Broken News – DON’t Blame He

Dangerous Fault Line

January 31, 2025

The Blamer-in-chief is back on the job. Nothing bad is ever his fault. Just ask him. He ran to pretend to be in charge of everything. Promising to be “a dictator on day one”. Turns out days two through eleven as well. So far. With no sign of stopping.

And on his watch – shortly after he pulled funding for just about every fucking thing – a terrible crash involving a commercial flight and an Army Blackhawk helicopter left dozens of civilians and three members of the military dead. On Don’s watch.

Two days after his inauguration, Don disbanded the aviation Safety Advisory Committee. Six days after that the absurd, and very possibly illegal buyout demand was sent to countless federal employees in service to ridding the government of anyone not ruthlessly loyal to Dictator Don. One day after that, we have the first major U.S. commercial plane crash in 16 years.

On Don’s watch. The fuck starts there.

There was no head of the FAA in place because co-president fElon Mush forced him to resign on Inauguration Day. The reason? For doing his job and holding Mush’s SpaceX accountable for safety violations after a SpaceX Starship exploded in midflight three days before Don's inauguration. At least we know Mush's priorities for our nation. We are all SpaceX now.

Also, air traffic control is understaffed. On Don’s watch.

Thursday’s San Francisco Chronicle reported that beginning this weekend, the San Carlos Airport, which lies along the final approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO), will no longer have anyone manning its control tower. The resignations came after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reassigned controllers' contracts to a company that pays less.

Airport manager Gretchen Kelly has asked the FAA for additional staffing help for the San Carlos control tower, but her request was refused. On Don’s “watch”. Watch out.

What, you think it’s easy figuring out where to find the money for all those tax cuts for the already obscenely rich (the only actual policy concern of the party formerly known as Republican)?

Don the Blamer eventually, begrudgingly and with all the affect of a threadbare area rug, read a statement pretending to have feelings for those who perished and the loved ones they left behind.

Then he got to the real message. DEI! Diversity hiring. Blaming the presence of women, LGBTQ+ and people of color. Naturally, he blamed Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg. Don will blame anyone and everyone for everything and anything that does not make him look good. And there’s plenty of that to go around. With lots more to come. He will blame everyone except for the one who deserves the blame – the disgusting, disheveled dirtbag facing him in his unfortunate mirror every fucking day. If mirrors could scream.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled burgeoning rage.

Thought For The Day – Department Of De Dense

Assholes Anonymous

January 29, 2025

It is not unlikely that Don chose Pete Hegseth (et al) because he looks good on the tv. Hegseth will be too busy with his AA meetings to actually do the job, so we really don’t have to worry about him fucking up the Department of Defense beyond recognition. The person (i.e., white guy) who will actually be running the DoD – someone who will remain in the shadows – will surely be much more dangerous.

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

Pic Of The Day (With Words)

Stare With Your Ears   

January 29, 2025

This one’s a talkie. You only need the first 19 seconds. Believe me.

Danish official explains the Greenland situation to Don

This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.

Fraught For The Day – Emperor Got Clothes…Nothing Else

News Flash: Emperor Got Clothes

January 28, 2025

It is time to admit that the emperor does in fact have clothes. They don’t actually fit, but they are apparently his, since all his clothes are similarly ill-fitting.

What the emperor does not have are brains, empathy, human emotions, common sense, business sense (other than recognizing that there are millions of suckers just waiting for the next excuse to send him what’s left of their hard-earned dollars, which are barely enough to live off of thanks to the lack of a living wage for so many, which in turn is thanks to the policies of the emperor’s political party), or the ability to stop breaking laws.

As an aside, a friend asked me the other day, “Do you know how long it took Hitler to seize complete control over Germany’s democracy?” I said I thought it was pretty fast, but did not know for sure. He replied, “Once he became chancellor, it took 52 days.”

For the record, in case you are one of the many who are attempting to tune out all the insanity and tsunami of fascism wafting over this country of ours, today is day eight and our little fascist is going for the record.

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.

No I don’t.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Fraught For The Day. We’re in some deep shit.

Paying Attention™ Secret Word

Cloudy With A Chance Of Fear And Loathing

January 27, 2025

Well, maybe we were overreacting. We seem to have survived the first 100 days of Trump 2.Oh Fucking No. Wait. What? I’m being told that it’s only been seven days. I withdraw my previous statement. There is no way we can survive 100 days let alone four years of this drek.

The Twilight Zone

Convicted Felon and self-professed “dictator on day one” Donald Trump is on the verge of ending democracy in America…I mean settling in for a second, even more toxic term as president (or something not like it).

