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You’ve Got Fail 

November 20, 2019

When Donny Met Rudy

Damaged Don and Ridiculous Rudy have known and loved each other for many years, several decades in fact.  Now, for the moment at least, they are thick as thieves…literally, though Rudy might soon find himself looking up at the bus under which Donny is poised to throw him.  Rudy married his own cousin, while Don has merely fantasized on television and radio, repeatedly, about “dating” his daughter – though he has not declared this in public lately.  Chrump never said he would grab his fantasy date by the pussy (that we know of), but he never said he would not.

Both of these self-lovers have a habit of letting loose with words of anything-but-wisdom on a regular basis.  Today we feature big bad Don and his mouth of carnage:

“We are the ones that got ISIS.  We are the ones that took care of it, specifically me.”    Donald J. Trump, October 16, 2019

“I’m the one that knows more about it than you people… As you know, most of the ISIS fighters that we captured – we, we not Obama.  I’m the one that did the capturing.”
Donald J. Trump, October 21, 2019

When your balls are bigger than your brain, especially when your balls are the size of BBs – specifically when you are Donald Chrump – it becomes exceedingly difficult to take you seriously.  Not that most people ever did.  And when you pal around with the likes of Rudy G and others of similar caliber (again, think BBs) too numerous to mention, and too painful to remember, and often impossible to imagine – like the recently-arrested-while-attempting-to-flee-the-country Lev and Igor, you continually scare the shit out of everyone wise enough to have not drunk your noxious, brain-wasting Kool-aid.  We need to squeeze this purulent puss wart out of the White House as one would a ballooning blackhead, before we all are infected beyond the point where any treatment could be effective.

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Donald Chrump - The Anti-president

November 19, 2019

Many descriptors have been applied to the current occupant of the White House in an effort to do justice to the unfathomable injustice that is the 45^th presidency of the United States.  These include: “Pseudo-president,” “So-called president,” “*president*,”  “Most corrupt, self-serving, incompetent, psychologically indisposed, worst fucking president hopefully ever” (I’m pretty sure I heard this one somewhere).  Things like that. 

The Paying Attention team alone, other than refusing to spell his name the way he does, has been unable to settle on any one of some dozen commonly used prefixes, suffixes and generally insulting epithets.  Der Furor, Orange Gas Cloud, qresident, etc.  Mostly we have chose to avoid placing Chrump's name and the title president next to each other. 

I recently heard Constitutional/legal scholar Lawrence Tribe use “anti-president.”  Anti-president seems to be about as good a way of referring to the fraudulent Chrump, of allowing that name and that title to co-mingle, as there is.  Simple.  Elegant.  Immensely appropriate.

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MISSION IMPEACHABLE

November 18, 2019

Last Wednesday, on Day One of Donald Chrump’s Super Slob-Stopping Impeachment Extravaganza, Chrump told reporters who asked if he was watching the hearings, “I'm too busy to watch it.  It's a witch hunt, it's a hoax.  I'm too busy to watch it.”

Two days later, on Day Two of the hearings, Twitterbell’s itchy Twitter finger got the better of him.  Not content with all the evidence against him, coming from every direction, and from– if you will pardon the delicious irony and unavoidable glee attached to the next word – unimpeachable sources, and the veritable smorgasbord of possible articles of impeachment, Der Furor decided to make available one more felonious act.  Though not the first time Chrump has publicly spouted criminal intent and committed criminal action, this was one of his best so far. 

During the nationally televised testimony of criminally-ousted ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich, the testimony he was too busy to watch, and was too busy to watch, because he is so very busy, Chrump attacked Yovanovich on Twitter.  This prompted Chairman Adam Schiff to ask the witness if the president tweeting such comments were intimidating in her mind.  They were.  This witness felt intimidated.  Witness intimidation is a federal offense.  As is Donald Chrump.

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November 17, 2019

From Russia, With Love

You gotta love that the person who opened the floodgates for career diplomats to speak truth to abuse-of-power was Marie Yovanovitch – a Russian born American citizen who loves America too much to put her own, by all accounts stellar, career as a diplomat above her duty to uphold her oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” 

Marie Yovanovitch speaks the truth.  Donald Chrump hates that.

