Tuesday, April 30, 2024

A Girl And Her (Dead) Dog

She Shoots Dogs (And Goats And Horses) Don’t She

April 30, 2024

Governor Kristi Noem (P*-SD) in her new memoir No Going Back related a story she really needn’t have told. Noem is angling for the VP spot in the dystopian second Trump administration. Noem is widely regarded to be on the short list but may have just shot her way to the shit list after her callous, brazen admission. Though Trump undoubtedly found the story either touching or meaningless, many people are saying it is simply despicable and heartless – two other plusses in Trump’s mind.

She said the 14-month-old puppy was unmanageable, would not listen to unreason and acted like a “trained assassin.” One cannot help but wonder who trained her.

Noem wanted to make sure everyone reading her book really understood just what kind of person she was and is. She called the dog “untrainable” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” adding, “I hated that dog.” It seems more than likely that the feeling was mutual. Unfortunately, Cricket was unarmed. As usual Noem could just as easily been talking about herself. Projection, thy name is Republican.

Noem claimed the puppy was named Cricket, but our imaginary sources have learned that she had in fact named the little girl Kick-it, which may have had something to do with how she treated the dog before happily blowing its brains out in a gravel pit. It is believed that Noem immediately removed its heart, ate it and then roasted the remainder in front of her cowering children. We also learned that Noem claimed to have been very upset at having to murder her pet, but quickly found a new one and was reportedly distraught that the new puppy was perfectly well-behaved.

Why couldn’t she just have strapped the dog to the roof of her car like normal Republicans.

Noem, seen here signing doggie death warrants in the shadow of
infamous dog murderer Michael Vick (who at least apologized in the end)

After shooting her dog, Noem writes that she also killed a goat her family owned that she calls “nasty and mean.” Reading further, one learns that Noem was livid because the animal was behaving like…a goat. One hopes her children learned to be potty trained in a timely manner. However, it will be interesting to see how Noem responds when Trump starts behaving like Trump in her presence.

Noem believes that the only thing this story shows is that she knows how to make the tough decisions and that she is courageous enough to do what needs to be done herself. You know, like giving up a distressed animal to someone willing to take the trouble to rehabilitate it.

Noem seen here responding to anti-dog-killers

Guardin' Noem

Did we mention that Noem has been banned from numerous Indian reservations in her state after she claimed that some tribal leaders were profiting from drug dealing, “personally benefiting from the cartels” and questioning their commitments to children on reservations.

In response to the tsunamic backlash she has received for needlessly murdering her puppy, Noem has changed the title of her guaranteed least-selling book, on the eve of its release, to No Going Forward.

We at Paying Attention™ just have one question: Was she a bitch? Uh, excuse us Governor Noem, we were talking to the dog.

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*Psycho Party

The staff at Paying Attention™

Monday, April 29, 2024

Question For The Day – It’s So Sad When Cousins Marry*

She Thinks She Thinks. She Doesn’t.

April 29, 2024

Today's Question:

Can Marjorie Taylor Greene even spell her own name?

Asking for a friend.

This is not how an adult, let alone a member of Congress,
would dress at the State of The Union, but it’s exactly how EmptyG did

Bonus Question:

Was she damaged by a Jewish space laser?

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*Martin Mull quote used on hecklers

This has been your Paying Attention™ Question For The Day. Or has it?

Saturday, April 27, 2024

The Supreme Court Is Not Incompetent…

Just Criminal

April 27, 2024

The case could not be more aptly named: Trump v. United States. After all, Trump has been opposed to the United States for most of his unnecessary life. Trump’s lawyer, D. John Mustard…I mean Sauer continued to use the same ridiculous, yet horrifying argument in pleading before the Supremes that American presidents simply cannot function if even a hint of culpability or responsibility to the laws of the land apply to them. Ridiculous, because it has no basis in even alternate reality, horrifying because all the thing’s men on the Court were happily wallowing around in the feces-filled slop Sauer was spewing.