What could possibly go right?

Germans get it

This has been your Paying Attention™ Secret Word.
Don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret.

Thelma & Louise: The Analogy

Baby, You Can't Drive My Car

January 26, 2025

Per the preceding post, and our premature jubilation, yet another mea culpa/apology appears to be in order. Shortly after posting our relief that Don was not going to be as bad as we thought, he went full Death-To-America. Lashing out like a cornered, rabid badger, it is clear his goal is to eliminate law, order, women*and people of color* for starters.

What we are seeing is the Thelma and Louising of America.

Just like in the hit movie Thelma & Louise, Don, as Louise, is driving the car off the cliff at full speed. The main difference is Il Douche has the car in reverse. Maybe that’s for the best. At least we won’t see the cliff’s edge or the abyss until it’s too late. What a guy.

Don has thrown this country into reverse like there was no yesterday. Get rid of DEI, affirmative action, civil rights, low drug prices for those on Medicaid, Obamacare, and Social Security, act like Jan 6 never happened, erase the Fourteenth Amendment, bring back racial profiling, and of course reverse climate crisis responses. Don wants to get YMCA back on Billboard’s top five and have us party like it’s 1933. Oh, and the all-important-reason-people-gave-for-voting-for-Don – egg prices. Apparently, they wanted that price to go through the roof.

Deadly Don has stopped the funding for repairing roads, bridges, airports, and ports that passed Congress in a bipartisan vote in 2022, as well as taken away funding for new solar manufacturing plants and other new systems to address climate change.

Newly minted Secretary of State Little Marco Rubio has already stopped funding to Ukraine and all other foreign aid except that to Egypt and Israel.

The newly enthralled…I mean installed Department of Trump’s Justice has put a freeze on its civil rights division. If you’re not white, you’d better find a way to fix that in a hurry. Prepare for an edict claiming that race is a choice.

Der Furor has also frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. Because, why the fuck not. One researcher commented, “We’ve never seen anything like this. This is like a meteor just crashed into all of our cancer centers and research areas.”

We’re gonna need a bigger meteor.

If we might continue the above movie analogy, just as Don is putting the ultimate pedal to the metal, Thelma says, “Let's not get caught. Let's keep going”. Apparently, as of November 5, 2024, the part of Thelma is being played by America. Unfortunately, the analogy breaks down a bit since only less-than-half of America chose to go along for the ride, and really Don as Louise would be the one uttering the above quote. Let’s call it poetic license.

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*Unless of course they happen to wear a MAGA hat.

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

Mea Culpa

Nobody’s Perfect

January 25, 2025

Unlike some people now living in the White House we know, I am willing to admit when I’m wrong. We’re nearly six days into Don’s second term and I was sure that he would have destroyed the economy, invaded Ukraine, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Canada and possibly Denmark, deported tens-of-millions of immigrants (or just any old brown people) and had the Constitution declared a banned book by now. It seems everything is going to be okay after all.

Besides, I’m sure Don is going to take things slow and think things through if he plans on getting reelected. And he does. 

Fascist/Trump Party Rep. Andy Ogles of the not-really-that-great-if-we’re-being-honest state of Tennessee (who will surely be pardoned for whatever it was that caused the FBI (have they been deleted yet?) to seize his cell phone) has drafted an amendment to the 22^nd Amendment that would allow Don (but not Bill Clinton, George WTF Bush or Barack Obama) to serve at least one more term. Because fascism.

Also, here comes the Bird Flu and who better to handle a global pandemic – especially now since we won’t have to worry about Anthony Fauci fucking everything up by attacking us with science and such now that Don has revoked Fauci’s security detail. Now we are in the capable hands of fElon Musk, Dr. Ooze and RF’ingK, Jr. As long as we only have to rely on their hands and not their brains we should be fine.

I’m going to celebrate our good fortune with a good stiff drink or five...

 If nothing else, I’ll be protected from Bird Flu

Although, there’s always tomorrow.

Theoretically.

I. Mangrey rethinking.

Pic Of The Day – If Looks Could Cause Projectile Vomiting

World’s Greatest Sinner (So Much Sinning)

January 25, 2025

The First Worst Couple

In the above image Don is looking at the next job he seeks – God (Melania naturally just looks like she wants to kill everyone within a 100-mile radius). Don does not approve of the current occupant of that post because the current God supports protecting all of “his” creation,* including all creatures great and small, and as Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde so gently and mercifully threw right in Don's ugly, stupid, anti-religious (because religion worships someone above him) face right after his shameful inauguration, people of color and people of all sexual and gender flavors. This, after Don went out of his way to sign a make-believe executive order stating that the United States recognizes only two genders.

