Regarding Barack Obama

Game On

June 26, 2026

We recently vented a bit of frustration at Barack Obama – I know because I was there, in the room where it happened. Since that time, we witnessed the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. When you think back to the Obama presidency, when you watch Obama speak – then or now – and then your mind wanders back to his most recent successor, it makes you want to vomit and cry.

Obama’s immediate predecessor George WTF Bush was such a colossal fuck-up that America managed to elect its first Black president in a desperate attempt to recover. But not to worry, this completely out-of-character act was immediately rectified, and the engine of democracy, diversity, equity and inclusion was thrown into reverse at the speed of white. Hatred, stupidity and criminality became the order of the day and Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump took the reins of power, snatched up the Constitution, lit it on fire and then took off his diaper and pissed on the ashes.

Displaying his usual class and dignity, the Grim Sleeper, current occupant of the Remains-of-the-White-House, offered up his two now-discontinued cents:

Total loser and worst president ever, next to Sleepy Joe Biden, but maybe worse, who knows, Barack Hussein Obama, left Washington, DC in total disgrace – not one major scandal, zero cognitive tests, ended up taking home no classified documents, and made no money on the deal. Pathetic. Somehow he got away with building his presidential library, which will soon be renamed the Donald J. Trump Memorial Barack Hussein Obama Library, in the great city of Chicago – they love Trump in Chicago. He should have been forced to build his trashy building in Kenya, where he was born – and by the way, I have people working very strongly on getting Obama’s birth certificate. We should have something very interesting to show you in about two weeks, or a month or four days, or many later. These are the same best people who recently turned the failing Reflecting lake, or pond or water hazard, as many people are calling it, into the most beautiful blue or possibly green swimming pool anyone has ever seen. And remember, no matter how horrible, how stupid, how crooked, how deadly, reckless and pathetic you think I am, Barack Hussein Obama once wore a tan suit. That’s right, I said it. That tan suit was the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to this great nation, and the main reason Donald Trump was chosen by God to make American great again. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now, watch this drive.

Given the incessant wheedling lies that Trump is built like and is as fit as a twenty-something middle linebacker, and given the fact that the Obama Presidential Center has a full-size basketball court, there should be a pay-per-view one-on-one game between the scrawny Barack Obama and the totally buff beefcake Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump.

Lastly, a snippet of Obama’s speech at the opening of his presidential center:

“…that the very idea of working on behalf of the common good is a sucker’s bet. And that in order for us to win, somebody else has got to lose. I get it. I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this, when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters, that citizenship matters, that our collective voices matter, that how we treat each other no longer matters, then we give away our power to decide our own future. We open the door to the most ruthless, or the most careless, or the most fearful among us, who see some groups and some people as more equal than others, and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils, and punish enemies, and keep those who are different in their place. I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end.”

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

Broken News – Don Is The New Adolf

Name Game

June 25, 2026

It’s official folks. Two months ago Paying Attention™ predicted that the name “Donald” would become as popular as the name “Adolf”. How many of you know someone named Adolf? Donald used to be a very popular boy’s name. It is already fading from view.

It’s official now. Baby’s named Donald is at an all-time low.

Let the eternal shunning begin.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled search for the Holy Grail.

Pic Of The Day – “Hair” Apparent

“Hair” Of The Dog   

June 25, 2026

Trump’s fake hair comb-around-and-around-and-around is not new. Absurd, comical, hideous, but not new.

Gary Trudeau at Doonesbury showed us the truth many years ago

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

Thought For The Day – To Recap…

Celebrating Free Dumb

June 24, 2026

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Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES

I’m the only president ever to take a cognitive test. I can spell my name.

Donny Downer threw up a classless pay-per-screw birthday party for himself posing as a celebration of America’s 250th birthday. He tore apart the South Lawn, erected a massive advertising edifice with a cage in which they had a bunch of muscle-headed nutjobs beating the living shit out of each other on the Remains-of-the-White-House lawn – the champion of the event was, like the host, a dimwitted, racist slob, who closed the evening with these immortal immoral words: “Mochelle Obama is a man.” The whole ignominious incident wasn’t disgusting and grifty enough, so he made everyone pay to watch his blood-letting birthday (his, not ours) spectacle.

And then he fell asleep during the event.