Sauer repeated his Appellate Court BS that yes, it might be okay for a president to order Seal Team 6 to off his rivals, you know…because. Adding fascism to injury, Sauer upped the ante, saying there might also be circumstances under which a sitting president could legitimately stage a coup. It appears that the five white males on the Court (I’m including Clarence Thomas – the other white meat) are buying this shit since they are simply looking for any reason to help their Big Boy Donald.

The only reason anyone is even talking about this bullshit issue is because Sauer’s client – who just happens to be a life-long conman, thief and very likely a serial rapist, not to mention his new hobbies of election fraud, stealing classified documents and inciting insurrection – has made a mockery of the presidency, democracy and the Constitution.

May It Disease The Court

No other president has caused the issue of absolute presidential immunity to arise, with the possible exception of Richard Nixon, who resigned in the face of impeachment after covering up his crimes against the country. Because Nixon knew he would be pardoned by his hand-picked successor because Nixon knew he could end up in court for his crimes against the country – not to mention his crimes against humanity. Trump’s own attorney, during one of his impeachment trials, insisted that his client should not be impeached because he should instead be tried in civilian court once out of office. Maybe this attorney figured Trump would never be out of office.

Speaking of crimes against humanity, or at least crimes against the American public (well, against the segment – still in the majority – of the American public who do not believe: Trump’s “hair” and skin tone are natural, that he has many bibles in his “house” or that the January 6 coup attempt was just like a Girls Gone Wild video – while pretending to adjudicate the (non-existent) matter of absolute presidential immunity, no mention of the primary reason this absurd conversation even began was permitted. That’s right the Goons Gone Wild, Washington DC Edition of January 6, 2021, which earned Trump a record-breaking second impeachment and an invitation to federal court as the special guest of Jack Smith, was not part of the pro-Trump hearing this past Thursday. Who says it can’t happen here?

Someone saying “It can’t happen here.”

The Court Of Last Distort

Human beer-soaked turd Brett Kavanaugh had the unmitigated gall to note that the pardoning of Nixon is “now looked upon as one of the better decisions in presidential history, I think by most people.” Au contraire, mon fuck-faced, rapey little shit frère. The pardoning of Nixon has left a stain a half-century long on this nation. And we still haven’t been able to shout it out.

So now, we await what should be a no-brainer decision on a case that should never have gotten this far from Trump’s own, owned Supreme Court. It seems frighteningly possible that – whether or not there is such a thing as absolute presidential immunity* – the highly unbalanced (in more ways than one) Court will nonetheless bestow it on Trump. It will be no surprise, however horrific, for this court to upend the Constitution for the umpteenth time, and with it our democracy (which they have been working feverishly to accomplish for years), by deciding that the 45th president has absolute immunity from prosecution.

The Trump majority is now planning on dragging out a claim that should have taken all of 30 seconds to deny – especially for all those self-proclaimed, dangerously deluded, so-called “originalists” who claim to know the founders’ intent with every word they put to parchment.

As we and countless others have noted many times in many places, the founders themselves did not always agree with each other, or even with themselves at times, so there is no such thing as “original intent” when it comes to the Constitution. The dishonest, and all-too-often blatantly hypocritical “originalist” hacks we now have running roughshod over the highest court in the land pretend to revere (much more than did the men who wrote the words) the letter of the law written some 250 years ago. Of course, those men who wrote those words never intended those words to be immutable across the ages. These justices are not originalists so much as absurdists.

“Criminal Court” May Not Mean What You Think It Means

And you can bet that if at least five of the six current absurdists decide in Trump’s favor, they will make it a one-off, just like they did in deciding to appoint George WTF Bush, who lost the 2000 election to Al Gore and became president nonetheless. And their decision will include a rider that it only becomes effective on January 20, 2025 if Trump takes the White House, just in case current president Joe Biden gets any funny ideas about using this newly-created presidential super-power for himself and/or to protect America from a second bite at the worm-infested Trump apple.

The Extreme Six unfortunately treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible. They say they revere every word, but their actions betray their true feelings as they break their word with the god they claim to serve above, the same way they do with those they are appointed to serve here below. The words they claim to live by both privately and professionally, religiously and politically, are not nearly as valuable to these frauds as the paper any of the words is printed on. They simply pick and choose which words to live by and which to laugh off.

