I
guess they can’t impeach a disgraced, twice-impeached, treasonous,
ex-one-term-president and failed blogger, but can we exile one? If I were Donald
Trump, and really no one should ever be Donald Trump, I would be wearing out the Google machine in search of any country that lacks an extradition treaty with the
United States, and that would allow me entry and enter the witless protection program.
I hear Elba is lovely this time of year.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
As mentioned previously here and just about everywhere else,
Sen. Joe Mansion (D/R-Coal) and his coal-powered pecker just bellowed a lusty
and heartless-felt FUCK YOU to the world. He has been stringing us along for
months. Moving the coalposts, pretending to negotiate. Bernie Sanders laid it
on the line in spelling out Mansion’s Joe Job after the media broke the news of
Mansion’s abrupt change of heartless:
“He didn’t abruptly do anything – he has sabotaged the
president’s agenda No, look, if you check the record, six months ago, I made it
clear that you have people like Manchin, [Arizona Sen. Kyrsten] Sinema to a
lesser degree, who are intentionally sabotaging the President's agenda, what
the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want.
Nothing new about this. And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin
like he was serious. He was not. This is a guy who is [a] major recipient of
fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25
Republican billionaires. ... In my humble opinion, Manchin represents the very
wealthiest people in this country, not working families in West Virginia or
America.”
Bernie Sanders is rapidly
running out of fucks to give
The White House issued a sternly worded comment. Well, sort
of. A White House official, who requested anonymity (how brave) said in a
statement, “The president made clear that if the Senate doesn’t act to tackle
the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he will. We
are considering all options and no decision has been made.” Wow, some anonymous
putz took time from his or her busy schedule of not doing anything to let us
know in no uncertain terms that “no decision has been made.” Whew. Now that’s
what I call courage in the face of global disaster. Why make a decision when
you can make no decision?
Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning (1987)
Are you fucking kidding me? Are you seriously fucking
kidding me? Or just fucking me? And everyone else. The president made it clear
that if the Senate doesn’t act then he will? What the fuck. Wasn’t the cut-off
date like 20 years ago?* Did the president miss the part where Joe Mansion just
flipped off Democrats and the Earth? The fucking Senate already did not act.
That was in the past. It has already happened. The fact that it is continuing
to happen does not negate the fact that the Senate already didn’t act. Not only
have they already not acted, but there is zero chance, at best, that they will
act in the future. So, Mr. President – fucking do something already. Like, now.
We’re waiting. And dying.
The record-breaking Great Heat Wave of 2022 has already
killed more than a thousand worldwide as many hover around 100°F across the globe, with 100,000,000 Americans spending almost a week under an extreme heat advisory. Shit's on fire everywhere. According to
scientists, the level of climate catastrophe we are currently experiencing will
not be the new normal. Good news, you say? Well guess again. In a few years we
will be looking back on today’s horrific climate-crisis-influenced mess with
great fondness.
[If we do nothing sufficient now to mitigate the climate
crisis], “we will see an increase in these types of events. They become more
frequent, more severe, and we see events that we’ve never seen before. You
know, there’s a tendency to talk about this kind of heat and say, well it’s the
new normal. Unfortunately it’s not the new normal. It’s what we’ll be nostalgic
for in a few years if we continue the way that we are moving the world’s
climate right now.” Benjamin Zaitchik, Professor of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins U
Mansion claims he is only interested in what’s best for West
Virginia and all Americans, and he is just worried sick about inflation. Some
people, including this reporter, would be inclined to describe this as
bullshit. Now, it might be bullshit because he is too old to care if the
climate crisis will fuck the planet beyond what humans can tolerate. Or, it
might be bullshit because Mansion doesn’t understand how fighting climate
crisis is also good for West Virginians, all Americans and the economy. But my
money is on it being bullshit because Joe Mansion is full of shit. He does not
give a shit about West Virginians, Americans or any other people, or the
economy/inflation. He is a greedy, arrogant rich bastard in nice guy’s
clothing…well, expensive clothing.
To
Quote VP Joe Biden: “This Is A Big Fucking Deal.”
Why
won't President Biden declare a climate emergency? What exactly would an emergency look
like? Would we be able to see it, or would our eyes have already burned up in
our heads?
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Too Much Talk (1968)
Meanwhile…
Why
isn’t the Secret Service under arrest for destroying government records…and for
not letting Donald Turmp get shot – not killed mind you, just shot…say in the
middle of Fifth Avenue, or something like that.
