This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

A Plant For All Seasons

May 20, 2026

Here’s a little something to take your mind off the sheer stupidity, death and destruction of the Trump era. After all, he is but a symptom of a much deeper, dumber and deadlier problem that is much older and likely to only worsen. I do not know its name, but I know it when I see it, and it is as pervasive as the air we breathe and continue to disrespect.

Sure, Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump just stole nearly two million dollars of our money to pay off his malignant militia of traitorous criminals, while he continues his literal destruction of the Remains of The White House and our economy, and continues to worsen his defeat in his illegal, disastrous war in Iran, and continues his perpetual crime spree. Sure Trump is attempting to make it illegal for the IRS to ever investigate or hold him or his criminal spawn responsible for tax crimes (like the ones he was already convicted of in New York) that they are absolutely committing and have been for decades, and will continue to do. And yes, everyone knows that he and his black-robed hench-mutants are hard at work destroying free and fair elections in America. 

None of this holds a candle in the long run to the wanton destruction of the environment that even MAGA morons depend on to continue wasting oxygen better spent on sentient beings.

Hemp is likely the most versatile, eco-friendly, important plant on the planet…especially for humans. Forget the fact that its twin cannabis provides countless people all across the planet many happy times…I already have. The applications of the non-psychoactive hemp plant are almost mind-bogglingly many. It makes the best paper and cloth and its medicinal uses are just now being identified. But wait, there's more.

Hemp, as it happens, grows like a weed, requires no toxic fertilizers or pesticides, and does not deplete the soil in which it grows. A very woke plant. And somehow, even the likes of Donald Fucking Trump signed a law that made growing industrial hemp legal for the first time in nearly a century.

We recently came across this video on Hempcrete – a hemp-based building material with almost unbelievable properties: fire-proof, mold-resistant, insect-resistant and its life-cycle has positive impacts on the environment.

The things hemp can replace – paper, cloth and building materials are all manufactured using massive amount of toxic substances that hurt all of us and our environment every day.

The ubiquitous use of hemp was murdered in its sleep by greedy corporate scum like William Randolph Hearst, the Dupont family and Andrew Mellon – the wealthiest man in America and the secretary of the Treasury, and by coincidence the chief banker for the Dupont empire.

The video is much less surprising than it is saddening.

Fireproof, Mold-Proof, Pest-Proof. Why America Made This Building Material Illegal?

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

Thought For The Day – It Just Keeps Getting Verse

Poetry In Commotion

May 17, 2026

Let us take a well-deserved (for us, not for u-no-hoo) break from the world renowned

Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES^*

and enjoy some witty, whimsical, wonderful poetry from acclaimed actor, non-pedophile and unabashed despiser of Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, John Lithgow

John Lithgow – Trumpty Dumpty Wanted A Title

John Lithgow’s Trumpty Dumpty Cycle

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*Man, whatever is in those files must really be bad for old Fartenstein, because his flying monkeys are really working their little tails off trying to figure out how to protect him from letting the public in on it.

This has been your
Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.
First we think it, then we say.
We hope you enjoyed this break from prose,
Mr. Lithgow, however funny, is on the nose.

Pic Of The Day – Trump Warmed Over

Nothing Lasts Forever…Right?   

May 15, 2026

The president of the United States, besides presiding over the rapid economic and social decline of the most powerful economic and political super-power of the last century, is himself in rapid and rapidly accelerating mental and physical decline. 

You can start your daily affirmations now, because we know what Trump will look like in his casket. He seems to be deteriorating even faster than our democracy.

   
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.

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

The Wrath Of Con

The Ass Man Conneth

May 15, 2026

Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump’s trail of cons is well known. It is in fact all he does. It is his entire raison d’etre. In the past he at least pretended to conceal most of them. Those days are over. Now it is all done right out in the open thanks the Supreme Six giving him carte blanche and the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party keeping their lips ever close to Dear Loser’s ass.

