Question For The Day – Be Here All Along

It’s 2026. Do You Know Where Your Country Is?

March 3, 2026

Today, we present the question right up front, followed by the set-up. Hey, it’s a topsy-turvy world folks. Just trying to fit in.

Today’s Question For The Day:

How did we get here?

A few weeks ago, my aunt, my mother’s younger sister, who was born in Belgium in 1938 and landed at Ellis Island along with her parents in 1951 (one year after my mother immigrated), often talks politics with me. We regularly commiserate about the current state of despairs. During that recent chat she asked, “How did we get here?”

In a way, it’s a pretty straight line from Jump Street to Trump Street. Day One, almost 300 years before anyone dreamed of America, the worst immigrants ever to reach these shores began murdering millions and millions of the land’s original inhabitants and taking their land. Then more millions were dragged here from their homes across the ocean and treated worse than animals. Neither one of these crimes against humanity has really ended to this day. And we have never, as a nation, attempted to make amends or reparations or apologize.

It has been said the Hitler’s concentration camps were modeled after America’s Indian reservation system. American returned the compliment by creating Japanese internment camps, and now, the Fascist/Trump/Epstein regime is trying to build concentration camps for mostly innocent immigrants.

Yet people keep saying, “This is not who we are.” Donald Trump and his fascist fuckwits are not who we are. Well guess what, despite all the sick, criminal, seditious, insane, dementia-addled shit Trump has perpetrated upon this nation and the world, there are still more than one third of Americans, along with 52 senators and 218 House members, and very consistently six Supreme Court justices, who continue to all-but-literally (as far as we know) kiss his ass.

Todd Rundgren – Shinola (1982)

And now, for your viewing pleasure, our Duh Leader has dishonestly, unnecessarily, illegally and thoughtlessly started a war with Iran. Even if there had been anything resembling long-range planning for this conflagration, one look at the un-brain trust running the show – Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth (who assured us there will be “no stupid rules of engagement”), Nosferatu Miller and of course Double Dementia Don,* and you can see where this thing is going. Straight to fucking hell.

Bonus Question:

How and when can we be somewhere else?

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*Don’t even get me started on the 22-year-old intern with no national security experience, whose prior work experience included landscaping and working in a grocery store, who is currently in charge of terrorism prevention.

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

Radio WTAF

March 2, 2026

Paying Attention™ DJ Ariel Baddass returned from her travels a while ago, but is now afraid to leave her house, being somewhat swarthy of skin, quick of tongue, and having a severe aversion to bullets.

I’m here in the basement of our non-existent secure, undisclosed location, turntable at the ready, with my new burner phone. Give us a holler and pick out a tune.

I. Mangrey perusing the playlist

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

Caller: Hi, just call me Silence Dogood, first time caller.

I the DJ: Hi Silence. What’s your request and who are you dedicating it to? We’re here to make it happen.

Caller: I would love to hear one of my favorite bands. Kind of the Mothers of Invention of Australia. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone else who has heard of this group – more of a musical collective, really, who performed in one form or another from the mid-60s until the late ‘90s. After all the original members had passed, a new generation of players took up the torch and name of GONG. I want to dedicate this to the memory of Renee Nicole Good, to the memory of Alex Pretti, to all those dead at the hands of Trump’s death squads, to all those brutally assaulted for looking not-white-enough. And I want to dedicate this to the memory of freedom in America, a memory I truly hope can find a way to rise from the fascist ash heap Trump is turning this country into. I also want this to go out to my most long-time anti-fascist friend – Stu Dent.

I.: Well Silence, this is your lucky day. Gong is a huge favorite around here – they had us at Floating Anarchy – and we’re happy for any excuse to put them on the air. By the way, wasn’t Silence Dogood one of Ben Franklin’s pseudonyms?

Silence: Excellent. And, yes. I’d rather try to stay under the radar, and hail of bullets currently blanketing much of America. I am terrified of the mobs of Trump’s ICE ICE animals terrorizing our streets.

Gong – You Can’t Kill Me

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

Torn NATO

He Is Become Death

March 2, 2026

“The War Department (not its real name) will not be distracted by democracy-building interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing and feckless nation building.”
                      AA dropout Pete Hegseth, December 6, 2025

For those keeping score, Trump’s current democracy-building interventionism in Iran is an undefined war, the stated purpose of which is regime change and feckless nation building. But who’s counting?

In the wake of Trump’s burgeoning mental decompensation, coupled with his rape-y, racist, raging fascism and desire for total world domination, our allies across the globe are horrified. Trump addressed, mostly scolded the assembled international movers and shakers at the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, Switzerland on January 21 of this year. He told those assembled, in reference to Greenland, “I won’t use force.”

Unsurprisingly, just days after telling the Davos attendees that he would not use force, Damaged Don wheezed this...

