Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Brainless, Vapid Shithead Of The Day

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Cloudy With A Chance Of Morons

August 17, 2022

A no less mentally-challenged and grammar-averse Sarah Palin is throwing her empty hat into the ring for a seat in Congress. In the lower 48, they talk about people being all hat, no cattle. In Alaska they have instead all hat, no cortex when it comes to their ex-governor.

Opining about Democrats, history’s worst ever presidential running mate, who is worth $8M, said “Absolutely not, they want to wipe out the middle class. The mom-and-pop, Joe six-pack, us peons.” Not too many peons are sitting on $8M, but plenty of pea-brains are. With any luck, Palin will once again go down in flames…or sludge.

Palin, who quit in the middle of her term as (gulp) governor of Alaska, was on the ballot last night in the race to finish the term of deceased long-serving Rep. Don Young. No clear winner emerged, but the mavericky word-salad enthusiast managed to make it through the first round. Palin, who was endorsed by Trump, will have a week or two to work on her own big lie in case she loses as bigly as her benefactor. 

The petulant, exasperating Palin is running against multi-millionaire Nick Begich III – the choice of the Ratpublican Party, who have apparently had their fill of the worst VP candidate in the history of the world – and Mary Peltola the Democrat and Native Alaskan of Yup'ik descent. Peltola is unsurprisingly pro-choice and pro-Earth, unlike the other two craptastic candidates. As of this writing, Peltola leads in the vote count as the race likely heads for a run-off.

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*Pictured above: Not the brainless, vapid shithead of the day Sarah Palin, but rather the great, comedic genius Michael Palin who is thankfully, no relation. I just couldn’t bring myself to subject any of us to the image of the horrible, tragic dimwit Palin in question.

This has been your Brainless, Vapid, Shithead Of The Day. Ugh.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Schmuck Of The Day

Meh

August 16, 2022

New Jersey denizen Mehmet Oz is for some unknown reason running for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. He has lived and voted in northern New Jersey for several decades. Oz also owns three mansions in Turkey, where he voted as recently as 2018, which he lied about. 

While not nearly as stupid as his Georgia counterpart Herschel Walker, what Meh lacks in pure, unadulterated dumb, he more than makes up for in dishonesty, hypocrisy and Turmp-level grifting. As a doctor, he is mostly a fraud, hawking absurd, completely unproven supplements. As a would-be politician, he is as steady in his positions as a one-legged stool.

Oz, pandering to gun nuts

Oz is running against life-long Pennsylvanian and current Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. Too bad this election couldn't be what Rudy “About-To-Be-Indicted-In-Georgia” Giuliani on January 6, 2021 called “trial by combat.” 

Meidastouch ad explaining Oz’s qualifications

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Feh…I mean, meh.

Monday, August 15, 2022

Thought For The Day

Audit For The Ages

August 15, 2022

“The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots. When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s gotta be.”
                                Donald J. Trump, Apr 14, 2020*

If disgraced, twice-impeached, treasonous, ex-one-term-president and failed blogger Donald Turmp thought he was being audited before (he wasn't), seems like he ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Tax returns going to Congress, stolen nuclear (and many other) documents recovered by the FBI, I don’t know if anything as voluminous as Trump can fit under a microscope, but they are going to take a good long look at this noxious specimen.

If this was the Paying Attention™ Question For The Day, in response to the above actual quote, the question would be: How would that work for someone who is no longer president?

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*Yes, he really fucking said that.

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Richie Havens from Woodstock, August 15, 1969


Sunday, August 14, 2022

Thought For The Day

Fully Documented Stupidity

August 14, 2022

I don't know why some people are impugning the character of disgraced, twice-impeached, treasonous, ex-one-term-president and failed blogger Donald Trump. They are saying that his intentions could have been benign, taking a truckload of documents from the White House as a going away present. They say that he either did not know he had sensitive documents including some dealing with nuclear weapons or that he thought anything that was not nailed down belonged to him. And what was in that safe? A judge or jury might be excused for entertaining a plea of ignorance and/or insanity from Trump’s cracked legal team.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he personally approved the searching of Mor-on-Lago after asking failed, subpoenas failed, and apparently someone in Trump’s inner circle ratted out the world’s biggest rat. When the FBI searched Mor-on-Lago they found boxes of top-secret documents along with more boxes of other materials that Trump's lawyers had previously assured authorities were not there. 

