Don’t take this the
wrong way, but Donald Trump is not well. Not just the long-standing,
multi-faceted, disgustingly unwell he has been his whole miserable life. Beside all the other stuff, he is physically failing bigly like never before (except maybe when he almost died of COVID).
Death-Rattle Don disappeared for
two days and came back looking like death warmed under. VD Vance is already planning his big day.
Is it easy or difficult to be both a staggeringly pathetic
little man and a brutal dictator at the same time? Done Trump sure makes it
look easy. As he rapidly deteriorates mentally, emotionally and physically, his
undying need for constant stroking by himself and others is snowballing just as
swiftly.
Every time this very small man brings his cabinet together
it is nothing more than an exercise in sick-o-phancy. All that happens (as show
below) is his hand-picked pukes take turns French kissing his giant ass. And this treacherous cretin actually broadcasts this world
class bullshit. Anyone who watches this smooch-fest needs professional help –
either for watching it in the first place, or for emotional rehab after
watching it.
Jen Psaki’s montage
After this three-hours-long feces-fondling flatter fest, this
psychotic suck-up session, this pathetic pandering performance, Trump was
rushed to the proctologist’s office complaining of an unusual, severe pain in his
siting region. What the doctor found up there was the entire cabinet, most of
the Supreme Court, and a majority of both the House and the Senate.
The doctor has since jettisoned all his worldly possessions,
retired and was last seen entering a dark cave on a deserted island. There are things you just can't unsee.
I. Mangrey reporting. Please let me know you liked this. And
if you have a few extra seconds please tell me how wonderful I am. Please, please, please... It's not for me,
it's for a friend.
Donald Trump should be ruled unconstitutional on grounds of
violating the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. (italics mine)
While we are not all technically out on bail, excessive or
otherwise, we are all being held hostage by Trump. We are also experiencing the
imposition of excessive fines thanks to his insane, illegal tariff travesty.
The Trump presidency is clearly cruel and unusual
punishment. And we didn’t even break any laws causing us to be subjected to
such, though we* did act with incredible stupidity in “electing” him to the
presidency, not once but twice.
Speaking of electing a psychotic, sociopathic, fascist
conman twice…
Not a huge Gavin Newsom fan,
but we need more of this
If there was any doubt about just how cruel and unusual this
slithering shitbag was before, during and/or after his first ungodly term, even
many of those who voted for the Devil’s Douchebag in 2024 are starting to
figure out how badly they fucked up.
This actually happened. I saw
it on South Park.
___________________________________________ *When I say ‘we’ of course I
mean the tens-of-millions morons, racists and assorted assholes who actually
voted for this badly-dyed, phony-coiffed conman who believes this land is his
land, not yours and anyone who disagrees with him should be locked up and/or
deported with prejudice.
All over America there are
now brutal thugs in body armor and masks violently assaulting people of color
(no lynchings…yet) and dragging them away from schools, jobs, courthouses, Home
Depots and streets and houses.
Very few of these
detainees/hostages/kidnap victims have committed anything like a crime.
Nonetheless, they are being hauled off to places unknown and often places
illegal.
Personally, I will be
avoiding spending any time in the sun for the foreseeable future lest I become
overly tanned and mistaken for one of these unfortunate targets of the fascist
Trump regime’s onslaught of sick stupidity and abject terrorism against the American
public.
These are real but some fuckers wear gear
saying “POLICE” or “ICE” just for “fun”
Today’s Question For The
Day:
If you shoot and/or kill one
or more unidentified masked lunatics attempting to drag you to the ground in
the vicinity of an unmarked black SUV and those masked assailants turn out to
be part of Trump’s gestapo, does your understandable reaction constitute
standing your ground or will you simply be shot at dawn?
Bonus
Question:
What the actual fuck is
going on around here?
As always…
This has been your Paying
Attention™ Question For The Day.
