War

Phantom People…

by MyBaconPress

Since 1996, 73 noncitizens have been convicted of voting illegally. See? No one is saying it doesn’t happen. We say it’s a statistical irrelevance. We’ve had 15 elections since 1996, including that one. So, on average, across the nation nearly 5 people who shouldn’t vote try to vote in each election.

Suddenly, the Census Bureau has “found” 24,000 phantom people voted in 2020 who shouldn’t have? That sounds like propaganda, to me. Let’s take a closer look, though, shall we? It turns out, the Census Bureau used a commercial database to check against. Commercial databases are notoriously inaccurate. The Census Bureau didn’t identify the federal database it used to check the commercial database against, so there may be errors, there, too. Finally, there might well be errors in the matching process.

Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group focused on election technology put it most succinctly when he said, “This document doesn’t tell us anything about elections. It just shows that the Census Bureau has gone off the rails.”

Here’s the funniest part, though. It would be safe to characterize these claims from this team as false. In fact, they’re straight-up lies designed to throw doubt on the process and give MAGA something to shout about when the time comes. (MAGA needs to feel good while attacking government buildings and such.) But let’s pretend, for a moment, that the number is correct. 24,000 people in 2020?

158,429,631 votes were cast for president in 2020. According to David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, “All of the numbers cited in the Census analysis are smaller than the margins of victory in each state and would not have been enough to change the winner of any state in 2020.” That assumes all 24,000 votes were cast in one state instead of across the entire nation, which nobody is claiming, not even the Census Bureau.

This just KEEPS being not-a-problem but the right keeps pushing it as the most pressing problem the nation has ever faced. It’s a lie, straight up. More importantly, though, it’s a pretext. He’s setting the stage for his claims of rigged elections. He’s lying, but at least now we can see where and how the fight is shaping up. Who ever thought we’d be fighting our own government for fair elections? This whole thing is like a bad fever dream, and I really want to wake up…

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Dear MAGA, nobody would want to put too fine a point on this, but your President is a traitor. I know, he’s also, more importantly, your Precious so you’ll find a way to overlook this little peccadillo. You can make any excuse, all the excuses, you want to make. He’s a traitor. He undermines US interests to the benefit of Russia. The US is obligated by treaty to help Ukraine, specifically against Russian aggression, yet 47 has betrayed Ukraine repeatedly.

Russia attacked Ukraine illegally and under a trumped up pretext. Now the Drumpfster chides Zelenskyy to stand down and surrender to Russia. He’s helping Putin bring in more money by defying an order he signed himself only a few months ago. Word is, he ordered his co-conspirator Elon Musk to shut down Starlink, a communications network Ukraine has been relying upon for information – just before an attack from Russia. You can tell me all day long that was just a coincidence. You’ll be wrong, all day long…

47 had a reason for restricting access to Starlink. He was angry at Zelenskyy for attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure. The thing is, attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is a legitimate and even smart war move. The USA shouldn’t condemn such a move. We should be helping. Such an action would hurt the criminal aggressor in an illegal war. But put another way, such an action would hurt Putin in Russia, and trump can’t have that.

So those are the facts, MAGA. Your President has turned his back on an American promise in order to help an American adversary. Sure, to you, he’s still your Precious. But I call him a traitor…

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Well, I’ve done my duty. I voted. On paper. I took it to the Registrar’s office and hand delivered it. I’ve received official word my ballot has been accepted. I felt good about it so I did it again. Then again. I’ve voted over and over and over now. My gods, it’s been so easy. I just made a few copies on my cheapo copier, filled ’em out, and took ’em back. Nobody will ever know. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

I didn’t, of course. I just wrote that to break a few conservative brains. They actually think that’s what people do. They’re too deluded to be embarrassed so I’m going to go ahead and be embarrassed for them…

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One skill 47 actually has? Delaying legal actions against him. He’s very good at that, ostensibly because he has had SO much practice at it. He’s doing it now, with the Trump/Epstein files. He has near-perfect control over the files themselves but still can’t manage to make the Trump/Epstein thing go away. And understand, it isn’t going away. Progress is much slower than it should be, exactly the way President Pedo wants it, likely because of how badly the files ultimately implicate him, personally. But progress is being made.

