Monday, January 11, 2021

Radical Normalcy

Scary Stuff, Folks

January 11, 2021

I don’t know how much more of this I can take. I watched Joe Biden take questions from the press. He was respectful, answered every question like a human being, waited in case there were follow-up questions. He didn’t insult even one single reporter, no racially insensitive, snide remarks. Biden didn’t even yell “Lock him up” one time. Sure, in response to a question he said Trump was unfit to serve, but everyone already knew that. He didn’t make up any crazy shit that made me think I was hallucinating. Didn’t tell anyone to drink beach or talk about some of the great murderous dictators he loves. Biden didn’t even have the guts to scream ‘Fake news!” or call reporters enemies of the people. Not even once. What kind of sick game is this guy playing?

Joe Biden: Will his radical normalcy destroy the great America Trump built?

At the end of this horrifying display of normal adult behavior, he forgot to turn and run away abruptly before the damn thing was over like an angry teen who’s just been grounded and sent to their room; he just calmly finished answering the last question, politely said “thank you”, put on his mask and walked away. I was sure it was a joke and he would come back and trash the place. But no. He just left. This is going to be a long four years. I look forward to Donald Trump crashing a few of these malarky-free snooze-fests and showing these losers how it’s supposed to be done.

As if this press conference debacle was not bad enough, where are the idiotic tweets? I haven’t seen one single misspelled rant. Does this even stay up all night watching Fux News? OAN? He probably won’t even be bragging about his crowd or dick size. WTF. Somebody help me out here.

And what’s with his human-looking skin tone? And his suit fits like it was made for him. This guy is a fucking disaster waiting to stop happening.

I. Mangrey


Sunday, January 10, 2021

One-Term Blunder

Still Running After All These Years: Trump 2024

January 10, 2021

“When they say the election was stolen, they mean black and brown people voted.”
                                  Kwame Rose, Activist

Despite finally releasing another of his famous hostage-videos, where Trump was forced to read a statement he did not write or believe, showing all the emotion and class of a public toilet seat, acknowledging that some generic new administration will be taking over the reins of government on January 20th. Two days later, Trump reportedly expressed regret for saying there would be a peaceful transfer of power. Regardless of what happens next, Trump will not go away.

President Gumby sends his mob off to war against America

Trump will always insist that he won the 2020 election and belongs in the White House. He will not relent on disseminating what is either the delusion or outright lie that he was the victim of a rigged, stolen election. No matter what. Everyone who is either not Donald Trump or those drinking Trump Brand KKKool Aid, knows for a fact that Biden won as fair and square as our elections get. Nonetheless, Trump incited his intellectually and democratically-challenged hordes to storm the Capitol, which gladly and very badly did. There will be consequences for them and for the man that spurred them on.

Team Trump – some very swine people

January 6, 2021: Team Trump lays siege to the U.S. Capitol...
and they’re planning to do it again – SOON.

Trump might be removed via the 25th Amendment if Mike Pence has either balls or brains. Since Pence has neither, tomorrow Trump will become the only president in American history to be IMPEACHED twice, though his enablers in the Senate – led by Mitch McConnell – remain likely to choose treason over country once again. Trump might succumb to increasing demands from all sides for him to resign (very unlikely), or he might resign as the only means of getting a presidential pardon, which most scholars believe he cannot do for himself. He might be embroiled in court battles for the next several years. None of this matters to Trump. He will steamroll on unless or until such time as there are iron bars between this traitor and the country he is intent on using for his own aggrandizement and/or maiming beyond recognition.

Trump will continue to trample democracy, decency, sanity and reality so long as there are millions of white supremacists, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis who cherish the last few words of the Second Amendment, do not understand the First and simply want what they want. Who will storm and defile the Capitol Building they profess to be defending against black, brown, Jewish and liberal people. These are Trump’s people though he thinks they are filthy and ignorant. He would never allow them into his over-priced country clubs, but he is happy to take their money, wallow in their adoration, incite them to violence, and then run for cover and when the dust settles, throw them under the bus.

