Surviving PTSD (Post Turmp Stress Disorder)

Life Goes Off

March 11, 2021

Not surprising, but still no less deplorable, all 50 Ratpublican senators voted ‘Fuck-America’ on the American Rescue Plan Act – a piece of legislation actually designed to make America great again.

Turmp’s own eunuch Lindsey Graham breaks down in 

tears on learning that poor people will get money

According to non-existent sources claiming to be familiar with the emasculated senator from the Secession State (I think that’s on their license plates), Graham was overheard saying, “I don’t know how Democrats can just give money away to poor, and especially Black people. What did they ever do to deserve help? What have they ever done for this country? Why can’t these people just help themselves? Where are we going to get the money needed to give the wealthiest Americans another tax cut? Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that this bill will cost $1.9T, the exact same amount of our last tax cut to benefit the top 1% richest Americans during the last administration?”

According to an unverified report, Barack Obama told Joe Biden, “This is a big fucking deal.” Though not on a hot mic, like some people we know.

Dangerous, Delusional Dipshits

In the beginning of the pandemic, not only did we have no leadership from the top, the top dog sabotaged everything. He did not just ignore the problem, he mad sure that anyone who dared address the problem was ridiculed as he fought against fighting the virus. Go fucking figure.

Now that we have just a glimmer of hope with the emergence of vaccines, we are losing leader at the state level. One by one, governors are saying they have had enough of pretending to do the right things – staying away from crowds, social distancing when around others, and of course that most horrifying, tyrannical, freedom-crushing demand of all time – wearing a fucking mask.

So now it is increasingly up to individuals to do what is necessary to overcome both the virus pandemic and massive ignorance of people in positions of power, alleged leaders who are clearly too stupid to dress themselves…with s simple fucking mask. But leaders/elected officials are people. No better, though in many cases, very possibly worse, than you and me.

Speaking of people, a crowd of Idahoan idiots gathered round a burn barrel and burned up a bunch of masks. I have to admit to being impressed that they took the masks off first. Impressed, but not pleased.

Not to be rude, but why can’t these people just get sick and suffer

These mentally defective dimwits were inspired by Idaho Ratpublican State Representative Karey Hanks who said she has “done some research” which showed that masks can cause injuries to “even our souls.” You know what they say, too many kooks spoil the lives of millions of innocent people. Or was that broth?

In 1963 a Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc immolated himself to protest the policies of the corrupt South Vietnamese government. You know, the one our country later decided to back in a horribly unjust war that tore this country apart. At that time majority of the Vietnamese population were Buddhist. They faced horrible discrimination, a kind of systemic racism you might say, at the hands of President Ngô Đình Diệm, a member of the minority Roman Catholic population. I think these Idahoan mask burners should go one better and emulate Duc. That will teach those damned scientists and reality-based losers.

C’mon Idaho, stop being such wimpy losers and put your fire
where your mouth is - where your mask should be

I. Mangrey reporting.
                                                                                              

                                                                            

Make Reality Great Again

So Much Stupid, So Little Time

March 8, 2021

What passed for reality between June 16, 2015 and January 20, 2021 was unlike anything we have seen in this country in our lifetime. The last administration may have provided ludicrous, redundant tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, who just happen to be almost exclusively white males, but it taxed the fuck out of most of us. Economically, emotionally, and physically. I think I am suffering from Post Turmp Stress Disorder: There are still times when I start twitching for a moment when I hear the words “The president said…”

As usual, the latest prediction/delusion from the all-powerful Q failed to materialize spectacularly. For some reason the Earth did not swallow up Joe Biden and Donald Turmp was not inaugurated on March 4th. Next up for Q-anon – mixing up some cocktails for the return of the Hale-Bopp Comet.