Yovanovitch saw a flagrant foul and blew her whistle.  In public.  Without cover of anonymity.  She opened the door for others to come forward in defiance of the Department of Justice, the State Department and the White House, and rescue the country she and they love.  Unlike Donald Chrump, the country Yovanovich loves is America, not Russia.  She is an American hero.

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BROKEN NEWS

 

History in The Faking

November 15, 2019

As reported yesterday, Donald Chrump may not be watching his presidency, his reputation and hopefully his very future taken behind the woodshed and beaten like a rug after a dust storm, but many Americans are watching the current Greatest Show on Earth closely.  Impeachment Season 2019 makes the staff at Paying Attention nostalgic for impeachments past.  Personally, I still remember coming home from school every day and turning on the tiny black-and-white TV set in my kitchen to watch the inimitable Sen. Sam Irvin lead the ultimately historic Watergate Hearings.

Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Senate Watergate Committee

Regular visitors to this site are all too well aware of our unabashed obsession with the Watergate Scandal and the subsequent impeachment and departure-in-disgrace of its deranged perpetrator Richard Nixon.  Nixon hired a group of ex-CIA and Cubans led by G. Gordon Liddy, dubbed “The Plumbers” to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in an effort to sabotage the presidential campaign of Nixon’s opponent – George McGovern.

That Was Then, This Is Wow

Intently angling for his own departure-in-disgrace, Donald Chrump hired “The Dumbers” in a desperate and stupid attempt to sabotage Chrump’s presumed opponent for the 2020 presidential race.  The Dumbers are led, of course, by dementia-adjacent Rudy Giuliani, whose idiot minions include Rick “Oops” Perry and Gordon “I Paid $1M For Chrump’s Inauguation and All I Got Was This Lousy Ambassadorship and A Possible Indictment For Perjury” Sondland.  Giuliani is the genius who, above all else, should always be remembered for insisting, against all good counsel, that the security command center for the top leadership of the City of New York be located in Seven World Trade Center – Ground Zero on 9/11.  Rudy did not hire Cubans; he probably thought they were in ISIS.  Instead, America’s mayor/moron went right to the Motherland, and brought in some top-notch Russian operatives to help with his treasonesque mission.  Two of them – Lev and Igor – are now in prison, awaiting trial and/or turning state’s evidence.

In the Watergate saga, Deep Throat divulged critical information to Woodward and Bernstein in the shadows of a Washington, DC parking garage.  In Blabbergate, Dumb Throat, Donald Chrump personally provided a doctored transcript of his “perfect phone call” with Ukraine President Zelensky to the news media he so despises.  Despite taking the time and effort to manipulate the transcript before releasing it, the document clearly showed Chrump committing bribery and/or extortion, or as it was called in Ancient Rome ‘quid pro quo.’  Oh, and then his chief-of-staff – Mick Mulvaney, who Chrump will soon deny he ever knew – admitted it and told us all to “get over it” because “we do it all the time.”

This beautiful and very perfect impeachment figures to be an interesting process, and it is always fun to watch Republican’ts punching themselves in the face on every single network for hours on end.  But I still have not figured out what type of wine goes with impeach.  Red for Republican’t or white for the color of their nationalism?  Or perhaps a nice Russian vodka.

I. Mangrey reporting.  Do I dare to eat impeach?

The Sweet Smell of Impeachment Blossoms

Moscow on the Potomac

November 14, 2019

Lindsey Graham says he will not watch the impeachment hearings, presumably because there are no blow jobs involved.  Donald Chrump spent Day One of his impeachment hearings giving another figurative (we assume) blow job to Turkey’s genocide-desiring dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  Chrump claims (i.e., lies) that he too will be ignoring the hearings – apparently, he will only be re-tweeting other people who are watching the proceedings.  Chrump lied to reporters, “I'm too busy to watch it.  It's a witch hunt, it's a hoax.  I'm too busy to watch it.”  Eric Chrump said the hearings were “boring”, presumably because he does not understand all the big words, having inherited his father’s IDD (Intelligence Deficit Disorder) and attention span of a mayfly.  And everything sounds muffled with his head so far up his ass.

It also seems that most of the Republican’ts on the committee are ignoring the hearings as well.  They are intent only on pushing their totally and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories and making their president proud of their distraction, lying and Chrump-worthy idiocy.

One thing all of these treacherous cretins have in common is their undying allegiance to Mother Russian, and utter contempt for America and our democracy.