“We can do anything we want, we can do military, we can do anything we want. And it’s being negotiated, and let’s see what happens… I’ll let you know in about two weeks.”

Hmmm, isn’t two weeks the amount of time we were to wait for him to repeal and replace Obamacare? Ten years ago? And every two weeks since then?

Later that same month, UK Prime Minister Starmer had some choice words regarding Damaged Don’s insane statement, completely divorced from reality, that NATO never sent troops to Afghanistan:

“I consider president Trump’s comments to be insulting and frankly, appalling.”

Those are two very good and accurate adjectives to describe Trump’s babbling bullshit. Not the best words necessarily, but they’ll do. For now.

All of the above was apparently prelude to the gutless, draft-dodging worm Trump’s illegal, ill-advised, soon-to-be-disastrous bombing of Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Failure, or Epic Furry, or something like that.

Three U.S. troops have already been killed thanks to Trump’s stupid, illegal, and soon-to-be-disastrous bombing of Iran. Those three are like the dead soldiers Trump called “suckers and losers”. Der Furor promised (on social media, you know, as president do) to avenge those deaths, vowing to take out the responsible party. Someone get that man a mirror.

To paraphrase former Secretary of State John Kerry, during his 1971 testimony to Congress, “How do you ask a man to be the first man to die for a mistake?”

Trump presumably wants to bomb Iran until it looks like the East Wing of the White House. Trump is once again using America’s military might as his personal plaything and dragging our allies into harm’s way for the war of choice he needs for his Epstein File cover-up and his desperate plot to suspend the November midterm elections that threaten to put Trump in his place.

We are awaiting a sternly worded letter from Trump’s brand new, Trump-Brand attempt to replace NATO, Bored of Peace. This should be interesting given that Iran is the seventh country Trump has bombed since taking office eleven months ago.* If this doesn't get him a Nobel Peace Prize, I don't know what will (unless more people gift him theirs).

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*Not including his bombing of the White House East Wing.

I. Mangrey reporting.

A Ford, A Bill, A Tee

Liar Beware

March 1, 2026

Wake Up And Smell The War

There will be plenty of time to get into Der Furor’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and soon-to-be disastrous war with Iran, already spreading across the region, and soon the globe. Nothing like a global military conflict to get the old blood flowing. Remember how George WTF Bush, et al were clueless about the history of Sunni and Shi’ite branches of Islam, which made his illegal, immoral and disastrous Iraq War blow up in his (and by extension our faces). Thank goodness we have the most peaceful, least racist, most winning president in history to lead us through this dark, incredibly stupid time. Surely killing the Iranian leader will make everything better. Why bother talking about what Iran is calling an "intense offensive operation" against Israel, U.S. bases and a more brutal, radical leadership structure emerges.

For now, let’s turn our tattered attention to one of Dumb Don’s domestic debacles…

Hey, remember when Darn Old Trump told us every day for months and months that “affordability” was a made-up word by Democrats? Me too. Remember when Trump ran on “affordability” in 2024 and said he would fix it on day one? Me too.

“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again. We’re going to make it affordable again.”
                      Donald Jeffey Epstein Trump, August 17, 2024

This mention of Jeffrey Epstein is brought to you by not letting Epstein’s long-time best friend get away with trying to distract us from the

Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files

Which are now poised to cause the end of Trump’s totally toxic, tragic tyrannical term.

Remember this fucking guy from November 2011 (and repeatedly thereafter)?…

Funny story: That never fucking happened

We now return you to the current blog post already in progress…

Well, apparently Old Sleepy Head doesn’t remember any of that. He recently gave a talk – a scream, actually – in Georgia where he whined:

“I have to listen to the fake news, talking about affordability. Affordability. You notice, what word have you not heard over the last two weeks? Affordability.”

Interjection: Yeah, dumbass. That’s because you stopped saying it ever 30 seconds for the last two weeks, and that’s because nothing is fucking affordable, in large part because of your fucking illegal tariffs, which the Supreme Court finally ruled were in fact fucking illegal. And we want our money back shitface. I’m sorry, we want our money back, shitface, sir.

Back to the bed-wetting…

“Because I won. I’ve won affordability… America’s back. Our economy is roaring. And our country is respected again, respected like never, ever before.”

Interjection: that is utter bullshit, with the glaring exception of that last bit – our country is definitely respected like never, ever before. Because America had more respect on the day of our nation’s birth, before we could even walk, than we do right now since you have torn asunder every important relationship with every single ally. So yes, the respect the rest of the world (and much of the American citizenry) has for America has never, ever been shredded so completely.

But wait, there’s more…

After all that, Mr. Fuxit brought up affordability again during his recent Hate of The Union rally:

“Now, the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used the word affordability, a word, they just used it because somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure… They knew their statements were a lie, they knew it, they knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie. Their policies created the high prices. Our policies are rapidly ending them. We are doing really well… Just hold on a little while. We'll get that down. And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago.”