Kill The Bill

When last we met, multi-millionaire senator Ron “Undaunted Dumbass” Johnson (R-WTF) was poised to exercise his right as both senator and fucking asshole to have senate clerks read aloud the 628-page COVID-19 relief package – the American Rescue Plan Act – on a mostly empty senate floor. Johnson, having invoked this idiotic stunt, was required to personally sit through the entire proceeding. This stunning and futile gesture wasted the nation’s time from around 3:20 p.m. Thursday to just past 2:00 a.m. on Friday.

Ron Johnson cuts off his own nuts as the bill prevailed

Johnson, the most delusional senator currently serving, if not of all time, who repeatedly reads conspiracy theories, and Russian propaganda into the record, insisted on this fruitless exercise because he wanted the American people to see just how horrible this rescue package was. Needless to say, just shy of no one witnessed this latest Ratpublican assault on poor and middle class Americans, democracy and common sense. It would not be surprising to learn that Johnson was ignorant of (among countless other things) the fact that 79% of the American public, including 60% of Republicans, view Biden’s proposal favorably. Probably because they desperately need the help this bill provides in order to survive. Did you hear that Joe Manchin?

Manchin caused debate on the literally life-saving legislation (which stands to cut child poverty in half) to come to a grinding halt for nine hours on Friday while he decided whether or not to screw his fellow Democrats and the American public who elected Biden and Democrats generally because of the promise of passing legislation like the American Rescue Plan Act and side with Mitch Fucking McConnell and the racist, classist, fascist Ratpublicans, who have proven more and more with each passing day, that they absolutely despise people of color, people of low economic standing, and democracy.

Funny thing, once the reading ended and Johnson left the floor, Democrats jumped in and changed the time allotted for debate on the bill from 20 hours to three. And there were no Ratpublicans there to object, so the change will stand. So, in the end Johnson instead of delaying the inevitable passage of the bill by eleven hours, managed to speed the process up by six hours.

In the end, Manchin’s indecent indecision managed to get Ratpublicans their six hours (plus three more) of time wasting before finally siding with his own party, so I guess he can at least feel proud about that. And as everyone in Washington, DC knew all along, the bill made it through the Senate. Not one single Ratpublican, neither in the Senate or the House voted with 76% of Americans to pass Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. Fuck ‘em all.

Millionaires Murder Minimum Wage

In addition to Manchin, six other Democrats (plus Independent Angus King) voted against raising the federal minimum wage to the recommended and still paltry $15/hour (which would be raised incrementally, making all of this even more pathetic). Considering how many hours a week these people actually do the people’s work, it would be great to see how well they would survive on $7.25/hour – the federal minimum wage since 2009, which is worth about $8.84 today. Unfortunately, this increase is smaller than the inflation rate during that time, so that $7.25 is actually worth around $6.00. Two-thirds of Americans, none of whom are millionaires, favor the raise. See the net worth of the eight Dem senators who voted against raising the minimum wage:

Sinema, not yet a millionaire, but senators “earn” $174,000/yr

One More Stupid Fucking Thing

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Nazi Germany), at the tender age of 25 is already a true Ratpublican. He appears to have been a serial sexual assaulter, has lied about practically every aspect of his life story, and loves him some Nazis. Cawthorn went on a pilgrimage to Adolph Hitler’s (yes, that Adolph Hitler) mountain retreat – the Eagle’s Nest in 2017. He posted several gleeful and triumphant selfies on Instagram, referring to Hitler as the Fuhrer (including the umlaut which takes more effort than I am willing exert): “The vacation house of the Fuhrer. Seeing the Eagles Nest has been on my bucket list for awhile (sic). It did not disappoint.” I don’t even have a bucket list, but if I did, guess what would not be on it. Cawthorn later insisted, “I’m not a Nazi. I’m not a white supremacist.” Nuff said. He did not mention if some of his best friends were Nazis.

