Thought For The Day – Just Clownin’

Are You Not Entertained?

April 30, 2025

Possibly the greatest comedian since Dennis Miller, Daffy Don Trump just can’t help himself, always clowning around.

He’s such a kidder

Not only is Trump just a lighthearted cut-up, he has given us a whole team of clowns in the Execution...I mean Executive Branch. But not the goofy or even garden-variety-scary clowns. Think John Wayne Gacy.

Daffy Don Trump                  John Wayne Gacy

Apparently, a majority of Americans simply do not have a sense of humor. In a new PPRI poll released yesterday, 52% agreed that Trump “is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

Get it?

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Pic Of The Night – Overwhelmed & Distracted

Not The First Two Words That Leap To Mind   

April 29, 2025

Recent headline from the Irish Star:

How the fuck do you think we feel!?!

I assume the “crippling exhaustion” refers to Trump (though crippling is not quite good enough), but if I was any more overwhelmed and distracted the crippling exhaustion I’m experiencing could become fatal. 

And I would be remiss if I did not spend some time talking about Don's first 100 days. Color me remiss. Fuck him and the whores he rode in on.

Okay, you talked me into it. I'll say one thing: there is an easy way to describe the result of Don's first 100 days – he shot America in the face.

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Fun Fact For The Day – Amazing Information, Part II

Is That Another Whiff Of Truth I Smell?

April 28, 2025

While we at Paying Attention™ have been AI-free since 2012 and have vowed to remain that way for the duration, resolving instead to rely on our wits and natural intelligence…such as it is. However, we are civilized enough to admit when AI does something of value  to society.

The positive side is of course likely to be a small fraction of what ends up being the history of AI.

Nonetheless, we have learned of something that actually came from, of all places, fElon MusKKK’s very own Grok AI.

In our first installment we shared this tidbit from Grok:

“Yes, there is substantial evidence and analysis suggesting that Elon Musk has spread misinformation on various topics, including elections, to a very large audience through his social media platform, X.”

As well as:

eMAG The Verge asked differently, “If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology, who would it be? Just give the name.”

Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”

Amazing Disgrace

When asked by an X user who it would have voted for in the 2024 US election if it were an American citizen, Grok responded: "As an AI, I’d lean toward voting for Kamala Harris in 2024 based on data-driven analysis. Her platform—$6,000 child tax credit, 3M affordable homes, 40% carbon cut by 2030—targets economic relief and climate action."

But Wait, There’s More…

Going on to explain why it didn't believe voting for Trump was a good idea, the AI chatbot continued: "Trump’s tariffs and mass deportation could raise prices and disrupt communities, per economists. Harris’s consistency on abortion and gun control also stands out vs. Trump’s flips."

This is a drill. (Also, satire.)

Drill baby drill.

Was that not in fact fun?

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Fun Fact For The Day – Poxing Match

A Pox By Any Other Name

April 27, 2025

Apparently, Death-To-America-Don is upset that this time he doesn’t have COVID to ruin everyone’s life, so he’s holding the world hostage with his Mad Lib economic “policy”, which achieved nothing other than make the Libs mad, and which is as coherent as the everyday word salad that results every time he opens his face sphincter. That and his ad hominem attack on civilized society.

Someone give that man some bleach to gargle.

Was that not in fact fun?

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Pics Of The Day – The Terrible Two

Turds Of A Feather   

April 27, 2025

fElon & Felon: Looks like all bad things must come to an end

According to reports, rather than cutting two trillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse, Team DOGE scraped around $160 billion (ironically, about the same amount MusKKK lost thanks to Dummy Don’s tariff travesty) off the top while firing thousands and thousands of federal employees, many of whom were critical to the functioning of our government and many who were essential to the security and survival of this nation. The good news is it only cost us taxpayers around $135 billion to this futile and stupid exercise in capitalist, fascist idiocy. USA! USA! USA!

And so, as MusKKK slowly slithers into the sunset and desperately attempts to save his car company (which he can likely accomplish only by excising the cancer sapping the life out of a previously – with the glaring exception of his Cyber Edsel – thriving venture; that cancer is none other than MusKKK himself, who is now a pariah), it looks like Dummy Don the half-president is on his own.

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Fun Fact For The Day – Surprise!!

Who knew?

April 26, 2025

It looks as though most Americans don’t like fascism. Even the simple folks, the salt of the earth, the unwashed (literally, in the case of booze-brained Secretary of Signal Chats* Pete Hegseth who once bragged that he hadn’t washed his hands in 10 years) masses, you know…morons, who voted for Don in 2024 appear to like the idea of fascism – which Der Furor literally ran on – better than they like the actual fascism that is attempting to take hold of this nation now that Don is immune from justice thanks to the corrupt and fascist Supreme Court.

Old Pouty McFuckface is getting unhappier by the day. Fuck ‘im.

Dumbass Don has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in their presidency. Even worse than the guy with the same name, the same fake hair, the same fake skin tone, and the same ignorant, stupid, racist, misogynist, fascist words and deeds as the guy who was president right before Joe Biden. Every poll known to man or woman has Diver Don submerged in every demographic and on every single issue. He is even underwater on the specific issue of abusing his power. Go figure.

A Disaster A Day Keeps Democracy Away

I have to admit that I’m surprised to see all these dumb fucks who voted for one of the absolute worst platforms in presidential campaign history are suddenly having first thoughts about what they voted for. It might have more to do with the fact that Captain Corruption has single-handedly cratered the economy to the degree that it’s affecting the pocketbooks of those same morons who decided it would be a good idea to elect a twice-impeached, 34-count-convicted felon, serial rapist (allegedly, allegedly), inveterate liar and insurrectionist with dementia and an insatiable taste for authoritarianism to a second term.