It is unlikely that the remains of the long-complicit Republican’t Party will allow Donald Trump to have anything to do with their desperate attempt to recover from their torrid affair with the Orange Gas Cloud. Donald will have find a new political home, likely a new third party. There is no need to even guess what that party will be called as he mounts his post-insurrection reelection crusade. The Trump 2024 campaign for president will be under the banner of the Trump Party. And all his white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Profa dimwits will be there bowing and scraping, looting and shooting.

Trump’s new campaign lawn sign

Unlike Trump’s pretense of being the “law and order candidate” in 2016, our sources are telling us that he plans to run on “violence, revolution, white power and loving Trump.”

Ace reporter T. Doff was downtown, working hard and doing swell, getting the news before it hit the street. He has obtained secret audiotape of Trump talking to supporters, or possibly to himself; we present an exclusive partial transcript here:

“I don’t care if those people think Biden won. He didn’t win. I won. I won by a very strong and powerful margin. What the hell has Biden ever done? He doesn’t know shit about government. I know more about government than probably anyone in history. Plus, I’m the one who got better shower pressure. I made America so great again. So to hell with the very bad, very weak Democrat Party – I call them the Sleepy Black Lives Matter Party – and the unloyal Republican Party that I tried so hard to make great again. The new Trump Party will take this country back from all the losers. Trump deserves another term to make America even greater. So great no one will ever believe it. And all the great toilets, dishwashers and shower pressure. People will insist Trump gets a third term. I may not accept it because I will be too bored of all the winning. All the greatness. The best greatness ever.”

I. Mangrey endeavoring to persevere. Go home. We hate you. You’re very special. 

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Thought For The Day

It’s Not Like It’s Brain Surgery

January 9, 2021

Rumor has it that Dr. Ben "The Pyramids Were Used To Store Grain" Carson will be called out of retirement to attempt a very delicate surgery - separating Mike Pence's lips from Donald Chrump's ass. Carson made a name for himself as a grain surgeon…I mean brain surgeon, separating conjoined twins. He turned that name to Mud when he entered the political arena and spoke in public, making many people wonder how someone who seemed so incredibly idiotic was able to tie his own shoes, let alone perform delicate surgery.


Kim Jong Un must be jealous

Pence had a chance to extricate his lips from Chrump’s ass; all he had to do was invoke the 25th Amendment and enlist the cabinet to sign on, but alas the attachment proved too strong. Carson may be an idiot, but he apparently knows his way around scalpels and assholes. In any event, this operation should be a piece of shit…I mean, cake.

This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.

You're welcome.

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Friday, January 8, 2021

Thought For The Night

 

Millions Of People Never Believed In Twitter Bell

January 8, 2021

Like Tinker Bell, Twitter Bell can only exist if enough people believe in his existence. Like Tinker Bell, Twitter Bell is often ill-tempered, spoiled, jealous and vindictive. Apparently, Twitter employees stopped believing in Twitter Bell.

Some 350 Twitter employees wrote a letter to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding the permanent suspension of Twitter Bell from the platform that was practically oxygen to the tiny-handed Dixie…I mean pixie.

Guess they ran out of Dixie Dust.

This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Night.

You're welcome.

What is your thought for the night?

Donald Trumper’s Loony Heads Club Coup

Joe Biden For 47th President

January 8, 2021

The Trump War has begun. Like the Civil War before it, a bunch of sore losers decided to tear the nation asunder because their guy, their belief that this nation belonged to them – angry, arrogant, ignorant white people who base their lives on alternative facts – and they were going make the majority pay.

Dumb-Fuck-In-A-Furry-Hat who calls himself the
QAnon Shaman (soon to be federal prisoner #349732)

Authorities are supposedly poised to track down all those responsible for breaching the Capitol. We will have to see if anything actually materializes since some of those charged with protecting the Capitol and those who work there were seen cavorting with the invaders. Most of the protection seemed to be AWOL. I suppose they were out looking for Black Lives Matter folks to put down. After all, what could go wrong with a bunch of violent, psychotic racists who have been publicly calling for armed insurrection for months storming the Capitol? Apparently, there are a number of people who can provide the names of many of those involved if anyone truly cares to know.

