Holloween
(sic(k)
October 31, 2024
Not
this year…
But on this Halloween night, the Grating Pumpkin oozes out of the fascist past, and brings hate, pain, fear and loathing to all the people all across the land.
And
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Working For Peanuts
Fraught For The Day – The Whining, Part II
October 31, 2024
DarnOld Trump continues to tell his Bund rallies that he
doesn’t need any votes. “We don’t need votes, what we need is honesty If we
have honesty we have all the votes we need.”
“Our
primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don’t cheat,”
said the cheatingest cheater in the history of cheating. There is no context in
which Trump will not cheat – wives, mistresses,
golf, business, elections, you name it. When he accuses someone else of cheating,
he is as always talking about himself.
DarnOld
has a very simple, very obvious plan for “winning” the November election:
Of course he means this
in the worst possible way.
Other
people insist that elections are won and lost via voting. One must assume that Trump knows something no one else knows. This is a
good bet since everything he “knows” exists in an alternate universe that is
centered around and ultimately contains only DarnOld Trump.
Freak
out…
I
mean, Peace Out.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Fraught
For The Day.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
The 2024 Paying Attention™ Election Extravaganza Edition – Poetry In Commotion
The Elections Are Coming! The Elections Are Coming!
October 29, 2024
Something In the Air – Thunderclap Newman
You are likely aware
that the most consequential election since the Civil War era is looming like
Putin’s finger hovering over the nuclear button, with all the physical
steadiness of someone with late-stage Parkinson’s and the psychological
stability of, oh I don't know, Donald Fucking Trump. In one
agonizing, sleepless, nauseating, week (give or take a day, week or months), we
will learn the fate of the unique experiment in governance brought forth on
this continent (without consent of its original inhabitants or those brought
here against their will or those unfortunate to have been born without penises)
in the late eighteenth century after the alleged birth of Jesus Christ.
Grab a cup of
coffee, a sandwich, a stiff drink, some edibles and/or whatever, this is gonna be a
long post. But there are plenty of pretty pictures to break up the prolific, painful
prose. Oh look, here comes one now
We here at
Paying Attention™ are
remaining nauseously optimistic thanks to the likes of Taylor Swift, Billie
Eilish, Oprah Winfrey, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen – whose endorsement was
a thing of beauty – and more than 100 former and present Republicans including
war criminal Dick Cheney (to quote Jon Stewart reporting on this endorsement,
“Fuck Dick Cheney”) and his daughter, who lost her House seat because she stood
up for the Constitution and the rule of law after the man she voted with 96% of
the time attempted to overthrow our duly elected government because the
American electorate insisted he should no longer be in it.
And we would
be remiss if we did not give a dishonorable mention to the moronic, cowardly
shithead and 43rd (and previous worst) president George WTF Bush,
who decided to remain on the silent sidelines. Bush II has not endorsed Kamala
Harris and Tim Walz. His already disgraceful legacy will now be capped off by
this shameful inaction. Fuck him and whores he rode in on. May he rot in the
hell he pretends to believe in.
Once again,
nearly half of all Fascist/Trump
Party candidates for Senate, governor and election officials across the country
are election denying psychopaths/traitors. That number of course only includes
those who are damaged enough to admit to it publicly, but as we know, these Trumpers cannot be trusted for
at least a generation. Many of these hate-filled, halfwits are unfit for tying
their own shoes, let alone protecting and defending the Constitution of the
United States of America – particularly when it comes to enemies domestic,
which is them, despite their delusional bleating to the contrary.
Kari Lake who
still believes she is the governor of Arizona despite losing in 2022, actually
said that “if MLK, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, if JFK
were alive today, if our founding fathers were alive today, they would be
America-First [i.e., MAGA/fascist] Republicans.” Also, when asked if she would
accept the results of the election, Lake responded repeatedly, “I am going to
win the election, and I will accept that result.” She had previously made it
clear that she will not accept any other result. Unbowed, and seemingly
unconscious, Lake is on the ballot again, running for a Senate seat vacated by
nutjob Kyrsten Sinema. It looks like Lake will be beaten even more soundly this
time around. We look forward to seeing her fight like hell to overturn her
latest humiliating defeat.