Donald Trump was best friends with a known child trafficker and a likely co-conspirator in a human trafficking sex ring. Hey, human trafficking runs in the family! One of the most damning bits of information comes from an at-the-time thirteen-year-old girl who claims she was forced to perform oral sex on the Evil Don. The FBI took the case seriously – and that was back when the FBI still operated on a professional level, before the FBI had been corrupted.

There’s a risk a court is about to force Team Evil to release the hand-written version of her statement. That would show more information than the sanitized version they released. 47 absolutely does not want this information released because he’s afraid it will hurt his standing with MAGA. Isn’t that silly? So far, the only thing that has hurt his standing with MAGA is high prices. They don’t care who he rapes or what crimes he commits, just so long as gas prices are down – and they’re not.

I hope the court orders the release but I expect to be disappointed when MAGA once again simply disregards evidence in front of their faces in favor of their preferred and curated image…

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The left is trying to make a big deal about the scene where our National Embarrassment waves to phantom people off in the distance – off camera. The camera was tight on the Pedo when the waving started. Then it panned back to reveal a demented man waving at nobody. The world started laughing at him because he looked like such a fool. There’s a possibility that shot wasn’t for us, “us” being rational people.

Right wing media will simply cut the shot before the camera pans back and cons will think he was actually waving to many adoring crowds, because that’s what they’ll be told. For 47, it’s part of the show, the deception. The whole world knows it was a performance. MAGA will forever be in the dark.

But what if it wasn’t just a show? What if Evil Don actually saw adoring crowds off in the distance in that direction? Phantom people, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean a demented old man didn’t “see” them. We KNOW he’s suffering from some form of dementia. The hand bruise is where they administer the medication keeping him even as cognizant as he is now. The sleeping is a side-effect of the meds, and the regular dementia tests doctors keep giving him is monitoring his decline.

Telling him they’re IQ tests is something of a master stroke. Evil Don believes it because he loves to believe positive sounding things about himself. So the doctors get to administer dementia tests and he gets to keep bragging that he “aces” them. He can still identify a giraffe. Wonderful. But he IS suffering a decline and it’s entirely possible he actually saw adoring crowds out there cheering him on. Putting our government in the hands of a madman was a bad move. It just was…

The Self-Police…

by MyBaconPress

In the 1930’s, cars suffered a problem called engine knock. A scientist discovered that if one simply added lead to the gas, the engine knock went away. Problem solved! But then, workers at the factory where the additive was formulated started showing signs and symptoms of severe lead poisoning. Also, the environment started showing lead everywhere. Lead is VERY dangerous to human beings.

So, the corporation did the only thing they could possibly do: they immediately initiated a disinformation campaign to convince consumers that first, there was no problem and then later, the problem was something – ANYTHING – other than their product. Lead remained in gasoline for another 40 years.

The same guy who thought “lead,” then turned his attention to spray bottles. He came up with a new product called chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) that could be used as a propellant in spray bottles. Now people could just press one button and the stuff would spray until the can was empty if they wanted. But, dammit, scientists soon discovered that cfcs were destroying the Ozone layer, the layer of our atmosphere that protects life on Earth from ultraviolet radiation. Bad news for humanity.

So, the corporation did the only thing a corporation could possibly do under the circumstances: they immediately initiated a disinformation campaign to convince consumers that first, there was no problem and then later, the problem was something – ANYTHING – other than their product. Cfcs remained a problem for fifty years before being phased out.

Cigarette manufacturers knew before most people that cigarettes were credibly linked to lung cancer. Their customers kept dying of it. So, the corporation did the only thing a corporation could possibly do: they immediately initiated a disinformation campaign to convince consumers that first, there was no problem and then later, the problem was something – ANYTHING – other than their product. You can still buy cigarettes today. Fear not, there’s a “warning” on the package.

