War

What’s Important and What’s Not…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holy Gods, What Now?!?

by MyBaconPress

But… but… he won the FIFA Peace Prize. How could he do this? I wake up each day, hoping for the same headline but, so far, it’s always something else. Usually, it’s just the normal, Team Evil insanity. I often write parts of these posts ahead of time, as they unfold. I check the news before posting, just in case I get my wish for that desired headline. You know the one, “Trump Dead At 79.” As I’ve mentioned, so far, he has disappointed me on that each and every day. Still, hope springs eternal. Sometimes, there’s something that forces me to re-write. Today was one such. I got up, got my coffee, opened the paper and…

Holy crap, that dumbass has attacked Venezuela and taken President Maduro and his wife into custody! Pam Bondi has promised Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.” Just for the record, that’s pretty much a clean sweep of promises made, promises NOT kept. He hasn’t lowered prices. He hasn’t provided better health care. He hasn’t fixed the economy. He didn’t “drain the swamp.” He IS the swamp. And now, he hasn’t even kept his promise not to get the US into unnecessary wars.

Put it down as yet another international war crime. Venezuela was/is no threat to the US. Venezuela has taken no military action against the US. There have been no formal declarations of war from either side. But the US military swooped into Venezuela, kidnapped Venezuela’s President, brought him back to the US under cover of darkness, and now intends to put him on trial.

It’s a violation of pretty much every international agreement ever put together. It’s going to take years just to figure out which international courts get jurisdiction first. Team Evil is counting on the adage that might makes right. Still, they’re wrong. They’re setting the stage for their own version of the Nuremberg Trials. I suggest they be called ‘The Caracas Trials’ in this case.

Reports say the US attacked both civilian and military targets. That’s Trump, murdering civilians in an attempt to sate his own demons. The UK was quick to step up and disavow any knowledge or participation in the crime. Putin called his puppet, too. Russia is demanding “immediate” clarification about the circumstances of the capture of Maduro. Much of Venezuela’s oil goes to China. Well, it did. I’m guessing the Chinese are going to be interested in the theft of Venezuelan oil, too. In fact, every country that has taken a position on Donny’s misadventure in Venezuela as of this writing has condemned the action.

The plan (threat) is to put Maduro and his wife on trial – ostensibly for selling drugs in the United States. Who believes that? Donny pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States during his time in office. How strongly could Donny be opposed to someone selling drugs in the US if he’s pardoning them after trying to sell 400 tons of cocaine?

The oil makes a lot more sense. The effing oil wars just never end, do they? Even after we’re able to shuffle off the yoke of addiction to oil, the oil wars continue. We don’t even need the crap. The LAST time Republicans and the oil corporations wanted to steal a bunch of oil, the US was treated to the fiction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. He didn’t. The US knew he didn’t. International weapons inspectors swore up one side and down the other, he didn’t. Even US weapons inspectors said he didn’t have any.

The US attacked anyway. How many people died? How many were maimed for life? But the US marines are the US marines. It literally took us days to get to Baghdad and when we did, we found Saddam and ripped his head off. “THAT,” we warned, “will teach everybody NOT to try to sell their oil in any currency other than dollars.” Then we pretended some rusted old weapons buried in the desert qualified as “WMDs.” Then, since were there anyway, well, we took thousands and thousands of barrels of oil – gratis.

Apparently, Venezuela didn’t get the “only dollars” memo and has been selling oil in other currencies. Some of that was to get around sanctions. Some of it, I presume, is about trying to break the US stranglehold on oil sales. But Donny has already said the US will be “very strongly involved in Venezuela’s oil industry.” Keywords? VENEZUELA’S oil industry. This is street-level thuggery on an international scale.

Stay tuned. This has just started. I think Donny, as a result of his delusions and in concert with his desire to blot out the Trump/Epstein Files, has painted himself into quite the corner. The entire international community has condemned this illegal action. Donny is so stupid, he thinks attacking Venezuela will keep people from paying attention to the Trump/Epstein Files and/or the Jack Smith testimony in which Smith swore to Congress he had everything he needed to put Donny in jail.

But the Drumpfster’s international war crime didn’t even stop me from mentioning the Trump/Epstein Files or the Jack Smith testimony in the first reports of the criminal action. Reasonably intelligent people are capable of holding more than one thought at a time. Long term, I think all he has accomplished is to create yet another avenue of indictment just as soon as the world gets the chance. I hope the world gets the chance soon.

Dear world,
Donny has set the tone. Donny has dictated the way it should be done. You have a problem with a rogue world leader, disrupting and destabilizing everything? Sneak in at night at whisk his ass away for trial in your country. It’s okay. We won’t even say anything. Hell, we’ll pretend we don’t even know the guy and we never knew the guy. Just, someone, please, haul this boy away.

No such luck. Donny is a problem of the United States and it’s going to have to be the United States that solves that problem. But we had better hurry. Now that his insanity is splaying worldwide, the rest of the planet may not wait for us to get around to it…

A Promise, Re-promised…

by MyBaconPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Awful Lot Of Stupid…

by MyBaconPress

It’s the law, right? The Epstein files must be released by Friday, 12/19. Today, 12/20, some of the files have been released, though heavily redacted. Democrats are pointing out that what was released and how it was released is not in compliance with the law. Cons are insisting this is the most transparent presidency in history, clearly proving they do not know the meaning of the word, ‘transparent.’ Here’s a hint: if Team Evil was being transparent, the world would be able to read the words in the files. Pretty simple, really.