Then there’s
Mark Robinson, the Trump-endorsed candidate for North Carolina governor.
Anti-Semite (he called the Holocaust "hogwash"), anti-LGBTQ+,
self-described “Black Nazi” who from the pulpit said “some people need killing,”
and has waxed nostalgic about slavery. Did I mention he's Black? Robinson is credibly alleged to have been an
obsessed frequenter of porn shops and porn sites online. Robinson says that
abortion is "murder" and "genocide," yet he and his wife
chose abortion 35 years ago. That is all I have to say about that.
One of the
most notable numbskulls on the ballot this year of course is Ohio senator JD
Vantz*, who it turns out is Trump’s
ruining mate. Vantz has called Trump
an “idiot”, “reprehensible,” “noxious” and “cultural heroin.” Vantz posited
that Trump might be
“America’s Hitler” and now has his head so far up Donald’s ass that he can see
Russia out of America’s Hitler’s mouth. Vantz still insists that Trump won in 2020 and was
picked to replace the guy Trump
wanted hanged on January 6, 2021 because Vantz will gladly burn the
Constitution and override the will of the voters and even the absurd Electoral
College after Trump gets
thumped on November 5th. Vantz is as anti-democracy as Trump, plus Vantz actually
knows what that means. He is also intimately linked to a sectional sofa…I mean,
Project 2025: The End of Democracy in America.
"I have no cognitive."
Frequent quote from DarnOld Trump
The rest of
the Fascist/Trump Party
candidates are just your run-of-the-mill fascist, election-denying,
anti-choice, anti-science, pro-gun-death, racist, anti-Semitic nut-jobs who
want to kill Social Security, Medicare, education, elections, pregnant women
who need medical attention and possibly you. And don’t even get me started on
the House candidates. It would be difficult to out-dumb-fuck the current crop
of kooks. Their new normal, following the lead of their convicted felon/brainless
leader, is to reject any election they do not win.
Makes me think
of Gil Scott-Heron from his 1974 H2Ogate Blues:
We leave America to ponder the image of
justice from its new wave of leaders: Frank Rizzo, the high school graduate mayor
of Philadelphia, whose ignorance is surpassed only by those who voted for him.
The
Insurrection Election
Barry McGuire - Eve Of
Destruction (2025…I mean 1965)
This will be
the first presidential election since the January 6 insurrection kick-off. The
insurrection continues to fester. The disgraced, twice-impeached, failed
insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-fake-president –
now featuring 34 felony convictions – continues to spew his big lie (that is,
when he’s not busy whining about crowd sizes past and present). His
mentally-defective minions continue to support his big lie. He always knew it
was a lie. They all know it’s a lie now because Trump has admitted more than once that he “lost by a
whisker.” Just for the record, a seven-million-vote margin of victory is not a whisker; it’s a
fucking T-Rex. The only way to believe Trump’s Big Lie at this point is to be brain-dead.
The Fascists are coming! The fascists are coming!
In honor of
this historic event – the long-avoided second attempt to tear asunder the
fragile experiment initiated by the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Washington and
all the other wealthy, famed, white male slave owners, and land barons via
civil war – our in-house poets here at Paying Attention™ have crafted a remake of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic
(historically inaccurate) Paul Revere’s Ride.
I.
Mangrey’s Snide
by Henry Whatsworth Shorttemper
Henry Whatsworth Shorttemper
Look now, my children, and you shall
see
The midnight blog of I. Mangrey,
On the fifth of November, in Twenty-Four,
You must realize what may be in store,
As you go off to do your civic duty.
I blogged to his friends, “If Trump
should prevail,
At the booth, through the post, in the Senate or House,
You will surely witness democracy fail,
If elections that day favor fascist and louse;
One person, one vote, has been how it has worked,
‘Til our rights, by the High Court, off have been jerked.”