What a lucky motherfucking sonofabitch, living out his Nazi dream

The new Ratpublican wunderkind promised that his first act after being sworn in would “be to object to the Electoral College certification of the 2020 election.” A few weeks before the Capitol insurrection, Cawthorn told an audience, “Get on the phone, call your congressman, and feel free – you can lightly threaten them.” I must have missed that part of the First Amendment. Madison Cawthorn, another great self-proclaimed Nazi patriot. Someone should look into the voting irregularities that got him elected.

I. Mangrey reporting. Happy International Women's Day

Democrats Behaving Badly

Bad (Blue) Dog! Bad (Blue) Dog!

March 5, 2021

Andrew Cuomo is making Al Franken look like Mike Pence (sorry Al, but you know what I mean). Franken was pilloried for less offensive behavior than what Cuomo is being accused of, and Franken's "offenses" took place long before he was in office. Also, dozens and dozens of female co-workers vouched for Franken; I have yet to hear anyone stand up for Cuomo. To make matters worse, the junior senator from Cuomo's home state, Kirsten Gilibrand, who was instrumental in causing Franken's political demise has yet to offer up a peep against Cuomo. This makes me more pleased than ever that Gilibrand was blamed and shamed for her role in giving Franken the bum's rush without any investigation, let alone any kind of hearing.

Cuomo: “I never touched anyone inappropriately.”

She is not looking longingly into his eyes.

If there was ever a time when Democrats should act more like Ratpublicans and let one of their own get away with something, it would have been with Al Franken, but not Andrew Cuomo. This is true, even without getting into Cuomo’s fudging the numbers of nursing home deaths to make it look like he was doing a heck of a job with the coronavirus in New York State. He was not, even though he was on TV every day saying he was.

Shitty Joe Manchin

West Virginia’s “Democratic” Senator Joe Manchin is suddenly feeling a need to be…well, act principled. Manchin voted to confirm 20 nominees of the previous administration, who had histories of behavior much more egregious than Neera Tanden, whose nomination to Biden’s cabinet Manchin has single-handedly canceled. He said he didn’t like the combative tone of some of Tanden’s tweets. Really? Did Tanden talk about grabbing anyone by the balls? Has Manchin been unconscious for the past five years? Don’t bother answering that.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pointed out that Manchin had no problem voting to confirm fellow white male Jeff Sessions as Turmp’s attorney general despite his history of, shall we say, racial insensitivity. Surely it is a coincidence that Manchin, senator from the third whitest state in the Union – at 93% – has been fine with snarky, sexist, racist white guys, but gets his knickers in a twist over an Asian American woman who dared say things out loud that many people are thinking. Did I mention Tanden went after people on both sides of the aisle? Nonetheless, her nomination was ultimately withdrawn. Manchin will continue to serve as senator, and jeopardize all manner of progressive legislation for years to come.

Manchin is also currently working to kill the possibility of passing $15 federal minimum wage, though he had no objection to handing over huge and wholly unnecessary and undeserving sums of money to America’s richest assholes, the vast majority of whom are white males, in the form of tax cuts. The senator is also fighting against allowing too many people to get more rescue funds and increased unemployment benefits during this current pandemic crisis. This is bound to effect many of his constituents in West Virginia where the minimum wage is $8.75. Not that there’s anything right with that.

It’s my money, I’m saving it for rich, white guys, and you can’t have any.

Manchin has also expressed unyielding refusal to end the racist, Jim Crow-sustaining filibuster. Naturally, besides being affected disproportionately health-wise, black business owners are suffering dire consequences of the pandemic/recession. As you might expect, there are disparities between American white owned businesses people and those owned by all minority groups. The largest disparities are typically with Black entrepreneurs and could put a generation of Black entrepreneurs out of business. I am not saying the Joe Manchin is a racist. Nor am I saying he is not.