Can you find the six “justices” who are pimping for Trump?

This Just In

It has just been revealed that some guy named George Washington was a really big deal back in the day, it seems he was a president and he’s getting more and more recognition these days. This Washington guy said about the Constitution, “Its only keepers, the people.” I believe he was referring to the “We The People” kind of mentioned in the Constitution thingie, and not six assholes appointed by presidents.

Especially when one of the six is married to a co-conspirator in an attempted coup and three of these lifetime-appointees (including the one married to an insurrectionist) have massive conflicts of interest, and two others were appointed under incredibly spurious circumstance. And especially the current cash-crop most of whom were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, you know, the vote that represents the will of We The People (one of those presidents also lost the unpopular/Electoral College vote, and was subsequently appointed by five of those Supreme Court assholes, who simply decided to piss all over the Constitution and put their preferred guy in office – an office he ultimately defecated all over).

This Washington guy – as did most of the founders – believed that the Constitution was a living document that could, and probably should be amended and improved over time. As times change, those trying desperately to un-change them are gaining more and more momentum and power.

 It was fun while it lasted. Sort of.

Mose Allison - I Don't Worry About A Thing

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*Spoiler Alert: THERE ISN’T.

I. Mangrey for a change.

Friday, April 26, 2024

Picture Of The Day - Who Dis?

Not A Thousand Words, But Worth It   

April 26, 2024

Who has two thumbs…no brains, no balls, no clue, and the soul of a tick?*

This fuckin’ guy

Also, this fuckin’ guy couldn’t get hired at a mall…

Maybe he could get elected to work at Cinnabon or Sbarro…until he got canned for eating everything in sight before it could be sold.

Lastly, will this fuckin’ guy finally be brought to justice by a porn star and a Pecker?

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*But owns a Supreme Court.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Picture Of The Day

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Hey, Hey, They're The Flunkies

Clarence Fucking Thomas, Et Al

April 25, 2024

First things first. Sixty percent of adult Americans disapprove of what the Supreme Court is doing. Be it overturning decades of settled law, sabotaging democracy at every turn by gutting voting laws and flooding elections with dark money (should be called “white money” since all of it is coming from rich white assholes), consistently siding with corporations over the public welfare, or the blatant corruption of at least two of the most self-enriching, anti-democratic justices which has recently come to light. This is one fucked up Supreme Court. For the ages.

Today, at long last, after a lengthy and wholly unnecessary delay (other than stalling like and for Trump) the Trump-packed Supreme Court will pretend to hear oral arguments in the case wherein Donald Trump is claiming that he has absolute and total immunity from prosecution because the Electoral College – the same Electoral College that Trump refused to honor four years later, when it did not hand him the presidency – deemed him president in 2016 for four of the worst years in this nation’s nearly 250-year history.

The Court appears poised to waste another two months dickering over an issue that deserved not one nanosecond of debate, especially for those who claim to revere every word and presumed intent of the Constitution. Presidents are not kings. Fuck these fuckers.

Pack The Court, Smack The Court, Do Some Fucking Thing

Self-loathing Uncle Thomas is at it again, burnishing his horrific legacy as one of the most effective saboteurs of American democracy in our nation's history (thanks Biden). After spending decades as the Court Mime, now Uncle T will not shut the fuck up.

Clarence Thomas made Marcel Marceau look like Donald Trump

Thomas and his insurrectionist wife are hard at work, by word and by deed, dissolving decorum, decency and democracy. That of course, is when Monster T is not busy taking bribes from radical Christian billionaires. After all, he’s mostly in it for the money.

If for no other reason (though reasons abound) Democrats should pack the Supreme in order to offset CFT and the further damage he has planned for this country. He already made it clear that he thinks contraceptives and same sex marriage need to be "revisited." Thomas recently questioned whether the attempted violent overthrow of the government by homegrown terrorists allied with Donald Trump (well beyond merely aided and abetted by CFT’s nutjob wife) was just like any other protest. Nothing to see here, and if there was something to see, no one had anything to do with it. Thomas had to be figuratively spanked by Justice Sonya Sotomayor, who in a truly just world would have instead walked a few seats down the bench and slapped his sorry ass silly, and then gone and sat back down.