To Trump, it was just a bunch of stuff to be stored in an un-secured and then poorly-secured broom closet in the basement of his resort in Florida – a resort that had already been infiltrated by at least one Chinese spy years ago.  Rumors are flying that among the boxes of documents are Obama's birth certificate, Hillary's emails and Trump's elusive tax returns.

I mean, who in their right mind would leave stuff like that laying around in an unlocked room? I think Trump deserves more credit. Sure, he's stupid enough to leave nuclear documents just laying around, but let's be fair. We know Donald Trump. He took home top secret documents because he was planning to sell our nuclear secrets...the one's he hadn't already sold or given away while he lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Question For The Day

August 13, 2022

Six months after Trump sent an armed, violent mob to, among other things, hang Mike Pence Mike, Pence said that he didn’t know if he and Trump would “ever see eye to eye” on the events of January 6, 2021 – in the next sentence he kissed Trump’s ass. Eighteen months after Trump gleefully watched his mob on live tv as they defiled the Capitol and attempted to defile Pence, Marshmallow Mike, desperately trying to walk the fine line between criticism and ass-kissing added, “I don’t know that the president and I differ on issues, but we may differ on focus.” Yeah, I guess so. It seems that only one of them would be happy to see someone hang Mike Pence.

Mike Pence, who unlike the man who still holds the business end of Pence’s leash is still permitted to be on Twitter, tweeted the following shortly after we learned that the FBI executed a perfect search warrant on Mor-on-Lago:

Pence joined the voices of countless politicians and propagandists who waxed apoplectic without waiting for any facts whatsoever to emerge. All that traitorous noise was of course before it was learned that the only thing that was truly unprecedented was Trump’s theft of classified documents, including top secret nuclear documents, on his way out the door after his crushing defeat at the hands of Joe Biden and a majority of American voters (not just the fake Electoral College).

All of this begs today’s Question Of The Day:

Will radical religious hypocrite Mike Pence agree to be Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024, and will he bring his own custom-made noose this time?


Interesting leash they got there

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Friday, August 12, 2022

Fun Fact For The Day

Send In The Feds…Don’t Bother, They’re Here

August 12, 2022

In case you have not heard, or if like me you just cannot hear it often enough, the FBI – acting on a federal-court-approved, probable-cause search warrant – spent some quality time at Mor-on-Lago this past Monday. The move was carried out very quietly in order to protect the privacy of the suspect, who warrants no privacy. For some reason the suspect, Donald Toilet Trump decided to publicize the event, which he and his Rat Pack in Congress immediately began using to raise money, and to gin up a civil war.

Apparently, Trump thought there was a home version of what he believed was just another reality show. A home version that included extremely sensitive nuclear secrets.

Moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., January 20, 2021;
Trump once again breaking the law in broad daylight

For some strange reason (do the name Hillary Clinton ring a bell), in 2018 (less than a year into office) Donald Trump signed into law a bill raising the penalty for mishandling government documents – you know, like taking them out of the White House illegally and hiding them around an illegal residence, say at a Florida resort.

Trump signing a law that with any luck will soon be
coming back to bite him on his dumb ass

In part, the law upgraded the seriousness of wrongly moving classified material, turning it from a misdemeanor into a felony – and increasing the maximum sentence – from one year in prison to five years.

We reached out to Trumpworld to learn whether or not the ex-president and current indictment collector believed that time machines were real and had planned to go back in time to arrest Hillary Clinton under his new law. Trump’s representative could not be reached for comment.

Just thought you might like to know.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Fun Fact For The Day.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Donny Downer

Trump Is Fighting Stupid Mad

August 10, 2022


To paraphrase, he’s an asshole, not a fighter

It seems that very stable genius Donald Trump has grown jealous of the candidate he endorsed for Senate from Georgia. As you may know, Herschel Walker who has been living in Texas for the past decade, is currently in a tight race with Raphael Warnock to represent the Peach State. Walker has shown himself to be deranged, dangerous, terrifyingly ignorant and whose stupidity is measured in light years. Never wanting to be outdone, Trump appears to be on track to out-dumb Walker.

