Special
Counsel Jack Smith seems to have added a few new dimensions to his game. It is
looking like Trump’s Florida indictments are a smokescreen. He knew he was
likely to get Trump’s unqualified, unserious pet judge to hear the case, so he
tossed these indictments as a diversion while he put together the Washington,
DC indictments for Trump’s January 6 kerfuffle – as his enablers like to call
it.
The
DC charges are possibly more serious, and more likely to be tried much sooner
than Florida. And there will almost certainly be a real judge in DC. The extra
bonus is that when Trump is found guilty in DC – perhaps of sedition or
insurrection – his bid to re-steal the White House will be over, either electorally
or legally. Then after the election that Trump will either lose or be watching
from the sidelines or a cell, the Florida case can proceed and no pardon will
be forthcoming. Double fucking whammy.
If you’re considering inviting Donald over for
dinner, you’d better
get on his schedule soon; his calendar is filling up pretty fast.
And two more indictments are looming bigly.
For
his part, disgraced, twice-impeached, twice-indicted (so far), failed insurrection
leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Trump insists that
neither arrest, indictment or imprisonment will interfere with his campaigning.
Trump is desperately seeking a second term (third if you ask him) for the sole
purpose of pardoning himself after he is found guilty of any or all of the crimes
against the United States that he knows full well he committed during and after
his time in office.
Someone else knows
what Trump did last summer. Newly indicted co-conspirator Carlos De Oliveira told
a Mor-on-Lago IT guy that “the boss” wanted the server containing the security video
records deleted. When the IT guy pushed back, saying he would need approval from
his security supervisor, De Oliveira again stated that “the boss” wanted the
server deleted. Guess who was the boss of him.
“I never liked the White House anyway, I’ll be president from right here.”
Despite the fact that Trump is playing
checkers, there is no way he is going to get kinged.
Funny Thing
Shortly after completing this post,
I found that someone else was playing with the same chess/checkers analogy. However,
this does not put me in good company. Ultra-psychotic loser Karen Kari
Lake, who is vying to outdo Trump when it comes to election denial, still
claims she is the newly elected governor of Arizona. She is not. Lake, despite
her delusions of being governor of Arizona, is desperately trying to get on the
Trump 2024 ticket. She came up with the following regarding Jack Smith v. Don
Trump…
“They're playing checkers and
President Trump is playing, you know, chess at the highest level, so I don't
think they want to pick a fight with him.”
That’s right folks. Donald Trump is
running rings around poor Jack Smith. If memory serves, Smith is not the one
rage posting every day in all caps. Nor is Smith the one who stole classified
documents and then lied to authorities about returning everything. Smith is not
the one who has been caught directing underlings to destroy evidence, or the
one who incited an insurrection designed to overturn the free and fair election
he lost. Only one of the players in this game of chesskers is facing 74 federal
counts. And it is not Jack Smith.
I may need to alter my analogy: Jack
Smith is playing multi-dimensional chess, while Trump is playing solitaire...you know, playing with himself.
He doesn’t look
at Kari the way he looks at Ivanka, but she’ll do (whatever Donny wants)
As if I needed any further fodder (wait, that can’t be
right, shouldn’t it be any fodder further?) for my angst and, let’s call it
discontent. It has come to my attention that many of the Africans dragged from
their homes and who managed not to die on the voyage across the ocean wherein
they were transported like debris (not exactly a Carnival Cruise), and then
became slaves in the New World, benefitted greatly from their captivity by developing
“skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”*
someday down the road…possibly. Some benefitted by learning skills like not
dying from savage beatings, inhuman working conditions, rape, perpetual
emotional torture and not being lynched. Apparently, some also gained skills
like blacksmithing, or golfing or something, which they could then use later in
life if they were not being hunted down by angry White mobs who refused to
admit that 1) slavery was inherently evil, and 2) slavery had been abolished in
the United States.
Would
this be considered a skill?