Fuck this dirtbag and the whores he rode in on.

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*Unfortunately, a large percentage of his followers are not so charitable to either their fellow humans or most creatures great or small. You’d think “he” would have fixed that shit by now. Kind of pathetic really.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Picture Of The Day. 

Don’s Manifest Density

Free At Last, Free At Last, Trump's Fucking Felons Are Free At Last

January 24, 2025

Everyone knows Trump is a blithering idiot. Denser than a neutron star. Who else would feel the need to tell everyone how smart they were (because their uncle taught at MIT) all the time?

Don has released his Army of Asscracks, pardoned on day one with the stroke of a Sharpie. He should have quit at stroke. Don pardoned more than 1500 of his cultists, many of whom committed violent crimes in Don’s name. Some had long criminal rap sheets. Some were gun nuts in militias waiting for an excuse to wave their otherwise unused dicks around and prove their teeth. Others were just stupid enough to listen to the most criminal, dishonest, destructive creature in American political history, who was simply using these schmucks as ammunition to propel his Big Lie. 

One of them, probably a member of the latter demographic, Jacob Chansley (who called himself the Q Shaman) was the horn-hatted homunculus who stormed the Capitol, wailed like a dyspeptic water buffalo, was convicted after pleading guilty on charges of obstructing an official proceeding, and wanted to be served macrobiotic meals in prison. This buffoon is back on the streets and posted this after being released on an undeserving public by the convicted felon/president...

Chansley believes he is descended from Buddha and Jesus. Perfectly normal. His current cult leader of course believes he is God. That might be why he didn’t feel like bothering to put his hand on the Bible.

As an aside, can you imagine the hours, days, weeks, months and years that would be devoted by Trump’s media whores to absolute apoplexy if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had dared disrespect the entire 5000-year-old universe with such flagrant disregard for the undying Christianity of this nation under God (since the 1950s).

Other freshly-pardoned violent felons are now pledging to exact revenge on those who dared to apply the rule of law to their crimes against the United States. Former members of the January 6 Select Committee are already receiving death threats. One of Don’s pardonees was almost immediately arrested on gun charges.

You may recall that most of this criminal activity appeared on video. Many of these sociopaths recorded their own actions for all to see. Some posted their exploits on social media. They are all criminals, but they are anything but criminal geniuses.

Don’s army of rabid rubes is planning to achieve what the Taliban and ISIS have failed at miserably, despite considerable efforts over many years – death to America. One big difference, did the Taliban ever beat police officers with American flags? I don’t think so. Did ISIS ever literally vandalize our Capitol in an attempt to kidnap and/or kill members of Congress, or hang the vice president? Not that I can recall.

Who needs what Don called “Biden migrant crime” – which does not exist – when we have much more violent, with the added benefit of being much more heavily armed, trained and traitorous, Trump domestic-born crime? Which absolutely does exist and now enjoys the protection of our conmander-in-chief and the Supreme Court he rode in on.

Likely before they strike again, Don is planning to invite his Army of Asscracks to the White House. Rumor has it that the doors will be locked and Don’s special guests will be invited to make their way inside as they did the Capitol when they were not invited.

I’m sure this will all blow over in a hundred years or so.

I. Mangrey watching, waiting, wincing.

fElonazi

If It Quacks Like A Nazi, And Salutes Like A Nazi (Twice)...

January 23, 2025

Many people are saying that because of this image fElon Murk is either a Nazi or an idiot. How unimaginative. This guy bought the 2024 election for his fellow billionaire Don Trump. Not only does fElon have more money than everyone else in the world combined, but he is the only man to own his own president, lock, stock and bullshit.

So, all this either-Nazi-or-idiot stuff is absurd. He has all the money, why can’t he be best…I mean, both.

For some reason the ADL, long-time defenders of the under-defended and was founded to combat anti-Semitism, decided to weigh in on the side of giving fElon the benefit of the doubt. Bad move. If they or anyone else needs more proof of Murk’s intentions, take a gander at this

One can only hope fElon doesn't go off his Ketamine, or take too much and accidentally, or purposely upload new software to all his Teslas that causes them all to explode at once because Don and his petro-buddies want to put an end to EVs and pay fElon more money he doesn't need to do it. 

You know, it's going to get worse before it gets much worse.

