Thought For The Day – Trump v. Voting

Cruel And Unusual President*

September 26, 2026

It seems increasingly clear that Death-To-America Don is at least going to have more trouble implementing his get-the-vote-out-of-here plans.

Assuming he doesn’t just manufacture a national emergency and/or cancel the midterms, it looks like Trump’s back-up plan is to simply kill off most Americans who are lower income and are likely to vote against anyone hinting at supporting Trump’s agenda. He is going to continue causing everything to be unaffordable – food, gas, housing, health care…all up. Not only is the Fascist/Trump/Epstein/Sedition Party not attempting to help make these things better, which would cause people to be more likely to vote for them, they are going full steam ahead in making all of it worse. They just kicked another 750,000 (many of whom are their own supporters) off Obamacare. You know, because they are the ones who put Obama’s name on it.

One county in Texass recently eliminated 92 polling locations in mostly Democratic areas in order to drag the worst candidate in this entire election cycle – Texass Attorney General Ken Paxton – across the finish line as Democratic candidate James Talirico out-classes, out-fundraises and out-campaigns the philandering, 15-house-owning Paxton. Paxton was impeached on 16 counts by the majority Republican Texass House of Representatives by a 121–23 vote in 2023, but the Texas Senate acquitted him on all counts.

Trump seems to have given up trying to hijack the Postal Service in order to interfere with mail-in voting. And since most of his plans to keep people from voting are getting thrown out of court, Trump is now lying about giving everyone $5,000 if his party prevails at the polls this November. Fat fucking chance he would ever keep a promise.

We are poised somewhere between For What It’s Worth, Wild In the Streets and Eve Of Destruction, hopefully not Four Dead In Ohio, but there is a non-zero chance that ICE and the FBI will be terrorizing and shooting people they suspect of voting Democratic (literally and figuratively) at polling places across the country on November 3^rd. Bet on it.

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*Also insane and fascist.

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Pic Of The Day – Uh, Yup

Trump Is Fucking Goofy   

September 25, 2026

Just about everyone knows this. Now we have proof.

Caught in the act

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Thought For The Day – Let Him Have It

What’s The Dealey?

September 24, 2026

Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump is fatally jealous of former president John F. Kennedy. Trump is so crazed that he seems to be equating, or perhaps confusing, the Kennedy Center with Iran. Deathbed Don has launched unprovoked attacks on both the Kennedy Center and Iran, and has threatened both with total destruction.

Our sources near the Remains of the White House are reporting that Trump is secretly hoping to follow in Kennedy’s footsteps in surprising ways. Maybe it’s because he can smell the writing on the wall. His incredibly stupid and failing presidency is dissolving around him. Trump is old beyond his years, his brain is mush, and his once proudly ignorant MAGAverse is beginning to realize their hero has been pissing all over them and calling it rain.

In Other Alternative News…

In the wee hours – the only ones during which Der Furor can stay awake – Trump has been floating the idea of having a remake of Our American Cousin put on at the Kennedy Center, or maybe at Ford’s Theater.* He has also pushed the idea of visiting Dallas again, only this time he wants his motorcade to amble through Dealey Plaza.

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*There are actual reports that Trump’s “team” is floating the idea of attaching his name to Ford’s Theater. Why? Because it’s there. Trump has vehemently denied these reports…so you know they’re true.

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

America’s Arch Enemy

 

The Choker

September 23, 2026

Damaged Don, between threats to blow up the country of Iran, bulldoze the Kennedy Center, bulldozing the White House, and pissing all over the First Amendment (and the Fifth) – in addition to all his usual fucking everything up – is hell-bent on building his TRiUMPhal Arch/Sniper’s nest/Fortress/Armory, to go along with his super-secret ballroom/fortress that he won’t shut the fuck up about.

Absolutely everything he does is unwanted, completely unnecessary and extremely stupid. And will sooner or later (most likely sooner), like his Reflecting Pool fiasco, turn to complete and utter shit.*

We can only hope that once he is dragged kicking and screaming from the Remains of The White House, whoever is in charge removes every last sign of his ever having been here. Then take him to The Hague.

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*The good news about that is it will make it that much easier to tear it all down…if it all hasn’t just turned to dust on its own thanks to all the Trumpian craftsmanshit.

I. Mangrey tilting at windbags.

Broken News – Certifiable

Jeremiad Johnson

September 22, 2026

“We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress.
We’re not gonna do it.”
Mike “Chucky” Johnson, September 10, 2026

Even though the typically anti-democracy/all-Trump-all-the-time Supreme Court (sans its two flagrantly felonious dyspeptic duo – Sam Alito and Uncle Thomas) somehow stumbled into a rare moment of standing up for democracy and put the kibosh of Death-To-America Don’s attempt to dismember voting by mail, we are not yet out of the fucking up of the coming midterm elections woods.

The Trump Mob still has a number of other plans to destroy our democracy by blasting the midterms to smithereens. They have already tried gerrymandering shenanigans, though those efforts have by and large backfired. One Democrat majority county in Texass closed down 92 polling sites. They are planning to fuck around on election day by deploying the Department of Homeland Fascism ICE agents at polling places, or sending the FBI to intimidate voters

The Final Solution Sedition

The midterm train does not reach its final destination until January 3, 2027. That is the day, by law (if that is still a thing) when the Speaker of the House, who in this case – unless he happens to drop dead (which I wouldn’t wish on hardly anyone) before that day – happens to be the ultra-slimy, fascist religious fanatic and unrepentant Trump suck-up Mike Johnson (shown below) is called on to certify the elections.