Holocaust Deniers, Meet Slavery Deniers
None of my ancestors had the luxury of being dragged half
way across the globe, enslaved by a bunch of savages and learning marketable
skills. Most of my ancestors were merely dragged from their homes, taken a
little ways away and murdered in Nazi concentration camps, where no useful
skills were imparted to those who managed to escape dreadful slaughter.
One of the Fux Newstalking heads decided to drag noted Austrian
psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor ViKtor Frankl (who he referred to as “Vik Frankl”
because I guess they were buddies in an alternate reality) into the fray, whining
that Frankl said that some Jews survived the death camps by making themselves
useful. Keep digging asshole.
Naturally, the rabid rat-in-a-tie who took Fucker Carlson’s
place (remember him?) on Fux was appalled, appalled I tell you,
that Vice President Kamala Harris had the audacity to push back against
Florida’s decision – based on Ron DuhSantis’ “War on Woke” – to begin
teaching the delusional up-side to the indelible stain on the American Experiment that was
slavery.
Carlson’s repugnant replacement Jesse Watters posed this: “I
just have to ask the African Americans watching right now [African Americans,
plural? Watching Fux News? Really?] What’s it like to be lied to by Kamala
Harris? What’s it like to be lied to by these buffoons on MSNBC?” One imagines
it is much like being lied to every single minute of every single day by
watching Fux News, except that the almost-all-white, almost-all-over-60 Fux
audience wouldn’t know a lie if it pissed on their leg and called it rain. Oh
wait, that’s what Fux does all the time.
Done DuhSantis
On a happier note, Florida Governor Ron DeRacist, now that
his political career has come to an ignominious, hard-earned conclusion, should
be sold into slavery to learn a new skill.
___________________________________________ *
Quoth the craven Ron DuhSantis, while claiming he had nothing to do with the
Florida bored of “education” attempting to whitewash the disgraceful
institution of slavery. After mewling, “I didn’t do it. I had nothing to do
with it,” DuhSantis went on to explain why he thought it was a good idea to
teach about the benefits of having been enslaved in America.
Following
in the dog-shit-encrusted footsteps of such corporate greats as the murderous Philip
Morris, the mercenaries at Blackwater, planet fuckers British Petroleum and F@$*book, all of
whom hoped they could hide their misdeeds behind a new moniker or logo, Muck is
poised to do the same with his newest toy – Twitter.
Musk GivesThe Bird
Musk is
planning to rebrand his recent grossly overpriced purchase to – and if
nothing else exhibits the true depths of his brilliance, this should just about
do it – ‘X’. Yes, I am not making this up – ‘X’. That should fix
everything.
I guess
this ingenious rebranding can’t make Musk’s Twitter any more useless than it
already is. Musk said he would transform Twitter into a "super app" but it quickly became super crap. The company is already valued at a third of the stupid price Musk
paid less than a year ago.
Many people
are saying that he chose ‘X’ because 'Q' and the swastika were already taken.
The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
One of the dimmest bulbs in the Fascist Party firmament –
and currently one of its most powerful members – EmptyG, attempted to ridicule
Joe Biden’s agenda by derisively comparing Biden to the likes of FDR and LBJ
(whose existence Marge apparently just discovered). “His BIG socialist programs were the Great
Society ... big government programs to address education, medical care, urban
problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and
welfare.” Disgusting. It’s high time we put a stop to providing federal funds
all these horrific – and staggeringly popular across all demographics – programs…in
Red states. Funny thing; most of the morons who repeatedly vote for EmptyG and
her ilk will be devastated without all these BIG socialist programs.
The Biden campaign used the video of EmptyG stating the
above quote with the predictable tag-line “I’m Joe Biden and I approve this
message.”
I’m
Dark Brandon and I approve this idiot’s message
Green would do well to stick to her strengths: showing
Hunter Biden’s dick pics to everyone, everywhere she goes, and fondling
life-size cardboard Donald Trumps. Does she keep this in her office or her bedroom?