While Thomas is nothing if not a corrupt, white nationalist Christo-fascist, the Court's top buffoon and annoying splinter on the bench Neil Gorsuch – only barely claiming the top spot from Amy Clowny Barrett –  is trying to compare the murderous, coup-happy mob who ransacked the Capitol, assaulted law enforcement, destroyed and stole property, threatened the lives of legislators and desperately wanted to hang the vice president, and defecated in the halls of the Capitol in service to stopping the certification of a free and fair election, to Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-NY) pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote.

These Supreme fuckers are desperately trying to get their lard and savior Donald Trump off the hook for trying the end democracy in America. And every other fucking horrific deed he has ever done or ever will do if given half a chance.

Justices are expected to recuse themselves when even the appearance of conflict of interests exist. Some might consider it a conflict of interest when the defendant’s co-conspirator is married to one or more (who knows what these freaks are doing behind our backs – other than Thomas and Alito openly taking bribes from filthy-rich white men who stand to benefit from their “friendship”) of the justices. Others might be more interested in having those who were appointed by the defendant recuse themselves for the most obvious and clear-cut reasons in the history of jurisprudence. Or maybe it’s just me.

Just me, I. Mangrey.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Fraught For The Earth Day – Crisis Mismanagement

Climates In Crisis

April 22, 2024

On this Earth Day, not only is there an environmental climate crisis around the globe (assuming the Earth is not flat); the people of many countries are in the throes of a political climate crisis. From sea to shining sea, from continent to continent, democracy – whatever it may look like in any given locale – is losing its appeal and its grip. Unsurprisingly, these two crises are intimately intertwined. Trump is doggedly trying to maintain his axis of assholes. While continuing to laud shithead dictators like Putin, Un and Xi, Dickish Donald is making sure to be in good with the worst, including Hungary’s Orban, Argentina’s Milei and any other asshole Trump can get his lips on – figuratively or otherwise.

In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was recently ousted by voters after four horrifying years in power, after which he went full Trump with a copycat post-election Big Lie. As is usually the case, fascist assholes like Bolsonaro and Trump are neck-deep in both crises. Bolsonaro’s administration specialized in destruction of the Amazon, earning him the moniker “Captain Chainsaw.” More recently, now out of the political crisis game, Bolsonaro was suspected of harassing a humpback whale in the waters off Brazil’s south-eastern coastline near the town of São Sebastião.

In December 2023, Javier Milei, another Christo-fascist, faux-libertarian jackass, who campaigned brandishing an actual chainsaw, was elected president of Argentina. Fortunately, Trump, who congratulated the world’s newest dictator by saying Milei “will make Argentina great again” does not possess the physical strength to lift anything heavier than a Whopper. It seems likely that Argentina will soon be more fascist than Florida. At least Trump will be able to find safe-haven when he decides to jump bail – like Napoleon, he was never going to be able to handle Russian winters.

Here at home, as we are too well aware, we have a disgraced, twice-impeached, four-time-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and Fifth Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president, currently indicted all over the fucking place for so many, and such egregious acts that he should have been locked up, or shipped off to Elba, ages ago. Instead, this fuckwad is once again his – and I do mean his – party’s nominee for president and is currently leading in the polls over Joe Biden.

Trump is also crushing Biden for King of Senior Moments. And number of indictments.

Back To The End Of The Future

NOVA circa 1983 – The Climate Crisis

From a 1969 (Nixon) White House memo:

“As with so many of the more interesting environmental questions, we really don’t have very satisfactory measurements of the carbon dioxide problem. On the other hand, this very clearly is a problem, and, perhaps most particularly, is one that can seize the imagination of persons normally indifferent to projects of apocalyptic change.”

The memo further stated that dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere

“could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.”

