Radio WTAF – Black History Month Edition

February 25, 2026

Apparently, Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump survived the longest, most dishonest, most divisive, disgusting and racist State of The Union in history. We’ll have to wait and see if the country manages to survive his continuing presence or not. Only time will tell. I'm sure he is very proud of himself, which places him firmly in a very small minority of Americans. He did nothing to help pull his still-sinking and royally-stinking poll numbers out of the metaphorical Mariana Trench. Trump is truly the POTUS. I did not watch Trump's disingenuous diatribe. I did however see enough snippets to cause a raging headache and some mild internal bleeding.

Meanwhile, Trump’s White Power Crusade is hard at work scrubbing all mentions of slavery, all mentions of contributions by Black Americans, from government websites, from national parks and monuments. They want to erase anything that might cause anyone to think there should be any sense of guilt or shame related to our shameful, guilt-ridden history, particularly as it relates to the over-arching racism at the heart of this nation since before its inception.

Despite the current regime’s ugly, malignant and metastatic racism and blatant and unrelenting attempts to whitewash this nation’s history and whiten this country as it now stands, we here at Paying Attention™ remain steadfast in our support for reality, for all people oppressed by those undeservedly in power, and Black History Month in particular during this shortest of months.

Supreme Court Chief Justice and longtime racist John Roberts, in gutting the Voting Rights Act several years ago, proclaimed that racism in America was dead. Well guess what-the-fuck, if it was dead back then (SPOILER ALERT: it most definitely was not) it is now a fucking zombie. Eating brains and dismembering democracy and civil society. How else can you explain Trump and his entire cabinet of brain-damaged dipshits. Hell, one of them even admitted to having his brain eaten by a worm…or was it a racist fucking zombie? Either way, all those brains in the West Wing have been gnawed, munched and chomped beyond any ability to function worth a shit.

But, I digress…

Can you imagine if everything we had came only from white people? I happen to be a white people and I can’t imagine having only music by white people. Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are white, but much, if not most of my favorite music is either by or heavily influenced by Black artists.

I. Mangrey perusing the playlist

Enjoy some scratching of the surface…

Oscar Brown, Jr. – Forty Acres And A Mule

Gil Scott-Heron – Whitey On the Moon

Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Blacknuss

Living Colour – Open Letter To A Landlord

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In the Name

Hope you're having a good Black History Month.

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

Second Thought For The Day – The Union Is In A State

Dead Man Talking

February 24, 2026

Today’s Second Thought For The Day is brought to you by

The Donald trump
memorial EPSTEIN FILES^*

As you may know, tonight Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump is scheduled to give the STFU…I mean SOTU. This will be Trump’s first SOTU since becoming the first convicted felon/insurrectionist and adjudicated rapist to be elected president, and a second term no less. As of this moment, Trump is losing his base, his grip and his last remaining marble. Trump is killing our democracy, our economy, our standing in the world and our fellow citizens. He is a lame duck, a big schmuck and a dumb fuck. The only things lower than his poll numbers are the odds he will live long enough to steal the 2026 midterms.

Normally, we all sit in front of the tv with a tub of popcorn and watch these things. Not this time. We are joining some 50 Democratic members of Congress and people all across the country who are boycotting what promises to be a steaming pile of poop from a smaller pile of poop. Hopefully this will be the least watched State of The Union address ever. Hopefully, there will never be another convicted felon/insurrectionist delivering one of these.

Dirty Donald will be joined in the House Chamber of the Capitol – the scene of the Trump-incited attempted kidnapping/murder/coup – by Supreme Court justices who dared put the Constitution above their boy one fucking time, several survivors of Trump’s best friend Jeffrey Epstein’s Island of Pedophilia, at least one survivor of Trump’s ICE ICE death squads, and a significantly diminished group of Democrats.

Please Don’t Take This The Wrong Way

We at Paying Attention™ would never (well, almost never) wish anyone (well, hardly anyone) harm. That is why we want to go on the record stating unequivocally that it would be a terrible shame if poor, demented, sickly, out-of-shape, badly aging, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen, supremely stressed out Darn Old Trump were to suddenly clutch at his un-dyed chest and keel over while he is whining his way through tonight’s major, lie-blame-and-hate-filled address to the nation he cares nothing about except how it can stroke (oops, did I say stroke) his over-inflated ego and fill his blood-soaked (oh dear, did I say blood-soaked) pockets.

