This became one of my
favorite words of all time after I saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983
Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.
We have
not yet been able to rid ourselves of the disgraced, twice-impeached, seditious,
sociopathic, Putin-loving ex-president and failed blogger Donald Tmurp.
We had
to endure a bunch of horrible white men flinging their misogynistic, mostly
racist, Qanon-embracing feces at the eminently qualified Ketanji Brown Jackson
as she endured the disgraceful Supreme Court confirmation process. A process
which more resembled Franz Kafka’s In The Penal Colony than a job interview. In
Kafka’s disturbing story, the brutal torture brought to bear on the accused was
in response to assumed guilt of some crime. In Jackson’s hearing, the
Ratpublican inquisitors did less inquiring than they did make shit up to score
points with the lunatic fringe whose undying, unthinking, ungodly support they
need to keep their dangerous careers afloat.
And
we continue to watch in disbelief and abject horror the surreal bloodbath
perpetrated upon the innocent people of Ukraine at the hands of Tmurp’s BFF
Putin as the Russian autocrat tries, with a remarkable degree of insanity, to
reconstitute the long-dead Soviet Union, on his way to his imagined world
domination.
Not
to mention the ever-accelerating climate crisis, continuously and resolutely
ignored by the entire Ratpublican Party and far too many American citizens
despite the overwhelming evidence that we are on the verge of global
environmental collapse, making our beautiful, relatively essential planet inhospitable
for human survival.
That,
and so much more, makes today’s word of the day as applicable and indispensable
as ever.
Koyaanisqatsi,
baby!
Koyaanisqatsi – the trailer
This has been your Paying Attention Word Of The Day.
On March 28 a federal
judge ruled that Donald Trump likely committed a felony in his quest to steal
the 2020 election. The 44 page ruling by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, said
in part: “Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that
President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress
on January 6, 2021.”
Carter ruled that
Tmurp lawyer and the “Brain” (to Tmurp’s “Pinky”) behind the coup John Eastman
must turn over documents to the House Select Committee. He wrote in his
opinion:
“If Dr. Eastman and
President Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful
transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution. If
the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for
those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself.”
Hey, remember Nixon’s infamous 18-minute gap in
the Watergate cover-up tapes? I sure as hell do. Remember how that was likely
what finally led to him having to flee in shame? Well, now we have…drum roll
please…Donald Tmurp’s super stupendous, very terrific, bigly 7-hour, 37-minute
gap in the White House phone records on January 6, 2021, spanning 11:17am
through 6:54pm, which includes the entire duration of Tmurp’s planned Capitol
assault. An event that presidential historian Michael Beschloss called, “a coup
d’etat attempted by the President of the United States.” Ouch! And an event
that everyone with an intact brain knows was exactly what Mr. Beschloss called
it. This, as we saw above was also the opinion of a federal judge. Maybe
someone should look into this.
Tmurp making one of his “perfect phone calls.” Maybe the kind that don’t show up on official call logs?
The Icing On The Kook
Just days ago, Tmurp once again called on
bloodthirsty war criminal Vladimir Putin to help him out by finding some dirt
on Joe and Hunter Biden. Doesn’t he know that his buddy Vlad is busy pummeling
Ukraine into dust? Does Tmurp watch anything other than Fux News? Doesn’t Donny
know that Vlad broke up with him because Tmurp is a big fat losing loser? Does
he not realize that was the same con that earned him his first impeachment? Is
he really that thick? Never mind. Too bad Donny isn’t actually rich enough to
be one of Vlad’s butt-boy oligarchs; otherwise he could make a new life in
Mother Russia.
Disgraced ex-president
bravely sits down for interview with idiot son Eric’s nutjob wife, soils straightjacket
As if begging Putin for dirt on the Bidens was not pathetic
enough, the disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-losing, one-term,
seditious, ex-president and failed blogger could not help but whine about his 2017 inauguration.
Yes, 2017. The year that happened five years ago. “They did it with my
inauguration! They take pictures hours and hours before the inauguration
starts, and then they talk about the crowd. We had a massive crowd! And if you
see the late pictures when I was speaking, but they don't show those pictures!
We have such a corrupt media!”
The Figurine Atop The Icing On The Kook
On Tuesday, The TV host of Russia's 60
Minutes show, Evgeny Popov had this to say, “It's time for us, our people, to
call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early,
and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president.”Partner? Don't they mean comrade?
This begs the
question, “Can you impeach a disgraced, already-twice-impeached, one-term,
seditious, ex-president and failed blogger?”
