EXTREMELY Broken News Follow-up

Here Comes The Flood (Again)

January 9, 2025

 “The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
                        Steve Bannon – November 16, 2021

It looks like Rapey Don finally found a way to shove the Epstein Files off the front page. Have his death squad murder a white woman, mother of three and self-described good Christian, in Minneapolis. Hopefully, we can handle two scandals at a time. We should have learned how to juggle at least several earth-shattering Trumpian disasters at once by now. We can’t let him overwhelm us by flooding the zone with shit.

For those who are hard of hearing, check out this screen shot of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey telling ICE to “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis!” You can see the signer to the mayor’s left, relaying the mayor’s message.

Can You Say Cover-up?

Phase two of this heinous operation consists of the Fucked Bureau of Instigation (FBI) – part of the Department of What Was Formerly Known as Justice – taking control of the investigation of its goons. Minnesota created a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in response to the police murder of George Floyd, which took place less than one mile from the site of Renee Good’s murder. The FBI has locked local authorities, including the bureau cited above, out of the investigation into the brutal, unwarranted and literally senseless murder of Renee Good, which was committed by FBI colleagues. Nothing fascist about that.

Phase three is sending thousands more potential murderers into Minneapolis to terrorize the citizenry and maintain disorder. What (else) could possibly go wrong?

As an aside, it is – let’s call it interesting – that the Trumpers are blaming a murdered woman, who was attempting to leave the scene* in order to avoid further confrontation with the masked, armed violence-prone StormTrumpers one day after the traitors Trump pardoned were celebrating, yes celebrating, and attempting to rewrite the facts of January 6, 2021. Facts that everyone saw with their own eyes: the crazed, extremely violent mob who stormed the Capitol resulting in the death of one of their own who was shot and killed while attempting to breach the last barrier between the psychotic, seditionist mob and their prey – members of Congress and the vice president, all of whom they intended to, at the very least, kidnap, if not inflict bodily harm, or worse. Ashli Babbitt was not attempting to leave the scene; she was on the attack and would not retreat – that is called suicide by police. Babbitt is worshipped as a martyr by the same people blaming Renee Good for getting murdered by government agents.** Maybe I’m just not very good at math, but I don’t see how that shit adds up.

One More Thing

To quote Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis

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*At least one “officer”/goon present commanded Good to leave the scene, which is exactly what she was doing as she completely avoided making contact with the psycho who nonetheless shot her in the face as Good drove off.
**The government paid Babbitt’s family $5M in a “wrongful death” settlement. How much will Renee Good’s family get?

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled seething and cringing.

EXTREMELY Broken News – Terror On American Streets

Donald Death Squad

January 8, 2025

The first fatality in Donald Trump's (that's the Peace Prize wannabe guy) ICE Wars is now in the books. Renee Nicole Good, the proverbial Crispus Attucks of today has fallen in Minneapolis, Minnesota (a favorite target of Trump’s sociopathic ire) as a result of being shot in cold blood yesterday by ICE mercenaries. The 37-year-old mother of a young child was shot in the face while leaving the scene, not far from where George Floyd was brutally tortured and murdered by local police five years ago. Trump wanted peaceful protesters of Floyd’s murder “shot in the legs, or something” but was rebuffed by cooler heads. There are no cooler heads in his new administration – just Kool-Aid heads. Ms. Good’s blood is on Trump’s hands.

MURDERED BY DONALD TRUMP

There have been 14 shootings at the hands of Trump’s untrained, underbrained, overpaid terror – now death – squad across the country at the behest of Donald Trump. Marimar Martinez was shot by Customs and Border Protection agents in Chicago, Illinois last October. She was shot five times but survived. The officer who shot Martinez sent a text message that read, “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” These are the people Trump wants “protecting” us from…What exactly?

The violent idiots of ICE have now unsurprisingly murdered an innocent citizen. The only surprising thing is that the victim was a white woman and an American citizen. The woman surely feared for her life, faced with masked, armed thugs. She attempted to escape their clutches.

