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Get Your Vaccine Right Here, Folks
                     or
 Get Your Virus Right Here, Folks

      It’s A Choice…Apparently

July 31, 2021

President Biden spoke to the nation the other day about the dangers of the surging Delta Variant of the COVID-19 virus. Biden resisted the urge to label this virulent new strain on the nation the “Dumbass Donald Variant.”

Biden didn’t say, “I just don’t know what to tell you folks. Too many of you refuse to get the vaccine, which seems to be allowing the virus to mutate very quickly and dangerously. Not only that, but many of my Ratpublican friends are going fucking bananas because our scientists insist on keeping up with the emerging data and the mutating virus, and these scientists are now recommending that everyone go back to wearing masks when they’re indoors, especially since there are so many are unvaccinated and – to paraphrase the great Prince – walking around like it was 1999. I understand that science and smart people scare the crap out of a lot of you, especially those of you who insisted on voting for a pussy-grabbing conman loser who got impeached. Two times, people. He got impeached two times, and though he constantly yelled, “America first,” he was selling us out to Russia so he could build a hotel in Moscow for Crissakes. If you won’t get the vaccine, at least stop being assholes and wear your mask in public. I hate to say this, but if you feel like dying from the virus, who am I to tell you no. Do what you gotta do, just do it by yourself and stay the fuck away from the rest of us, or at least, and I hate to keep repeating myself, but enough with all the damn malarkey and wear a fucking mask for Pete sake. Masks will not kill people, but your stupid fucking MAGA bullshit will. Masks will also not steal your freedoms, but your MAGA bullshit will. This is a big fucking deal, you morons. Oh, and news flash – your boy Turmp is not going to be reinstated next month, or next year or ever, so stay the fuck out of the Capitol. Stay home and drink yourself into a coma, or drink some disinfectant, or do something else useful.”

Badfinger – Come And Get It

We now return you to your regularly scheduled angst. We will continue to keep you updated as necessary and/or until you turn off your computer permanently.

PAYING ATTENTION EXCLUSIVE: Son Of Talking (to a) Turkey

My Interview With You-Know-What, Part Two

July 27, 2021

We apologetically return you now to the finale of our exclusive sit-down/throw-up with the creature known for all time as America’s 45^th and worst president. Thank you and good luck.

Turmp: First of all, it was the Kung Flu – a great name by the way, that I came up with – and it was a hoax for a very long time, and there’s no proof it killed anyone, and I had nothing to do with all the people it killed. I’m not a doctor damn it, I’m a business man. And probably the best one ever. And even though I’m not a doctor, my superior brain knows more about flus and viruses and vaccines than any of those loser doctors out there.

Mangrey: One more question about your pet virus and then we’ll move on. How do you feel about the fact that even though you keep lying all the time about how you created the vaccine, and when it became available you pushed to the front of the line to get it in private, most members of your insane cult say they will never get vaccinated because the “don’t trust the government?” Does it bother you that they won’t get “your” vaccine and that the government they don’t trust was actually yours? Or do you just chalk it up to the fact that they are, after all, too stupid to live?

Turmp: Everybody loves my vaccine. The only reason some very fine people are not getting it is because Sleepy Joe won’t let them or because they don’t trust his government, because it’s not his, it’s mine. In fact, I did win the election. You know it, I know it, and everyone you know knows it. And you know that, too.

Mangrey: If you're such a clean-living, stand-up...let's say...guy, how is it that practically everyone around you in your fake administration and your fake business either pleaded guilty and needed you to pardon them, or was found guilty and you had to pardon them, or is currently under indictment wishing you could pardon them? And why did you repeatedly ask if you could pardon yourself, even without or before having been indicted yourself?

Turmp: I have the best people. Everywhere I look all I see is the best people, except when I look at CNN or MSNBC or you. Everyone I work with is the best person ever – like Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, the great general Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Allen Weisselberg, Tom Barrack – you will not find better people anywhere. Everyone knows this. Why do you have to ask me fake questions like this? Do you think I’m stupid?

Well, do I think he is stupid? What do you think I think?