I. Mangrey joins others to raise the alarm,
Through ranting and blogging and flailing his arms,
Exposing the assholes, their dangers and harms.
So through these dark weeks I.
Mangrey still blogs,
And so through the weeks he skewers these dogs,
In desperate attempt to help preserve freedom,
For two-leggeds, four-leggeds, waters and treedom;
A voice from the internets bellowing warning,
And words that shall echo from nighttime ‘til morning!
One vote if in person, or one if by mail,
To stop the planned steal, lest democracy fail,
In this hour of darkness and peril and need,
Recall all the months, and now many a year,
The harrying blog posts, the rant and the screed,
Of I. Mangrey’s warnings, à la Paul Revere.
And all of this predates Would-be-King DarnOld
Here’s Randy Rainbow – seeming a bit more caustic than usual,
and who could blame him – to sing us out
Blank Space (Donald's Version)
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*A word we learned from Capt. Hawkeye
Pierce at the 4077th M*A*S*H unit while he searched for a crossword
answer to the clue “Five letters: A Yiddish word for bedbug.”
I. Mangrey reporting. We hold this bullshit to be self-evident.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Broken News – LATE EDITION
October 28, 2024
How awesome! One of
the opening acts at Trump's
Nazi cosplay rally at MSG was a self-proclaimed comedian named Turd Pinchclap or
something. It seems he fancies himself the racist, dumb-fuck's Don Rickles, as
he spews insults, but ends up mostly insulting his audience’s intelligence –
not an easy thing to do at a Trump/Nazi rally.
What could be
funnier and better at shoring up the Latino vote than this unrivaled one liner:
“There's literally a floating island of garbage
floating in the middle of the ocean right now...I think it's called Puerto
Rico.” Comedy gold…I mean mold. For his sake, I hope this guy lives in Hungary.
For our sakes too.
This faux funny man
must have figured it was fair game to trash Hispanics (and others) since Trump had already called all of America “a garbage
can for the rest of the world to dump the people they don't want.” Wow. Move over Dennis Miller and Greg
Gutfeld. There's are new sad clowns in town.
Like all the great
comedians, Claptrap - or whatever his name was (if he has half a brain he has
already changed it) no one laughs harder at his jokes than he does. The only
line that was even on the same planet as funny was when he said, “Republicans
[his word, not mine] are the party with a sense of humor.” Now that’s
funny.
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*Turns out his actual name is
Tony Hinchcliffe. Be sure to take him off your bucket list.
This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled gnashing of teeth.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Word Of The Day
KOYAANISQATSI
October 27, 2024
Admittedly, we at Paying
Attention™ have felt that this word could be the word of the day pretty much
every day. Has been that way for quite some time. So, we just like to make it
official every once in a while.
This became one of my
favorite words of all time after I saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983
Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.
Koyaanisqatsi – the trailer
This has been your Paying Attention Word Of The Day.
Feel free to use it liberally.
Chicago – It Better End Soon
And Now, Some Gratuitous Boogie...
Canned Heat – Boogie Music
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Dusk In America
And They Called Him Shitler (Well Not Yet, But They Will Now)
October 26, 2024
Ronald Reagan – remember him? – ran a famous ad with
the tagline “It’s Morning Again in America.” Okay, he also ran on the slogan
Make America Great Again. Times have changed. Despite his slogan being
plagiarized by the same guy who figuratively choked the life out of what was
once called the party of Lincoln, then the party of Reagan, Reagan would be
tossed out on his ear, at best, by those who claim to be members of the party
Reagan led in the 1980s.
Right now, it's dusk in America...and if Trump takes
the White House it will be Night (think Elie Weisel), or maybe Mother NIght, or
maybe Slaughterhouse 2025. Or maybe nuclear fucking winter.
Shitler’s Lust
And let's not forget that Trump
has already threatened to blame the Jews when he loses. This of course goes
nicely with his long history of anti-Semitism. At least he's consistent. And
who was it that blamed the Jews for everything wrong with Trump’s ancestral homeland* Germany in the 1930s?