Wall Street knew a couple of years before they crashed the world economy through their reckless investments that they were about to crash the world economy through reckless investments. The crash came in 2008 but started a couple of years before that. People got angry. The companies that did the damage got socialism. They called it a “bailout.”

But before the bailout, the corporation did the only thing they could possibly do: they immediately initiated a disinformation campaign to convince consumers that first, there was no problem and then later, the problem was something – ANYTHING – other than their product.

The oil companies knew back in the 1950’s that their products were causing climate change. But the same products were also causing huge revenue streams that made a few people just ridiculously, obscenely rich. The problem was immediately apparent: end of humanity or end of fabulous profits? Any Capitalist businessperson knows the right answer: screw humanity.

So, the corporation did the only thing they could possibly do: they immediately initiated a disinformation campaign to convince consumers that first, there was no problem and then later, the problem was something – ANYTHING – other than their product.

I can keep going. These are just examples I was able to pull out of my head. I haven’t even gone digging for more but we ALL know, there are more. So when the Feckless Fuckup and industry leaders tell you AI is no threat, think lead in gas. Think cfcs. Think cancer and cigarettes. Think derivatives. Think climate change.

The industry is doing the only thing they can do if they want those beautiful profits. They’ve initiated a disinformation campaign. We’re currently at the “no problem” stage – even as problems present themselves, one after another. I think history shows us that corporations cannot be trusted to police themselves.

They NEED outside control, because all they ever think of, all they CAN think of, is profit, profit, profit. If the profits mean killing a few people – or even all the people – tough. I’m actually curious about how these self-serving blowhards think they’re going to profit once everyone is wiped out, but they clearly think they have some solution…

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So, what is it? Desperation? Dementia? Insanity? Ego? No, I mean EGO? (He fakes a BIG ego.) Straight up stupidity? Some combination of all of the above? It’s so hard to say. He announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy cease-fire.” So, as they do, reporters sought more insight. They checked with Russian and Ukrainian representatives only to discover the announcement was news to both sides and that neither side was aware of any agreement. Yet another ‘he lied, they said.’

Obviously, reporters asked the lying liar about his announcement, pointing out that neither side had agreed. His response? “Well, they agreed,” he said. “Because I said, ‘You agree.’ That’s why they agreed, because I said they agree.” Holy gods, I didn’t realize it was that easy. Let’s try it. Here’s my big announcement: ‘Donald Trump has agreed to resign effective immediately and turn himself in to authorities.’

Oh, he agrees. He agrees because I said he agrees. There IS a risk things don’t actually work that way. For instance, Russia and Ukraine are already right back to bombing each other’s energy infrastructure. So who did he think he was going to fool with his announcement? Does he REALLY believe he has the power to simply make a pronouncement and that will be that? Something is seriously wrong with this guy’s mind. But then, most of us know that already…

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Well, Anthony Scaramucci is breathing a sigh of relief. He’s no longer the shortest tenured person in the trump-o-sphere history. He lasted eleven whole days. Short-term press spokesliar Katie Zacharia only lasted five. She wasn’t any good at the job. Or, at least, she didn’t seem any good. We didn’t get much chance to see her work. She lied to pretty much everyone which, under normal circumstances, is simply a baseline credential to work with these people, so I don’t think the lies were a problem.

The problem was the subject of the lies. She usually described herself as a lawyer, but on a couple of occasions, she claimed to be an attorney. She isn’t an attorney. She has never passed the bar exam. In many states, that’s a crime, falsely claiming to be an officer of the court. I suspect that’s why she got the boot. She’s about to be swimming in legal problems and the last thing Team Evil needs is more effing legal problems. Katie? We hardly knew ye. Thank the gods…

Whining And Whimpering…

by MyBaconPress

In the run-up to the 2016 election, FBI agents monitoring questionable Russians discovered that some of those questionable Russians were communicating regularly with the trump campaign. MAGA hates this fact but, like all of the other facts they deny, it remains a fact. Also, it caused investigations. Hillary Clinton highlighted the contact. 47 denied it, of course. It led to MAGA mindlessly mouthing the mantra, “Russia, Russia, Russia” as if that meant he was innocent. He wasn’t.