Based on Donny’s behavior around all of this mess, I believe – and I mean I genuinely believe – Donald J. Trump raped or caused to be raped underage, adolescent girls. There is simply NO other explanation for the way he hides and obfuscates the information the FBI collected. I suppose he’s free to sue me for saying so, but the first thing I’ll demand in discovery is the entire Epstein data cache. Unredacted. But, for clarity, it’s just a personal belief. Sure, it’s one I think I share with millions, perhaps billions, of people on planet Earth, but it’s just a personal belief.

I wonder if anybody is surprised he released a pile of useless information that does nothing to move the case forward. Over 550 pages were completely redacted, just a series of black lines. Yeah, that’s helpful. The part the confuses me the most about his reticence to release the files is the why.

Look, if you’re not MAGA, you already know who and how he is. You already really don’t like him and you can’t wait for him to go away. You don’t NEED him to die, but if that’s the only way to get rid of him, you’re hoping and praying, daily, for Divine Intervention. If you ARE MAGA, you don’t care that he rapes kids. Hell, you’d drive your daughter to his house and leave her there – or even hold her down – if your Precious asked you to.

I might expect some pushback on that last sentence but MAGA’S moral malignancy is already clearly apparent for any and all to see. You happily killed family members when he wanted to pretend Covid-19 was a hoax. Why wouldn’t you sacrifice your daughter or grand-daughter to the darkest whims of your Precious? Yet, here he is, cowering in his hidey-hole, afraid someone might notice the reality of him…

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Okay, really? The Trump-Kennedy Center? That’s just disgusting. Maybe ‘putrid’ is a better word. I DID throw up in my mouth a little when I heard. He infested the Kennedy Center when he stole his way into the White House and the board was all hand picked by him. Primary criteria? Soothe and nurture his tiny, fragile ego. It’s the same job description as every person who surrounds him. So, when he said he wanted his name on the Kennedy Center, they put his name on the Kennedy Center. Keep the baby from having a tantrum.

I think he killed the Kennedy Center for the foreseeable future. I mean, the only performers that will show up are MAGA has-beens or never-weres. Who wants to see that? Once he goes away – and at this point, that can’t be soon enough – we’ll have to have the place fumigated. Maybe we should bring in some medicine men to exorcise the demons. Probably, we’ll just have to knock the place down. He just ruins everything…

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Because we’re following Donny, we’re moving from putrid to petty. I’d say he acts like a three year old but that’s an insult to three-year olds. He put bronze plaques under photos of the previous presidents – except Biden, of course, whose “portrait” is a signature done by Autopen, because one can NOT be petty enough. I thought that was bad but then, as usual, he out-pettied even himself. The plaques are supposed to be blurbs about each President. A normal human would have said something nice about the guy and moved on. Not these. Keywords? “Normal human.”

Apparently, these are attacks on the people who have held the job before him. Petty, minuscule-minded attacks that, in summary, leave him described as the best President ever, despite ALL of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But, look, Donny trying to convince somebody – anybody – that he is in any way competent or qualified to do this, or any, job while stroking his own ego just as hard as he can is nothing new. That’s just 47. But, quick question.

How much did all of that cost? Bronze plaques and gaudy golden fixtures are disgusting to look at and not cheap. I keep wondering, how can he have the highest deficit in the history of the nation when he hasn’t been spending on the American people? Where’s the money going? No, I don’t think he has spent a trillion dollars on plaques and gold fixtures. But that just begs the question: where is all of that money going? He’s putting it somewhere, by God…

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47 didn’t even WANT to give that speech. Maybe that was why he seemed so angry. He had other, FAR less useful things to focus his attention on. His whole bit was about how awesome he is and how successful he’s been and how much better than everyone else he is and what a great job he’s done and oh, yeah, how great he is and you can, too, afford your life because he said so and he’s great and you’re not so just Shut The Facts Up! (I confess, I’m not sure that ‘Facts’ is the F word that goes there.) I mean, for such a resounding success, he sure sounded angry.

Susan Wiles made him do it, at least according to him. He didn’t really have anything to say so he just rolled out mostly a greatest hits speech and repeated many of his favorite lies. By the way, I read in ‘The Daily Beast’ where they reported he “fired off mistruth after mistruth.” More euphemism. Why? Why not just call them what they are: lies? What’s so hard about that? Donny lied and lied. It’s easier to read and it’s easier to understand. But I digress.

One of the lies he told was about a “warrior dividend.” He promised some troops were going to receive checks in the amount of $1,776 dollars. He said it was coming from his tariff dividend, which he has promised to various groups at various times but not one of them has seen a dime because, despite his lying claims, the tariffs are a disaster. But worse, that money that he promised HE was going to send from the tariffs was already authorized by Congress from your tax dollars.

It’s a housing allowance for some service members who don’t live in base housing. Congress authorized the money earlier this year. Donny has rebranded the money as some largess that came from him. Ho hum, just another lie from the Father of Lies.