Mangrey: I will just leave your answer there for others to dissect, and as a favor to you – don’t ask me why I would ever do you a favor – I won’t answer your question. The answer to that will be obvious to anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size, which I realize rules out most of your cult, but there’s no point trying to tell them anything anyway. Now as promised, and frankly I don’t think I could tolerate one more minute in the same room with you anyway, I have just one last question, and please don’t take this the wrong way – exactly what the fuck is wrong with you? It’s not me saying this, many people are asking this. I saw in on Twitter, all over the internet, on billboards and public restroom walls. Do you have any idea? I’m guessing not, but I just had to ask. I need a good laugh.

Turmp: What a fake question. I don’t have any idea what you mean. You can ask anyone, I’m absolutely perfect. Never made a mistake, except not calling out the military to shoot down those nasty Black Lives Matter terrorists. Very big hands, the best words, a very, very large uh-brain, very stable genius, greatest president ever. I dare you to find in one single tiny flaw. I made this country great again, and greater than it ever was – even greater than when we had slaves. What the hell have you ever done?

Turmp proffering innocent messaging for his lovefest at the Capitol on Jan 6

Well, thank God that’s over. I have not done very many interviews, and I certainly wish I hadn’t had to do this one. I’m going to need one of those showers people have to take after being exposed to radiation. I hope that fucker is not contagious to non-Ratpublicans. Of course, Turmp is also simply too stupid to realize how stupid he is. Some people can look around and realize they are just not as smart as most others. Turmp is convinced that he is the smartest guy ever. It is time for him to prove it by donating his very, very large uh-brain to science. Immediately.

I. Mangrey recovering. No animals were harmed during the course of this interview…except for the interviewer.

Fraught For The Day

 

Are You Hearing The Hearing That I’m Hearing?

July 27, 2021

I watched some of the first day of the 1/6 Commission’s hearing on the deadly insurrection instigated by Donald Turmp. Four heroic officers testified. More than one officer was clear that Donald Turmp needed to testify about his undeniable role in the violent coup attempt. USCP Officer Harry Dunn testified, “If a hit man is hired and kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hires them does. There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hitman sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that. Thank you.”

Liz Cheney asked Capitol Police officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who was badly injured during Turmp's insurrection, how he felt hearing Turmp say “It was a loving crowd. There was a lot of love in the crowd.” Gonell responded, “It was upsetting. It is a pathetic excuse for his behavior for something that he himself helped to create — this monstrosity. I'm still recovering from those hugs and kisses that day.”

I find it comforting that, if only for this brief, hopefully unique moment in time, there are two Republicans who can tell the difference between defending and defiling the Constitution. I find it discomforting that there are very clearly only two.

And I will never forgive myself or anyone else for making me, however briefly, not despise Dick Cheney, Jr.

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PAYING ATTENTION EXCLUSIVE: Talking (to a) Turkey

My Interview With You-Know-What, Part One

July 25, 2021

Fortunately for all involved, this is not as long as any of the current crop of tomes exposing more of the egregious exploits of the failed blogger who previously inhabited the White House after losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Nonetheless, in order to spare your feelings and mental health the following interview will be meted out in two parts. So, take in Part One, collect yourself, maybe take a vacation, a brief coma or a lost weekend and gird your loins for Part Two.

“Michael Corleone did not hire as many criminals as Donald Turmp has.”
                Elie Mystal, on The Beat with Ari Melber, July 22, 2021

Donald Turmp is too narcissistic to resist running his lying mouth, even to reporters who have previously raked him over the truth coals, very publicly in the past, causing his fake orange hue to glow in the dark. Maybe he figured that since he got crushed by both Hillary Clinton and even more bigly by Joe Biden, that the day might not be too far off when no one will give a flying fuck what he has to say. No one that is, except the intractably ignorant millions who are immune to truth, intelligence and reality. And the soul-less, groveling Ratpublicans who stitched themselves to Turmp like a reverse-conjoined-twins procedure. And their decision to do so makes just as much sense as two worried (and obviously insane) parents placing a frantic call to Dr. Ben Carson (that alone should bring their mental fitness into question), at their half-wits’ end, insisting that their very healthy, normal twins need to be surgically joined.

On the precipice of my dangerous mission.