Trump and his New Confederacy will not go away easily. The old Confederacy did not go away after they were defeated. They went, as they say – and pardon the irony – dark. As evidenced by all the honors bestowed, across this whole country by the way, upon the defeated traitors even many years later. Does this mean we’re going to have a Dumb-Fuck-In-A-Furry-Hat Middle School in South Carolina some day?

Trump’s Sedition Express will not slow down just because he is out of office. For one thing, it’s a great source of cash flow for the cash-poor Trump Crime Family. For another, Donald cannot survive without constant attention and adulation, even if it is from people he thinks are losers and idiots. And finally, Trump is a power-hungry reptile (with apologies to actual reptiles) who will stop at nothing until he is locked away for good. It is time to put him out of our misery.

Some of the very fine people on Trump’s side (6 MWE: 6,000,000 wasn’t enough)

Cruz and Hawley: leading the insurrection from within the Senate,
showing solidarity with sedition

Parting Shot For The Day

Using a gun in the commission of a crime does not fall under the protection of the Second Amendment. Similarly, using words in the incitement or commission of a crime does not fall under the protection of the First Amendment.

I. Mangrey fed up. Never thought I’d say this but, Mike Pence for president. Now.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

January 6, 2021: America Soils Herself

The Whole World's Watching

January 7, 2021

We are now officially a shithole country thanks to Shit-in-chief Donald Trump. Move over Jefferson Davis, move over Osama bin Laden, your hatred of democracy, your attempts to ruin America have been Trumped. The biggest security threat ever. Al Queda? Hah! ISIS? Don’t make me laugh. The 45th president of the United States has shown himself to be the greatest threat to national security and democracy in more than 150 years.

Trump’s terrorist presidency – and make no mistake, it was always such has finally reached its peak. Once Trump finally, however involuntarily, bumped up against reality, this was the most likely scenario. Donald Trump personally and repeatedly incited this Profa insurrection. Not just a riot, but an insurrection aimed directly at affecting a coup d’état. Thanks to Trump and his thugs blood was spilled, a woman killed in the Capitol building and several others dead at the scene.

Trump’s Red Hats (think Brown Shirts) despise democracy almost as much as they despise black people. Trump finally got the giant crowd he craved. Much bigger than his American Carnage inauguration four years ago.

The National Guard shot four peaceful student protesters to death at Kent State on May 4, 1970. On January 6, 2021 thousands of treasonous, neo-Nazi, Confederate-flag-waving, racist, fascist, armed maniacs took over the U.S. Capitol and only a few dozen arrests resulted. Some capitol police practically ushered the traitors into the Capitol Building; others posed for selfies with the insurgents. It’s great to be white in America. You can’t beat it. With a stick. Especially when you don’t even try. And their beloved leader gave them cover, and lauded them for their sedition. Give me a fucking break. In another of his typical mixed messages, Trump was ultimately forced to pretend he wanted the angry mob he birthed and nurtured for five years to disperse, “Go home. We love you. You’re special.”

IMPEACHED Fake president Donald Trump should be removed under the Second Amendment…I mean the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Immediately. And then tried for sedition and inciting insurrection. Period. Moving forward without cleaning up the past, while a cornerstone of American history, only leads to worse behavior.

Not cleaning up the shame (to put it mildly) of slavery ultimately brought the Civil War. The pardoning of Richard Nixon brought us further erosion of our democracy. Ignoring the war crimes of Bush/Cheney brought us Donald Trump, who acted criminally every day of his presidency, with impunity. He was enabled at every rotten turn by the party that gave him political life. Allowing this swine to escape justice will injure this nation in ways as yet imagined, leaving permanent scars, and could well be fatal to our democracy.

And all the suddenly chastened Republican’ts coming with heart in hand professing to defend democracy, when for four foul years they gestated what we saw in our nation’s capital yesterday. They have no honor, however much they may claim it, no matter how sweet their shame-induced words of umbrage, calm, togetherness and defending democracy. They had four years to protect and defend the Constitution and the people of this nation from this obvious traitor, this malignant narcissist who never wanted the highest office in the land, never took seriously his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, never carried out the duties of his office, and instead worked tirelessly to promote himself, and undermine the interests of this nation. 

