March 31, 2025
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation
and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”
Donny Dementia, August 1, 2024
Today’s Question For The Day:
I misplaced my calendar. Is it Day One yet?
Can anyone afford America anymore?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Question For Day One.
What Is That Suffocating Stench?
March 30, 2025
Full
disclosure: I’m not some kind of genius. I’m not any kind of genius. I’m just a
regular guy who might wear tennis shoes or an occasional python boot. But this
seems so painfully simple. So painfully dishonest. So painfully full of shit.
All
kinds of people are running around with their hair on fire about Social
Security being unable to fund full benefits by the year 2035. They come up with
all manner of workarounds – cutting the staff to a skeleton crew, closing
offices (while simultaneously demanding people show up in person rather than
phoning to resolve issues), raising the eligibility age, reducing benefit
amounts – and then offer pathetic, bullshit (at best) excuses as to why Social
Security is simply not sustainable in its current form. fElon Muskkk calls it a
Ponzi scheme.
Thankfully,
surprisingly and likely just-not-yet, team Trump has not recommended (at least
not publicly) simply “eliminating” some number of those collecting the money
they have long been promised for all their years of work and paying into the
system. Of course, if these ghouls – led by the world’s richest asshole fElon
Muskkk – succeed in gutting the Social Security Administration, which they are
very close to doing, there will be plenty of death to go around.
It
Doesn’t Fucking Have To Be This Way – This Is Fucking Bullshit
Two
easy fixes jump right out. The option that hews less to the letter of the law
would be to cut or eliminate benefits to those clearly not in need – the toxically
rich.
The
fix that I have been caterwauling about for decades is much more simple, much
more fair and much less painful to 99% of Americans. And it has to do with
this:
In
2025, the Social Security tax limit, or the maximum amount of earnings subject
to Social Security taxes, is $176,100.*
There
is only one way to respond to this bullshit: are you fucking actually fucking
with me? Ironically (to put it politely), anyone making this kind of annual
money should not only be paying the Social Security tax on every fucking penny
they earn like everyone else, INCLUDING MIGRANT WORKERS WHO WILL NEVER COLLECT
A PENNY, but these are the same people who should be recused from collecting
Social Security (and Medicare for that matter) when they reach the appropriate
age.
Talk
about a fucking Ponzi scheme.
And
just think about those making ten times that $176,100/year. Someone once said
of these leeches, “You didn’t build that.” They did not get that rich without
taking advantage – quite literally – of the largess of the American taxpayer.
They are happy to step over us, or stomp on us, using our infrastructure, on
their way to the top. Their custom-made imported leather shoe prints are
constantly messing up our hair and flattening our heads.
This
thievery must stop. This is total, unmitigated, runny, fuming BULLSHIT.
I
have not heard anyone discuss this.
Did I
mention this is BULLSHIT?
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*Democrats should be shouting this little-known
fact from every fucking rooftop, microphone and social media platform every
fucking day and night.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Secret
Word.
DOGE DOUCHE
March 29, 2025
Don Trump and fElon Muskkk are parasites. Period. Tick,
leech, tapeworm, pick your blood-sucking analogy. They have latched on to the
body politic.
Most parasites “know” that they need their host to survive.
They take what they need, but killing their host is a murder/suicide pact.
The parasites Trump and Muskkk are some of the dumbest
parasites in biological history. They will not be satiated until they have
sucked out every last drop of our money, our sanity and our precious bodily
fluids.
Speaking of
parasites, Muskkk’s beloved 19-year-old DOUCHE Edward Coristine, aka “Big
Balls” was already known to have been a bad boy. While in high school three
years ago, Balls ran a network services company linked to cybercriminals. He
was also fired from an internship after bragging how he had accessed “every
single machine” and was suspected of leaking propriety information to a
competitor. Coristine describes himself On LinkedIn as a ‘Volunteer (Intern)
Plumber’ with the U.S. government. So, he’s a “volunteer”? Surely there’s something
in it for him. Or maybe he just enjoys fucking things up. Nice kid.