Third-Rate Burglary vs. First-Rate Bribery

Watergate had Deep Throat.  Deep Throat was able to keep his identity secret until after his death, 40 years after the fact.  Today we have Dumb Throat; that would be none other than Donald Chrump himself.  No one has done more to undermine this president than Chrump.  And no one has been more up front about bragging about his crimes, practically standing in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and shooting his mouth off.  It would be wrong to suggest that Chrump should literally shoot his mouth off (though many Republican’ts are wishing he would), so maybe we should suggest that he just glue it shut.  He could even remove his foot first.

Dare to dream bigly

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Day One of Public Impeachment Hearings on Donald J. Chrump

A Man For All Treasons

November 13, 2019

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Donald Chrump, as everyone knows, does not learn from or about anything.  Rather than engage in the Constitutionally mandated process of impeachment, Richard M. Nixon opted to tuck his tail between his legs and run away.  As the disgraced criminal and coward prepared to board Marine One away from the White House he dishonored and into the shadows of history, he turned to those assembled and flashed a beaming smile and the now-enshrined-in-American-photo-iconography double "V" for victory.   

He could not have been any happier than those watching him finally leave

Will Donald J. Chrump follow in Nixon's soiled, clueless footprints?  Tune in over the next few weeks as Chrump's own impeachment process unravels Chrump and exposes for all to see – and however many to continue to deny – the true depths of depravity, and even-worse-than-blowjob infractions perpetrated upon the American public by Donald Chrump and his no-longer-merry band of miscreants.

Andrew Johnson was a racist who opposed the Fourteenth Amendment and ultimately abused his office.  Nixon was mentally unstable and a malignant narcissist who in the end was charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress.  Donald Chrump has inarguably outdone Tricky Dick on all fronts, and he is no slouch when it comes to racism.  Oh, and Bill Clinton had an affair with an intern.  By all accounts Chrump stopped sexually assaulting women before entering office.

The I-Team

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Thought For The Eve

Time to Kiss Our Ass Goodbye

November 12, 2019

It is finally the moment so many Americans – most in fact – have been waiting for.  More it seems, every day.  Today is Donald Chrump’s very, very well-earned Public Impeachment Hearings’ Eve.  Stock up on popcorn and tofu all you kale and quinoa loving human scum.  Your democratically elected Democratic-led House of Representatives will do their best to expose all the cheating, lying and outright criminal intent, along with a healthy dose of evidence thereof.  Enjoy this historic moment for weeks to come.

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Who Needs Intelligence?

Back in The USSA

November 11, 2019

I understand that nations need intelligence communities that keep track of adversaries.  The United States has layer upon layer of intelligence agencies – some we know about and some whose very existence is too sensitive for the hoi polloi to know about.  Our CIA has perpetrated any number of unsavory, illegal and downright horrifying acts over the years.  That being said, on the assumption that they do at times provide necessary services for our national security, I would much rather have them working for our interests than for Russia’s, as Donald Chrump and his vast network of Russian and Russia-adjacent agents seem to prefer. 

Chrump from day one has repeatedly denigrated our intelligence community in favor of Vladimir Putin.  To be fair, Chrump’s relationship with anything that smacks of intelligence has all the solidity of a lace doily engulfed in flames.

May Day Mayday

Last week, Comrade Chrump told stunned reporters – when he wasn’t bellowing at them to “be quiet” – that his idol and benefactor Vladimir Putin invited him to attend next year’s May Day Parade in Moscow.  Have no doubt that Chrump knows nothing of the history of May Day, or Russia, or May Day in Russia.  “President Putin invited me to the – it’s a very big deal!” he said. “Celebrating the end of the war, etc., etc.  A very big deal.  So I appreciate the invitation… I would love to go if I could.”  I would gladly buy him a one-way ticket.

A Drip Down Memory Lane

Chrump yukking it up with two of his Russian benefactors right after he fired Comey

During a May 10, 2017 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation.  The meeting, during which Chrump did not allow American press, also featured Chrumpo the Clown telling the Russians that he was not concerned about their meddling in the 2016 election.  It is unclear if Chrump requested and/or paid for more Russian help for his re-election bid in 2020.  It would be wise to assume that he did.

I. Mangrey reporting.  Home, home on the rage.