Dog-murderer Noem, behind a camo-lace-draped podium, a cowboy hat shading/obscuring her lying eyes, proceeded to call the attempted escape from terror by the innocent, unarmed dead woman, who again was trying to flee for her life, “an act of domestic terrorism”, also falsely claiming there were riots in the streets. She has her domestic terrorism backwards. Noem repeated her slander in more “detail” at a more formal press conference, sans cowboy hat, later in the day. The mayor of Minneapolis called Noem’s version of events “bullshit” and told ICE very strongly and powerfully to “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

America’s streets in the Trump era – love it or get shot

Interestingly, there is video showing the woman driving away from the masked gunmen. If she was indeed trying to kill the “agents” she clearly had no clue as to how to achieve her goal. Either that or Noem is a lying sack of shit not worthy of licking the bottoms of the Renee Good’s shoes. If Noem was not working for a violent, convicted felon psychopath, she would have been fired immediately, if not long ago. Unfortunately, lying, murder, blaming the victim, these are all assets to her boss.

It cannot even be claimed that the shooter was a rogue “officer”. Many, if not all of these ICEholes are thugs, racists and morons. The hiring criteria are essentially a pulse, a trigger finger and a lust for violence. According to Noem, shooting unarmed, fleeing individuals constitutes “following the standard protocol procedures we do in situations like this”.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled fear and loathing.

Mr. Smith Returns To Washington

He Knows What You Did Five Years Ago, Don

January 7, 2026

You may have forgotten, because why wouldn’t you if you’re a mentally healthy individual with better things to think about, Jack Smith was a world-class investigator and prosecutor. Much of his time was spent at The Hague bringing justice to rancid, rapacious do-badders the world over. The one good thing, albeit much too late, that Merrick Garland did during his tenure as attorney general of the United States under Joe Biden was to select Jack Smith as special prosecutor to investigate American scumbag Donald Trump’s massive theft of classified documents and his part in the January 6, 2021 insurrection in service to his fervent desire to overturn the free and fair election of Joe Biden.

Smith, whose valiant efforts to hold accountable those, particularly the head of the snake, responsible for the Jan 6 insurrection, finally testified before Congress. He wanted to testify publicly, but his request was denied. Smith was very clear that the one person responsible for the attack on the Capitol was none other than Donald J. Trump. Smith testified that without Trump the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol “does not happen”. This might be why Fascist/Trump Party water-carrier and sex-crime-enabler Jim Jordan, chairmonkey of the House Judiciary Committee, released the transcript and video of Smith’s extremely damning testimony at a time when the fewest possible people would be paying attention, which is exactly what they did. Weeks after his testimony, on New Year’s Eve. Some of us were, however, Paying Attention™. You can scum, but you can’t hide.

Smith testified under oath for eight hours. He is everything Trump and his MAGAts are not - intelligent, honest and devoted to American democracy. Please enjoy this exchange between Mr. Smith and a congressman desperately trying to find a non-existent lifeline for arch villain, Dear Leader Don...

Jack Smith: The evidence here made it clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, as part of this case does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit. So, in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was meant in any way to hamper him in the presidential election. I would never take orders from a political leader to hamper another person in an election.

Questioner: So, did you develop evidence that President Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6^th?

Smith: Our view of the evidence is that he caused it and that he exploited it. And that it was foreseeable to him.

Questioner: But you don’t have any evidence that he instructed people to crash the Capitol, do you?

Smith: As I said, our evidence is that he, in the weeks leading up to January 6^th created a level of distrust. He used that level of distrust to get people to believe fraud claims that weren’t true. He gave false statements to state legislators, to his supporters, in all sorts of contexts, and was aware in the days leading up to January 6^th that his supporters were angry when he invited them, and then he directed them to the Capitol.

Jack Smith telling it like he’s been trying to tell us it is for years

Jack Smith testified under oath (something Traitor Trump could never do, at least not without perjuring himself), finally getting the chance to explain the findings of the exhaustive investigation that was stymied by Trump fangirl/make-believe judge Aileen “Move-Over-Benedict-Arnold” Cannon and then buried alive after Trump’s re-election. Here is the take-home from Smith’s testimony

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.