Meanwhile, back at the car company that is being constantly
and illegally touted by government officials, including a QVC-style infomercial
on White House property, and currently under the protection of the fake
Department of “Justice”, it seems fElon’s books are off by around $1.4 billion.
Waste, fraud or abuse?
Muskkk should step down from his car and dumbtruck company
before the whole enterprise collapses under the weight of their CEO’s
disastrous, reviled perfidy. Surely he will be able to reinstate himself once
he takes over the whole world.
Also, you might have missed the most recent scabinet (sic)
meeting wherein myriad scabinet secretaries groveled, praised and figuratively
fellated Muskkk lest he sell America, Trump and all of their sorry asses to the
highest bidder. As our alleged government threatens to make displeasing Muskkk
a federal crime. This from the folks who had nothing to say when some
syphilitic, semi-plasticized elderly golf cheat who holds all of our marbles,
but has clearly lost most of his own, granted full pardons to countless thugs
who assaulted democracy and the Capitol, and injured or caused the death of 140
law enforcement officers while attempting to take over the government. At the
behest of the elderly golf cheat.
Good times.
Speaking of waste, fraud and abuse (aren’t those Don’s oldest children?)…
I. Mangrey reporting. I like to watch.
Not
A Thousand Words, But Worth It
March 28, 2025
At least 18 high-level Trump scabinet secretaries
and others – good thing they got rid of all those DEI hires – were found to be
some of the most incompetent and downright stooopid primates ever to serve in
the executive branch (that’s executive Don, and not a threat to execute you).
Perhaps the most ironic moment – other than the entire fucking historically dimwitted episode – was former weekend Fux News mouthpiece and repeatedly outed alcoholic asshole covered with a bunch of Christian nationalist tattoos* including a new one aimed at insulting the Muslim world, Pete Hegseth – did I mention his previous job was a weekend putz on Fux – referred to actual journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who Hegseth was too stupid to notice was on the top secret, war-planning (they didn’t even tell Boss Don) group chat on a public platform they were warned never to use as “a hateful and deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who peddles in garbage. That’s what he does”. Well, if that isn’t the pot so-calling the kettle garbage.
To be fair, Hegseth is the most monumentally unqualified, obliviously unprepared, manifestly incompetent defense secretary in history.**
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*We won’t even bring up the fact that countless people of color have
been renditioned to El Salvadorian torture camps solely because they
have tattoos.
**Though conceivably only until his imminent
replacement (discussed here yesterday).
This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.
MAGAnificent
March 27, 2025
“If
you are using unclassified means there is the potential for and likelihood that
foreign govenments are targeting those accounts.”
Boozehound, and all-around
hound Pete Hegseth,
2016 –
discussing her emails
The Real Asswipes Of Washington, DC
Take your pick of historically incompetent fucking nitwits, lying sacks of shit and/or situational (one assumes) amnesiacs who are up to their beady little eyes in what is now being called Signalgate: There’s dumbass VP Vance; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard – Putin’s little bitch who can’t remember what she had for breakfast by the time dinner rolls around; or Trump’s little bitch/Secretary of State Marco Rubio; or CIA head John Ratcliffe; or real estate developer oh, and Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East who must have gotten off at the wrong stop and was IN MOSCOW while on this call on his personal, unsecured phone; or anti-FBI FBI head Kash Patel; or maybe National Security Advisor (radical Christian psycho Mike Flynn’s old job-for-three-weeks before leaving in disgrace) Mike Waltz, the one who presumably drunk-dialed Atlantic Magazine Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the party; or of course our choice for today’s big winner/loser – mega-dumbass, alcoholic-not-so-anonymous, bull-goose bozo Pete Hegseth – or any of the other 18 fuckwits on the Houthi bombing raid TikTok...oh sorry, Signal clowncar chat.
“We are currently clean on OPSEC [operational security].”
Couldn’t-be-wronger
Pete Hegseth during
national security
disaster Signal group chat
Someone needs to buy these clowns an IQ – they
could share one.
The big problem with the coming Signalgate blowback, and the mounting calls for the resignation or firing of schmucks
Hegseth and Waltz, is that based on what we know of the Colostomy-in-chief*, is
that when one of his ‘best people’ either wakes up and smells the covfefe and quits before
their careers and lives are completely ruined, or is forced out for treason, or
stupidity, or whatever, they are inevitably replaced by someone shockingly
worse.
