Hidden costs? This is very, very far down on my list of
reasons for not owning a superyacht. Or it would be if I had ever given even
the slightest thought to making a fucking list of reasons to not own a fucking
superyacht. Like 99% of Americans,
the obvious costs were sufficient to turn me off to even owning a crappy yacht. I didn’t even know that ‘superyacht’ was not two words. Why the
fuck not? Actually, I had never
heard of a superyacht. I guess I’ve been running with the wrong crowd.
I admit that I did not read a single word of
this patently ridiculous article. Would you? Would anyone you know? How many
people do you imagine did read this, and how much do you want to bet that they
pay less in taxes than you do, even though you could never even imagine owning
one or more superyachts even if you and everyone you know chipped in?
Maybe you heard
about Jeff Bezos having a $1.2 billion yacht built, with a smaller yacht that will shadow the main yacht to accommodate his
helicopter. Maybe you also heard that Bezos paid no federal taxes. Maybe this
is why nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding Bezos not bother
returning to Earth once he makes it into space. Put me down as a yes.
Thanks, CNN.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought
For The Day.
Joe Biden had a sit down with Vladimir Putin
and the right wing were fit to be tied. Biden did not once drool over the
Russian strongman, or even take Putin’s side against America. This caused the Profa/Qanon
crowd to relentlessly slam Biden as soft on Russia and clearly unable to be
Donald Turmp. A number of Russiapublicans are insisting that Biden take a cognitive test
(because their guy did such a terrific job) to prove that he is fit to be
president. This seems doubly odd since most of these mental defectives also
insist that Biden is not actually president in the first place.
Fux News and all the other radical-right,
Russiapublican propagandists continue to yelp about Joe Biden being old and
senile, and unfit for office. Yet Biden consistently shows that he is more
coherent, more engaged, more knowledgeable, and far better able to pronounce
words and formulate coherent thoughts and sentences than his slightly younger
and clearly more physically, emotionally and mentally damaged predecessor, whom
they adore beyond all reason and morality. What must they really think about
their exalted one when they are alone with their tortured, twisted thoughts? Do
they even have thoughts?
A very stable genius had this to say on April 23, 2020:
“So
supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just
a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn't been checked because
of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the
body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think
you said you're going
to test that, too.”
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a
minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by
injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see,
it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be
interesting to check that.”
Who else could have made the incompetent,
ruinous, war criminal George W. Bush seem sentient (to some) and worth treating
with even a modicum of deference?
But let’s face it. Republicans elected George
W. Bush* (Well, they voted for him, the Supreme Court installed him.)
Similarly, Republicans elected the morally and financially bankrupt, braindead
buffoon pictured above. They are for the most part, objectively speaking,
morons. Sixty percent of adult Republicans insist they will not get vaccinated
against COVID. While 72 percent of Democrats believe that there is a climate
crisis, only 10 percent of Republicans agree. To be fair, it is possible that
90 percent of Republicans do not know what climate is…or how to spell their own
names.
“Wow, how
did the sky get down there?”
*This pathetic fraud wrote in Condoleeza Rice
for president in 2020.
It's Juneteenth, Do You Know Where Your Stupid White People Are?
June 19, 2021
So, according to Chrump/Qanon aficionados, for at least the
past several years, the Jews have had space lasers that repeatedly lit the
California wilderness on fire. Full disclosure: if I had my own space laser, I
can think of myriad better, more interesting ways to put it to use.
Also, we are told that the Italians have satellites capable
of changing votes from Chrump to Biden, without altering any down-ballot votes
on the same ballots. That is some serious and very specific technology. I
wonder why that was how they decided to put such incredible (incredulous?)
technology to use. Why not use it for something truly important, something that
would really benefit humankind, like lowering the price of pizza on all online
menus?
Can you believe I got this for
only $1? Well, I could
have if I had one of those Italian satellites.
And what has America had to brag about during all that time?
A poorly dyed malignant narcissist whose me-first agenda accelerated the
already dire climate crisis, destroyed the barely repaired international
reputation that Barack Obama nurtured back to health after removing it from the
trash bin where Bush II and Cheney had buried it, and left half a million
Americans needlessly dead from a pandemic that he denied existed, while
persuading millions of his mentally defective minions to avoid any measures
that doctors and scientists insisted would provide the best chance of not
dying…oh, and suggesting that a better option would be drinking disinfectant
and shining a very powerful light up their asses.
I guess it’s lucky that this half-wit has-been did not know
of the existence of Jewish space lasers or Italian vote-swapping satellites.
All he had was Russian hackers and bots and the enablers in Moscow Mitch’s
Russiapublican Party.