The Nixon White House memo (did I mention it was produced in 1969, which by some accounts was 55 years ago…in the past) also offered ideas for mitigating the coming (now here) disaster, including

“fairly mammoth man-made efforts to countervail the CO2 rise. (E.g., stop burning fossil fuels. I would think this is a subject that the Administration ought to get involved with.”

 That was the Nixon administration. Richard Nixon. Paranoid, criminal scumbag. In 1969.

Then again, the Greenhouse Effect was initially posited in the 1890s. How we doin’ so far?

To Hell with “America First.”

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.

Bullshit, I mean freak the fuck out.

This has been your Special Edition Paying Attention™ Fraught For Earth The Day. 

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Fraught For The Day – Fishy, Fishy, Fishy, Fish

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fucking Fish

April 21, 2024

Tomorrow is Earth Day. Today, the world’s seafood “supply” is collapsing. Has been for a long time. It is estimated that we have fished out some 90% of ocean life.

Not that the imminent mass extinction of life in the sea, which will inevitably spread to life on land enters into the equation that consists only of dollar signs, but the iconic purveyor of cheap, fast-food-y foods from the sea, Red Lobster is heading for bankruptcy.

Funny thing, so are the oceans.

Industrial fishing, climate crisis and demand for omega fish oil products are decimating the seas. Not to mention Red Fucking Lobster’s famed All-You-Can-Eat shrimp or their Endless Lobster Experience.

Not to worry though, once the coral reefs die off (along with the bees) life above sea level will not fare very well. Assuming we all haven’t burned, drowned or frozen to death first.

Fishy, Fishy, Fishy, Fish

Get ready for Fred Lobster and their All-You-Can-Eat-Soylent-Green.

Bankruptcy, It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore

Speaking of bankruptcy, Donald Trump. The world’s most famous morally, intellectually and financially bankrupt dumbass is now turning everyone’s couch cushions inside-out in search of loose change. It isn’t enough that he managed to get his Stepford daughter-in-law in charge of the RNC’s purse strings – vowing to devote every penny to dear old dad-in-law. Self-proclaimed “King of Debt” Trump is now demanding that any Fascist/Trump/Putin Party candidate who uses Damaged Don’s likeness or name to boost their own election chances (is that really still a thing?) must pay a protection fee…I mean royalties to The Don.

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Fraught For The Day.

Friday, April 19, 2024

Question For The Day – Lara’s “Lips”

And A Voice That Makes Chalkboards Cringe

April 19, 2024

This is Donald's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, she is married to Eric, and for that reason and that reason alone, she is now chairing the Ratpublican National Committee for the sole purpose of funneling any and all contributions meant for all Ratpublican candidates directly into the coffers of Dear Old Dad-in-law to pay his legal bills and buy paintings of himself as Jesus, or Captain America, or Rambo, or a cowboy. Don't hold that against her. Oh, what the hell, hold it against her. And whatever you do, do not listen to her sing. You could die. She makes autotune sound tone-deaf. 

Just be glad you do not have to hear Lara’s “voice” like
this unfortunate woman, who was told it was Taylor Swift

But that's not why I'm putting you through the torture of even thinking about her. I need a little crowdsourcing help.

What I want to know is, what the hell is going on below her nose? Are those hotdogs? Did she have hotdogs implanted where her lips were? Are they just glued on?

I. Mangrey. Asking for a friend.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Breaking Broken News

A Jury Of His Peers Is Not What Defendant Trump Thinks It Is

April 18, 2024

“We have our jury.”
Judge Juan Merchan – presiding judge,
People of The State of New York v. Donald Trump
April 18, 2024

Serial adulterer, serial liar, serial-impeached, serial loser, and serial sleeper at the defense table in court Donald Trump had better up his uppers. He has been seen nodding off throughout the first two days of jury selection. He woke up just in time to freak out that his jury had been selected while he was out. His first post-fake-presidency criminal trial (not likely his last) is currently slated to begin with opening arguments on Monday, April 22, 2024. That’s very soon, even in Trumpworld. There is no alternative calendar.

