Saturday, July 11, 2026

De Plane! De Plane!


Boss! De plane! De plane!

Air Farce One: Baby On Board
                   or
Couldn’t Get The Epstein Plane?

July 11, 2026

Funny story, Trump’s Qatari Emolument Express was retro-fitted hastily and is not in appropriate condition to be used as Air Force One. The flying white elephant, which the Qataris unsuccessfully attempted to dump for years and which Baby Donny begged them to give him, and which has already cost nearly a billion dollars* to shoddily upgrade, is without essential military defenses or secure communications technology. No reports of algae...so far, but there are reports of unbreathable air throughout the aircraft of late.

Of course, all Deathbed Donny cares about is how much gold is on the inside. You know what, if Donny wants to risk getting blown out of the sky, that’s his fucking business. He’s a big boy. Let him ride in a gold-plated bi-plane if he wants to. He’s the fucking president of the United States – he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Just ask him.

The only good thing about this flying fuck-up is that Death-To-America Don has no plan to leave this so-called “gift to the United States” for his successors; he is planning to take it with him. To be fair, he will need a large vehicle to store all the rest of the stolen documents and emoluments he will no doubt be claiming for himself if he departs the Remains of The White House with a pulse.

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*Which appears to have been pilfered from the sacred Pentagon budget.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Friday, July 10, 2026

Broken Noise – Coming Soon

Grinding The Axes

July 10, 2026

Jen Psaki was a top advisor to President Barack Obama. After that she was the longtime press secretary for President Joe Biden; maybe you remember him. Biden was the guy whose successor (and predecessor) relentlessly accused Biden of being mentally unfit and tagged him with epithet “Sleepy Joe” Biden. This other guy has been seen sleeping in the courtroom while on trial (and ultimately convicted 34 times) himself (something that never happened to Joe Biden), at his sickening military parade/birthday party, at meetings in the Oval Office (a place where Joe Biden was never caught napping); the Grim Sleeper was also seen catching some Z’s at Madison Square Garden during the NBA finals, during his disgusting for-profit birthday cage fight, and countless other times and places. I don’t mean to complain; those sporadic moments are the only times America is safe from the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War, domestically, and World War II globally. That threat is Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump.

Like the mold-ridden stock of roast beef at the local deli, he needs to be 86’d.

As an aside, another thing Biden and this other guy do not have in common is Biden not appearing tens-of-thousands of times in the

 Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES

Based on her performance during the Biden administration, Jen Psaki would never make it in the current administration. Her obvious intelligence, breadth of experience and unwillingness to perpetually lie through her teeth every time her lips move immediately disqualify her from serving in Degenerate Don’s addled, aggravated-assault administration.

These days Psaki hosts a nightly show on MS NOW entitled “The Briefing”.

This inspired the Paying Attention™ special features team to launch a new feature. Stay tuned for special reports on the all-new



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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled bobbing and weaving.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Cryer Beware

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fascism

July 8, 2026

WAKE UP, AMERICA!*

That is the title of the 1971 LP by the late great Abbie Hoffman. A true American patriot. I felt a sudden urge to reiterate this critical plea/warning/?

If you’re like me, and hopefully you are not, but stay with me for a minute here…even I, while admittedly too much of my time is spent Paying Attention™, regularly blot from my overheating, throbbing and ever more damaged mind the fact that technically there are still some two-and-one-half (GULP!) years remaining in the Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump so-called presidency. This fact was always present intellectually but has lately begun insinuating itself into my emotional infrastructure.

This is completely untenable. Trump might actually end up being the last president ever. America might well end up taking its own life before Trump’s time in office runs out…assuming he will ever leave, or will only leave after crowning Don Fucking, Jr. as his successor for life, after which Trump will have himself stuffed, mounted and bolted down in the Oval Office. The taxidermy won’t take much work since Trump’s head has long appeared as though a mortician prepared him for burial, and his body is mostly made up of preservatives at this point.

Speaking of staying in power, we recently learned that Der Furor was thrilled when a historian** provided “proof” that Trump was “the most powerful man who’s ever existed on the planet.” What Dying Don was even more amazed by was the rest of the top five most powerful of all time; the list included Napoleon, Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Damaged Don must be so proud; his mentor/ventriloquist Vladimir Putin didn’t even make the list.


Drool and the gang

If we do not crush the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party in November, our chances of surviving to January 20, 2029 are no better than Jeffrey Epstein returning from the dead to release all his files.

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* The album ends with this bit of advice from Abbie: “And all you kiddies, remember to lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
**Funny story: that historian was actually a golf caddy by trade, and not in fact any kind of historian. I’ll wait for you to stop laughing and then I’ll wait a bit longer for you to stop crying.
Or desperately searching for your passport. Or both.

I. Mangrey reporting through the pain. 

Saturday, July 4, 2026

July The 47th

Worst Birthday Ever 

July 4, 2026

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.

Self-Evident Stuff

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?

Asking for a friend.

Bonus Question:

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?

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*A rumor that originated right here, right now…but you didn’t hear it from us.

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

Zappa/Beefheart – Bicentennial tribute

Friday, July 3, 2026

Schmuck Of The Day – Old Schmuck Donald

Saluting A Frequently Returning “Champion”

July 3, 2026

He’s calling it The Great American State Fair.

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!

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Question For The Night – Job Security?

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Takes One To Know One

July 2, 2026

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?

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*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.

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

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Thought For The Day – Calling Doctor Jesus

What’s Up Don?

June 30, 2026

I hate to dredge this up again, but you probably remember when Deathbed Donald reposted an image depicting him as Jesus Christ healing the sick. Donny the Anti-Christ claimed he had no idea that was supposed to be Jesus with light emanating from his hands as he laid them on an obviously unwell man. Donald lied that he thought the image depicted him as a doctor. I wonder how many of the 22 doctors that were recently required to figure out what the actual fuck is wrong with Der Furor were adorned with flowing robes and shawls and holding balls of light.


Dr. Donald J. Christ, MT

Dear Don:

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.