Unfortunately, you can still kind of make out his face

It is probably Turmp’s uncontrollable need to be seen and heard and to be damaging to everyone and everything that is not him, that caused him to do countless hours of interviews with the likes of Bob Woodward, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, and Michael Wolff – even though all of them had previously shared an abundance of, shall we say uncomplimentary and horrifying surprises after observing and interviewing the Bloated, Walking Cheese-Puff.

Turmp is so desperate for attention after being banned from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the White House that our managing editor, Ed Venture was able to wrangle a face-to-whatever-that-thing-on-his-neck-is with Don, Sr. However, this get was got only on the condition that we keep the questions to a minimum, and the words very simple. Ed is no dummy, and refused to do the interview himself, so I drew the short straw.

I. Mangrey Talks To The Wall

Mangrey: Mr. Turmp – I hope you don’t mind if I don’t address you as “Mr. President,” because there’s just no fucking way in hall that’s ever going to happen. Even addressing you with ‘Mr.’ makes me uncomfortable. Anyway, do you think you incited the riot-in-your-name that you obviously incited on January 6^th?

I knew the job was dangerous when I took it, Fred.

Turmp: Let me just say, very powerfully and very strongly, maybe not as strongly as Putin – who is very powerful and strong, I don’t know why I wouldn’t have…I mean, I don’t know why I would have…anyway they both mean the same thing. And I’ve never done anything wrong. You can’t name one thing I’ve ever done wrong. I’m one of the best, nicest people anyone has ever met. And the least racist person you’ve ever met. Just ask me.

Mangrey: First of all, you did so many horrible things that I’d probably die of old age before listing them all, but I’ll just name one obvious one – does the name Don, Jr. ring a bell? My question is, did you purposely try to kill 600,000 Americans with your Turmp virus, or were you simply too ignorant to know what the fuck you were doing? I mean, drinking disinfectant?

Tune in next time for the scintillating, nauseating, mind-boggling, soul-curdling response to this and other trenchant queries.

I. Mangrey revealing.

Still Psycho After All These Years

Psycho-Killer WTF

July 23, 2021

Little Donny Danger and his Very Damaged Brain are flailing badly…or bigly if you prefer. When he is not busy fantasizing that he will be reinstated – like a miracle in one month – because he won all the swing states that he lost, or bragging about how after getting impeached the first time he did not start behaving better, but “got worse,” or trying Orwell his way out of having incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021, he keeps screaming about how great he was for creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

He does not like to remind anyone that after wallowing at death’s door because of the virus that should bear his name (one of the few things that rightfully should do so), he got vaccinated before anyone else. Nonetheless, this mentally defective waster of valuable oxygen refuses to tell people to take advantage of the vaccine he falsely claims he personally created. Instead, he continues to ignore reality and the health of the majority of his cult members. Remember when Turmp lied that he liked wearing his black mask because it made him look like the Lone Ranger? Turmp now likes to speak to morons from behind a fake Presidential Seal.

CNN’s Acosta to Turmp: Take your fake White House seal

and play president somewhere else

Turmp recently blathered on about how pathetic Biden is because he did not reach his goal of 70% of Americans being fully vaccinated by July 4^th. Funny story – it is possible that the constant whining of Turmp and Fux News talking dicks that masks will kill you and your freedom, and that the COVID vaccine was a plot by the Deep State to magnetize and contaminate you and is being used to implant some sort of computer chip/mind-control device that will turn everyone vaccinated into George Soros’ robots, which he will use to test out his space lasers. Remember, this is the same vaccine Turmp will not stop demanding credit for inventing.

As If This Were Not Enough…

This pathetic, psychotic fuckwit told Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in interviews for their new book I Alone Can Fix It, “I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me.” As hard as it was for Sleepy Joe Biden?

While being interviewed for the same book, United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was reported as worrying that “Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military.” Milley viewed Trump as “the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose,” telling aides, “This is a Reichstag moment. The gospel of the Führer.”

A Turmp quote. How ironic, he alone fucked it up.

Milley was concerned that America’s only mindless megalomaniac president might try to hold onto power even after being crushed in the 2020 election, making him the only twice-impeached, one-term, fascist president in the nation’s history, by staging some sort of coup. Milley reportedly told his deputies, “They may try, but they're not going to fucking succeed. You can't do this without the military. You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI. We're the guys with the guns.”

