Now that,
thanks to the idiot bastard president of the United States Donald Jeffrey
Epstein Trump and his completely unnecessary, unprovoked, illegal, ill-planned,
beyond-incompetently carried out, and spectacularly-failed invasion of Iran,
the Strait of Hormuz has been taken off the table as far as being a conduit for
the global petroleum murder of the planet…I mean market, there is once again
the same first and smartest response:
Fuck
petroleum. End the stranglehold of the environmental catastrophe that is the
incessant, unbridled combustion of fossil fuels. End the strangulation of most
of the world’s citizens by the fossilized hearts and minds of the oil-igarchs
and the politicians they own. Stop the welfare that keeps these oil companies afloat.
To
which you are rightly thinking, Dream on McDuff.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
More on moron Todd Blanche: The following exchange took place during a recent interview
on the heels of Todd Blanche’s confirmation as the country’s president’s
new attorney general…
Kristen Welker: If the president asks you to do
something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line would you do it?
Toad Blanche: The president would never ask me to do
something ethical or legal, or illegal, he never has, he never will.
Oopsie.
Blanche attempts to STFU, but
cannot
This is not Blanche’s first toad-e-o; You may remember this exchange that took
place during his confirmation hearing…
Sen. John Kennedy: Are you and president Trump
friends?
Toad Blanche: I’m his lawyer, was his lawyer.
It’s entirely possible these are not Freudian slips. They are Freudian slaps.
Blanche, later made it crystal clear that he would do the
president’s bidding at every turn. For those of you keeping score at home, that
is absolutely not the job of the attorney general.
Todd Blanche is a shit stain on the rule of law. Oops, what
a Freudian slip. I meant to say Todd Blanche should go fuck himself until there
are no more tomorrows. I'm so embarrassed.
Blanche
had to promise to meet with the Epstein victims he has ignored for so long in
order to get the votes from freshly ousted idiots Tom Tillis (R-NC), who dared
pretend to stand up for the release of the
Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files,
and
John Cornyn (R-TX). Trump endorsed both Tillis’ and Cornyn’s opponents in a
successful bid to primary these two hapless halfwits out of office for being
mean to Deathbed Donny once or twice after voting for all his bullshit 90% of
the time.
Blanche,
who was responsible for un-redacting victims’ names while redacting the names
of Epstein’s Trumps…I mean johns, pretended to meet with the victims. He sat in
the same room with them, but instead of actually hearing what they had to say,
he just sat there like a dick in the headlights, leaving the women with nothing
more than another bad taste in their mouths and the need for one of those Karen
Silkwood-type HAZMAT showers after being shit on once again by another
pedophile/rapist enabler doing Trump’s bidding; this time the soon-to-be
attorney general.
The
other slithering senate shithead who could have put the kibosh on Blanche’s
ill-gotten appointment was none other than Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Cassidy, a
licensed physician. You may remember Cassidy as the pathetic ghoul who was the
deciding vote in the Senate that pushed Bobby Brainworm over the finish line to
be secretary of Health and Human Services – three things the heroin addict,
anti-science zombie who bragged about snorting cocaine off of toilet seats
knows nothing about. Cassidy should have his medical license and breathing
privileges revoked.
These
three disgraceful troglodytes provided cover for the ever-concerned Snoozin’
Collins and her fellow phony Lisa Murkowski to pretend to vote against
Blanche’s confirmation since Blanche had enough votes without them.
Fuck
all five of these sniveling, shriveling, shit-stains and every other member of
their caucus of cretins for this and every other of their countless fuck-yous
to this country in service of the feces-factory-in-a-suit that leads their
party’s march toward fascism and this country’s march toward oblivion.
________________________________________________ *Yet Another Fucked Up Reason **And The White Women Who Enable Them
I. Mangrey reporting. Don't say I didn't warn you.
He
cheats at marriage. He cheats in business. He cheats on his taxes. And he is
desperate to cheat at the coming midterm elections.
But
perhaps more frequently than anything, he cheats at golf. This was immortalized
in Rick Reilly’s seminal work
A
number of others who have hit the links with the guy who stinks at golf but
manages to win dozens and dozens of “tournaments” at golf clubs he owns have
observed flagrant cheating. Though Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Peyton Manning
told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017 that Trump did not cheat, but “he will give you a lot
of putz (I may have that spelling wrong), but he expects those to be
reciprocated”, which I think means he doesn’t require opponents to actually
sink the last putt and expects them to return the “favor”. Trump is a
verifiably lousy putz…I mean putter.
Donny Douchebag– Prince of of Putts…I mean Putz
I
know very little about golf, but I imagine a gorilla would handle a golf club
with greater finesse.
And
here is Trump’s caddy helping the old man with an unusual “stroke”
Lastly,
today’s actual Pic Of The Day. Watch Big Baby Don’s special putting technique
in this moving picture
A great way to knock a few strokes off your “score”
This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.
Whatever Else You May Think, It Was Sure Better Than Today
August 15, 2026
Another day, another Trumpian disaster. Therapist-in-chief…oops,
The Rapist-in-chief continues his non-stop-onslaught against truth, justice and
the American way. He and his malignant marauders don’t even bother hiding their
contempt for the law, the Constitution and you. Trump’s Fuck-You presidency
will not stop dismembering democracy until something or someone kneels on his
neck…metaphorically, of course. Right? When George Floyd was stopped from being
alive, he was an innocent man. Donald Trump is very likely the most guilty man
in American history.