Speaking Of Stupid White People
F*%ker Carlson – and subsequently several very
white, very stupid members of Congress – are peddling the new, likely Russian planted,
conspiracy theory that the FBI was behind Donald Turmp’s January 6
insurrection. Since trying to pin Turmp’s attempt to have his violent traitors hijack
the certification of Joe Biden’s landslide victory on Antifa, Carlson, et al
needed something else to distract their tiny-brained audiences from reality…as
usual.
If there was ever a need for Jewish space lasers and Italian
satellite technology, surely aiming all of them at the treason tumor in F*%ker
Carlson’s otherwise vacant skull would be an excellent application.
A non-stupid white person
And Lastly…
In honor of the first national celebration of Juneteenth,
maybe it would be helpful, in attempting to level the playing field, especially
in the absence of providing financial reparations, to disenfranchise white men
for 100 years. It’s just a thought.
Enough With The Phony Bipartisanshit Manchin Mantra or Fuck The Filibuster
June 14, 2021
Dream all you want, no filibuster in here
F is for the foolishness you’re
flogging, I is for the incoherent angst, L is for the ludicrous loser you are, I is for the insane, irritating idiocy. B is for the bipartisan bullshit you believe in, U is for un-loyal, useless opposition, S is for that shithead Mitch you’re serenading, T is for the terrible trash-heap of a Senate, E is for the errors in your thinking, R is for ridiculous, ruinous Ratpublicans…
Put them all together, they
spell Manchin. A word that means the world is toast.
Getting rid of this bullshit,
made-up Senate rule may be the only way to make any serious progress in this
country that has been held hostage by tax-cuts-for-the-rich, vote-cuts-for-the-poor
Ratpublicans, in their quest for permanent (white) power. The Ratpublican plan
to eliminate poverty is to accelerate the elimination of poor people…and I
don’t mean by giving them the wherewithal to survive.
Those (Senators) Who Don’t
Learn From History Should STFU
In 1957 uber-racist Strom
Thurman used the filibuster, croaking for over 24 hours in an attempt to derail
the Voting Rights Act.In 1964 group of
Southern Senators, along with a few Democrats staged a 60-day filibuster in
opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1983 another uber-racist Jesse
Helms filibustered to prevent Martin Luther King’s birthday from becoming a
national holiday. This then is the history and essence of the filibuster that
Joe Manchin has sworn to protect and defend. And here I thought he was sworn to
protect and defend the Constitution, which as you surely know by now, appears
exactly zero times in our founding document or any of its amendments. And of
course, the most recent application of what passes for a filibuster today was
just a week or so ago as Republicans blocked the creation of a bipartisan
commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 Turmp-inspired terrorist assault
on the Capitol, the intended hanging of Mike Pence, and the attempted coup.
Cloudy With A Chance Of
Morons
The main obstacles to
protecting the filibuster from democracy are Democrats Kyrsten Sinema from
Arizona and Joe Manchin from West Virginia, both of whom have repeatedly vowed
to protect and defend the filibuster against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Sinema is a newly elected
senator, and appears to be the Dems’ (admittedly less psycho) version of Sarah
Palin – a not-too-swift political hack who will be gone with the wind in short
order. Manchin is a long-time “public servant” who, though likely the only Dem
who could get elected in West Virginia, remains a corporate
subsidiary/apologist
Now Joe, I know you claim to be
a West Virginia First kind of guy, but there are 49 other states. And these are
supposed to be “united” states, not you scratch my back, I fuck you. Speaking
of your homeland, recent polling of likely voters in West Virginia shows that
81% of the state’s Democrats are in favor of the “For The People Act” (which
supports easier, safer voting and more secure elections), as are 79% of
Independents and 76% of Republicans. In West Virginia. Joe Manchin’s home
state. That is bipartisanship, not the bipartisanshit Manchin keeps dreaming
aloud about.
The same poll also found that
by a 33% to 12% margin, likely voters in West Virginia would be more likely to
vote for Manchin if he supported such legislation. All of this begs the
question: which constituency is Manchin looking out for?
So, what, you might ask, is Joe
Manchin’s fucking problem? His idiotic intransigence might have almost made
sense if his beloved Wild, White, West Virginia disapproved of the proposed
legislation. But, why is Manchin standing up for anti-voting, anti-democracy,
pro-insurgency, pro-coup still-wholly-owned-by-Turmp Republicans and thumbing
his nose at his own constituents? Tune in somewhere else at some other time for
answers to these and many more, possibly even dumber questions.