I. Mangrey refusing
to walk away from this burning building. Also, your shoe's untied.*
*That was an April Fool's joke. The rest, unfortunately, is not.
UPDATE:
Well, it appears
that Vlad still considers his boy Don to be a valuable idiot. He quickly acceded
to Donny’s plea for fake news on Hunter Biden. The Russians knew they could not
use the repeatedly debunked bullshit Tmurp was peddling and came up with their
own freshly excreted turd of a conspiracy theory. I'll spare you the details.
The electrons were barely dry on my last post
on the misadventures of goofy sedition saleswoman Ginni Thomas, thinking what
we had just learned then was horrific and reflected badly on her husband’s
integrity (as if) on the Extreme Court. It was less than a week ago that Ginni
admitted that she just remembered that she had been at the literal call-to-arms
Start Stop The Steal rally leading to the giant rat infestation of the
Capitol on January 6, 2021, but claimed to have left early without joining in
on the assault on the Capitol. It’s just not possible to keep up with these
cuckoo birds. More of Thomas’ footsie with fascism has emerged in recent days.
As much as I watch the news, which is to say
way too much, while I am grateful to see something other than Russia literally
bombing Ukraine into oblivion, it is hardly a relief to be distracted from this
senseless devastation by the equally constant news of more senseless
devastation: Ratpublicans figuratively bombing our democracy into oblivion.
Between the shameful treatment of Supreme
Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson – who somehow managed to not cry in her
beer or about her beer, or shout, or threaten, or turn red-in-the-face, or
pound on the table à la Brett Kavanaugh (who, like Clarence Thomas before him,
was credibly accused of sexual harassment – at least), and the Supremely
Dysfunctional Court enabling yet more disenfranchisement of
black Americans (via the shadow docket, hoping no one would notice), we have
more news on the Ginni (and Clarence) Thomas/January 6 connection. What
possible harm could there be in assuming the worst with these freaks?
Best friends Clarence and Ginni watching
the January 6 assault on the Capitol.
Wonder which side they were cheering for.
As the January 6 Select Committee pores over
communications supplied by Tmurp chief-of-staff Mark Meadows before he changed
his “mind” about cooperating with the commission, they are uncovering more and
more proof of collusion between Team Tmurp and Qanon, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers
and other very fine people involved in the treasonous terror assault on the
Capitol.
Ginni
Thomas sent Tmurp Chief-of-staff Mark Meadows more than two dozen text messages in a deluded
attempt to persuade him to overturn Joe Biden’s hugely landslidish victory. Like
this frightening foray into feckless fantasy: “Do Not concede. It takes time
for the army who is gathering for his back.” Isn’t that cute, all the lack of
grammar and mental capacity of Sarah Palin pureed with the inane capitalizing
of words we’ve come know and mock from the guy whose back “the army is
gathering for.”
On November 5, 2020 (two
days after the election) Mrs. Thomas shared the following quote from right-wing
websites with fellow idiot Meadows:
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud
co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship
mongers, face stream media reporters, etc.) are being arrested & detained
for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in
barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”
Mrs. Thomas penned her
own Palin-esque batshit drivel to Mark Meadows on Nov. 10, 2020 after news
organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals:
“Help This Great
President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing
for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows
Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
And this
gob-smacking gem, also to Meadows, four days after the insurrection she so
vigorously supported:
“We are living through what feels like the
end of America. Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in a listening
mode to see where to fight with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol are
not representative* of our great teams of patriots for DJT!! Amazing times. The
end of Liberty.”
Yeah, and justice for all. I’m sure she had
no discussions about her most fervent hopes and dreams with her husband, who
was the lone dissenting vote – having chosen to do the absolute wrong thing by
not recusing himself – in the decision to force Tmurp, Meadows, et al to hand
over communications to the Select Committee. What a…coincidence?
One cannot help but wonder why a
reality-challenged vacuum-head like Ginni Thomas has such easy, high-level
access to the White House. How many times have you texted the White House
Chief-of-staff about committing treason? Is it simply because she is deranged
and dopey? Inquiring minds want to know. Of course, as a Supreme Court justice,
Uncle Thomas can do whatever the fuck he wants, and he does. Any decision to
recuse is strictly up to him, and given his unique perspective on democracy and
justice, and his phantasmagorical relationship with the Constitution, he will
continue to do whatever the fuck he wants.
Meadows wrote to Thomas on Nov. 24, invoking
God to justify his perfidy. “This is a fight of good versus evil. Evil always
looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in
well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least
my time in DC on it.”
