Fraught For The Day – It’s The Trump, Stupid

Fascist Fuckery Foils Freedom

July 26, 2026

It’s beginning to look like keeping the

Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES

hidden from the American public is not the only reason Dingus Con started a war with Iran when he did.

Trump has fired a third of the workers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). I guess he figured they didn’t need that second “Security”. Probably because Trump believes our elections are already super secure. Even though he relentlessly whines that our elections are totally rigged any time he loses. So, we only need the second “Security” after it’s too late and he has already lost?

Trump is pulling out all the stops to hold back the massive blue tsunami everyone can see off in the distance. If he really wanted to win back public sentiment, maybe he should stop fucking up everything in sight beyond recognition. But no, Deathbed Donny is not into winning; he is into cheating. Cheating by scaring away voters of color with threats of ICE kidnappings and military presence at polling places. By planning to confiscate ballots and voting machines in order to do what he continually accuses his opponents of doing – flipping votes, invalidating votes, etc. – which his opponents have never done, but which he and his minions have repeatedly attempted in the past. Among other things. 

Add to that Timothy Snyder, author of numerous titles including On Freedom and On Tyranny, and respected historian who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, with a wrinkle I hadn’t quite thought of. 

Snyder is warning that Trump could very well fake a terror attack in order to take “emergency” control of or halt the coming midterm elections, which credibly threaten to instantly wipe out Trump’s stranglehold on this country and put him in jeopardy of endless, righteous, impeachment-ready congressional hearings. And very possibly that long-overdue massive heart attack. Not that anyone wants that.

We can likely expect Trump’s illegal, unprovoked, baseless, ill-advised, strategy-free-with-no-plan-for-victory Iran war/fiasco* to be purposely dragged out in service to Death-To-America Don’s plan to hijack the midterms.

Though this would be Donny’s most heinous attack on this nation – and this is the same guy who incited a coup attempt after losing the freest and fairest election ever – in some sense it is just one more in an almost infinite and still growing number of attempts to kill America.

All you need to know about Trump’s intentions

This uniquely violent and stupid administration being populated (or should I say poopulated) by the most ignorant, violent and ignorant scumbags in American history, is poised to obliterate not Iran’s, but this nation’s military capabilities by demoralizing our troops and bleeding our supply of weaponry dry and leaving us vulnerable to all manner of threats from, oh I don’t know, Greenland, Canada, the European Union, Russia, China, SpaceX oh yeah, or Iran.

Side note: I am a pacifist…okay, fine, a coward. But a pacifist nonetheless. However, contrary to much evidence, I am not an idiot. Given the continuing violent nature and unbridled stupidity of the human race as a whole, this nation needs a strong, well-prepared military if only for the common defense. If only.

Oh, and the Pentagon is about to go broke – not woke as secretary of defense and Brylcreem addict Pete “Low-T” Hegseth would have us believe, but broke – having blown through the $884 billion it was handed just last year. Of course, Trump hijacked a bundh of that money for his vanity projects, and one assumes, his pockets. Bleat Hegseth is begging Congress for another $1.5 TRILLION to throw away for nothing other than bringing the American Experiment to a crashing halt.

Meanwhile, Mr. Testosterone Hegseth, who I’m guessing hasn’t been able to get it up for quite some time (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and is desperately overcompensating and under-thinking, is busy worrying about testosterone levels while most of us are more concerned about IQ levels.

Just sayin’.

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*It took the Vietnam War six years to become as wildly unpopular as Trump’s Iran War has become after four months.

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

                                                                              

Thought For The Day – Another Cracker Graham

He’s Dead, She Said

July 23, 2026

The Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party has appointed Darline Graham to fill the empty senate seat of her recently deceased, morally empty brother Lindsey.

Word on the street is that Darline is twice the man Lindsey was.

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

What Goes Up Must Come Down

And Mexico Trump Is Going To Pay For It

July 22, 2026

Every fucking eyesore erected, every edifice etched or façade defaced by, for and about Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump must be torn down beginning on January 20, 2029 if not sooner. His arch, his room for his balls, the defilement of our government buildings, passports and currency. His ruination of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool must be rectified. If still necessary, this should be done by executive order, as the first order of business of the 48^th president of the United States.