In fact, Paul Simon summed up Trump’s entire speech in a song called ‘the Boxer’ years ago when he wrote: “Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.” Perhaps not Simon’s best poetry, but succinct and dead on years before Donny became the problem he is for the world. THAT is some quality insight, right there…

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Could someone please explain to me how Venezuela “took away” oil from America? What did they do, hide it underground in Venezuela just to pump it back out again later? Is that moron REALLY trying to convince the rubes that war is okay because Venezuela STOLE our oil? I simply can NOT believe that the recipient of the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize is going to lie his way into a foreign war – and for the ridiculously stupid reason of stealing their oil, an outdated energy source we should no longer be using. It’s a stupid act for a stupid reason endorsed by a stupid person. That’s an awful lot of stupid…

Failing and Fumbling…

by MyBaconPress

Well, I did not expect the start of the day to look like this. The US seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela yesterday. Oh, did I forget to mention it’s an oil tanker? No one is even pretending it’s part of a “drug war.” NOW, suddenly, Donny – who couldn’t find his own ass with both hands and a road map – yeah, THAT Donny, uncovered a cabal of oil cheats?

Pam Bondi got to make up the announcement. She said the tanker had been sanctioned by the US for “multiple years” due to its “involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.” Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists! That’s just a catch-phrase these days. I think that, no matter where they are, when they look into the camera menacingly, scrunch their faces up, and spit the word “Terrorists!” it should be followed by a tension building, and foreboding fanfare. Technology in the world is getting better all the time. The regime should be able to find a small, hand-held player for such a moment. It will spice up the drama.

I think Donny is dragging the US into yet another oil war. He talked about the drugs – which, by the way, his base believes completely. He claimed drugs were being shipped out of Venezuela that don’t get shipped out of Venezuela. MAGA thinks those motorboats aren’t trying to reach the US mainland. They’re either going up the coast to Mexico or they’re heading to a ship waiting for them. When I asked why nobody said anything about waiting ships? Crickets. When I pointed out that, if true, ships might be going anywhere? Crickets. MAGA media gives them a story, not the details.

It doesn’t matter, though. Donny doesn’t CARE about drugs. That was just an excuse. Think Saddam and his WMDs, despite the fact that Saddam didn’t HAVE WMDs. He DID have oil and the US took that for a LONG, LONG time. Gratis. It was a light, sweet deal for US oil companies. (It’s actually Brent Crude, I think, but I liked the joke.) Donny is working to replicate the feat in Venezuela.

So, here we go again. The US gets into a brand new oil war, THIS time to procure a resource we shouldn’t need anymore. We have alternatives and we should be using them. How many lives will be lost? 87 and counting, so far. How much money will be spent?

Look, I don’t think that everything happening in today’s modern world is necessarily better but I don’t think it’s automatically worse, either. Renewable energy technology is better, long-term. It’s better for the environment and nobody has to bomb anybody to gain sunlight. It’s just…there. And, should the day come it’s NOT there anymore, human beings will have bigger problems than the cost of a gallon at the pump. MUCH bigger problems.

Donny SO desperately wants a peace prize, he’s willing to accept a made up knock-off from a soccer organization, but he’s STILL starting a war for all the world to see. I suspect he actually believes he’s picking this fight with Venezuela cleverly, fooling everyone. Blaming Venezuela, I guess, means nobody will notice what the US has been doing. But the US has been doing it badly. The world knows this will NOT be a righteous war. Team Evil really needs to be sent to the Hague and put on trial for crimes against humanity. And, the sooner, the better…

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If you’re surprised by this, you’re definitely MAGA. None of the pretend indictments against Letitia James or James Comey or anybody else the current incompetent regime accuses of mortgage fraud have held up in court. None. But they DID prompt reporters at ProPublica – real reporters, not MAGA media, opinion-spewing talking heads – to look into other mortgages, maybe those taken by some other potentially interested parties – like Donald Trump, for example.

So… guess who actually DOES commit mortgage fraud by claiming rental properties as primary residences to get better loan rates. Go ahead, take a guess. I’ll wait…

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Oh, sure. He imposes tariffs and wipes out the US soy market (again). Then, because his tariffs wiped out the soy market, he’s going to (again) give billions of dollars to the farmers who prefer to earn their living than need handouts. Donny gets to CLAIM he’s helping the poor, down-trodden farmer, but he’s really helping the banks that hold the notes these farmers need to pay back. If the farmers crash and burn, the banks are hurt. Donny NEVER cares about the little guy.

The regime is trying to convince the rubes that China stopped buying soy while Biden was running the show because they suffer from BBS, Blame Biden Syndrome, and blame Biden for everything. The fact that it’s so easy to check these details and understand them as the lies they are doesn’t bother them because they know the rubes will NOT check. They just believe…

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If you’re not a football fan, please bear with me, here. This deserves to be noted. In a Monday night game on the 8th of this month, the Quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts, threw a pass. It was intercepted by a guy named Da’Shawn Hand, of the LA Chargers. Hand was starting to return the interception when he was chased down by Eagles running back Will Shipley, who knocked the ball free from, well, Hand’s hands. The ball popped free and shot straight forward – into Jalen Hurt’s hands. At this point, Hurts started with the ball, threw it, and has it again, okay?