Well, Dirty Donnie managed to take people’s minds off his
disgraceful bromance (if not partnership) with Jeffrey Epstein. He did this by
embarrassing himself and this nation at the feet of his old benefactor Putin at the recent much ballyhooed though ultimately miserably failed Alaska Submit.
Trump’s gross impotence, his abject failure to get the ceasefire he “demanded”
beforehand or even make any kind of deal to mitigate the devastation Putin continues
to visit upon Ukraine (who was a staunch ally until the American Fuhrer took
the reins for an incomprehensible second term) got the attention of many. Putin
treated Trump like he was an extension of the red carpet he walked in on. Trump
was as usual uneducated, unprepared and – worst and least surprising of all –
uninterested. The Alaska fiasco will likely soon be relegated to the backs of
most minds, to be displaced by the Epstein fiasco, which will also soon turn to
dust.
Despite Trump being undeniably owned by Putin in Alaska (who
bombed an American factory in Ukraine just days after having his way with Dumb
Donnie), leaving no end in sight for the war Trump pathetically blames on Joe
Biden, and which Trump repeatedly claimed he would end not just on day one, but
before he even took over the White House he and his moronic minions attempted
to destroy, Little Donnie Disaster still wants him some Nobel Peace Prize. He claims
to have stopped seven or nine or who-knows-how-many wars all by himself.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, is of course the
only historical figure worthy of having some of the most prestigious prizes in
numerous disciplines bearing his name. Most people are focused on the Nobel
Peace Prize, but there are quite a few other Nobel Prizes: for literature,
physics, medicine, chemistry and economic sciences.
The Noball Prize for impotent
idiots is hopefully as close as he gets
Get ready for Trump to whine about all the Nobel Prizes he
thinks he deserves:
Peace: “I am bringing peace to the entire world; that
is just a fact. No one in history has been better at peace than Trump. That is
why I am also bringing peace to American cities that are being subjugated by
non-white mayors. I’d like to see you try this. Only Trump has the very, very
large uh-brain capable of doing such a thing. You’ll notice that on other
president even thought about occupying American cities in order to put a stop
to non-existent emergencies. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Literature: “I have been patiently waiting for my
Nobel in literature for my beautiful and might I add brilliant God Bless the
U.S.A. Bible – no one else was smart enough to have the Constitution added in
there. Or the lyrics to a Lee Greenwood song. Very smart. Plus, I have had many
other books with my name and picture on the cover that were written by actual
writers.”
Physics: “You might not know this, because I’ve never
mentioned it before. Frankly I don’t like to talk about it. My uncle was a
genius professor at MIT for eighty years. Since he never got a Nobel Prize and
passed his very good brain on to me I will accept a physics prize, since I am
probably the smartest person who ever lived.”
Medicine: “I know this is more recent, buy I’m the
one who nominated Brainworm Bobby to make medicine illegal. This will no doubt
have a very positive effect on the health of our nation. Nobel Prize, pleas.”
Chemistry: “No one has better chemistry with the very
strong and tough Vladimir Putin than Trump. I have so much chemistry, probably
the most chemistry of any person in history.”
Economic Sciences: “Besides being one of the most
successful businessmen of all time, I am the king of bankruptcies. I have also
saved the entire world with my incredibly brilliant tariff policies.”
“It would probably be best to just give me all the Nobel
Prizes at one time in case I end up being outed as Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice
in his global pedophilia/sex trafficking operation. Too bad there’s no Nobel
Prize for those very normal and harmless lifestyles of the rich and
famous.”
Unsurprisingly, the repeatedly self-professed “least racist person you’ve ever met” posted on his anti-Truth anti-Social fake Twitter/X account last Tuesday
There truly is only one thing to say to Captain Whitey – one of the most racist people you've ever seen –who goes to absurd lengths to hide just how fucking pasty-faced he really is…I mean seriously, underneath that caked-on cantaloupe-colored concoction, and down to the depths of his fake soul, the guy is white as a sheet
This sheet
Here's the one thing...
