Springtime For Chrump

Tick Tock

Seven 'Til Midnight
January 30, 2017

Team Chrump purged the State Department of all top-level, non-partisan career employees. Many very smart people are saying that replacing a group like this is all but impossible, that is, if one is interested in maintaining the level of quality and experience already in place. One very stupid person thinks the purge is a terrific idea and is poised to replace everyone with Stephen Bannon. May God have mercy on our souls…though we deserve it not.

Ask Not For Whom The Clock Ticks

Lawrence Krauss, colleague and visual aid

 

The fascistic purge at the State Department happened after the Doomsday Clock had already been moved, according to Lawrence Krauss of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closer to midnight than it has been since 1953 – right after the Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb – ushering in the modern arms race. The whole world is scared out of their wits now that history’s biggest and baddest nuclear arsenal is in the tiny hands of an unshackled nutcase. Naturally, the unshackled nutcase’s minions are up in arms (pun unavoidable), shrieking that Krauss, who is obviously a dreaded scientist – a theoretical physicist in fact – is nothing more than a fear mongering Chrump-hater, and should be ignored in favor of more preferable alternative science.

 

Ann Frankly My Dear, He Don't Give a Damn

Executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect Steven Goldstein responded to Chrump’s deplorable executive orders regarding immigration and the Mexico border wall, calling it “one of the most hateful days in our nation’s history.” Goldstein wrote in a statement on Facebook. “The Statue of Liberty weeps over President Trump’s discrimination. President Trump is beyond the wrong side of history. He is driving our nation off a moral cliff.”

Paying Attention alternative reporter Ho Lee Shitte uncovered Chrump’s next edict and it relates directly to the Statue of Liberty: Chrump has drafted a new phrase to replace as he put it the “bigly outdated Emma Lazarus – whoever the hell she is – nonsense, and by the way the statue will be renamed The Water Broad…get it?” (alternative actual quote):

“Give me your white, your well-heeled,
Your wealthy white masses yearning to take more,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore?
Keep these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to yourself,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door,
And I can see what you look like!
So don’t try any funny stuff or you’ll be out of here so fast
It will make your head spin.
In fact stay the hell away from here.
You’re disgusting.”

On January 27, 2017 – Holocaust Remembrance Day – Chrump offered up the traditional president’s message commemorating the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Breaking with tradition, common sense and any absence of anti-Semitism, this president failed to include any mention of Jews. On this same day Chrump issued another incredibly beautiful amazing record-breaking Executive Order banning all refugee admissions for 120 days and Syrian refugees indefinitely. This callous, tone-deaf, poorly-thought-out ban, which excluded all the countries from which the 9-11 hijackers hailed, did include two Syrian families that a Massachusetts synagogue was poised to sponsor for U.S. citizenship. Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University and member of the synagogue in question, responded thusly:

Drezner quickly and publicly apologized for his impetuous use of foul language, but remains incensed by Chrump’s ignorant and likely dangerous policy decisions. Drezner is not the only foreign policy expert who believes that Chrump’s behavior inspires groups like ISIS to do us harm.

That being said, I have to agree that it is probably inappropriate to say, “Fuck you Chrump.” It is current policy at this blog to not say, “Fuck you Chrump,” though this policy is subject to change depending on how things pan out. As it stands we do not condone the use of the phrase “Fuck you Chrump.” And whether in the comments section or in personal communication with any staff at Paying Attention we ask that you respect our strict no “Fuck you Chrump” policy, at least until further notice. Tremendous thought and Herculean restraint have gone into this editorial decision. We will stand by our decision and are comfortable with avoiding anyone breaching our stringent “Fuck you Chrump” ban.*

As always, everything here at Paying Attention is absolute fact…or barring that alternative fact. Does anyone actually think there is a difference now that we are on Chrump time?

Look familiar?

I. Mangrey reporting. We are the majority. Be not silent.

                                                                                                    Mad in USA 

* Screw it, consider this further notice. To wit, Fuck you Chrump.