Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Poll Dancing in The Chrump Age

SPECIAL ELECTION DAY CARNAGE COVERAGE

November 6, 2018
Fight of For The Century
A yuuuuuge fight has been brewing for over three years now (forever really, but for our current purposes, three years), the latest fight for the soul of America.  The Patriots versus the Loyalists and the British.  America versus the Confederacy.  Bush v. Gore.  Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.  The Philadelphia EAGLES versus the New England Patriots.  The New American Patriots versus Chrump and the Russians.
The time for bluster is ended.  America stepped in a very messy pile of shit and is now desperately trying to scrape off the ejectamentum before it dries to a suffocating crust.  We have a massive waddling poop emoji for a prezident. 
Already this morning the arena is filling to what passes for capacity to witness the Battle of The Ballot.  The Grouse for The House.  The Jump to Dump The Chrump.  Two combatants will enter the ring, one will exit the ring having regained what is rightfully his, the other will exit the ring to begin his inevitable descent into the dustbin of history.  From boxing ring to ballot box to oblivion.  Experts say America’s Vichy prezident will go down in the third round.  They have been wrong before.
Will it be a Blue Wave or a Red Tide?
Uncle Sam is ready to end this fight.  Everyone but his opponent can see the haymaker coming.  Chrump floats like a slug, and stings like a worm.  He will not finish the fight on his feet. 
Put up your tiny little dukes dipshit. 

My name is Sam. You killed my country. Prepare to die.
from The Princess Bride
Make sure you get to your local voting parlor and place your vote before the voting window closes.  This fight could be over before it begins.
These machines kill fascists

*Possibly ‘and’, but I’m trying to remain positive
 7:04am, VOTING ACCOMPLISHED
I. Mangrey, suffragette.

Musical interlude…
Bruce Cockburn – Call it Democracy

Monday, November 5, 2018

One More Thing

One Last Kvetch For the Home Stretch

November 5, 2018, Election Day Eve

Everyone can see you Donald
Is That The End of The Rope or The Light at The End of The Tunnel I See?
This is it folks, for all – or at least most – of the marbles.  Chrumpworld is on full display.  Huge deficit.  Chrump has managed to not destroy (so far) the repair to America that Obama generated during his near-impossible clean-up after the disaster that was the Bush/Cheney administration.  That’s quite an accomplishment.  Massive enabling of the racist underbelly of American society.  Devastating reversals of environmental progress – minimal though it has been.  What an accomplishment.  Sure Chrump managed to enhance Russia’s profile on the global stage, and their direct influence/attack on our elections.  A truly Chrumpian accomplishment. 
I remember when Republican’ts hated Russia; I wonder if they do.  Now they are relying on and empowering Russian hackers to augment their gargantuan voter suppression machine.  They will need all the help they can get.  Republican’ts cannot win a fair fight, and since they remain all-powerful legislatively, they will not allow a fair fight.  It is possible to prevail even though the refs are paid to slant the field, but it is a heavy lift.  As the saying goes, “Many hands make light work.”  Many voters can make a heavy lift easier. 
Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of Chrump and his “great” America.  While that is a frighteningly small percentage in the big scheme of things, it is still what passes for a large majority.  If all of these people vote we have a chance of delaying, if not short-circuiting what looks, feels and smells like fascism right here at home.  clearly, 40 percent of our fellow citizens are more than open to the idea.  Republican’ts constantly go on about how they hate Big Government, but only when it is not their Big Government.
Father election will pass over all the houses across the land
Just hope he doesn’t leave anything in your stocking…or your pants.


I hope that Americans know that it can get worse.  Much worse.  The most worse in our nation’s history.  Believe me.  We have a very capable maniac fighting against America, fighting only for himself.  And his priorities our not America’s.  If the Democrats – for all their faults – do not at least take the House convincingly, there will be so much worse.  You will get so sick of all the worse, you will say, “Please Mr. Prezident, no more worsing.  We’re begging you.  We all love you, we just want you to stop.  We admit it, you are the most worst ever.”
Der Furor is doubling down on his fear, loathing and carnage message to energize his deplorables.  The emperor has no brains, no morals, no humanity, no class, no clue.  Thank goodness he has clothes. 
Chrump the giant inflatable rat
more human than the real thing
and with better hair
Personally, I am going to camp out overnight at my local polling place to make sure I get a good booth. 
 
