEAST “shot” people who have been shot by crazies with guns. He was “grazed.” Yeah, his ear got cut. I’ve seen worse injuries from shaving nicks.

But Trump is playing it for all he’s worth. (I don’t blame him, mind you. He’s a politician.) He’s got a bandage on about the size of a postcard. It looks dumb as hell but the point of it is to BE seen. “Ooh, remember when he got shot?” Now MAGA is wearing similar bandages in “solidarity.”

I’m sure there was a smaller, less intrusive covering that could have been put over his owie. That’s what a man would do. He wouldn’t go looking for sympathy by highlighting the injury. I’m surprised Trump didn’t put on a florescent bandage that glows in the dark with blinking lights that spell out “shot.” I guess he couldn’t find one in time…

Coming For Our Guns…

by MyBaconPress

Here’s a funny thought I had. For years, nay decades, we’ve been listening to gun rights advocates (GRAs) whining that the left is trying to take their guns. We’re not. We’d like to control which crazies have access to guns but I haven’t heard any serious calls to repeal the Second Amendment.

Trump, rather infamously, insisted during his J6 ‘Wind-Em-Up Rally’ that the Secret Service should remove the weapons detectors at the gates. When told that there were many credible reports of armed people in the crowd, he (again, rather infamously) retorted that they weren’t there to hurt him. Trump felt safe around all those armed people because he felt like they were all on his side. But now, one of HIS people has taken a shot at him.

Even Trump might well figure out that his reasoning on J6 may have been less than perfect. Loyalty is an unpredictable thing in crazy people. You know who Donald J. Trump loves more than anything or anybody? Donald J. Trump! On July 13th, he received instant information that, despite his preference, people with guns could, very well, constitute a threat to his oh-so-beautiful self. How do YOU think a self loving, paranoid, megalomaniac authoritarian is going to react to the possibility that some gun nut might use one of those guns to try – again – to kill him?

So guess who I predict will be coming for people’s guns. Go ahead, take a guess. If you said Donald J. Trump, you win. (There is no prize so, nice job!) Only Nixon could go to China. Only Trump can take the guns. I suspect it won’t be too long after he’s installed that he feels the paranoid need to remove the threat – that is, the guns. Especially if there’s a second attempt.

Remember, it was a gun nut conservative who took the shot. Trump may well realize that ANY gun nut, left or right, could become a serious threat – to HIM – with little or no warning. After all, the guy who kills Trump gets to live in history forever the same way the guy who killed John Lennon did it to live in history forever. It turns out? There are twisted people out there…

My head will spin as I watch MAGA media denounce gun ownership and see the new laws banning guns imposed by MAGA from sea to shining sea – all to protect their dear leader. It’s going to be fascinating watching GRAs try to decide how to respond. Will they just turn their weapons in? Some will. Will they go all “from my cold dead hands?” Maybe. Will they withdraw support from Trump? (Too late, guys. Once he’s in, he’s in – and you will be, I predict, disarmed.)

I guess the Lord DOES work in mysterious ways. Sure, the entire world suffers and burns under another Trump maladministration – but at least we will have finally managed the gun problem in this once-great nation…

Terrible is Still Terrible…

by MyBaconPress

So, yesterday, I wrote about Trump getting winged. I speculated on possible reasons, since nobody knew anything substantial at the time I was writing. One of the possibilities I mentioned was that it was NOT a political hit. It was just another in a long line of MAGAGOP/NRA shootings in which crazy people compete with each other to try to get the most horrific mass shootings and stand atop the crazy shooter pile. It turns out, this was that.

MAGA thinks the Dems have to tone down the violent rhetoric, though. Yeah, cause Dems are the party of shooting beer to protest an ad they don’t like. Wait, is it the Dems who run political campaigns by shooting… anything they can think of that they relate to liberalism? No, that’s right. I mean, that’s THE right.

MAGA also thinks their god protected their guy. Apparently, their god didn’t give two figs about the others who got shot. Quick question, if god is out there protecting certain people from becoming victims, why does he allow innocent seven-year-olds to be cut to pieces but saves the life of the personification of the Seven Deadly Sins? I mean, which “god” are you people praying to? Because it seems to stink of Sulpher…

At least one guy suggested BIDEN should be arrested for attempting a political assassination. If he would tune in to reality for even a second, he would know that a) Biden had nothing to do with it and b) even if he had, Biden enjoys perfect immunity for official acts, thanks to the conservative Kangaroos on the way-high court.

All Biden would have to say is he was “testing the effectiveness of the Secret Service” as part of his official duties. You know, the same story Trump tells about his attempt to steal the election. Besides, if Biden was going to attempt an assassination, do you really think he’d send a poor shooting kid? Biden has access to the best snipers in the world, people who know how to account for windage. Why would he send that failed human being?

But, alas (because when does one get a chance to use ‘alas’) it was just a run-of-the-mill standard conservative nutball trying to make the record books…

So then the other question is, how is this going to affect the race? Did Trump just win? If anything, Trump won on debate night. I don’t think getting winged is going to offer him much, long-term. Sure, he’ll play it up as much as possible. (Be honest, Dems would, too.) MAGA will rend clothing and clutch pearls and swoon but now that we know the shooter was just a standard crazy doing MAGA-endorsed crazy stuff, we’re kind of back to normal.

I saw an article in the Guardian suggesting some of Biden’s talking points were now muted. I disagree. Trump is still an existential threat to democracy and to the health of America. Am I really not allowed to say so because of some conservative crazy? Are we on the left not allowed to mention the Trump inspired violence of J6 because of the MAGA enabled violence at ONE political rally?

Yeah, sure, MAGA is going to try to blame the left. MAGA always blames the left. MAGA has not proven itself a very well informed group. I can’t see standing down on facts because of one event. Especially when (with respect for those who were seriously hurt or killed) it’s a such a non-event for MAGA. The only one who counts for them is Trump – and he was only scraped.

Of course Trump will see a bump in his support. I hear shares of his struggling media venture have gone up in value. Polls might bump in his favor for a short time. But Trump is still who he is. He has still done what he has done. Having a bullet whiz past him isn’t going to change that and there’s still time to remind everyone of the threat.

As an example, on the same page where the Guardian is doing the inevitable post-shooting stuff, there’s an article from leading economists warning that Trump’s proposed economic plan is going to do FAR more harm to the US than not. One guy is even from the far-right conservative stink-tank American Enterprise Institute, so it’s not just lefties ripping on their opponent.

I have to confess, he DID get a pretty good photo out of it. He did. But he’ll plaster it on T-shirts and mugs and sell it for way too much money and the photo will become as hackneyed as his “never surrender” surrender photo. Yes, MAGA is going to get a little “chubby” every time they look at it but the rest of us?

Since, like everything, it was NOT what MAGA will say it was, to my mind, it’s already yesterday’s news. I don’t think people will jump aboard the crazy train because of a cool photograph and his policies still suck. Saying the shooting won Trump the election is like saying the shooting made women comfortable about losing bodily autonomy and that, maybe, rampant, outright racism isn’t so bad.

I’ll tell you this: Terrible is still terrible, cool photo or not…