In 2022, the puerile, petulant, pedo filed a lawsuit against Clinton and pretty much everyone else for telling the world his people had been in contact with the Russians. His lawsuit was so poorly presented, so weak on facts, so dependent upon questionable legal theories, the judge in the suit threw the case out and actually sanctioned the dotard a million dollars for wasting the court’s time.

Donny, of course, appealed. Just his luck, though, the appeals court upheld the ruling and the sanctions and not his whiny wishes. That is to say, he lost there, too. Now the Dumbass has asked his toadies on the Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit so he can harass Hillary some more. Obviously, there’s no “there” there so the SCOTUS should refuse the case, but there’s no telling what Cheat Justice John Roberts might do on any given day. When it comes right down to it, I preferred the Rule of Law rather than the Rule of Whining and Whimpering…

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Red dye diesel. It’s for farm equipment and the like. 47 has made a desperate attempt to reduce diesel prices by lifting restrictions for red dye diesel in trucks. He said it will make more diesel available and reduce the cost of driving the trucks. You won’t be surprised to learn, he lied. Well, kind of. Automotive experts are warning drivers not to use red dye diesel in their vehicles.

It does cost less, so it would reduce the amount a trucker pays when filling his tanks. But it also leaves chemical residues in the engines that eventually lead to expensive repairs. Destroying one’s engine tomorrow to save a couple of bucks today seems like something other than a victory. I would call it more, um, stupid. So don’t use red dye diesel, even if a moron tells you it’s okay. He is, after all, a moron…

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More evidence he plans to cheat? Sure. Easy. (Isn’t THAT sad?) He has banned international observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from monitoring the mid-term elections. It’s the first time in over two decades the US has not welcomed these monitors. There’s not a single, valid reason to reject monitors if one expects to conduct a fair and honest election. Not one…

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I’m thinking (hoping, really) this announcement of a live-streamed execution was a trial balloon. I think the moron regime wanted to see how it would play. So far, it hasn’t played well at all. There’s lots and lots (and, incidentally, lots) of pushback. I’m a little surprised by that, too. Ours is a bloodthirsty society. Getting a chance to see a defenseless human being in a wheelchair shot to death by firing squad seems just the thing that would please huge swaths of our morally failed nation.

Sadly, it might not have any impact. Have you seen the show ‘Reacher?’ I watch and enjoy the show so know that I’m not trying to moralize, here, but violence is a staple. In the last season (spoiler alert) Jack holds a bad guy in an elevator shaft until the elevator descends and takes the bad guy’s head with it. The thing is, I believe the man who “died,” didn’t. He got up after the director said “cut” and collected his paycheck for a day’s work. But I still watched a dude get “beheaded” by an elevator.

So I don’t know how much impact a firing squad will have. Sure, Hassan will get shot. Blood will spurt. He’ll tense, then he’ll sag, dead. Some people will celebrate the State killing a person to show that killing is wrong. Some people will be triggered. PTSD will be the order of the day. Oh, AND I guess we’re just supposed to ignore the association with brutal and terrorist states who also love public executions…

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I’m learning a new song called, ‘Pumped Up Kicks.” It’s a snappy little pop tune that just happens to be about a kid named Robert who shoots up a school, or at least fantasizes about it. I think it’s just young people singing about what’s real in their world. I’m of the opinion that when our society accepted that the proper response to school shootings was active shooter drills, our national morality dropped to the lowest depths of the deepest outhouse…

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Oh, 47 is mad again. He STILL didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. Set aside the idea that he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah, sure, he settled eight wars. Well, I, personally, have settled 63 wars and I still don’t have one either. Wait, you want proof? No, there’s no proof I did that. Just take my word for it and give me a prize, okay? Just like Donny wants you to do.