This is not about 20/20 hindsight. All that was needed was a little foresight. Everything was on full display from the moment this hate-mongering, inveterate liar oozed down his golden escalator to throw his already filthy hat into the ring. Donald Trump did not change when he entered the White House. He was always exactly what he is now. A criminal and an autocrat. A sniveling coward who riled up people he would just as soon push aside and spit on. And he never for a moment tried to hide it. Give him and us justice. Before it’s too late.

Aiders and abettors like Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson and Josh Hawley, and Rudy Giuliani, who called for called for “trial by combat”, should be dragged away in leg irons and stripped of their offices while they await trial. Nothing less serves democracy.

The only good thing to come from this disgraceful episode is that this and this alone will now be the legacy of Donald J. Trump, the most disgraced president in American history. Trump makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.


Philadelphia 76ers head coach
Doc Rivers asks the obvious question

I. Mangrey.                                                                                                          

                                                                           

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Coup, Coup For Cocoa Puffs

Coup, Coup Kachoo

January 6, 2021

While watching the early returns in the Georgia senate runoff elections last night, both Democrats were well ahead two hours after the polls closed. For some reason they did not stop counting the votes. What a bunch of crap. The Democrats were both well ahead, and then somehow, no one knows how, they were not ahead anymore. My guess? Fake votes. Dead people voting. Blind people counting votes. Why keep counting all those votes? Sensing that the Republican’t candidates were going to steal the elections by counting all the votes (a dirty trick they stole from Democrats) I decided to attempt what is commonly referred to as sleep.

After a “good” hour or two in a horizontal, not entirely conscious state, I resumed my vigil. Despite the persistent vote counting it appears that Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will emerge victorious, giving Dems control of the Senate. Ostensibly, the only left to do is to say, “FUCK YOU MOSCOW MITCH!” Also, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't very strongly and powerfully looking forward to Chrump's psychotic take on the proceedings. Perhaps another perfect phone call is in order.

A crazy man, who just discovered where his head is
attempts to threaten his way to maintain his grip on America.
We are still in...the Twilight Zone.

Death To America: Republican’t Sedition Edition

Today is the day that Chrumpublicans will show us exactly what they are made of. Not something you really want to see close up. definitely not on a full stomach. Lawmaking is often compared to the process of making sausage. Proudly fighting to destroy the democratic process and free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power, and publicly defecating on the Constitution, as jackals like Ted Cruz and his fellow travelers in the Treason Caucus are planning to do, makes the utterly disgusting process of sausage making seem like baking chocolate chip cookies with the kids.

Despite the fact that just days earlier their dear leader shredded federal and state laws by threatening government officials in order to coerce them to join his criminal conspiracy to defraud Georgia’s election results, more than a dozen Chrumpublican senators and nearly 150 members of the House, will still stand in front of this nation and insist that the American electorate should not have a say in who our next president will be. All because the conman they crowned as their party’s standard bearer, after having called him every name in the book, is a threat to their political futures – something each of them values well beyond the health of the nation and the Constitution they pretend to serve.   

Donald Chrump will not let go of his seemingly infinite number of insane and/or laughable conspiracy theories, his endless criminal activities, and mob boss-like bullying/threatening of election officials across the country. He will hold on like a starving tick on a sleeping dog. Chrump will continue to fight the bad fight to overturn the unassailable vote count that gave the presidency to Joe Biden until the last breath…hopefully, not ours.

They’re trying to steal my country from me. It’s mine, not Sleepy Joe’s.
He didn’t win. I won. I won by a lot. It’s mine, all mine.

Chrump recently overruled the Pentagon’s recalling of the USS Nimitz from the Persian Gulf in an attempt to de-escalate tensions in the region. Instead, Chrump commanded the carrier be turned around in order to re-establish a provocative presence. This, no doubt in case Chrump’s blatantly illegal, bumbling attempts to remain in power continue to fail miserably. Many foreign policy experts worry that once all other treasonous options have been exhausted, Chrump will see no other option but to fabricate a military incident involving Iran.

