This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Dems Gone Wrong

Paging Joe Manchin and Krysten Simema

June 5, 2026

So now, both of the newly elected Democrat women governors of New Jersey and Virginia that so excited the non-fascist wing of the electorate last November, along with the Democrat governor of Colorado have brought shame and dishonor to their respective states, and by extension freedom and democracy.

New Jersey governor Mikie Sherill has unleashed her dogs of war against protesters standing up for detainees in New Jersey’s for-profit Delaney Hall concentration camp for innocent immigrants. The conditions inside the money-making operation, which is all but guaranteed to be diverting funds directly into the Trump Crime Family coffers, are objectively inhumane and deadly – literally rotten food, unclean drinking water, lack of proper medical care, but plenty of profit for the corporate creeps “running” the place.

Virginia’s Spanberger has come out seemingly on the side of ICE and against the state legislature Democratic majority. The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia criticized Spanberger’s decision on the legislation. The ACLU argued the governor’s veto undermined legislation designed to create protections for immigrants and courthouse visitors. Immigration bills were only part of Spanberger’s veto spree that has angered Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups.

In Colorado, Polis commuted the sentence of guilty-as-fuck former county clerk/election denier Tina Peters. The seventy-year-old Peters was convicted in 2024 on seven of 10 charges stemming from her breach of election equipment case. Prosecutors said she allowed an outside computer expert linked to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to access secure voting equipment. She was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison.

And don’t even get me started on Pennsylvania’s Judas Fetterman.

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans? Our fucking house is on fire, we know damn well who lit the place ablaze, and these fools are arguing over which hose to use while making sure the arsonists have a good supply of matches.


This is yet another reason we can't have nice things.

A Friendly, If Painful Reminder

It’s Not Just A House, It’s A Home…Our Home...And It's Our Fucking House

June 4, 2025

Naturally, when things go awry normal people respond. Be it with disbelief, denial, grief, fear, loathing, anger, sadness, despair, or even discorporation. At some point, at least according to mental health professionals, we must reconcile, perhaps forgive, but at the very least we must find a way to move on.

However, there are certain events that must not be forgotten, no matter how painful, no matter how great the desire to cleanse the mind, bury the memory, and attempt to put them behind us. And no matter how much time has passed, unless and until the depredation has been put right, if that is at all possible.

There is a fine line though as regards the timing of the need to relegate things to a safely sequestered out-of-mind place. While the immediate release and relief that might come with putting something traumatic in the past might feel good in the moment, it is not healthy to push something uncomfortable out of consciousness too soon, without fully processing or better still, repairing and reconciling .

It is with this in mind that Paying Attention™ feels we must disrupt any misguided, purposeful or otherwise, and however satisfying attempt to shoo away the memory of the wanton destruction of the People’s House by a swinish conman, a sexual predator and adjudicated rapist, (alleged, though not for long) pedophile, and a 34-time convicted felon. We are not talking about some nefarious global cabal here. This is a one-man smorgasbord of criminal activity. It’s name is Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump.

Much has happened since we first learned of this heinous hack’s demolition-without-warning of the East Wing of the White House.

We must not let this image, this much-too-on-the-nose symbol of Trump’s thus far successful attempt at total demolition of, not just the symbols of the Great American Experiment, but of our actual system of government and way of life, fade from memory.  

America would do well to keep this near front of mind…


until it is returned to its original state

Trump is spending billions of our tax dollars, after stripping funding from critical services, including  the government subsidy for Obamacare, dissolving USAID, and gutting our federal government while simultaneously embroiling us in his illegal, unwarranted, debacular war in Iran, and crashing the economy.

Not to mention his $1.776B (give me a fucking break) sedition-support slush fund, all for his deeply unpopular, tasteless and grotesque vanity projects. It appears that the slush fund may be dead in the water, so since Donny is such a stand-up guy he should dip into his massive fortune, which has grown by creeps and scoundrels during his criminal presidency, and pay off all his cherished patri-nots out of his own pocket. Yeah, that’ll happen.

When this flaccid fuckwit is finally forced out of Our House, not only should he not get his security deposit back, but he should be forced to pay every single dime required to return the Remains of The White House to its original state. And he should pay to restore the rest of the pathetic, self-aggrandizing, classless, hideous bullshit he has foisted upon us because he knows damn well that once he is gone no one worth a shit will want to remember him, let alone have his name, face or any reminder forced on them.

I. Mangrey reminding. Don’t even get me stopped.

Pic Of The Day – Timeline

In Lieu Of A Thousand Words   

June 2, 2026

Oops, this was his timeline for his illegal self-own war in Iran. The war he said was over the moment it began (more than three months ago) and has repeatedly insisted was over or almost over, or would be over in two weeks on a nearly daily basis since he started it without justification on February 28, 2026. Either way the war and Trump’s gives-Greek-tragedies-a-run-for-their-money life continue, providing more proof of the non-existence of God.