The Real Herschel Walker

Raiders Of The Lost Dork

Poor old Donny. He just cannot figure out why his unceasing lawlessness, treason and in the end leading a full-blown insurrection, have garnered such negative attention. After learning the details of the FBI search of Mor-on-Lago, the inevitable whining began. His pathetic statement included the following:

“They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.”

Fun Fact

Hey, remember when perpetual-national-security-hazard Trump barred American press from his Oval Office meeting with Russians, but allowed Russian press in? And during that meeting, when Trump spilled very sensitive national security secrets to the Russians? Well, do ya punk?

Someone should explain to shit-for-brains that criminal operatives broke into the DNC headquarters in the Watergate in order to engage in more illegal activity at the behest of the president. The government operatives of the FBI legally entered the premises at Mor-on-Lago because a federal judge ruled there was probable cause that a crime had been committed by the president. So really, kind of the same thing, Donny Boy. Ratpublicans behaving badly.

Trump is being backed up by every single Ratpublican in Congress – either by commission or by omission. By speaking out on Trump’s behalf, or by saying nothing.


If these twits…I mean tweets are too hard to read, it’s who-the-fuck’s-who of
Ratpublicans throwing America under the bus to protect Trump*

Apparently, these brain-dead fuckwits forgot that current FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by their Lard and Savior Donald Trump. Trump himself went after Wray for executing the completely legal, extremely warranted warrant.

The brain-deadliest of them all, Kevin McQarthy, threatened Attorney General Merrick Garland tweeting, “Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” adding a bunch of other shit with which I will not waste your time. I don't remember McQarthy worrying about preserving documents when we learned that Dumb Donald ate documents, shredded documents, burned documents, flushed them down various toilets and absconded with 15 boxes of documents - including many tippy-tippy-top secret documents. Knowing Trump – who just had his first wife buried at his golf course in order to get a tax break – it is best to assume he was planning to sell state secrets to the highest dictator/bidder.

It is well-known that Trump doled out a number top secret tidbits while in office. It is not known whether this was done for money, to show how important he was, because he was hell-bent on destroying America, or because he is too stupid to know what the fuck he was doing.

Naturally, Trump’s throng of traitorous, treacherous cretins are preparing to “lock and load” in order to show who’s boss. Get ready for civil war skirmishes as mobs of blind boneheads, who have no understanding of the law or reality, take out their flaccid, flatulent frustrations. They are angry, in large part, because they are stupid, wrong-headed and irrevocably self-assured. They are preparing to neither stand back or stand by. There will be nothing civil about the coming war.

The Stupid Is Strong In This One

In case anyone think Trump just got stupid (I know no one thinks that, it’s called literary irony), Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, in their new book The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 reported on a stunning (stunningly stupid, that is; and also frightening) exchange between Trump and then-chief-of-staff Gen. John Kelly:

Trump: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
Kelly: “Which generals?”
Trump: “The German generals in World War II.”
Kelly: “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Trump: “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him.”

Yeah, why couldn’t American generals have been more like Hitler’s generals during Trump’s Reich?

Making my little heart skip a beat, in their new book, Baker and Glasser described Trump as “an incurious moron with the IQ of a Big Mac.” I wish I had said that.

Fun Fact #2

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that Trump must turn over his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 3 to 0. Given the fact that Trump has for eight years refused to let anyone get a look at his taxes, perhaps it is time for a search warrant be issued to get his taxes from the IRS. Wouldn’t it be nice.

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*To be fair, who knows how many of them might also be implicated if Trump’s truth sees the light of day.