__________________________________________________________ *It was probably much
longer ago than that, but why quibble over the habitability of our planet.
Looking back at my younger years, dissenting against this and that, while protesting the intrusion of Gerald Ford within
sight of Independence Hall, on the occasion of the American bicentennial, a
fellow demonstrator, paying homage to the First Amendment, burned an American
flag. Many people believe that burning the flag should be a crime, not a perfectly
legitimate expression of one’s First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and
petition for redress against, say a fake president letting his criminal
predecessor walk away scot-free.
Looking back at the violent insurrection led by Donald Turmp on January
6, 2021, and the sight of Turmp’s white nationalist stooges attempting to
overturn a legitimate election based on a Big Lie, using the flag not in
service to the First Amendment, but in service instead to the Second Amendment,
using American flags as weapons with which to assault law enforcement officer. This
left me with a question:
Which
is worse, burning a flag as a symbol of one’s disapproval of our government’s
policies or using a flag to bludgeon law enforcement officers as a symbol of desiring
fascism?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Question
For The Day.
The world's biggest baby is hoping to find an even bigger back door in hopes of avoiding federal prison. In a desperate attempt to distract everyone
from his ongoing investigation/litigation smorgasbord, disgraced,
twice-impeached, treasonous, ex-one-term-president and failed blogger Donald Turmp is expected to announce his
intention to begin the process of staging another coup in January 2025, i.e.,
another presidential campaign (one in which he will most assuredly lose the
popular vote by an even larger margin – by far – than he did previously…twice).
Those 11,780 votes he tried to illegally acquire in
Georgia won’t even bring Turmp within a mile.
I just wanna find 11,780 votes
The staff here at Paying Attention™ has been talking about this for a
while, and now Rolling
Stone magazine has made a story out of it: Dangerous, dimwitted, demented, discount Don is convinced
that by running for president – something he seems destined to do for the rest
of his unnatural life – he will be shielded from being dragged through federal
court, and possibly locked up. Fortunately, even if that turns out to be true,
The Orange One can still be proven guilty and punished in state court. There
are currently two from which to choose – Georgia and New York.
To paraphrase Rufus T. Firefly, “Turmp may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you…he really is an idiot.”
MVP, MVP, MVP**
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the
authority is total. And that’s the way it’s gotta be. It’s total. It’s total.” Donald J. Trump, April 13, 2020***
If Turmp somehow does succeed in oozing back into the White
House, and is not fast enough at causing global thermonuclear war, or inducing
a catastrophic acceleration of the already apocalyptic climate crisis, he would
likely set what will be an eternally unbreakable record for impeachments, especially if he
manages to serve the four or five or twelve terms he is planning on. Turmp’s
projected monthly impeachments will stand longer than Wilt Chamberlain’s record
of averaging more than 50 points per game in one season. And while Wilt’s alleged record
of sexual encounters pales in comparison to the number of people Turmp has
fucked, it is assumed that in Wilt’s case there was probably a good deal of
mutual happy endings, no one ever got off being fucked by The Donald…with the
possible exception of Stormy Daniels spanking him with the Wall Street Journal.
Justice
Department policy forbids the prosecution of a sitting president, effectively
insulating Trump from any federal charges for another four years. But really,
policy/schmolicy. When dealing with an asshole the size of Turmp, who ignored
every policy he could squat on, how in the name of all that is holy can anyone
dare stand on ceremony. Besides, Justice Department policy, last time I looked,
is not in the God-given/God-forsaken Constitution. So, hopefully all bets are
off. But I won’t be holding my breath.
Turmp is like a box of chocolates…
a melted, bug-infested, mold-inundated box of chocolates Seriously, just throw it away; better yet, incinerate it
After extensive
talks with himself, the 45th anddisgraced, twice-impeached, treasonous, ex-one-term-president and failed
blogger has apparently decided that he has made a decision regarding his
stunning and futile attempt to become America’s 47th and final
president.
Turmp told reporters
that should never have given him the time of day, “Well, in my own mind, I’ve
already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve
already made that decision.” Forgetting the fact that he was trying to keep
“that decision” as a teaser but is chronically unable to control what his mouth
says, the Orange Gas Cloud added that his “big decision” was really whether he announces
“that decision” before or after the midterm elections. “Do I go before or
after? That will be my big decision.” Such big decisions for such a tiny,
mildewed brain.