I rest his case.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Never Forget

Five Years Ago Today

January 6, 2026

One imagines there will come a time when, as with the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars and other famous conflagrations, there will be those who gain enjoyment by dressing up and performing reenactments of that fateful, hate-filled, traitorous day in January 2021 when deluded Americans ransacked the Capitol and attempted to kidnap and/or kill members of Congress and the Vice President.

For those among us who continue to parrot the bullshit that the disgusting, disgraceful and deadly January 6, 2021 attack and siege of the Capitol was simply a bunch of tourists enjoying a day at the Capitol, might I suggest engaging in a full contact reenactment of that carefree White House three-hour tour. The sociopathic, syphilitic, shithead current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Trump called this heinous act of sedition he instigated and incited – “a day of love”. So reenacting this historic event should be lots of fun for those subsequently pardoned for the crimes against the United States for which they were found guilty and imprisoned. Hell, a bunch of these pardoned perps are planning to hold a reunion today at the Capitol they literally shit all over.*

Those who are so proud of what transpired – of what they did or supported – that day should be happy to, and if not so inclined should be required to reenact those events wherein they play the roles of the law enforcement officers seen in hours of video footage being beaten, tased, gassed, etc.

Thanks to the man who inspired all that love by telling his mentally challenged minions to “fight like hell”, there are thousands of convicted lovers that their Dear Leader fake-absolved of their sins and sentences that they might walk among us again as free men and women, we are still at risk.

While this might sound appealing to some of these violent MAGAts, there is a catch. We have a few rules in mind.

And seriously, what is the thing sticking out of his collar? It looks over-cooked.

We are proposing that all of Trump’s loving “patriots”, at least the ones who didn’t end up back behind bars after being set free for no good reason, must be first in line to take part in the festivities, and anyone who supported their Capitol Love Fest of January 6, 2021 will be also be volunteering to join their heroes in the proposed full-contact events…whether they fucking like it or not.

If these reenactments do not spring up organically soon, those who insist Trump’s coup attempt was a day of love – especially those who took part, and even more so those who were granted their grossly inappropriate get-out-of-justice-free cards from the creature who instigated the attack – will be conscripted to participate. Surely, these “patriots” will be happy to fulfill the debt to society they were unable to complete thanks to their lard and savior granting them bone spurs…I mean pardons.

Their ranks should also include the likes of Josh Hawley, who egged on the mob before ultimately being caught on video running for his miserable life once the day of love reached its fever pitch. The reenactors should also include every single lily-livered member of Congress – talking to you Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, among others** – who immediately “held Trump accountable” before slithering away into the Great American Memory Hole, ultimately preferring to turn tail and kiss the ring and ass of their traitorous tyrant. Even the mostly dead Mitch McConnell should be wheeled into the fray to take his chances with the reenacted love.

It will be fun to click on the many YouTube videos of Ted Cruz getting tased, Lindsey Graham violated where the sun don’t shine with a Confederate flagpole, Kevin McCarthy slathered in bear spray, and Margie Taylor Greene, who despite her recent run-from-Donald moment, said at the time, “If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would have been armed. Yeah. See, that’s the whole joke isn’t it?” No, I don’t see, and no that was no joke asshole (BTW, still 90% asshole).

Here is one proposed participant playing the part of Officer Daniel Hodges, the image of whom is one of the iconic and sickening ones of that homegrown Pearl Harbor-esque day:

Don Trump reenacting the near-death of Officer Daniel Hodges

Any of the 140 members of law enforcement injured on that disgraceful day will be invited to engage in the role-reversal reenactments, or to send such representatives of their choosing in their place – you know, like veterans who risked their lives to protect our democracy from those crazed fiends of Jan 6. The surviving family members of those who perished in the assault will also be invited to join in these patriotic, cathartic events.

