Friday, October 30, 2026

Thought For The Day – Coming Soon To A Country Near You

Sooner And Later

October 30, 2026

Election Day is only four days away. Unfortunately, election certification day is two months and four days away, and I think we all know that will be an angst-laden time.

We need a bigger Doomsday Gap

There is a non-zero chance that Donald “Death-To-America” Trump will be leaning on Chucky Johnson to stop the American people from having their say by refusing to certify the elections, or just those won by Democrats. Especially if Trump’s most passionate issue, John Husted’s ass goes down in defeat. I’m sure Husted could get a job alongside Katie Harp hanging around Trump while he serves out our death sentence.

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

Schmuck Of The Day

It’s Scott Bessent*

October 30, 2026

We recently shared Barack Obama’s red-hot burn on Blob the Builder’s relentless renovations of every fucking thing he can get his tiny hands or big stupid name on…


“I mean, what’s with all the gold? He’s got the White House
lookin’ like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
Barack Obama, October 24, 2026

The Trump apology team had no problem with Obama comparing Deadbeat Donny’s Saddam Hussein-esque obsession with gold, or his debasement of the White House with his omnipresent fool’s gold embellishments. No, what they whined on and on about was the lie that Obama dissed The Cheesecake Factory – a place in which you can bet all your crypto coin neither Trump nor any of his cabinet/circus members have never set foot, let alone dined.

They were so desperate that they made slimeball, mega-millionaire and alleged Treasury Secretary Snot Bessent walk out of an actual Cheesecake Factory (Or was it all AI? We may never know.) with a Fux News monkey waiting outside for Bessent to lie that he had “what I always have – the French Dip Cheeseburger”, which sounds like the most pretentious item on the massive menu, and then further lied that “I would tell the Martha’s Vineyard set to give it a try.”

If you believe Bessent – the guy who said he was a soybean farmer because he owns land on which someone who is not Bessent grows corn and soybeans – ate at a Cheesecake Factory, then you believe Donald Trump is a vagan…I mean vegan…I mean human being.


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*Just kidding, it’s Donny Dearest. It’s always him, sometimes we pretend it’s someone else just for a change of pace.


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

First We Take Mississippi

Paint It Black

October 30, 2026

This is not an ask. As a white guy, it is not my place to request anything of the African American community. I think I can beg, but it’s not an ask, it’s a hope.

Thanks Obama.
Keep Hope Alive

Perhaps more than anything, the path to ending Trump and actual justice and democracy goes through Black America, in particular Black women. They have been instrumental in keeping this country – the country that saw them as 3/5 of a person at its founding, and continued to allow and protect their enslavement for nearly another century – from its worst inclinations. Over and over and over.

Gary Clark, Jr. – This Land

In 1770, the first person to die for American independence was Crispus Attucks, of African American and Native American descent, shot during the Boston Massacre.

In the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, John Lewis and countless others in the Civil Rights Movement were instrumental in dragging this country kicking, lynching and screaming into becoming an actual liberal democracy.

On June 17, 1972 a Black man, Frank Wills, security guard at the Watergate complex, caught Richard Nixon’s “plumbers” in the act of sabotaging democracy.

May 25, 2020, a 17-year-old Black girl, Darnella Frazier saw a Black man being pinned to the ground by several police officers, one with his knee on the man’s neck. She held her phone in camera mode for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, as onlookers begged to officers to stop, as George Floyd begged for breath and finally for his mother before his brutal, wholly unnecessary murder was complete.

On January 6, 2021 Donald Trump’s mob attacked the Capitol, with murder in their hearts and a coup d’etat on their minds. Black Capitol officer Eugene Goodman acted as a decoy and singlehandedly redirected the mob, saving the lives of members of Congress towards whom the mob had been headed until Goodman distracted them, presumably with a bright, shiny object.

Yes, the Democrats have been much more talk than action when it comes to enhancing the lives of Black Americans, but there can be no doubt that their not-so-loyal opposition – now the Fascist/Trump/Epstein/Sedition Party – will never be the ones to promote equality, which they have literally made all but illegal, for anyone but wealthy, white males. As flawed as it may be, the choice is clear. And the choice is now. Or possibly never.