Anyway, we wish our feckless leader everything he deserves.

Let us pray.

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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™ Second Thought For The Day.
Thoughts and prayers.

Thought For The Day – Tyranny Of The Minority

An Inconvenient Truth

February 24, 2026

As Black History Month winds down, we present one of the smartest statements ever, presented here without further comment*

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*Except to say I have no idea who this woman is.

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

Question For The Day – The Worst Of The Worst (Not An Immigrant)

Go Back Where You Came From Whitey

February 23, 2026

Another disgruntled American allegedly attempted to do harm to Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump. A 21-year-old white male was found inside the security perimeter at Mor-on-Lago. With a gas can and a shotgun. He ended up shot dead by Secret Service.  

We expect to learn that he was a rabid Trump supporter (not an immigrant) who was pissed off at something Trump did. After all, his supporters are almost all white (not immigrants), mostly male and are more likely to sleep with guns than with women. Maybe because Trump’s name (and thousands of pictures and/or videos we haven’t seen yet) appears one million times in the tiny fraction of The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files he has permitted us to know about. Maybe it was because Trump keeps fucking around with his stupid tariff/taxes that are making life so much harder and less affordability-er for all except the wealthiest of Trump’s supporters. Anyway, not an immigrant. Time to deport all the white Trump supporters.

Today’s Question For The Day:

Has anyone noticed that none of the WHITE MALES who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump were white males and not immigrants who were not white?

Bonus Question:

Has anyone noticed that 99% (at least) of all the mass shooters in this country were WHITE MALES and not immigrants who were not white males?

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

UPDATE

The now dead young man was a rabid Trump supporter who was disillusioned by the lies and cover-up related to The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files, and finally blamed the appropriate party. Not saying his response was the proper one, but that is none of my business.

Broken News CORRECTION – Nobody's Perfect

Mistakes Were Made

February 23, 2026

During our report one week ago, covering The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files, the following appeared:

Our interns are hard at work starting a rumor that within those millions, possibly billions, of Epstein Pedo-files still being held hostage by Trump (who, it must be remembered has the authority to release anything he wants to), there are hundreds, possibly thousands of photographs of Trump with underage girls. Allegedly. Or so it is said.

Whatever you do, please resist the temptation to spread this rumor, as it is completely unfounded. Or is it? We may never know.

Upon further investigation, our non-existent sources have informed us that this is not a rumor. The fact that photographic evidence of Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump with underage girls at one of Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile parlors exists should in fact be treated at absolute fact. Or at the very least as alternative fact.

We apologize to anyone who was offended by this grave error. We hope that our sincere apology in the face of this miscue will allow you to retain your faith in our high-quality reporting, which many people are saying is the best quality, perhaps in all of recorded (or at least blogged) history. Rest assured, nothing like this will ever happen again…until it does.

This is Ed Venture, managing editor, once again apologizing. The duck stops here.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled snow removal.

Pic Of The Day – No Country For Black Men

Flashback Olympic Moment   

February 22, 2026

John Carlos and Tommie Smith 1968

Bonus Pic

At the 2026 Olympics

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

Question For The Day – Jailhouse Crock

Who’s Your Warden?

February 22, 2026

It turns out Trump is deporting immigrants at the same pace as Barack Obama. One important difference is Trump is detaining considerably more people (in Guantanamo Bay-like conditions). So, he is causing to have many more camps built – former warehouses that will, you can bet, simply warehouse humans as if they were non-perishables – which means they plan to fill these facilities to over-capacity, with maximum inhumanity, at great profit to the private prison industry.

Today’s Question For The Day:

Is this whole immigration problem hoax in reality a money-making operation, with the nowhere-near-as-promised number of deportations just for cover, and the murderous, fascist racism just a bonus?

Bonus Question:

Does Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump have a financial stake in all the private prison companies that are building The Donald J Trump concentration camps?

Double Bonus Question:

How many millions of Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files have already been destroyed by Trump’s Department of Jaundice?