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*This mangy mob of malevolent maggots will likely not include the not few who have been re-arrested for things like child rape, vehicular manslaughter or threatening to murder Democratic officials like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. That is, unless Trump re-pardons them, which let’s face it, is not even a minor bending, let alone a stretch.
**These are the people responsible for every disgusting, traitorous, fascist act committed by Trump, who they could have and should have convicted after his second impeachment trial, but chose their own greed and power over the best interests of this nation. If they had been loyal patriots rather than sniveling rat-bastards we would never had to (hopefully) live through a second, potentially fatal, Trump presidency. Fuck them all the way to hell.

I. Mangrey reporting. And hoping.

Thought For The Day – On The Road To Run

A Runaway American Nightmare

January 5, 2026

There is no ‘i’ in run. Unless of course you’re talking about the way Donald Trump runs this country (and soon, Venezuela…et al).  

 

Speaking of ‘i’, this is how Trump spells Venezuela: Iraq.

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

Fraught For The Day – New Year, Same Old Trump

Will He Bomb The Epstein Files Next?

January 5, 2026

Just so we’re all clear on this.

During his slurring, halting, sociopathic statement informing the American public of his unlawful kidnapping of the (horrible, criminal) Venezuelan president, Trump made scant mention of the claimed reason for Maduro’s “arrest”, his so-called “narco-terrorism” – which like “enemy combatant” from the Bush/Cheney years (Remember when we thought they were the absolute worst?) is a made-up, bullshit term.

To be fair, it will be difficult to claim Maduro’s cocaine trafficking as an issue since Trump has pardoned dozens of major drug traffickers, including former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández who was convicted in a U.S. federal court in March 2024 for conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Trump, who had previously pardoned dozens of big-time drug traffickers, cut Hernández loose just weeks ago.

Drill-Baby-Don did mention the word “oil” 25 times.

Want to guess what word was not mentioned at all? DEMOCRACY. Neither did Trump mention free and fair elections or human rights or the several American hostages being held in Venezuela. So I guess we should be happy that our government is no longer pretending the reason for our international regime change escapades is the spread of democracy. In this case it’s the spread of the world’s largest oil supply…from Venezuela to the United States – no matter how dirty and environmentally destructive, not to mention stupid and suicidal its extraction and processing will be. Earth last.

And the Orange Oaf, ever craving his imagined baker’s dozen of Nobel Peace Prizes, who literally – all the while whining about not winning his peace prizes – bombed seven countries last year alone (Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, Iraq and Venezuela), has started this new year off by bombing Venezuela again. And Trump is now threatening to ‘intervene’ in Iran and Mexico. Mr. Gimme-My-Peace-Prizes is now claiming to have ended 8¼ wars across the globe.

Martin Mull – Bombed Anyway

The only peace-adjacent thing Trump ever did was crying bone spurs in order to avoid fighting for the country he has long pretended to care about. Draft-Dodging Don said he was “not afraid of boots on the ground” in Venezuela. Just as long as he’s not in them.

Lastly, a large majority of Americans also favor regime change. Just not in Venezuela.

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.*

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*Just kidding. Freak out.

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

You're welcome. 

Schmuck Of The Day – A Perennial Schmuck

Iran First

January 4, 2026

Yeah, this pales in comparison to invading Venezuela, but truth be told, this was scheduled to go online before that. So, at least this is somewhat less nerveracking.

Well, it’s only three four days in and our constant-repeat loser is good old, deteriorating Donny Trump. Way to go maestro.

From Un-truth Social

Former Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said President Donald Trump inquired about shooting peaceful protesters amid the unrest that took place after George Floyd's murder in 2020.

According to Esper, “The president was enraged. He thought that the protests made the country look weak, made us look weak and ‘us’ meant him. And he wanted to do something about it. We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, ‘Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?’ ... It was a suggestion and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as this issue just hung very heavily in the air.”

Just so we’re all on the same page, Trump is all protect peaceful protesters in Iran, but shoot them in the legs here at home. Now that’s some serious fucking America First bullshit.

We’d say “Encore” but there’s no need. He’ll never stop.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Schmuck on!

Don’t Cry For Us Venezuela

The Biggest Threat To America*

January 3, 2026

Donald “Death To America” Trump with his two most dangerous henchmonkeys

As if the danger Trump poses to America and the world had not been proven a thousand times over in 2025, this brand-new year is promising more of the same…if we’re lucky.