So, Hurts began to run with the ball but immediately had the ball punched out by Chargers defensive tackle Jamaree Caldwell from behind and it rolled forward about 10 yards before Chargers linebacker Troy Dye recovered the ball. It was something to see. Word is, this play makes Jalen Hurts the first player in NFL history to turn the ball over twice in a single play. How’s THAT for a record that will never fall? I’m not sure it’s a stat Hurts is going to want people to focus on, though…

Dates That Live In Infamy…

by MyBaconPress

Today, Sunday, December 7th, 2025, marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 Americans. It was a tactical success for Japan but a strategic failure. They didn’t hit some of the most important targets of their attack. Oh, AND, (spoiler alert) Japan lost the war in the end.

Or maybe we all did. WWII changed the face of the planet and, upon further review, maybe not for the better. WWII brought about a new world order and, for a time, it looked like it might be an improvement. But we can all count on self-serving, self-important blowhards to decide they “deserve” more than anybody else to come along and ruin things for everybody.

Which brings us back to Donny and the One-Percent-serving Heritage Foundation and all of the damage and pain they’re intentionally inflicting on Americans and the world. History repeats (or rhymes) in roughly 80 year cycles. Roughly 80 years ago, the US pushed back authoritarian Fascism with extreme violence. Now authoritarian fascism is back.

I think Americans are hoping to stop all of this nonsense with the 2026 “elections,” non-violently. I have a hard time believing that the group that led this coup in the first place might let it slip away by allowing honest elections. I’ll wait and see. I’ll hope. But you’d better keep your powder dry…

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Twice, recently, I’ve seen Donny act exactly like a three-year-old boy who sees a big truck – and then the driver honks the horn for kid. We’ve all seen that young man. He’s the happiest he’s ever going to be until he discovers his newest favorite toy. The first time I saw Donny act like that was when he was hanging out with the Saudi murderer, you know, the one who killed Jamal Khashoggi, that guy. Yeah, Mohammed bin Salman, that’s the one.

The second time was this FIFA “Peace Prize” he was “awarded” on Friday. To be clear, FIFA does NOT have a long, storied history of awarding it’s well-known and prestigious “Peace Prize” to someone who has made a great impact on world peace for the benefit of nations. Instead, FIFA seems to be a rather corrupt organization that takes bribes and oversees world soccer. FIFA made up their “Peace Prize” for Donny and, one presumes, when Donny isn’t a factor in their world anymore, the “FIFA Peace Prize” will be a thing of the past.

But he was SO happy, giddy even. I thought he was going to literally clap his hands and jump up and down, “My peace prize! My peace prize!” It was scary. That dude is old. Jumping up and down on those cankles could break him in more ways than one. Old bones shatter. It was also mind-boggling. Can you imagine demanding a peace prize and then actually believing you’ve done something to “earn” it?

Donny grabbed that medal and put it around his own neck so fast I thought it might hit him in the face. (Full disclosure: I would have LAUGHED!) Then he stood, wearing his fake award, BEAMING. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a happier boy – even when the “Big Truck” honks.

This is a large part of the reason he’s as petty as he is: secrets he knows about himself. On some level, he knows he’s a fraud and he knows this is a fake award, created to placate his massive unquenchable ego. He acts like he’s done something to earn it but he knows that everybody knows – the thing was “awarded” by FIFA, fercrissakes. HE has to know it’s a meaningless award. And because HE knows the whole thing is trumpery, but wants YOU to believe he actually accomplished something, he gets insecure and belligerent.

Tough cookies, there, Donny. Most of the world knows you to be a fraud and we have always known you to be a fraud. You can act like the biggest assoholic on the planet, we’ll all still know…

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Speaking of recognizing Donny as the liar, conman, grifter, and general waste of human flesh that he is, it looks like there might be a bit of fraying at the edges of MAGA. It’s hard to say, for sure. MAGA isn’t going to confess their error, most especially not to me. I expect their support to drift away quietly. They’ll wonder in their own minds. If/When the scales fall from their eyes, the MAGA regalia will quietly disappear. They won’t fall out for rallies. They won’t come out to vote. They’ll get quieter in social media. They’ll just… step away.

So, instead of waiting for the mea culpa, we have to watch for signs of separation. Maybe they’re real, maybe not, but here’s one I’ve been hearing about recently. There’s a very definite date – well, dates – looming for Republicans who may have been caught up in MAGA thrall, but aren’t true MAGA in their hearts. Filing deadlines.

The major threat Donny represents to candidates is his ability to “Primary” them. That is, if he gets his knickers in a twist at someone, he can press another, more MAGA-friendly candidate to run. That might cost a Republican office-holder their phony-baloney job and they might lose all of that beautiful lucre that keeps them so happy. So they comply.

At the same time, one does not have to be Nostradamus to see what is going on with the right, these days. Donny can say all day and half the night that prices are down at the grocery store. Then, we ALL walk into grocery stores and – RATS! – prices are still going up. Donny can tell us until he’s blue in the face that medical care costs won’t go up. But the letters have gone out. Every American and every MAGA has seen the new, definitely-not-improved numbers.

Donny promised no more foreign entanglements. Not only has he NOT ended the major foreign wars he promised would be so easy to end, he’s actively ginning up a completely new, completely unnecessary conflict. Instead of less foreign entanglement, we’re getting more, like it or not. He promised to drain the swamp. He IS the swamp. By every measure, he’s the swampiest swamp monster ever to swamp the swamp.

And it is NOT that he is “just doing what they all do, just more transparently.” In the first place, taking bribes and committing crimes transparently doesn’t make them better. But no President in history has ever been so deeply involved with bribes, crimes, grifts, and cons. Everything, everything, EVERYTHING this boy does is about shoving more money into his insatiable pockets – YOUR money.