Of The Rich/White People, By The Rich/White People, For The Rich/White People

Never to be outdone when it comes to behaving badly, Ratpublicans are planning to do everything possible to gum up the works in passing Joe Biden’s COVID-19 rescue package. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WTF) is invoking a rarely-used ploy, insisting that the entire 628-page bill be read aloud to the Senate (likely because he is unable to read it himself) before the 20-hour make-believe debate on the Senate floor, before the actual vote can take place. Apparently, it’s not enough that these rich, white motherfuckers do not want regular folks to receive a pittance of the money they pay in taxes, most of which goes either to building useless military equipment or gets hijacked to support rich white motherfuckers, in order to meet the bare minimum of survival.

Ron Johnson, wasting valuable oxygen

For the record, Ron “Bet He’s Dumber Than He Looks And Sounds” Johnson is worth more than $10,000,000 and Joe Manchin-of-the-people is worth upwards of $7,000,000. More than everyone I know put together. Probably more than the collective wealth of half the people in West Virginia – the state Manchin claims to represent. But, God forbid single moms should be paid a living wage. (Fun fact: $15/hour was a good idea 20 years ago; now, not so much.) Manchin is not the richest senator, probably not by a longshot, but he is rich enough to STFU when it comes to rescuing desperate, struggling American families with a little bit of cash that will, by the way, help to stimulate the national economy. Oh, and will keep millions of children from starving to death. To be fair, it was after all rich, white, male assholes who founded this nation, mostly for their own benefit. So I guess things are working pretty much as the framers intended.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Fun With Fascists

Profa

March 4, 2021

Just as we did see dead people voting (although very few) we now know that there were in fact fake insurrectionists on January 6^th laying siege to the Capitol. There were, as Ratpublicans everywhere have been insisting, some rioters who were not who they appeared to be.

Funny thing though. After all the ballyhooing from Team Turmp about millions of dead people voting for Joe Biden, the infinitesimal number of dead people who managed to vote in the 2020 election did so for the guy who was NOT Joe Biden. Funny in a sort of wish-you-didn’t-own-a-television-or-computer-and-had-been-born-in-a-different-time sort of way.

(Brain)Dead people heading to the polls

Similarly, Turmpers and their media cheerleaders have been caterwauling about all the Antifa and Black Lives Matter people posing as Turmpers, Proud Boys, neo-nazis, white supremacists and all manner of domestic terrorist MAGA shitheads to make it look like the guy who clearly incited the mob, incited the mob. And make it look like those in the mob who had long been chomping at the bit to fuck democracy (and blacks, Jews, Asians, Latinos, etc.), had finally been able to live out their fantasy. It turns out that there were in fact posers in the cretinous crowd that day.

Stupid Are As Stupid Do

One painfully obvious exception that proves the rule of evolution, bragged to his brother that he was among the “Antifa Trump supporters” during the January 6^th terror attack on the Capitol. This very fine Turmp lover who is now facing numerous charges, told a group chat, which included his brother, that he “fought 4 cops,” who “were ordered to allow Antifa to get away with anything.” He also bragged, “I got a nice helmet and body armor off a cop for God’s sake and I disarmed him.” His brother replied, “What the actual fuck is wrong with you?” and told another friend what a moron his brother was. That friend alerted the FBI as to the idiot’s identity.

Others who stormed the Capitol on the fateful day have expressed great displeasure at those who dared contend that Antifa were posing as right wing-assholes in order to make right wing assholes attacking Congress look like right-wing assholes.

FBI Director Chris Wray recently testified in Senate hearings that there was absolutely zero evidence of any Antifa or Black Lives Matter presence at the treasonous terror attack on the Capitol on January 6^th. And you know, if the Feds could find a way to pin any or all of this horrific assault on the government on the Left, they would have done it.

These Are Not The Dopes You're Looking For...Oh Wait, Yes They Are

Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, yet right here and right now, the alternative geniuses over at Q-anon are, as we speak preparing for Turmp to be inaugurated today, March 4^th. Unbeknownst to Q-a-nuts, as with most things in the Constitution, while the original inauguration date of March 4 was changed with the passage of the Twentieth Amendment (yes Q, there is more to the Constitution than the Second Amendment – there’s a whole bunch of stuff before it and some after) in 1933. If you want to move it back, you will need to amend the Constitution – it’s a process – get someone to look it up and explain it to you. You cannot simply pretend there is no Twentieth Amendment and/or perpetrate further violence at the Capital and inaugurate the blob of your choice.