This is like inviting friends to your house to celebrate your birthday and charging admission, adding, “Oh, did I mention it’s a cash bar? Oops. Have a good time, I’m going to have a nap.”

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.
We never promised you a paved-over Rose Garden.

Trump Actually Drains A Swamp

Don't Stink The Water

June 23, 2026

Apparently, killing tens (or was it hundreds?) of thousands of Americans with his mishandling of COVID (and Bob Woodward sitting on knowledge that could have averted many of these deaths until his for-profit book was finished – as were all those previously alive people) was not good enough for good old Donald “Death-To-America” Trump. He is now murdering baby ducks. The combination of Don’s choice of very dark paint – an algae accelerant – and his idiot pool guy from Palm Beach

Yeah, this cartoon-come-to-life pool guy

helped create an algae bloom like no one has ever seen – the biggest, most beautiful algae bloom of all time. Not only that but, as predicted and warned before the fact, the coating barely lasted a week before it started disengaging from the surface.

Naturally, Trump blamed everyone but those who were actually to blame. That would be Trump himself and his idiot, sleazy pool guy. But mostly Donald. The fuck-up stops there.

Just for the record, the pool guy is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro. Trump illegally gave him a no-bid contract to paint the reflecting pool. Cafaro has two prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws. In other words, a perfect fit for a 34-time-convicted-felon-president who likely split the insanely over-priced payday (some $15 million) right down the middle with his fellow felon.

“This [pool coating] will last for at least fifty years and you’ll never have a leak, it’s very strong. You couldn’t, if you had a knife – I don’t want to give anybody ideas – if you had a knife, you can’t even cut it, so strong, so powerful, it’s powerful rubber.”
                       Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, May 5, 2026

“We have vandalism… You know, we have a hundred, we have I think a 290, 300-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind… Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?”
                       Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, June 22, 2026

After the latter quote Trump was then asked if he had proof, “Let’s put it this way, when you have a 350-foot slit* from one end to the other, do you think that’s proof?” Well, no actually, that’s not proof, and that’s all the proof Donny Dickweed needs.

Also just for the record, what Trump wanted done to the Reflecting Pool was not a repair. Just like his daily façade charade make-over with his comb-around-and-around-and-around, and his pancake fakeup, his approach to the Pool was nothing more than that.

But I digress…

Before blaming his latest massive fuck-up on Joe Biden, antifa and unknown “vandals” Boss Tweet had his lying monkeys dose the pool, or pond or lake with hydrogen peroxide, which momentarily killed off the algae while simultaneously separating the paint job from the pool or pond or lake. So yes, vandals were responsible for the utter, and extremely predictable demise of the “American Flag Blue” assault on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which is neither pond nor lake. Again, for those keeping score, those vandals were Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump and John Cafano.

And now there is, for no good reason**, an enhanced National Guard presence at the Pool. This is presumably a prelude to deporting the algae and the dead duck.

Dead Duck: A Metaphor For Trump’s America

Add to this quintessentially on-brand Trump debacle the unfortunate collateral damage – an unavoidable and consistent feature of every Trump venture – of the baby ducks found dead in the Pool.

Now Trump has to drain the Pool again. He is draining us every single fucking day.

Trump’s sewage formation plant, formerly known as the Reflecting Pool, is now beginning to stink literally rather than just figuratively. 

The primary perpetrator of the destruction/”repair”/re-destruction of the iconic landmark (the same guy who did pretty much the same thing with Iran) – Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump – remains at extra-large.

To borrow from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, let’s see if Trump is a witch. 

Throw him into the pond…or lake…or fucking Reflecting Pool!

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*Oh, so now it’s already up to 350-foot? Are those fucking vandals still down there holding their breath and cutting that un-cuttable very strong and powerful rubber?
**Unless they are trying to ensure the head vandal – Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump – gets nowhere near the scene of his crime.

I. Mangrey reporting. Is it safe? 

UPDATE

Our non-existent sources are reporting that going forward, after the Reflecting Pool is re-drained and the very strong and powerful un-cuttable rubber is sewn back together, it will instead be filled with air until such time as the water can be replaced by 6.75 million gallons of clear epoxy resin meant to resemble water…sort of. Or not.

Thought For The Day – SpaceWreX

In Mu$k We Tru$t...NOT

June 22, 2026

Elon Musk’s SpaceX recently launched its public trading in the stock market.