The point is, this has become SO apparent, even MAGA sees it and cons in Congress who have been compliant but not truly MAGA? They have to win back their seats in an environment where it’s clear and undeniable that Republicans hate America and Americans. That’s a pretty hard run, right there. So the moment the filing deadlines pass, that is, the moment there’s no immediate danger that Donny might primary them, they can start to separate themselves from Donny and the MAGA nightmare, hoping they haven’t already been too tarred.

The final filing dates vary from state to state but, generally speaking, they all come around August 25th, give or take. I know, that’s a long time from now. These pricks can do a LOT of damage between now and then. But let’s see how GOP candidates react after that date…

Sleepy Don…

by MyBaconPress

It has certain side effects. It can cause drowsiness. Of course, so can simply being a dotard, an old, old man suffering mental decline. He’s been falling asleep a LOT in public recently. We never saw “Sleepy Joe” sleeping. Sleepy Donny, on the other hand? Oh, he’s snoozing more and more. Hey, at least when he’s sleeping, he’s not hurting anybody.

Trump sleeping instead of working

It can cause bruising at the infusion site, for example, his hand. I presume they didn’t use his arm for the infusion because it can be difficult to use blood vessels in the arms of people with severe cardiovascular disease. But if they could have used the arm, it would have saved a bunch of questions. We were told this bruise is because he shakes so many hands. Uh-huh.

Trump has a bruise on his hand.

It can cause swelling, bleeding, and/or fluid leakage into the brain, requiring repeated monitoring MRIs. He’s getting the MRIs. Team Evil is just lying about why. But then, they lie about everything.

A letter regarding Trump's Nov, 25 MRI

Oh, the “it” in question? That’s an early Alzheimer’s medication called ‘Leqembi.’ The infusions happen every couple of weeks to monthly, depending upon the patient. The bruise on his hand and the near-constant falling asleep during meetings we’re seeing more and more of? The MRI? Alzheimer’s medication.

It’s kind of poetic justice. HE is being visited by every damnable lie he told about Joe Biden. He’s already wearing the chain he’s forging in life, making it link by link and yard by yard. Dear MAGA: Your Precious has Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is fatal. He’s dying. His brain is dying faster than his body.

I’m not interested in ripping on people struggling with Alzheimer’s. But I don’t want an Alzheimer’s patient for a “President,” either…

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Okay, quick question: how disgusting is it that puppy-killer Kristi Noem thanked the Drumpfster for keeping hurricanes away? Just how much of a brown-nose does one have to be to even suggest that Donny was able to keep hurricanes away? And for Donny to believe it? I’m sure he does. Hey, does this mean Donny gained control of MTG’s Jewish Space Lasers?

I know it’s just brain-dead, empty hero worship but it was a bad move. A hurricane is going to hit sooner or later. They just do. So now, when one makes landfall and kills a bunch of red hats, I suspect they’ll wonder why Donny let THAT hurricane hit after deflecting the others…

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I’ll tell you the truth, I thought the oil wars were over. I mean, I have great appreciation for what oil did for the US and for the world when we didn’t have any alternative. But I’ve also been somewhat bummed about the wars we’ve started just to get more of it with no cost to the company – just like “Capitalism” teaches, right? Instead, the “cost” was passed along to the American taxpayer and the soldiers who died and were maimed or otherwise damaged in combat in an effort to “protect American interests.” That’s rich person-speak for “they have resources we want but don’t want to pay for on the open market. Let the Poors pay the price.”

But now we DO have alternatives. We’re not tied to black gold anymore. Worse, we’ve used SO much oil, the world is running out. No, I don’t mean by day-after-tomorrow, but a decreasing supply is still a decreasing supply. We use oil for a LOT of things. Burning it up in car engines is not only bad for the environment (which I guess we’re supposed to pretend doesn’t exist anymore), it’s bad for other products. It’s a frivolous use of a limited resource. There’s a word for that: stupid.

So now that we have options, we quickly embrace those and preserve the remaining oil for other uses, right? Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. Instead, yet another American oil war, this one in Venezuela. Didn’t Donny promise he was going to get us out of foreign conflicts and keep us out of more foreign conflicts? You’ll make a fool of yourself, trying to pretend his assault on Venezuela is about drugs. It’s oil. With America, it’s always oil. Even though we shouldn’t even need it anymore. Yeah, stupid…

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On November 20, 2025, I wrote, “Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants.” Well, they have done, now. Texas gets to use their new map, just as I expected. Speculating on possible different outcomes was fun, but corruption runs DEEP in John Roberts and his cronies on the Way High Court. But it WAS fun while it lasted…

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There’s a new(ish) trend taking place in the workforce: rolling layoffs. That’s what they’re calling it. Basically, it goes like this. A company lays off a few employees. Then does it again the next week. Then they do it again the week after. And the week after. And the week after that. They’re trying to reduce staff quietly. They’re doing it stupidly.

I’ve been through this in my lifetime. I worked for a mortgage bank whose directors made a huge mistake at a bad time. As a direct result, the company’s fortunes began to spiral downward. They finally laid off a bunch of workers on a Friday. On the following Monday, those of us who survived all had notices on our desks explaining how that was such a bummer but they’ve cut the dead weight now and the company is “better positioned” to compete and things like that. Then Friday came around and more layoffs happened. Another memo on Monday. Another layoff on Friday. And so on, and so on, and so on.