Unfortunately, our luck may have already run out. In a new wrinkle (i.e., crevasse) Donald “Death To America” Trump has decided that none of his other distractions from the five or ten or eleventy million more Epstein Pedo-files, featuring Trump more than anyone else including Epstein, are working. He needed to up his game, which is never good news for anyone else, maybe not even for him.

In the dead of night, which the very stable genius described as “dark”, Trump authorized – since no one else is permitted to do anything on their own – U.S. forces to unilaterally invade Venezuela and kidnap their president Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Granted, Maduro is a scumbag, so I guess it takes one to know one. And kidnap one. And throw geopolitics into more turmoil.

But don’t worry, the United States is the global idiot savant at managing ad lib, enforced regime change. Minus the savant.

One assumes we are being greeted as liberators as we speak.

Bumble, Bumble, Oil And Trouble

Naturally, Congress was not notified until presumably they saw it posted on “Truth” “Social”. Trump took time out from his busy shopping and golfing schedule to croak out a haltingly-read statement earlier today in which he explained

“We're there now, but we're going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place. So we're going to stay until such time as – we're going to run it, essentially, until such time as a proper transition can take place...We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country…”

Yeah, for “the country”. No doubt the selfless oil companies will pull Venezuela up by their bootstraps and have no intention whatsoever of taking those bootstraps and eventually wrapping them lovingly around Venezuela’s throat in order to asphyxiate them. Out of altruism, of course. And love.

Happy Fucking New Year.

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*It sure ain’t Venezuela. Or Mexico, which is next on Trump’s To Undo list.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™*

 

King Con

January 3, 2026 

“Affordability is a hoax started by Democrats.”

“It’s a con job. I think affordability is the greatest failure.”

“They always have a hoax. The new word is afford-a-bil-ity.”

“The word ‘affordability’ is a con job by the Democrats. They say afford —
I watched the other day where some very low-IQ
congresswoman talked about affordability, affordability, affordability.”

“You know, there’s this fake narrative that the Democrath (sic) talk about, they
talk about affordability. They just say the word. It doesn’t mean anything.”

Dear Donald:

Actually, it does mean something ya dumbass. Let’s see if we can help you figure this out. First, let’s see if you can stay awake for a minute while you’re not talking. When someone can’t afford something, what is it they can’t afford? Try to keep up, this is the important part. They can’t afford to pay the price. Get it? Affordability means pricing. You saying that the 2026 elections will be about pricing means precisely that it’s about afford-a-bil-i-ty, as you like to say it. Idiot.

“I think it’s going to be about the success of our country. It’ll be about pricing 
(italics mine, bullshit his). Because, you know, they gave us high pricing,
and we’re bringing it down.”**

So nice fucking try, asshole. And no, they didn’t.

However bad the economy you inherited might have been (and it was better than everyone else’s at the time) was however much of the mess you left Joe Biden he had not yet been able to fix. So the shit you inherited was your own shit. Maybe you just needed to flush a few more times. Or drink some bleach.

And guess what dipshit, what do you think is the main cause of poor affordability (never mind, you are clearly clueless about all of this, but at least you are certain that you know better than anyone)? Go on, guess. Here’s a hint: It’s the tariffs, stupid. No, it’s not Joe Biden. Try again Mr. Cognitive.

And double-guess-what triple-dipshit, thanks to you and your cult members in Congress average premiums under the Affordable Care Act are going up by 114% for more than 20 million people. Because you wanted to eliminate government subsidies so you could instead subsidize fucking billionaires.

Thanks for making it the Unaffordable Care Act. As in no affordability. As in horrible pricing. Asshole. Many people are simply dropping health insurance, hoping you die before they do.

Thank you for your limited attention to this matter. And good luck on your weekly cognitive test.

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*As always, the full context does not make it any better. Also, good chance this feature will be popping up constantly for at least the next four years. Sorry.
**Not sure about ‘it’, but you’re damn sure bringing us down.

This has been another painful edition of Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™*
Remember, it will get worse before it gets much worse.