Thursday, February 20, 2025

Boom Goes The Diplomacy

America: The New Pariah

February 20, 2025

Well, two of Dictator-On-Day-1-31(so far) Don’s stellar dim-bulbs were allowed to leave the country. It did not go well. Pete Gin-breath and VD Vance both figuratively (we assume) wet their pants in front of our allies.

Pickled Pete had to quickly walk back comments about how Ukraine shouldn’t be allowed to join NATO and should just do what war criminal/murderer Putin wants Don to want Ukraine to do.

Idiot-minus-the-savant Vance delivered a condescending lecture to our European allies about the good old “threat from within” and how they shouldn’t be mean to their new Nazis. Hmmmmm, now who was it in Europe that used to caterwaul about the threat from within? What ended up being his final solution? Anyone?

Trump’s Dopes Put The Dip In Diplomacy

Both of these mangey mongrels managed to piss off all of our allies, as America hurtles toward fascism and possible irrelevance on the world stage.

Vance whined

“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It's not China. It's not any external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America”.

Interesting; I would say the same thing about Vance and his two twisted bosses.

Vance may have taken the Boo Ribbon with his scolding, especially when the most humorless man in the world “joked” about how if American democracy could "survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk”, which he prefaced with “And trust me, I say this with all humor”. And trust me, we do not trust you and you have no humor. You are a limp dick.

Vance’s crap drew mostly groans from those in attendance. I guess that’s what happens when our representatives go around spouting Putin’s talking points to our allies.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of a party that has downplayed the atrocities committed by the Nazis 80 years ago. Vance met with the leader of the far right party (the same one Musk Zoomed with last month). Scholz did not comment on Vance’s cozy relationship with present-day Nazis like Zyklon B. Musk or Con Ye.

Immediately after his visit to the Dachau Nazi death camp Vance described his experience with all the heartfelt emotion of a manhole cover.

It’s cute that Vance thinks he’s really vice president.
Everyone know that’s Trump. Vance is either window or salad dressing.

Tsunami of Tshit

Back home, when Dirty Diaper Don was asked “Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?”, his (i.e., Putin’s) reply was “(sniff) Hmmmmm, interesting question.” For the record, that is not an interesting question. He added, “I think they have to make peace. Their people are being killed and I think they have to make peace. I said that was not a good war to go into”. Go into? In Ukraine, war goes into you. When you are invaded by Russia. Kind of like America. Except Russia is not invading us with weapons. They are invading us with Donald Dick, Musk, Vance, Gabbard, Patel, et al.

These Christo-fascist assholes are leaving nothing to chance.

Dumb-ass Don and Zyklon B. Musk are furiously at work dismembering American democracy and every alliance this country has forged over the centuries.

I. Mangrey showing restraint.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Leonard Peltier - Free At Last

Hoka Hey (It Is A Good Day To Die)

February 19, 2025

Just before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of railroaded Native American elder and activist Leonard Peltier, wrongly imprisoned since 1976. Today, at long last, Peltier was actually released from prison. He will still be under house arrest, but will at least be able to spend his remaining years, albeit with numerous serious health issues, with his family and his people. 

We wish Leonard health, help and peace for the rest of his days.

All our relations.

Ed Venture
Managing Editor

NEW FEATURE: Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™*

Anti-Social Insecure Shitty

February 19, 2025

Gee, wonder how that happened

“We have a very corrupt country…If you take all of those millions of people
off social security, all of the sudden we have a very powerful social security.”

Which begs two questions:

1) Which fucking millions of people is Dementia Don talking about?

2) What in the name of Rumplefuckingstiltskin is his human fart talking about?

There is one easy answer to question #1: Anyone on Social Security who voted for this soiled-diaper-in-a-suit relinquishes their monthly check immediately because, you know, they’re patriots.

The answer to question #2 is less straightforward, but I’ll take a, if you’ll pardon the expression, stab at it. Every. Fucking. Thing.

In Don’s wholly undeserved defense, he’s repeating the completely debunked lie that 150-year olds are receiving benefits. Because there is no lie debunked enough for him not to repeat.