However, given Blob the Builder’s track record, there is a near-one-hundred-percent chance that every structure he had his no-bid-contractors erect will come crumbling down of its own accord soon after it goes up. Deathbed Donald should still have to pay out of his own pocket (which is filled with our money) to put everything back the way it was. At least he will be saving big money on demolition.

Every penny Trump and his family made illegally off Trump’s historically bad, criminally insane and just plain criminal presidency must be recouped and divided among the American people.

In addition, the courts should force him to repay all legal fees incurred as a result of the countless frivolous, revenge-porn lawsuits Trump filed against all those who incurred the unearned wrath of such a thin-skinned, vindictive, petty conman.

If possible, Congress, on January 4, 2027, should appropriate whatever funds, pass whatever laws necessary to begin the job of eradicating every last reminder of the creature Trump. This is an issue of national security. We must show the world that we are repentant and ashamed of having elevated such a vile, incompetent and dangerous fiend to the highest office in the land, if not the world.

The face that launched a thousand ulcers

This will go a long way toward the possibility of America pulling itself up by its own bootstraps, and perhaps getting assistance from all the allies that have been disrespected by Death-To-America Don.

If Trump has anything else left over after actual justice is finally served on this stupor villain, that can go to resurrect USAID and restore funding to our National Park System…and so many other critical programs Trump has obliterated much better than he did Iran’s nuclear program.

Oh, and remember that gold-plated plane he begged the Qatari government to give you and then claimed was a gift? The one the Qataris have been desperately trying offload for years? The one he used one billion dollars to retrofit as Air Force One and that he plans to take home with him when he leaves the Remains-of-the-White-House? The one he just flew in with Tweedle Don and Tweedle Eric on our dime? Yeah,

One More Thing

Since Trump could single-handedly executive-order the total and complete release of every bit of the

Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES

Trump is personally, and solely responsible for all the Epstein victims’ inability to obtain justice thanks to his relentless efforts to conceal the files and protect Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein’s former wing man and BFF Donny should have to make each and every one of those victims at least financially whole.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Ironclad Irony

White Punks On Trump

July 21, 2026

As the Gestrumpo continues its murderous purge across this country in service of a new American apartheid, most Americans – of all colors – are appalled. It is a small percentage among us who believe this country belongs to them and them alone.

Send Out The Clowns

There’s irony and then there’s irony. And then there’s pathetic buffoonery of literally historic proportions. There are people in this country, always have been actually, who are apoplectic about the eventuality that white people in America are moving steadily toward becoming a minority, when people of color outnumber their less melanin-endowed fellow citizens, perhaps rendering whitey irrelevant. I probably won’t be around when that day comes, but it seems inevitable. It also seems just and wholly appropriate since the white power structure, now in its 251^st year, has never quite been willing to share or play well with others. To put it mildly. And thanks to Trump and his unrelenting white supremacist crusaders, are currently attempting to reverse their impending minority status via murder and mayhem. So really, the best I can offer is – Fuck ‘em.

Isn’t It Rich?

When you think about it, the only people who don’t belong here, who have been trespassing on this continent since day one, are white people. Native Americans were obviously here first. They in part welcomed and in turn were used as a welcome mat by the uninvited, beyond-impolite intruders. Brown people are mostly descended from those original inhabitants from south of what was, prior to the incursion and genocide perpetrated by white men, a non-existent border. The first people to come here from Africa would just as soon have stayed home and so cannot be blamed for being in a land that was not theirs originally.

So guess what all you white folks who keep trying to act like you own the place, who keep whining about there being too many non-whites running around your exclusive club country – It ain’t yours. Never was. Never will be. Start fucking off and don’t stop until you reach forever.

Stop fucking kidnapping and shooting people and locking up innocent people who actually have value in this society unlike you racist, murderous psychos who, if not for the fact that ICE is hiring mentally unstable, violent racist assholes with single-digit IQs, would just be sitting around waiting for the next Trump-led insurrection so you can assault law officers and shit all over the Capitol.