_________________________________________ *As always, the full context does not make it any better. Also, good
chance this feature will be popping up constantly for at least the next three-and-a-half
years. Sorry.
This has been another painful edition of Don Trump Actually
Fucking Said This™*
Remember, things will get worse before they get much worse. And then, it’s
anyone’s fucking guess.
Fresh off his historic summitsubmitwith his Russian idol, “Dictator-On-Day-One” Don is taking election advice from
his role model, the murderous dictator Putin. During his Alaska Submission
Mission with Putin, Trump became giddy as a schoolgirl before realizing that
the big break promised her by Jeffrey Epstein was actually a “date” with Trump,
by Putin stating for all the world to hear that Trump won the 2020 election due
to the use of mail-in ballots. You could almost see Donnie blush right through
the brand new paint job he got especially for his big date. Vlad the Impaler II
told the syphilis-addled dementia patient Trump that he should ban mail-in
voting. So you’ll never not guess what America’s first tsar Crassputin did
next.
Tsar And Wide
Crassputin has already begun building his own army of
mercenary mental patients, aka ICE, who are making big money to run rampant in
American cities with Black mayors. Now, red-state-rejects are being sent to
blue cities to help terrorize the populace of those cities. Tourism in
Washington, DC is almost non-existent now that the nation’s capital is under
Trumpian occupation. Der Furor has promised more of the same across the country.
This of course is part of his plan to keep Democrats away from the polls in
case he is unable to cancel midterm elections next November. It will not be for
lack of trying if he fails.
Per Crassputin, “We are now the only Country in the World
that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER
FRAUD ENCOUNTERED.” Unsurprisingly, this is total bullshit. You can tell it’s
bullshit because Trump said it. Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the
UK, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada use mail-in voting.
Death-To-America Don prefers in-person voting because “They
asked me for my license plate for identity. I said, I don't know if I have it.”
Yes everyone must present their license plates at the local polling place. I guess
just like the founding fathers wanted only white, male land owners to vote,
today’s floundering farters want only white, male car owners, with valid
license plates, to vote.
A guy named Vladimir Putin changed Russia’s electoral laws to
allow mail-in voting in 2020 in his dictatorship. That is presumably why he can
say with tremendous certitude that mail-in ballots can be used to rig
elections. According to president Bubblebrain, Putin said unto him “It’s
impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.” This Putin guy
also had the laws changed so that he could remain in power in perpetuity…or ad
nauseam if you prefer.
To some it might seem counterintuitive to take advice on the
democratic process from a brutal dictator who routinely has opponents put to
death in myriad ways. Dumb Donald must be so jealous.
So hold on to your seats folks, because the people you
elected may not be able to hold on to theirs much longer. After Dumb Old Trump,
via the renegade Supreme Court, outlaws Congress.
I. Mangrey, still crazy reporting after all these
years.
After Doofus Trump rolled out the blood-red carpet and
prostrated himself to murderous war criminal Putin, humiliating himself and our
country, he simply washed his hands and patted himself on the back after a
hand-job well done.
After mastering the art of the no-deal Donnie whined that “the
Fake News violently distorts the TRUTH when it comes to me”, adding “If I got
Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER,
the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad
deal.”
Um, Donald, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to get
Russia to give up Moscow, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our
press. Asshole.
As usual, Donnie was very objective in assessing his unparalleled
greatness. “I think the meeting was a ‘ten’ because we got along great. The meeting
was a warm meeting. You know, he’s a strong guy, he’s tough as hell.”
A strong guy? What?
Did they fucking arm wrestle? Greco-Roman? What the actual fuck?
They got along great? What was this, a fucking episode of The
Dating Game?
“Well Donnie, this is the big
moment. Who’s it gonna be? Bachelor #1, #2 or #3?”
“Ooooh, I don’t know. I Think #3 – he sounds so strong and tough.
I think we’ll get along great. I want to have his child.”
