This year, if not for the raging racism,
fascism and dumb-fuckism of the Trump Era, We The People would be celebrating
the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence. America may have declared its independence on that day, but it
would take the better part of another century before there was even a hint of
humanity and equality, and another century after that before this nation could
be considered an actual democracy.
The truths those (mostly slave-owning)
wealthy white men held to be self-evident in Philadelphia in 1776 – despite the
overriding hypocrisy of slavery in which so many of the signers were wallowing
(and the genocide that made white people in America possible) – have been on a rickety
roller-coaster ever since. Hopping on the ride to a democratic republic seemed
like a good idea at the time. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, “A good idea if you
can make it real.” The waxing and waning of democratic principles and practices
continues to this day. Except, if you could just stop screaming and banging
your head against the wall for a moment, you can see a little way up ahead, the
track is badly damaged. There just might be enough time for some roller-coaster
repair person to at least duct tape the damn thing together enough so that we
don’t end up doing a Thelma and Louise off the rails resulting in a high-speed
sudden death and in the closing of this not-so-amusement park.
The Farce Of July
Full disclosure: The
last big birthday, America’s Bicentennial in 1976, was also a fraught time. We had
an unelected president, put there because he promised to pardon his traitorous
predecessor, who left in disgrace one step ahead of the impeachment squad. As a
member of the rag-tag Philadelphia Painted Faces Brigade, I and several others
refused to be sequestered far from the focal point of the action at
Independence Hall. We took our mini-protest right to the building where it
happened. We braved mounted police, undercover FBI agents and angry “patriots”
accosting us with the “Love it or leave it” bullshit. We thought that birthday
sucked…until we got to today.
I and Anonymous
I don’t know how I
would have commemorated America’s 250th had we not been in our
current dilemma. Other than this finely crafted hissy fit the Paying Attention™
team is boycotting all festivities on this day. Surely this
would have been a much bigger celebration in Washington, DC had not Donald
“Death-To-America” Trump been president, and had he not depressed the living
fuck out of most Americans by trashing the economy, the Constitution and
perpetrated the most virulent criminal enterprise ever run out of the White
House…or the remains thereof. And had he not made everything about him.
from Matt
Wuerker
During this shoulda-been celebratory year,
love it or hate it, many of us and our ancestors have continuously worked for a
more perfect union. Today, we have a fake president, who incited a coup,
pardoned those of his followers who were convicted in a court of law for
engaging in insurrection, and is still trying to figure a way to make off with
nearly two billion of our dollars for the sole purpose of paying off his
metastatic minions via his heinous, Orwellian “Anti-Weaponization Fund”. This is
meant to provide Trump’s thugs to with something like a million bucks each (unless
the My Pillow guy gets the four-hundred-million he’s applying for) and the
confidence to rise up again in support of their dear leader and against our
democracy and our Constitution when he refuses to leave office on January 20,
2029, putting an ignominious end to this great experiment we call the United
States.
Rumor has it* that Trump is planning to have
himself lying…I mean lying in state in perpetuity, as president-in-death, for
the remainder of time, once he has shuffled off this mortal coil, and gone to
meet his hopefully remorseful maker. Like Weekend at Bernie’s…with more
fascism.
Trump will have little if anything to say
about this nation’s 250-year history. He knows nothing of it. He cares even
less. Perhaps one of his sociopathic speech writers will cajole him into making
a passing reference to America while he makes this day…say it with me now…all
about him.
Don’t Say Yay
You may recall when the great George Takei
donated his very name to the fight against Tennessee’s dumb-ass “Don’t Say Gay”
law.
George Takei vs. Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill
Perhaps one day, the rest of us can make it so
the word Trump replaces the word ‘fuck’. As in, “Go Trump yourself.” or “What
the Trump is going on here?” or “Don’t Trump with me you Trumping asshole.”
This could have the added benefit of being
permitted on American television where squeamish fuckwit dinosaurs still rule
the airwaves, and in the fucking year 20fucking26 there are still words you
can’t fucking say on television. But you can buy enough guns to murder a
classroom full of small children in 15 minutes, even if you are mentally
unstable. And you can have a 34-time-convicted felon elected president of the
United States.
Oh, I almost forgot, it’s about time for a
surprise...
Question For The Day:
How fucking fucked up and/or depressingly
apropos is it that America is celebrating our 250th birthday with
fucking Donald Fucking Trump as our fucking, fucked-up president?
Considering the unfuckingbelievable fact that
Flag Day is also the birthday of Donald January 6, 2021 Trump, is this, as suggested by H.L.
Mencken,what
America was always meant to be?
____________________________________________ *A rumor that originated
right here, right now…but you didn’t hear it from us.
Donald Death-to-America Trump’s celebration of himself, and
by accident the 250th anniversary of the independence of the country
he barely pretends to lead, is in full swing. Well, not so much swing as
collapse – just like Old Donald himself. Just ask (off the record, of course) the
22 specialists who recently examined him.