Wait, he said he “won affordability”.

Surely, Trump’s goal of removing our democracy and transplanting it in Iran by starting another illegal-war-with-no-plan-for-day-two in the Middle East will bring all our costs down.

Nice work, you napping numbskull.

I. Mangrey reporting. Affordable since 2004. 

Broken News CORRECTION – Mistakes Were Made

An Honest Mistake

February 28, 2026

We recently asked, possibly even implied, that the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party members of the House Oversight Committee were clueless idiots because they voluntarily brought up the completely idiotic and absurd, not to mention 400%, 800%, maybe even 1100% or 200% debunked, Qanon conspiracy theory that Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, were running a pedophile ring out the basement of a DC area pizza parlor, which among other things happened not to have a basement. You would think these yahoos would want to leave any thought of this pathetic debacle in the bowels of the memory hole, especially since it turns out that countless non-Democrats (and some Democrats) are up to their eyeballs in the very real, non-hoax child trafficking and rape factory that was run by Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s long-time best friend and fellow pussy-grabber.

When asked about the impending desperation deposition of Bill Clinton in the ongoing effort to shield Trump from justice in the Epstein case, Rep. Pat Fallon (Duh-TX) offered up this absolute gem (i.e., wholly unpolished turd) of a response:

Fux News fuckwit: So this has never been done before and a former president has never been compelled to appear before Congress. Is this where this is all heading as of today?

Fallon: “Well we’ve never had a former president either this close to a convicted felon either (sic). I mean, it’s problematic.”

There’s A Problem Alright

Yes, we’ve never had a former president this close to a convicted felon. What we do have though is a current (and very soon-to-be-former) president (from Fallon’s party) who is so close to a convicted felon (and adjudicated sexual assaulter), who used to be best friends with Jeffrey Epstein while Epstein was running the above-mentioned child trafficking ring and rape island, that he sees one every single day when he looks at himself in the mirror hundreds of times a day.

Again we must issue a correction and an apology. Rep. Fallon makes clueless idiots look like know-it-alls. We apologize to you the audience for our carelessness, and to any clueless idiots who took offense at being associated with Fallon.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reboot.

BREAKING Broken News – Bored Of Peace

Trump Is Bombing

February 28, 2026

Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump has blindsided the midterms Congress our allies* Iran. After pretending to engage in a diplomatic solution with the Iranian regime, Trump decided to pre-empt congressional oversight by launching a surprise attack on Iran in the middle of the night. Congress was scheduled to vote on a War Powers resolution related to Iran early next week, since Trump had already launched a major military presence in the Persian Gulf region.

As part of his relentless assault on the midterm elections that the Fascist/Trump/Epstein is all but guaranteed to lose bigly, Trump is attempting to set the stage for avoiding his third impeachment...I mean, having to testify before Congress regarding his very close relationship with Epstein and accusations of sexual assault on a minor…I mean declaring martial law in order to suspend the midterm elections poised to end his psychotic agenda and stranglehold over our country.

Hollow Words From A Soulless Dunce

As the bombing began, Trump (the guy who avoided military service at all costs) told the Iranian people, via his white power internet platform, “The hour of your freedom is at hand.” Hey, what about us? Is ours anywhere to be found? He also urged them, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.” You know, like he tried to do on January 6, 2021. Hey motherfucker, what about us here in America? Should we do that too? And just how does Dumb Don imagine the Iranian people might achieve this?

Trump spoke on Truth Social, from a lightless room and a brainless head

Trump also addressed the American people, “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost.” Because he wants to cancel the midterm elections. He added that his attack was meant “to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests.” While his own very wicked, radical dictatorship threatens America’s core national security interests, our democracy and our lives. Every. Single. Day.

So yeah, Trump is calling for regime change in Iran (and a bunch of other places). A large majority of Americans are calling for regime change in America. If you allows us to vote this November, we will be able to take a big first step.

Good thing the Nobel people did not give this schmuck a Peace Prize. He should have to return his fake FIFA prize and the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize he was gifted by Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Machado a month ago.

VOTE.

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*Except for Israel, who happily joined in on Trump’s shit show.
 

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Fight Club.

Thought For The Day – Check It Out. Check It Off.

Fight The Fascist Kakistocracy

February 28, 2026

Paula Poundstone suggests you check to make sure we are registered to vote, even if you think you already are. That is a good idea.

VOTE.ORG makes it very quick and easy.

There is something rotten in DC and it’s rotting from the head. Take no chances. Take no prisoners.

NO KINGS 3.0 March 28, 2026 – at a nearby location…everywhere.