“Under the previous
administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”
“Former” boozehound, all-around
idiot douchebag
and soon-to-be-ex Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth, 2025
(two months before looking like as big
a fool as you’ve ever seen)
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*Who at the time of the assault on Yemen, and American national security
via the Signal app, was busy – as usual – cheating at golf at Mor-on Lago in
sunny, stupid Florida. He later claimed to know nothing about anything, which
we have always known.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Clowncar Of The Day.
March 26, 2025
Many
people are most recently worried about (among countless other most recent
things*) half-president fElon Muskkk getting top secret access to the Pentagon’s
war plan against China. There are too many conflicts of interest between Muskkk
and China to mention. A betting person would not be frivolous to put money on
fElon siding with China over America, as would other-half-president Don. They would happily sell us down the Yangtze. If they haven't already...purposely or otherwise.
Think This Is
Hyperbole?
It has just been
reported that fElon Muskkk’s SpaceX (whose vehicles still explode less often
than his Dumbtrucks) allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company
as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore
secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records. There's just about everything to see here folks.
Two
things:
1) If
this was true, Muskkk would be getting this access from alcoholic right-wing
nut-job and current Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. So, in a way, how much
worse could it really get anyway.
2)
Both Muskkk and Don, backed up by Hegseth, insisted that this meeting never
took place. So, in a way, we now have confirmation that the meeting did in fact
take place.
I have a request for the media:
when talking about a story like this, please refrain from phrases like
“explosive details” or “explosive breaking news” or the like.
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*Like erasing people of color (including Jackie
Robinson), women and Native Americans and the Enola Gay from military history.
Like beginning the illegal process of eliminating the Department of Education,
etc.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
March 25, 2025
It is hard to not feel sorry for these people. But not
impossible. Frankly it’s not worth the effort. I feel sorry for the rest of us
– the majority – who knew exactly what this lying, racist, fascist walking poop
emoji was planning to do.
If all these poor schmucks had just read between the
lines…no, scratch that, if they had just read the lines, paid just a little
attention, they would not be puking up breakfast, lunch and dinner and shitting
their pants every day…well, maybe they still would be doing all that, but not
because they fucking voted for it.
Were these people born yesterday? Or the day before the 2024
election? If so, then they were too young and voted illegally. Someone should
look into that.
WTFF*
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*What The Fascinating Fuck
Eat The Rich Before They Eat You…
They’re Already Nibbling
March 23, 2025
I haven't heard anyone mention this little tidbit. It is not just the brutally stupid murder of however many government departments – from Education, to the FAA, the VA – that provide critical services across the country. Not to mention the elimination of the EPA and its environmental protections, the FDA which keeps our food and drugs non-toxic and NOAA which helps predict all local weather and provides early warnings about potential catastrophic storms. These treacherous cretins also have their myopic sights on destroying the constitutionally mandated United States Postal Service. Then there’s decades-long wet dream of the GOP (Ghoulish Old Pigs) of eliminating Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which will literally be the death of millions of Americans who are not millionaires or billionaires. Most of these guillotine-cuts will begin draining the pocketbooks and mental health of the vast majority of Americans almost immediately if not sooner.
However,
that is only the short-term pain and suffering that half-presidents Don and
fElon are willing to inflict on us. The poison-dart-tip of the shit-infested
iceberg.
It’s
Not As Bad As It Seems…It’s So Much Worse
The
real goal is to privatize every fucking thing they can get their greedy,
grifting, blood-and-hate-soaked hands on. This, you can bet all the money they
will be stealing from you, will then end up costing us much, much more as the
raison d'être of these agencies will turn from providing tax-funded services to
American citizens, to gouging folks for the same – probably lower quality –
services for the sole purpose of padding the overstuffed coffers of the filthy
rich.
Mon
Dieu. Why the fuck wouldn’t Canada want to get in on all this winning?
So,
as we’ve been fond of reminding everyone, remember, it will get worse before it
gets much worse.
Unless
we stop them before it’s too late.
