You are probably
aware of the cavalcade of creeps, kooks, crumb-bums and cretins (and some, I assume, are criminals) Trumphas been putting
forward to populate his award-losing administration, whose sole purpose is to
end the Great Experiment that has been American democracy.
This ghoul is Stephen Miller, Trumplackey and
architect of the Trumppolicy of separating migrant children from their
parents. No need to keep records, or ensure that they be reunited once the cruel
and unusual punishment of being held in detention camps abated. Miller is a sociopathic, anti-democratic, Machiavellian, racist tool.
And now the sociopathic, anti-democratic, Machiavellian, racist president’s deputy
chief-of-staff for policy.
Today’s Question For The Day:
Is it a coincidence that Stephen Miller’s
initials are S & M?
Too bad
the Indians didn’t build a wall to keep out the uninvited migrants that soiled
their shores for all eternity before there was even a Mexico to pay for it.
Statue of Lenni-Lenape chief of the Turtle
Clan Tamanend located where
almost no one can easily see it in Philadelphia at the entrance to Interstate
95
Talk
About Illegal Aliens…
Picture
Tamanend or Sitting Bull, descending a golden escalator and addressing a crowd
of paid onlookers
When the
Euro trash sent their people they were not sending their best. They sent people
that had lots of problems, and they brought those problems with them. They brought
disease, they brought crime and genocide, they were rapists. And now we know
that pretty much none of them were good people. Their descendants are no
bargain either.
Be on
the lookout for pasty-faced white folks giving thanks for the God-given good
fortune of entering this land illegally and slaughtering the original
inhabitants so that this country – founded
as it was on genocide, slavery and unbridled power for rich white men – might one day elect a convicted felon, rapist and
traitor-to-democracy to lead the descendants of the original interlopers who
stole this land and then shit all over it.
Happy
Thanksgiving.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For Thanksgiving Day.
Don't forget that
the day after the election the most popular Google search was “Can I change my
vote?” Anyone asking that question should be banned from voting because of
today’s secret word.
One
big question on many lips is: why did so many people vote for abortion rights
while simultaneously voting for Trump and other Fascist/Trump Party candidates?
We here at Paying Attention™ think we have the answer: at any given moment, it is much easier to be stupid than smart, and too many people in this country are simply too stupid for words.
So we will say no more about that.
Need More Proof?
Here are some smart people:
Noam Chomsky
on stupid people, circa 2012
Humans are, you know, we are very smart, but despite our
wisdom we keep doing some very stupid things. One of the most powerful forces in
history, actually is human stupidity. Yuval Noah
Harari
Hey
boys and girls, cats and kitties, all the ships and clippers at sea. This is
Ariel B – so glad to be back on the air. Been on kind of a forced hiatus. Got
asked to leave my last gig after my tribute to the great Joey Reynolds. As Joey
did on his last day at WIBG in Philly back in the early ‘70s, I locked myself
in the booth and played John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance for an hour or
so, until they brought in a locksmith and a very large gentleman to help me to
my car. Thanks to the good folks at Paying Attention™ for hookin’ me up to once again play the
platters, spin the saucers, dish out the discs and respect the stacks of wax
here at PA Central. I hope to make you proud playin’ the hits, the misses, and
anything else you wanna hear.
I. Mangrey perusing the
playlist
DJ:
Let’s hit the ground spinning and take our first call. And who do we have on
the line?
Caller:
Hi, I’m Ed long time managing editor, first time caller.
DJ:
Hi Ed. What’s your request and who are you dedicating it to? We’re here to make
it happen.
Caller:
Thanks Ariel. Since the Combine (think Cuckoo’s Nest) is flexing its fascist
muscles right now, beyond what we allowed ourselves to believe was possible, and
enveloping us all in a real fog, I need to hear some Rage Against The Machine; a
song of your choice. And I’d like this to go out to everyone
who voted for Kamala Harris and keeping full-blown fascism out of America. Please
bring back our regular horrible kleptocrats. I miss them already.
The Chief
Rage Against The Machine –
Killing In the Name
Okay
folks, though it’s always a pleasure playing your requests, this one’s from me
to the late, great Hannibal Lecter…I meanChief Bromden and to all of you trying desperately to survive our dystopian present. Enjoy this
quickie from Woody Guthrie –All You
Fascists Bound To Lose.
Woody Guthrie – All You
Fascists Bound To Lose
Send us your requests and dedications and
we’ll get ‘em on the air.
The recent disastrous election of a mentally ill convicted felon who
previously incited a violent coup attempt has this nation in a state of massive fucks…I
mean flux…nah, let’s go with fucks.
There's thinking outside the box and there's thinking outside the brain.
