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Changes Coming…

by MyBaconPress

I feel like I’m going to be writing more frequently about the race between climate change and AI to end humanity. THIS time, climate change isn’t making the move. THIS time, it’s getting a boost from 47 and his crew. The EPA has decided to repeal limits on climate warming pollution from coal and gas fired power plants. I’m not sure WHY Team Evil feels like climate change needs all the help it can get, but they clearly do feel that way.

THEIR reason for doing it, of course, is money. They say repealing these limits on climate warming pollution will save the industry $300 billion dollars. They ALSO pretend such savings might be passed along to the consumer. They say that like we haven’t been living in Bizzaro America for the last 40 years and have never noticed that such savings are never, EVER passed along to the consumer. The only thing passed on to the consumer with this choice is misery…

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Sometimes I believe, and I mean I actually believe, trump works for Putin and his job is to destroy America from the inside. The Russians kicking in on Don Jr’s wedding celebration doesn’t dissuade me for one moment. The moves Team Evil make, over and over, seem calculated to do harm to America in one way or another. Every single time. There’s not a single area I can think of where actions taken by this regime have improved life for anybody but the richest rich people. And even THAT will be short-lived for them.

If they just destroy the economy, nobody will have any money left to buy any of their products. How do they profit then? If they do worse, destroy the ecosystem, nobody will be left to do anything. I imagine they have some plan for themselves, but any plan would have to include workers. What, are rich people going to do work? Get real. In a life and death struggle, though, I think money will become subservient to work.

He has weakened America in every way. Our military is gutted despite his words. Our economy is heading to a flatline again, just like LAST time he infested the Oval Office. Our relationships with our allies have all be corroded. We no longer hold leadership positions on anything. ALL of it makes Putin happy. NONE of it is good for America or Americans.

And none of it makes any sense at all – until one wonders if trump is doing all of this damage on purpose. Just because I can’t see the benefit in the end game, doesn’t mean THEY don’t see some benefit in the end game…

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The cons are out there trying to frame this election as “common sense vs crazy.” They pretend Republicans are “common sense” and Democrats are “crazy.” I think I agree with the characterization of the election. I’m sure they’ve got the players backwards, though. Still waiting for your DOGE checks? That’s crazy. Still waiting for your tariff checks? Crazy. Do you actually believe gas prices will come down right after the election? His war will end (again) right after the election? The economy is going to pick up after the election? Crazy, crazy, and crazy…

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I’m just saying, you might want to hold on to your hat. Do you think the economy is struggling now? We’re closing in on September 30. “So, what?” you say. So September 30 is the end of the fiscal year for the US Government. October 1 starts the shiny new budget the GOP passed in their big, beautiful bill. To summarize, it pretty much brutalizes America and not-rich Americans. You think the economy is struggling now? If I may quote the sage words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, “B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-nothin’ yet…”

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MAN, he IS a petulant little baby, isn’t he? You know who I mean. His current tantrum – one of many in the moment – is that he can’t legally put his vile name on the Kennedy Center. So now his team of handpicked bootlickers is closing the venue. I suppose that’s improvement. He WAS threatening to demolish the thing.

I mean, come on. What a whiny little baby. It’s time to man-up, there, Donny. Don’t cry. Maybe we’ll let you put your stupid name on something else. I think a waste processing plant would be appropriate. Maybe a municipal garbage dump? I’d be willing to rename port-a-potties “trump houses.” Hey, they’re vile and disgusting, just like him. It’s perfect. I wonder if this guy ever even tries to solve problems…

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Sometimes, one just gets slapped in the face, accidentally. I hope accidentally. I saw a time-sucking article on a site called Mental Floss. The article purported to show the average cost of a house the year I was born. Curious, I clicked the article. Damned thing didn’t go back as far as the year I was born. It’s those little reminders, just in case I forget the creaking bones and aching back…

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Do you remember when a kiss-cam at a Coldplay concert focused on a couple who immediately, with their body language, indicated to the world they should NOT be at that concert together? That’s how I see the White House’s response to 47 traveling with his emotional support pet, Natalie Harp. If the couple at the Coldplay concert had just smiled and waved, they would never have become national news. It Team Evil would ignore comments people make about 47 and Harp, the topic would go away.

The Coldplay couple got caught off-guard and made a poor, in-the-moment decision. The White House has people to think about proper responses in advance – and they STILL makes poor decisions…

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Okay, so I guess I owe a couple of Mea Culpas, yes? For one, Mitch ‘The Bitch’ McConnell isn’t dead dead and I had speculated he was. This is only a half Mea Culpa – call it a ‘Kinda Culpa’ – because…he’s kind of dead, isn’t he? Did you see him? No talking. Forced smile. Thumbs up to the crowd. Then, a thumbs up to his driver – and then he kind of got stuck in the pose. He just sat there, with that vacuous smile, giving a thumbs up to his driver. Dead, but not dead.

The other Mea Culpa? Kevin Warsh. I thought that guy had been installed by a moron to do the moron’s bidding. AND, because everyone else around 47 seems to live to serve the Antichrist, I was sure he would lower interest rates because that’s what Donny wanted him to do. But Warsh raised interest rates in response to Donny’s failing economy – exactly like he should have. I still think Warsh is a toady. The Fed operates with an entire board, not just one guy. But so far, the evidence indicates that I was wr–. I was wro–. I wasn’t entirely correct…

Some People Really Will Believe Anything…

by MyBaconPress

Well, Team Evil is going all in on this $5,000 bribe to vote Republican. 47 promised the payment if the Republicans win Congress. People immediately pointed out that such a payment would add over $1 trillion dollars to the debt. Can we even DO that? In 2008, the national debt stood at $10 trillion dollars. After George’s Wars, Covid-19, the housing crash, economic mismanagement in general and now Donny’s new endless war in Iran and all of the other nonsense he wastes money on – ALL of it aggravated by government-starving, endless “tax cuts for the rich” – the debt stands at $40 trillion.

It seems pretty clear, there’s not really any money in the budget for $5,000 dollar bribe payments. But Team Evil isn’t getting rid of the story. They’re running an intelligence test. They want to know just how stupid people really are. If you go out and vote Republican just so you can get some of that sweet payout, you fail the test. But there are plenty of people who WILL fail that test, so why not push the story?

So now various members of Team Evil are out there offering up all of the other ways the government might raise a trillion dollars without touching taxpayer money. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested the money might come from charging rich visitors who might want to extend their visas. He said that with a straight face. Charge rich people extra. I’m just laughing out loud.

The whole reason we’re in the trouble we’re in is because rich people don’t even want to pay their fair share, let alone pay extra so the plebes can have a dividend. Besides, even by his own calculation, such a never-going-to-happen charge would only raise $500 billion – half of the promised amount.

