FINALLY!

It's All Over Now Baby Orange

January 21, 2021

To quote Joe Biden, "This is a big fucking deal."

Next Stop...

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA

The Inauguration Heard Round The World

The Presidency Survives Turmp, Will America?

January 20, 2021, 12:30 PM Eastern Time

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. sworn in as 46^th president

I will try and keep this brief. Finally, against all odds, and against all odd, Joe Biden has been successfully sworn in today. My only complaint is that the oath of office, needs to be modified to reflect the new reality in America. It must say, “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, particularly Donald Turmp.” Once Turmp no longer walks among us, we can think about changing it back, but it might be best to simply leave it in place as a reminder.

Apologies for not being ready to let go and walk away, but really. I thought I would be so glad to be rid of this terrible affliction – one that makes the current virus pandemic pale by comparison – that thoughts of the Orange Gas Cloud would quickly dissipate, leaving me at least a bit of peace. But no, I find myself still fuming, like a wild fire beaten down to ash and coals, still needing to be watched less it burst back into deadly flame. After all, a virus can be vicious and brutal, taking many lives and disrupting many more, but Turmp ripped at our souls and the soul of our nation. A virus has no malice, no brain. Trump, though bereft of brain, more than makes up for the lack with a massive, immeasurable dose of malice.

The miserable shit-weasel/IMPEACHED-IMPEACHED-ex-Fake president held a pathetic campaign rally after completing his criminal pardon spree and shortly before the planet-wide sigh of relief at the swearing in of Joe Biden as the 46^th president of the United States. A surprise to no one, as Turmp remained steadfast in his dishonest, delusion and danger to democracy. Refusing to mention Biden’s name, Turmp spewed his usual mile-long-string-of-lies, ignorance and drivel, ending with what amounts to a threat to the country he just spent four years trying to destroy for his benefactor Vladimir Putin. Before shuffling off-stage to the ironic tones of the Village People’s YMCA, Turmp warned, “See you soon.”

Yes, Turmp’s second-in-command Mike Pence opted to be present for the ultimately – no thanks to either Pence or Turmp’s yeoman efforts to the contrary – peaceful transfer of power. Make no mistake, this was nothing other than political calculus designed to keep his comatose hopes to continue a life in shitty politics alive. I wish him hell.

I. Mangrey relieved.

I Feel A Four-Years-Long Wave Of Nausea Finally Ebbing

Go To Russia. We Love You Leaving. You’re Very Special.

January 20, 2021, Later that same morning

As most of a nation in tatters prepares to rid itself of a living lesion by inaugurating its 46^th President Joe Biden, can you imagine, if (GULP) Trump had won in November, trying to talk him out of insisting on having the biggest crowd ever to attend a swearing in on hand to bask in his gory*?

Trump is planning to run for president again though he should be planning to go to prison, but that’s okay. He has not yet decided whether he should take another stab at becoming Russia’s president of the United States, or to go right to the source and run in Russia next time. On his way out the door today, it appears that Trump is trying to declassify sensitive information regarding Russia, information the intelligence community has classified as too sensitive to publicize. One last stroking of Putin’s whatever before sore winner, sore loser, generally festering sore Trump oozes out of office.

Stephen Miller has already drafted Trump’s first Russia First stump speech. Another Paying Attention exclusive, just for you:

“There’s no way I can lose to Vicious Vlad. I like to call him Little Lenin, since he loves the Beatles so much…well that’s what people are telling me. What the hell has he ever done for you? All he ever did was help me make America great again. Is that what you paid him to do? Make America great? America sucks. I should know. I’m the one who tried to destroy America and its very fake, very weak and stupid democracy. Puny Putin – I sometimes call him that – thought I was going to make America great and still he helped me get elected, bigly. Let him show everyone the pee-pee tape. See if I care. If he’s not careful, I’ll grab hm by the pussy. They let you do that in America by the way and if you want to be able to do that here, then vote Trump. I alone can fix everything. Very easily. I can make your dishwashers and showers very strong and powerful. I can make your toilets flush like nothing you’ve ever seen before and that’s no shit.”

*Not a typo

I. Mangrey keeping it real.

Word For The Morning - KOYAANISQATSI

KOYAANISQATSI

January 20, 2021, 6:00 AM Eastern Time

Today is meant to be the official termination of Donald Trump’s ignominious administration. There are still six hours left during which it remains possible that the Teflon Trash-heap will pull some bad craziness. And we are still up to our eyeballs in assholes. I have yet to see any sign of chickens ready to be counted.

So, hopefully for the last time for a long time I share a wonderful word. The best word in my humble estimation. This word became one of my favorite of all time after I saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983 Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.

Koyaanisqatsi – the trailer

This has been your Paying Attention Word For The Morning.

