September 3, 2022
Recently, in a
valiant and desperate effort to improve a tarnished public image, a determined
group of police officers in Arkansas beat the living crap out of a white
man who was accused of saying mean things to a convenience store clerk. Though their unique effort to prove all men are created equal, they did stop short of shooting him
in the back.
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police brutality.
A Clear And Ex-President Danger
September 2, 2022
Please tell me what I’m missing here.
Trump
apparently stuffed another bunch of highly classified documents that he stole
in a desk drawer in his office. Was there a padlock on his desk drawer? Or just
a note that said, “Do not touch?”
Co-defendency
Trump
and/or his lawyers lied to authorities, telling them that all classified that
trump stole had been returned. After much cajoling, demanding and subpoenaing,
it finally became necessary to send federal agents to recover more illegally
taken documents. Those lawyers are currently hiring their own criminal defense
attorneys. One of trump’s new lawyers argued in court that trump stealing
classified documents was no worse than possessing an “overdue library book.” I
rest my case.
Many
other people who did much less were arrested, put in prison and/or fined and/or
executed.
You may also recall that while “president” trump divulged sensitive information to the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office, publicly proclaimed that he trusted Vladimir Putin and not American intelligence, and incited an insurrection in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election and our democracy. Trump ate, flushed, shredded and burned documents with reckless and brainless abandon. A busy little bee was he. Oh, and he may be hiding even more classified documents in his gold-plated hell-hole.
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question is:
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What
A Fucking Mess! Clean Up In Asshole 45!!
September 1, 2022
A traitor-trove of stolen classified
documents were found in various locations at Mor-on-Lie-go, including in a desk drawer in a room called “45 Office.” The picture below was taken somewhere in trump’s
Florida resort.
Naturally, the box
on the right contains a framed copy of:
Accused sexual
predator protector (soon to be
immortalized in a documentary produced by George Clooney) Rep. Jim Jordan (R-WTF) who is in charge of the GQP House Judiciary Committee Twitter
feed paraded his idiocy for all to see...as usual:
No Jim, the TIME Magazine
cover was not a huge threat to national security, but the asshole on the cover
sure as fuck is. And you’re not such hot shit yourself.
Trump whined that he did not leave documents lying around on the floor, that the photo was staged.
Speaking of lying, if
trump says the FBI did it, we must by definition assume that trump is lying. We
can’t wait to hear the results of all the fingerprinting. It is unfortunately
possible that it will be difficult to decipher prints from such tiny fingers. Though
apparently, trump’s handwriting was found on a number of documents. What a
maroon.
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navel gazing.
August 31, 2022
10:00 PM Eastern
There is hope for humanity.
As you are well aware, we here at Paying Attention™ are not in the habit of blabbing good news, but with 93% of the vote in, but Mary Peltola has just been projected the surprise winner in a special congressional election in Alaska.
What’s
so good about that?
First of all, Peltola is a Native Alaskan and a Democrat, which would be good enough in itself. However, what makes this so much more special is the other candidate in the run-off. She was endorsed by donald trump’s and is someone with whom you might be familiar – the one, the only Sarah Palin.
Oh, and Mary Peltola will be the
first Democratic rep from Alaska since 1973, taking the seat held by Don Young for 50
years, before his passing. Peltola will hold the seat until having to run again in November to serve a full-term.
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August 31, 2022
Ratpublicans are absolutely sickened by the
invasion of our elementary schools by Drag Shows. They campaign on fighting
them off. Already-elected morons like Florida Governor Ron DuhSantis is running
off at the mouth at every opportunity to fight the scourge of drag queens
strutting their stuff for small children. Funny thing, this has never happened.
Ratpublican psychos have dreamed this shit up to frighten their brainless base.
To be fair, not all of them are brainless, just too many of them.
So let’s do the math. Drag queens are never in our schools (neither is CRT by the way). You know what is in our schools on a regular basis? Fucking assault weapons. In the hands of children. Children massacring children. With assault weapons. In schools. Schools that are completely bereft of drag queens. Drag queens who are universally without guns. Not shooting anyone in schools. Ever. In fact, we know of no mass shootings carried out by any drag queens anywhere. But especially not in our gun-addled schools. We leave the mass shootings up to hetero white males. In fact, Ratpublicans encourage it. They are unflinchingly in favor of mass shootings. And raping puppies. Tell your friends.
You know what else is a hoax? Ron Fucking DuhSantis.
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jocularity.
Protection
Racket: Is It Loud Enough For Ya?
August 30, 2022
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Intelligence Inverted
August 28, 2022
Back
in the day, I was among many on the Left who were perpetually suspicious about
the dealings of the United States intelligence community – FBI, CIA, NSA, and
all the other even more secretive organizations whose names were not known –
which had a verifiable history of skullduggery at home and abroad. At the root
of our suspicions, nay our displeasure, was their mission to protect the
wealthy and powerful. Not to mention their penchant for assassination, regime
change and corporate subjugation of developing nations. My, how times change…sort
of.