I. Mangrey reporting. My brain hurts.

Words For The Day

Don’t Be Anti-Semantic

February 28, 2021

Sometimes it is best to be precise with language. We are all familiar with the Bush II-era Orwellian “Clean Air Act” that was anything but - just one example among too many to mention. Many on the right have taken the dire warning of Orwell’s 1984 instead as a handbook on how to weaponize language.

Despite our best efforts, what we say and what any given listener hears are not always exactly the same thing. This is unavoidable. However, it is still worthwhile to try our best to minimize the potential for misunderstanding. Especially when one party is purposely ignorant and/or delusional. Today’s focus is on some descriptive phrases we at Paying Attention believe need to be etched in electronic stone, and become common parlance for journalists and the populace at large in an effort to keep our language clean, our heads straight and the wolves at bay.

Climate Crisis

Different phraseology has been used to describe the dramatic changes in the Earth’s long-term weather patterns, which have been irrefutably proven to be caused in no small part by human activity, and which have led to drastic and deadly weather events across the globe. It is not global warming; after all, there are snowballs.

And idiots with snowballs in February in the Senate

Pictured here, Sen. Jim Inhoffe (R-not OK)

It is not climate change; most people are simply either too stupid or too misinformed to grasp the nuance of the fact that the planet's climate is undergoing unnatural, largely human-caused changes. Some places get hotter, some colder, some wetter, some drier. None of it is good, and denying its reality does not exempt anyone from suffering its consequences. On top of all that, the situation is simply and obviously nothing less than a crisis.

Radical Right-Wing Terrorists

They could just as easily be called Radical White-Wing Terrorists. They have gone beyond being good old-fashioned insurrectionists. According to the Congressional testimony of acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, we learned of threats (Plans?) to “blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union” during Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address, currently planned for some time in March.

Turmp-inspired radical white wing terrorists attack Capitol

Or perhaps Turmp’s army of mental defectives will attack on March 4^th, the day these deranged douchebags have decided that their Lard and Savior Don Turmp will finally be restored to the throne and Joe Biden (and one imagines, all Democrats…and blacks…and Jews) will be locked up for treason. Or simply killed, just to be on the safe side. Final solution 2.0.

Mitch Fucking McConnell

Many people are unaware of Moscow Mitch’s middle name. It’s not that he is not proud of it. It really is not surprising, after all, he has been having his way with our democracy for far too many years now.

McConnell voted not to acquit TWICE IMPEACHED ex-Fake president Turmp after the latter’s second impeachment trial for inciting the violent January 6^th assault on the Capitol. After the reprehensible vote to acquit, Mitch Fucking McConnell immediately took to the floor of the Senate and pretended he believed Turmp should be processed through the criminal justice system for the crimes McConnell pretended he believed were committed by the leader of his party; you know, the ones Mitch Fucking McConnell had just voted to ignore.

Although it is not uncommon to hear people refer to the soulless ghoul from Kentucky as Fucking Mitch McConnell, this is incorrect, though no less appropriate. In this case it is probably acceptable to use either variation.

More recently Mitch was asked if would support Turmp if the disgraced fascist who tried to incite his cult members to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States once again became the nominee of the humiliated Ratpublican Party in 2024. Asked if he would support the nominee of his fascist, racist party, the man McConnell said was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the [January 6^th terrorist assault on the Capitol], no doubt about it”, McConnell’s response was, “The nominee of the party? Absolutely.” Mitch Fucking McConnell is always prepared to take a principled stand on being unwaveringly unprincipled.