Now, the 47^th president of the United States is suing you and me. No, we do not get to state our case in a court of what we have tended to call law. This same conman will be representing us in that court, while simultaneously suing us. For TEN BILLION DOLLARS. Of our money. The details of this incredible world-ass grift (he is suing the IRS) can be found all over the internets. They pale in comparison to the brazen audacity and absurdity of the crime itself.

“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”
                   Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, April 12, 2026

The good news is, Donny Do-bad has promised to give “100% to charity”. That’s right, the same guy who, along with his criminal sons, was banned from involvement in any charity in New York State because the charity he was running at the time was a scam, the funds from which went right into the family business.

I Pity The Pool

This of course is on top of all fucked up shit he is doing like demolishing the East Wing, plastering his vile name and face all over our nation’s capital. Perhaps none of these indignities is more transparently self-dealing as the pathetically unnecessary and fugly paint job, which was originally sold as a “one-to-two million dollar” job, currently barreling in at thirteen million. Did I mention Trump handed this job, without the legally required bidding process, to someone the conman-in-chief described as his “pool guy”?

“The other thing that we're doing that's taking place right now is, the Lincoln Memorial has a beautiful reflecting pond, or lake. He called it a pool, lake and pond. Everything is different, but the word reflecting is a good term.”
                                Donald Trump, April 24, 2026

Nobody in the entire world calls the Reflecting Pool a pond or a lake. Also, no one else took a motorcade through the Reflecting Pool, damaging it in the process.

Trump’s motorcade drives through the Reflecting Pool

So far, Trump’s “pool guy” is doing what you would expect. A crappy job. The Pool is looking like the current East Wing.

Let’s guess in whose pockets most of that thirteen mil ends up. (Hint: it ain’t the pool guy’s)

I. Mangrey reporting.

UPDATE

As is so often the case, after a post is ready for publication, new related information comes to light. There’s just no way to keep up with bullshit. In this instance, it now seems that Trump is considering dropping his inane grift against the IRS. He is instead proposing to take $1.7B and dole it out to the seditious traitors he pardoned after they were found guilty – because they fucking were – of their heinous, illegal acts on January 6, 2021. Trump, who happily cut the funding for veterans health care, is handing that money over to his followers who assaulted law enforcement. Presumably, to ensure they will be ready and well-funded for Der Furor’s next attempt to derail our democracy when he insists on staying in office in contravention of the Constitution’s 22^nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms.

The Doctor Is In(sane)

Put Your Faith In The Hands Of The Man With The Concept Of A Plan

May 14, 2026

Looks like Dr. Jesus Trump has come full psycho...I mean circle. Just ask him and he will tell you that he knows more about practicing medicine than all the doctors put together. He calls himself “the father of fertility” and “the father of IVF”.

“I must say, I shouldn’t admit this, but the first time I really heard about the fertility was through Katie. She said, ‘Sir, we have to do something.’ And I’m a quick study, so I learned everything there is to learn in about three, four minutes. And I became the father of fertility.”
       Trump, May 11, 2026 (at an event focused on maternal healthcare)

There hasn’t been such a doctor of death since Jack Kevorkian. Trump used to cluck about doctors performing abortions on babies after they were born, then he moved onto drinking disinfectant to cure a virus. Now he's quacking about pills bringing people back from the dead.

“Without waiting many, many years, we know the drug works because we've taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites, gone. The kids are crying and sold them on this drug, and the person became better.”
                 Donald Jesus Trump, May 11, 2026 (quite the busy day)

All I can say is, just in case, keep those pills away from him.

Dr. Jesus will seize you now

For context, Trump continues, to this day, to brag about being the only president to take a cognitive test. He has taken at least three so far.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thought For The Day – Do Not Resuscitate

He’s Falling And We Can’t Get Up

Today’s episode is brought to you by the hidden and/or destroyed

Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES^*

As we have said here from time to time, Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump is always and only talking about himself when he seems to be talking smack about other people. It is once again time to keep this in mind as our perpetually sucking executive heads to China to betray America and get humiliated on the world stage by all the Xi in China.