This makes Musk the first ever trillionaire…on paper. That’s trillion, with a fuck you. And a sieg heil.

Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman insists the stock is not worth anywhere near its claimed opening market value.

Typical SpaceX launch sequence. Oopsie.

With any luck it will blow up like most of the rockets he launched. Except everyone but Musk will get hurt when SpaceX stock insinuates itself into many Americans’ 401Ks – without them even knowing it, and then tanks. When it crashes, Musk will have already made off with the cash, while all the involuntary investors will be left holding the bag.

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

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Everything In Its Place

June 21, 2026

We have thrown around the epithet Donald “Death-To-America” Trump sarcastically for quite some time now. Maybe you didn’t take it that way, and maybe we didn’t exactly take that way either, but sarcasm is so essential to the mission statement and day-to-day operation of this here blog. But that is now a thing of the past. Not the sarcasm itself. Fuck no. That would be ludicrous, not to mention impossible.

From now on, anytime we use the epithet Donald “Death-To-America” Trump it will be done with all the seriousness and sincerity available, though not as some sort of insult. No, it is simply irrefutable, objective fact. Cold, hard fact. Not alternative fact. Scientifically provable fact. Very inconvenient truth.

Everything else will continue to be awash in sarcasm, irony and dramatic metaphor. But the use of Donald “Death-To-America” Trump should be taken as literally serious as a motherfucking heart attack.

Now, this is kind of a minor example, but still quite useful in proving the point. Examples of Der Furor’s tireless efforts to accomplish his “Death-To-America” are, after all, darn near infinite. The Asshole-in-chief started one of the dumbest (with a capital ‘b’ – courtesy of DTA Trump) wars in history, which has become a global clusterfuck, a domestic economic disaster-heading-for-tsunami, especially after his idiotic tariffs blew up in his and by extension our faces, and what was he busy with?

Here’s What He Was Busy With

“We picked a color called ‘American Flag Blue’; we had color choices.”

After his weekly doctor visit and cognitive test and then disappearing for a week, Deathbed Don showed up on my tv showing me fucking color swatches and size comparisons (he is not changing the size of the 100-plus-year-old installation) for the goddam Reflecting Lake*. The effing president of the United States. Of America.

But Wait, There’s Moron

And now we have to talk about the latest** attack on America: Trump’s pick to replace the vile and pernicious Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence – Bill Pulte, currently Der Furor’s hatchet man hand-picked by convicted felon Roger Stone, with you-guessed-it zero qualifications for anything other than being a thug who will, while jeopardizing national security like no one has ever seen, will do nothing other than go after his boss’ enemies. Oh, and he does not, and probably could not get anywhere near the necessary security clearance.

To be fair, Pulte – a real-estate-magnate-trust-fund-baby – does have one of the most Trumpian qualifications; two-and-a-half years ago Pulte received a “trophy”, in the shape of a dildo with the inscription “Bill Pulte Fucks, But Only The Young”.

Pulte (right): “That looks pretty bad-ass.”

DTA Don is running out of top-shelf shitheads, scumbags and seditionists and is scraping what is hopefully the bottom of the barrel oozing with rotten apples. I would say that one good apple don’t redeem the whole bunch, but there is not one single apple not teeming with worms and maggots and mold. Oh my.

Thank you for your attention to this monster.

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*This is what our idiot bastard president calls the famous Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Reminiscent of Jethro Bodine’s cement pond. Jethro, however was a harmless doofus. Trump is a psychotic malefactor with blood on his tiny, decomposing hands.
**Though this one got short-circuited by public uproar.

I. Mangrey reporting.

On Golden Shower Pond

The Donald Trump Memorial Rejecting Pond…Or Lake As Some Call It*

June 19, 2026

I am Scam. I am Scam. Scam-I-Am.

That Scam-I-Am! That Scam-I-Am! I do not like that Scam-I-Am!

Do you like green pool and scam?

I do not like them, Scam-I-Am.
I do not like green pool and scam.

Would you like them in D.C.?

I would not like them in D.C.
I would not like them near a tree.
I do not like green pool and scam.
I do not like them, Scam-I-Am.

Would you like them on the Mall?
Would you like them spring or fall?

I do not like them on the Mall.
I do not like them spring or fall.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green pool and scam.
I do not like them, Scam-I-Am.

Would you prefer them in in your face?
Would you prefer them any place?