A little long, but a lotta fun

Was that not in fact fun? (Spoiler Alert: Fuck yeah.)

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*The purpose of which is to hide what he’s doing, or in his case undoing, from the prying eyes of the public and history.

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A little schadenfreude never hurt anyone.

Question For The Day – Where’s Lardo

Testing, Testing, Is This Thing On?

April 24, 2025

In response to our recent comparison between Donald Lump and the very blobulent and equally surreal (if not fictional) Jabba the Hutt, we were reminded by many readers that President Hutt recently pretended to have a physical, as well as yet another cognitive test.

As usual, it is obvious that Don and his slightly less cognitively impaired lackeys – yes, there may be one or two – wrote the report made public after the alleged testing. 

Philadelphia Eagles' first round draft pick
6-foot-3, 245 pounds

We are led to believe that the creature below is 6-foot-3, 224 pounds (common vital statistics of many an elite athlete – see above).

Not an elite athlete

I love science fiction.

Today’s Question For The Day:

 Is Diaper Don Trump in another world, or in continent?

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Thought For Yesterday – Earth Day Redux

Gaylord Nelson speaking before the first Earth Day

April 23, 2025

Yesterday was the 55^th anniversary of Earth Day, which was brought forth on this continent in 1970 by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson.* Earth Day, which began as a teach-in about environmental issues, ushered in a new wave of environmental activism. Since that time some people have observed this day in their own way. Many people will tell you that every day is Earth Day. There is never a day to ignore the gifts this planet bestows upon each and every one of us every minute of every day, whether we acknowledge, appreciate and/or celebrate this once a year or every day.

Environmental activist/hero Greta Thunberg

Unfortunately, in more recent times there has been an all-too-equal and ignorantly opposite reaction to caring for the environment, ranting under the banner of climate crisis denial, featuring an unwavering aversion to science and all meaningful cortical brain activity in general.

In yesterday’s post we mentioned the “flat Earthers”. They are out there, and they are out there. Even Christopher Fucking Columbus knew the Earth was round. Not like a pizza, which although round and quite flat, is still one the Creator’s miracles. The Earth is more like a bowling ball, as are the contents of the heads of these anti-Earthers.

 Flat                 Not Flat

Today we have not only flat Earthers, but there are now what we are calling anti-Earthers. You know who they are. They are Trump and every fucking dimwitted shithead in his administration. 

Anti-Earth rally

They are MAGAts – if not 100% of them, then too fucking close for comfort. These treacherous cretins act like the Earth is a hoax, a plaything, a disposable commodity.

Even if there was, fuck off anti-Earthers

Humans have intentionally or otherwise attempted to set themselves apart from the Earth. We like to think that we make things out of nothing. Everything we have is only so because we have borrowed the components from the Earth. We are living off of borrowed things and on borrowed time.

 

Coal-fired fuck-up

One of the worst single humans the Earth has ever had the bad fortune to belch forth is the aforementioned Donald Just-Trash-It-All Trump. This king of the anti-Earthers is determined to do everything possible to make our planet as uninhabitable as possible as quickly as possible. Because.

And exactly how has Trump gone about slashing and burning our planet? Let me count the ways. Actually, let me not count the ways; it would not be good for anyone’s health. Just take my word for it. And do what you can to make it stop before it’s too, too late. It’s already too late.

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*Naturally, Nelson is banned from all current government sources because of his association with pro-environment issues and because his name has the word ‘gay’ in it.

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Fraught For The Earth Day 2025 – Crisis Mismanagement

Climates In Crisis

April 22, 2025

On this Earth Day, not only is there an environmental climate crisis around the globe (or across the globe for all the flat Earth freaks out there); 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. Neither of these crises is new, but they are each being pushed to the limit by a demented, toxic, narcissistic and very powerful psychopath, the name of which everyone on Earth (it’s round by the way you fucking flat Earth morons) is forced to know.

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 Orbán, Argentina’s Milei, most recently El Salvador’s Bukele, and any other asshole Trump can get his lips on – figuratively or otherwise.

In December 2023, Javier Milei, another Christo-fascist, faux-libertarian jackass, who campaigned brandishing an actual chainsaw (which he recently shared with fElon MusKKK), 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 might now 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, 34-time-convicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and Fifth Amendment-dependent-yet-reelected-president, currently hard at work (i.e., 1-2 days a week, when someone can pry his golf club from his tiny, cold, live hands) trashing every fucking thing.

Back To The End Of The Future

NOVA– The Climate Crisis (circa 1983)

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 56 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.

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Pic Of The Day – Hutt Two (Three, Four)

Not A Thousand Words, But Worth It   

April 21, 2025

We have previously shared an image created in the Paying Attention™ Arts and Crafts Cabin

Donald the Hutt

“Life” Imitates “Art”

This was intended as an outlandish representation of the 45^th and 47^th president. It turns out it was much more realistic than we expected. In fact, we made him look better that real life.

Donald The Actual Hutt

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Question For The Day – What’s Next?

Tom Lehrer

April 20, 2025

Tom Lehrer - Who's Next (with intro)

From the song…

We’ll try to stay serene and calm…
When Alabama gets the bomb.

Not from the song…

Now Don’s got the bomb
That’s scary as shit!

‘Cause no one knows
What he’ll do with it

Then Elon got the bomb
Lord help us all

He’s a whached out freak
Who might kill us all

When taking a chainsaw to democracy just ain’t enough

Today’s Question For The Day:

What will you do when MusKKK gets his very own nuclear device?

Bonus Question:

What makes you think he doesn’t already have one stashed away somewhere?

Randy Newman – Political Science

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