Inquiring minds are afraid to know. Poor Marge must be terribly lonely after
her husband dumper her dumb ass. Maybe she should get herself a dildo…I hear Lindsey
Graham is available.
(Not Photoshopped, I swear)
Take Our Funding And Shove It
I think that Red states should immediately begin declining
money generated by Blue states. I'm sure these proud sons of bitches…I mean,
the South would be much happier not being a bunch of pathetic, groveling
welfare queens dependent on a bunch of liberals for their very survival.
They should cut off all Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security
– all those damned government handouts their elected officials are trying to do
away with all the time. And they can save money by ridding themselves of all those
woke public schools that keep trying to shove reality down the throats of their
children. They would be helping the nation they say they love so very, very
much – so much that they would gladly burn it all down so they could make it
great again. If these Welfare States would stop taking all these unwanted,
undeserved discretionary dollars, just think of the positive impact it would
have on the federal deficit they keep whining about.
Let’s
help our brothers and sisters stand up on their own hind legs. If they cannot
summon the courage to just say no to liberal money, then we should, out of the
goodness of our hearts, give them the tough love they need. Cut off all monies
going from Blue states to Red states immediately.
It’s for their own good.
This has been a public service announcement from the good people
at Paying Attention™.
The other day I saw someone
sporting this t-shirt:
Simple, yet
defective
I wasn’t sure if this meant
RFK, Jr. or JFK, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has
thrown his clearly-much-too-tight-to allow-sufficient-oxygen-to-his-brain hat
into the ring to challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination (I guess).
Jr.’s candidacy does give him a much more robust platform to compare COVID-19 vaccines
to Nazi concentration camps, and countless other conspiracy theories. Kennedy,
a conspiracy theorist of the highest order, said he “thought” Joe Biden won the
2020 election, but was not sure.
RFK, Jr.’s latest dive off the
deep end suggested that “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black
people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” Now, at
first blush this might not seem as anti-Semitic as other RFK, Jr. fodder until
you stop to think: Exactly who, besides Jews, would be protecting Jews? And why
spare the Chinese? Everyone knows how much Jews love Chinese food.
How many times does one need to defend, deny, apologize, rationalize, homina-homina-homina their anti-Semitic statements
before one must admit to oneself and the world that, okay, so I'm anti-Semitic,
so sue me.
“What is your problem with the
Jews, Ralph?” “Homina, homina, homina.”
Maybe the shirt was not even
referring to RFK, Jr. Qanon believes his cousin John F. Kennedy, Jr. is still
alive and is preparing to swoop in, become Trump’s running mate and make
America something again, or maybe for the first time. Who the fuck knows
anymore? Maybe since JFK, Jr. has yet to show himself, he’s been upgraded to
the top of the ticket.
RFK, Jr. has been spending
quality time with anti-Semites, Joe Rogan and Michael Flynn and on Fux News. Though he claims to be running as a Democrat, most
of RFK, Jr.’s support and funding comes from the Steve Bannon wing of the Fascist Party. We
reached out to Kennedy to find out if he believes John, Jr. is still alive
and/or planning to enter the 2024 race.
We also reached out to John,
Jr. Our requests for comment drew no response, possibly due to a lack of his
being alive.
Hasn’t the Kennedy family
suffered enough? Junior’s sister and cousin Joseph publicly rebuked him for his
comment regarding the Jews. Undoubtedly, RFK, Jr.’s father and two uncles are
fortunate to be unable to witness this shameful tableau…unless they too are
simply in hiding.
Or perhaps it had nothing to do
with any of the Massachusetts Kennedys and the wearer was supporting
super-Cracker John Kennedy of Louisiana – one of the most asinine members of
the Senate in living memory, a tragically high bar.
Whoever this person was
intending to support, as we passed each other I was too polite to offer up a
WTF, too scared to ask, and too nauseated to point and laugh.