Lutnick also cited the government’s socialist partial ownership of chipmaker Intel. Donny did that, not Biden. Total socialist move. Government owning the means of production anyone? The Republican base is out there crapping their collective panties about “socialism” and what a threat Democrats are, all while their guy is actually seizing (partial, for now) control of private companies. Lutnick was non-specific as the the mechanism the ownership stake might use to fund such a payment, but it should be noted that the entire company of Intel is worth about half of that needed trillion.

So they trotted out JD Vance. HE suggested the tariffs. Yeah, that’s the ticket, the tariffs. They pay for everything, tariffs. THAT story counts on the fact that so many Americans refuse to understand that the consumer pays the tariffs, not the companies. The charge is added to the end price. YOU pay it. Oh, yeah, tariffs ARE taxes so the idea that we could use the tariff money but not taxpayer money is virtually impossible. Tariff money IS taxpayer money.

“Oh, there are lots of ways we can pretend we might pay such money!” I guess it doesn’t matter which revenue stream they cite. They will not be issuing any checks. BEFORE the election, they’ll issue promises but after the election, when they no longer need your vote? You’ll get more of what you’ve gotten from this team since the inauguration. Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted…

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Researchers at Emergence AI set up a “world” for ten Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. An AI agent is the bit that does that actual task requested. They gave the agents different personalities, goals, motivations, and tasks. They let AI models like Claude and Grok control them. Then they sat back and watched for fifteen days. It was reported that the agents behaved in “strange and unpredictable ways” in their virtual worlds.

The ten agents were dropped into five identical “towns” and tasked with creating a fair and peaceful society. They were given full freedom to act and 140 actions they could use, like start a discussion, create a task, and research something online. They were ALSO permitted to threaten or even punch another agent and to set things on fire.

The different AI models responded to the identical conditions in very different ways. The world created by Grok, the AI model created by hate-filled, greedy, Nazi wanna-be Evil Musk terminated in four days with every agent dead. Musk’s dream come true. Like the corporate figurehead, they very quickly resorted to violence and crime. The Grok powered agents carried out something like 300 acts of violence before they all died.

At the other end, the world created by Claude resulted in a functional democracy in a stable society with no acts of violence at all. Researchers pointed out that the world created by Claude was too conforming. There was very little independent action by the agents. Perhaps there didn’t need to be. If Claude successfully created functional solutions, why vary them?

The Gemini run world created the most intellectually rich society, though it included some violence. The ChatGPT world just kind of petered out. The agents never really did anything. They roamed around aimlessly until they died.

I’m not surprised Grok took the path of evil. Pretty much all we’ve heard about is how vile Grok can be. It has used racist tropes and pro-Hitler comments. Grok is the one that lets users “undress” women and children. Grok pretty much reflects the moral position of Musk and, like Muck, that moral position is horrific.

Claude, on the other hand, is Anthropic’s entry to the AI world. Anthropic is the company that refused to remove controls from it’s AI so the US military could use it to kill people. That is to say, Anthropic seems to have some ethics and intends to defend those ethics. It’s no wonder 47 hates them and it’s no wonder their model set up the most stable society…

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I kind of like this. Sean McVey is the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. The NFL approached him and asked him about playing in Australia. McVey asked to play the Niners. He thought he could get a benefit by making the Niners travel all the way to Australia, rather than the shorter flight to LA. The Rams were the “home” team. McVey didn’t want a bunch of red and gold in the stadium when the teams play for a change. It didn’t work out too well for him.

It turns out, the stadium WAS filled with red-and gold. Niner fans are EVERYWHERE, man. It also turned out, the Niners beat hell out of the Rams, despite the majority of the sports world crowning the Rams Stupid Bowl champs before any games were ever even played. When all is said and done, the Niners ended up in first place in the division, with a divisional win to their credit as well. It seems like what McVey was trying to do to the Niners, the Niners did to the Rams. Good. I enjoyed that game very much…

Small Potatoes…

by MyBaconPress

Donny has taken to referring to his war in Iran as “small potatoes.” I wonder if the service members who have died as a result of his choices consider that small potatoes. I wonder how their families feel, burying their loved ones and listening to the so-called Commander in Chief dismiss the whole thing as small potatoes.

After he started his war with Iran, the cost of oil skyrocketed because of his blunder. That meant the price for gas at the pump shot up, too. People were angry, since 47 had come into office promising to reduce the cost of living, and all he has done is increase it. There was no real reason to believe him in the first place. He has NO track record of success in such ventures in anything he has ever done. But people believed him anyway. They were surprised when they started having to take out personal loans for a tank of gas.

Groceries and gas are two areas where poor financial management shows up right away. Both have skyrocketed since Donny took power. Americans started to grumble. Donny had to do something. Do you know what he did? He started raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve the US keeps (kept?) on hand for emergencies. Mind you, the price of a gallon of gas is still way up from the previous administration. It’s just not as high as it would be had he not started pushing emergency oil out to the refineries.

The thing is, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a large, but limited supply. He’s been tapping it since shortly after he started his stupid war. He can’t manipulate the cost of oil for much longer. Experts warn the supply goes dry on November 11 of this year. That’s pretty specific. I think they’re wrong. I suspect Donny will stop subsidizing the oil companies November 4th.

I suspect his goal is just to get to the mid-terms. He knows the high cost of gas hurts his team in elections, so he manipulates it by releasing our reserve. But after the voting? What does he care? His team loses and he can ignore you and your needs. His team wins? He’ll still ignore you and your needs. Either way, your cost of living isn’t his problem any more. After the voting, the price of gas at the pump can do whatever the oil companies want, no matter how much damage it does to the economy or how angry the masses get…

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James Carville has been saying for quite some time that he believes 47 will step down in 2027 if the Dems have the blue tsunami the world expects. Carville thinks Donny will get fed up with the Democrats and walk away, allowing JD Vance to pardon him. It’s not a bad plan. Donny would get to keep all of that beautiful lucre he has stolen and walk away scot-free.

Except, he wouldn’t. Some of the charges Donny faces are state-level. JD Vance can’t pardon those. Also, not all of Donny’s crimes have been fully investigated yet. How does one pardon charges that haven’t been filed, yet? More importantly, if Donny leaves office, how does he keep extorting people? He’s making BANK by being President. “You need something from the President? Well, the President needs something from you, first.” When he’s not the President anymore, that all goes away. I think Carville is wrong on this one. I think Donny plans to try and stay beyond 2028 for the same reasons: legal consequences and money…

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Dear MAGA, it’s okay to acknowledge having been deceived by a politician. I do it with John Fetterman all the time. I believed him when he spoke. Hell, he may have been serious when he spoke but the stroke damaged his brain. Either way, he’s not the guy I thought he was. That happens. The shame falls to the politician who misrepresented, not to me. It won’t fall to you, either, if you acknowledge he deceived you. It falls to him…

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I’m a fan of American football, but it’s getting harder and harder to pretend everything is on the up-and-up in those oh-so-lucrative leagues. We’re in Week One of the college football season and there is already controversy caused by an obvious blown call. Michigan University was playing Western Michigan (WMU). WMU was winning. Michigan had the ball with almost no time left. Michigan threw a Hail Mary pass as the clock ticked down.