The Consternation Prize The Prize For Pees (In Pants)
Now he expects a Nobel Peace Prize* because he fancies
himself a “peace president”. One thing this peacemaker forgot to bring –
Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was like throwing a birthday party for someone and
not inviting them. Oddly, nothing whatsoever was achieved by this “summit”
other than cementing Putin’s ownership of Trump’s balls.
The closest he’ll ever get
To paraphrase Gil Scott Heron, Donald Trump is the ‘peace’
president – a piece of Columbia, a piece of Harvard, a piece of CBS, a piece of
Washington, D.C . He is simply running a protection racket: Nice college you
got there, be a shame if somethin’ happened to it. Nice law firm you got there,
be a shame if somethin’ happened to it. Nice network you got there, be a shame
if somethin’ happened to it. Nice city you got there, actually, your city is a
rotten mess, we’re gonna fix it up real nice for ya.
Trump doesn’t have an off switch. He is an off switch.
________________________________________________ *He only craves it because it
is gold.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner had some choice
words for Drear Leader. Dictator-in-training Trump first sent the Marines to
occupy Los Angeles. Now he has National Guard troops occupying Washington, D.C. to
handle an imaginary crime wave.
Krasner all but dared the criminal-in-chief to pull his racist authoritarian shit
in the home of the room where it happened. And he did not take any crap from CNN’s Caitlin
Collins either.
“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we
all together win the presidency, we will have the horrible war between Russia
and Ukraine settled. It will be settled. The war is going to be settled. I’ll
get them both – I know Zelensky, I know Putin, it’ll be done within 24 hours,
you watch. They all say, ‘That’s such a boast.’ It will be done very quickly.”
Donald
Trump, July 2023*
Well, Trumpy the Clown once again got his ass handed to him
by Vladimir Putin. Before Trumpy literally rolled out the red carpet for Russia’s
murderous dictator, Putin’s #2 man Sergei Lavrov showed up in Alaska (or
Russia, as Trumpy called it) sporting a CCCP (USSR) t-shirt to make sure that everyone
in the world would know the main purpose of this tete-a-taint was to humiliate
Trumpy, who has never vacillated in his obeisance to Putin. Lavrov has previously
always worn a suit and tie when he is in town obtaining national security
secrets directly from Trumpy.
Lavrov arriving in Alaska
rubbing Trump’s face in his own poop
Donnie’s campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize suffered yet
another blow-job as the world watched The Don struggle to get up from his knees
after the Summit-Minus-One where nothing of substance happened. The alleged
peace talks, which excluded the country that was invaded by Putin, resulted in
another embarrassing, disgraceful show of farce by the American president.
No agreement was reached. No agreement was discussed. No concept
of an agreement was mentioned when Putin blathered on for 10 of the 12 minutes of post-summit statements about what great friends
Russia and America are, followed by a very weak and brief statement by a clearly
drained and useless Trumpy.
Trumpy gave himself a ten-out-of-ten for his performance in
this Alaska summit/farce. All one can do is wonder if he swallows, or if there
is now a stain on his blue dress suit. Putin still owns Trumpy lock,
stock and blubber.
Tune in next time when we learn that Dancing Donnie is
selling weapons to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine. And Ukraine.
______________________________________________ *Trump said things to this
effect 53 times while campaigning, later claiming it was “figurative” and/or
said in “jest”. Ha, fucking ha.
I. Mangrey, taking a break from vomiting just long enough to
keep reporting.
On the eve of Trump’s visit to Alaska to meet
with Putin and without Zelenskyy – despite him saying he is meeting him in
Russia (because his dementia is raging out of control) – Trump announced on
social media that he was positioning nuclear submarines closer to Russia
Yes, he announced it on social media. You
know, because that’s what a fucking president of the country formerly known as
America does – glibly waggling his tiny, albeit nuclear dick around on social
fucking media.
Annie Jacobsen, in her excellent beach
feel-good read Nuclear War: A Scenario, was asked, “How close are we [to
nuclear war] right now, given the leadership in this world?” Jacobsen replied,
“We are always one button-push away from nuclear annihilation. If that line is
crossed, it’s end-game in 72 minutes.”