Bonus Pic Of The Day

You can start your daily affirmations now, because we know what Trump will look like in his casket.

Just lie back and enjoy the ride
You know how to lie, don’t you Don? You just open your mouth and talk.

We’re soooo close.

One More Thing

We learned yesterday that Trump’s deplorable Seditionist Slush Fund, unlike Trump himself, is, according to an anonymous Remains of The White House aide, “Dead for now”.

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

Schmuck Of The Day – It’s Not Who You Think It Isn’t

He, Himself, And Him

June 1, 2026

Spoiler Alert: It’s Donald J. Trump – the ‘J’ stands for January 6, 2021

Everything is under control

Trump has a history of debating with himself. When asked who he goes to for advice, he answers sincerely, himself. More recently, he decided to take himself to court, then decided to settle with himself, foregoing the $10 billion he originally wanted and settling on his now infamous $1.8 billion (he called it $1.176 billion because he pretends to be a patriot, but is without a doubt, as an ex-supporter called him, “a worthless piece of shit”) slush fund that he fully intended to keep for…say it with me – himself.

Trump has also of late been caterwauling about countless bouts of negotiating with Iran to end his unprovoked, ill-advised, ill-conceived, poorly executed, back-firing and illegal war. It turns out he has been negotiating with none other than himself.

Speaking of trump speaking of himself, that’s all he ever does, except when he’s falling asleep watching his ass-kissers speaking about him at their fake “cabinet meetings”.

After just about every single loser act that was slated to play Trump’s bullshit 16-day “Great American State Fair” backed out (mostly when they heard it was for Trump), Dictator Don posted this

He’ll surely put on a bang-up schmo

Yeah, who the hell wants to see a bunch of has-been-remake shit bands when they watch a real live shit talk about himself for 16 days.

Well, at least Vanilla Ice hasn’t backed out. So, there’s that. So, there’s that. If you’re like most people, you’d rather watch Elvis…in his current state. Or, barring that, paint drying.

Apologies to anyone who feels our choice for Schmuck Of The Day was too predictable since Trump is a world-class schmuck each and every day. And twice on Sundays…and Saturdays…and every other day actually.

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

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Guess Who

It’s Only (Our) Money

May 30, 2026

A day after inciting, enabling and admiring his mob of mental patients to wage an insurrection designed to thwart the will of the American electorate, Trump was forced to speak out against the vile and violent event.

“…To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law, you will pay.”
                        Words read aloud by Donald Trump, January 7, 2021

You’ll never guess what ended up happening. And by that I mean you’ll never have to guess because you already know what happened. Not only did Captain Conjob pardon each and every one the violent law breakers – some of whom turned out to be mother stabbers, father stabbers, mother rapers, father rapers and worse – he is now trying, and apparently failing badly, to pay them.

The updated version…

“…To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, thank you for representing our country. To you and those who broke the law, you will be paid.”
                Words thought by Donald Trump, every day since January 6, 2021

Or Can We?

As of now, the courts seem skeptical of every single aspect of Trump’s Seditionist Slush Fund* gambit. A hold has been put on the entire con, from the phony charges to the fake court case to the farcical verdict handing Trump $1.8 billion of our dollars to turn into slush.

More winning for America: A judge gave Donny Ego two weeks – how ironic – to remove his soon-to-be-outlawed name from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. Permanently. 

Get that shit outta here:
Step one of the total and complete erasure of Donald Trump.
We’ll show these fuckers how to erase history.

The judge also blocked Der Furor's attempt to close the center for a year of Donny’s raunchy renovations.

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*Needless to say, most if not all of this booty was always going right into Trump’s pockets.

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

Movie Night at Paying Attention™

May 29, 2026

We are not just about incisive, hard-hitting, relentless coverage of freakish current events here at Paying Attention™. We are as fun-loving as anyone…well, we sure would like to be. Despite our masochistic dedication to keeping up with all the news that’s shit to print, we have also tried to bring you high quality entertainment over the years.

It all began with our non-selling classic Son of A Bunch – the semi-fictitious biography of George WTF Bush, the man who was supposed to be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unfortunately, that title was all-too-quickly usurped by a joke-candidate, who went on to become a not-so-funny-joke-president, who continues his quest to end democracy in America, despite plagiarizing Ronald Reagan’s Make-America-Great-Again slogan and Orwellianizing it beyond anyone’s most horrifying fascist nightmares.

