Sunday, October 11, 2020

Paying Attention Is No Walk In The Park

Donald Chrump: What Isn’t Wrong With This Guy?

October 11, 2020

From the editor’s desk:

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My good friend I. Mangrey has been working tirelessly to keep you up to date with the increasingly toxic and calamitous rantics of Donald “One-Man-Death-Squad” Chrump and his sycophantic band of Republican’t fascists. We had to force I to take a day off as we find ourselves on the verge of the 2020 election. Anyone who survives this most consequential, most insane election in American history deserves either a civilian Purple Heart or the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We wanted to ensure that I. Mangrey would be one of these, but he would only take time off with the promise of someone filling in to Write the Power. I drew the short straw.

If you are reading this then you probably know that in these days of the Chrump and the COVID-19 twin pandemics, the unending murder of black people by police, and now with Chrump testing positive for his beloved virus and turning his insanity up to 11, paying attention is no easy task. If you are not reading this, which is perfectly understandable, if not wise, I will not waste any more time trying to keep you up to date.

It is either the end of him or the end of us

Despite my growing optimism and consequent all-but-paralyzing angst at entertaining such optimism in the face of the boundless, unrelenting, ever-more-creative-and-soul-crushing cheating under way at the hands of Chrump and his Republican’t assassins, I still cannot turn away from multi-car pile-up that is Donald Jujube Chrump. I heard he got the virus he so badly tried to get, and despite our differences, I feel I must congratulate him on his success in achieving his dream.

Chrump lies incessantly in order to protect his beloved virus from medical experts and the American public, and to the great detriment of more than 7,000,000 infectees and more than 210,000 dead. So Chrump and his BFF virus deserve each other.

Personally, I remain fairly vigilant and slightly less than manically concerned about getting the virus that Chrump built. He can have all of it as far as I’m concerned. I wish him…whatever.

Some who know me think I watch too much news. Okay, so everyone who knows me thinks I watch too much news. I’m sure they’re right, but it’s too late to stop now. With any luck, we are in the last throes, if you will, of the Chrump administration. So, for now I must ride out this Category 5 administration, like a guy without a car and no way to evacuate, cringing in the basement with nothing but a television and a laptop, hoping to be spared the worst as the storm pummels everything within a 3,000-mile radius with 150 mph winds of stupid.

I. Mangrey enjoying the nightly news

While reading Paying Attention is generally no picnic, if you’re not actually paying attention on a daily basis you don’t know what you’re missing – lucky you.  Paying attention ain’t pretty. It's dirty.  It's smelly.  It can make your brain bleed. If you are consistently paying attention, all of us here at Paying Attention feel your pain, even if from time to time we are the ones causing it.

As if the mere fact of the Chrump “presidency” was not painful enough.  As if the previously unimaginable ignorance, antipathy and malignant narcissism of the Orange Gas Cloud fouling the White House with a contagious virus, and contaminating the very air we all breathe with filth, disease and toxic ignorance, we now find ourselves on the verge of a possible second term. And on the verge of a national nervous breakdown.

It’s good to take a break once in a while and just relapse

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Despite the completely foreseeable risks to our health, the Paying Attention team will continue paying attention and apprising you of various aspects of our daily debacles. All we can say is take what you need and leave the rest.

Everyone here at Paying Attention wishes you intact masks, washed hands, continued social distancing and as much mental health as you can muster as Election Day completes its inevitable onslaught. May it come to a swift Chrump-crushing conclusion.

Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear

Ed Venture, Barely Managing Editor

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