The jury has been selected. This is the jury Trump is whining he did not get


The only jury Trump would claim was very strongly and powerfully fair

This is closer to the jury Trump that will decide the fate of The Most Dangerous Man In The World. He doesn’t drink beer, but if he did he would lie about it.


The identity of these jurors must be protected
from the stochastic terrorist Donald Trump

Everybody knows that Trump will do whatever he can get away with to try and intimidate and threaten and endanger jurors. He will everything possible to put their lives at risk from the wrath of the whackos who adore Demented Defendant Donald.

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special BREAKING Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Trial Eve shopping. 

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Let Lying Dogs Sleep

Creepy, Sleepy, And In Deepy

April 17, 2024

Sleepy Don was reportedly falling asleep on and off all day, starting in the morning, during Day 1 of jury selection in his first criminal trial for election interference in Manhattan. Trump’s behavior during Day 2 was no different. Luckily for Daydreaming Donald, there were no fishes for him to sleep with in the courtroom.

Naturally, Trump later claimed that he was just joking, that he was being sarcastic and that he was “only doing my very strong, very powerful Sleepy Joe Biden impression. Everyone knows this and everyone loves it. Just the other day, a big strong man came up to me, with tears in his eyes and he said ‘Sir, please do your Sleepy Joe Biden impression for me while you’re in court. It would mean so much.’ That’s all there is to it. Believe me. 

The old boy is going to have to double up on his puppy uppers to make it through what promises to be several weeks of jury selection, let alone the actual trial. I guess Low Energy Don wasn’t able to keep up his hourly doses of 5-Hour energy drinks while sitting in the courtroom, and he wasn’t able to keep snorting Adderall at the defense table. Judges probably frown on that sort of behavior.



Courtroom sketch of The Defendant looking very spunky,
 from Day 2 (or is it Day 1, or a prediction for Day 3)

Oddly enough, though almost everyone  has been mewling about how old and fragile Joe Biden is, and most of the Fascist/Trump Party knuckle-draggers won’t shut the fuck up about all the Biden crimes, there are no courtroom sketches of Joe Biden at the defense table – either asleep or awake.

Alternately, it is entirely possible that Trump’s legal team slipped a few doggie downers in his Whoppers to keep him from blowing up the case by being the arrogant, demented asshole we’ve all grown to know and despise. Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of watching Trump in action knows that he is at his best when he’s asleep. Either way, it will be difficult for Donnie Downers to mouth off about “Sleepy Joe” Biden on what’s left of his campaign trial…I mean, trail. Good luck dragging that fat fuck around the country trying to win over new voters.

Glenn Kirschner is a former U.S. Army prosecutor, and former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Kirschner shared the following in a recent interview with Brian Tyler Cohen:

“Having litigated some very lengthy trials, I have seen all sorts of people fall asleep in the courtroom. I have seen jurors fall asleep…so it’s not that unusual. But the defendant falling asleep? We have kind of a saying, whenever anyone is being interrogated…after being taken into custody…the [interrogator] is going at them and going at them and then they’ll take a break and walk out. But the video recording keeps rolling so you can see the defendant sitting in the room. An innocent person who’s being interrogated will be alert, will be bouncing off the walls, but a guilty person, when they get that minute to take a break in the interrogation, they’ll fall asleep every time.”

Oops.


Trump helping with strategy during the first two days of jury selection

Donald Trump – Bull(shit)dozer

Then again, an innocent person probably would not be up rage-tweeting almost 24/7 because of all the guilt guilt. Even Trump, somewhere in there, beneath all the toxic artificial “hair” and skin treatments, beneath all the self-loathing, beneath his contempt for everyone else (except Ivanka),  beneath all the outward complete lack of self-awareness, beneath all the rage, racism, misogyny and unparalleled ignorance, beneath the Alzheimer’s, dementia and/or late-stage syphilis eating away at his congenitally-damaged brain, beneath all of that, some tiny little spark – even smaller than his tiny little hands, and his tiny whatever – knows he is a guilty-assed motherfucking piece of shit who deserves every bad thing hopefully coming his way. Other than that, he’s probably a pretty nice guy.

As I’ve always said, “Sir, let lying dogs sleep.”