Eventually, the “we’re done” memos became a running joke with those of us who remained – and the stress at the company was palpable. There’s a basic problem with that strategy that the high-ranking, self-important ‘C Team’ never seems to see. You’re laying off the people who do the work. Fewer employees means less work. Less work means lower revenues. Lower revenues means fewer employees, which means less work, which leads to still lower revenues. All the while the morale of your workforce has cratered.

They never did think of letting go any of their very expensive senior managers, those sitting on the fattest salaries while bringing little to no benefit to the revenues. Eventually, it became clear that the company was going to fail. It was offered for sale. The goal of those managers at that point was to keep employee butts in their seats. The company knew they would get more money for a going concern – even if the “going” part was really “going to hell in a hand-basket.”

So here’s my advice for anybody going through that. The minute you realize you’re living in a “rolling layoff” world, get the hell out. The company might not fail, but it’s definitely going to struggle for a while and in the meantime, the people at the top don’t give two figs about you. They’ll keep you or they’ll dump you – whichever serves their agenda best. Take care of yourself first. You should know that’s exactly the attitude the company will take about you…

Seeking Scapegoats…

by MyBaconPress

Hoo, boy. I would NOT want to be Vice-Admiral Frank ‘Mitch’ Bradley, I can tell you that. It looks like Team Evil is teeing him up to take the fall for the murders of the two survivors in one of their criminal boat strikes. That tells you a few things, or it should. They know the strikes are illegal. One does not protect themselves from legal activities. They’re concerned that down the road, they’ll be asked to answer for their crimes against humanity. The murders happened. Team Evil is a-okay with the murders happening, but they don’t want to be held responsible for their actions. So? Downhill rolls the shi— er, consequences.

Our fearful misleader “has complete faith” in Hegseth’s decisions, but Whiskey Pete doesn’t want that role, at least so long as these might be war crimes. He has his story ready. Well, kind of. “I didn’t, personally, see survivors,” Whiskey Pete told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. “The thing was on fire. It was exploded in fire and smoke. You can’t see it. This is called the fog of war.” Uh-huh. Good story, Whiskey Pete. Uh, just one more thing, if you didn’t know there were survivors, why order the “double tap” attack?

No, not him. Just ask him. Despite claims that Hegseth gave the order to “kill them all,” Hegseth thinks Bradley “made the right choice.” So, it was Bradley’s choice? Well, Bradley has subordinates, too. He can blame one of them. That just keeps going until they find some private first class to take the fall. THIS, right here, is the reason Congress critters got together and reminded low-ranking soldiers they have an obligation to refuse illegal orders.

Remember Abu Gharib? That was a prison in which American soldiers were torturing prisoners. First we were treated to semantic games. “No,” we were told, “it’s not torture. These are ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.'” When decent humans rejected that bunk, Bush 43 and company started looking at who to blame. Specialist Charles Graner, Jr. Private First Class Lynndie England. Specialist Sabrina Harmon. Specialist Jeremy Sivits. Specialist Roman Krol. Specialist Armin Cruz. Sergeant Javal Davis. The highest ranking person convicted? Why, that would be Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick.

Do you know what all of those people have in common, besides being the scapegoats for the torture? They don’t set the policy. They don’t make the rules. They did a lot of terrible things, so they should have been punished – and were – but they didn’t do those terrible things in a vacuum. Someone made that “okay.” Someone with lots of rank set the tone, made clear what was expected – and how it was expected. But only low ranking soldiers paid any price. And isn’t that the way? There’s even a poem about it:

“I’m not allowed to run the train, the whistle I can’t blow.
I’m not allowed to say how far the railroad cars will go.
I’m not allowed to shoot off steam, nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the track and see who catches hell.”

I don’t know. “The party of personal responsibility” seems to be going to an awful lot of trouble to make sure they don’t have to take any responsibility. I mean, why should they take the blame just because they did it, right? As of Wednesday, Team Evil was trotting out a new excuse. “No, we were just sinking the boat.” What, the one you had just blown up? You didn’t think a freshly blown up boat would sink on it’s own?

I preferred it when men of honor said things like, “The buck stops here…”

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On December 1, 2025, I wrote, “Donny has now promised to pardon a guy, Juan Orlando Hernández, who ran hundreds of pounds of cocaine into the US.” That was technically correct but it didn’t tell the whole story. Hernández brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US. One ton is 2,000 pounds.

400 tons is 800,000 pounds! 800,000 pounds of cocaine and Donny thinks a pardon is right. Meanwhile, do you have a little vial of cocaine in your pocket while you go out fishing for the day? Death to you, because the death penalty is how we handle all “drug dealers,” right? Well, those who can’t pay us, anyway.

The truth is, Hernández hit Donny where he lives. Donny had no choice, couldn’t fight it. Hernández said Donny was pretty and that BIDEN made him bring 400 tons of cocaine into the US, so of course Felon 47 had to pardon him. Well, the flattery and the BBS were important, necessary, even, but the multi-million dollar bribe was pretty important too. Do I know Donny took a multi-million dollar bribe? Do I have evidence? No. That’s just my opinion. But it’s based on the reality that he takes bribes all the time from anybody who wants anything from him and in Donny’s criminal world, if you can’t pay, you don’t get to play.