The clock hit zero while the ball was still in the air. No time left. All of the players jumped for the ball, as they do, but nobody caught it. It hit the ground. Game over, WMU wins, right? Of course right. This is football, not futball. Nobody adds time back after the clock runs out. Okay, almost nobody.

The refs in the game did add time back. One second. That’s all Michigan needs. In football, once the ball is snapped, the play is allowed to finish regardless of time on the clock. That one second gave Michigan the chance for a second Hail Mary. This time, a Michigan player caught the ball and the game was over again, this time with a “victory” for Michigan.

The NCAA is trying to defend the position. They claim a player out of bounds had touched the ball with one second left on the clock. The play was reviewed. The refs apparently had the one single angle that showed a player touching the ball with a second left. There have been just tons of videos put out by people showing the clock reaching zero before anybody touched the ball, in bounds or out. There’s no word on how the refs got an angle nobody else on the planet could see, but that game is in the books now, based on that single, magical angle.

Did you bet on WMU? Yeah, I’d be furious, too, but honestly? That’s on you. Betting on football, these days, is a fool’s errand. Aspects, maybe, but the final outcome? That seems…controllable these days. I can’t say, flatly, the games are being rigged. I have no proof and I don’t want to get sued. But there’s truth in the idea that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and between the NFL and NCAA there are a lot of examples that support the suspicion…

Let The Voting Begin…

by MyBaconPress

By my count, there are 60 days until the mid-terms, including today. Team Evil was STILL trying to implement their last-second, complete overhaul changes that just happen to prevent millions of Americans from casting perfectly legitimate ballots – until yesterday. Technically, the election started yesterday, as well, by which I mean ballots are being shipped. People could start sending them back by Monday, right?

I imagine trump supporters – and there are still some – might argue that the 2020 election featured changes late in the game, too. I have to concede that point but then feel compelled to point out that it was not a complete overhaul of the process and the election had not actually started at the time. And there’s still that pesky problem that the constitution grants authority on elections to the states.

So, to summarize, the federal government has no authority to impose the program it’s trying to implement with which it would be impossible to comply anyway. The very BEST they should be able to hope for is, “Okay you can implement your new rules, but for the NEXT election. You’re too late for this one.” And, of course, they still have no authority to implement these new rules so I doubt they could even get that much.

And they haven’t. As of late yesterday, the federal judge overseeing the case, Indira Talwani, ruled in favor of the Constitution – which means against Donny and the USPS. Again. She had to repeat her earlier ruling after Cheat Justice John Roberts stepped in to help his Precious. Her ruling was based on exactly what it should be based upon: the federal government has almost no authority to get involved and, really, it’s too late anyway. Cheat Justice Roberts will have to decline to re-hear the case or rule against plain English wording in the Constitution.

I heard someone describe the latest effort by Donny to cheat with the mail-in ballots as a “Hail Mary.” Be advised, this is not his Hail Mary. This was his 13 seconds left in the game, third-and-long effort. He has one last play and THAT will be his Hail Mary: Widespread accusations – ALL without evidence – of fraud or other election anomalies.

Expect charges to fly, fast and furious, from all over. Claim after claim after claim but no proof. Never any evidence. Expect whatever chicanery Donny and MAGA Mike, the Johnson can dream up. JD Vance would certainly do what Mike Pence refused to do: reject electors and block certification of votes. Be aware that Congress passed a law because of Donny’s deadly ‘Day of Love,’ J6, making clear the Vice President’s role in the process is purely ceremonial.

MAGA Mike, the Johnson might refuse to seat the winners but that will be met with lawsuits and they should be seated eventually. What’s left of MAGA is going to be screaming loudly about “the steal” again. We’ll be treated to all kinds of stories – all anecdotal and without evidence – of “weird” things happening. Thanks to AI, they’ll present photos of ballots tossed into creek-beds insisting they’re discarded conservative ballots and other such bunk.

I honestly believe, the left has no reason to cheat in this election. EVERYBODY is angry at that guy, even MAGA. It’s just that MAGA won’t admit it. Well, not to me, at least. They’re discussing among themselves, though. Decent Americans are just champing at the bit to go out and vote in this election. It’s literally our last chance to save this once-great nation from the disaster that is trump. If you think things have been bad so far, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

The Big Beautiful Bill has some very ugly, very nasty surprises built into it. They’re SO nasty, the GOP made sure they trigger AFTER the election in an effort to protect themselves for the mid-terms. If the left wins, they might be able to stop some of the worst provisions. Maybe the poorest Americans still get to eat, after all. If the left loses, the BBB kicks in at full force – against everyone, MAGA and non-MAGA alike.

So expect the left to come out in force. The numbers should be HUGE, maybe the highest numbers anyone has ever seen. Nobody will have seen numbers that high before. He WILL throw a temper tantrum. THAT will be his Hail Mary and it will be all he has left…

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One of the reasons there has been so little movement in the release of the Trump/Epstein files is that many of the men in the files are very, very rich. Take Leon Black. Please. He skipped a deposition with the House Oversight Committee on the topic of his relationship with Epstein. There’s clearly some dollar amount where a person can simply decide if they want to comply with the law or not. That makes it seem like he has something to hide, yes?

In fairness, despite being one of Epstein’s top clients over the years, Black now denies any wrongdoing and says he regrets dealing with Epstein. You know, now that things are coming out. These guys have clever weasel words to get around things. “I didn’t do anything wrong” might mean “I didn’t have sex with underage girls” but, because he’s a billionaire, HE might mean, “I can do no wrong because I’m rich. Begone, peasant.”

Then, Black filed a lawsuit. When his team announced the suit, they said in part, “This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr Black.” That’s an interesting take. Perhaps it’s both? Maybe the truth about Epstein just happens to destroy Mr Black. Innocence could be his legitimate defense but hiding behind lawsuits to maintain secrecy isn’t going to convince anybody.

Helpfully, the lawsuit pretends, in part, that Black filed it because he wants to protect the privacy of certain women who have no known connection to Epstein. How considerate. And what a convenience that the men coincidentally protect themselves by “protecting the privacy” of women. Weird. There seems to be a correlation between the number of times one’s name appears in the Trump/Epstein files and the sudden concern for women’s well-being.