While the above quote is one I never thought I would ever want to hear, these words took on a completely different meaning given the situation we faced when Turmp, desperate to hold onto his pardon power, and one assumes, to continue making sure hundreds of thousands more of us would die from his pet virus, was unceremoniously booted from the office he never wanted in the first place. One that a clear majority of the American electorate twice made clear they also preferred he never hold.

After the quotes from Milley surfaced, Turmp issued a lengthy statement attacking Milley. In the statement Turmp lied, “I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of 'coup,' and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta

Somehow, the only regret Turmp expressed about his historically terrible, racist, authoritarian debacle of a single term was his response to protests in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle on the heels of the murder of George Floyd, “I think if I had it to do again, I would have brought in the military immediately.”

I. Mangrey recoiling.

Thought For The Day

Fuck Joe Manchin

July 20, 2021

“There shouldn’t be a Democrat or a Republican that wouldn’t or couldn’t or shouldn’t vote for something that truly just only deals with voting, and the rights of voters.*
                                   Joe Manchin July 15, 2021

Though, as you will see I am clearly a bit upset or perhaps even angry, you might have to read between the lines to divine my true feelings.

Joe Manchin does not want fossil fuel supplanted by renewable energy.

Fuck.

Joe Manchin wants to destroy the environment.

Joe.

Joe Manchin does not want to tamper with the anti-democratic filibuster, which has been responsible above all else, with obstructing equal rights for African American people.

Joe Manchin does not want to help African Americans to be able to vote as easily as white people.

Joe Manchin talks a lot of shit.

Manchin.

Joe Manchin is Ratpublicans' favorite Democrat. That’s not a compliment.

Ratpublicans’ most beloved “Democrat” Joe Manchin

In case you missed the hidden message**:

Fuck Joe Manchin.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Just substitute Joe Manchin for Dan Quayle

*But he will not do one fucking thing to cause anyone to believe he means what he said. One cannot make such a statement and then refuse to over-ride the filibuster after every single Ratpublican did exactly what Manchin said anyone wouldn't, couldn't and shouldn't do...at least not without being full of shit.
**I'm sure you did not miss it; I just wanted to say Fuck Joe Manchin again. 

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This Just In

Call Me By Someone Else’s Name

July 17, 2021

I hate to bring this up, but like a global pandemic, or a global climate crisis, a twice-impeached, disgraced insurrectionist, ex-blogger and former reality tv clown who refuses to get the fuck out of our faces, and insists that he will one day (August 13, in fact), like a miracle, be reinstated as make-believe president, must unfortunately continue to be talked about.

Now that Donald Turmp has sullied his brand name, hopefully beyond repair, his family has decided that, like tobacco companies and the disgraced mercenary outfit founded by the brother of Betsy DeVos - Blackwater - it was time to hide their name from the public. Some of the names being floated by the Turmp kids as less despised are Best Eastern, Enron, The Bigly, $$$$, Sgt. Bilker and Splunge.

Though Pappy the Clown continues to insist, “My name is the greatest name, probably in history. Everyone loves the name Turmp almost as much as they love me. Remember, I was, and soon will be again the greatest president ever. I was never thanked enough, but everyone loved Turmp as president. Sleepy Joe will be out soon and I will be reinstated to my rightful place. Everybody knows this. I will have a very, very big announcement very soon. It will make everyone happy for a long time. Believe me.”

I’ll be back.

Ninety percent of Turmp’s cultists cannot afford to stay in his over-priced, fleabag hotels (well, those whose actual owners have paid to have Turmp’s name slapped on the facades of their buildings), would not be welcome in his home and probably no dozen of them combined could go in on a single membership at one of his crappy golf resorts...assuming he would even let them on the premises. In reality, Donald despises his cult members, except maybe the racist ones.

I. Mangrey with good reason.

Is Being Stupid A Choice?

Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Almost Certainly Republicans

July 14, 2021

This Day In World History

Today in France, they are celebrating the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille – not to free prisoners, but to acquire ammunition and arms for the purpose of overthrowing the monarchy. This was before anyone had a Second Amendment, but it was the opening salvo in the French Revolution. Slave owner and American founding father Thomas Jefferson, serving as the young nation’s ambassador to France, was in France on July 14, 1789, making good trouble. Jefferson had a hand in France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man – sound familiar?