Meanwhile, I’m happy to report, a family down in Columbia has filed a lawsuit against US airstrikes on defenseless fishermen. Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a 42-year-old fisherman, was among over 80 people murdered in 21 confirmed airstrikes carried out by Team Evil since September. His family says he was fishing. They insist he didn’t have any drugs.

I know, a lawsuit isn’t going to have much impact on a guy trying to antagonize a foreign sovereign nation into a war so he can steal their oil. What it DOES is, it gives us more evidence that these victims of Trump/Hegseth war crimes were innocents than evidence we’ve seen from Team Evil that they’re drug runners. That, along with our knowledge that Donny and company are inveterate liars, causes me to seriously doubt his claims…

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Felon 47 pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) and his wife. Democrats, fercrissakes. They hadn’t even been convicted, yet. They were indicted last year on charges of receiving almost $600K in bribes from Mexican and Azerbaijani companies. I would guess they used the formula: “You’re the prettiest, my Glory. I sure wish Biden hadn’t set us up and rigged the whole thing. Oh, yeah, here’s a million dollars.” It likely didn’t hurt that Cuellar is considered one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress…

Set In Motion…

by MyBaconPress

Well, it looks like Israel has decided to stop bombing Gaza for a while. The world is referring to it as a “cease-fire.” It seems, to me, more like a hostage deal. We’ll all find out about ceasing fire later. Don’t get me wrong, I’m okay with a hostage deal. It’s a beginning. But the fundamental agitants that exist between Israel and Gaza are still there.

What, you think Israel is going to stop building new settlements in disputed land? Do you think the wall surrounding Gaza is coming down anytime soon? Does it seem likely that Israeli control over the region will become less hostile? I’ll say, “time will tell.”

I’m hoping Hamas gets dissolved but I suspect whatever group takes over will, itself, become more hostile and then downright militant – and then the whole thing heats up again. I think Israel and Palestine have been at war since 1948, when the Israelis threw the Palestinians off of ancestral land soon after Israel was declared an independent nation. I think constant Israeli encroachment will continue to “flick the beards” of the Palestinians.

Sadly, I don’t think the Palestinians will do anything to help themselves. They need to win in the court of public opinion, because they’re not going to win in a hot war. But still, from time to time, they choose hot war. It’s dumb. It’s dangerous. It’s destructive. It’s always deadly.

Over all of it is the suggestion that Netanyahu is in legal trouble. He faces allegations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. It’s no wonder Donny likes the guy. Birds of a feather, you know? There has been much speculation that he’s keeping the war alive because the war keeps him in power and out of jail.

The GOP, Israelis, and the Palestinians are hailing Donny as the architect of the peace plan. That may be so, but I’ll need to see some of that peace before I start partying. Hope springs eternal and people have been suffering for so long, I can understand why they start celebrating before the ink is dry on a deal not yet fully hammered out. But that “deal not yet fully hammered out” part is doing a lot of heavy lifting at the moment. Fingers crossed…

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Here’s a thing that’s important to remember: Americans know Donny and co are lying. For their part, Donny and co know that Americans know that Donny and co are lying. So, how can they just stand there in front of cameras, knowing we know, and lie, lie, lie? That’s pretty easy. Those lies aren’t for you. They don’t care that you know they’re lying. Those are soundbites intended to be fed into MAGA media and put on a loop – to keep them confused.

You see, MAGA doesn’t know Donny and co are lying. Yes, I get it, they should. But they don’t. What are YOU going to do about it? That’s right. Nothing…

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MAGA Mike, the Johnson, says, “Republicans are the party working around the clock every day to fix health care.” In reality, Republicans are the party working around the clock every day to prevent the release of the Epstein files and have fled Washington DC in order to keep from having to take a vote on the release of the files. The fact that it gives them a convenient excuse to not negotiate on the health care issue is just gravy.

You see, Adelita Grijalva just won a special election. She’s a Democrat and has said she’ll be the 218th signature on the Thomas Massie’s petition to release the Epstein Files. SO… the Johnson refused to swear her in and then sent the cons in the House home for awhile. Cowardly, but effective, I guess…

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Deadbeat Donny says he may not pay government workers who have been furloughed. He’s trying to be coy about it, suggesting he’ll pay some, the worthy ones. Not paying furloughed workers is a violation of the law. It’s a law that was passed after the longest government shutdown in US history in 2019. I know MAGA doesn’t like stuff like this, but look at your calendar.

Who was “President” in 2019? Why, yes, that would be Deadbeat Donny, the First Felon. Who was responsible for the longest government shutdown in US history? Yes, that’s correct. That, too, was our inglorious misleader, Deadbeat Donny. Who signed the subsequent law, ensuring that workers get paid? Oh, you’re on a roll. Yes, it WAS 47. Now he says he might not honor his word.

To say I’m surprised is to put it… nah, I’m not surprised. He’s made an entire career of not keeping his word and not paying people he owes. That’s what MAKES him a deadbeat – he doesn’t pay what he owes.

There are all kinds of workers out there who depend upon government paychecks. Many of them still have to work, even though those paychecks aren’t coming. But workers generally don’t work just for the thrill of working. They want – even need – that paycheck. Take air traffic controllers as one example. They’re expected to work. They expect a paycheck. They’re not getting the paycheck so several of them are not working.