Unfortunately for him, the only evidence that exists indicates the opposite of peacemaker. Invading Venezuela? Murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean? His support for Israel in Gaza? Iran? I think the committee doesn’t give Peace Prizes to bloodthirsty warmongers.

But he’s still making strides in his effort to be a petulant little baby who whines and moans when he doesn’t get his way. The woman who DID win the Nobel Peace Prize this time, Navi Pillay, has been a human rights advocate for decades. She once served on the International Criminal Court. So, after crying in social media that he didn’t get his whiny way, the little bitch imposed sanctions on the ICC. He says they’re unfair to Americans (himself) and Israelis committing war crimes (Netanyahu). I’ve known three-year-olds with better emotional control…

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Speaking of his stupid war in Iran, he keeps telling people it will be over quickly. To my mind, he first attacked Iran in June of 2025. That damned, dirty, “quick” little war has dragging on for over 15 months now – and counting! But even if we only count THIS round of violence, the US and Israel attacked without cause on February 28, 2026. That’s still eight months of what he keeps promising will be “quick,” and he’s already told us it isn’t ending until after the mid-terms. I think I’m going to need him to be more specific about “quick.” I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Then again, this moron might be talking “quick” in geological terms…

Blowing Up LA…

by MyBaconPress

On Tuesday morning, the Guardian reported that the Petulant Pipsqueak said at one of his campaign rallies that Iran could attack a city in the US. He also indicated that he would be okay with that. “Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” Then, because he’s an idiot, he added, “This is a very small price to pay.” Ya think? No, I mean, DO YOU EVER THINK?!?

Do you know what Los Angeles and San Diego are just crawling with? Americans. US citizens. Thirteen+ million of them. And Trump is saying that Iran could take those cities out? He was mentioning it as a threat in an effort to scare his oh-so-frightened base but, really, he chose the acceptable targets?

Remember, he does that “weave.” (Professionals call it a word salad.) He HAD been talking about high gas prices, promising his base the high prices are temporary – only until he ends his stupid war with Iran. You know the one. That’s the war he keeps insisting he doesn’t want to end. That’s the one HE keeps saying Iran wants to stop but he won’t stop. So, essentially, he’s telling people it’s okay to pay ridiculously high gas prices – among the highest in history – until he decides otherwise?

Honestly, it’s hard to determine if he meant in the sentence that taking out LA and San Diego would be a small price to pay – or did his ailing and demented mind trip back to the high gas prices for a moment? People can interpret his horrible sentence construction either way and you know they will. Lefties will argue he meant to be giving Iran permission to destroy LA and San Diego. Conservatives will argue he meant high gas prices. I think he’s too stupid to create a sentence clear enough for anyone to know for sure. But he’s full of <nasty stuff> either way.

Giving permission for a foreign adversary to destroy two American cities is outrageous but then, so is pretending the high gas prices are the result of an existential battle the US had no choice to be fight. The moron in charge made a choice about that war-that’s-not-a-war. He had options. He chose wrong. High gas prices ARE too high a price to pay to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon since Iran swore off nuclear weapons as “contrary to Islam” in a fatwa issued in 2004.

Maybe some of this is why his poll numbers have plunged to new depths, yet again. The published poll numbers reflect some loss even of MAGA. I secretly suspect there are a number of MAGA out there who won’t support his very costly (to us) agenda but also won’t say so to pollsters. Reporters asked him about his newest poll numbers. His response? “I’m doing great.” Well at least one person thinks so. The rest of us are FAR less sanguine…

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As of Tuesday, our moronic sleuth had discovered the reason for high gas prices: blue states. It’s a story they can sell to their base and it has some truth to it. Some truth. For one thing, refineries have closed here in California. But refineries have closed in Louisiana and Wyoming, too. Decidedly not blue states. Oh, and in each case, the STATE didn’t do that. Corporations did.