I. Mangrey, watching the wheels
go round fall off the bus.
It is
fine for people like Donald Trump – leader of the fascists, racists, anti-Semites, toxic
morons and their fellow travelers – to threaten judges, federal agents,
district attorneys and anyone who thinks Trump pals around with fascists, racists, anti-Semites, toxic morons and the like. It’s okay for Trump to threaten our national security and our very democracy, but a line is crossed when a simple country blogger with a following
in the dozens makes strong statements of warning and perhaps a joking hint at
violence against those who actually perpetrate violence against America.
We here
at Paying Attention™ will continue to say whatever the fuck we want. We also
promise to never commit actual violence against anyone, with the possible
exception of throwing small rocks at the vicious deer who unrelentingly
threaten the very survival of the many flowering plants that grace the
landscape of our corporate headquarters in lovely southeastern Pennsylvania.
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
This has been your Paying Attention™ Hmmmm For The Day.
Apparently,
these bullshit ads weren’t having sufficient economic impact. They had become
so ubiquitous that people stopped even noticing them. I guess we haven’t been
asking our doctors if these drugs are right for us enough for Big Pharma to rob
us blind (I wonder if there’s a drug for that).
Madison
Avenue must have been getting desperate to attract our attention anew. They have kicked their bullshit up a notch. Now
all these drugs are starting to have their own theme songs and/or dance
routines. These drug ads are starting to have production budgets that rival
many feature films.
Don’t
forget to ask your doctor, or someone who plays one on TV, or maybe some
homeless guy, if Crockloxy is…oh, fuck it, just go out and get you some. What
could it possibly hurt? You too could be singing in the rain, dancing in the
streets…or dead.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
I
now can’t decide whether it will be the rampaging Climate Crisis or Artificial
Intelligence that in the not-too-distant future will be the final blow to
humanity.
But
then it hit me.
I
am now convinced that AI will use the Climate Crisis, and most of human kind’s
immeasurable aversion to acknowledging its very existence, to rid itself of the
very messy, increasingly divorced from reality and intelligence, human species.
Hopefully AI will be kinder to the planet than we have been.
Either
that, or AI will lower its expectations of ruling the entire planet and will
instead (easily) find a way to take over America by getting us to Second
Amendment ourselves out of existence.
In
any event, we’ve had a good run.
Not
really, but we certainly enjoyed ourselves to death.
Freak
out…
I
mean, Peace Out.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Fraught
For The Day.
Wow.
Brain-damaged (and that’s being generous) EmptyG has been thrown out of the increasingly insane Fascist Party’s House
FreeDumb Caucus. Apparently, she is too close to ersatz-Speaker Kevin McQarthy and has been saying mean things about her fellow dumbasses.
aka Lord of
The Flies Caucus
It appears that the
FreeDumb bunch is distraught because malignant, moronic Marge has not been
bringing the crazy like she used to. Despite recently posing with an assault
weapon with the Capitol as a backdrop, calling Lauren Boobert “a little bitch” was
a bitch too far for the other MAGAts. Regardless what their “thinking” might
be, it’s good to see all these whackos set up their circular firing squad. So,
what will EmptyG do now that she is a caucus of less-than-one? Inquiring minds
couldn’t give a shit.
Just thought you might like to know.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Fun Fact
For The Day.
It is clear that
bragging about grabbing women by the pussy, two impeachments, getting creamed
attempting a second treasonous term, inciting an insurrection, getting indicted for espionage with
several other major felony indictments looming, have not dampened the abject,
cultish fealty the majority of the Fascist Party faithful (You know…morons) unwaveringly
bestow upon their lard and slavior.
Trump’s lead among
primary voters has only widened since his latest crushing blow, according to
national polling. Every single primary rival has lost ground in the past two
months – even those who had no ground to lose. No one has lost more ground than
Florida Governor Ron DeFascist.