Ginni Thomas replied: “Thank you!! Needed
that! This plus a conversation with my best friend just now… I will try to keep
holding on. America is worth it!” Her best friend? The My Pillow guy? Donald
Tmurp? Jesus? Q? The New York Times reminds us that Ginni and Clarence Thomas
have “publicly referred to each other as their best friends.”
According to an article in The Guardian, “Clarence
Thomas insists supreme court justices do not rule based on politics.” According
to everything we have seen at Paying Attention™ Thomas is full of shit.
Clearly, the Thomases are willing to go above
and beyond…the law, that is.
I’ve been paying taxes for nearly 50 years and all I got
was this stupid fucking asshole on the Supreme Court
I wonder what
Clarence, who called his confirmation hearings a “high-tech lynching” (because
he got caught in a sexual harassment scandal), has to say about his peeps’
low-brow lynching of Ketanji Brown Jackson. Unfortunately, he just got out of
the hospital…I mean had to spend a week in the hospital. In any event,
(in)Justice Thomas needs to either recuse himself from any cases
dealing with the January 6 Capitol riot or retire from the Court to spend more
time with his best friend – which is definitely not the Constitution. Does anyone know if
we have a Chief Justice? Maybe one who claimed he would call balls and strikes?
I look forward to
the day when a new House Un-American Activities Committee asks witnesses,
including both Ginni and Clarence Thomas, “Are you now or have you ever been a
member of the Republican Party?”
At least we are not
forced to flee our homes and hide in bomb shelters. Yet.
Marin Mull – Bombed Anyway
*Oh yes they fucking are you tragically twisted Teutonic twit. And you
and your best friend are two of them.
Cruz
found it necessary to ask one of the most qualified SCOTUS nominees ever
brought to the Senate for confirmation, “Do you agree with this book that is
being taught to kids that babies are racist?” A clearly exasperated Ketanji
Brown Jackson, according
to Elie Mystal:
“started to answer. She said,
“Senator.” And then she sighed. And then she paused. For a long time. as the
silence filled the room, I felt like I could see Jackson make the same
calculation nearly every Black person and ancestor has made at some point…It’s
the calculation when black people try to decide.: “Am I gonna risk it all for this?”
Jackson took a moment to decide if it was worth it to throw everything away –
her chance, her good name, maybe even her whole career – just to tll Ted Cruz,
a man she’s known for over 25 year, what she really thought of him. She decided
against it of course.”
As
Al Franken has said, “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues, and I
hate Ted Cruz.”
Thoughts
on Ted Cruz
Cruz making shit up about a
children’s book on racism to
attack Jackson
The Texas Twit previously
pontificated his pathetic grasp of children’s literature during his senseless
grandstanding filibuster of Obamacare where he happily demonstrated that he did
not understand the moral of Dr. Seuss' seminal work Green Eggs and Ham.
Thanks to Cruz, Antiracist
Baby shot up onto the best seller list
No one is born racist, but I am
willing to wager that almost everyone is born knowing that Ted Cruz is a tumor
on the human species. I just wish Cruz would publicly hate this blog.
Take
a hike Ted. Even pseudo-Democrat Joe Manchin is reportedly prepared to vote in
favor of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to the High Court.
We recently covered Putin’s edict that
Russian state television run clips of Fux News’ Fucker Carlson. Carlson’s
initial foray into the Russian invasion of Ukraine consisted of the Swanson Frozen
Food trust-fund-baby whining his usual “questions” about Vladimir Putin.
Carlson claimed that Democrats were mandating that everyone must hate Putin.
Carlson whined, “Why do I hate Putin so much? Has he ever called me a racist?”
He went on with his signature line of “questioning” ad nauseam, as usual.
Carlson’s nightly praise of Putin is now being replayed on a loop with Russian
subtitles in Putin’s Paradise.
Fucker Carlson puts his
asshole where his mouth is – both serve the same purpose
According to our
intrepid alternative reporters, Carlson now insists that Russians in Ukraine
are simply tourists looking for a good time:
“How is it that Russian soldiers on leave in
Ukraine are being branded by Democrats as invaders? Is it now illegal to be a
tourist? Is it just because the choose to sight-see in “tanks?” Is it now okay
to taunt people based on their choice of transportation? Is everyone supposed
to be driving Teslas now? Do we call little Suzie a war criminal because she
went to Orlando on spring break, got a little tipsy and totaled her rental car
by crashing into a Starbucks? Are all those buildings that look like a bomb hit
them in Ukrainian cities really that badly damaged? Might they just need a
fresh coat of paint and some new window dressings? Why is everyone so bent out
of shape over there? Thousands of people “killed?” People die every day. It’s
not like they died of COVID. Remember when that was a big thing? Millions of
people leaving their homes? Don’t people relocate all the time for all sorts of
reasons – new job, downsizing, won the lottery, too many black people moving in
next door? Who knows why all these Ukrainians are leaving the country? Is it because
they're just jealous of all the Russian tourists in their own country and want
to go somewhere else for their vacation? Could it be that they are a bunch or
racists who can’t stand a bunch of foreign tourists enjoying themselves and
getting a little rowdy? I’m just asking questions.”