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

Trump’s Trash Tariff Taxes Temporarily Torched

The Court Is On His Balls

February 21, 2026

Finally, after Trump’s year-plus relentless authoritarian assholery and presidential crime spree, he has been called out and shut down by the Supreme Court on his failing, asinine and now officially illegal tariffs. These tariffs were always illegal, it’s just that neither Trump nor this Court has ever taken such issues into account in their actions and decisions, respectively.

Bang, bang Roberts’ wooden gavel came down upon his head

This time though, even two of Trump’s appointees – Gorsuch and Coney Barrett – and the chief justice chose the Constitution over the authoritarian they helped create.

The Don held a press tantrum to excoriate the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that the Constitution does not allow a president to levy taxes, which despite all they endless lying by Trump is what tariffs are, in peacetime.

Trump accused the Court of being all the things he is, because – say it with me – Donald Trump is only and always talking about himself.

Now, this grifting gonif needs to pay everyone back all the money he just stole from us.

This Court, that has given Trump just about everything he wanted, and much more than the vast majority of legal scholars believe is commensurate with our Constitution, finally does something he does not like and, as Trump always does, he throws them under the next convenient bus. Because in his fragile eggshell mind, you either agree with him 100% of the time, or you deserve to die.

And that’s the way it is.

I. Mangrey reporting.

UPDATE

After ranting and raving and threatening everyone and everything in response to the Supreme Court daring to agree with the Constitution, Der Furor posted on his crappy Twitter knock-off

“I don’t care what those six losers on the Supreme Court say, I am in charge. The Supreme Court said so. I was only going to be dictator on day one, or year one, but after this fake hoax decision, I will just have to do what I know is best. I have a very good brain. Donald Trump is now going to put a 75% tariff on the Supreme Court. Well, not the ones who voted for me, just the other ones who are ruining this country. I have spoken.”

Seek File!

Danger, America, Danger

February 21, 2026

Speaking of turning everything to shit, Trump wants to turn America into Abu Ghraib.* He is a cornered, rabid creature, blindly and violently lashing out in all directions. The Trump Reich is building a number of prison camps, but many are being stopped in their tracks by massive uproar and vigilance across the country.

There are already a number of human warehouses where thousands of innocent immigrants – our friends, neighbors, local workers – are currently being held. These detainees have been denied due process, civil rights, legal rights, and sometimes their lives. Surprise inspections have revealed disgusting, inhumane conditions, including no beds, insufficient heat or personal hygiene needs and rotten food.

Trump’s newest depredation harkens back to his earlier psychosis of having won the 2020 election. This fucking lunatic is still running for president in 2020. Somebody get gramps a Xanax or maybe a nice coma.

Dementia Don’s latest take on our elections did not help his case for not being committed

“The Republcans (his word not mine) should say we want to take over. We should take over the voting the voting in at least…many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

Naturally, he denied saying this when called out by a reporter then next day.

Step one has already been carried out and carried away. Trump ordered the previously disappeared Tulsi Gabbard, who has no business sticking her white-streaked head into domestic affairs, to steal all the ballots from the Fulton County, Georgia election facility. To do no one knows what with. Just kidding. Everyone knows what they plan to do with those ballots, and it would make Jeffrey Epstein blush.

Here’s what the fuckers stole from Fulton County

This mention of Jeffrey Epstein brought to you by

The Donald Trump
Memorial ePSTEIN FILES

The Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files, you know you want them, you know they have them, you know they are breaking the law by hiding at least 3,000,000 files from the American public. And that is YOU.

Christopher Titus – Armageddon Update

We now return you to the non-Epstein news…

In a recent interview with Substack host Jim Acosta, former White House counsel in Trump's first administration Ty Cobb accused Trump of tarnishing "everything that was once dignified and sacred about America. He's not well ... "

He’s not well? He’s not on the same planet as ‘well’.

Besides the unbridled hatred and racism, it’s entirely possible that much of Trump’s illegal and insane terror squad deployment in reliably Democratic strongholds is not so much about deporting immigrants as it is about scaring people in those locations into staying home on Election Day in November.

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.

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*Before he turns it into Nazi Germany.

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