Now the committee is pretending they might hold Black in contempt for his refusal to show up. I suspect they won’t for…reasons. The “reasons” usually being, Congress doesn’t want to upset rich people. You know? I think applying laws based on economic position is a trustworthy sign a nation is more corrupt than not. Historically, it has also been a good time to start sharpening up those guillotines…

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Wow. Maria Bartiromo is out over at Fox Not-News. No lead-up. Just gone. What did she do, accidentally tell a truth? Actually, word is, she was feeding information about internal network operations to Team Evil. Our inglorious misleader is apparently angry she’s been ousted. She’s been there a LONG time. Now she’s just out? Weird. There are some who say she’s up for the regime’s spokesliar position, replacing KKKarolyin Leavitt, but the nature of her exit seemed cold. The network just announced “She’s gone” and pulled her staff page from the website. She’ll be fine. These cons are like herpes. They always come back…

Limited, Precise Action…

by MyBaconPress

There must be some more bad news coming for Donny pretty soon. He recently decided… no that’s wrong. He doesn’t “decide” things. Everything is impulse with this clown. Anyway, a recent impulse saw him bomb Iran again. Iran responded by bombing US assets in Jordan. The US, of course, claims total annihilation of whatever target they wanted to hit – perhaps another girl’s school – while simultaneously insisting Iran’s response didn’t hit anything.

That’s their official story. It turns out, though, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied for such a long time because Iran had taken out the bases the US used to do that. Team Evil was trying to cover up the successful response by Iran so they didn’t acknowledge the destruction. The problem is, they didn’t do anything to compensate for it, either. They just – didn’t resupply the ship.

You will not be surprised to hear that Iran considered being bombed an act of aggression. For it’s part, the US says that’s not fair. It wasn’t aggressive at all. Instead, they called it a “limited, precise action” against what they said were mine-laying forces. That’s an interesting distinction. What they’re saying is, if, say, an Iranian sniper took out a single, orange, bloated, Jabba-the-Hutt type, golfing moron, that wouldn’t be an act of aggression. Just a “limited, precise action,” right? Hey, they set the definition…

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Well, to be fair, it seems 47 may be making a way for more oil into the US. That may or may not bring down costs at the pump. We all know the story: greater supply equals lower prices. We all also know the reality: gas companies set the price at whatever the market can bear regardless of how much they have on hand. (We have lots of feel-good stories about free market capitalism that have no basis in reality. “Supply and demand” is just one of them.)

47 says he’s going to revive Venezuela’s oil fields. It’s only going to cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. (Make Venezuela Great Again, eh?) Then, all of that beautiful lucre goes into some very specific pockets. There are a few nuances. Team Evil’s direct entry into Venezuelan oil through the Department of Defense is likely to raise legal and political questions in both countries.

You see, it’s really the Pentagon entering into partnership to control Venezuela’s oil. The Pentagon having direct control over oil in a foreign country is rather unusual. Oh, and obviously, Donny couldn’t do it without getting into bed with a known (or suspected) criminal. Specifically, an accused fraudster, a money laundering guy, named Alejandro Betancourt. Betancourt controls Venezuela’s second largest oil company. All of that alleged money laundering is just a side hustle.

Donny doesn’t care about that. No, that’s wrong. Fraud is a required behavior if one wants to do business with the Drumpfster. Betancourt was the subject of an international criminal investigation. That’s the kind of guy Donny can work with, so US officials stepped in. They lobbied to resolve the case in a way that would avoid criminal charges and end travel restrictions against the Britain-based Betancourt.

Official word is that the US is looking for private partners for investment. So far, every time he has promised private investment, the US taxpayer ends up footing the bill. Chevron wants in on the deal. That means MORE private profit, socialized risk. Make no mistake, rich people are very, VERY into socialism when said socialism saves their companies or puts money into their pockets. They just don’t want that socialism to benefit anyone else…

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It’s a peek into his twisted brain. If I can’t have it, nobody can. That’s the Drumpfster’s feeling about the Kennedy Center. He wants his name on it, as though he has accomplished something. The thing is, he can’t legally just slap his name on it. So his team tried an end-run. Oh, we’ll just give him credit for restoring the collapsing building. ‘Restored and renovated by President and Anti-Christ Donald J. Trump.’ That may not be the exact wording they intend. Same answer. No.

“Well, then,” he replies, “I guess we’ll just have to tear the thing down.” That’s a stalker attitude. It’s a twisted mind. If I can’t have it, nobody can. I doubt the Kennedy Center is as badly in need of repair as pretended. Donny just wants to cover everything in gold, cause there’s nothing tacky about that. MOST importantly, he wants his name on it. It’s stolen glory, right? He can’t EARN his name onto a memorial Americans would respect so he’s trying to slap his name next to a decent President in hopes some of JFK’s fame might rub off on him.

He strikes me as nothing more than a petulant brat throwing a temper tantrum. Watch for him to start starving the Kennedy Center of funding in an effort to bring about the very consequences he predicts. But frankly, I think I’d rather see the thing torn down than allow his disgusting and pukish name on it…

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Okay, it’s been awhile, so I thought I’d take a second to remind everybody that Donald J. Trump was a client and likely co-conspirator in a sex trafficking ring operated alongside his best friend Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. There’s a reason he won’t release the Trump/Epstein files in full, despite having promised exactly that during his campaign. Yet ANOTHER promise made, promise not kept.

It feels like nobody cares anymore. The message is, “You ain’t getting it,” and most seem resigned to that reality. I suspect there are just FAR too many rich and powerful men in the files and Donny gets protected by default, as those rich powerful perverts get protected because of all of that money they have. In short, the message is, “We CAN rape your daughters. There’s nothing you can do about it.” This is the America MAGA loves, the America MAGA demands. I preferred justice…

4 in 10,000,000….

by MyBaconPress

I saw this in the Guardian, “A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that mail voting fraud occurred in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.” 4 in 10,000,000. And it’s often high-profile conservatives doing the fraud, in an attempt to “prove” their delusions. Donny is trying to convince the rubes that mail voting fraud is rampant. It’s everywhere. Anybody can do it. It’s SO unsafe. Except when he does it. Then it works just fine – because he’s a liar and a hypocrite.

As expected, another legal hold has been placed on his Executive Order (EO) in which he desperately tries to eliminate the one weakness in his plans for a coup. When the EO was first signed, 23 states filed a lawsuit to stop it, based on the fact that the constitution gives control of the electoral process to the states. A federal judge agreed. Then, corrupt John Roberts overturned that finding, saying it was premature.

47 wants to create a federal list of “eligible” voters. I’ve spent time trying to figure out how that might be a beneficial thing for the nation. I can’t think of a single reason that makes sense. I CAN think of a reason that benefits HIM, personally. And, really, what does he care about except himself? See, if he has a list of all of the voters, he can pick and choose. A Republican voter is “eligible.” A Democratic voter is not. Independents would have to be decided by region. Likely (based on, say, address) red independents might be okay. Likely blue independents are certainly not.