I. Mangrey on edge, but not the ledge.  Make America Stop Chrump!

Thought For The Day


I Just Thought of Something
November 5, 2018
Hey, remember when a goofball by the name of George W. Bush lost the popular vote and was appointed in a 5-4 decision by an dangerously conservative Supreme Court who insisted that their ruling could not be used as precedent in any other case presumably because it was a shamelessly partisan, questionably Constitutional decision designed to keep Democrats out of power so that anti-democratic Republican’ts would be able to stack federal courts and control the Supreme Court, and then Bush ended up being the worst president in history?  Remember how only eight short years later Bush’s horrible presidency seemed nowhere near as atrocious as that of their latest standard bearer, a moronic, racist, conman narcissist, and crime boss with dictatorial aspirations who also lost the popular vote?  This guy has his own Supreme Court and is on the verge of having his own Attorney General.
Dumber and Dumbest…hopefully
Speaking of the popular vote, I believe they may be having one tomorrow.  I hope it’s still popular on Wednesday.
The whole world’s watching
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Sunday, November 4, 2018

Caravan To The Polls on Tuesday

To Sleep, To Dream, Perchance to Vote – Ay, There's The Rube

November 4, 2018

As always, Chrump insists that anything that is not one of his lies is fake.

America’s fake prezident is making his final pitch to encourage voters to continue his American Carnage unabated.  Chrump is hawking for candidates across the country, many of whom are as ignorant, racist, autocratic human hog-feces-lagoons as Chrump himself.  Mostly, he is selling himself, as he always is, in more ways than one.  Chrump has grown increasingly desperate, dishonest and disgraceful as he sees his strangle-hold on America blowing away faster than his “hair” in a mild breeze when not under the control of his epoxy spray.
Signs made in the basement from love!
#FuckChrumpPlease
Der Furor is ramping up his campaign stops in a last-ditch effort to prop up the worms, weasels and whackos swearing allegiance to their Confabulator-in-chief.  Attacking Barack Obama.  Attacking Nancy Pelosi.  Attacking America.  Blaming the media for creating the violence he has instigated on a daily basis since the hateful, racist remarks that kicked off his horrific campaign to make America beg for forgiveness.  Chrump is busying himself making shit up, scaring the poorly educated, talking about his “hair”, and kissing burgers and eating babies, or something along those lines.
Chrump prepares to inhale food – with any luck he will swallow his own head
Most Americans are hoping that all the fear-mongering, gerrymandering, the last-minute closing and moving of polling locations and changing voter registration rules, voter roll purging, vote-flipping voting machines, Russian interference, Republican’ts lying about policy positions, and Chrump’s frighteningly large contingency of mindless misfits will not be enough to overcome the Blue Wave that will begin the healing from two years of Chrump’s puss-wart prezidency.  At least James Comey has kept his mouth shut this time.  I wish Robert Mueller would open his.  What this country needs is a serious Comey-over.  We are owed a stunning spilling of beans in the next 48 hours to even the score.
Anyway, the midterms are only two days away, and I have already chewed my fingernails down to the wrists.  Fortunately, my cat takes excellent dictation and the doctors say my hands will grow back if the Dems take back the House.  They predict that I will also be able to eat solid foods again if the Dems take the Senate.
I. Mangrey reheating.  Bring on the socialism.                                        
                                                                                            

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Just So We Are Clear

Here’s Shit in Your Eye

November 3, 2018

“Well, I try. I do try ... and I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful.”
        Donald J. Trump, lying to ABC’s Jonathan Karl October 31, 2018