Storming the Bastille – July 14, 1789

Today in America, we are six months out from the storming of our nation’s Capital. Not to defend democracy, but to upend it. We are on the precipice of a second Civil War. The first official Juneteenth national holiday and another July Fourth have come and gone. Today, we are so free it hurts to even laugh.

Storming the U.S. Capitol – January 6, 2021

Most Americans do not give a flying fuck about world history. Hell, most Americans do not give a tinker’s cuss about American history. They do not know that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, among many others who signed the Declaration of Independence, owned slaves. Very likely, they do not want to know this or any other facts, especially facts that might fall under the purview of Critical Race Theory. But, that is a story for another day.

One of the blonde bimbos on Fux News (as it turns out, Kayleigh McEnany who was previously a spokesbimbo for Old President Pussy-Grabber himself), with great alacrity and even more indignance, whined, “The haters never take a day off from hating. That is clear. And they never take a day off from getting the facts wrong. We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.” That was on July 6, 2021. This year. On the six-month anniversary of the storming of the United States Capitol. McEnany is no outlier, just a liar. To be fair, she might not have been lying and instead is insanely stupid, though my money is on both. Either way, she is a quintessential Turmpian Ratpublican. White, witless, completely, shamelessly, cluelessly fact-free.

Kids Don’t Do The Darndest Things

I remember visiting our nation’s Capital as a high school student. Some of us used our free time to buy fireworks and booze – two things we could not do in Pennsylvania. Looking back, I feel bad. Not because we engaged in inappropriate behavior by buying contraband, but because we clearly neglected our patriotic duty. Not one of us broke any windows, assaulted any Capitol police or even attempted to steal anything, or trespassed in and legislators’ offices. I don’t recall any of my classmates even contemplating taking a shit in the hallway or any of the offices. What terrible tourists we were.

I suppose this could be chalked up to being young and stupid, but after watching all those grown-up patriots on January 6, 2021, I feel ashamed at how little I understood and how horribly I took my country for granted as a teenager. Apparently, my understanding and my patriotism had not developed much over the years. If I had known better, maybe I too would have been there on that historic day to show my raging patriotism and tried to hang Mike Pence and helped to stop the steal of our democracy by those 81,268,924 losers who voted for Joe Biden – over 7,000,000 more than those who voted for the guy who insists he won by a landslide.

Select Omission On January 6^th Insurrection

Most Americans want a full accounting of what transpired at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Working hand-in-hand with high-level Ratpublican officials, Democrats attempted to form a bipartisan select commission to investigate the lead-up, the assault itself, the security breakdowns and the post-mortem. Democrats gave Ratpublicans everything they asked for in designing this special committee. Did I mention that Democrats bent over backwards to ensure the select committee investigating January 6 would be bipartisan? Once negotiations concluded, Ratpublican leaders unanimously informed the nation that they would have no part in exposing the truth behind the January 6 insurrection. Could it be because the man they forced upon us as their presidential nominee and a number of their colleagues in the House were significantly complicit in the attempted coup? In a word, yes.

No one can doubt that if it had actually been Antifa or Black Lives Matter or even George Clooney and Al Gore who mounted a similar special tourist day at the Capitol on January 6, not only would Ratpublicans have launched countless investigations, commissions, committees and SWAT teams, you would have had Lindsey Lapdog Graham, Kevin Kissass McCarthy and Mitch Fucking McConnell would be wondering aloud 24/7 on Fux News whether we needed some Second Amendment solutions brought to bear.

Just a typical day at the Capitol; some guests prefer to use the Sedition Entrance

Typical tourists breaking and entering the Capitol, and assaulting

Capitol police and democracy itself. Remember Benghazi!

At long last, a wall! Special, beautiful fencing surrounds the Capitol to assist

future visitors after the January 6 tourist event

Instead of protecting our nation and its democracy, all these whiny, white weasels are complaining that the House 1/6 Commission is a one-sided political hit job. I guess they forgot the part where they were implored to help create a bipartisan commission so that it would be, you know…bipartisan. These malignant, miscreant motherfuckers simply will not stop gaslighting, misdirecting and dissembling, even long after the cows come home and have been slaughtered and eaten.