Scummer re-run: Oops, he’s doing it again
The funny thing is,
Turmp never stopped running since the day he oozed down that escalator and went
full Furor. He didn’t stop running in 2016 – after winning the (anti)Electoral
College – whining incessantly about not winning bigly enough. Turmp continued to
fight for the size of his “victory” (and his crowd size) until he lost by a
landslide in 2020. To this day, he is still running to be president in 2020 as
he “decides” what to do about 2024.
One who is not a
lawyer might wonder if it would not be wise, if not necessary to indict a
person alleged to have committed high crimes, not to mention misdemeanors and
dereliction of duty, before such an unhinged individual who has led a life of
crime, formally announced a presidential candidacy. I’m just asking questions,
not in proper question form admittedly, but looking for answers nonetheless. Running
for president should not be a
get out of being-frog-marched-into-court-and-hopefully-thrown-in-jail free
card.
In any event, should
Turmp attempt to use another presidential run as a shield against justice,
Merrick Garland would to well to take a page out of Mitch Fucking McConnell’s
playbook and piss all over convention and completely ignore any and all
election schedules, indict the motherfucker, and give him a trial that is as
fair as Garland’s Supreme Court nomination process.
Obviously, there are many
pressing issues taking up our neurological bandwidth: Russia’s brutal
scorched-earth/war-crime-spree in Ukraine, intolerable gas prices and inflation
in large part driven by corporate greed and the shamelessly, if not
purposefully, incompetent reign of Donald Turmp, the ongoing, ever-worsening
climate crisis, the riveting public hearings of the January 6 Committee, and as
if that weren’t enough to curdle your colon, the looming midterm elections.
Just because he was able to hide from the headlines behind this curtain of
disasters, we must not forget all the damage that continues to plague America
at the hands of long festering sore Sen. Joe Manchin (“D”- Coal). While Mansion
was hiding, he did manage to record a campaign ad for a Ratpublican candidate
in West Virginia.
At least someone is enjoying
themselves as our environment and democracy crumble. Oh wait, they are the ones ensuring these things happen.
Just the other day, Mansion
came out of his hole, saw a shadow, cursed the Sun, and kicked his party and
the American people in the crotch again. He has once more insisted that he will
not entertain any funding for fighting the climate crisis he has worked so hard
to accelerate. Nor will he support raising taxes on the rich, one of whom he
has worked so hard destroying the environment in order to become. Mansion
hammered in what appears to be the final nail in the Build Back Better coffin.
He simply refuses to allow any talk of taxing those who owe much more than they
pay, or of averting
environmental disaster.
Mansion insists/pretends that
“My main goal is what’s good for my country. I’m not worried about what’s good
for the Democrat or Republican party. They’re going to do just fine.” Except
for two things, Joe. First, asshole, it’s the Democratic Party,
referring to them as the “Democrat” party is what Ratpublicans do out of
disrespect. Second, Ratpublicans have shown beyond any doubt that they do not and
will not do what’s good for your country – they put Donald Turmp as their
choice for president, let him escape conviction on two impeachments, both of
which made Bill Clinton’s blow job look like…well, a blow job, and made
Watergate look like a third-rate burglary, and then after claiming that Turmp
was personally and morally responsible for the January 6 insurrection, quickly
returned to their regularly scheduled, unrelenting kissing of his ass. Lastly,
having beaten his “colleagues” into submission on the ambitious, vastly popular
and critically needed BBB, bullying them into a package he could live with,
Mansion finally got his way, and then said, “Psych!”
So once again, Joe Manchin is
full of fossil fuel shit. Well, it’s not so much again as still. No other
senator rakes in more campaign cash from the fossil fuel industry than Old King
Coal Manchin. We are still finding out more gory details of his greed and
duplicity. And, dare I say…murder?
Everyone, including Joe
Mansion, knows that coal kills. It kills those with no choice but to work to
extract it. It kills those who happen to breathe air. It does not kill Joe
Masion while he lets others do the very, very dirty work. There is no such
thing as “clean coal.” There is no such thing as clean Joe Mansion.
Thankfully, folks in Manchin’s “home” state,
you know, the one he is personally committed to killing with his coal profits,
are preparing to make their presence felt. Maybe they can make his political
future resemble the lungs of those West Virginians who are unfortunate enough
to need to work in coal mines, as well as many of us who are forced to breathe
the rotten fruits of their labors.
Meanwhile, Mansion’s fellow
foulers in the greedy oil companies are not satisfied taking our tax dollars as
insanely unnecessary subsidies. Not only are they not paying anything forward
by, oh I don’t know, taking a break from making obscene profits off of anyone who
needs oil to heat their homes or drive their cars, they are adding
price-gouging profits to the subsidies which we involuntarily lavish upon them.