Fucker Karen Carlson, in his role as what
those in the espionage biz refer to as a useful idiot, is wallowing in his new
found celebrity in Russia. Carlson, who was a cheerleader for the
January-6-was-just-a-bunch-of-tourists team is taking his storytelling to the
next level.
Vlad, Vlad, he’s our man! If he can’t do it Franco can, or he could have, if he wasn’t still dead! Oh, wait, I’ll come in again…
While Great Britain’s Boris Johnson was busy
comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Brexit – whatever the fuck that
means – our alternative sources report that Fucker Carlson is insisting that
the Russians in Ukraine are just tourists.
During
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate Qanon and A, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and other
angry old white men badgered Jackson over her alleged leniency with defendants
who viewed child pornography. Me wonders if they doth protest too much. Or maybe three much. Cruz was caught poring over his Twitter
mentions right after his sickening tirade.
Ratpublican senators
finish up their Qanon and A with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Lindsey
Graham, doing his best Kate McKinnon impression, was particularly apoplectic about
child pornography sentencing and would not even let Jackson answer his
ridiculous, irrelevant, despicable questions as he hissy-fitted his way through
whatever the hell it was he thought he was doing. Let's subpoena his browser
histories.
Lindsey Graham & Kate McKinnon: Which is which?
We
know these senators are misogynist, racist assholes. Now let’s find out where
they really stand on child pornography. Mr. Graham seems particularly
suspicious if you ask me. Even if you don’t ask me.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
As the Sun decides whether or not to rise on day two of the Ratpublican
display of racism, sexism and Q-ism that is supposed to pass for a Supreme
Court nominee confirmation hearing, if it does so we will have no choice but to
let the loonies have their say lest they pull their guns and give us another January
Six. Whether the inquisitors are trying to raise their profiles for a run for
the White House, the Nut House, a prime-time slot on Fux News or weekend
Walmart Greeter, you can be sure they will have no aim, no shame and no game as
they attempt to assail the record and person of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who
happens to be one of the most qualified nominees ever to grace the confirmation
process.
Loopy Lindsey, Kooky
Kennedy, Jerky Johnson, Hang ‘Em Hawley and Mopey Mitch
ready for (distr)action on confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson
Speaking of Supreme Court
justices, you probably know that Clarence “Uncle” Thomas wound up in the hospital
yesterday. According to our alternative sources, he was drinking a can of Coke
and choked on a pubic hair he forgot he had put on the can as a “treat” for one
of his female clerks, as he has been known to do. Thomas has acquitted himself
fairly disgracefully throughout his time on the highest court. In fact, even
before he began deconstructing America from the Supreme Court, he was convincingly
accused of sexual harassment during his confirmation process in 1991.
Senate Judiciary Committee
chair at the time, Joe Biden was at his good-old-boy, misogynistic best,
brushing aside the serious and credible albeit cringe-worthy testimony of Anita
Hill who had worked under Thomas years earlier, while ignoring other women who
wanted to testify on Hill’s behalf, having experienced similar lurid behavior
by Thomas. Our experience of Thomas was all downhill from there. He was
ultimately confirmed to replace civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall. Uncle
Thomas quickly and consistently made his mark as a civil wrongs icon.
During his confirmation
hearings Thomas whined that he was being victimized by a “high-tech lynching for
uppity blacks.” Interesting play of the race card from someone who, despite benefitting
from affirmative action, has consistently railed against the practice
thereafter, and continues his flagrant complicity in disenfranchising Black
voters across this country.
Ginni Take A Ride…Better
Yet, A Hike
Thomas has almost certainly
been using his seat on the bench to, among other things, cover for his
insurrectionist wife Ginni and her fellow travelers. Recently, Thomas was the only
dissenting vote in an 8-1 decision requiring the head insurrectionist Donald
Tmurp to hand over documents to the House Select January 6 Committee. Thomas’s
despicable dissention was not only a possibly impeachable offense, it was also
incredibly stupid. Being the Lone Deranger achieved nothing more than please
his mentally defective, neo-fascist wife (who in 2010 drunk-dialed
Anita Hill, cajoling Hill to “consider an apology sometime and some full
explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”), and add to his already
impressive anti-democracy bona fides.
