Thought For The Day – 25 Is Bigger Than 30

Cloudy With A Chance Of Blunder Showers

April 27, 2026

It has continued to be unbelievable, scary and sickening to see Trump have approval ratings in the forties. WTF. How is it possible for that many people to have anything but monstrous contempt for a conman, egomaniac, convicted felon, bestie with king of the pedophiles, and himself an adjudicated sexual assaulter? (One judge stated that what Trump was found guilty of amounted to “rape” according to common understanding of the act.)

For quite some time I have been telling myself and others that I would be pretty happy or something like it if Trump’s approval rating hit 25%. More recently, I’ve come to feel like I would feel, if not happy, at least somewhat relieved if he hit 30%. 

With all his many “accomplishments” piling up, Darn Old Trump seems to be accelerating his march to the bottom. He is currently somewhere between 37 and 32% overall approval – depending on the poll. For context, Der Furor was at 34% right after he incited a vicious, brutal mob to hang Mike Pence, lay siege to the Capitol and stage a violent insurrection. Then Trump pardoned all the criminals.

So, I’ll settle for him having a 30% approval rating, but I’m still hoping for 25%.

I only have one more thing to say about that:

Don’t trust any percent over thirty.

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Headline Of The Day – Schadenfreude Edition

One Less Serial Killer  

April 26, 2026

From Crooks & Liars

The elephant, who goes by the name Dexter, did not return our calls for inclusion in this article. Nonetheless, we thank her for her service.

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Fun Fact For The Day – Immigrants Are Dangerous

Deportation Is Cruel And Unjust*

April 24, 2026

Was that not in fact fun?

Bonus Fun Fact

Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump’s father’s full given name was – and maybe this explains a great deal about Donny’s delusions – Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump.

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*According to draft-dodging deportee Friedrich "Frederick" Trump – paternal grandfather of our current messiah…I mean president.

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Pic Of The Day – The Signing

Maybe Melania Will Put It On The Refrigerator   

April 23, 2026

Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump showed everyone how proud of himself he was after signing a law Joe Rogan told him to sign

Look what I did.
“Oh, that's a good one. Look at that, Joe. Do you think Biden can do that?”*

It took him thirty seconds to scribble what has never looked like his name, but he did manage to stay awake for the duration.

And then the pathetic, robotic applause from the assembled asses…

I didn’t get a harrumph out of you!

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*This addled asshole actually said this as more addled assholes applauded.

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Gratuitous Shilling For Planet Earth

Happy Earth Day

The Ocean – Coming Soon To A Street Near You

April 22, 2026

Some might notice a trend in the graph above. Some might be too greedy and/or braindead to give a shit and/or notice anything they can’t see from inside their own colon.

As part of his relentless crusade to murder the planet – and by definition those who inhabit it – wannabe king Donald has cancelled $25 billion worth of wind projects. His alcoholic Defense Secretary Kegseth claims it’s about national security. It is actually about national stupidity, and few do that better than Kegseth. Though the competition is fierce within what will come to be known as the Death-To-America administration when the history of our time is written (if that is still permitted).

As an aside, you might recall that Piss-Drunk Pete promised he would stop drinking if he became secretary of defense. Gee thanks fuckface. As we watch this numb-nuts carry on with his psycho-killer/radical Christian idiocy, one hopes – for his sake – that he has continued drinking to excess after getting his new job. If he’s doing all this sober, then raging alcoholism is the least of his problems. Either way, he is not the least of ours.

Musical Interlude

Ariel Baddass here. Glad to chime in with a few tunes for Earth Day while it’s still legal. The dipshits who want to end Juneteenth and MLK Day will surely be coming for Earth Day before they’re over – which hopefully will be November 3^rd. Anyway here are a few tunes for your angst-ridden enjoyment. And remember: A mountain is something you don’t want to fuck with.

Nick Offerman Is Sounding the Alarm:

America’s National Parks Are Under Attack

Loudon Wainwright III – Hard Day on the Planet

Kansas – Death Of Mother Nature Suite

World Party – Ship of Fools

World Party – And God Said

Flo & Eddie – Keep it Warm

Mothers of Invention – Billy The Mountain

Thanks for the opportunity to join in the Earth Day festivities. And now, back to our regularly scheduled rant already in progress...