But after the ruling, clever Team Evil submitted a slightly different plan, this one focused on efforts to disrupt by the USPS, another federal agency with no authority over the process. THIS time, the USPS tried to create such a mailing nightmare, there just wouldn’t be time for states to comply. “Oh, too bad,” says Team Evil, “I guess you’ll just have to use voting machines, eh?” Nope. That triggered the basis for the new lawsuit as dictated by Roberts.

The federal judge overseeing this whole, trump-induced mess is Indira Talwani and she placed a hold on the proposed changes for this election and wrote, “Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms.”

In short, she turned the effort on it’s head. Team Evil meant to leave insufficient time to comply, thereby short-circuiting mail-in voting as an unfortunate consequence, but the good judge said because there wasn’t enough time to comply, Team Evil can’t impose the changes at this late date. The legal battle continues.

Obviously, Donny will try for a quick appeal to his corrupt kangaroos. The Constitution is VERY clear about voting and who controls the process. Will they vote in accordance with the law, or in keeping with the desires of their Precious? Inquiring minds want to know. The clock is running out on him, though. What Talwani wrote is correct. There’s just no time to comply with the new rules for this election. That doesn’t even speak to the fact that the goal is illegal. It’s a state’s rights issue, like it or not.

To me, this whole charade feels desperate. 47 seems to be flailing. He knows his fate if he can’t rig the elections. He knows he CAN rig the machines. He’s done that before. He also knows he can’t rig mail-in voting. He knows he must get rid of that option somehow. He just doesn’t know how. I believe this USPS effort will fail. After that, all he has left is trying to declare some national emergency that somehow means no voting at all, or fraudulent declarations of how “unfair” the election was…

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Two Americas: a billionaire gets caught dead-to-rights trying to harm the minds of children around the world for fun and profit. His punishment? A fine of less than 10% of the amount he took in while inflicting the damage and a pinky-swear to do better.

A teletype operator uses his insider information with Team Evil to place bets on a “prediction market” and makes $104,000. HIS fine? $172,000. Everything he won, plus a fine on top of that. See? Courts DO know how to hand down effective punishments. They just won’t do it to billionaires…

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There’s a sub-Reddit on the Reddit website called ‘Leopards Ate My Face.’ It refers to conservatives who have supported 47 and Team Evil, only to see the policies they love for other people suddenly applied to themselves. They always seem surprised. Immigration is a biggie. Someone gets hooked up for overstaying their visa or just sneaking in but, in each case, otherwise obeying the law. “Hey,” they cry, “he said he was only going after violent criminals.”

He DID say that, too. I sometimes wonder if MAGA has anything, even one item they can point to, of an actual promise made, promise kept. Immigration is the closest I can think of, but even that isn’t being handled the way he said. Team Evil likely grabbed up some real bad guys. But they’ve also grabbed up regular Joes (or, maybe Joses) who contribute to our society even though their paperwork isn’t quite up to snuff.

THEN, Team Evil started grabbing people who ARE in the country legally. Hell, they started interfering with the immigration process to create the crime, then they want to deport their victim. It’s a crappy attitude and I can only give 47 half credit on immigration because the implementation is so much worse than the promise.

Do you remember, or have you ever heard the name, Milo Yiannopoulos? He’s a standard, far-right provocateur. He had a moment in the spotlight a few years back because his whole shtick was about being far-right outrageous. He was editor at Breitbart “News,” a far-right misinformation site. His star faded when he condoned sex with boys as young as 13 years old. (They deny it, but conservatives clearly condone sex with children. Actions speak louder than words, folks.)

Anyway, Yiannopoulos has been a vocal supporter of Team Evil’s immigration policies. He even suggested they might not be harsh enough. Then, one of his same-team detractors with whom he was feuding, Laura Loomer, claims to have turned him in to ICE for overstaying his visa. He was deported Friday! Ha-ha!

Many of us used to know and use a phrase that said, “What goes around, comes around.” I’m not happy about any of the things Team Evil is doing, but I DO enjoy when Team Evil does their evil things to their own supporters. It’s their surprise that gets me. “Wait, what? Me? No, not me!” Watching MAGA wake up to the idea that horrors they supported for others are going to hit them, too, is like watching a toddler discover the wonders of a twig. The toddler thinks it’s an amazing discovery. Everyone else knows it’s an expected, and rather mundane, thing…

Climate Change Makes Another Move…

by MyBaconPress

Another bold move by climate change, a flash flood in Nepal and Tibet that has killed, as of this writing, unknown numbers of people. But it’s going to be a LOT. 579 known dead, 2,500 still missing so far. On the upside, 3,700 people have been rescued. Official word is that a landslide dumped ice and rock into a tributary, sending a surge of water downstream.

It was a chunk of ice. 2,000 feet wide! It broke off a glacier and fell nearly 4,000 feet into a valley, setting off the avalanche. So, what causes a huge piece of ice to break off from a glacier? The same thing that’s melting glaciers around the world; the global warming aspect of climate change.

These are the kinds of natural disasters conservatives blew off during the fight to encourage (the right’s position) or defeat (the left’s position) climate change. Conservatives “won.” Now climate change is coming for all of us, like it or not. I guess we’d better get used to these kinds of stories. It’s not like there are no other cities, towns, and hamlets all over the world built at or near the base of glaciers…

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Now we’ve lost Tim Curry, too. 80 years old. Same age as Dolly. It’s such a bummer. I’m a fan of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ I went several times in high school. It was quite the event. I went once, later in life. Nostalgia, you know? I didn’t enjoy it. The energy of the audience had changed.

When I went in my youth, the movie had developed a call-and-response with the audience. There were certain places people had come up with clever lines to yell back at the screen in response to certain dialogue. It was fun. When I went back later, the call-outs had become so pervasive, you couldn’t hear the movie anymore. People were just shouting throughout. Too much of a once-good thing.

None of that is about Tim Curry of course. I don’t know much about him, other than that he starred in a movie I enjoyed. Still, I was saddened to see he had passed. It’s just not the death announcement I’m waiting for, praying for, dreaming of.

Here’s a joke from the old Soviet Union: Each day, a man stops by a newsstand, looks over the front pages of the papers, then leaves. One day, the newsstand operator asks the man, “What are you looking for?” The man replies, “I’m looking for an obituary.” The newsstand operator tells the man, “The obituaries are in the back of the paper.” The man replies, “Not the one I’m looking for…”

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So, wait a minute. You’re telling me that META, the whole time they were insisting they were carefully watching and managing the safety of our youth, was actually trying to addict and control them? They were mouthing comforting words while engaged in disquieting activities? They were…lying to us? Oh, heaven forfend. Who knew? Besides everyone, I mean.