This was followed by lighter output like I. Mangrey’s children’s books Goodnight Goon:

and Donald and The Very, Very Large Uh-Brain:

We have also brought you undiscovered gems like Orange Dregs and Scam by Dr. Sues:

We also dabbled in documentaries like the immensely unpopular (though not nearly as unpopular as its subjects) documentaries Whites Gone Wild, detailing anti-Semitic/racist white folks marching through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia in support of Robert E. Lee with torches, and chanting “Jews will not replace us!” in the year of their Lord Twenty-Fucking-Seventeen – and with the explicit support of the president of the United States. This was followed by Girls Gone Stupid, which recounts the epileptic exploits of two dimwitted damsels who thanks to the spoils of gerrymandering became members of Congress, behaving like unsupervised mental patients on meth raised by brain-damaged monkeys, at the State of The Union address.

That Was Then, This Is Now…Or Something Like It

Our latest offering plagiarizes a cult classic movie franchise  that takes place in a dystopian future (not to be confused with our dystopian present…or is it) – Mad Max.

The Wikipedia entry on the third Mad Max film begins with: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick.” Oops, wrong quote; that was Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has done as much to shepherd this country into our dystopian present as anyone in modern times, talking about Trump’s personal attorney and alleged current acting attorney general of the United States Todd Blanche handing over nearly two billion of our dollars to Trump for his nefarious purposes. Here’s the actual Wikipedia quote*: “The world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by ecocide and a nuclear war over resources.” What, too soon?

Unfortunately, our beloved reality TV project remains on hold, but you might make your day a little brighter just imagining all the fun you hope to have watching the soon-to-be record-breaking, Emmy-wanting, must-see

Anyway, here is the latest, tonight's feature film inspired by this incredibly idiotic pronouncement

What a dum fuk

Dum Don: Beyond Thunderdumb

At long last, are you not entertained?

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*Which could be ripped from the headlines any day now.

UPDATE

As is so often the case, 1) the moment a blog post is ready to go public, more likely just after it goes live, something extremely pertinent and often more mind-blowing than what was written is perpetrated by the story’s subject, and 2) it is becoming less and less possible to come up with anything more absurd than what these fuckwits are able to do.

All that being said, here’s what showed up in big-time media as this was going to press…

A real-life fucking Thunderdumb…or if you prefer, Blunderdome

Trump’s birthday grift to himself, a violent Ultimate Fighting Championship bout
on the Remains of The White House property, compete with giant dumb…I mean dome.

This is America’s 250^th birthday on Trump. Any questions?

On The Money

In This Case, Do Not Show Me The Money

May 29, 2026

Trump is pushing for a new, and completely useless $250 bill in order to put his face on it, which despite being exactly on-the-nose is totally illegal.

Trump’s buffoonish, birdbrain billionaire little bitch treasury secretary Scott Bessent shows off the administration’s next proposed crime – paper money with the face of America’s most despised president of all time glaring out at anyone who might get near it.

Funny thing, it is totally against the law to put the likeness (or the dislikeness if you prefer) of anyone living on American currency. Despite being mostly gone, Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump is still technically alive.

Don, you wouldn’t want to break the law again, would you? I know, stupid question, but they’re not going to let you get away with this one.

So Don, you have a decision to make. There will have to be a trade-off if you want your disgusting, stupid face on our fucking money.

So, what’s it gonna be?

I. Mangrey reporting.

Question For The Day – Kelly Groan

Talking Out Of Her Stupid Mouth, Talking Out Of Her…Wherever

May 27, 2026

“You can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out her…wherever.”
                         Candidate Trump, August 7, 2016
          (in response to being asked a question by Megyn Kelly)
                            (during a presidential debate)

Megyn Kelly, who was among the first to get slimed by Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign only to turn around and constantly shove her own head up is ass, had this to say yesterday:

Megyn Kelly, in all her gory

“I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as, you know, widespread as it’s been, and like the self-dealing and the lining of his and his family’s pockets…”
                            Bloody Megyn Kelly, May 26, 2026

Today’s Question For The Day:

Tell me Megyn, exactly how widespread did you expect the corruption and self-dealing and lining of his and his family’s pockets to be?

Bonus Question:

And riddle me this Ms. Kelly, exactly how much corruption and self-dealing and lining of his and his family’s pockets do you find acceptable?

Hmmmm?

Double Bonus Question:

Megyn, are you too fucking stupid to notice that Donald’s entire life has been dedicated to corruption and self-dealing and lining of his and his family’s pockets, or are you just as corrupt and self-dealing as he is?

Answer For The Day:

Oh shut up silly woman! You make our poor heads spin; you knew damn well he was a snake before you voted him in.

Oscar Brown, Jr. – The Snake

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

Pic Of The Day – A Metaphor For The Upcoming Midterms

Dreaming Is Healthy  

May 26, 2026

Apropos of nothing and everything. This little ditty appeared on the internets soon after El Destructo slithered onto the political scene. It still brings a smile to the face every time. We often leave it up on the big screen at team meetings and lunches.

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