I’m as dumb as hell and I’m not going to fake this anymore*
Finally, to paraphrase the
recently departed Ned Beatty from his iconic, Oscar-nominated role as Arthur
Jensen in Network, “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature
Mr. Manchin, and we won’t have it. Is that clear?”
R.I.P. Ned Beatty
*Joe Manchin is probably not dumb, which makes his behavior
that much worse.
I. Mangrey holding certain truths to be self-evident. I've about had my fill, buster.
Only one party – the party of disgraced
Richard M. Nixon, who had to quit in order to avoid inevitable impeachment, the
party of George W. Bush who had to be appointed by the Supreme Court and whose
VP Dick Cheney outed a key CIA operative for revenge, while lying America into
an illegal war – spawned a president who with malice aforethought instigated
the attack on the Capitol. Only one party supports this man and the radical
white terrorists who carried out the attempted coup. Only one party’s senators
voted in numbers sufficient to squash the formation of a bipartisan commission
because it would likely expose their complicity in the horrific assault on the
Capitol on January 6th. Only one party is
trying – literally and figuratively – to whitewash the entire sordid episode…emphasis
on white.
The “Black Wall Street”
section in flames during the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
Joe Biden, the first American president to
show up in Tulsa, Oklahoma to commemorate the horrific crime against humanity –
the bombing
of Greenwood, which was known at the time as Black Wall Street. It
took one hundred years for a president to acknowledge this (one among many, as
it turns out) gruesome unprovoked attack.
Can you imagine if the
last guy was still president (I hope not)? If he did not simply ignore the
historical moment, he would have bragged about his amazing victory, blamed the
inhabitants of Black Wall Street, and threatened to do it better this time.
Biden told those gathered, “We do
ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened or doesn’t impact
us today, because it does.” He added a warning about how far we have not come, “terrorism
from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not Isis.
Not al-Qaeda. White supremacists.”
Remember when Republicans were apoplectic
about the unwillingness of Democrats to inflame racial tension by branding the
perpetrators of 9/11 as radical Islamic terrorists? Why can’t today’s Republicans
say the words that need to be said now? Radical. White. Terrorists. These traitors
carried out the worst attack on our democracy on our own soil. By our own
citizens. They are Radical White Terrorists. Say their name.
Republicans really have trouble with names.
And reality. And democracy.
It cannot be said too often: not all Republicans
are white supremacists, but all white supremacists are Republicans.
He told the few listening, “January 6th
was a dark day for the United States Capitol…I don’t know if [president Trump]
and I will ever see eye-to-eye on it…” Don’t see eye-to-eye on it? As I recall,
you were there. Did you develop selective amnesia? Again?
When pathetic Putz Pence mentioned, “And that
same day, we reconvened the Congress and did our duty under the Constitution
and the laws of the United States,” you could hear a pinhead drop, or a lone
cicada, or the blood coursing through the veins of the person next to you. The
sound of silence. Of no hands clapping. When the ex-creepy-veep finished his
mea pussy with, “But I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the
American people over the last four years,” the Turmp-loving, Pence-hating clump
of humanity that emitted not a
sound for protecting the Constitution, cheered at the mere hint of the guy who’s
thugs wanted to hang Mike Pence and commandeer the Federal Government.
Pence added*, “I particularly feel bad for
that Mike Pence guy. On that day, there were hundreds of Turmp supporters, brandishing
Turmp flags and hats and weapons, certain their man had won, and following Turmp’s
insinuations if not orders. They seemed quite vexed not only chanted “Hang Mike
Pence!” as they ransacked and desecrated the Capitol, but had built a gallows
just outside for this unfortunate Pence fellow. I was there that day, and I saw
Mike Pence being spirited away by Capitol Police missing by mere seconds a
face-to-face encounter with the violent, ill-tempered, mentally unstable mob.
What a shame.”
Is Pence one of the 75% of Republicans who
believe that the January 6 insurrection was carried out by liberals
masquerading as Turmpers, carrying his banners, wearing his hats, telling
everyone he sent them to stop the certification of the duly elected president
so their dear leader could retain his throne? Just asking for a friend.
One wonders whether Pence will see eye-to-eye
or mouth-to-anus with Turmp’s delusional assessment that he will be reinstated
as president in August. Or, one might simply give not one single fuck.
*This might
be an alternative quote.
This has been your Paying Attention WTF For
The Day.
-The Big Loser
of that election has still refused to concede, preferring to fabricate and
perpetuate the Big Lie – that he, and not the actual winner actually won. He is
still, seven months later, exhorting his minions to continue to ignore the
actual, codified, certified and legally binding results, and to continue
pretending their guy who lost actually won.