Assholes can’t resist a dickhead
Indictment For The
Win
We have it on good
alternative authority that President Joe Biden and his team are hard at work
trying to find a way to peel off some of Trump’s support among the
not-too-bright/not-beholden-to-the-law crowd in case Trump is the Fascist Party
nominee once again. Biden’s advisors have come to the conclusion that their best
bet is for the president to get indicted in order to woo some the 70,000,000
idiots who are likely still planning to vote for the disgraced,
twice-impeached, twice-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and
Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president.
Lock me up! Lock me up! Lock me up!
Team Biden is well
aware that no matter what, Trump will still have more indictments under his elastic,
stretched-to-the-limit belt than Biden could ever hope to amass in such a short
time. Even if Biden does manage to get himself indicted, he will have his work
cut out for him if he hopes to get close to the 70-plus counts Trump has
already racked up, and Trump is only getting started.
Nonetheless, the Biden campaign is busy holding focus groups to determine which possible indictment would attract the greatest number of nitwits. Should he expose himself in public? Start inviting spies from China and Russia to his resorts to show off classified documents? Shoot someone on Fifth Avenue? Incite a coup against himself?
At the moment, cartoon
character/hot air buffoon Donald Trump is riding his indictment wave like a
bitch. The worse it gets for the Inciter In-chief, the better he does in
the polls. This shocking shithead is only four points behind Joe Biden right
now. will his next three or four indictments have the same effect? Will he take
the lead after his first conviction? Will he become forever-president after his
third or fourth? Inquiring minds want to rip their own heads off.
Here's one from Paying Attention™’s Fourth of Julys past. No
ghosts. Just gasps. Sit back and enjoy this thrilling story of yesteryear,
brought to you without commercial interruption…
Independence Day Extravaganza
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 4, 2018
On this 242nd anniversary of the great experiment
in democracy that is the United States, I am reminded of a day back in 1976,
during our nation’s Bicentennial Brouhaha, when the man who pardoned the
criminal Richard Nixon – unelected president Gerald R. Ford – dared to show his
face in Philadelphia – the birthplace of American democracy (Anyone remember that?), and right outside Independence
Hall of all places.
Despite the city’s attempts to relegate protesters to a
remote location, far away from Ford, a ragtag file of demonstrators – the
Philadelphia Painted Faces Brigade – flouted the anti-First Amendment attempt to
countermand the right of “people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances,” and braved a phalanx of constabularies
and angry “patriots,” to be near Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and
Nixon’s handpicked successor/enabler.Members
of the PPFB were told to “love it or leave it,” caused to dodge projectiles,
threats and epithets, but this tiny but determined group, eventually joined by more
aggressive agitators from New York, stood their ground and made their voices
heard.It was a big story (actually, a
tiny one) in all the papers (well, one of them), and the lads were photographed
extensively by several men in very nice suits.All members eventually showed up on America’s Most Ignored list.
Philadelphia Bulletin, circa July 5, 1976 (Thanks to BtB for archival
material) inset below
Two founding members of the
PPFB – July 4, 1976 The Punishment Brothers, Cruel and Unusual
Zappa/Beefheart – 200 Years Old
Incendiary signage was waved. Anti-authoritarian chants filled the air. And yes, a flag may have been set ablaze, either
to signify the rockets’ red glare, or perhaps the bombs bursting in air, or
possibly to express outrage at the presence of the man – himself unelected to
the highest office in the land – who pardoned a criminal president, the
lingering resentment of the recently ended Vietnam War, and the long history of
genocide, slavery, government sponsored corporate malfeasance, international
tomfoolery, and all the other intolerable acts carried out in the name of the
American people.
Gil Scott Heron – Bicentennial Blues
That Was Then, This
Is Then-er
Forty-two years later, members of the PPFB remain committed
to the ideals of a nation that values gender, economic and social equality, a
government of, by and for the people, a healthy environment, and what some have
referred to as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Some people never learn.