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

EXTREMELY Broken News – Rapergate

It’s Not The Crime It’s The Fuck-up

February 27, 2026

Yesterday saw the desperate Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party attack their go-to bogeyman, or in this case, bogeywoman. Whenever they get their diapers in a twist, who they gonna call? Why it was none other than Hillary Clinton – who never met Jeffrey Epstein and is never mentioned in the Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files, unlike certain other persons-of-much-greater-interest, such as Donald and Melania Trump, one of whom deserves a giant trophy for best supporting actor in a pedophile role. Both Trumps appear in probably thousands of photographs with Epstein and his convicted-partner-in-heinous-crime Ghislane Maxwell.

The Clintons with Epstein and Maxwell
Wait, that’s not the Clintons?

The most recent revelation, which hit the news stands hours before Trump’s two-hour-tantrum in front of Congress, was that the FBI is hiding 50 pages of documents pertaining to four interviews by the FBI of a woman who accused Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump of sexually assaulting her and beating her after she bit his uninvited, unwelcome little pecker…when she was thirteen years old. Somebody has a lot of splainin’ to do. And it ain’t Hillary Clinton, or even her very questionable husband, who you might know is not the president today and is not mentioned nearly one million times (that we know of) in the Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files.

At least the committee got Hillary to spill the beans on UFOs. They also decided to ask Clinton about Pizzagate, the absurd Qanon conspiracy theory that accused Democrats and assorted high-profile liberals of running a PEDOPHILE RING OUT OF A BASEMENTLESS PIZZA SHOP BASEMENT. Are you fucking kidding me? Donald Trump was best friends with the chief of what was likely the BIGGEST PEDOPHILE/CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, while that best friend was running the operation and Trump was very likely helping his pal recruit children and young women to be raped and trafficked. Why the hell would they even bring up Pizzagate again? What kind of clueless idiots are these Trump ball ticklers and ass kissers?

What about her emails?! Benghazi! You forgot about Benghazi!

Speaking of the Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files, according to our non-existent sources, Trump is claiming that most of The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files can't be released because they are under audit.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Dead Parrot sketch. 

BOOMSDAY

The Doomsday Gap

February 27, 2025

Trump’s SOTU got terrible ratings, down 12% from the crappy ratings he got last year. With such low, horrible, really bad ratings, shouldn’t Trump be cancelled? And despite Fux News mouths claiming it was the greatest speech of all times, it was actually rated as the least popular speech this century. It was also completely and objectively bonkers. 

As noted here previously, I did not subject myself to the spectacle. I have however, since then seen a significant number of segments covering a sufficiently varied array of topics to get a sense of the senselessness, and to know I had seen more than enough. I'll spare you the details, but it was chock full of creepy, kooky, scary, racist, gory, provably dishonest, psychotic, and ultimately pathetic gibberish.

But we are taking a break from our coverage of Trump’s Hate of The Union rant starting right now.

On A Lighter Note

Some of you might find comfort in the following non-Trump (though intimately Trump adjacent) Broken News story from those zany folks over at science.

It's time for another exciting episode of...

The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files…
OOPS, I meant…

THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK

I’m guessing this is not a particularly fun job

The Doomsday Clock measures how close the human race is to being obliterated, and not like Trump’s claim of obliterating Iran’s nuclear program six months ago, only to now be preparing to start a shooting war with Iran because Trump says Iran is a week away from building intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which could strike the U.S. Trump’s claim that Iran will soon be able to strike US is unsupported by U.S. intelligence (Trump’s very existence is unsupported by every type of intelligence).  Time to call in Colin Powell with a vile of ICBMs.

Clearly Trump is desperate to 1) push the Doomsday Clock to midnight before he ends up in jail, 2) distract everyone from everything else he is fucking up (HA! You thought I was going to say distract from the Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files), and/or 3) preparing the ground for a reason to disrupt the midterm elections by declaring wartime powers and a national emergency in order to keep from ending up impeached a third time and finally being convicted. Or he’s just a violent, vengeful, demented shithead. Take your pick. You can choose more than one.

Speaking of which, this imminent war popped up before the good folks at the Doomsday Clock pushed that second hand a few seconds closer to midnight.

Scientists say that the Doomsday Clock is closer to striking BOOM than ever before. We are now at 85 seconds to midnight. You should know, if you don't already, that there will be no 12:01 AM once this clock strikes midnight.

By the way…

All of the threats to humanity pushing the clock to closing time – the careening climate crisis, the threat of nuclear war, disruptive technologies and biosecurity – are being relentlessly magnified and accelerated by the very-nearly-dead Donald Trump, who could not give a smaller shit about what happens to all of us.

From the keepers of the Doomsday Clock

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board (SASB), which sets the Clock, called for urgent action to limit nuclear arsenals, create international guidelines on the use of AI, and form multilateral agreements to address global biological threats.

All I can say to that is, so long and thanks for all the fish.

The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled final preparations.