Just For The Record (High Gas
Prices)
You might have noticed that
when the price of oil rises, so does what we pay at the pump. But when the
price of oil drops, the price at the pump is not so quick to change correspondingly.
And don’t blame your local gas station, their profit margin is minimal. Oil
companies on the other hand do a bit better.
In 2021, while most Americans were
sitting on financial pins and needles, ExxonMobil raked in $23B in profits,
Shell amassed $19.3B, Chevron $15.6B and BP $12.9B. This of course, is in
addition to the massive government subsidies these petroleum plunderers take
out of our pockets. Poor little Joe Mansion’s coal
interests put $500,000/year into his ever-widening toxic pockets.
It is long past time to take
power away from the Ratpublicans’ favorite Democrat.
The
notion of things “deeply rooted in the nation’s history and
traditions”
was used by Scam Alito as an excuse to overturn 50 years of the previously deeply-rooted-in-the-nation’s-history-and-traditions
right of women to control what they do with their own bodies. Slavery, one of
America’s most debilitating birth defects – along with the genocide of the
land’s original inhabitants – is in fact deeply rooted in the nation’s history
and traditions. It remained so for almost a century, after which time it was
dragged kicking and screaming out of existence. This was followed by another
century of hatred, oppression and lynching.*
Things
that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution: not shooting unarmed
Black men in the back 60 times or kneeling on their necks until and well after
they are dead, the number of justices on the Supreme Court, the stupid fucking
filibuster, abortions, same sex marriage, marriage of any kind, sex of any kind, women, Clarence
Thomas, Cheez Whiz, Mitch Fucking McConnell, privacy, computers, assault rifles, science
and common sense.
You
know what is in the Constitution? The Ninth Amendment:
The
enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Abort the Court! Replace the Disgrace!
So-called
originalists like Antonin Scalia, who is thankfully still dead, like to pretend
that this penultimate of the original ten amendments (not commandments,
as some would have us believe) does not exist. The one that says, “Just in case
we might have left a few things out, or I don’t know, maybe if things change
next month or in a hundred years (like maybe if someone invents something more
deadly than a musket, or if we someday realize that slavery is bad, and women
should have the right to vote), it should be understood that we did not think
of everything. Who the fuck could?”
Recall
that Scalia, Thomas and their fellow farcical phonies also disingenuously proclaim
that they know what the founders had in mind when they crafted and drafted the
schematic for America. Funny thing – the founders themselves often disagreed
with each other, and not infrequently with themselves. Yet, they were able to
back their egos up enough to compromise sufficiently to reach consensus and
begin a great experiment in governance. Those days, and those egos are long
fucking gone.
___________________________________________________ *The genocide of Native Americans continued unabated,
and rather than being dragged kicking and/or screaming out of existence, was
mostly swept under the rug and continues in slow motion since there were and
are not enough of them to sufficiently rub our noses in it.
I. Mangrey, deeply rooted in the nation’s
history and traditions (for better or worse).
Is that God I see there behind Boebert? Or is she just mad to
see me?
Apparently,
after ignoring the entire body of the Constitution, Ms. Boebert continued
ignoring the text until she got to the last 14 words of the Second Amendment. Chances
are good that it was the most reading she’s done in her whole life. She likely passed
out right after this monumental task and woke up in Congress representing a
Colorado district with a decimal point in front of its collective IQ. After electing
Boebert, they are running headlong toward a negative number.
I
am not saying the following to be rude or mean, just accurate. Lauren Boebert is
one dumb fuck.
Two-For-One
Special Schmuck Of The Day (So Many Schmucks, So Little Time)
Pennsylvania
gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano – a radical Christian nationalist – called
the separation of church and state a “myth,” adding, “In November we are going
to take our state back, my God will make it so.”** I sure hope his God
is not anyone else’s; his God sounds like a real putz.
Mastriano (r) outside the
Capitol hoping
to witness the Big Steal on Jan 6
In
case that was not bad enough for you, Mastriano weighed in on the Extreme Court’s
recent disemboweling of Roe v. Wade thusly: “My body, my choice’ is ridiculous
nonsense here.”
Doug
Mastriano is one sick fuck.
___________________________________________________ *This
statement should be immediately disqualifying to serve in Congress. As if
Boebert had anything at all that would actually qualify her to serve. Boebert
should look into public service in Iran. ** This statement should
be immediately disqualifying to serve in government.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Double Schmuck Of
The Day. Feh.