I. Mangrey recalculating. Do the math.

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Resignation Day(s) 2022, Day Two

No More Shopping Days Left Before Resignation Day(s)

August 9, 2022

If there could be anything better than impeaching someone like Richard Nixon (once) or Donald Turmp (twice), it would be indicting someone like Donald Turmp. With Nixon, it was said that the cover-up was worse than the crime. That might be true. After all, at least according to Nixon – before everyone learned it was his idea – Watergate was nothing more than a “third-rate burglary.” In the case of Turmp, there has, at least not since the bombing of Ft. Sumpter, been anything worse than his long-planned attempted coup. Sure, the cover-up is a veritable smorgasbord of crimes, but the planning, inciting and attempted in-person leading of the assault on the Capitol is tough to beat. However, even as I write this, we are learning that all kinds of potential evidence was deleted from phones belonging to members of the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. It appears that all of these government agencies wiped their text messages right after Turmp’s attempted coup.

I have heard some say it will be all but impossible to Lock Him Up. This is due to the requirement for all living presidents, ex or otherwise, twice-impeached or otherwise, anti-American or otherwise, guilty as fucking hell of trying to overturn a legitimate election or otherwise, to have round-the-clock Secret Service protection for life (with or without parole). This would necessitate incarcerating some number of agents along with their protectee. However, I have an idea. Let’s round up the SS agents who deleted their text messages related to January 6 and post them with the man they protected, and they can all do time together. This is why I get the big bucks…or would, if I got any bucks at all.

Those Who Don’t Learn From History
Are Doomed To Fuck It Up For The Rest Of Us

Before we regale you – or perhaps gale you for the first time – with this year’s brand-new verses of the old holiday favorite ‘Twas The Night Before Resignation, on Day 2 of Resignation Day(s), here are a few highlights from the ghost of Resignation Day(s) past.

Just a few more hops down memory lane before the main event:

2013

Pardon me for not forgetting. Pardon me for not letting it go after all these years. Pardon me for dragging you into my obsession. I just can’t seem to quit the man who tarnished America, no easy feat, and then quit rather than face the music. I don’t care if he’s dead, I still want to impeach Nixon. It’s never too late for justice to be done. I know it will never happen in this case, but that doesn’t make it right.

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed. Period. And that’s the way it is. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

2014

Thanks Ed, that was a treat as always. I hope you don’t mind if I add a verse or two for today’s holiday season…

Once more it’s that season, now Obama’s the one
New Impeachers are restless, and each has a gun.
They are angry and senseless, and each one is White
No need for good reason, they just want to fight.

So let’s watch in amusement, as they trip o’er their tongues
As they sputter and spew and expel from their lungs
All the hot air and spittle, all the BS and blight,
Keep it up silly Crackers, and to all a good-night!

2016

Tiny hands, tiny brain, tiny what-the-fuck-ever,
You will lose very bigly and be president…NEVER
Go prepare your next bankruptcy, it’s what you do best
You whiny Tweet-aholic, and sanity’s pest

2017

The endless lies and insanity assaulting us all,
By Constitution, our right and our duty - this Chrump thing must fall.
So I say to you all, Power To The People, Out Of Sight,
More Impeachment to all, and to all a good-night!

2018

Impeachment, resigning once more fill the air,
Now dash away blob with your FAKE orange “hair”,
This Chrump works for Putin, and amplifies hate,

He’s racist, he’s fascist; ain’t America great? 

Though mostly Chrump’s tweeting and golfing galore,
He’s doing great damage, let’s show him the door.
Fake “hair”, phony color, his face sphincter speaks,
Let’s vote like we mean it and be rid of this freak. 

Colluding, conspiring, with Russia, oh no!
Won’t tell his own people what he said to our foe.
This treasonous cretin makes us all sick and tired,
Let’s pray the next Congress will tell him, “YOU’RE FIRED.”
 

2019

We heard from The Mueller, in a manner of speaking
He said there were crimes, he said there was sneaking
He all but said, “Congress, it’s time to impeach,”
He said indicting and punishing was out of his reach.

Still helping the Russians help him get re-elected,
With his treason, stealing children from their parents and torturing them, denying climate crisis, treating international allies like dirt and generally threatening global stability, we all are infected
His crimes are innumerable, his racism steady
Impeach The Mother Fucker Already!

2020

‘Twas the night before Resignation

So we had our impeachment, if fell with a squish,
We thought he would go down, did not get our wish.
Chrump escaped, abetted by old Moscow Mitch,

That dastardly, reptilian son-of-a-bitch. 