But he simply cannot tell the truth.  Even when he tries.  Which he never does.  Never.  In fact, Chrump logged over 5,000 lies in his first 601 days as prezident.  He publicly made 125 false or misleading statements in one single day – in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes.  It was his best day of lying so far, but we all know he can do better.  Chrump does not want to tell the truth, he does not like to tell the truth.  He wouldn’t know the truth if it was helping to keep his “hair” in place.
With the 2018 midterm elections just three days from now, many people believe it is really Donald Chrump who is up for election.  No one believes this more than Donald Chrump.  He is staggering around the country, holding rallies for various candidates, though his most frequent line of enticement is, “A vote for (fill in candidate’s name) is a vote for ME.  ME!”  What many current presidents do not know is that there ain’t no Electoral College victories in store this time around.  In any event, it might be good to recap just who Chrump is.
Chrump’s enemies: the CIA, the FBI, Robert Mueller, the Fed, Michael Cohen (his ex-attorney), Paul Manafort (his ex-campaign chairman), Rick Gates (his ex-deputy campaign chairman), Stormy Daniels (his ex-sex partner), Jeff Sessions (his hand-picked, soon-to-be-ex Attorney General).  Also, Canada, Mexico, the United States Constitution, the Earth, the truth, the non-Fux News media, geography, science, women, black folks, brown folks, Eric Chrump, the popular vote, hair, objective reality.
Chrump’s friends: giant tax cuts for the rich, Fux News, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (the Jared Kushner of Saudi Arabia), Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio, Sean Hannity, Nazis, racists, more giant tax cuts for the rich, alleged rapists, actual rapists, very large crowds of brainless sycophants who applaud every word he says even though they understand none of it.
Right now King Chrump is standing up for the Saudis as they figure out how to manage the brutal torture, murder, decapitation and disposal of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared from the Saudi consulate in Turkey.  Chrump compared the Saudis to Bart Kavanaugh saying, Well, I think we have to find out what happened first. You know, here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh. And he was innocent all the way.”  Brilliant equivalence ya dum fuk.  Der Furor added, “And Saudi Arabia…they’ve been a great ally, to ME.” 
Funny thing though, we do not know if Kavanaugh was innocent, since he was never proven to be anything but a foregone conclusion for the Supreme Court.  His case has not gone in front of a judge and/or jury.  He was not even investigated by the FBI.  They talked to a few of his friends who said they like him just fine.  Case ignored.  We do not yet know if he did what Christine Blasey Ford alleged.  The Saudis on the other hand, still have to explain away their little 15-man mission in Turkey.  Although, with Chrump’s help, they are well on their way to sweeping this whole unfortunate affair under Chrump’s rug.
Chrump said of the cover-up by the Saudis trying to spin their recent murder/decapitation, "They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups.”  He may have added, “This was the worst cover-up since Don, Jr.’s Chrump Tower meeting with the Russians.  Remember all the stories we made up and lies we told?  They had a very bad original concept and it was carried out poorly.”  Many people are saying, and they should know better than anyone, that this Saudi/Chrump cover-up is even more pathetic than that stuff covering up Chrump’s empty head.
The reason Chrump says the Saudis have been a great ally to him?  Crump has been up to his bloodshot little eyeballs in Saudi money for decades.  In 1991 some Saudis bailed him out, buying a yacht for $20M; in 1995 the Saudi government bought a floor of Chrump Global Tower across from the United Nations for $4.5M.  Today, the Saudis continue to pour money into Chrump’s pockets by staying at his hotels.  And as we all have seen, Chrump prefers gold plated housing that would make a Saudi prince blush, to the dump he is now calling home.  For his part, Chrump explored building a hotel in Saudi Arabia during the campaign.  And of course, the Saudis offered to help get Chrump elected.  Or maybe that was some kid sitting on his bed who weighs 400 pounds.  Like Chrump.
I am certain that the Saudis could not be happier.  They have rarely had to answer to the United States for their outrageous transgressions.  Two modern-day administrations illustrate this point better than all the rest.  The Bush family was giving them blow jobs (Possibly not literally, but who can say for sure?) for decades, including spiriting members of the royal family out of America on September 12, 2001.  And instead of going after the country (Saudi Arabia) whose people perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, Bush, Jr. went into Afghanistan, where our troops continue to die to this day (and then of course, Iraq).  The Chrump family, decided they would prefer to have at the Saudi’s other end, and are kissing so much Saudi ass their lips are cracked and peeling off, and Donald’s dentures keep coming loose.  But this does not seem to be slowing them down in the least.
“Saudi Arabia, hazanega (sic), I like the Saudis they’re very nice, I make a lot
of money with them.  They buy all sorts of my stuff.  All kinds of toys from Trump. 
They pay me millions and hundreds of millions.”
Donald Trump July 21, 2015
“Saudi Arabia, and I get along great with all of ‘em.  They buy apartments
from me, they spend forty million, fifty million.  Am I supposed to dislike ‘em? 
I like ‘em very much.”
Donald Trump August 21, 2015
There is much talk of sanctions in the context of foreign policy.  Sanctions on Iran.  (No) sanctions on Russia (depending on who you talk to).  Sanctions on North Korea…or not, after all, Kim said very nice things about Chrump.  Republican’ts should be imposing sanctions on Donald Chrump.  Either that or we need to impose sanctions on them.  Maybe we will do it at the polls next week.
I. Mangrey resisting. 

Friday, November 2, 2018

Question of The Day

Eddie Are You Kidding?