-Big Loser incited his cult of Radical White
Terrorists to storm the Capitol, and hang his vice president, and any other
stubborn legislators insisting on loyalty to the Constitution and disloyalty to
The Big Lying Loser.
-The second biggest loser, the Republican
party, who lost control of both Houses of Congress continue to hold the
government, and therefore the nation hostage.
-Fabulists, conspiracy-obsessed mental
defectives, fascists, racists, racist fascists and fascist racists have taken
over the hearts and minds of the Republican Party to the detriment of everyone
else.
-Seventy percent of the Big Loser Party have
convinced themselves, with the help of anti-social media, Russia and other
domestic alternate-reality-propagandists, that their own attempted coup was
carried out by Leftists bent on damaging Big Loser.
-Almost
every state Big Loser lost immediately set about crafting (if they did not long
ago have them at the ready) and passing laws to stop the kinds of people who
voted to boot Big Loser out on his dumb ass from voting. Those people by and
large, to the surprise of no one are people of color.
The Republican Party has sold its soul* to
the Douchebag. The Devil would have nothing to do with it.
By Any Means Necessary?
Big
Loser devotee, alleged pedophile and campaign finance criminal, and undoubted
bull-goose douchebag Matt Gaetz told a collective-single-digit IQ crowd in
Georgia, “We have a Second Amendment in this country and I think we have an
obligation to use it.” He further shrieked that the sacred Second Amendment was
not about “recreation, or hunting or sports” (oddly, he left out mass murder,
which does seem to be the most popular application of said amendment), but was
in fact for “maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed
rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary.” He did mention, in
a tone dripping with insincerity, that he hoped that did not become necessary.
Gaetz might be the only man
alive to look less douche-y with Turmp’s “hair”
Note
to Gaetz: You do know, I assume, that you are part of the government, at least
for the time being. Not sure if you know what that all means. Might be a good
idea to have someone read the Constitution to you – the whole thing, not just
the last few words of the Second Amendment.
Other
note to Gaetz: Be thankful that only radical white terrorists like yourself
tend to jump to Second Amendment conclusions…so far. And remember…
Black Panthers exercising their God-given right to
bear arms
at the California State Capitol in 1967.
Maybe Mr. Gaetz should choose his thoughts and words
more carefully. It just might turn out that what’s good for the Gaetz is good for the Panther.
Considering all the anti-voting legislation
targeting black voters, the only other thing Republicans (not now, not ever the
party of Lincoln, other than in name only) can have left up their sleeves is
reinstating slavery, or perhaps they will compromise by making African
Americans 3/5 of a person, and either counting their votes accordingly or
rescinding their right to vote altogether.
In other racist news, Republicans are now
claiming that George Floyd is still alive**…but they don’t want him to vote.
“Hey, you know something people, I’m not
black but there’s a whole lotsa times I wish I could say I’m not white.” Frank
Zappa, Trouble Every Day
Frank Zappa – Trouble Every
Day
*Firstly, I
am surprised it even had a soul. Second, if there was one, surely it was
worthless, so it must have been a steal.
**This might not actually be true
I. Mangrey. If I am
perpetually red-in-the-face with rage, does that make me at least an honorary
person of color?
It has come to my attention, as a result of
the emergence of a washed-up reality-TV personality, ersatz businessman and
professional conman now
residing in Florida (some say in order to avoid extradition to New York State
under multiple pending indictments) who after being banned from all social
media, is desperately seeking relevance and adoring audiences, that blogs are
like totally yesteryear. Apparently, they peaked between 2006 and 2011. Just before the birth of this particular blog. Who knew?
It turns out that his stupid “From The Desk
Of…” blog was just one more thing the Rotting Orange Blob in Florida could
not keep up. The blog he trumpeted as a “beacon of
freedom” and “a place to speak freely and safely,” less than one month ago has gone flaccid and
shrunken into non-existence. It is no more. It is an ex-blog. And the guy who
pretended to write it is an ex-blogger. An ex-blogger who believes he will be inaugurated
as president in August. Few things are more pathetic. Though his son Eric leaps to mind. And his other son with whom he shares his first name. Get ready for the ex-blogger’s next bold move: mass-telegrams.
Q: How many times must Mr. Insecurity put his name on his stupid (now
defunct) blog
A: Five, plus his artificially-colored face (and that’s just the homepage)
Our research department is currently
investigating moving to My Space, or TikTalk, or Slapchat in order to keep up
with the times. Well, they would be looking into a move if we had a research
department. Apparently, the writing department filibustered the creation of a
research department, possibly due to emotional insecurity and some number of
other personal issues.
At least this old-man-blog lasted longer than Dumb Donald’s.
Stay tuned for further developments. Or not.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought
For The Day.