There’s a sudden outbreak of a certain kind of flu, blue flu, I think they call it. It’s a term first ascribed to cops who used calling in sick as a kind of protest without going on strike. Now the ATC’s are doing it, too. There was a period of about six hours when Burbank airport had no controllers on duty at all.

Burbank’s air traffic was handled by an FAA facility in San Diego. Don’t let that bother you if you’re getting on an airplane today. Oh, also? IF you’re getting on an airplane today, don’t get on an airplane today. Studies have shown that Air Traffic Controllers are pretty important to, you know, controlling air traffic.

HE says he has fixed the economy. Those of us stuck living in it know that’s not true, whether MAGA confesses that or not. And we all know, when Donny is saying the economy is better than ever, the economy is in desperate trouble, right? So what happens as the bills stop being paid by all the furloughed workers?

What happens when bills stop being paid by laid off factory workers with no work because nobody is buying things? What happens as the damage trickles down, becomes a deluge, and drowns Americans? The short version? Nothing good.

And Deadbeat Donny is setting it ALL in motion…

Republican Integrity? THAT Explains A Lot…

by MyBaconPress

What, you thought something different might happen? The only way something different might have happened is if enough Republicans demonstrated integrity. But, ‘Republican integrity’ is mostly an oxymoron. You should have KNOWN the worst would happen when the only stopgap was ‘Republican integrity.’ Besides, of course Donny was going to win. Who can stop the Antichrist? He has been given dominion for 42 months. You thought you could change that by hoping?

“A mouth was given to him speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.” (Revelations 13:5) That’s 3 years and 6 months. If we begin on January 20, 2025 – and we did, like it or not – it ends July 20, 2028. That date is an estimate, of course.

They had to give Lisa Murkowski of Alaska all kinds of exemptions to get her vote. Then, GOP members of the House withheld their vote on procedure in “protest” of the thing. The Felon made promises about using Executive Orders to “fix” bits the rank and file don’t like. They accepted a verbal promise from Donald Trump! When has anybody ever suffered from that? They think SO highly of their killer bill, they put off certain provisions until AFTER the mid-terms, believing that they’ll face backlash and fury at the ballot box if they don’t.

One thing is certain: since not one Democrat voted for it, this bill, now law, belongs entirely to the Republicans. Maybe that’s a good thing for them. Maybe the law will do all the things they promised and make America great again, despite the fact that even THEY think this new law stinks. If it does, they get all the glory. They were the visionaries and Democrats were the fools. But they DID go to an awful lot of trouble to delay the evil effects of their handiwork as long as they could. That says something.

From an article in the Guardian called “Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Are Coming To Rural Americans: ‘It’s Going To Have To Hit Them first:'” “Congressional Republicans in favor of the bill argue it targets “waste, fraud and abuse.” However, it is already well-known that most Medicaid beneficiaries who can work do, and that Medicaid is one of the most cost-efficient health programs in the US, according to the American Hospital Association.”

So, really, the GOP is just cutting off health insurance to vulnerable Americans – blue AND red – just to give tax breaks to rich people. And, yes, the lower classes get tax breaks, too. They’re much smaller, they mostly expire, and the lower down the economic class you go, the more their cost of living is going to increase. Whatever pittance they see in tax cuts will be far more than offset by the increase.

The image I walk away with? They’re so effing giddy. I know MAGA rank and file have been mislead on this thing. At this point, they think this has all just been an exercise in fiscal prudence. But the MAGA at the top are NOT the MAGA best described as “poorly educated.” The MAGA at the top know exactly what damage they’re doing to so many people – and they’re happy. They’re celebrating. Donny described it as “the best two weeks.” He bombed Iran and damaged the lives of millions of Americans. HE is having “the best two weeks.”

MAGA media had better start right now, ripping Joe Biden over this terrible bill and expressing their outrage that the Democrats might do such a thing. I mean, when the chickens come home to roost, we ALL know that’s the play. Rip Joe Biden for it and blame the Democrats. All of MAGA, celebrating their great success today, will, nevertheless, eventually know this was a terrible thing Joe Biden did, just terrible…

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Remember, the team that told you this new law will be great for everybody ALSO told you climate change is fake news. Officials are currently looking for bodies from unexpected amounts of rainfall that caused flash floods in Texas. The Guadeloupe River rose 26ft in just 45 minutes. Nobody saw it coming, even though the region is used to flooding. This flooding struck before dawn. For some reason, the most current weather forecast didn’t say anything.

Oh, by the way and perhaps apropos of nothing, you DO recall that an effect of the DOGE cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) was to cut off local nighttime forecasting, right? Money they needed got called “waste” and was cut off. The NWS had to cut somewhere.

You know the saying, “just because you don’t believe in climate change, doesn’t mean climate change doesn’t believe in you…”

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Hey, isn’t he ALSO the person who said, repeatedly, that he would end Russia’s war on Ukraine in one day? He said it would be so easy, he would get it done before the inauguration, right? The inauguration was a little over five months ago (and he’s already done SO MUCH damage). Russia’s war rages on and Putin intends to KEEP it going. Now 47 is said to be disappointed in Putin. Aren’t we all? But perhaps the Felon should have spoken with Putin before promising he would end the war in one day. He might have known that wars don’t end just because some blowhard says, “Look, you son-of-a-bitch…”