Native American wisdom says we do not inherit the planet from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. I think it’s time to fess up to the kids: Um, kids, um don’t get mad. We didn’t do it on purpose. Well, we sorta did actually, but we couldn’t help it. Anyway, again, we’re really sorry and we promise never to do it again, but here are the keys to the planet, and really, thanks for letting us use it, really. Hard to believe, I know, but we really did appreciate it. Anyway, we sorta crashed it. It’s pretty bad, but no one was hurt, well, no one we know…yet. Actually, a lot of people were hurt. There was sort of a pile-up, but we’re okay. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s totaled. What? We’re grounded? No more planet for us? Doesn’t that seem a bit harsh? Okay, we’ll shut the fuck up now. Again, really sorry. Please don’t tell your sister.

The only good thing to happen since Dirty Coal Don took over is his stupid Iran War, that is unless and until Trump and Hegseth start sinking oil tankers, is making more and more people thinking about electric vehicles.

For those of you who are still not dead or toxically apathetic from the climate crisis and the rabid ignoring of it, here’s just the thing: https://oilwell.app

Happy Earth Day from all us tree-huggers at Paying Attention™

Thought For The Day – On Donald Trump

Washington Could Not Tell A Lie, Trump Can’t Not Tell A Lie

April 21, 2026

I say, let lying dogs sleep.

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Thought For The Day – Fun With Fascism

Fascism Follies

April 20, 2026

We are already up to our collective cankles in Trump's fascist bullshit. Let's cut it and him off at the knees before it's too late.

This is How Fascism Starts | from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9”

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Pic Of The Day – Keeping A Finger On The Pulse

 

Pointing Out The Obvious  

April 19, 2026

Apropos of nothing and everything. Mostly, I should not have to wake up every day having to, sooner or later have my thoughts turn to Donald “Death To America” Trump and his daily crimes against humanity. A new low in human behavior, senseless lying and wreaking outright destruction of everything in his path. To him, everything is the White House East Wing.

Donald, this bird’s for you…

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Quote Of The Day – Putz Poops On Pope

Vance Makes Being Massively Stupid Look So Easy   

April 18, 2026

“I think it’s very, very important for the Pope to be careful
when he talks about matters of theology.”
JD Vance, April 15, 2025

“I think it’s very, very important for JD Vance to be careful
when he opens his stunningly ignorant mouth for any reason.”
I. Mangrey, April 16, 2026

Vice President and world-renown furniture fucker JD Vance (the JD stands for Fucking Idiot) who converted to Catholicism in 2019 – and put a Methodist church on the cover of his new book on faith – decided to weigh in on his boss’ blasphemous bullshit and repeated attacks on the Pope. Because the Pope came out in favor of peace. Which is kind of a big part of his whole gig.

Apparently, Vance’s conversion did not really take, even though just months after his “conversion” he said...

“My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.”
JD Vance, April 1, 2020*

I’m not Catholic, nor do I play one on TV like Vance, but isn’t the Pope the representative of Jesus Christ and considered by Catholics to be, by definition, infallible? As Vance himself believed or at least said around the same time he called Trump “America’s Hitler”. That was before he converted to Trumpism. Vance is the emissary of the fucking anti-Christ who thinks himself God.**

One might have well assumed Vance meant in the opening quote ‘when he talks about politics’, except he kept going with that derailed-train-of-thought and doubled down.

Either way, it is entirely possible that Vance should just STFU since no one, and I mean no one, gives a flying fuck what he thinks. In particular this Pope. But also…

Fool House

Despite his most recent string of phantasmagorical flying fuck-ups, Vance might not be the Plague, but people are sure avoiding him like it. Here’s a recent event at Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA where Vance spoke to a house

It has long been obvious that Vance is uncomfortable around people, so this area full of empty seats suited him just fine. Besides, he is going to need to get accustomed to such palpable displays of affection and record crowds.

One More Thing

To be fair, Trump may not be the anti-Christ (not ruling it out) but he is demonstrably and flagrantly anti Christ.

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*The date is real so maybe he meant this as an April Fool’s joke.
**In 2019, Trump, who can always be counted on to take the moral low-ground, did happily and proudly retweet someone calling him “the King of Israel” and “the second coming of God”.

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