I. Mangrey reporting. 

Day-One-Dictator-Don

We Are All Palisades Now

January 23, 2025

During his inauseation address, Day-One-Dictator-Don tried to convince the American people that he was ushering in “the golden age of America”. Never particularly adept at keeping words, thoughts or outrageous lies straight, he clearly meant that he was flushing America down a golden toilet.

He claimed, as always – even when he loses – that he had a landslide victory. Again, what he meant to say, or at least what is actually true, is that his victory was a massive skid-mark inside America’s underwear. The only landslide is the one where all of America crashes into the metaphorical oceans of oblivion as a result of Don’s political and economical douchebaggery.

On a lighter note, hundreds of thousands of brain-dead fuck-wits who bought tickets to the inauseation debacle…I mean, festivities ended up literally left out in the cold playing with themselves. The knuckle-dragging cretins traveled from across the country, and one assumes places like Russia, Hungary, Iran, Saudi Arabia and North Korea to revel in the fascist follies festooning America’s fall from freedom. But guess what. Day-One-Dictator-Don had the event moved indoors because he was afraid that 1) his “hair” and face paint might not withstand the cold (though it was colder, with a much, much larger crowd at Obama’s first inaugural), and 2) the crowd would be so small as to be a historic embarrassment, one that even Sean Spicer would not be able to lie into alternative reality. The latter became clear since there were countless vacancies in all local hotels.

No one expected Il Douche to wheel around and behead
Melania, but no one seemed very put off by it

But at least the frozen fascist-fanboys-and-girls were able to view the spectacle on Jumbotrons while succumbing to frostbite and morbid idiocy. Right? Guess again Kemosabe. The giant screens that would have been the only way these ripped-off-rubes could watch Don usher in his lame-fuck term to the tune of YMCA were removed before Don began his Death Dance. Maybe they nixed the Jumbotrons to dissuade the idiots from standing around and then dying from hypothermia. Yeah, sure.

Why didn’t they just storm the Capitol like they used to do? Where was the majestic MAGA Shaman to cast his spell and lead his people to victory? I’m sure Don will make it up to them by causing massive inflation, cutting off their health care (he already signed an executive order raising the prices on prescription drugs for seniors) and letting everything they own either burn up or get destroyed by massive storms and flooding in what historians will be calling the Trump Climate Disaster.

Don also promised to “drool, baby, drool” or something to that effect.

As has always been the case, and as will continue relentlessly for at least the next four years, Don thinks his idiot supporters are garbage, and he will be stepping, spitting and shitting all over them in order to make himself and his sugar daddies richer and richer. If you ask me, it’s deplorable.

I'm sure Day-One-Dictator Don is nowhere near finished with his dictatoring. That I can tell you.

I. Mangrey, hanging on by a thread. 

No Child Left Unscathed

The Fucking*

January 22, 2025

On the heels of Don’s exit from the Paris Agreement on Climate, our environment is once again again under direct assault by a greedy, power-hungry maniac – the metal-munching moon mouse of presidents – his negative-number-IQ minions and his coterie of billionaire bozos.

 

Well, the direct assault on our environment never really stopped, though Joe Biden did try to pump the brakes; but it is now clear that someone had cut the brake line just enough to make it look like Biden was slowing the War on Earth…temporarily. Those days are over here in the US of A. Don’s administration is hell-bent on destroying this planet if it’s the last thing they do. The rest of the world is moving on without us.

Let the end begin.

We are now entering the Mass Incest Era, wherein millions of parents are fucking their own children (figuratively speaking). In America, these are the parents who voted for the denier of climate crisis, lost-election-results, and in general, reality – Donald Joke Trump.

I see little children happily unaware of the future that awaits them. Lucky them. For the moment at least. In not too many years, they will in all likelihood be smashed in the face with a reality that could well have been avoided, or at least postponed, if not reversed. But no, we (and America is not alone in this) elected a brain-dead, toxically narcissistic sociopath who will gladly, gleefully drill-baby-drill our environment into a less and less habitable shitscape, and eventually a global coma. And Don plans to do this as quickly as possible. After all, he knows more about everything than everybody. Just ask him.

Hot mic catches German interpreter at Trump swearing-in

I am currently an older person. I will not be here to reap the rotting-on-the-vine fruits of Trump’s “labors.” Many of you have children and grandchildren who will not be so lucky to have perished before the worst of this avoidable nightmare ruins the lives of many, worst of all, those who never had a say in stopping the carnage.

I. Mangrey. Shouldn’t you be?

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*Like The Shining, but on a much grander scale