Several weeks after Uncle
Thomas’s vote we learned that his wife suddenly remembered that she was at
Tmurp’s January 6, 2021 Start Stop The Steal rally where Tmurp infamously
put the finishing touches on his Hang-Mike-Pence gang’s assault on the Capitol.
Ginni Thomas as Statue of Lunacy
The whiter Thomas lied, “I was
disappointed and frustrated that there was violence that happened following a
peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the Ellipse on January 6.”
It would not be unfair to
assume she was also lying when she whined, “I played no role with those who
were planning and leading the Jan. 6 events. There are stories in the press
suggesting I paid or arranged for buses. I did not. There are other stories
saying I mediated feuding factions of leaders for that day. I did not.”
Then there’s this flatulent
fabrication, “Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals,
principles, and aspirations for America. Clarence doesn't discuss his work with
me, and I don't involve him in my work. No he just repeatedly refuses to recuse
himself on cases either directly or indirectly related to issues near and dear
to his wife’s political activism. Not to mention making it possible to worm her
way into the Oval Office to meet with the former guy in a meeting that one aide
present at the meeting described as “the craziest meeting I've ever been to.”
Thomas’s wife told those present, “Here's what the peeps think. We have to
listen to the peeps.” No one was sure whether she was referring to the radical
right-wing Ratpublican base or the disgustingly sugary marshmallow treats.
Naturally, one asshole don’t
stop the show, but Clarence Thomas has been a, pardon the expression, lynch-pin
in countless objectively disastrous decisions during his mostly dead-silent
time on the Extreme Court.
Sonny Terry – One Monkey Don't
Stop The Show
As we watch the latest circus
that has become just about every confirmation hearing, know that Ratpublicans
will never be satisfied until they have a 9-0 advantage in the Extreme Court. If
you plan to watch, don’t bother with the popcorn, go straight for the barf bag.
All you really need to know is
that one of the main disqualifications Ratpublicans are attempting to level at Jackson
is her time as a defense attorney representing some unsavory characters. Someone should tell these vacuum-heads that
a guy by the name of John Adams, who they may be familiar with, defended
British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials, which they also might have heard
about.
In the same way their dear leader, the disgraced,
twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, ex-president
and failed blogger consistently heaped praise on murderous Russian dictator
Vladimir Putin, and repeatedly sided with Putin over American intelligence and
interests, the pro-Putin wing of Tmurp’s party is hard at work undermining this
country and promoting Putin’s illegal war of choice against Ukraine’s citizens.
Say what you will about Joe Biden, unlike the last guy, at least you know whose
side he’s on.
The following House RatPutincans voted
against the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act. The
purpose of this billpunishing Russia and Belarus for bombing the fuck out of
Ukraine, that being the safest way to hold them liable for their crime against
humanity:
Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene of Georgia Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
The final vote was 424-8.
That’s a total of 432. There are 435 members of the House. Three
representatives were either too stupid to know there was a vote or could not be
bothered to show up to show support for Ukraine; okay, maybe someone was sick. Maybe
they wanted Zelenskyy to do them a favor though.
I’m willing to wager
that two of those three missing votes belonged to Paul Gosar of Arizona and
Madison Cawthorn from North Carolina, who surely would have voted with their
fellow Q-nuts listed above. Gosar had his brain surgically removed some time
ago and Cawthorn, a Hitler fanboy (not kidding), is currently a star on Russian
TV along with Fucker Carlson.
Cawthorn in Nazi heaven…if only
Cawthorn recently
had this to say about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “Remember that
Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly
corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.” Naturally
everything about that statement is sickeningly false and Cawthorn has
consistently pushed joke ideologies. Just kidding – Cawthorn is no joke; he is
a dangerous sociopath who bragged about having numerous concealed firearms in his
wheelchair inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Russian television
has been instructed that showing clips of Carlson is “essential” for helping
bolster their own propaganda. As we know, Russian state tv is almost as
dishonest, distorted and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Fux News.
Must-see Russian TV
Russia’s
now-sanctioned foreign minister Segey Lavrov – the guy Tmurp was yukking it up
with while divulging top secret national security intel in the Oval Office soon
after being inaugurated – recently stated, “We know the manners and the tricks which
are being used by the Western countries to manipulate media. We understood long
ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media. You can take
the United States – only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point
of view.” You know, alternative facts. And of course, you gotta love the pot-foolishly-attempting-to-describe-the-color-of-the-kettle
nonsense.