As you can see (below), there are literally tens of people
blanketing, well not so much blanketing as dotting the National Mall for the
big event.
Darn Old Trump is scheduled to address the “crowd” tomorrow with what he described as a very long speech,
so the crowd size(like the temperature) just might hit triple digits. That is, until he starts blathering
on. If recent events are any indication, once he starts relitigating the 2020
election, how mean everyone is to him, what a great job he is doing, Barack
Hussein Obama, Sleepy Joe Biden and how low gas prices are, people will decide
it’s too hot, he’s too stupid, and use their time more productively, like
leaping in front of a bus or lying across some train tracks.
Desperate crowds flee the
Orange Gas Cloud
This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Schmuck
on!
As we approach the recognition* of the 250th
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a somewhat
unrelated question.
Today’s Question For The Night:
Is Howard Lutnick still on Trump’s cabinet
because he, possibly more than anyone else still living and not named Ghislain
Maxwell, knows everything Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump did in the
Donald Trump Memorial
Epstein Files
especially the ones that have already been
86ed?
______________________________________________ *Any actual celebration will be
tainted by the fact that we currently have a criminal, traitorous, fascist
occupying the Remains-of-the-White-House. It’s a bit hard to whoop it up with
our democracy teetering on the brink death.
Why
the fuck would anyone in their right mind ever equate you with being a doctor? Aren’t
you the guy who suggested ingesting bleach or shining a strong, powerful light
up the ass to cure COVID. Aren’t you the guy who said there would be fewer COVID
cases if there was less testing? Am I remembering that right? Yes, I am. So,
you think someone sees you as a doctor? Jack “Dr. Death” Ke vorkian, the father
of physician assisted suicide kept his patients in better health than you ever
would, even if you could. You don’t heal the sick, you make the sick. You have
no concept of the motto “First do no harm.” Harm is all you do.
Fake
physician, heal thyself…think Kevorkian.
Signed,
Unsigned
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
The traitorous, Trumpist anti-Constitution stupor
majority on the Extreme Court are the big winners this time around. The racist,
misogynist, anti-democracy Psycho Six – led by the blatantly, objectively and
shamelessly criminal scumbags Sam Alito and Clarence “Uncle” Thomas, and
happily aided and abetted by Chief Injustice John “Racism In America Is Over”
Roberts, who has been fighting against voting rights since the 1980s.
Their list of heinous transgressions is almost
endless…and ending our democracy. It will take nothing short of a miracle to
extricate this nation from this Court’s legal-ish quicksand and reacquaint
ourselves with the Constitution that provides a decent framework, yet requires
no small amount of modernization along with serious and far-reaching safeguards
against the kinds of depredations perpetrated by the current crop of crooked
creeps controlling this Court.
Spot the loonies
Fuck these clowns and the whores the rode in on.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmucks Of The Day. Schmuck
on!
Our intrepid, unpaid
gaggle of interns discovered the existence of a cabinet position that has been
kept secret. However, once you learn of this new department, so much of what we
have been seeing for the past eighteen months will make much more – for lack of
a better word – sense.
Seal of the United States Department of the Inferior
“And then the fake news says, “Oh, well, it didn’t
work. Of course it worked. Everything I does works. What I do works. In fact I
looked at it just a little while ago, it looks perfect already but we’re fixing
it.” Donald “Lying-Stupid-And-Wrong-As-Usual” Trump, June 24, 2026
On Dems
winning the midterms:
“You’ll live in squalor. There’ll be no food. There’ll be no housing. There’ll
be no military, no law and order. There’ll be no nothing. There’ll be no
nothing. You’ll be a third world inhabitant in every way and everyone will
suffer or die.” Donald “Talking-About-Himself-As-Usual” Trump,
June 26, 2026
Says
the guy doesn’t care that he caused food prices to go through the roof, refused
to sign a housing bill just days earlier because he was having a tantrum, has
depleted our military capabilities for a war of choice that he lost bigly, is
running a massive criminal enterprise out of the Remains-of-the-White House,
and killed more Americans than any other president.
It looks perfect already
but we’re fixing it.
Dear
Don:
Sir,
it is difficult to type with all the tears in my eyes. I am admittedly not a
big, strong guy who never cried before. But now, as I think about you, the
tears are streaming from my eyes. These invisible vandals who took a box cutter
or knife of some kind, as you so strongly keep saying, and sliced up the big,
blue, beautiful indestructible pool, or pond, or lake covering, must pay for
their non-existent crime of the century. Plus, it looks perfect already but
we’re fixing it? Can you hear yourself taking, sir?
Also,
having no nothing is a good thing. You must be a stupid person. And seriously,
learn the fucking language, King Minus.
And
please, and I mean this sincerely, with all due respect – please, go fuck
yourself, or get some big, strong man with tears in his eyes to do it for you. A
grateful nation will thank you.