Neera Tanden was chastised, and her nomination as Director of the Office of Management and Budget scuttled in part for accurately referring to Fucking McConnell as “Moscow Mitch.” Everyone knows it is more respectful to refer to him as Moscow Mitch Fucking McConnell. Hopefully, Tanden will do better going forward.

Admittedly, this one might be a bit harder to get past censors on most news programs, but does not make it any less important for codifying it into the vernacular and bringing further clarity and precision to our everyday discourse.

Some General Semantic Rules Of Engagement

It is not wrong to call a fascist a fascist. No need to be shy about calling a racist a racist. And do not be afraid to admit that a Nazi symbol is a Nazi symbol, even when it shows up where big names in the Ratpublican Party gather to spew racist, fascist bullshit. Make no mistake it is now, more than ever, the Republican/National Fascist  Party. Remember, not all white supremacists are neo-Nazis, but all neo-Nazis are white supremacists, and not all Ratpublicans are neo-Nazis, but all neo-Nazis are Ratpublicans. And all white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and a majority of all Ratpublicans worship Turmp. Does anyone really notsee what is going on here?

CPAC stage in the shape of an Odal rune symbol worn by Nazi SS guards

and still in use by neo-Nazis. Any questions?

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Conservatives Pulverize American Principals

Solid Gold Shithead

February 27, 2021

On top of the climate crisis pummeling countries across the globe, and currently beating Texas to a pulp, America is also facing a Stupid Crisis (as is much of the world). As if the brutally stupid and deadly January 6, 2021 white terror attack on the Capitol was insufficient evidence of the intractable idiocy beginning to suffocate sanity and democracy, the next stop on the Stupid Train to Nowhere is this weekend’s CPAC conference, which features a panoply of dim bulbs hoping to keep the Big Lie alive and further rile up the mindless millions who follow Turmp like rats to the Pied Piper. That is not an analogy, not a metaphor. Just plain fact. A bunch of white rats following the whiny sound of the Orange Ogre as he leads them to who knows where.

In less psychotic times, CPAC was a place where conservatives would yell about their terrible policies, policies which invariably favored their base…of donors, having the exact opposite effect on the electorate they nonetheless successfully court year after year, despite perpetually ruining their lives. There will be no talk of policy this year; it would take time away from continuing to lie and whine that the election was stolen from them and that Turmp was, in (alternative) reality, still president.

This year’s CPAC features countless delusional douchebags too numerous and painful to mention, but including the likes of Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert, Don, Jr., a couple Huckabees and of course, the King of Losers – Turmp himself. They all are hoping to inspire another violent terror attack on the government of the United States of America, which they will promptly deny inciting.

Already, Cruz took time out of his delirious diatribe to slam Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who (I guess, disgracefully?) raised $5M dollars to help families in Texas while Ted “Don’t Mess With Cancún” Cruz was attempting to abandon his post in Cancún while his constituents faced death and destruction. Which at this point probably seems favorable to facing Ted Cruz.

Holy Moses, Fatman!

A fake gold, false idol to the real idle: I guess they couldn’t find a golden calf

Completely immune to irony, reason and reality itself, the party of Turmp is holding its annual gathering, and to kick things off they brought in a Golden Cow (above) to bow down to. These self-professed good Christians see no irony in worshipping Mammon, the modern-day personification of whom will be regaling and debasing the guileful crowd as the keynote shrieker. The Cult of Turmp are clearly and vehemently unfamiliar with both the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, both of which they claim to revere.

And now, this musical interlude…

Timbuk3 - Standard White Jesus

To open the event, some poor woman was tasked with pleading for the crowd to be so kind as to wear masks when squashed shoulder-to-shoulder as they scream in each other’s feckless faces listening to one delusional, traitorous speaker after another over the course of the weekend. The poor messenger was promptly greeted with booing and people yelling, “Freedom!” I wonder how many of these fine people have gotten Joe Biden’s vaccines.