“There
is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so
sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part,
and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the
levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got
to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless
you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
Mario Savio, December 2, 1964
I. Mangrey reporting. It is what it isn’t.
Or is it?
Look!
On Your TV – It’s Fat, It’s Dumb, It’s Foolish…It’s Trump
March 22, 2025
Returning schmuck
Don Trump took time out from his busy “golfing” schedule (he has been cheating
at golf for 25% of his second term so far) the other day told a Fux News cult
member that America is a “fat, dumb, foolish country”. He got that right.* That’s
the same country that elected a lying, cheating, racist, fascist, rapist,
syphilitic narcissist and fart-come-to-life, who also happens to be stunningly fat,
dumb, foolish to be president. Who has all the self-awareness of a manhole
cover.
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*Well, half right. He after getting badly beaten
in the actual vote in 2016 and getting stomped in 2020, Don got nearly 50% of
the vote.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day.
Fuck yeah.
March 21, 2025
Just saw Squealer of the House MAGA Mikey Johnson telling Fux viewers that “we’re gonna turn the economy around.” Yeah, he’s making a U-turn away from the greatest post-COVID economic recovery in the world, right back to the completely fucked up Trump economy that Biden repaired in a single term. Among the things Mikey got wrong is the fact that his dear leader has already turned the economy around without noticing the ROAD CLOSED/DO NOT ENTER sign meant to stop him before reaching the cliff just ahead – at top speed.
Halfway To Blackface…Or Is It Orangeface
Is that shoe polish
or did Mikey just pull his little head out of Don’s big ass? Whichever one it
is, it needs a bit more pumpkin.
In case MAGA Mikey needs some help visualizing phase two of his Trumpy transition…
Lord Of The Files (And The Flies)
Mikey also told the
most ill-informed, ignorant, gullible people on the planet – the Fux News
audience – that “the adults are back in the room”. Funny analogy since everyone
knows (with the likely exception of the Fux News audience) that fElon Muskkk
populated his DOGE DOUCHE team with literal children, one of whom calls
himself “Big Balls”.
As you might guess, Big Balls is currently senior advisor in the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. He is also currently a 19-year-old high school graduate…or so he claims. My guess is Big Balls is a pathetic incel hacker who incidentally was fired from an intern job last year for allegedly leaking insider information to a rival company. I’m sure he has matured greatly since then. Also, labeling fElon as an adult is a grossly misleading proposition at best.
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*This is absolutely fucking true.
Ya gotta love it. Or else.
Not
A Thousand Words, But Worth It
March 20, 2025
George and his not-quite-right sidekick Lennie traveled the land looking for work to do. Eventually, George simply could not stand up for Lennie any longer because of his dangerous behavior. Try though he might, George finally had to put Lennie out of his misery. It is a timeless tale...as it turns out.
Next time: The Creeps of Wrath
This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.
Lather, Reich, Repeat
March 19, 2025
Reminds me of the old saying here…it’s in Texas, I think it’s here, “Those who do not learn from history, or just don't give a fuck about history, are doomed to fuck all of us.” Won't get fucked again. Of course, if we decide to fuck ourselves, all bets are off.
Dictator-On-Day-One-And-Every-Other-Fucking-Day-So-Far Don has
signed an executive order claiming only the president or the attorney general
can speak for “what the law is”. For those of you keeping score at home, that
means there is no law whatsoever. Say good night, Gracie.
Diaper Don thinks he is irresistible, so let’s show him what
we think of his demented, syphilitic fantasy:
RESIST!!!!
Chicken Plucked, America Fucked
March 17, 2025
One day Chuck Schumer insisted that he would
stand his ground and Senate Democrats would not vote to let the Fascist/Trump
Party off the hook. They would not vote for a poison temporary budget that
would do further damage to this nation’s socio-economic infrastructure. Schumer
instead would keep his caucus together and have the backs of the House, who stood
firm and said no. This meant that this terrible bill would not be bipartisan
and the Fascist/Trumpers would have to own the consequences.