On
the flip side of this, just as many on the Left are essentially forced to root
for Intel community as they fight back white supremacists, white nationalists
and would-be theocratic autocrats, maybe the Feds are beginning to miss the
good old days when all they had to do was infiltrate Hippies and Yippies.
Unlike
today’s malcontents, who are a bunch of twisted neo-fascists, armed to the
teeth with military-style weapons, heads full of conspiracy theories, Adderal,
oxycontin and if they’ve even read it, a dangerous, twisted interpretation of
the Constitution.
There
is no reason to doubt that the driving force behind the intel community remains
what it has always been. But now it is those on the right who are not merely
suspicious, but are threatening violence against the FBI. One lone weasel even
attempted to attack FBI headquarters in Ohio; it did no go well for him.
Know What
Else Is Verrrry Interesting?
A record number of American intelligence assets around the world have been lost over the past year. A year, might I remind you, that sits smack dab in the middle of the two years, give or take, since disgraced, twice-impeached, ex-one-term-president and failed insurrection leader Donald Judas Trump began stealing classified documents from the White House. Some of the documents he stole contained classified material on human intelligence sources – you know, American spies and foreign nationals who betray their oppressive, murderous governments on behalf of the United States. It was well reported that Trump divulged an unknown number of state secrets while in office – including jeopardizing an ongoing Israeli operation by blabbing intelligence (a word you would otherwise never associate with Trump) to top Russian officials/spies IN THE OVAL OFFICE, after banning American press from the event.
It seems entirely possible that when a guy like that,
who has demonstrated absolutely no allegiance to America, and has never hesitated
to throw those loyal to him, or countries that voted for someone else, under the
bus or any other convenient vehicle, illegally absconds with sensitive top-secret
documents, there might be significant real-life consequences. Maybe it’s just a
coincidence.
The Justice
Department is in the process of determining exactly how much damage is being done by Trump’s
theft and subsequent lax handling of critical documents (i.e., leaving them scattered about at
Mor-on-Lardo, where anyone could access them, including in an
unlocked basement closet – or as Trump describes it, the most secure place in
the entire world).
I. Mangrey reporting. No classified documents
were harmed in the making of this post.
Cloudy With A Chance Of Civil War II
August 24, 2022
Thus far, the completely legal seizure of stolen documents by the FBI at Mor-on-Lardo, has been a huge boon for disgraced, twice-impeached, insurrectionist, ex-one-term-president and failed blogger Donald Turmp. The Traitor Tot is currently under suspicion of espionage (which we know full well he committed on numerous occasions while in office). As a result of their delusional take on the FBI raid, his minions are having a seizure seizure and Trump’s fundraising has gone through the roof. His once tenuous lead over Ron DuhSantis for the 2024 Ratpublican nomination has taken a turn for the better. And, his die-hard, brain-dead, gun-crazed cult members have declared war on the United States government and more than half of the populace, particularly non-Whites and non-Christians.
A Comedy Of Terrors
One might have thought Trump
would have had the good sense to hide the stolen
highly-classified-documents-that-could-land-him-in-jail in a better hiding
place, like maybe in Ivana's coffin at the first tee at Mor-on-Lardo. Can’t
imagine why one would think such a thing.
The most recently reported fun facts is that in
December 2021 the sociopathic shithead tiny-hand-picked more than 400
classified documents (some 1000 pages) to stash at Mor-on-Lardo. Pretty
interesting considering Turmp can barely read a tweet. Even more interesting for
someone who needed to have his security briefings accompanied by crayon drawings
in order to keep his damaged brain on message for more than 15 seconds at a
time. Oh yeah, then he lied to the National Archives, saying he turned over
everything the stole. But guess what, there was much more, which the FBI
finally had to go in and recover. Can you say WTF?
Say Hello To My Little Fingerprints
This reporter is looking forward to seeing the actual Mor-on-Lardo security cam video showing Trump rifling through classified documents trying to decide which ones would fetch the biggest payday.
With any luck, Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice will fully martyr this badly dyed dipshit and we can get on with this civil war. It may be unavoidable at this point, so we why not make the most of it. Nothing short of total capitulation to Trump will dissuade his troops from reliving their January 6 fever dream of violent insurrection/coup, though they will have to carry on without their shaman for the foreseeable future. So, the DOJ might as well serve up some justice before that too goes the way of abortion rights.
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Guess Who?*
August 23, 2022
Joe Manchin Schmucks Again
What can one say about something so cluelessly despicable? From the man who single-handedly pounded Joe Biden’s (more like Bernie Sanders’) ambitious, badly needed and extremely popular Build Back Better legislative package into oblivion. Was Mansion’s plan to run out America’s memory clock and suddenly appear to come to the “rescue” to be the guy who let something pass? And then blame the second most obvious and recalcitrant blood clot in the Democrats’ body politic?
Not that Sinema doesn’t deserve as much vilification as could
possibly be heaped upon her until she loses in the primary. Then she can go
back to Never Never Land and continue not growing up. I assume she has racked
up enough favors from big donors to keep her in blood money long after her
single term in office mercifully ends.
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*Purely
rhetorical since there is no way to guess such a thing during this time of
infinite stupidity, hate, incompetence and mind-blowing criminality.
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