November 2, 2018
Donald Chrump: Actual anti-Semite or just anti-Semite adjacent?
*See the "surprising" answer below
What Many People Are Saying?
A Jewish woman, who identified herself as Merissa, flying to be with her family, passed a man sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat, sitting a few rows in front of her a note. 
“Dear sir in the pretty red hat.  I am in Los Angeles because my family lives here. We are Jewish. We survived the Holocaust. My family members were murdered in gas chambers…A lot of people were upset, angry & scared on the plane when they saw your hat…For you, I want to assume it’s about politics, economics and the support of a charismatic man…To us, your hat sanctions our death, our murder, our evisceration.  Because you’re hat supports a man who does little to help us and so much to fuel hatred, violence and cruelty…I hope your good America doesn’t include flushing me and my people out.”
In Germany supporting Nazis is all but illegal, in Chrump-addled America it is presidential.

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Shitstorm in mirror is closer than it appears 
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*According to Michael Cohen, who recently decided he would rather give than take a bullet for his former employer, told Vanity Fair reporter Emily Jane Fox that Chrump was comfortable using wildly racist language in casual conversation.  Cohen provided several, shall we say colorful (we shall), examples.  After Nelson Mandela's death: “Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole.”  After Cohen commented on the whiteness of Chrump’s campaign crowd: “That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.”  I suppose the surprise is that Chrump allegedly did not use the “N” word, and has not done so in public yet.  So, if there is anyone who at this point in time was the least bit unsure of the blatant, deep-seated, constantly-on-display racism of the 45th prezident, these alleged examples provided by Cohen just in time for the midterms should seal the deal…unless you happen to be a Chrump supporter, in which case you too might be a racist. SAD.
                                                                                               

                                                                                        
 

Thing For A Day


Watching the Wheels Go Square

November 2, 2018
Like a moth to a flame, a driver’s eyes to a pile-up on the other side of the highway, like flies to a dung heap, it may not be the smart move, it may not be the safe move, and it sure as hell ain’t easy, but we are still here paying attention so you don’t have to. 
It’s either this or Rent-A-Coma.
There is no middle ground here at Paying Attention.
Many people are not aware of this, and hopefully most of them are Republican’ts, but there is a bit of an election next Tuesday.  We here at Paying Attention are, like a deranged racoon rifling through a poorly secured suburban garbage can, trying to keep track of all the racists…I mean races gripping the nation.  Some people are fighting to, as they see it, and though they have no idea what that means, other than keeping out brown people and reversing social progress, make America great again.  Other people are trying to make America America again.  It was never perfect, but it sure as shit wasn’t this.  As Dave Chapelle recently remarked about the so-called Chrump era, “I would not even name the era after him.  He’s getting too much credit. He’s not making the wave, he’s surfing it.”
Nobody Told Me
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

Second Thoughts For The Day

 
Women and Children…and Penguins? Oh My!

November 1, 2018
As America stumbles toward what Chrump is calling “The Caravan Election,” Der Furor is sending troops to support the other law enforcement hordes at the US/Mexican border.5,000…oops, it’s now 15,000 troops – maybe a million, who knows?  We’ll just have to wait and see what happens –  All this to protect Americans from 4,000 asylum seekers, who are a month away from possibly reaching our southern border. 
This awesome show of farce is being put in place to, a) strike fear into the hearts of the heartless Chrump supporters who already fear brown people because, “They’ve [no one is sure just who they are] intercepted wonderful people from South America and from other parts further south…”, and b) to resist the ferocious mobs of refugee women and children walking from Central America and determined to take over America – one imagines with Jedi mind control, and c) one assumes hosts of angry, heavily armed penguins from further south.
Does Chrump mean the “Big water. Ocean water?” Or Antarctica?
He’ll never know.
Il Douche continues to blame George Soros for creating and funding the procession of refugees coming out of the very big water of the southern Pacific Ocean.  The Republican’ts’ Albatross-in-chief also told a reporter, “You have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than it’s reported actually. I’m pretty good at estimating crowd size. And I’ll tell you they look a lot bigger than people would think.”  America, be very afraid of these enormous crowds of huge brown people.  And, yes he is quite the genius at estimating crowd size.
Meanwhile, Iowa Congressman Steve King – a Chrump stalwart, said of Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by a former Nazi SS officer and whose current leader was active in neo-Nazi circles, “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans.”  He could not have been more right.
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And now for something completely different…
Duke Ellington - Caravan

Fought For The Day



Sweet Jewsus
November 1, 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one...
A vice prezidnet invites a Christian “Rabbi” (who had been defrocked by Jews for Jesus) to pray for Jews murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh at a campaign rally...Oh, fck it, I’m going to stop myself.  I guess I can’t call either of these guys anti-Semitic since Jesus was a Semite.  I guess I’ll just call them anti-Jewish.
Speaking of Jews…
Carl Reiner  (click here)

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