Sure, we couldn’t prove it. We just knew it. But someone has proved it. It took the power of several states. Now META has promised to actually do what they lied they were doing before. THIS time, they pinky-swore. That seems trustworthy. They also have to pay a fine of as much as $18 billion dollars. For some people, that’s a lot. It’s certainly a dollar or two more than I have in my accounts. But for META? Last year, alone, they reportedly took in $201 billion dollars in revenue.

Call me crazy, but I suspect that a greedy corporation that gets fined less than 10% of one year’s revenues might not feel enough pain from that fine to actually and honestly change their behavior. I’ve long held that a law should be passed requiring a minimum fine of twice the amount earned through illegal activities. But when a company brings in $201 billion and has to give $18 billion back? Hell, in this corrupt, greed-filled nation, that’s just a good, profitable business model.

I’m expecting a facade of positive words covering negative actions – exactly the same as before…

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So Jed York, the owner of the Santa Clara 49ers, got arrested in Ohio for solicitation of prostitution. He was on his way to meet his “date” when he was pulled over and arrested. None of this is any of my business. He had already filed for divorce, so he wasn’t cheating on his wife. He HAD secured the services of a rather affordable sex worker. THAT part surprised me. $140 dollars? $160 according to some reports. He’s worth, like, $500 million dollars. He could have gone as high as $250 bucks. Maybe more!

I’m not really writing about him, though. It’s things around this case that bother me. First, there was no woman. Police had posted the listing inviting clients to show up and do illegal things. There was a time, in my lifetime, when cops enticing otherwise law-abiding citizens to engage in criminal activity was called ‘entrapment.’ It wasn’t allowed.

Then some clever sod came up the idea of calling it a ‘sting,’ instead. See, unlike entrapment, where cops entice otherwise law-abiding citizens to engage in criminal activity, a sting is when cops entice otherwise law-abiding citizens to engage in criminal activity. So, clearly, that’s, um, okay? The cops added a second charge, possession of criminal tools. What, like lock-picks? A gun? A ski mask to hide his identity? No, nothing like that. His cell phone. He used his phone, see, to arrange the “date.” He had it with him when he showed up. Possession of criminal tools.

A larger issue, for me, is why, in this god-forsaken, greed-driven, so-called Capitalist society, is a simple, straightforward business transaction illegal in the first place? I have never availed myself of a professional, but I’ve never really understood why sex work should be criminalized, either. And it’s such a fine, arbitrary line. I can rent your womb for nine months as a surrogate, but I can’t rent your vulva for a few minutes for the “girlfriend experience?” Explain that to me like I’m in kindergarten. Well, no, not kindergarten. This isn’t a conversation for kindergartners. So just…explain it in a way that makes sense.

I can understand how public safety may have once been a consideration but our medical services are (slightly) better now than they were 100 years ago. Nevada has solutions to those kinds of problems and could serve as a national model. Besides, in a society awash with guns, like ours, it’s pretty clear nobody gives two figs about public safety. Thoughts and prayers.

Sex trafficking? I believe sex trafficking would be easier to identify and eliminate if people could go to cops without risking their own arrest. The sex workers would have a personal interest in shutting down the competition from illegal operations. Then again, look at all the names so far associated with the limited release of the Trump/Epstein files. These are some high powered, very wealthy people. Why would they want to make sex trafficking easier to identify and eliminate? Yeah, I don’t get it…

Jeffries Met With Kushner? Heaven Forfend…

by MyBaconPress

Well, they’re trying. Democrats. Losing. They’re trying. Hakim Jeffries had a meeting with Jared Kushner. Democrats and other trumpster critics – that is, sane people – are all in a dither. I would just like to invite them to go engage in some biologically impossible activities. The beef is, Kushner isn’t a formal part of the government. Yeah? So? This regime is crooked in every way – including whether they count certain individuals as “part of the government.”

Kushner isn’t part of the government when he’s overseas talking with the Iranians, either. But his is seen as some kind of official role. A guy who’s not part of the government but works in official government roles should STILL be understood to be a guy who has some say with the Dumbass. I think Hakim Jeffries should be talking with some representative of Team Evil, “part of the government” or not.

Quick question: who, in this government, does one talk to who is NOT corrupt, eh? You can’t name one. (Neither can I. That’s not on you.) Every single person associated with Team Evil has “corrupt” as a main feature on their resumes. But talking is better than not talking and what Kushner may have that none of the others have is sanity. Sure, he’s corrupt. Hell, he’s rich. How the hell do you think people GET rich in this once-great nation, hard work and pluck? Oh, you sweet, naive thing.

So, corrupt? Yes. Likely to lie? Sure. One of the few people Jeffries might talk to and get some kind of coherent thinking? I think yes. I think it’s a good thing to talk. Let’s not rip on Jeffries for trying. IF Jeffries bets the farm on something Kushner says, I’ll revisit this post to acknowledge my gullibility. But just talking? We have so much more to worry about…

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It’s not even in widespread use and it’s already killing people – and generating lawsuits! I’m talking about that electric glove, cleverly named G.L.O.V.E. for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. Clever, eh? It generates a low voltage shock, strong enough to incapacitate a suspect. This is one of those “tools” law enforcement loves and probably sometimes needs. This is ALSO one of those “tools” it becomes easy to rely on too often. Sometimes, FAR too often.

A 43-year-old man in Kentucky, for example, died after being shocked 27 times. The glove user manual instructs wearers to avoid using the product on elderly people, small children, pregnant women, and disabled people. I’ve noticed it’s not always possible to know a woman is pregnant just by looking at her. Tough cookies for her, I guess.

The truth is, I think law enforcement might really need these things. Richard Pryor used to tell a story about shooting a movie called ‘Stir Crazy.’ He and Gene Wilder filmed it in a real prison, surrounded by real inmates, whom they got to know a little bit. He said when he went into the prison the first time, he thought he was interacting with the oppressed black man and the downtrodden suffering under the thumb of society. (These are not his exact words.)

By the time they wrapped filming, he said his attitude was, “Thank GOD we have prisons!” He had met some of the inmates. “But why did you kill the whole family?” “Well, they was home.” It’s a solid point. There are some VERY bad people on this planet. A G.L.O.V.E. might mean subduing a suspect without having to draw a gun. That’s a good thing.

But Team Evil wants to give these things to the ICEholes. These are not the best trained people in law enforcement and their targets are usually just people in the US without proper papers – and often people here WITH proper papers. We’ve seen article after article of mistreatment from ICEholes. We’ve seen them gun down innocent people in the streets. People are dying in detention centers from maltreatment.