Morning maniac music...

Frank Zappa – Dumb All Over

Steppenwolf – Move Over (crank it up)

Taking Out The Trash

Trump’s Greatest Shits

January 19, 2021

The Second Time Around

More history. For those who one last reminder of the terror presidency of Donald Trump, read on. For those who rightly cannot devote another moment of thought to this disaster, close your eyes think happy thoughts and hope this fake administration will finally, really be coming to an end.

Trump has been so fucking nice they IMPEACHED his ass twice. That’s right boys and girls. We seem to have survived the worst, most corrupt, most narcissistic, most disastrous, most fascist president in American history IMPEACHED two times by Congress – the second time with Republican’t cooperation in the House, however meager. Wow. I am shocked that a few Republican’ts think that a president should not urge violent racist sociopaths to lay siege to the Capitol Building and string up his vice president. Who could have guessed it? The rest of them continued with their treasonous conspiracy theory of a stolen election. And helped to turn our nation’s Capital into a war zone.

Trump tried every trick in the book to get thrown out of office – an office he never wanted and never fulfilled in any way. Enlisting Russia to help him get elected in the first place was not enough. Firing everyone involved in discovering the truth of his collusion with Russia was not enough. Kidnapping innocent children and assuring they would never see their parents again was not enough. Repeatedly standing up for Putin, for white supremacists barely even raised a Republican’t eyebrow. Threatening the president of Ukraine unless they manufactured evidence of malfeasance by Joe Biden’s son was not enough. Threatening the Secretary of State of Georgia if he did not “find 11,780 votes” that would upend the legitimate thrice-counted victory of Joe Biden in favor of Trump, complete with physical evidence, was not enough. Please forgive me if I omitted anything important; it is literally impossible to keep track of all the offenses committed by this disgraceful mutant. And please forgive me if I do not give these brave, ridiculously-too-late Republican’ts kudos for finally daring to stand up to Trump in the waning minutes of the eleventh hour.

Nonetheless, Trump is the only president to be IMPEACHED two times, it will mean little – as much as I love a good IMPEACHMENT – if, after committing even worse treason than what led to the first one, he is not convicted, removed and tossed into the nuclear wastebin of history. Though, it seems there is perhaps half a chance that enough Republican’ts realize they must finally cut and try to run from Trump who, if he has not already, will tear their party into bits. Works for me.

We hear that Mitch McConnell is in favor of Democrats IMPEACHING Trump and believes that Trump “provoked” the seditious assault on our Capitol. What courage. What patriotism. No seriously, what courage? What patriotism? Such a statement from McConnell is worth about as much as a three-dollar bill, a wooden nickel and McConnell’s soul. I will believe that McConnell is in favor of actually doing something when he votes to convict. I am not even touching my breath, let alone holding it. And even if McConnell does, beyond all imagination vote to convict the man he admits is guilty of the worst high crime ever committed by an American president, that would not budge the needle of McConnell’s soul tank, which has long been on EMPTY. But Trump has been so beyond the pale, even McConnell is considering protecting the Republic.

I. Mangrey on Inauguration Eve.

Hope Springs External

Eyes Tightly Shut, Jaw Clenched, Fingers Crossed, Breath Held

January 19, 2021

Disgraced TWICE-IMPEACHED Fake president Donald Trump is hoping, as soon as he has finished selling off pardons to his fellow scumbags, to have a huge crowd on hand to send him off to prison retirement. Will he be paying these people out of his porn-star-hush-slush fund or with tax-payer dollars? Like disgraced on-the-verge-of-impeachment-quitter Richard Nixon before him, Trump will remain delusional to the end.

Der Furor wanted a big military-style sendoff as he slithers away from the worst presidency in American history, one that ended with him trying to get his minions to take over the Capitol in order to stop the final, formal certification of his successor’s landslide victory. The Pentagon, despite being recently stocked with Trump’s hand-picked monkeys – one of whom recently held an incoherent press conference, the only salient moment of which was when he said, “I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me” – declined to participate in any way with Trump’s final public exhibition of self-pleasuring.

Trump desperately tries to round up a crowd to attend his exile party.

(Is that Steve Bannon?)

Nixon famously spent his final days drinking himself into a stupor and conversing with portraits of former presidents in the West Wing. Trump claims not to drink or do any drugs (many first-hand witness accounts to the contrary), but by most accounts he has been fuming, raging, ranting and generally losing what little mind he had in his possession as the loss of protection from justice bestowed upon him by the cynical and criminally complicit Republican’t Party loom ever larger.

Make Trump Bankrupt Again!

I. Mangrey holding on for dear life. So little time, so much fear and loathing.

Bonus Bit:

I hope this is running through the corroded canyons of Trump's febrile mind...

Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes To Go

Definitely Not George Washington

Jail To The Chief

January 18, 2021

“Father, I cannot tell the truth. I did win the election.”

If Trump wants people to shut up about his dalliances with sedition, he should pay each one of us $130,000 – the going Trump rate for shutting up. James Comey says Joe Biden should consider pardoning Trump. I say James Comey should shut the fuck up. Trump has committed the most heinous crime against this nation. Even more heinous than the daily crimes he committed since oozing down his golden escalator to throw his orange “hair” dye-stained hat into the presidential ring. Like overseeing (overlooking?) the deaths of 400,000 Americans thanks in no small part to Trump’s non-handling of the pandemic he insisted for months was a hoax. And now, thanks in very large, strong and powerful part to him, democracy literally fighting – against its own alleged adherents – for its very survival. Hell, he should have been impeached for all his fucking golfing alone.

Trump may want to pardon criminals, traitors and other assorted assholes, but we do not. He needs to be spanked to within an inch of his miserable life. So to speak.

 

Thanks to the continuing presence of the Toxic Orange Gas Cloud engulfing the nation and in particular Washington, DC, and the anticipated return of the racist, fascist, neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, terrible terrorists who support Trump’s lies and insanity, the National Mall has been closed for several days and will remain off limits to the public during the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, making this the second smallest crowd to view such a momentous event. The smallest of course, being the meagerly attended American Carnage Mistaken Inauguration of Don “Fuck America, What About Me” Trump on January 20, 2017 – a date that will live in infamy.

Not surprisingly, 99% of Democrats believe that Biden won the election. Perhaps more surprisingly 66% of Independents believe the same. Not at all surprisingly, though nauseatingly, only 19% of Republican’ts believe Biden won. Despite another date that will live in infamy – January 6, 2021 – the day Trump incited the take-over of the Capitol, Trump still has (according to a CNN poll) a depressingly-high albeit record low 34% approval rating among the general public, and an 80% approval among Republican’ts – the Other White Meat.

I. Mangrey regretting. I’m a lover, not a fascist, racist moron who wants to Make America White Again.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

My Big, Beautiful, Very Strong And Powerful New Idea

Citizenship For Dummies...Literally

January 17, 2021

First Course

The tragic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 may have claimed more lives and been more shocking to America, but the horrific domestic terrorist attack on January 6, 2021 likely did more damage to democracy and the American psyche. 9/11 had the effect of bringing the country together, at least to some degree. Severely unpopular president George W. Bush saw his positive numbers go through the roof. Donald Trump’s incitement of far-right extremists he helped radicalize to attack the Capitol, if not purposely so (hint: it was), was above all else successful at dividing the country as little else ever has. As an occurrence unto itself, the terrorist incursion into the Capitol Building may have been an utterly shocking event, but as a culminating, defining moment in the Trump Era, it was more of an expectation. Much more a question of when than if.

My Big, Beautiful, Very Strong And Powerful New Idea

As part of what will hopefully be the crushingly harsh punishment for their treasonous act of seizing the Capitol Building for the purpose of interfering with the Constitutional duties of Congress, perhaps intending to include kidnapping and murder, each and every one of these treacherous cretins should have their citizenship revoked until such time as they can pass the same test taken by immigrants wishing to acquire American citizenship. Normally, terrorists should not be allowed to ever become American citizens, but since these separatist shitheads are domestic terrorists who, according the United States Constitution, are citizens by birth (one assumes; haven't seen any birth certificates yet), we can cut them some slack.

If you recognize any of these terrorists, 1) what kind of scum do you 
hang around with, and 2) please notify authorities of their identities

Since many of these white-privileged extremists will have plenty of free time on their hands – assuming they can read, which I am not prepared to do – they will have every advantage to study American civics, the Constitution, American history and whatever else is necessary to pass a citizenship test.

I include among these treasonous parasites (one wonders how many of them are living off the largess of the federal government – we know the self-proclaimed Q shaman lives with his mother and worships Trump; no need to wonder about the endless assistance they receive from their white privilege), all the on and off duty police, all those members of Congress and their staff who aided and abetted this seditious shitshow, and particularly their Terrorist-in-chief.

Citizenship Pre-Test For Seditionists:

Question #1: What the fuck is wrong with you?

Question #2: What are you going to do about it? 

Maybe once these racist rubes learn what this country is, what it was, and what it is meant to be about, and perhaps become acquainted with the actual Constitution as opposed to the one they made up in their fevered heads, they will reconsider their need to destroy the very democracy they think they are trying to defend. After that, since obviously none of them are Jews, Muslims or any other non-Jesus-centric belief system, maybe they can take some time and learn what Jesus taught. Maybe they should also learn something about the religion that Jesus and all his apostles practiced throughout their lives.

