Sunday, April 2, 2023

Question For The Day

Indictment Today, Indictments Tomorrow, Indictments Forever

April 2, 2023

America has finally shown a sign of being a democracy wherein no one is above the law. A tiny glimmer of the possibility of hope, but maybe, just maybe lifelong criminal Donald Trump will finally get something he actually earned – jail time. In a long overdue announcement, a Manhattan grand jury has placed repeat offender Donald Trump under indictment. 

Naturally, Trump’s poll numbers among Ratpublican voters have surged him ahead of Ron DuhSantis – who has stepped up to pretend he will not help extradite his fellow Floridian asshole, and wheedled about how Trump is a victim of something – in the nascent Ratpublican primary.

Today's question is:

Can we now convene a grand jury to hear the evidence against George WTF Bush and Dick Cheney for their war crimes relating to the illegal invasion of Iraq? Wouldn’t that be nice?

Postscript

Of course, there will likely be a price to pay for insisting that justice run its course. Trump’s cultists are nothing if not ignorant, ill-informed, anti-democratic, violent and heavily armed. At least they’re well-rounded.

Fucker Carlson told his viewers it's “probably not the best time to give up your AR-15s.”


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Saturday, April 1, 2023

A Fool For The Ages

This Is Not A Test...Or A Joke

April 1, 2023

Donald Trump’s post-indictment meltdown appears to be contagious. It has already spread to many of the unusual suspects. In particular, Lindsey Graham has his delicate panties in the most Gordian twist ever. He appeared on Fux News all teary-eyed, mewling and stamping his little feet. Graham implored the Fux faithful to, “Go tonight. Give the president some money to fight this bullshit.”

Yes, that’s right, poor, twisted Lindsey wants you to send America’s Top Thief some money so he can defend himself against truth, justice and the American way. Some people send their money to Nigerian princes in hopes of getting a not-so-small fortune for their trouble. Some people send their money to an American ex-president in hopes of keeping America as white, stupid and fascist as possible.

Many Ratpublicans are apoplectic at the thought of being out-fascisted (though all their accusations and fear mongering are as always compete projection) by what they insist is a take-over of the government and the lives of their minimally mentally competent hordes (which they of course actually attempted and failed to do). As usual, what Ratpublicans consider commie/fascist/deep state conspiracy, what they are calling “unlawful political interference,” is what political scientists and most other mammals call criminal justice.

People on Fux and countless other far-right outlets are literally talking about armed insurrection should a duly sanctioned court in the United States find an indicted defendant guilty of crimes, some of which everyone already knows he committed. For his part, Trump, who has already dog-whistled “potential death and destruction” in response to being brought to justice, is now, predictably, going after the judge with his patented whining and lying (racial slurs and threats likely to follow).

Fools And Their Money

So, for all those out there preparing to help this poor, demented, put-upon billionaire (at least according to him) and professional criminal, by all means, send this disgraced, twice-impeached, failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president, now the first (soon to be second, third and fourth) indicted ex-president (who paid $130,000 to two different women to keep them quiet about affairs) some of your hard-earned money. He is a fucking billionaire. And you’re not.

In case we are not treated to the actual mugshot

At least the people getting scammed by the Nigerian princes think they’re getting something of value. I wonder how much Lindsey has kicked in to his golfing buddy, about whom Lindsey said, “I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office,” and a “he’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” Send Trump all your money and see what you get.

I. Mangrey reporting, you deciding. Also, your shoe's untied. 

Thursday, March 30, 2023

We’re Delighted, He’s Indicted

Phase One, In Which Donald Gets His Oats

March 30, 2023

Disgraced, twice-impeached, failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Donald Trump continues to make history. This time he becomes the first ex-president to be indicted. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on 30 as-yet-unspecified felony charges.


The real one of these is scheduled for next Tuesday

First was Trump’s historically disgusting campaign, followed by his historically horrific administration full of mentally challenged, anti-democratic, soon-to-be convicted felons. After aiding and abetting the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, and losing the 2020 election in historic fashion, Donald Trump incited an insurrection, a coup d’état, a historic assault on the U.S. Capitol that ended in several deaths and some thousand convictions on a variety of charges, including seditious conspiracy. Then came the history-making second of two, count ‘em, two impeachments. This makes Trump the most historic president in history.

Donald, for all his bravado and stupidity, must be needing to have his diaper changed much more frequently after this latest turn of events. He took to his failing Twitter knock-off to whine electronically:


That’s right. Trump has been INDICATED. And INDICTED.
Oh, and by the way, you’re being PROSECUTED, not PERSECUTED

Fun fact: Here's what the pathetic putz Trump posted on his site yesterday:


Oopsie! Methinks Trump is a witch (with apologies to real witches).