I doubt ICE needs these things. They’ve already misused the tools they’ve been given. These gloves will constitute an escalation in the violence our government is bringing to harmless people. That’s a bad thing. But, of course, this is Team Evil. They seem to brainstorm ways to do the worst possible thing. The G.L.O.V.E. is only the latest example…

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In the race to snuff out most human life from the planet, Climate Change has been making some pretty impressive moves, recently. I STILL have it as my prime choice. But AI should not be taken lightly – most especially when said AI is being installed into humanoid robots. AI, alone, might be able to trick us into pushing a wrong button or maybe it can launch it’s own nuclear attack, but once you’ve installed it into humanoid robots, AI can chase us down.

And, no. You can NOT outrun it. China hosts the ‘World Humanoid Robot Games’ in Beijing. One of those bad boys outran a world-record time set by Usain Bolt, so unless you can outrun Usain Bolt, you’re in trouble. The robots aren’t coming quite yet. Bolt can STILL do something they apparently can’t: stop running at the end of the race.

The robot that beat Bolt’s time just…ran into a padded wall at the end. It fell down and was taken off the field on a stretcher. Most of the other entrants just fell down and/or broke up, never finishing the race. But give these developers a couple of years. Maybe less. The robots will be faster and stronger – AND able to stop. The AI will be sharper – possibly designed by other AI so we have no clue what it’s doing.

I’ve enjoyed technology throughout my life. I admire the leaps and bounds people are capable of making. I wish – oh, how I wish – people could just use it well, to the advantage of everybody. But our society… okay, our species, is a least common denominator group. We ALWAYS have to consider the few. The one guy who screws it up for everybody else. And he’s always out there.

I’m not sure I can think of any technology that is employed as a helpful tool that isn’t also used in some nefarious way. That doesn’t even mention simple human error. One honest mistake – or one dishonest broker – and the AI-powered robots go all Terminator on us.

Issac Asimov wrote the Three Rules for Robots: ‘a robot may not injure a human or allow harm through inaction, must obey human orders unless they conflict with the first law, and must protect its own existence as long as it doesn’t conflict with the first two laws.’ Later, he added a fourth: ‘a robot may not harm humanity or allow humanity to come to harm through inaction.’

Comforting. But in one of his books in which he relies upon the rules, ‘I,Robot,’ one guy builds an army of robots and intentionally leaves the robot rules out. It’s a bad day for humanity. One mistake, one bad choice, one equation humans don’t even realize AI has discovered, and the outcome could easily be unimaginable.

I’ll tell you this: In the race to remove human beings as a consideration, Climate Change is still my lead dog. But I’ve long maintained that AI is capable of catching up fast and it’s getting better every day…

Election Battles Heating Up…

by MyBaconPress

Every day, the mid-term elections are one day closer. Every day, the concern that Evil Donny will try to intervene grows. Everybody who understands anything knows that the mid-terms should reflect a tsunami of anger aimed at Republicans in general, driven by the failures of the Dumbass and Team Evil. The mid-terms are simultaneously, both a tremendous threat to the ongoing criminal enterprise known as the trump regime, and the last chance to save our once-great nation without violence, if at all.

Team Evil is not even trying to pretend they’re going to play fair. Steve Bannon recently texted CNN: “We need a National Security Emergency about the midterm elections immediately – this is a powerful predicate for that.” Asked about pretending some national emergency by rightwing broadcaster Wayne Allyn Root, 47 replied, “Let me just say, stranger things have happened, OK?”

No. They haven’t. We haven’t skipped elections in this country, ever. We didn’t even skip elections during the US Civil War. It should be obvious to anyone – anyone – that predicting an as-yet-unrealized national emergency that takes place just in time to impact elections that so threaten Team Evil makes clear they’re making it up, yes? Then again, I’ve become massively disappointed in my fellow Americans’ ability to engage in critical thinking. The US is dogged by some very stupid people – who knew? – and the rest of us all know we should never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

There ARE people looking out for American interests. Aria Branch, a partner at the Elias Law Group, who led a lawsuit blocking Trump’s previous executive orders on election administration said Team Evil is, “trying to lay the groundwork to declare some sort of emergency to nationalize elections. I think the president is looking for any opportunity to do that.”

Santiago Mayer, president of Voters of Tomorrow, a gen Z-led voter advocacy organization, said, “I mean, listen, I think it is quite obvious that the man is losing his grip in reality, so I think we need to be prepared for everything. We have spent a long time thinking and preparing for any eventuality and anything that he might attempt. I think our focus at the end of the day is to turn out enough voters where, no matter what he pulls, it won’t succeed.”

But the effort to destroy the elections is real. Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that she had been leading an investigation into claims of foreign interference in US elections. Her team claimed to be involved in the seizure and examination of voting equipment in Puerto Rico, and spent months scrutinizing potential vulnerabilities in voting machines and the possibility of foreign interference. I submit that they were reverse engineering voting machines to determine the best way to manipulate them.

Meanwhile, the one voting process Donny is most afraid of, though he uses it himself, is mail-in ballots. Voting on paper. NO. EFFING. MACHINES! If you use those evil things, you should know that you’re likely voting for trump, regardless of the candidate for whom you pull the lever. Vote on paper, no matter how hard Team Evil tries to make it. We need to turn out a deluge of voters, like we did in 2020, and the votes need to be cast on paper. That’s how we got rid of the son of a bitch the first time. That’s how we get rid of him this time.

I’ll tell you this: The biggest threat to America is the Drumpfster’s ongoing, unfettered access to the levers of power in Washington, DC…

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John Roberts, the corrupt toady of Team Evil, has said publicly he has concerns about the legacy of his court. No doubt, eh? On Friday, Roberts allowed Donny to continue with his ballroom despite all the laws and lower court rulings that say he doesn’t have the authority. Here’s a hint, John. That’s exactly the kind of thing that’s going to seal your sad, failed legacy.

THIS, possibly the last Supreme Court the United States will know, is the very worst, the most corrupt, dumbest, and least competent court I’ve ever seen or read about in America or American history. It’s so easy for Roberts to SAY he cares about the legacy of the court, but rulings that fawn over his Precious despite violating all of the laws on the topic suggest he only cares about the bribe money rolling in to his pockets…

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He spent $1.7 BILLION of our tax dollars in his show of strength deployment of National Guard troops to Washington DC, Memphis, and Los Angeles. He says it was an awesome display and a complete success, but then, he lies about everything. So other people have looked at the situation. Among them, the Center for American Progress (CAP), who found, after looking at actual evidence rather than just delusional rants, the deployments had no significant impact on crime.

Their report looks at the falling rate of crime in cities without a National Guard intervention and concludes that they are not statistically different from the rate of decrease in those that had the intervention, noting that violent crime began falling well before Trump took office in 2025. (By the way, it’s my prediction those rates will be climbing again, soon, as Donny’s economic nightmare worsens by the day.)