No, I’m not suggesting some nefarious purpose. Some refineries were damaged. Some were old or marginal. Some were converted to renewable fuels. Others no longer fit the owner’s strategy. The closures have been taking place around the nation, blue states and red. These are corporate decisions, not forced state closures.

And here’s the real question: did closing the refineries reduce refining capacity? It turns out, the answer to that question is no. Well, not substantially. In the 1980’s, the US had over 300 refineries. At the beginning of 2026, the nation had only about 130. But U.S. refining capacity didn’t decline much. That’s because modern refineries became much larger and existing facilities repeatedly expanded.

I should add, here, that California is going to be a special problem. It turns out, Californians live in an oil desert. California produces it’s own oil, but less and less each year. California isn’t connected by major refined-product pipelines to the enormous Gulf Coast refining center. So we’ll have to ship in finished product by tanker, often from Asia. But again, California has long suffered higher gas prices than the rest of the country.

So the Dumbass Dotard pointed to a problem that has been developing for years in both red and blue states, drooled a little, then pronounced “blue states.” He didn’t even mention his moronic war of choice in Iran or the closure of the Strait of Hormuz that resulted, the actual cause. But it turns out? No, not “blue states.” Most accurately, the actual cause is ‘changing nature of the industry.’ Why, it’s almost as if he’s simply trying to deflect responsibility for his own ill-advised actions…

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Really? Oh. Em. Gee. Steve Hilton is a foreigner running for Governor here in California. He’s running as a Republican. Republicans like to pretend to be some kind of moral crusaders, protecting the country from moral failings like transgender and gay. They don’t seem to worried about criminals, rapers, and pedophiles. Weird. Anyway, Hilton ran an ad. I’ll let the Guardian describe if for you:

‘The video entitled “Just Try It, California” was released last week and depicts two young women with brightly colored hair, sitting on a bed in front of a pride flag in low lighting. One nervously says “I can’t believe I’m doing this”, while another strokes her hair and coaxes “don’t be nervous, it’s not that bad” before guiding her to fill out a ballot for Hilton and aggressively commanding “lick it.”‘

I guess we know where Hilton’s porn search history would take us, yes? And now he wants to treat all of us to his preferences. Lovely. There’s a reason I never believe cons when they claim to be arbiter of all things moral. There has hardly been a less moral group anywhere in history…

Burning Down The House…

by MyBaconPress

For the last nearly fifty years, the United States has suffered under the delusion of supply side economics, known better as “trickle down,” and most accurately as “voodoo economics.” It’s a lie. It has always been a lie. It was a lie when Reagan tricked people into believing it. It’s a lie now. It will always be a lie. Money doesn’t trickle down from rich people unless some mechanism exists to force them to trickle a little – like a proper tax system.

But there IS a trickle system. It’s just that it trickles up, not down. More, it’s not money. It’s pain. Think of it like an apartment building. Let’s say it’s ten stories tall. If there’s a fire on the tenth floor, the people living on the ninth might not even notice. The people on the tenth floor have so many safeties and built-in protections, the fire might be extinguished before it even gets going. Wealth has it’s benefits.

But when a fire breaks out on the first floor? The people on the second floor become aware of it almost right away. As the fire spreads around the second floor, the people on the third floor start feeling the heat. As the fire burns the third floor, people on the fourth know they’re in trouble. Fire, you see, “trickles” up.

Now, think of my burning apartment building as a metaphor for our economy. The fire in question will be started on October 1, with the newest portion of the Republican “big, beautiful budget” taking effect. It was installed last year. Some of it’s provisions have taken effect, but most of the most egregious effects were intentionally delayed.

The GOP knew those provisions were going to hurt people badly. As a result, the people might not want to vote for the GOP anymore. Even at the time, they had their eyes on the mid-terms. So, they set the worst, most painful portions of their evil little program to trigger after the 2026 mid-terms, 46 days from now. They start with the new fiscal year, beginning October 1. You think the economy is struggling now? Just wait until these provisions kick in.