I. Mangrey recoiling.

EARTH FIRST!

Perseverance Is On Mars, But We’re Still On Earth

February 23, 2021

The Senate is holding hearings on a number of Joe Biden’s cabinet positions this week. Once Senate Ratpublicans finished fucking up Turmp’s second impeachment trial, the calendar opened up for other business. Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, is facing stiff opposition because she said and tweeted mean things about a number of politicians – on both sides of the aisle, mind you – and lord knows, we can’t have someone in a position of authority in DC who once said mean things. Unless of course, that person is a racist, misogynist, Ratpublican president who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and tweeted insane, vicious bullshit about every five minutes. For the record, most of Tanden’s mean tweets and comments were accurate. Anyway, that’s not exactly what I came here to talk about today.

Congresswoman Deb Haaland

In a decision that is more than 200 years overdue, Deb Haaland, who along with Sharice Davids, became one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the U.S. Congress in 2018, is Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior. Haaland is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo from New Mexico. Haaland likes to say that she is a 35^th generation American. Rather that the customary white male, most of whom were – sometimes literally – in bed with the fossil fuel industry, America might have our first Interior Secretary who will fight to the death to keep the Earth from being murdered instead of so many who believed the Earth was nothing more than a giant litter box for humans – one which they never quite explained or cared about who might periodically empty it out, or how.

Ratpublicans are upset at the thought of Haaland becoming Interior Secretary because, according to a tweet by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, “Interior secretary nominee has joined pipeline protests and opposed fracking.” Damn fucking straight, you motherfracking asshole.  

The time for seriously addressing the climate crisis that is well underway, and already causing billions of dollars of damage, not to mention deaths. The climate crisis is also implicated in providing more fertile ground for the type of virus pandemic are currently face. we need a strong unwavering voice, the type that seemingly can only come from someone whose family has lived in North America before the original "illegal aliens" arrived here. There is simply no time to lose in turning things around and disconnecting our mindset and our economy from our obsession with fossil fuels and all other technologies and practices that are causing such significant damage to our planet and our personal health and survival.

Please consider going here to sign the petition, or maybe make some phone calls to your senators and pass the petition along to help see to it that Deb Haaland is our next Secretary of the Interior. You, your children and their children for seven generations will be glad you did.

I. Mangrey requesting. No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!

Thought For The Day

February 20, 2021

This Just In

Researchers have determined that after only one month in office, Joe Biden has already worked more hours than the last guy did in four whole debilitating, demoralizing, demonstrably disastrous years. To be fair, Biden has devoted absolutely no time whatsoever to making money off of taxpayers by golfing at one of his opulent resorts, rage tweeting incessantly from his toilet, or watching eight-to-ten hours a day of Fux News. I bet if he was doing all of those very presidential things he would not get nearly as much done.

As president, Biden has prioritized not being a dick

And as an extra added bonus, Biden has made serious efforts to stop people from dying rather than making absolutely certain that hundreds of thousands of them do. I guess everyone needs a hobby. Biden does not even seem to know how to speak of himself in the third person.

I wish President Biden luck trying to get anything done without the help of Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller.

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Profiles In Damage, Part II

Profiles In Garbage

February 19, 2021

In Profiles In Damage, Part I, we discussed just how horrible the Ratpublican Party is, has been, and likely will continue to be. Even in the so-called absence of their failed, disgraced, ex-reality TV celebrity and alleged serial rapist, and more recently twice-IMPEACHED fake-believe president. We pick up the story with a few specific examples of moronic, hypocritical, anti-democratic bullshit.

Everyone now knows that a large majority of the Ratpublican Party stands behind the un-American cretin they chose to follow in 2016. They are pretending that all he ever did while riling up his tiny-brained minions before they stormed the Capitol was exercise his First Amendment rights. The First Amendment does not give you the right to yell “You’re fired!” in a crowded Capitol, even if you are the world’s biggest asshole. Apparently, Ratpublicans believe that Second Amendment remedies are necessary for sorting out issues with the First or whatever it is they think they’re doing.