"War is the health of the state," the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism bloomed, class struggle was stilled, and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land, a line of trenches.
   
from Howard Zinn’s A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

“War is the health of the State” is a well-known quote by the less well-known Randolph Bourne. War is also a useful device to rally people around a leader. Recall how George Bush II’s popularity soared after he allowed the 9/11 attacks to unfold on his watch. A properly timed war can also be used as an excuse to declare martial law in order to, for example, delay the peaceful transition of power from, let’s say a sitting president to a newly, duly elected, desperately needed replacement. Donald Chrump could not possibly care less about the State or its health. All he can see, when he takes a break from staring at himself in the bathroom mirror to admire his "hair", is NY State Attorney General Letitia James in one side-view mirror and NYC District Attorney Cyrus Vance in the other, and they are gaining on him and his entire crime family. If he is not stopped before it is too late, Donald Chrump would gladly be the death of the State.

I. Mangrey recoiling. Health is the war of the State.

Monday, January 4, 2021

Republican’ts Fly The Coup

White Punks On Dope

January 4, 2021

Donald Chrump’s crime spree against America continues unabated. Like a cop shooting a black man in the back, there seems to be a distinct absence of consequences for this dangerous white man. Yesterday we were treated to another perfect phone call from Der Furor Donald Chrump. This flawless, hour-long attempt to enlist the help of Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who Chrump has previously cajoled, threatened and slandered for not manipulating Georgia’s legitimate vote totals to simulate a Chrump victory. Washington Post reporter Amy Gardner who ended up with audiotape of the entire perfect phone call, referred to the very beautiful call as a “rambling and at times incoherent conversation.” Rambling and incoherent is Chrump’s brand.

At one point Chrump can be heard laying out his very simple and very beautiful plan, “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.” There is also incontrovertible audio evidence of Chrump repeatedly saying, “There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.” Did I mention that this time we actually have the audiotape? Is it too late to impeach the motherfucker already again? Many people are saying, “Fuck no!”

Make America Great Already!

Tomorrow (hopefully) we will learn much about the fate of this country. The ability of our newly, legitimately and unquestionably elected president to take this country out of the little, blood-stained hands of Donald Chrump is on the line. If Mitch McConnell is allowed to remain in charge of the nation’s legislative agenda, the stench of Chrump will be that much harder to remove, if not impossible for the foreseeable future.

The day after that brings what has always been a simple procedural exercise by Congress. This year it will anything but. January 6, 2021 is the day that Congress will finally verify what the totality of all 50 states and the grossly obsolete Electoral College, not to mention the Supreme Courts of several states and of the United States – on numerous occasions – have already made abundantly and repeatedly clear. Joe Biden’s victory over IMPEACHED Fake president Donald Chrump cannot be denied. Or can it?

Chrump hard at work as his lunatic fringe show their unshakable approval

Absolutely no one should be surprised that so many Republican’ts are willing to throw this country and our democracy under their gas-guzzling, hot air-transporting campaign buses. How can these sniveling shitbags be expected to be loyal to the United States when they were not even able to remain loyal to themselves? How many of these Republican’ts bellowed about how disgraceful, dishonest and unqualified Chrump was…right up until they made him their party’s standard bearer (Hint: all of them). Then, it was not enough to simply stop making honest albeit negative comments about their sociopathic, psychotic, malignantly narcissistic leader.

They did not keep quiet, choosing instead to pretend they never said what they said, and to praise their great and powerful leader to the ends of the Earth, and hopefully their political careers. These Republican’t weasels gave up their country and its Constitution, gave up their integrity – such as it was – and sold for a penny their already rapidly deteriorating souls…to Donald Chrump – pussy-grabbing racist authoritarian, who was never really a Republican’t, just a pathetic television celebrity conman who would just as soon shit on their dinner plates as say hello. Chrump was and remains all those brutal assessments hurled his way, and nothing more.