We cannot
have a doomsday gap.
Today’s Question For The Day:
Is it possible that Trump could become so
desperate to get out of the Epstein expose that he is willing to start nuclear
combat toe-to-toe with the Ruskies?
If you haven’t already had this thought,
apologies.
Whatever Else You May Think, It Was Sure Better Than Today
August 15, 2025
Another day, another Trumpian disaster. Therapist-in-chief…oops,
The Rapist-in-chief continues his non-stop-onslaught against truth, justice and
the American way. He and his malignant marauders don’t even bother hiding their
contempt for the law, the Constitution and you. Trump’s Fuck-You presidency
will not stop dismembering democracy until something or someone kneels on his
neck…metaphorically, of course. Right? When George Floyd was stopped from being
alive, he was an innocent man. Donald Trump is very likely the most guilty man
in American history. And America is now in a positionsimilar to George Floyd on that horrific day.
But we would like to take this momentto remember a less tragic event.
Given that this is summer and the one month that has no commonly
recognized holidays, we at Paying Attention™ have been
called upon by a higher power to make our own. This was easy since there are
two august events in August that are near and dear to our hearts and minds –
Resignation Day(s), which recently came and went, and the Woodstock Music and
Arts Festival.
Though Resignation Day(s) arrives first on the calendar, Woodstock
preceded the former in real time. Both of these events provided hope for the
future of humankind in my eyes, and in those of many of my generation at the
time. What fools we were.
Being in a rather lazy mood, or maybe it’s more burnout than
anything else, the gang here at Paying Attention™ agreed it would
be best to wander aimlessly down memory lane as we celebrate another favorite August
holiday around here. If nothing else, may we recommend cranking up a few of the
tunes featured below.
Whatever you decide, Happy Birthday Woodstock. Here’s what
appeared at Paying Attention™ on this day in
2019…
When Boomers Roamed the Earth
August 15, 2019
Max Yasgur was an upstate New York farmer and the largest
milk producer in Sullivan County, New York in 1969.Yasgur was a Republican who supported the
Vietnam War, but he went against the wishes of his sleepy rural community of
Bethel, and rented out his farm for a weekend music festival in August of 1969,
thinking it would be good for the local economy and would help bridge the
contentious generation gap.
What could be so bad about having a few thousand kids listen
to music in the fresh air for a few days?Though the local folks for the most part wanted nothing to do with a
bunch of hippies coming anywhere near their peaceful environs, no one imagined
the size of the crowd or the ultimate notoriety of what was about to engulf
them.It was like an invasion, a caravan
if you will, of unfamiliar outsiders, whose differences frightened these simple
people.In the end, it was, as Max
Yasgur would tell the crowd on his farm, “three days of fun and music, and
nothing but fun and music” that rocked the world.Literally and figuratively.
I did not make it to Woodstock.I really wanted to go, but I was not of
driving age and my parents would not let me.Especially now that I have fewer days to look forward to than the number
I have already seen, I cannot blame them.
I did see the movie the moment it came out because I was not
willing to wait for it to come out on Netflix.And I played the album many times on my cheapo turntable which I
foolishly set up on my suburban back lawn (Surprisingly, that album still plays
almost perfectly).Since then, I have
been a bit obsessed with what many have called “three days that defined a
generation.”
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival began on this day 50
years ago [in 2019]. The line-up of
musicians was and is legendary, if not unequaled.From Richie Havens to Ravi Shankar, from
Janis to Jimi, The Who, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Joan
Baez, Creedence, the Dead, CSNY, Country Joe and many others.
Here are a few of my (many) favorite performances.I'll probably throw a few more choice tunes
on here over the next couple days.
Richie Havens – Freedom
John Sebastian – I Had a Dream
Max Yasgur
The Ultimate Star Spangled Banner
It is said, “If you can remember Woodstock, you weren’t
there.”