Only one thing might stop this walking crime ‘gainst humanity,
This shit storm perpetrated by this terrestrial manatee.
A second Chrump term will kill America, no doubt,
So, on November the 3rd, VOTE HIM THE FUCK OUT! 

Before getting on with this year’s verses, enjoy or scroll past last year’s offering…

 

‘Twas the night before Resignation
(In 2021 it just gets verse)

Twice, there were Turmp crimes, and all through the House,
There were cries for impeachment, “Get rid of this louse!”*
The crimes were all proved, beyond shadow of doubt,
Witnesses, videos. Throw the bum out.

The country was nestled and nervous and scared,
Of the mad orange man, with the fake orange “hair.”
He bragged about crowd size and hands and whatever,
He promised to fight and stay president forever.

And despite all the evidence, and all the convincing,
Still half the country’s all his, the other half wincing.
It was easy to see that this Turmp was a fascist,
Who put any against him on his miles-long blacklist.

They impeached him not once, they impeached him then twice
The Senate stood by him, we never got to say, “Atsa nice.”
‘Cause he stayed on in office, swore he’d get re-elected,
But the voters said, “Fuck off! Go to hell! You’re rejected!”

The sorest of winners, could not handle such losing,
So he riled up his MAGAts, to believe his delusing,
Go take over the Capitol, it need not make sense,
And while you are at it, try hanging Mike Pence.

Never cared ‘bout America, repeatedly treasonous,
One can’t help but wonder just what the reason is,
Always siding with Putin, and threat’ning Ukraine
To get Hunter Biden? This fucker’s insane.

He whined and he moaned and incited insurrection,
All because he’s psychotic, no one wants his erection.
Turmp still thinks he’s president, or will be reinstated,
His tiny brain and reality are for sure unrelated.

Can the Democrats somehow get brains, spines and balls,
And stop the Turmp Party from having it all?
They unsuccessfully impeached him not once but twice,
There’s nothing left, but to impeach his ass thrice.

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*Actually, the cries were “Impeach The Mother Fucker Already!” which didn’t rhyme with house and would have thrown off the rhythm completely.

 

As Trump goes kicking and screaming into that good night, we will continue our appointed rounds, unfazed. Well, maybe fazed, but undaunted.

So, without further ado, or a don’t, or a maybe, Paying Attention™ brings you our 2022 installment of the Resignation Day(s) festivities.

‘Twas the night before indictment, and all oer the place
America on the precipice of wars civil and race.
When all of a sudden, we heard such a clatter,
When Merrick Garland said finally, “Something’s the matter.”

Though now Turmp is gone, well not really but sorta
And at least we can’t feel his tiny hand on our aorta,
He is out of high office, the vote saw to that,
But Turmp just won’t accept it, his head is too fat.

He keeps whining and calling to get the votes changed
Turmp can’t let it go, he’s a fascist, deranged.
He deserves a subpoena, or at least an indictment,
For his scheming and plotting and his violent incitement.


Actual photos of two toilets in which Trump flushed documents

For his eating, burning, shredding and stealing of documents,
And even mixing some in with his voluminous excrements,
The White House plumber (not Nixon’s) needed always be near.
For Turmp’s flushing of documents, no punishment too severe.

On Rudy, on Hawley, McCarthy and Gaetz,
On Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and oh how they hates.
They want a White nation of Christians, not Jews,
Their divorce from reality is surely not news.

Two impeachments, one term, there has not been one worse,
And the cause of such angst, and such torturous verse.
Drag him off by his feet, or his “hair” or whatever,
Let him back in the White House? Oh fuck no! Oh fuck, NEVER!
 


I imagine having the same sentiment when Turmp is finally gone

Until next year, from all your unimpeachable sources at Paying Attention: Ed Venture, I. Mangrey, T. Doff, Allison Wundarland, Ann T. Soshal and our intern – Yuno Hoo, we hope you’re enjoying Resignation Day(s) 2022.


Balloon Guy showed up a Mor-On-Lago to make a few bucks during the FBI raid

BONUS TRACK:


Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - H2Ogate Blues