Not in my face. Not any place.
Not on the Mall. Not spring or fall.
I won’t prefer them here or there.
I won’t prefer them anywhere.
I will not like green pool and scam.
So fuck the hell off, Scam-I-Am.

Death-To-America Don has been loser…I mean laser…nah, let’s stick with loser-focused on making the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool great again.

Naturally, he had to brag about the size...which he had nothing to do with

Marvel at Trump’s beautiful blue Reflecting Pond…or Lake…or Sludge Pit. Your eyes do not deceive you. It is Trump that deceives you; that is not American Flag Blue you are looking at. You can’t even glimpse it through the green slime. Trump’s glorious aquatic fuck-up immediately turned to shit – or should I say an algae wonderland. It looks like everyone within a ten-mile radius has been blowing their noses into the pool. It looks like Trump took a bath in there.

Trump's Refluxng Puss Basin

Algae has been an ongoing problem in the Reflecting Pool. It seems that the algae attack on the pool has never been this bad this fast.  Like everything else Trump puts his “mind” and/or name to, it turns to shit faster than you can say Rumple-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-this-sick-fuck-stiltskin. And you will never guess that many on the other side of the pool are blaming Obama.

The iconic Reflecting Pool now mostly reflects Trump’s total and unrelenting greed, thievery and incompetence. To be fair, maybe it cannot be considered incompetence when there was never any intention whatsoever to have a job done right. After all, the main idea behind the “renovation” was, as it is with everything, everywhere, all the time with Donny Do-Bad, to put more of everyone else’s money in his ill-fitting pockets; it never had anything to do with improving anything but that.

If Trump actually wanted to do something constructive, he might have hired people who knew more than just their home addresses (presumably) and what size shoes they wore (allegedly), and instead tried to hire people who at least proposed ideas on how to better manage the algae problem before just slapping on a coat of paint that was known and warned would do exactly what it’s now doing, (for $13 million) and that you can bet your ass will be deteriorating in six months.** And we of course will have to pay to un-fuck it.

I guess we should be glad he didn’t put his fucking name all over the pool.

It’s A Pool, You Fool

It’s not a pond it’s not a lake
It’s a pool you fool
And you’re a fake

Please pack your shit
And fuck yourself
And please already, quit

You’ve fucked this country every possible way
You’ve taken all and given squat
And most of us can’t take even one more fucking day
This country needs lots and lots of everything you’re not

It’s a pool you fool
With a capital P, and that rhymes with T
And that stands for Tool

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*No one fucking calls it lake. No one.

**Damn! Once again we waited too long to post this. The fucking paint is already flaking off.

No, this is not an overhead shot of Florida after a big meal.
That, my friends is a slab of what some are calling “American Flag Blue” paint.
But at least you can finally see the paint through the algae. Checkmate.

I. Mangrey reporting. I’m cold Yossarian.

Thought For The Day – Luther Consequences

Happy Juneteenth!

June 19, 2026

Admittedly, my head is hotter than most. But, I just can’t deal with Barack Obama.

The Obama administration, thanks to John Kerry and his team of skilled, knowledgeable experts (the antithesis of Trump’s team of tragic twits), hammered out a nuclear deal between Iran, China, France, Russia, the U.K., the U.S, Germany and the European Union in 2015. That agreement was roundly believed to have held for a decade. Until one day – February 28, 2026 – Donald “Death-To-America” Trump tore it asunder and fucked everything nine-tenths of the way to hell.

Pro-Drama Obama

Obama recently offered a not so sternly worded critique of the current situation. He did not mention the perp by name. What the actual fucking fuck. Is he still trying to take the high road? Act with decorum? Fuck that shit. Not only should Obama have the gloves off, he should be brandishing some brass fucking knuckles…and maybe a Samurai sword. Especially since this is an election year.

There is no time for tap-dancing nuance. Trump fucked this up. Obama more than anyone has every right to call him out for it. In fact, it is Obama’s patriotic duty to verbally pound his fascist fuckwit successor into the dirt. On a regular basis.

After all of Trump's horrendous bullshit as of his war to stop Iran from every getting a nuclear weapon or even maintain possession of the nuclear material they already have, Iran has not surrendered a single nanogram of material, and now, very stable super America-first peace genius Trump says that Iran has every right to possess nuclear weapons. Checkmate.

It is well past time for Luther to take the wheel, the helm and the mic…

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