That is all I have to say about that. For now.

I. Mangrey at your service.

Four More Days! Four More Days!

He Acted So Nice They IMPEACHED His Ass TWICE

January 16, 2021

Ten days ago, imminently-ex-president donald trump, braved the elements for several minutes in order to incite his mentally unstable, woefully ignorant and uncompromisingly racist (and of course anti-Semitic) faithful followers of insane conspiracy theories and a deranged president to descend on the Capitol Building like a plague of giant white locusts on PCP. Something tells me these militias are not particularly well-regulated.

Fearless Leader told the gullible, enraged throng to “fight” and that, “I’ll be right there with you,” which of course was complete bullshit as he immediately sought shelter (probably those damn bone spurs acting up again) and television so he could watch his American carnage in safety.

We need to fix this totally legitimate election. I’ll be right there 

with you, and Mexico will pay for your legal fees.

Before he hid, he planted the idea that Mike Pence was to blame for not doing the right thing. Trump let the psychotic mob know that Pence refused to renege on his oath to the Constitution, and somehow overturn the legitimate electoral victory of Joe Biden. Unsurprisingly no one, especially Trump, knows how that could even have been done. But once Trump gets an idea – no matter how blatantly absurd – stuck in the black hole between his ears, it can never be removed or changed in any way for any reason.  Mindlessly following the wishes of their demented leader, these crazed freaks were literally hoping to hang Pence – and who knows how many others. The very fine person wearing the stupid-fucking-furry-hat-with-horns, who pathetically believed himself a shaman, screamed at police, “We were invited here! We were invited here by the president of the United States.”

One or more of them had built a gallows, complete with noose, and one or more of this quasi-military operation was equipped with plastic handcuffs. And with the help of a newly elected QAnon member of Congress among other insiders who provided directions to specific offices, hoped to track down Nancy Pelosi, James Clyburn and an unknown number of elected officials on whom they intended to inflict mayhem and perhaps murder.

Make no mistake. Trump planted the seeds in 2016. He constantly watered the Tree of Tyranny, which grew into a Tree of Terror. He sent his mob to take over the Capitol, hold Congress hostage, and perhaps kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi for kicks so that there could be no final counting of the Electoral College votes, cementing his huuuuge defeat, sending him packing and on the road to justice, a word with which he is not the least familiar. He did this. Under the ever watchful eye of Mitch McConnell and the entire Republican’t Party.

Once the proud boys and girls had been removed from the Capitol after their mayhem had concluded and those authorities who were not busy aiding and abetting the insurrection, they showed their true colors. These brave patriots asshole lunatics and their equally brave enablers/co-conspirators over at Fux News whined about being mistreated. Even better, many of them insisted that the seditious siege had been the work of Antifa – the new bogey-man/scapegoat of the radical right. They tried to shift the blame despite the fact that after the damage to the Capital and our democracy had been done, trump told his troops, “Go home. We love you. You’re very special.”

Fortunately, these traitors are being tracked down one by one – in Florida, Hawai’i, Arkansas, and brought to justice. All, of course, except those whose day jobs are those of Fux News “personalities”, members of Congress, Vice President or the – for lack of a better word – mastermind, donald trump. Despite the cornucopia of video evidence over several months, it took another IMPEACHMENT to attempt to bring Trump to justice. Which of course was summarily ignored by Mitch McConnell, leaving it to others to force trump to pay for other of his many crimes.

I see dead people voting

Despite Trump having a sick sense – he sees dead people voting – he will not prevail either at the ballot box or the Electoral College, not in the courts, not anywhere. Despite asking Georgia Secretary of State (and long-time, inveterate disenfranchiser of black voters) to find 11,780 votes (from dead people?) Trump did not win Georgia. He begged his fellow racist and Trump supporter, “All I need is 11,000 votes. Give me a break.” Maybe Trump should have asked the Georgia voters to give him those votes. Oh wait, he did. And they didn’t.

Four more days! Four more days!

Meanwhile, Fucking Mitch McConnell has hinted that he might not be opposed to Trump’s IMPEACHMENT because it would help “purge Trump from the R**** Party.” Really? Now? Now that his deadly, seditious four years are up? Do you mind if I say “Fuck You Mitch!?” Fuck You Mitch! Regardless, I fervently hope that Trump will leave office with something he never had while in office – conviction. Maybe two. At long last, after more than 28 dog years, we can finally have some degree of confidence that we are witnessing Trump's final days. Unfortunately, this phrase must be qualified by the words "in office."

Enjoy your retirement Don.

I also hear Elba is nice this time of year.

I. Mangrey. I regret that I have but two hands to give the finger for my country.