The former often leads to revelation and innovation, the latter is what we get
from Trump.
Wow, remember when this was
almost true?
Trump’s new cabinet picks may be his way of trying to get us to admit
that the completely unqualified and inappropriate, purposely incompetent,
frequently corrupt mental midgets of his first administration weren’t so bad
after all.
Wow,
remember when SCOTUS said this was actually true?
Sorry to keep harping on this, but #47 continues to unveil his cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs cabinet
picks. He has chosen Russian asset/stooge Tulsi Gabbard to be the next Director
of National Intelligence. This is only slightly better than giving Putin
himself daily briefings – in fact, it might be the exact same thing.
Next up, RFK, Jr. and his magic brain worm have been tapped as the head
of Health and Human Services.
Bobby's brain worm is dead…we’re next
The ex-heroin junkie and current cuckoo bird and whale decapitator was
recently spotted in his quest to “make America healthy again” eating McDonalds
and drinking a Coke with his new BFFs on a private jet (which burns up much
more fossil fuel per passenger, but who give a flying fuck now that Trump is
appointing a fracking exec as energy secretary – now that’s what I call
healthy). I guess Bobby, Jr., who was hungry enough to eat a bear, couldn’t find any edible dead ones on the plane.
And what the fuck is Dumb, Jr. doing?
Some
are saying that Trumpforced Bobby to eat the food he despises, but surely that
won’t be the worst thing he has to swallow in order to stay in Donny’s good
graces. At least he didn’t need to be on his knees for this one. Stay tuned.
For
his next trick, #47 is putting up a number of his personal criminal attorneys
(double entendre or not – you make the call) to head up the Department of
Justice under the wandering
eye of Matt Gaetz.
Unlike most Americans, I'm not looking for a president I could have a
drink with, I'm looking for a president who can think me under the table. I
want the smartest guy in the room, not the most sociopathic.
Democrats, Take Note
Meanwhile in New Zealand, Māori lawmakers performed the haka, a
traditional ceremonial dance, in parliament on Thursday to protest against a
bill that aims to reinterpret a centuries-old document seen as New Zealand's
founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
Māori lawmakers protest a bill that would reinterpret a centuries-old
document
(Can you say U.S. Constitution?)
The good news here is…
Well, I tried.
If you are not presently afraid of clowns, you will be now.
Prepare yourself for Trump's newest surreality tv show: Real Cabinuts of
Washington, DC
Frank
Zappa –Trouble Every Day
I. Mangrey, still at it. I couldn't have done it without me.
LATE UPDATE:
Asshole, pervert, scumbag Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his stupid face from
consideration as Trump’s insane pick for Attorney General. Hopefully, the
investigation into his sexual exploits with under-age girls and illegal drug
use will still be made public in case Gaetz ever wants to show his giant head
in public again.
Many people are
saying that JD Vance is currently residing with Jimmy Hoffa. No one has seen or
heard from Vance since election day.
Personally, I
believe he is only brain-dead, but that's nothing new for the spineless toady who said Trump was America's Hitler and then kissed Trump's ring and body-part-that-shall-not-be-named. There is still a chance
that Vance is physically alive and just waiting for marching orders from his boss,
who likely has forgotten Vance even exists.
Someone should tell Trump the check between the couch cushions.
Our continuing coverage of the carnage returns with more of
the shame. Il Douche is still busy figuring out who the worst people in the
world are so he can bring them into his democracy-ending administration. And
many Americans are still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that a
majority of those who showed up at the polls to vote for president have their
heads wrapped in tin foil.
Well, it could have been worse. At least we (and by we I
mean the great mass of slobbering assholes who voted to make America part of
the USSR again) didn’t elect a mass murderer…oops, forgot about Trumpletting
tens-of-thousands of us die during COVID. Well, at least we didn’t elect a
serial rapist…oops, we kinda did that. It’s not like we elected another white
guy who despite inexorable, relentless evidence to the contrary insists the
already-in-progress climate crisis is a hoax…oops, wrong again; does he think
the Earth is flat? I don’t recall anyone ever asking him.Well thank goodness we didn’t elect a
lifelong criminal who has spent his entire life ripping people off with grift
after fake charity after grift after fake university after grift…oops again.
But at least we didn’t elect a dementia-ridden, toxic narcissist with nothing
more than a lizard brain and sociopathic, fascist dreams of world
domination…oh, crap, what the fuck have we (see above parenthetical quip) done?
This is how the rest of the
world sees Trump…including Putin
Get ready for Trumpordering the military to nuke every
windmill from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The pundits are caterwauling about Harris not addressing
this issue or that issue or this demographic or that demographic during the
campaign. What the fuck did Trump
talk about? Hannibal Lecter having you for dinner. Sharks v. Electrocution.