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*As always, the fool full context does not make it any better.

One more thing…


This has been Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™*

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Who’s Your Daddy

Democracy Inaction

February 18, 2025

Our newest intern was out there beating the bushes for the latest depredations of the Musk/Trump dissembling of everything we have known and much of what is actually good and decent about our country and our democracy. Once again we see the sickening fascist tropes insinuating themselves throughout the executive branch, in no small part due to the very damaged, if present at all, executive functions of the two brains atop the pyramid of idiocy – Zyklon B. Musk and Dictator-On-Day-1-29(so far)  Don. I’ll let the intrepid and grossly underpaid Ho Leigh Schitt spell it out.

Ed Venture
(Barely) Managing Editor, Paying Attention™

How ironic. While tailing a pair of Musk’s teenage twits, many of whom, years before reaching shaving age, have their hands in some very sensitive cookie jars. One of these super geniuses left – of all things – a laptop at a local Build-a-Bear, where they spent the better part of that afternoon creating hideous stuffed animals, presumably to take to bed that evening as what for them passes as intimate human interaction. Here is what I found in a folder marked “Who’s Yr Daddy”.

Applicants for the FBI and other top national security positions are being asked two questions:

1) Who is your real boss? (trick question?)

2) Who were the real patriots on January 6th? (dick question!)

Two applicants for leadership positions reported being asked these questions.

1) Was January 6th an inside job?

2) Was the 2020 presidential election stolen?

Both answered NO. Neither was hired.

This is truly democracy inaction.

Can you say ‘sieg heil’? I can’t.

Ho Leigh Schitt reporting.

Monday, February 17, 2025

TQ+hought For The Day

Cloudy With A Chance Of Hate And Death

February 17, 2025

To paraphrase the Rolling Stones from Mother’s Little Helper,

What a drag it is getting fucked over by homophobic, hypocritical, rat-fucking, fascist Ratpublicans who rush to ban drag shows but fight to keep mass shootings today, mass shootings tomorrow, mass shootings forever.

Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American:

Protesters today [February 14, 2025] packed Christopher Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village near the Stonewall National Monument after the Trump administration erased “TQ+” from the LGBTQ+ on the monument’s website. The Stonewall Uprising of 1969, six days of conflict between police and LGBTQ+ protesters after police raided the Stonewall Inn, brought the longstanding efforts of LGBTQ+ activists for civil rights to popular attention, making Stonewall a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights.

Trans activists Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera were key figures in the Stonewall Uprising. Acknowledging their contribution, one protester held a sign that read, “NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: YOU CAN’T SPELL HISTORY WITHOUT A ‘T’”

Former Republican operative Stuart Stevens had a different take. He posted: “When I see the sexual orientation hate come out of the Republican party under the pretext of just being anti-Trans, I am very tempted to name the Republican operatives and elected officials who are closeted gays. It’s not a short list. (bold/italics  mine)

Please Mr. Stevens, what the hell are you waiting for. Set these poor bastards free. It’s the least you can do.

This has been your Paying Attention™ TQ+hought For The Day.

What do you think?

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Question For The Day – Musk You?

The Jobless Market

February 16, 2025

Acting-president Zyklon B. Musk has been taking a chainsaw to the federal workforce – just as he did with his private companies. The claim is that this will reduce waste. Unsurprisingly, all the “waste” that is being vacuumed up is being redirected to the trillions-of-dollars needed to provide government assistance to the very-and-filthy richest Americans, coincidentally, like Zyklon B. Musk – the same guy we mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.

Add this to the never-ending and rapidly accelerating replacement of human workers in almost every sector of human endeavor by machines and now AI, and there will soon be no work for homo sapiens.

And by the way, hospitals, joining in the cost-cutting fun, are increasingly deciding that doctors (yes, you saw that right – DOCTORS) are just non cost-effective and need to be eliminated. Better figure out what surgery you might need in the next 20 or so years and do it now while there’s still someone around to do it. Or maybe there will be America’s Best Surgeons locations opening up in your local mall soon…that is until malls disappear under the weight of Amazon and its fellow travelers. Oh, and Amazon is now offering “health care”.