I. Mangrey remembering.

Hoist Ratpublicans On Their Own Petard

Playing For Creeps

July 12, 2021

At one point during the dozen or so fake Benghazi hearings, Hillary Clinton was dragged into the ongoing charade for eleven straight hours of drinking water and testifying before Trey Gowdy’s clown-court. Fewer Americans died during the unfortunate albeit totally inconsequential 2012 Benghazi debacle (which occurred on hostile foreign soil) at the American diplomatic compound in Libya than died during the attempted coup and terrible tourist tragedy on American soil on January 6, 2021.

Despite the overwhelming meaninglessness of the Benghazi episode, Ratpublicans seized on the regrettable event to attack Clinton and attempt to disable her presidential aspirations. This was later made explicit by mental midget Kevin McCarthy in 2015 as Clinton was poised to beat realty-tv candidate Donald Turmp: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.” Nice priorities, Kev.

Kevin McCarthy trying to remember where he left his brain

Unlike the Benghazi blip, the January 6 insurrection (which occurred on American soil in our nation’s Capital) will go down in history as a significant, hopefully singular event, despite Ratpublicans’ desperate attempts to Orwell it into a happy day where Capitol police welcomed loving patriots into the Capitol for a cup of tea.

Five Americans lost their lives – and more than 140 law enforcement professionals were injured – as a direct result of the terrorist attack by radical white supremacists/Turmp cultists. The death toll might have been much higher and much more significant had the mob been able to carry out their mission of hanging then vice president Mike Pence as well as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and an untold number of other legislators on the seditionists’ to-do-in list.

Part of the terrorists’ January 6 agenda (dramatization)…Too soon? Too late?

After attempting to include the insurrectionist Ratpublican Party in a bipartisan effort to uncover the truth and hold all those responsible accountable for the attempted coup, Democrats were forced to create their own select committee.

To be fair, it is not surprising that the party of Turmp would want no parts of an honest and thorough investigation. A number of them, their leader included, are clearly culpable, some to a degree that is likely criminal at best. Given the depth and breadth of the Ratpublicans’ complicity, they should not even be permitted to participate in investigating their own criminal behavior.

Stop Bringing Silly Putty To A Gunfight

Now, if they are smart, and finally willing to play by the same rules that Ratpublicans play by, the Democrats should, a) drag the investigation out as long as possible – at least until the eve of the 2022 midterm elections, b) subpoena McCarthy and McConnell who can both be seen on video placing blame directly on the stooped shoulders of the Insurrectionist-in-Chief Donald Turmp, c) subpoena every member of Congress who supplied aid and comfort to the terrorists and, d) subpoena the head Cheese-puff himself. If they do not honor these subpoenas, take them to court. Scream about their obstruction and obfuscation every day – cable news is on 24/7 and they need something to talk about. Once any or all of them are compelled to testify, make them do so for hours and hours on national television. Democrats have the truth and democracy on their side. They should mercilessly bludgeon Ratpublicans with these. If Democrats do not go to these lengths, they will have perpetrated a bigger farce than the entire Benghazi hearing/charade that, despite its absurdity, helped bring down Hillary Clinton, and saddled America with the cardboard-cutout-cowboy Donald Turmp. Enough already.

I. Mangrey reprimanding.

Broken News

Very Fine People…It Takes One To Know One

July 10, 2021

In the most unsurprising news since the bloated gasbag racist clown descended his golden shower elevator, to announce his reality tv candidacy and pronounce his belief about Mexicans: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” adding, with all the sincerity of a KKK grand dragon expressing his love of African Americans, that “Some I assume are good people,” a new book exposes the racist buffoon as saying, “Hitler did a lot of good things.”

I mean sure, Turmp did manage to lie about thinking that some Mexicans were good people, then, a mere two years later, he let the truth sneak out when he described some neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates and raging anti-Semites as “very fine people.” His excuse for that? “I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general.” Yes, just like believing that Hitler did good things, Robert E. Lee – one of the most horrific traitors in American history – ran a very good war against the United States. And then three years after giving props to Lee, Turmp who believes he also did a lot of good things, attempted to wage his own war against the United States – a war he continues to wage to this day.