Lindsey Graham stands up on his hind legs for the man he 
loves and who he once called a “kook” and and a “race-baiting 
xenophobic religious bigot” who was “unfit for office.”

As of now, we have at least 140 Chumpublican members of the House and 12 Senators poised to take their seditious circus act to the final level. Knowing full well that their side-show of denying the clear results of the 2020 election – only in states where Chrump lost, including those where Republican’ts down-ballot won – has neither legal, nor logical, nor mentally sound footing, they are prepared to go down with the shit.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Friday, January 1, 2021

Wake Me When It Starts

Same Shit, Different Year

January 1, 2021


Gazing in the grass is a gas. Can you dig it?

A friend called me this morning to inform me that it was a new year – 2021 he called it. While this may be a technically accurate statement, this year, this era, this super-slow-motion multi-car pile-up, alternatively known as the Chrump presidency, whose final chapter was the objectively horrible 2020, will not be over one nanosecond prior to still not-at-all-certain swearing in of our 46th president Joe Biden.

At least 140 Republican’t members of the House and one Senator are poised to culminate (hopefully) their treason on January 6th by ignoring the will of the American people as well as some 60 judges at all levels of the Judicial Branch, many of whom were appointed during the Chrump administration. As we speak, Republican’ts are stamping their little feet and squealing at anyone who is forced to listen about not voting to formalize Biden’s victory over Russian president of America Donald Chrump. They are even suing Mike Pence to force him to…oh, fuck it there’s no point dwelling on the fake details, it’s all bullshit. Unfortunately, bullshit has been the currency of the realm for the past four years. Yes, it was always a currency of the realm, but under Chrump it became the only one.

Chrump is still here, so I’m still paying attention

For his part, Chrump is claiming victory over the virus, though he should be claiming victory for the virus, which continues to wreak havoc at an alarming rate. Having, in his febrile mind defeated the virus, Chrump is turning his inestimable attention to finding a way to start a war with Iran in order to declare martial law. Just like Rudy Giuliani suggested it would be a good idea to keep him on as New York’s mayor after 9/11 even though his term was about to expire, Chrump, if he is successful in starting another illegal Republican’t war before January 20, will suggest (insist?) that he remain in office to oversee his latest crime against America and humanity. He alone can fuck it.

So, I for one, remain at least a bit skeptical that anything will go as planned until they pry the presidency from Chrump’s cold, tiny (and dead if need be) hands on January 20th. I don’t generally watch these swearing in ceremonies as I am usually too busy swearing at whoever it is putting their hand on some religious text, or in Chrump’s case his bathroom copy of The Art of The Deal, and pledging to support and defend the Constitution of The United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; or in Chrump’s case, against all allies, and only so far as pleases Vladimir Putin.

Soon-to-be-ex-IMPEACHED Fake president Donald Chrump remains toxically obsessed with continuing his treasonous attempt to overturn the irrefutably legitimate 2020 election that made it abundantly clear that Chrump reign of terrible terror will come to a screeching halt at noon on January 20, 2021. He is so preoccupied with staying at a job he never really wanted, never for a moment took or did seriously, and remains to this day, after four years in offense office, historically unfit to perform, that he was unable to focus on golfing away his final weeks as so-called president.

Chrump did not, mind you, return to Washington, DC in order to make sure the country was safe or sound during his dwindling final days of sucking up all the oxygen in every room in America. Fat chance. He returned to the White House he once referred to as “a dump” in order to orchestrate the final throes of his attempted fascist take-over of our federal government. Can you even imagine what Republican’ts would have done if Barack Obama raised this much of a stink had he been defeated at the polls – which he most certainly was not? The Last-Phrase-of-the-Second Amendment fetishists would have been surrounding the White House within minutes.


Chrump is prepared to protect America from democracy at all costs

Sorry to spoil your earliest hours of what you are calling a new year. Maybe I should have waited until I was awake to start weighing just as this year is taking its first breath, but the doctor doesn’t wait to slap the newborn to start her breathing air after emerging from the cozy, safe, watery environment of the uterus.

Hopefully, you won’t read this today.

I. Mangrey.