Today’s Question For The Day:

What the hell are all these people in both the private and public sector supposed to do to feed, clothe and house themselves and their families when all the jobs are gone and the new regime refuses to allow any funds to be allocated for life support?

Bonus Question:

When are people going to realize they are being murdered in slow motion by this administration?

Politics Girl – You’re Being Played

This has been your Paying Attention™ Question For The Day.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Everything-Is-Broken News – Nice Government You Got There

Show Me The Money And Show Him The Door

February 15, 2025

Can someone please tell me again how much money Hunter Biden allegedly received from foreign interests because of his father’s name?

Okay, I’ll tell you.

Records indicate that Hunter Biden, who at the time of his being investigated was a former drug user, received $11 million from Ukrainian company Burisma. Yeah, that sucks but…

Can You Say Conflict Of Interest?

Current ketamine abuser* and unelected president of the United States fElon Musk’s Tesla company is listed as the recipient of the largest expected State Department contract, in the amount of $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla”. Whatever the fuck that is. Pretty wild. That might be more than Don raked in during his entire first term. fElon did it within the first month. Makes sense though, a sizeable portion of Musk’s wealth already comes from our tax dollars, so what’s a few hundred more million. Tesla and SpaceX have already raked in $250 million of our tax dollars just this year. That's in addition to the billions Zyklon Musk has vacuumed out of our treasury in the past.

In case you’re wondering just what-the-fuck that is, here’s a picture of his Cybertruck after he told the world about its “literally bulletproof” “exoskeleton” and unbreakable (according to Musk) “metal glass” windows and then had his henchman throw a steel ball – by hand – at the window. fElon laughed it off and had him try another window.

“But it didn’t go through,” Musk pathetically pointed out.

Are We Missing Something?

Oh yeah, lest we forget, Jared Fucking Kushner, whose felon father was pardoned by Trump and sentenced to be ambassador to France, got a nice little $2 billion gift from the lovely Saudis. Not allegedly. For doing nothing of which we have been made aware.

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*We should be glad he’s not an alcoholic like new Defense Secretary Hegseth, or whatever the hell is wrong with ex-heroin junkie and new Secretary of Death and Human Funerals,  RFingK, Jr. Right?

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Fight Club.

UPDATE

After much reporting on fElon’s $400 million gift for fake armored Cyberfucks, the “government”, i.e., acting-president fElon Musk, has suspended this expenditure. Presumably until the smoke clears and the mirrors can be repositioned, and the American public can be fleeced by Musk. One imagines Musk’s benefactor/lackey Trump will get a taste.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Pic Of The Day – Who’s Our Daddy?

Guess Fucking Who   

February 14, 2025

“You’re not the president. You need to go away.”*
Musk’s son X in the Oval Office, Feb 11, 2025
(pictured below)

Get that damned kid away from me. He's scaring me.
(not sure which one is saying this)

You don't have to be an expert on body language, or anything else, to see who's in charge here, but I'll give you an unnecessary hint: it's not the little guy picking his nose. Though he's clearly #2.

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*Wonder where the little fella picked up that little gem. Not saying he’s wrong, but whoa. Little Musk also told Dumb Don to “Shush your mouth”.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.

Fun Fact For The Day - Bag Of Dicks



Partners In Slime

February 14, 2025

Just so we’re clear. The world’s richest asshole, who fired almost everyone who worked for him* at his car company and his anti-social media/home for Nazis, incels, white supremacists and miscellaneous cretins, is either working for or in ownership of, or is co-president with – depending on your interpretation of current events – the guy who bankrupted several casinos and generally filed for bankruptcy six times.**

So much funning.

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*And is now in charge of all federal hiring/firing. Which do you imagine he will be focused on?
**Not to mention his crooked charity, countless failed businesses, scams and stupid and/or shockingly low-quality products, his flagrant racism, misogyny, dozens of credible rape allegations – including what one judge labeled as actual rape – tax fraud, and allegations, which everyone knows are true, of election interference, stolen classified documents and insurrection against the United States, because we would never mention such things.


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