So no, we are not surprised to learn that the most seditious president in American history has soft spots in both his heart and his head for one of the most reviled figures in human history. Next, we will learn that Turmp thinks Jeffrey Dahmer had a very sophisticated palate.

How Many Civil Wars Does It Take To Screw Up A Country?

Team Turmp is attempting to Orwell the January 6 insurrection, calling the violent trespassers “patriots.” If memory serves, Jefferson Davis said the same thing about his team while attempting the overthrow of the government during the First Civil War. Both of these movements also have in common the goal of protecting the systemic Whiteness of this stolen land.

Musical Interlude…

Bruce Cockburn – Stolen Land

Never satisfied with merely being the biggest asshole in the room, escaped mental patient Turmp, desperately trying to put his Medusa-esque face back in the spotlight for something other than having the company that bears his now-toxic name and its CFO (so far) indicted, has decided his best move is standing up for the terrorists he incited to dismember the Capitol, if not many of its denizens. Turmp is now whining that these poor, persecuted traitors, who brutally assaulted both the Capital police and the Capitol itself should be released from jail at once because they “are being treated unbelievably unfairly when you look at people in prison.” He recently asked a crowd of credulous cretins and gullible goons at a Florida rally to Fuck America Some More, “How come so many people are still in jail over January 6?” Yeah, they did a lot of good things.

Donald’s most recent asinine attempt to reinsert himself into the disintegrating limelight, is what most legal experts deride as nonsensical. Turmp is pretending to file lawsuits against Twitter, F*&$book and YouTube, who banned him for his incessant lying and dangerous rhetoric all aimed at cultivating Turmp’s cult-leader façade. These leading social media platforms were finally forced to take action after Der Furor incited the assault on the Capitol and our democracy on January 6, 2021. Undaunted, unhinged and mostly unconscious, Turmp is bound and determined to rise from the assholes like a fractious phoenix, to once again brutalize our eyes, ears and souls.

A modern-day Medusa; do not let your eyes linger on its vile visage

Donny, baby, sweety, cookie, I know these mental munchkins are your base, your peeps (though in reality you despise them as lowlife losers), but they are, inarguably, violent criminals who – on your say-so – attempted to “hang Mike Pence,” capture and/or kill any number of members of Congress, and to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States. You are as guilty as they are. Even Mitch Fucking McConnell and Spineless Kevin McCarthy said you were, before they said you weren't. The fact that you have been allowed to remain at large, does not make you any less culpable than those who have been rounded up and stored safely away from the citizenry until tried and/or convicted. Is it possible that this is the reason you want them released? It is certainly not because you are concerned for their well-being. After all, they are not you. And just because you have not the slightest clue what this country is about or how it is meant to function, does not make you fit to be anything but tied.

In closing, it can only be said, and apparently cannot be said often enough, “Donald, shut the fuck up and stick your greasy head back up your ass where it belongs, and leave us the fuck alone.”

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thought For The Day

I. Shadow

Who Knows What Stupid Lurks In The Heads Of Men?
The Shadow Knows
And So Do Many Other People With Reasonable IQs

July 8, 2021

This week in White Lives Blather, alleged ex-crackhead, and MyPill-Popping Guy…I mean MyPillow guy Mike Lindell is now on record as saying, “By the time of the morning of August the 13th, it will be the talk of the world.” According to the MyPinhead guy, that is the day that his lard and savior Donald Turmp will somehow – he does not say how exactly – supplant actual President Joe Biden and be returned to his throne and, one assumes, will be reinstated on Twitter, F*$#%book and youTube, and replace whomever graces the non-existent $1,000,000 bill.

Be sure to update your calendars to mark this auspicious, illusory event. Unreliable sources contend that in the extremely likely event that there is no such changing of the guard on August 13^th, the reinstatement of the twice-impeached, twice-massively-defeated-in-the-popular-vote, one-fake-term conman Turmp will instead occur on August 32^nd. Or perhaps some time in September, or on some random Wednesday. Or the day after Hillary Clinton is finally locked up.

This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.