You see, there’s a huge swath of people in this, the great, richest country on Earth™ who may or may not eat tonight, even with assistance. When you take that assistance away, desperation sets in. It’s true, they may not be the big spenders in society, but they’re complete spenders. Whatever they get, they spend. They have to. Desperately poor people ALWAYS have needs, not just desires, and they spend. But much (most?) of what they spend is government assistance. Exactly the thing the GOP is promising to rip away.

The poorest of the poor not spending is the fire on the first floor. The working poor feel it next, as layoffs follow the spending downturn. As retail outlets start laying off workers due to reduced sales, those workers stop spending. Since people aren’t buying, manufacturers stop building and start laying off workers. That’s the third floor and the fire keeps rising.

That’s what we’re looking at as this new budget starts. There’s exactly ONE way to stop this disaster: vote Democrat. IF the Dems can win – which is not what they’re paid to do, by the way – they could, theoretically, vote to undo some of the GOP damage. I’m not saying they will. Ever since Citizens United, Dems are owned and operated by the same hyper-wealthy people that own the GOP. It’s the reason the Dems stopped representing the working class. They’re not allowed to.

But I can absolutely guarantee the GOP won’t do anything to help. They’re the group that did the damage in the first place – and it wasn’t an oversight or an accident. And, no, it certainly was not Biden. The GOP inflicted this pain on the most vulnerable in our society, and they did it on purpose. The fire is just getting started…

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Have you heard about the workers in forklifts apparently running into the pillars of the Kennedy Center on purpose? It’s all part of the Petulant Little Brat’s tantrum. People won’t let him put his vile and ugly name on the Kennedy Center so he thinks it should be torn down. (The building, that is. His name can’t be torn down any further.) He says the facilities are in a maintenance crisis. He lies about everything, of course, and he’s lying about that, too. Congress authorized $257 million dollars for maintenance. I, for one, would like to know where that money has gone.

If the building needs maintenance – and buildings do – and Team Evil has the money – and they do, Congress having authorized the funds – they can address the maintenance needs of the building. The rest is politics and narcissism. It’s the kind of petulant tantrum many babies throw when they don’t get their own way. He wants his disgusting, made-up name on the building or he’s going to tear the building down. A judge tells him he can’t do that and that he has to inform the court thirty days prior to any major construction.

The next thing people know, fences are going up around the facility and workers are “accidentally” crashing forklifts into pillars. He’s just a hate-filled piece of garbage, isn’t he? I’d like to see the court trying to protect America from 47 appoint an overseer of some kind. These criminals move fast and break things and it would help to have an on-site, every-day person keeping tabs…

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Team Evil and the press are trumpeting a deal with Greenland. 47 – who lies about everything, most especially when he loses – is claiming the deal he has reached with Greenland lets him do pretty much whatever he wants. He said the deal, “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns.” Of course, the boasting bloviator claimed no other president had been able to work out any deal.

You can expect him to HAMMER on this would-be wonderful deal like nothing else has ever happened in the US. He has absolutely nothing else he might point to as a success. AND, you will not be surprised to hear, he doesn’t have this, either. He’s just hoping no one realizes the whole thing is a lie of hyperbole before the mid-terms.

You’ll never believe this: he’s lying. It turns out, this magnificent agreement only he could make that allows the US to do anything it wants is really just an update to an agreement originally made in 1951. That agreement already allowed the U.S. to maintain a military presence and expand its activities in Greenland. Nobody else could have done it? I’m pretty sure that disgusting failure of a human being wasn’t President in 1951, so, apparently, someone else COULD do it and DID do it.

It’s important to note, there is no text of a final agreement available yet. That suggests there is not actual, final agreement. If Donny’s past is any indicator, he’s likely to toss in a last-second poison-pill demand that scuttles the whole thing anyway. We should have known he’s the worst negotiator in history when he started calling himself the greatest negotiator in history…

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…