But we would like to take this moment to remember a less tragic
event.
Given that this is summer and the one month that has no commonly
recognized holidays, we at Paying Attention™ have been
called upon by a higher power to make our own. This was easy since there are
two august events in August that are near and dear to our hearts and minds –
Resignation Day(s), which recently came and went, and the Woodstock Music and
Arts Festival.
Though Resignation Day(s) arrives first on the calendar, Woodstock
preceded the former in real time. Both of these events provided hope for the
future of humankind in my eyes, and in those of many of my generation at the
time. What fools we were.
Being in a rather lazy mood, or maybe it’s more burnout than
anything else, the gang here at Paying Attention™ agreed it would
be best to wander aimlessly down memory lane as we celebrate another favorite August
holiday around here. If nothing else, may we recommend cranking up a few of the
tunes featured below.
Whatever you decide, Happy Birthday Woodstock. Here’s what
appeared at Paying Attention™ on this day in
2019…
When Boomers Roamed the Earth
August 15, 2019
Max Yasgur was an upstate New York farmer and the largest
milk producer in Sullivan County, New York in 1969.Yasgur was a Republican who supported the
Vietnam War, but he went against the wishes of his sleepy rural community of
Bethel, and rented out his farm for a weekend music festival in August of 1969,
thinking it would be good for the local economy and would help bridge the
contentious generation gap.
What could be so bad about having a few thousand kids listen
to music in the fresh air for a few days?Though the local folks for the most part wanted nothing to do with a
bunch of hippies coming anywhere near their peaceful environs, no one imagined
the size of the crowd or the ultimate notoriety of what was about to engulf
them.It was like an invasion, a caravan
if you will, of unfamiliar outsiders, whose differences frightened these simple
people.In the end, it was, as Max
Yasgur would tell the crowd on his farm, “three days of fun and music, and
nothing but fun and music” that rocked the world.Literally and figuratively.
I did not make it to Woodstock.I really wanted to go, but I was not of
driving age and my parents would not let me.Especially now that I have fewer days to look forward to than the number
I have already seen, I cannot blame them.
I did see the movie the moment it came out because I was not
willing to wait for it to come out on Netflix.And I played the album many times on my cheapo turntable which I
foolishly set up on my suburban back lawn (Surprisingly, that album still plays
almost perfectly).Since then, I have
been a bit obsessed with what many have called “three days that defined a
generation.”
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival began on this day 50
years ago [in 2019]. The line-up of
musicians was and is legendary, if not unequaled.From Richie Havens to Ravi Shankar, from
Janis to Jimi, The Who, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Joan
Baez, Creedence, the Dead, CSNY, Country Joe and many others.
Here are a few of my (many) favorite performances.
Richie Havens – Freedom
John Sebastian – I Had a Dream
Max Yasgur
The Ultimate Star Spangled Banner
It is said, “If you can remember Woodstock, you weren’t
there.”
McConnell
voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least
23 times since he entered the Senate in 1985.
Moscow
Mitch briefly supported such legislation in his early days in the Senate –
before dirt was invented – but the Family and Medical Leave Act was vetoed by
the previous worst president in American history George WTF Bush. Since that
time the most destructive force in American politics over at least the last
half century has steadfastly opposed anything that actually helps the majority
of Americans, instead preferring to bestow obscene tax cuts of the wealthiest
among us, which is playing no small part in bankrupting our economy and many
Americans.
Will
this stickler for the rule of law (except for voting not to convict the most
heinous traitor since Jefferson Davis and stealing Supreme Court seats) make
sure he is not paid for the time (more than two months and counting, most of
which he refused to even let his constituents, i.e. his bosses his health
status) he has been AWOL? I’m going to hazard a wild guess and say “Fuck no.”
Followed by a hearty and well-deserved “Fuck off.”
Donald “Death-To-America”
Trump is such strong and powerful patriot, such history buff, especially the
American Revolution, about which Private Bonespurs said, “Our army manned the
airp…it ranned the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it
had to do.”
Now,
Death-To-America Don and his alcoholic Secretary of Dense, Pee Hegseth are
trying to recreate the conditions George Washington’s troops endured in the
winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, on the USS Abraham Lincoln – the same aircraft carrier
aboard which former worst president in American history George WTF Bush staged
his cataclysmic MISSION ACCOMPLISHED photo slop – where 5,000 of our sailors
and marines have been deployed for 265 days with shortages of food, toothpaste,
deodorant and soap, with contaminated water, moldy showers, undelivered mail
and care packages, and at least one attempted suicide (whose 19-year-old wife –
home with the couple’s five-month-old daughter born while her father was
deployed – was not even officially notified for four days), jumping off the
ship and rescued after an
hour in the water. Several others were stopped before doing the same. Hegseth calls all of this “fake
news” while lying about the incredible “respect” he has for the troops. Hey, at
least they have shoes, unlike Washington’s men at Valley Forge.
Don’t Blame He
It’s not Donny’s
fault, he is swamped with critical self-aggrandizing vanity infradestructure projects like destroying the
White House, fucking up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, building a
massive, classless arch in Washington, DC, and once again slapping his
soon-to-be ridiculed and universally-removed name on the John F. Kennedy
Memorial Center for The Performing Arts.
And who has time to
prosecute a war when he’s busy prosecuting his endless list of enemies?
You can’t make this
shit up folks…well you could, but why bother. Nobody does it worse better.