As I and others were often told while protesting against government misdeeds back in the day – a time we thought was so filled with bad actors and horrific goings-on, but now seems almost Edenic by comparison – “Love it or leave it.” Maybe it’s time to turn the tables and tell these racist pukes to take a hike. There’s a nice place, not too far away…

Gil Scott-Heron, circa 1970

Full disclosure: I am a white guy. To quote Frank Zappa, “Hey you know something people, I’m not black, but there’s a whole lotsa times I wish I could say I’m not white.”

I. Mangrey reporting. To quote another great American philosopher Charlie Brown, “My head feels hot and stupid.” 

Donald Ducks Learning

There Are No Limits*

July 19, 2026

We stumbled across an old children’s book from Walt Disney – an old timey far-right asshole in his own right.

Different time, different Donald

Coincidentally, after finding this harmless little book we also stumbled across an interview clip from our very own real-life, albeit frighteningly cartoonish Donald and his relationship with learning a lesson…

Mark Caputo (of Axios): What have you learned about, not just about the exercise of power but about the limits on your power as a result of the conflict?

Psychopathic fascist Trump: There are no limits. (actual quote)

Caputo: No limits?

Trump: None. I haven’t learned that lesson yet. I know that there are, you know, but, there are no limits. (actual fucking quote)

Wow. Just wow. No wonder thirty American psychiatrists and other mental health specialists signed a statement asserting Trump is mentally unfit to serve. They warn that Dementia Don’s ability to launch nuclear weapons is a “danger” to the world. They added that Trump’s behavior over the past year has shown “objectively observable signs of serious medical concern.” So I guess, to quote Dying Don, “Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.” He got that ri…wait, what?

 The group also shared this opinion:

“It is our expert opinion that Donald J Trump is mentally unfit to be the president of the United States…”

All of which led to yet another non-selling children’s classic from the Kiddie Korner here at Paying Attention™, destined to take its place alongside

Goodnight Goon,

Bill Barr Fucks America,

donald & the very, very large uh-brain,

Orange Dregs and Scam,

and the deeply moving graphic novel

Laus.

Here is our latest literary classic and massive non-seller

Plus, he’s fucking insane.

Our non-expert opinion here at Paying Attention™ has long been that Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump has lived the life of a scum-sucking, rabies-infested weasel who made a career of ripping people off, lying, cheating, going bankrupt, raping women (allegedly, allegedly), and more recently foisting fascist fuckery upon this nation in his Death-To-America crusade of carnage.

Will the American people ever learn a lesson?

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*To Trump’s Fascist Desires

Ed Venture
Barely Managing Editor

Thought For The Day – It Speaks

Dingus Con Denounces Reality

July 17, 2026

Today’s thought is brought to you by the good folks at the

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U.S. president and brain-dead barbarian Dingus Con took to the airwaves to assure his airheads that he is still running for president in 2020. Once again, the one most responsible for election stealing this side of the Supreme Court – Donald “Death-To-America” Trump regurgitated his recycled rubbish about the “stolen 2020 election”.

Naturally, every single word was bullshit.

Why are we still listening to this lying loser? Everyone outside the Trump Kool-Aid circle knows that every accusation hurled by this sad little man is a confession. Any and all election rigging, every asshole caught voting illegally have been done in his name.

Trump is scared shitless…well, scared down to a much smaller percentage of shit than usual, seeing as his shit is limitless. He knows he is leaking support like a bottomless boat. He will do anything to stop us from having free and fair elections because he cannot win them. And this time, he stands to lose more than an election. Epstein Files. Impeachment…again. Endless hearings on his endless crimes. Such a rabid, cornered beast knows no bounds and his Supreme Court rubber stamped it.

Make no mistake, Der Furor plans to have his stormtrumpers seize ballot boxes, voting machines and whatever it takes to steal elections across the country this November. He cannot maintain control any other way.

Add to all that the fact that this same whining psychopath has at every turn been dismantling election integrity safeguards wherever he can. Then he yells that our elections are not secure. We are surely through the lying glass.