If our Black brothers and sisters and others can find it in their hearts to try once more to wield their electoral power – like no one has ever seen before, to coin a phrase – this nation might avail itself of the equal-and-opposite reaction to the criminal, fascist, racist movement whose face is Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, and take one more step toward becoming a more perfect union.

“What we are seeing, with leadership from African American communities in particular, is that morally legible, non-violent, principled protest, works. Yes, now, even in 2026.”

Perhaps it falls to the descendants of those who literally built this country for much less than no pay to help all of us to rebuild this shattered republic, hopefully better and stronger and more of, for and by the people than it has ever been. Nothing less can be acceptable.

It would be unfair not to mention that the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party started a redistricting war last year aimed at eliminating majority-Black voting districts across Red America (or as Robert Smigel christened it during the Bush II years – Dumbfuckistan). Racist much? And where’s the Supreme Court? Just kidding, we know exactly where they are – up Trump’s racist ass.

And maybe this time, if African Americans save democracy again, we will all repay those who have given so much and gotten so little in return properly, once and for all.

Leonard Cohen – First We Take Manhattan

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Radio WTAF On The Air - LAKE ONTARIO

THIS JUST IN...MUSE YOU CAN USE

October 29, 2026

Hey all you Trump loathers out there. Election Day is drawing near. Between sitting on pins and needles and walking on eggshells, I still try to get in a few solid minutes of sleep every few days. This is the first thing to catch my ear this morning. I’m not usually able to smile this early. Since Ariel Baddass is still asleep like most normal people, I had to get this out toute de suite.

I guess this is the Canadian version of CSNY’s Four Dead in Ohio. Bryan Adams goes full Piranha Brothers* on old Douchebag Donny, metaphorically nailing his head to the floor. This is fresh any way you slice it. You gotta check this out…

Bryan Adams - Lake Ontario

Thanks Bryan, we needed that.

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*If you’re not familiar with the Piranha Brothers…

Monty Python – Piranha Brothers excerpt

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Look Who's Fuckin’ Talking

October 28, 2026

It's time once again for one of our readers' favorite Paying Attention™ special features (Keep that card or letter coming in):

Look Who’s Fuckin’ Talking™

“You will hear many say that gas prices are too high.
They skyrocket every time some tin-pot dictator decides to throw a tantrum.”
JD Vance, on the stump in Montana, October 26, 2026

Ain’t that the fuckin’ truth. Vance is presumably talking about the guy who ignored his nation’s people and legislature, and attacked a country that subsequently shut down the most important waterway controlling the flow of oil from the Middle East to the rest of the oil-addicted world, causing prices to skyrocket worldwide. And just who is this tin-pot turkey? Why it’s none other than the idiot Vance’s idiot boss Donny Tin-Pot Trump.


Is that a tin pot or are you just clinically insane?

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.”
JD Vance, privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016

Lastly, we turn things over to Mr. Tin-pot himself:

“The United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of
billions of dollars. … Our country is making hundreds of billions of
dollars because of what's happened in the Middle East.”
Donald Jumping Butterballs Trump, October 24, 2026

Hey Donny,

Would that be the same Middle East you invaded for no fucking reason, except that immediately after you did that you invested in oil and gas futures? That Middle East? Does that mean we can finally cut their massive welfare payments?

Inquiring minds think you suck.

Unsigned

This has been a Paying Attention™ special feature:
Look Who’s Fuckin’ Talking™

Headline Of The Day – Losing His Mind

Twenty-Fifth Amendment Poster Child

October 28, 2026

From Alternet:


Bruises on his hand? What about him sucking his tiny thumb?

In the article, Jim Acosta is quoted as saying “The way he obsesses over this golf course in D.C., it's exactly what you're saying, Joe. These are sort of like the ramblings of somebody who just ... They just need to not be in charge of the country and in charge of the nuclear codes.”