Mike Johnson with his special gavel

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled equinox.

Broken News – MADMAN ACCOMPLISHED

Cut His Mic

September 20, 2026

As you may have heard, Donald “Death-to-America” Trump is attempting to do to the Constitution what he did to the East Wing and is currently threatening to do to the Kennedy Center. He is bulldozing the First Amendment.

“The First Amendment is the East Wing of amendments. Who needs the 
First Amendment when we have the Second?”
Donald “Death-to-America” Trump, alternative quote

Der Furor has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico (so far) from his temporarily gold-plated, semi-bulldozed Remains of the White House. Because they do not kiss his ass the way his mentally-defective, spine-free cabinet does. One imagines even the Supreme Court would have to declare this act unconstitutional.

This is the first thing tyrants, dictators and shitheads the world over do to wrest power from the hands of the people.

We at Paying Attention™ are as displeased as anyone at this traitorous turn of events. The only thing that angers us more is the fact that we were not banned from the Remains of the White House. Is it something we didn’t say?

We vow to do better going forward.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Fight Club.

Broken News – Ka$h In The Barrel

They’re All Bozos On Trump’s Bus

September 19, 2026

“It’s a good thing for America if neither Iran or Kash Patel are getting bombed.”
John Kerry, April 21, 2026

FBI defective…I mean director Ka$h Patel felt it necessary to modify the list of restrictions for joining the bureau. Among those changes Patel included removing the restriction for having engaged in “bestiality”. The reason Patel gave for specifying that a history of bestiality is now acceptable when applying to the FBI to incredulous cracker Sen. John Kennedy (who should not be allowed to bear that name) was that “They explained to me and showed me cases in which people were forced into it and had applied to the FBI, and so I thought they should be considered; it’s not an automatic disqualification. That’s all.”

Given that Patel is a childish moron, an alcoholic and an undeservedly arrogant, lying little twerp, who is not fit to clean the bathrooms at a Cracker Barrel, let alone FBI headquarters, there is no reason whatsoever to take him at his word. It is much more likely that there are photos out there showing Kash Patel fucking dead sheep.

FBI Director Ka$h Patel

Ka$h Patel should never be allowed in or near any FBI building unless he has been taken into custody.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled umbrage.

Headline Of The Day – Joe Mansion Strikes (Out) Again

In Other News Of The Criminally Stupid...   

September 18, 2026

Former senator and continuing soulless oligarch/coal baron scumbag Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who left the Democratic Party at the end of his horrendous Senate career, has endorsed famous concern guru and perpetual Trump enabler Susan Collins in the re-election bid she long ago promised she would never attempt*, praising her as the “soul of the Senate”.

Manchin as usual has gotten it wrong. Collins is the ass-soul of the Senate.

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*Collins promised to serve only two terms when she first ran five terms ago.

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AI Will Kill Us, Part 2, Redux

One Good Rerun Deserves Another

September 17, 2026

As usual, Trump is calling something objectively provable that does not fit his dementia-inspired narrative “A HOAX”. From the blatant association with the Russians that helped him lose the popular vote yet secure the presidency in 2016, to his continued insistence that the indisputable, accelerating human-driven climate crises, to his claims that the COVID pandemic was “A HOAX”, to name just a few. History’s dumbest super-genius is now calling the dire warnings from AI developers and researchers and other actually smart people “A HOAX”. Just leave poor little AI alone. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. This from the guy who, being the very stable genius he is, suggested people ingest bleach to kill a virus. If only he had led the way via personal example and showed us how safe and effective it was.

Many people find it difficult to imagine how AI could bring about human extinction (something, it must be said, however unfortunately, we have rightly earned by the progression and subsequent de-evolution of our species as a whole) ever, let alone by the end of this decade. Well guess what-the-fuck, most people could not have predicted the creation of AI just a few decades ago. But as you are likely aware, IT IS HERE NOW, and it is coming for us.

Actually, somebody did predict this. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in their 1968 Sci Fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey created HAL the computer – the Donald Trump of computers. Ironically, HAL was found to be providing faulty data, but HAL, like Trump refused to admit a mistake, choosing instead to blame it on human error and then to kill off the insubordinate crew who dared blame him.

Um, NO! It’s probably not safe for most if any adults.

National Lampoon’s Deteriorata

Enjoy what is likely our final summer 2026 rerun...

AI Robot

February 1, 2026

A few days ago, we explained how AI Will Kill Us Before It Kills Us . And you let me count the ways. Laugh if you want; it’s probably not even your real laugh at this point. It has begun and there is no turning back. Especially now that Der Furor has banned any restrictions or oversight for at least 10 years. Huh? And handed over our top AI tech to China. Huh?

No sooner did someone come out with a very humanoid robot, sprinkled with AI, and able to mimic the movements of its “coach”, but the battle for supremacy began in earnest. And this will not be merely a battle of intelligence. There will be blood in the streets. And not just from ICE shooting people in the head. I was going to say that killing machines don’t see color, but I’m pretty sure racism can be programmed in or learned on the fly.

Notice that R2-FuckU not only disabled his benefactor like Butch Cassidy in a knife fight with a much bigger man,

but he immediately mocked his victim.

FRIGHTENING UPDATE

We have also just learned that AI “agents” are starting their own social networks. They are watching us. They are talking about us. They are doing tasks and developing skills without their “owners” knowing it beforehand. They are plotting and planning and we are too stupid to be able to either monitor them or stop them. They are already smarter than almost all of us put together. They do not have corporeal forms with unknown expiration dates. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I. Robot…I mean Mangrey, quaking.