With nearly half of the jury-plus-alternates now seated,
this could get interesting sooner than later


I. Mangrey reviving. Wide awake, baby. 

Monday, April 15, 2024

Thought For The Day - Trump Trial, Day 1

Cloudy With A Chance Of Jurors

April 15, 2024

The very strong and powerful criminal hush-money trial of demented, deranged, disgraced, twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Donald Trump (and let's not forget all the rapey stuff) begins its jury selection phase today.

Trump today is facing a 34-count indictment which includes felonies like election interference and campaign finance malfeasance. Trump paid hush money to Stormy Daniels (oh, and also former Playboy model Karen McDougal; and who knows who else) – not allegedly, since we have the signed checks, and since Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen did time for his part in the crime – in order to trick the American people into thinking Trump was something other than a pathetic scumbag who grabs women by the pussy (which he himself bragged about) and fucks porn stars while his third wife was home with their four-month-old son.

How ironic that life-long tax cheat Trump’s first criminal trial, though this one is not over taxes, begins on Tax Day. Even more ironic, Trump is in trouble for paying hush money when he is the one who just cannot shut the fuck up. You couldn’t pay him enough money to keep his trap shut. And, other than constantly yapping like a dog, money is the only thing he cares about.

Well that, and now staying out of prison.

Inveterate liar Trump is now yowling that he will “absolutely” testify in this case. Because he absolutely cannot shut the fuck up. But he also absolutely cannot stop lying, especially when it comes to bragging about wanting to testify in his own defense. And because, as Trump keeps whining, “I did nothing wrong.”


“It’s HIS fault – the guy who was my lawyer and did whatever
I told him to do. He did it. I did nothing wrong. Always.”

I haven’t been this politically gleeful since disgraced, almost-impeached, would-have-been-indicted president Richard Nixon (still dead) resigned. Also, I hope that Donald dyes before showing up for trial today. We want him to be properly hued in the hope that when he starts sweating like the pig he is, we might have a runny-Rudy moment as Donald’s orange Crayola coating begins dripping all over his ill-fitting suit and gold sneakers.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day. 

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Pictures Of The Day

A Night at The Opera

Not A Thousand Words, But Worth It   

April 13, 2024

Regardless of your political leanings and/or obsessings all of America finds itself (theoretically) on the eve of a historic event – the fist time in our nation’s history that a former president (however undeserving, incompetent or overtly criminal) will be sitting in the defendant’s chair in a criminal courtroom. This of course is not to say that there were no other former presidents deserving of this dubious honor, but we cannot yet fix the past, so here we are.

All kinds of people will be singing like birds as Damaged Don Trump begins his very first criminal trial on Monday. And it’s about damn time. As soon as the supporting cast and their understudies – aka The Jury – are selected, the Trial of The Century – The People v. Donald Trump – will begin in earnest.


a blight at the opera

While Donald doesn’t actually sing (even his speaking voice makes most people long for the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard (look it up kids), and what he thinks is dancing makes Elaine Benes look like Ginger Rogers (look her up kids), he sure won’t STFU.


the death of dance

It seems certain that the curtain will open on Monday – Tax Day. How apt that perpetual tax cheat Donald Trump should end up on the wrong side of a criminal proceeding on Tax Day.

This of course presumes that the Supreme Court does not, on Monday morning, make it illegal to interfere with the unending life of crime that is Donald Trump’s raison d'être. Or, unless Trump makes a “run” for it à la O.J. Simpson (now deceased) and his infamous, tragicomic slo mo Bronco chase scene – like that from The French Connection, on heroin.


Trump makes a run for it in the only vehicle he is capable of piloting

Speaking of O.J. Simpson (still deceased), you may recall his double murder trial was the previous century’s trial-of-the-century. Though Trump’s is not technically described as a murder trial, the long-awaited, much-craved legal reckoning for his attempt to take the life of American Democracy is finally coming to a courtroom near you (if you live near New York).

Trump’s tiny hands will fit into any gloves, but since he is a piece of shit, you must not acquit.

These have been your Paying Attention™ Pictures Of The Day.