Chickenshit Caveman
All the Senate Dems had to do was follow suit
and force their opponents – the opponents of democracy and America – to amend
the poison pill or shut down the government. Because the Fascist/Trump Party
knows that Democrats are often scared of their own shadows, their loyal media
whores preemptively began claiming that the shutdown they instigated would be
henceforth known as the “Schumer Shutdown”. Schumer caved. Insanity ensued.
Today’s Question For The Day:
Did Chuck Schumer cave on the budget/shutdown
"negotiation" because the Fascist/Trump Media whores kept saying it
would be the “Schumer Shutdown”?
Or was it just because he is too old, white and
chickenshit to continue as minority leader in the time of Kim Jong Don?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Question For The Night.
Dictator-On-Day-Ending-In-Y Don
March 17, 2025
I wish I could have the opportunity to interview Don #47, to
pick his brain. It wouldn’t take very long to be sure. That’s why he so often
says his own name – it’s one of the few things he still knows and can remember
consistently. In any event, it would be an honor to spend some time with him.
I’m sorry, I meant it would be a horror to spend time with him. As many
people have said, the smell of him alone could cause permanent emotional and
physical brain damage. I wonder if he would be offended if I wore a gas mask.
Trump’s plans for his time in office may seem a recipe for
disaster for many if not most Americans, and possibly the death of our
democracy. Make no mistake this will not be a case of involuntary manslaughter,
like a drunk driver accidentally driving head-on into a family of five in their
SUV – killing them all while he survives without a scratch. Or like a toddler
picking up his ignorant father’s handgun and shooting a sibling in the head.
Nor will this be an issue of collateral damage.
No, this will have been premeditated murder in the first
degree. Maybe not well-thought-out, and maybe not carried out quite as planned.
But premeditated nonetheless. And since no one has had the guts or brains to
invoke the 25th Amendment against Donny Dementia when they had the
myriad chances, he will not be able to claim he is not guilty by reason of
insanity – temporary or otherwise.
The same premeditated murder is poised to be perpetrated by
Don and fElon when it comes to detained immigrants, women unable to obtain
health care because, well because they are women, and the countless impending
deaths among airline passengers because Muskkk fired the FAA, and veterans
unable to get medical care at the VA hospitals because Muskkk gutted the VA
workforce. Not to mention the senior citizens who rely on Social Security for
their only income, and those who rely on Medicaid for their only access to
medical care. Many people in all these groups voted for Don #47 who campaigned
on doing all these horrific things. So long, suckers. I would pity you, but
oddly enough you aided and abetted your killer. For you, it is a murder/suicide
pact. Enjoy.
Of course, most of these poor schmucks will have perished
prior to the murder of our society, our democracy and our planet as carried out
by Donald J. Trump. So maybe they are actually the lucky ones.
Don feels about the majority of Americans – who did not vote
for him, ever – the same way he feels about the people of Ukraine. Putin hates
‘em so Don hates ‘em. And just as Don’s brutal murder of our economy and our
democracy and us will not be accidental, his recent withdrawal of shared
intelligence with Ukraine signals his intent to aid and abet Putin in the
first-degree murder of the people and the country of Ukraine.
The purpose of the reality tv episode we witnessed when Don
and VD pissed all over Zelenskyy in the Awful Oval Office comes into much
clearer focus now. There can be no question as to the whole thing being staged
– just like The Apprentice. It might not have been, as Don said once it
was time to break from the tag-team tragedy for commercial, “great tv” but it
did provide motive and opportunity should Don ever face justice for his latest
crime against humanity. That and Don’s plan to deport thousands of Ukrainians
back to their country as Don helps Russia bomb the living shit out of Ukraine
with less resistance.
One wonders if Don will just sit back and fart up a storm
when Putin launches his massive cyber-attack on America as the prelude to
bombing the fuck out of us, once he has crippled whatever defenses Don has not
already ordered to stand down.
I. Mangrey reporting.
Things will get worse before they get much worse.
March 15, 2025
Rockets blow up. Cars blow up. Countries blow
up. Some people are rich enough to not give a flying fuck about any of it…until
they blow up.
Government
for sale. Don’t forget the Boughtery Porn rule. fElon Muskkk: He bought it, he
broke it.
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*We just need one or two more. ASAP.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.