Before Trump departed (Oooh, that feels so good to think about…but I digress) for China, where Trump is bringing his favorite lunch that Xi will end up eating, Donny said that the ceasefire with Iran was “on massive life support”.

All we could think was, we sure hope he was being true to form and talking about himself.

I don’t know what a ceasefire on life support looks like,
but I know what a human on life support looks like.

Go to Hell. Go directly to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two billion dollars.

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*Man, whatever is in those files must really be bad for old Fartenstein, because his lying monkeys are really working their little tails off trying to figure out how to protect him from letting the public in on all the gory details. Did Donald rape a 13-year-old girl? Inquiring minds want to know.

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

A Bad Comey-Over

James And The Giant Overreach

May 12, 2026

James Comey has come under intense pressure from the Fascist/Trump/Pro-pedophile administration. First because of his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. That shit didn’t flush, and Trump fired the pshychophant Attorney General Bondi because she failed to bring Comey to injustice. In part because there was no fucking case.

After throwing Bondi, who saved Trump’s zip-coded ass in Florida, under a bus or two,  Trump elevated a sicker psychophant, his personal criminal attorney Toad Blanche to pick up the feces-drenched mantle. Blanche is desperately hoping Trump will give him a doggie biscuit, pat him on the head and officially give him Bondi’s old job, before he too finds himself under the wrong bus at the wrong time.

“If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, 'thank you very much, I love you, sir.'"
                               Toady Blanche, April 7, 2026

One can only wonder whether Blanche’s lips are sewn or super-glued to Trump’s lower forty.

Trump and Blanche decided that because Comey took a picture of something he claims was not of his making

and posted it on social media, they would try to go after him again. These knuckle-draggers are trying to convince the public and the courts that what is essentially a political cartoon was an actionable death threat against the almost-dead 47^th president.

I have never taken Trump’s side on anything, and I’m not about to start now. I would like to feel sorry for Comey. But I can’t and I won’t. James Comey, even more than the Russians, pushed the 2016 election into Trump’s rapey lap. So, I say tough shit James, I couldn’t care less what happens to you after what you did to this country. Maybe it was an accident, maybe not, but you fucked up big-time. You, probably more than any single person, are responsible for your (and our) current predicament as we continue down the razor blade slide to oligarchic, autocratic, klepto-kakistocracy.

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*Comey did some admirable work for this country and democracy during the disgraceful Bush II years, but all that has become moot after his monumentally egregious interference in the 2016 disaster that resulted in Trump moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Without that victory, America would still be America – seriously flawed to be sure, but not teetering on the brink of dictatorship and demise.

I. Mangrey reporting.
Remember, it will get worse before it gets much worse.

Thought For The Day – At HIs Best At Rest

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

May 11, 2025

We repeatedly see pictures of the historically dishonest commander-in-sleep nodding off at his own trial, in meetings and at other events* in the middle of the day.

Dreaming of Epstein's girls?

I say, let lying dogs sleep.

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*Could it possibly have something to do with the fact that he is constantly posting insane shit during the hours between midnight and 3:00 in the morning?

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

Thought For The Day – Cognitive Dissidence

Cognitively Crippled Cretin Constantly Causes Cringe

May 10, 2026

“Anybody running for president or vice president should take a cognitive test… So, I’ve taken three. No president, think of this, has ever taken one.”
        Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump, May 5, 2026 (and countless other times)

Today’s thought is brought to you by the

Donald trump memorial EPSTEIN FILES^*

For the first time, DT said something that makes sense. He surely is the only president that had to take a cognitive test…several in fact. According to him, during his three terms as president. Yet he is still running to be president in 2020.

Trump continues, to this day, to brag about being the only president to take a cognitive test.

I’m the only president ever to take a cognitive test. I can spell my name.

Once again we call on our guru of grammar, the sensei of sentences, the duke of definitions, the prince of phrases, the one, the only, Inigo Montoya

You keep saying this thing. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Inigo Montoya

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*Man, whatever is in those files must really be bad for old Fartenstein and his pedophile pals, because his flying monkeys are really working their little tails off trying to figure out how to keep that shit hidden.

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