The country and the nuclear codes? Nobody exhibiting the behaviors we see from Trump should be in charge of tying his own shoes or dressing himself. Or arranging that stuff desperately trying – and failing miserably – to cover his head, or applying however many pounds of frosting cover his face.

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

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Radio WTAF Request Line


Ariel Baddass on the air and taking your requests

October 27, 2026

Hey gang, it’s been a while. This is Ariel B, back in my favorite chair, ready to spin some platters of various sizes, though we always defer to vinyl whenever possible. Thanks to I. Mangrey for keeping my seat warm while I was curled up in a fetal position, enjoying my RENT-A-COMA™ for the past few months. I highly recommend it, but not right now…unless you’ve already voted and can’t handle the stress of waiting for the results and the likely aftermath if our side emerges victorious. It will not be pretty. It will be petty. And fascist.


I. Mangrey perusing the playlist

Ariel: Let’s hit the ground spinning and take our first call. And who do we have on the line?

Caller: My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr...but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!

Ariel: Okay, I’m going with RJ, what can I play for you RJ?

Caller: Thanks Ariel. I could really use a shot of Steppenwolf. I know it’s a long one, but how about bringing out the Monster. Please send this out to a special someone – Now you can call him Donny, or you can call him Dummy, or you can call him Bigly, or you can call him Covfefe, or you can call him Rapey Don, or you can call him Moby Don, but you doesn’t hasta call him “Sir”. May he get his big, dumb ass handed to him next week. To paraphrase the song, “Now he’s a monster and will not obey.”

John Kay & Steppenwolf – Monster/Suicide/America – LIVE

Send us your requests and dedications and we’ll get ‘em on the air unless the fascists shut us down.

Monday, October 26, 2026

Quote Of The Day – Squalid Gold

A person in a suit and tie holding up his hands

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Donald Trump: The Quicksand President

October 26, 2026

“I mean, what’s with all the gold? He’s got the White House
lookin’ like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
Barack Obama, October 24, 2026

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

Broken News – Steal Mill

Fascist Is As Fascist Does

October 26, 2026

Eight days until Election Day and this is what is going on in our name.

Reporter: “Is there any scenario in which the Department of Justice would try to block states from certifying the election?”

Attorney General Todd Blanche: “Yes, of course. It is not DOJ’s intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...”

Not only will Alternative Attorney General Toad Blanche not rule out interfering with the coming midterm elections, he and his Department of Just Trump are preemptively threatening to interfere with the election for senator in Alaska if the Democrat Mary Peltola emerges victorious. There is a third candidate in the race who just happens to have the same first and last name as the incumbent Fascist/Trump/Epstein/Sedition Party candidate Dan Sullivan. Desperate Donald said, whining like a baby, tears in his eyes, it was his idea to decertify the election if Peltola wins. How’s that for democracy.

Blanche claimed that the second Dan Sullivan was backed by Democrats in order to siphon votes away from the incumbent Sullivan. Funny thing, the non-incumbent entered the race specifically because he thinks Trump has infected the party he belongs to. He is not a Democrat or a Democrat plant – that’s the kind of thing Trump’s party has done repeatedly.

Not to mention that the Alaska Supreme Court has already ruled in favor of Blanche butting the fuck out of Alaska’s business. Plus, that Constitution thingy says the federal government has no authority over state elections.

We are dealing with a bunch of lizard-brained, cornered, rabid creatures who will stop at nothing to hold on to power. We live in disgraceful times.

Blanche made it clear that he is under the complete bullshit impression – it is not a delusion since he knows this is pure unadulterated, USDA-approved-if-they-did-that- anymore, Wagyu feces – that he is not the People’s lawyer, but works for Donald “Death-To-America” Trump. He said as much during a recent interview.

Blanche: There was this misperception that there’s this separation between the Department of Justice (now the Department of Just Trump) and the White House (now the Remains of the White House), and everyone likes to champion that. And they accuse me of, of, of not suffering from independence. I don’t. I work for president Trump.”

Barack Obama (to all U.S. attorneys HE nominated): “You do not work for me. You work for the public. You take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States.”


To quote John Kay of Steppenwolf, “America, where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters [etc]?”

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled early voting.