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Supreme Court v. We The People

Three Fears For The Red, White And Blue

July 4, 2021

On this July Fourth, many minds turn to America’s legacy. That legacy, for some – in particular, those who deign to dabble in reality – has some unpleasant aspects. Some malignancies that remain active, and continue to spread throughout the lymph nodes of American society.

Hooray for the land of the free, home of the fuckwits
who stormed the Capitol, and so far have gotten away with it

We are still laboring under things like disenfranchisement, some of which was baked into our American Pie. African Americans considered 3/5 of a person, women considered incapable of voting. The racism that allowed for slavery and the 3/5 doctrine. As disgusting as it may be to some, it is entirely understandable that many white people long for the days when only they (though they ignore the fact that it was only the males who were then included) had the right to vote. 

Some may recall the still-ongoing, though greatly slowed and now much less overt genocide of this land’s original inhabitants. Were there more Native Americans extant today, surely they would engender the same attention devoted to other people of color. Some may remember that this nation was literally built on the backs of African slaves (and to a much lesser, though no less disgraceful degree Chinese labor), and may be willing to admit that the legacy of slavery in America continues to torment this nation’s soul. Some might also be willing to admit that the racism at the root of slavery has not only survived the ending of that heinous chapter, and the Civil War that attempted to prolong it, and the Jim Crow Era that came next, and the systemic racism that never really left, but has in recent years has shown that this cancer, which may have to some degree been in remission, has metastasized to a point that may yet become fatal.

As if we needed any help with burying our elections in bullshit like gerrymandering, race-based disenfranchisement and above all else, agenda-driven dark money. The disgraceful 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was, if not the final, then possibly the penultimate nail in democracy’s coffin.

Citizens United decided that under the First Amendment money is speech and therefore actual speech ain’t worth a dime. Just like when the Court decided that corporations are people, it made actual people worth less.

Danger Will Robinson…And Everyone Else

Must stop all the blacks from voting! What the hell do they have to lose?

In another one of the most disastrous decisions in Supreme Court history, the John Roberts Court decided in 2013 with Shelby County v. Holder, that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had run its course. It had done what it needed to do, and all was well with democracy and race relations in America. Roberts, writing for the majority (of white justices, including Clarence “Uncle” Thomas) made it clear that he is either a clueless fuck or a flagrant racist. Since the Chief Justice determined that racism is over, it would appear to be the former. Since reality dictates that Roberts is a clueless fuck, then clearly racism still exists, apparently making him the latter. Even if Robers was correct (he was not) for that one brief moment, the election of Donald Turmp, and the consequent explosion of flagrant, government-sanctioned racism at the highest level, put that colicky baby right to bed. Screaming and crying all through the night. It has yet to stop for a moment.

“(the) blight of racial discrimination has been ameliorated.”
Chief (In)Justice John Roberts, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, Attorney General, 2013

“The blight of racial discrimination has been accelerated.”
Paying Attention Managing Editor Ed Venture, 2021

The party of Supreme Racist Donald Turmp is proudly carrying the banner of racism that their Orange Idol hoisted high during his ignominious, insurrectionist reign of terror.

Now the Turmp Court has done it again. With three, count ‘em, three new justices appointed by a racist, authoritarian ex-blogger and ex-reality tv clown, the Supreme(ly white wing) Court has dealt another blow to democracy. I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Forever Never Land

Meanwhile, back in Joe Manchin world, West Virginia Wally has his own ideas on how to make voting great again…for white people and corporations. The Manchin Compromise is mostly a capitulation to the racist, fascist demands of Mitch McConnell, who never saw a democracy he couldn’t steamroll. Whatever else Joe Manchin may be, and he seems like a nice guy, he is a corporate prostitute, whose real constituency is not the people of White West Virginia, but his corporate donors/overseers. He is defending the filibuster, not to protect democracy, but to protect big money’s control over democracy, notwithstanding all his sincere sounding gibberish and putrid pleas for bipartisanshit.

So, happy White People’s Independence Day. It seems only fitting that our newest national holiday, Juneteenth precedes July 4^th on the calendar and will forever come first each and every year. Unless whiteness again overruns the soul of our nation and takes us back to a time in history most of us would rather learn from than return to.

Steve Miller - Living In The USA

I. Mangrey, reality addict.