Windmills cause cancer. Toilet flushing. How well he gets along with murderous
asshole dictators. How stupid everyone else is. Revenge. Doing the Thorazine
shuffle for 40 minutes in front of an audience so he could avoid answering
questions because his brain was melting. Or simulating oral sex with a
microphone stand. These are the issues America wants addressed.
Why didn’t Harris think of that?
So, our best days are behind us…and they’re preparing to
kickus in the ass…to infinity and beyond.
DEMOCRACY CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
DEPARTMENT
That’s right folks. Countless morons are having bozo’s
remorse. Googe searches for “Can I change my vote?” went through the roof in
the states Trumpwon.
As reported by Heather Cox Richardson
At the same time, a new study out today from Data for
Progress showed that people who paid “a great deal” of attention to political
news voted for Vice President Kamala Harris +6, while those who paid “none at
all” went +19 for Trump.
Yup. Diaper Don won the shit-for-brains vote hands down. Trumpis now (most likely) a one-term president, and America just might be a
one-term country.
Now, Trump
is once again “joking” about getting a third term. He told his new House
majority, “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good
we’ve got to figure something else out.” Make no mistake; these are marching
orders, or as one zombie Rep. Troy Nehls from Texass put it, “I f Donald Trump
says jump three feet high and scratch your head, we all jump three feet high
and scratch our heads. That’s it…Donald Trump is never wrong. Think about it,
he’s never wrong.”
Buckle up. There is going to be severe turbulence. Keep your
hair-sick bag handy.
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The
World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Personally, I don’t
feel all that fine.
I. Mangrey still sick and dizzy after all these days.
It has been challenging to do just about anything…like
breathing for example, since that terrible, very bad, ugly day in early
November – yet another Trump-related
date that will live in infamy. Putting coherent thoughts together is a task
more daunting than most, and much less enjoyable than ever.
Trump
is determined to hit the ground ruining. Since he already used up all the worst
people he could find to populate his first administration, he is scraping
underneath the bottom of the barrel to find a new crop of deviant, demented clowns
to soil the federal government this time around. If you are someone who was
never frightened of clowns, prepare to start now. More on this cancerous circus
later.
Trump
will look to join the Axis of Assholes, playing back-up stinker to Putin, Xi
and Kim. And, as Kamala Harris said, they will eat his lunch, which would kill
most mortals. So, we’ll just have to wait and see.
It’s easy to understand people focusing on short-term
needs/wants while ignoring long-term devastation. I guess it’s also easy to
forget who caused the short-term woes – it’s the same fuckers who have been and
refuse to stop causing the long-term death and destruction. It was the Trump-backing corporate
overlords who are entirely unable to see anything but their net worth. Nothing
else has value to them and the people who keep voting them into power are
simply too stupid to have a say.
I am not in favor of literacy tests as such, certainly not
solely for one particular segment (people of color leap to mind) of the
population. I am in favor of having everyone – myself included – having to pass
some sort of knowledge-of-civics with maybe a side of current events and
history, or maybe who your fucking elected officials are quiz before being
allowed in a voting booth. You have to pass a competency test before driving a
car, why not require the same before allowing someone to drive the country into
the ground?
People – we’ll call them people for the sake of argument – in
several states voted to protect a woman’s right to choose while also voting for
an admitted, nay proud pussy-grabbing rape-adjacent (at best) criminal, who has
been credibly accused of at least sexual assault by more than two dozen women,
and described by a judge as having committed the equivalent of rape against E.
Jean Carroll.
Wait until these dipshits realize Trump’s plans to make America fucked again.
Sorry, that was a bit unfair, Trump
has no plan other than to staff every nook and cranny with ultra-loyal zombies
who will do whatever he tells them. And to seek
vengeance. And end democracy in America.
You might remember the calamitous cast of cringey characters Trump surrounded himself (and
us) with to populate his cabinet. I will not remind you of their names, but you
may recall that they seemed to be the worst of the worst when he announced them
and they did disappoint… spectacularly and relentlessly. Wait, it gets worse. Much,
much worse.
This time, playing the part of #47 in his ongoing surreality
show, Der Furor has had to dig deeper to find an even worse batch of
miscreants, morons and treacherous cretins. For example, he picked a weekend
Fux News numb-nuts Pete Hegseth – someone with zero experience of any kind (except
lying on Trump’s behalf)
– to head the Department of Defense. Trump has also nominated fellow
accused-pedophile and rabid MAGAt Matt Gaetz to be the worst Attorney General
in American history.* Then there’s preacher/media whore Mike “Rapture Please”
Huckabee – who wants Jesus to return to either convert or kill all Jews –
pegged to be the new ambassador to…wait for it…Israel. Best idea since gas
chambers. Wonder if Mike will get antsy and take the Rapture into his own
hands. And that’s just the beginning.