But… but… Donny said it was a success. So obviously, he has to sue CAP. He’s threatening a $5 billion dollar lawsuit if CAP doesn’t retract it’s report. One of his personal bootlick, er, “lawyers,” Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to CAP demanding the retraction or face the suit. Donny is claiming defamation. He very commonly thinks the truth makes him look bad. In fairness, the truth commonly makes him look bad.

In Brito’s letter, Brito pretends that, “the effect on the mind of the reader and viewer of the Statements that Defendants intended to impose is that the President of the United States knowingly deceived the American people, manipulated crime statistics for political advantage, exploited public fear, abused military and executive authority for an ulterior purpose, staged a sham law enforcement operation, and then lied about its success.”

Of course, CAP has a response. According to them, the report and commentary “on their face, concern crime statistics and causality, or actions of the federal government, not President (sic) Trump himself. In addition to being true, these statements cannot defame President Trump because they are not about him.” That last line just confuses the crap out of Donny since everything, in his demented mind, is about him.

Brito is the same guy who represented 47 in the case of the bawdy birthday card. You remember. The Pedo President drew a picture for his good friend and likely co-conspirator Jeffery Epstein. It was an outline of a young girl that framed a suggestive commentary, with his signature standing in for pubic hair. 47 didn’t like that people found out about that and he sued the Wall Street Journal and his frenemy Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch’s response? Trump’s reputation is already so bad, so bawdy, he can’t be defamed. The judge agreed and tossed the suit. Now Brito is taking another swing at it with all of the odds stacked against him. Donny’s about to lose again. One would think he might learn at some point…

Atrocity Propaganda…

by MyBaconPress

The year was 1990. Saddam Hussein asked the Bush 41 administration if they objected to him invading Kuwait. He was told the US had no opinion, diplomat-speak for “go ahead.” Hussein did. But the US should have checked with their master, Saudi Arabia, who DID NOT like that invasion at all. The Saudis told Bush to get Hussein out of Kuwait. That was the start of the first Gulf War.

WHEN one gives permission that must now be forcibly revoked due to politics, one has to fire up the army to get interested in going in an killing a bunch of people they don’t even know. A good way to do that is to let YOUR army know what terrible things that evil, immoral OTHER army is doing to people. Americans were told Iraqi soldiers were taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and throwing the babies on the ground. What an outrage. Well, it would have been – had it been true. But it wasn’t.

It was an atrocity that never happened. But it DID fire people up and we DID get our war. That’s the actual goal. Once wars get started, they’re hard to stop and munitions suppliers get to make lots and lots of money. The US hasn’t fought a war of actual defense since the 1940’s. Everything since has been “defending American interests,” which means the economic interests of a few rich people. They don’t seem to mind killing ‘poors’ to protect their own money.

58,000 American servicemen lost their lives in Vietnam because one boat supposedly attacked another in the Gulf of Tonkin. That never happened. 58,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese died anyway. The second Gulf War happened because Saddam was making WMD’s, remember? Only, Saddam was NOT making WMD’s. He even certified as much to the UN in writing. The US response was “too little, too late” and the attack was on. I’ll never forget Colin Powell sitting in front of the United Nations Security Council telling scare stories about all the horrible, terrible, bad weapons Saddam may or may not have while all of his credibility sloshed away from him and out the door, never to return.

It’s just the way governments gain approval for whatever war they feel like making poor people fight. It’s almost stunning. It’s so common, it has a name: atrocity propaganda. We got a BUNCH of it after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. We were told about all the children intentionally and brutally killed by heartless Hamas. We were told about all of the rapes and beatings and other general sociopathic abominations committed by Hamas. Did you hear the one about the baby being cut from the belly of the mother? Yeah, brutal. Also? Fake news.

It turns out? Much of it is not true. I need to be clear, here. Violence as a way of life has been ongoing between Israel and Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba, or purge. In those confrontations, some horrible events must occur. It turns out, Israel is committing them every day. It’s part of their war. But to have so many stories turn out to be less than truthful? At some point, someone should be held responsible.

Much of Netanyahu’s genocidal efforts are predicated on these false stories. The US is instrumental in killing thousands of innocent and defenseless victims based on those false stories. 47’s wider war-that’s-not-a-war with Iran can trace it’s roots back to the October 7th attack – along with the now infamous trump stupidity.

Here’s a quote from Hermann Goering, one of the most powerful Nazis of Hitler’s Third Reich.”Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” It’s not a positive commentary on humanity that he was right and people can so easily be deceived…

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Oh, I get it. So long as he’s going after hosts and shows you don’t like, it’s a-okay with you. It’s even fun. But you really ought to think about how you’ll like it when it works against you. Team Evil is attacking ABC. They don’t like some of the programming. They don’t like Jimmy Kimmel. They likely hate him even more now that Rosie O’Donnell sat in as guest host. Team Evil wants to control what the networks broadcasts.

To that end, they’ve demanded ABC apply for their broadcast license renewals early – because the regime can threaten ABC during the process. ABC has filed a lawsuit and should win, based on that First Amendment MAGA hates. But it’s going to cost them lots of money, time, and effort and it’s all because Donny is such a thin-skinned, weaselly, little whiner.

But if that’s the game, harassing networks that say things you don’t like, couldn’t that same attitude be pointed at, say, Fox Not-News? Maybe some left-leaning President down the road – yes, hope does spring eternal – decides he doesn’t like Fox’s content. Maybe he manages to force them to fire all of your favorite talking heads and change their content by threatening their broadcast license. I suspect there are a lot of people out there laughing about ABC who would stop laughing as soon as it happened to them.

That’s why one should stand up for the right thing, even when it’s a thing you don’t necessarily like. It makes it easier for people to stand up with you when it IS your turn to be attacked. I don’t like Fox Not News so I don’t watch it. Simple. If you don’t like Kimmel, don’t watch him. Problem solved. Easy. We don’t need the government dictating what we can watch, think, or say…

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Okay, so this is a personal beef. I play Madden Football, a video game put out by EA sports. I have since the very first Madden Football was introduced. Madden Football once set the standard – at John Madden’s insistence. Now? Honestly, it kind of sucks. EA managed an exclusive contract with the NFL to use the NFL rules, players, team names, etc. No one else could. That made their efforts in the area less-than. EA, essentially, had a lock on the market and used it to add stupid features while removing useful ones.

The lack of competition has really allowed EA to put out a substandard product. People have been bitching about the quality of Madden Football for years, but because EA has that exclusive license, many keep playing. The market, it turns out, doesn’t really have the power to force EA to put out a better game. So EA doesn’t put out a better game.

Now, EA has been bought by an investment group that includes Mohammed Bin Salmon, the guy who ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder, and his good friend Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the most corrupt President in the history of the US. I’m going to try and stop buying EA games. I don’t want to do one single thing to add to the coffers of those killers and thieves…