Ratpublican Who’s Who Of WTF

Ratpublicans all across the land are busy censuring everyone in their own party who had the unmitigated gall to stand up for truth, justice and the American way. Oh, and that Constitution thingie. All of these life-long rat-fuckers, most of whom voted unwaveringly along party lines with the brief and likely singular exception of this one time, have become personae non grata among the faithful in the party that is now owned lock, stock and smoldering gun barrel by Donald Turmp. And I say verily unto them, go fucketh thyselves to hell.

On Presidents Day (which should cease to be a holiday until such time as this nation atones for “electing” Donald Turmp) Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan sent a three-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, casting the blame for the January 6^th Capitol attack at her feet. Both of these marshmallow-brained criminals (Nunes was sharing secret information with Turmp during the Russia investigation and Jordan was accused of looking the other way when fellow wrestling coach was sexually abusing student wrestlers at Ohio State) were given Medals of Freedom, as was finally-dead human wrecking ball Rush Limbaugh, presumably for their horrendous deeds against humanity.

Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan

Wisconsin super genius, somehow senator and two term loser Ron Johnson decided to weigh in on the storming of the U.S. Capitol last month, saying on conservative talk radio Monday that it “didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me.” To be fair, it must be difficult for him to know what is going on with his head so far up his ass. Johnson would lose a debate with a man in a coma. Let's just say Ku Klux Ron is 51 cards short of a full deck.

Perhaps best and most honest of all, Dave Ball, Washington County, Pennsylvania Ratpublican Party Chair said of Pat Toomey's vote to convict Turmp, “We did not send him there to vote their conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing, or whatever it is you think he’s doing…” Proving once again that even on those rare occasions when they tell the truth, they absolutely suck.

The last honest Ratpublican

Everyone saw what happened on January 6, 2021. Everyone knows why and how it happened. Everyone knows who detonated the improvised explosive device Ratpublicans have been assembling for so long on that fateful, disgraceful day. His deed earned him a SECOND IMPEACHMENT, only to escape justice once again thanks to those who birthed, nurtured and protected him against American democracy.

According to Alex Tausanovitch Director, Campaign Finance and Electoral Reform at Center for American Progress, 34 Ratpublican senators representing just 14.5% of population can block conviction of president who tried to violently overthrow American democracy.

Maybe I'm unable to be objective, but I defy anyone to show me a box of hammers the likes of Johnson, Louie Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Steve King, Devin Nunes, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Greene, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Kevin McCarthy, Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham or Donald Turmp in the Democratic Party.

Rats Refuse To Leave Stinking Ship

Naturally, it is not just the elected Ratpublicans who are the problem. A Politico poll taken shortly after the IMPEACHMENT debacle of February 13^th found that only 27% of Ratpublicans held Turmp at least partly responsible for the horrific attack on the Capitol, while 46% of these very fine people (one assumes) put at least partial blame on…no, for once it was not Barack Obama…Joe Biden. The other 27% blamed windmills, Jews and the Muppets. Currently, 68% of Ratpublicans want Turmp to remain the party leader, while 31% want anything else.

One very big rat did actually abandon ship, albeit temporarily. Texas toast/senator Ted Cruz was spotted fleeing his home state while millions of his constituents, most of whom are getting what they deserve, suffer with a freak storm (that clearly has nothing to do with any kind of climate crisis) that pummeled Mexico’s northern-most territory with mountains of snow and almost-unheard-of freezing temperatures, plunging much of the state into darkness. Cruz first blamed his daughters for talking him into heading south to Cancun, before trotting out various “explanations” in search of the least damning excuse. After being spotted and outed on social media, the Texas Weasel turned tail and ran all the way home to attempt damage control.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, home from his failed vacation

I. Mangrey trying to breathe.