Trump only considers two criteria for his cabinet picks. First
and foremost, they must be unquestioningly loyal to Trump and only Trump. Not God,
not country, not family, not themselves. Second, they must be camera-friendly. No
other qualifications need apply.
Frank Zappa - When The Lie's So
Big
Mirror Morons
Someone asked me how these treacherous cretins in the Trump/Fascist Party can look at
themselves in the mirror. The answer assaulted me in a flash: it’s easy,
they’re all vampires and have no reflection. And yes, that is obviously a
completely unavoidable double entendre.
There are brain cells called mirror neurons. These
cells activate when a person performs an action or observes someone else
perform the same action. These neurons also fire when we experience an emotion
as well as when we see someone else experiencing an emotion, such as happiness,
fear, anger, or sadness. Mirror neurons are involved in feeling empathy.
Our incoming administration is clearly devoid of any such
brain matter. They care nothing for understanding the actions, thoughts or
needs of others. While they are charged with governing an entire nation, they
care only to govern those they agree with. And even that is mere pretense.
This looks to get worse before it gets much worse.
_____________________________________________ *Before Gaetz can begin to
make his stain on American justice, he will have to be approved by the Senate. Gaetz is as popular in the House as Ted Cruz is in the Senate. Gaetz stands
accused of sex trafficking and drug abuse and only managed to quash a House
Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior by resigning his seat just the
other day. Is this fun or what?
I. Mangrey recovering. Barely. Not really. Not yet.
Remember
when everyone was apoplectic over radical Muslims chanting “Death to America!”?
Funny how times change. That was the exact platform Trump ran and won on. And now, when you’re a
president they let you do it.
Looks like the shoe
is on the other fascist.
“He’s good and bad.
People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. But I
voted for the man.” Proud,
brainless, fascist Pennsylvania voter Matt Wolfson
AndTrump won’t sign the ethics
pledge he himself signed into
law. What are the odds?
We would have been much better off
with President Pizza Rat.
Too mammal, too late
Meanwhile, the whole world’s
watching in horror…with the exception of the overabundance of murderous
dictators licking their chops at the thought of owning Trump, or at least renting him from Elon Musk – the
Austin Powers villain now telling Trump what to think.
Prologue/Someday - Chicago Transit Authority
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day. RESIST!!
I
have long thought that one must be purposefully ignorant in today’s world. All
the information you could ever want is right there…on your fucking phone. And
therein lies one of the problems – the word ‘want.’ One must want to gather
information, to examine conflicting views, which are always out there, and now
– for not even a nominal fee – readily available.
One
of my other long-held beliefs, one that is backed up by science (yeah I know,
science is so pre-Trump), is that the conservative mind tends to fixate on one thing, cannot
entertain conflicting ideas, and is likely to choose blind faith. The liberal
mind investigates options, can weigh various viewpoints without causing brain
damage, and tends to question everything…including itself. What you end up with
is someone bringing a thesaurus to a gunfight.
Which
brings me to a quote by the late, great Hannibal Lecter…I mean George Carlin
“Ignorant
citizens elect ignorant leaders. It’s as simple as that.”
Which
reminds me of a few quotes by H.L. Mencken
“On
some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their
heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron.”
“Nobody
ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
And
so, here we are. Instead of electing the first woman president, we elected the
first convicted felon/mental patient/insurrectionist and adjudicated sexual
assaulter. Someone who attempted to end the peaceful transfer of power. Oh yeah,
and he also stole classified documents after being voted out of office. The ass
ceiling has finally been shattered. Next stop democracy in America.
America
just elected a lame fuck president. There will be hell to pay, not least of all
for most of his supporters – the non-billionaire ones. Though his detractors
will have no easy row to hoe.
Perhaps
most interesting of all, Trump and his delusional, deplorable cultists would have burned the house down
had he lost, now he will now own the House, slap his fucking name on it and do
what he always does – run the place into an unrecognizable dung heap on the
ground.
That’s
just how he rolls.
And he
already used up and spit out all the best people. Bring on the C-Team. His new
chief-of-staff acted as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry. And ketamine
enthusiast Elon Musk is Trump’s new co-owner along with Vladimir Putin. Trumpwants
Musk – who bought Twitter and made it much more Nazi-friendly while trashing
its monetary value – to redesign the government to make it more efficient. Trump wants RFK, Jr. and his pet brain worm to handle the rest – except for
finishing off the planet with fossil fuels.
Hide
your daughters and the good silver.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day. Have a nice
day.