Some Excitement Over Indictment

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg announced on Wednesday that the grand jury considering the indictment of Trump was poised to take a long-planned two-week hiatus. The very next day it was reported that the same grand jury was voting on the indictment and subsequently voted to indict. I guess it’s true what they say – a grand jury can indict a Ham Sandwich.

According to American justice, defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Since every other convention has been breached by life-long criminal Donald Trump, this is no time to fall back on quaint traditions. I am not a lawyer, and in most cases neither are you, so we are not constrained by either convention or actual law. I have decided that this is the time to consider uh-alternative laws…to coin a phrase.


Artist’s rendition of Trump voluntarily surrendering to authorities for arraignment

Now, among other things, we must prepare ourselves for the “potential death and destruction” that defendant Trump “suggested” might result from any indictment of any or all of his “alleged” crimes.

I. Mangrey rejoicing (just a bit).

The jerks write themselves, friends.

It's The Guns, Stupid*

As Jesus Said, “Turn The Other Bullet”

March 29, 2023

Another day, another mass shooting in the United States of Guns. More school children gunned down by guns. When Jesus said, “Suffer the little children” I don’t think this is what he had in mind. Naturally, the pro-death GOP/NRA insists it’s too soon to talk about doing something about it. It’s always too soon, and always too late.

The lunatic fringe, that is to say the majority, of the Ratpublican Party - the ones who still cannot understand the more-than-two-century-old language in the Second Amendment, insist on maintaining the wholly unsustainable frequency of mass shootings. There are two reasons they are called mass shootings: 1) there are more than two fatalities, and 2) they are SHOOTINGS, which by definition are the result of GUNS. It's fairly simple really. It takes a moron to miss the message. And we've got plenty of them to go around.

Mouth-breathers on Fux News like Laura Ingraham somehow laid the blame for mass shootings on the “legalization of marijuana.” Now why didn't I think of that? Oh, because I have a functioning brain, that's why. These murderous morons will blame everything but the fucking guns. 

Ingraham and some other Fux schmuck

“They’re fine with going and doing a run on the guns and I guess you could argue that if you wanna do, try to get rid of the Second Amendment. But completely oblivious to what legalization of marijuana has done and is doing to an entire generation of Americans - with violent consequences.” Two things, 1) No one is talking about getting rid of the Second Amendment, though many people are saying that we should consider all the words in the amendment, not just the ones we like, and consider the order of the words, and the context in which the words were written (in no small measure to keep enslaved people in their place, but that's another story altogether), and the fact that the amendment says nothing about anyone owning guns, and 2) When it comes to oblivious, baby, you're the tops.

Or take up-and-coming idiot congressman (and former criminal)  Byron Donalds (R-FL) who worries that people get too emotional after a bunch of little kids and innocent adults are mowed down by military-style weapons. Donalds call himself pro-life. I call him a hypocritical shit stain.

Goons, loons and buffoons: in no particular order (and completely out of order)
Byron Donalds, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, “George Santos”

Here's a bunch of happy Ratpublican nitwits – Tennessee congressman Andy Ogles and family celebrating the birth of their Lord, and one assumes assault weapon enthusiast, Jesus H. Christ.  I wonder what this congressman will do if one of his little ones ends up a fatality in a mass shooting, or maybe ends up on the wrong end of baby sister mishandling one of daddy's weapons of mass death.

The Ogle family (are those two wives on the right?) begs the question:
Who would Jesus shoot and what would be his weapon of choice

But Wait, There’s More

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) family, not to be out-gunned

The idiot Boebert family, ready to fight the war on Christmas?

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Las Vegas) and strapped family

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your pro-death Ratpublican Party. They will kill you without giving it a second, or any, thought. It is possible they will also eat your brains.

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*It’s also the fucking Ratpublicans

I. Mangrey reporting. Aw, shoot.                                                                                       

                                                                                 


Monday, March 27, 2023

Question For The Day

March 27, 2023

Today's question is:

Which is the more tragic disaster?

An outbreak of tornados wreaked havoc in Mississippi leaving a swath of destruction, swallowing up cars, houses and lives.

Tornados leaving death and destruction in Mississippi

Or…

An outbreak of assholes descended on Waco, Texas destroying brains, moral consistencies and taking aim at the very future of democracy in America.

Typhoon Donald wrought devastation of a different sort with his whackos in Waco

Rather than leave you with such a bad taste in your eyes, we leave you with this positive affirmation image:



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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Fun Fact For The Day

He Ain’t Got A Prayer

March 26, 2023

Apparently, Trump knows someone who can use the new artificial intelligence to help sell anti-intelligence Americans on continuing to support Donald Trump despite his lack of actual intelligence. The disgraced, twice-impeached, failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president posted the image below on his failed fake Twitter app:

This is serious AI (as in As If)

You needn’t be a forensics expert to know this is a fake image of the ex-fake president. There are two dead give-aways:

1) Look at the size of those fake hands.