Methinks the loudmouth doth protest too much. In fact, meknows it.

The 2020 election was stolen. I can prove it. With my mind. I’m a very stable genius.

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

Not-At-All-Secret Word Of The Day - KOYAANISQATSI

KOYAANISQATSI

July 16, 2026

Admittedly, we at Paying Attention™ have felt that this word could be the word of the day pretty much every day. Been that way for quite some time, but rarely more than during the rancid reign of Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump. So, we just like to make it official every once in a while. Guaranteed not to be the last time.

This became one of my favorite words of all time after I saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983 Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.

KOYAANISQATSI – the trailer

This has been your Paying Attention Word Of The Day.

You're welcome.

What is your word of the day?

Chicago – It Better End Soon

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Broken News – Driving Miss Donny

The Reflecting Fool

July 15, 2026

Despite his brain remnants having one lobe out the door leading to permanent hiatus, Donald “Death-To-America” Trump still has control of the federal government. His still-barely-sentient remains are bound and determined to fuck this country deep into the ground until it is unrecognizable, and very likely permanently damaged beyond repair.

Hopefully, there will be enough left for us to salvage some little sliver of America with the coming midterms and the dislodging of the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party’s majority in the House, and with some serious luck (fuck you Graham Platner), the Senate (fuck you too, Fetterman).

Speaking of damaged beyond repair, why is there so little mention of Disaster Don taking his motorcade for a Sunday drive through – I kid you not, through – the Reflecting Pool AFTER IT WAS PAINTED AND SEALED. Not to mention his no-bid-contract-buddies, who likely split the no-bid paycheck with Donny Conjob, completely fucked the job sixty ways from Sunday. But mostly, Trump had his motorcade DRIVE LENGTHWISE THROUGH THE REFLECTING POOL AFTER IT WAS PAINTED AND SEALED, which damaged the impregnable, un-cuttable super-strong and powerful rubber sealant before refilling the Pool.

“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

Apparently, it is not vehicle-proof. And Donny’s motorcade is not made up of your average cars. These are heavily fortified, massively heavy tanks in cars’ clothing.

“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

Yes, there was vandalism involved. It seems some idiot, and a bunch of his buddies drove a bunch of cars all the way across the Reflecting Pool before refilling it with the water that would, in record time thanks to the new stupidly dark color some yahoo insisted, against all advice, decided to paint it, become an instant destination for a massive algae gathering.

Actual news report

In a severely under-reported story, intrepid Paying Attention™ reporter Allison Wunderland has learned that the company responsible for the horrific paint job on the Reflecting Pool is the same one that does Donny’s face.

And one more thing: If you’re reading this Donny, no one put algae in the fucking pool you dimwitted, bleach-drinking bozo. Ask anyone who’s not on your team – it’s called biology. Nature can be annoying, but it’s infinitely stronger, more powerful and definitely smarter than you. But then again, who isn’t.

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*Or 30 days, whichever comes first.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Lindsey Graham bashing.

Happy Bastille Day

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

July 14, 2026

Bonjour mes amis. Since there was no good reason to celebrate American Independence Day with this nation laboring under the crushing weight of a flaccid, fascist fuckwit, let’s take a minute to acknowledge the country that made American independence possible – France. Without France it is unlikely the nation would ever have gotten off the ground. Now we have one foot in the grave thanks to our current commander-in-cheat.

America’s great slave-owning/impregnating founder Thomas Jefferson helped Marquis de Lafayette, a key ally during the American Revolution, compose a French bill of rights in June of 1789; Jefferson also helped to draft their constitution.

Naturally, France today has their own fascist fuckwit – Marie Le Pen – to deal with, but they have managed to keep her at bay…for the time being. Le Pen hopes to follow in Trump’s footsteps by running for office after being convicted of crime – specifically, embezzlement. Le Pen is running for a fourth time, is leading in the polls and may have to run while wearing an electronic device as ordered by the Paris court of appeal.

Aren’t fascists fun? (Spoiler alert: fuck no)

Anyway, a quick salute to the French, while they’re still worth saluting and while this country remains unworthy.

I. Mangrey, out.