As we celebrate the Fourth of July in 2018, we have a
president more criminal than any other.We anxiously await the report and/or further arrests pursuant to the
investigation of the 45th – and most fascist – president by Special
Counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into connections between said president
and a panoply of Russian oligarchs, spies, lawyers and other friends of this
president’s idol, Vladimir Putin.Countless members of 45’s inner circle have Russian connections.An unknown number of Russians attended his
inauguration, including various attendees at exclusive, invitation-only inauguration
events.
One cannot help but wonder how many Russians have attended
other inaugurations.I wonder how many
Russians attended Barack Obama’s inauguration.I wonder when, if ever, Republican’ts in Congress might start to
question the relationship between their party’s leader – who was unquestionably
helped, if not catapulted, into office by Vladimir Putin (who despised and
feared Hillary Clinton) – and the Russian government.I will not be holding my breath…or my tongue.
Der Furor has also announced his plan to meet privately with
his Russian benefactor – so there will be no actual record of their
conversation.This is usually an
indication that El Dummo is sharing state secrets.If this meet turns out half as well as the
recent punking by Kim Jong Un, the next Fourth of July might feature real
rockets’ red glare/bombs bursting in air, if not proof through the night that
our flag is still there.I say, if it
walks like a schmuck, and it quacks like a schmuck, and it has the world’s most
ridiculous “hair,” it will hopefully end up in prison, or at the very least
impeached, ostracized, and a pariah for all time.
What is that pile of shit on
top of its head? (undoctored photo, I
swear)
It is ironic that on our nation’s anniversary there has been a leak of plans to
change the very nature of our Constitution.Once again, Paying Attention has exclusive reporting thanks to our new
intern, Willie Nilly who spoke to a highly placed, anonymous, non-existent
source, who gave the alias Creep Bloat.“Get
ready for some serious Constitutional rewrites.These guys are not backing down and they have some very big, very stupid
ideas.What the hell do you think is
going to happen once the Court is stacked, and loaded for the Middle Ages?This is only the tip of the shitstorm we can
expect from now on, unless the Tumor-in-chief is excised once and for all.Me, I’m moving to Greenland.Like NOW!”
Here are some of the proposed changes Jared Kushner, who (among
all the other jobs he always was, and has since proven he is absolutely,
without a shadow of a doubt, unqualified, incapable, and
not-the-least-bit-interested in doing) was made responsible for restructuring
the federal government, is “working” on:
Amendment I: Congress shall not interfere with any law
demanding an establishment of religion, or more accurately Christianity as law
of the land.The president (as long as
it is a white, male Republican) shall be free to abridge the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, or to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances as he sees fit, or simply
throws a fit.
Amendment II: An uneducated electorate, being necessary to
the security of a Republican-controlled State, the right of the people to
remain purposefully and aggressively ignorant, shall not be infringed. Oh, and
more guns please, mainly for white people.
Amendment III: Any Soldier shall, even in time of peace be
quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, and in time of war,
can do whatever they want, such as grab them by the pussy, regardless of any
law that may appear to be contrary.
Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, is quaint and obsolete, and no Warrants shall be necessary, nor
probable cause, nor Oath nor affirmation, and any place shall be searched, and any
persons or things shall be seized at the whim of the Executive or his agents,
especially his daughter Ivanka, whom he covets above all else (and not in a
good way).
Amendment V: All persons shall be caused to answer for
capital, or otherwise infamous crimes (unless having anything whatsoever to do
with Russians), despite any danger to themselves; do not think for a moment
that you cannot be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; or be compelled in
any criminal case to be a witness against yourself, or possibly be deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law if you dare to even
speak against the president; private property shall be taken for public use,
without just compensation if it please the Executive or his agents (see
Amendment IV).
Hopefully, this project will either never get anywhere, like
all of Kushner’s other projects, or will have to be completed from the comfort
of a federal prison.
I. Mangrey. Bad
craziness.Panic first, ask questions later.