At no extra cost to you the loyal viewer, we have fixed
the fake hands to better reflect their actual size

2) there is no way this raging narcissist could or would be kneeling (what is he Colin Kaepernick?) in prayer. Everyone knows Trump believes God should be praying to him.

Just thought you might like to know.
Now wasn’t that fun?

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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Jailhouse Crock

All The Bigly Ex-President’s Men (i.e., Convicted Felons)

March 25, 2023

Yesterday a delegation of dipshits from the psycho/batshit-crazy/sedition wing (i.e., the House leadership) of the Ratpublican Party's House of Reprehensibles was permitted a supervised day trip away from their confinement. They went to enjoy a conjugal visit with their imprisoned (i.e., guilty-as-fuck) fellow insurrectionists (i.e., the ones not currently serving in Congress) who the elected miscreants insist are patriotic heroes, despite them having been found guilty of various sedition-related charges resulting from their attempted coup on January 6, 2021, and consequently imprisoned. EmptyG and company shamelessly provided aid and comfort to violent, convicted enemies of the State. We haven’t seen statesmanship of this caliber since Donald Trump himself lauded the “very fine people – on both sides,” one side of course being nazis and white supremacists, in Charlottesville several years ago.

EmptyG, seen here in the day room demanding to visit her imprisoned co-conspirators

These flaming assholes were accompanied by two Democratic chaperones, who risked life and lunch to spend the day all Trump’s MAGAts in order to document the latest atrocity. Otherwise, the only reports we would hear would be the fascism-addled rantings of EmptyG and her team of twisted twits.

Their lard and savior was busy resting comfortably at Mor-on Largo before his next assault on democracy. He became tired and confused after riling up his cultists and threatening the life of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Trump needed some rest after posting this photo on his failing Twitter knock-off:

What a brave and strong man-baby (and felon) Donald Trump is

Then Trump threatened (promised?) "potential death and destruction" if he should get indicted, even though he is considering how great it would be to be seen handcuffed and smiling as they frog-marched him out of Mor-on Largo.

Maybe something like this

Bragg is now receiving death threats and envelopes containing white powder.

God bless America.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Broken News

Truth, Justice, And The End Of Civilization

March 21, 2023

Rudy Giuliani is claiming that indicting disgraced, twice-impeached, failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Donald Trump could mean the end of civilization.


Rudy, on Newsmax because Fux won’t have him on anymore:
“It’s the usual downfall of a great republic, when the prosecution system
is turned into a political device You can look at ancient history,
and you can see this is the kind of thing that ends civilization.”

While Rudy will claim that he is strictly looking out for the presidency, his fellow travelers in Congress are busy trying to manufacture crimes committed by Hunter Biden in order to trash the presidency of Joe Biden. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who at one point thought he could challenge Kevin McQarthy for Speaker and is chomping at the bit to impeach President Joe Biden (for reasons), admitted they have no evidence of anything worse than a few of Hunter’s dick pics. Donalds told Fux “News”, “Well, it's not so much about illegality, and that remains to be seen.” It’s not so much about illegality? Huh? This is the kind of thing Ratpublicans say when they know there is no evidence.

Gowdy With A Chance Of WTF

Yes, that’s his real name and his actual head

Trey Gowdy is a former prosecutor and a relentless and unrepentant Benghazi addict while in Congress. Voluntary pinhead Gowdy is trying to sell his Fux-addled audience on the idea that all Trump did was “pay for sex.” And steal classified documents. And try to extort 11,780 votes from Georgia’s secretary of state, and incite an insurrection. And all Bill Cosby did was mix a few drinks for his dates.

Meanwhile, top GQP dumbass Jim Jordan called Trump's apparent campaign finance infraction – paying off Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet on the eve of the 2016 election – "a bookkeeping error." You go gurl.

Indictment Incitement

For his part, one-man-clown-car Donald Trump tweeted in all caps a few days ago – for the sole purpose of inciting further violence in his name – that he was going to be arrested today, when everyone involved in this investigation knows that this grand jury does not conduct business on Tuesdays. Go figure.

Anyway, if indicting Trump could mean the end of civilization, that is a risk I am more than willing to take. I just wonder whether that will mean civilization ends even faster than it will via the destruction of our environment due to everything being suffocated by microplastics and/or the accelerating global climate crisis.

Many people are saying that the election of Trump as America’s 45th president already signaled the end of civilization.

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled happy thoughts.