Rapidly deteriorating octogenarian-in-waiting and Hitler fanboy DarnOld Trump is pulling out all the stops. Der Furor has clearly been boning up on his Nazi schtick. Some of his speech patterns, the few intelligible concepts of plans he is croaking out, and his apparent obsession with holding a Bund rally at Madison Square Garden à la the 1939 "America First" rally at that same venue all add up to Trump going full Hitler in the final weeks of the election and undoubtedly will continue should he take the White House back(ward).
Hitler fanboy Trump in turn has his own fanboys.
Team Trump
says this human detritus at a Trump boat rally is simply “liberal activists.” As if.
No one is saying that all of Trump's
fans are neo-Nazis – many of them are simply racists – but everyone should know
that all neo-Nazis (and racists) are
either Trump fans or something much worse.
In fairness, it must be said that Kamala Harris is wrong about one
important thing. She keeps saying that Trump is trying to take us backward, but
that’s inaccurate. He is trying to take America somewhere not backward, but to
a place we have never really been (not fully, at least). Trump is dead set on taking America hog-tied and horse-whipped into a new full-on
fascism.
I will forgive Harris this understandable misstep and vote for her
anyway.
10cc
- Wanna Be The Boss
If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Out Of The Fascism
The longest-serving of Trump’s dozen or so chiefs-of-staff, Four-Star Marine Gen. John Kelly (Ret.) did a recent interview with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, which included this exchange regarding Trump
NYT: Do you think he’s a fascist?
Gen. John Kelly: Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a
far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement
characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism,
forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy.
Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly and
authoritarian, admires people who are dictators – he has said that. So he
certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.
He would, uh, comment more than once** that, you know, that Hitler did
some good things too. And of course if you know history, again, I think he’s
lacking in that. But if you know what history – you know Hitler was all about,
you’d be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good.
According to Kelly, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.
People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” Professional idiot Trump apparently missed the part where Hitler’s generals were bigly losers and
repeatedly tried to kill his ass. So, for once I agree with Hair Trump – give him the generals he wants.
Trump says that Kelly is suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome!” and
lying, thereby validating Kelly’s account.
Anyone remember when way back two weeks ago Trump’s former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley said of
Trump
He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to
you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total
fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country. A fascist to the
core.
Well, do ya punk?
According to our non-existent sources, Trump
then went on to wax psychotic about how Hitler’s genitals…I mean generals (when
they weren’t trying to assassinate him) “would ooh and ahh, get down on their
knees chanting, “We’re not worthy” when der Führer came out of the shower.
Ohhhh, I tell you, he was a real man, all man. A regular Arnold Palmer, if you
know what I mean.”
Der Furor Shows Off His (Bowel) Moves
Douchey dancing to the voices in his pants. He looks constipated.
At least Hitler was a better dancer. And he knew when he was beaten. And
he knew what to do when that time came. Trump
seems to have missed these particular lessons from his idol. I wonder if
Dementia Don has a nice underground bunker somewhere. If he can’t do what needs
to be done to finally be with his hero for all eternity, maybe Kristi Noem will
help him out.
If you worry all of this is too hyperbolic, too mean, too much Hitler,
it’s okay because Trump would take all this as a compliment.
Did we mention that Trump is also a convicted felon? Both Hitler and Trump were guilty of high treason. Only one of them did time because of it.
The other was protected by the political
party he continues to hold hostage as they become inexorably enveloped in
Stockholm Syndrome.
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*Trump and his father both lied over
the years (surprise, surprise), claiming Swedish heritage. Fact check: FALSE
**MORE THAN ONCE!?!
I. Mangrey reporting. I hate/have to keep bringing this up.***
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***But since every major
newspaper in the country has not only ignored all of Trump’s fascist
festivities, but has instead run with headlines like “Should Kamala Harris Be
Calling Trump a Fascist?” Oy.
MUST HEAR BONUS TRACK
Elvin Bishop & Los Lobos -
What the Hell is Going On
Friday, October 25, 2024
What A Dick?
Straight From The Horse’s Ass’ Mouth
October 25,
2024
As Trump addressed his assembled and dissembled idiots in Latrobe, PA – birthplace of Arnold Palmer, who died in 2018 – (after Trump told himself out loud “I refuse to say it”) he could not help himself from assaulting the crowd with some of his patented locker room talk about Palmer’s “birdie” and he was not referring to a one under par on a particularly challenging hole in a big tournament. No, Trump was talking about the great golfer’s putts…sorry, I meant putz. I'll spare you the details.
Donald “Dancing
Queen of The YMCA” Trump may or may not have added, “I always dreamed of
getting my tiny little hands around that thing to sink a putt or something. But
unfortunately, I only ever heard stories. The best stories. He would never let
me even see it, though not for lack of begging. What a great man. All man. Under the right circumstances, he
might have kept me from falling for Putin.”
Palmer’s daughter Peg Palmer Wears recalled her father’s “sound of disgust” as he watched Trump speak on television ahead of the 2016 election. Wears said that her father “couldn’t believe the arrogance and crudeness of this man who was the nominee of the political party that he believed in. Then he said, ‘He’s not as smart as we thought he was,’ and walked out of the room. What would my dad think of Donald Trump today? I think he’d cringe.”
He ain’t alone.
I. Mangrey regardless.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Schmuck Of The Day – The Girl From Ignoramus
Georgia
Screech
October 24, 2024
Today’s schmuck is a repeat offender. Another member
of the House who somehow got elected (somehow = gerrymandering) and is again
running for reelection. This unconscionable schmuck is one of Trump’s most
ardent butt-kissers, with one of the most dysfunctional brains in the history
in Congress – no mean feat.
So smitten with Trump is she that Marge will fondle a cardboard Don;
unfortunately for her, he is no Arnold Palmer
It is none other than the back-benching, biscuit-brained,
blowhard bitch, good ol’ Cro Magnon Marge Taylor Green,
or as we loke to call her here, EmptyG. It seems Marge doesn’t even watch Fux
News, or she might have noticed that Fux had to cough up over three quarters of
a million dollars as settlement for spreading misinformation about Dominion
Voting Systems’ machines rigging the 2020 election for Joe Biden.
Just the other day, Mentally-defective Marge – a rabid Trump cultist and proud dimwit – revived the debunked-in-court Dominion voting machine bullshit conspiracy theory. Hopefully, Dominion will go after Greene and take her for every cent she has, leaving her with nothing but that one deteriorating brain cell and what Rep. Jasmine Crockett so astutely, alliteratively and accurately dubbed EmptyG's bleach-blonde-bad-built-butch-body.
Todd Rundgren – STFU
This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day.
Fuck yeah.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
You Deserve A Fake Today at FcDonald's
October 23, 2024
Thirty-four-time convicted felon
(also found guilty of financial fraud, sexual assault, running a phony charity,
running a phony university and responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead
Americans because of ignoring the COVID-19 pandemic) DarnOld Trump whipped up
another photo op on the campaign trail.
Trump commandeered a closed
McDonald’s to pretend to actually do a job that many real people do to put food
on the table. As if he has any idea what a job actually is. Having spent a good deal of time lying about Kamala Harris having
worked at McDonald’s as a student, Trump thought it would be a brilliant idea
if he pretended to do (for about five minutes) the same job Harris actually did
– making fries. Trump, doing his usual reality tv come on, entered the closed
McDonald’s, filled with pre-screened “employees” and asked for a job. Naturally,
he could not even do this right. He asked to work “the French fry counter.” Clearly,
Dumb Donald has always had someone else pick up his fast food. Then he served
fake “customers” at the drive-thru. Not sure if he got the job after they
watched him in action.*
Worst, shortest-serving McDonald’s employee
ever
You can take these fries from my cold, dead, tiny hands
You can take these fries from my cold, dead, tiny hands
Professional criminal Trump should
not be serving fries. He should be serving time.
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*Hopefully, if Trump manages to stay out of
jail his next job will be Walmart greeter…in closed Walmarts.
I. Mangrey reporting. I deserve a break
today.
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