Friday, January 17, 2025

Schmuck Of The Day – OMG

Oh My Garland

January 17, 2025

I had high hopes for Merrick Garland. When Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court – before Bitch McConnell stole that possibility from Obama, Garland and the American people – word on the street was that he had support on both sides of the wall…I mean aisle, and was known as a thoughtful, unbiased jurist who strictly adhered to nothing but justice.


Merrick Garland, apoplectic

After watching him in action these past four years, I see now that he has much in common with God.

Garland has overseen the Justice Department in the same way that God oversees his creation. For four years, at least as far as concerns Donald Trump, Garland just sat there watching over all the chaos and crimes while doing absolutely nothing to further the cause of humanity, despite the endless entreaties, thoughts and prayers to help humankind rid itself of the malignancy of MAGA.

Maybe Trump’s pick to take Garland’s place – bleach-blond, bad-brained, bullshit bitch Pam Bondi – a devout election denier, who under oath at her Senate confirmation hearing would not say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and who spent a good deal of time shilling for Trump’s Big Lie will take the DOJ helm and stick to the letter of the law in order to protect and defend the Constitution of The United States.



I. Mangrey regurgitating.

Broken News – A Promise To Our Readers

Keepin' It Real

January 17, 2025

Once the Onslaught, Part II begins officially, the Paying Attention™ team will likely be working triple-over-overtime. Most of the staff is already tripled over in pain. But considering more than half of America has already bitten their fingernails down to the first knuckle, we are prepared to do whatever it takes to keep you informed, inflamed, amused and disabused until this thing blows over. 

Out in the surreal world, many people are saying that it would be hard to resist going artificial. In fact, just the other day an angry mob - big, strong, angry mob - came up to me on the street, tears in their eyes, and like a brain-damaged Greek chorus spake unto me…

Mob leader, Marcie

“Sir, we have never cried before but sir, we beseech you please stop with all the human-generated content on your beautiful, very strong and very powerful blog. Get with the program and turn it over to the all-powerful, all-knowing, so-much-smarter and more creative AI gods. Maybe then you will get a real, albeit inferior human audience. Good luck sir.”

No Artificial Ingredients

Before Trump’s new bountiful batch of fresh feces hits the windmills, we wanted to assure everyone that we have always been and always will be AI-free. Fuck that shit.

I kid you not – this little piece of shit started showing up
as I wrote what you just read and now won’t go away
Alt + i – get it? How artificially clever.

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled alternative reality.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Half-Assed

The Whining, Part 4,382

January 16, 2025

Heeeere’s Donny

I can’t believe these words are about to come out of my fingers, but here goes. I have to agree with Donald Trump. Dear Leader has been apoplectic – quite the surprise, I know – about the fact that flags will be at half-mast during his (GULP!) inauguration. Trump, and now his malignant minions are all atantrum about Baby Huey...I mean Donny being disrespected by respecting someone else. Because anything that is not strictly about him will soon be illegal.

Flags are meant to remain at half-mast (traditionally for 30 days after the death of a president) through the upcoming, upchucking Inauguration Day out of respect for the recent passing of former president Jimmy Carter, who had more integrity in his pinky toenail than Donald Trump has over four generations, starting with his draft-dodging grandfather, through his racist, cheating father and finding safe haven currently in his morally-defective spawn.

In response to Baby Donny’s whining, kicking and screaming, Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson and at least eight Fascist/Trump Party governors are going to once again show their disdain for tradition, respect and democracy by returning their flags to full-mast for president-elect Snowflake’s big day.

Despite Trump’s mewling and lies to the contrary – quite the surprise, I know – this has happened before. Flags were at half-staff when Nixon was sworn in due to the recent death of Harry Truman.

I don’t think the flags should be lowered because Jimmy Carter recently passed away. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have no problem with them being lowered in Carter’s honor/memory. But truly, all flags should be at half-mast because Donald Trump is being sworn in as president. And they should remain so until such time as this nation has recovered – if it ever will – from the reign of terror, vengeance, oligarchic authoritarianism and mass stupidity we are about to witness and with any luck, live through.

Fuck this clown. And when I say clown, think John Wayne Gacy. The Killer Clown.



I. Mangrey vomiting.

                                                                   

Monday, January 13, 2025

Schmuckerberg Of The Day – Guess Who

Forget To Like This Post

January 13, 2025

In a stunningly predictable move (more like what-took-so-long than what the fuck) Mark Fuckerberg announced that F$&*book and others of his pratforms will stop bothering with fact checking. Because that is what Der Furor wants. The little shit is also terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately – including for hiring, training and picking suppliers – to further suck up to the hate-filled fascist regime about to descend on the American landscape, well, what’s left of it. And just to be safe, in order to prove his undying loyalty to Der Furor, Fuckerberg put a whacko Trump suck-up on the F$&*book board.

When Trump was asked if he thought Fuckerberg caved because of Trump’s threats against him, Trump replied, “Probably.” Like that was just the way business is done. Well, it’s gonna be now.

So, which of my new AI-generated hairdos is more pathetic?
The Donald or the Rand?
I can change to something else if you will like me.

In honor of Fuckerberg’s cowardice, if you have a F$&*book or Instascam account or any of Fuck’s platforms, you should begin regularly posting things like “Mark Fuckerberg fucks dead cats.” Or, “Mark Fuckerberg eats his own feces* for breakfast every day on his Froot Loots.” Or, “Mark Fuckerberg is Trump’s sniveling little bitch.”

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*You want to keep it classy.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuckerberg Of The Day. Fuck yeah.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Pic Of The Day

Buying Greenland By The Pound   

January 11, 2025

Please enjoy this screen capture out of Denmark, the country Trump intends to wrest by force from Denmark (after he conquers Canada and Panama and after Mexico not only pays for, but builds the wall Trump wants) if they don’t relent to his entreaties to buy Greenland for $24 worth of beads.

Dumb, Jr. recently took his dumb ass to Greenland for some reason known only to the Trump Crime Family, perhaps to make Greenland an offer they couldn’t understand.

Not sure what it says at the bottom, but I’m betting it’s not “Don, Jr. he’s our man. If he can’t do it no one can.”

This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.

Friday, January 10, 2025

Thought For The Day – What Is A Subject And A Predicate, Alex?

Finish This Sentence: Donald Trump Is A…

January 10, 2025

Deranged, dementia-addled, disgraced, twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and ex-one-term-president – NOW with 34 felony convictions and a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card from his Supreme(ly anti-democratic) Court Donald Trump cannot finish a sentence.

It looks like Judge Juan Merchan can.*

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*Unfortunately, Trump will suffer no punishment. No jail time. He won’t have to go to bed without dessert or go to his room without television. Not even a slap on his tiny wrist. He doesn’t even have to show up to have a finger wagged in his artificially-dyes, naturally stupid face. The thug doesn’t even have to show up in person. He and his idiot attorney will probably Zoom in from the golf course. So it goes.


This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Broken News

Laser Focused

January 9, 2025

This is seriously horrific. The fires in southern California are causing devastation on an unbelievable scale. Homes and lives ruined and lost. The global climate crisis does not care that creatures like Trump choose to ignore and ridicule the entire notion. We hope that at least no more innocent lives are lost in the current conflagration. We’ll deal with the next climate-crisis-driven tragedy when it happens…in a few days.

Now, on with the possibly-too-soon “funny” stuff.

Many people are saying that the massively destructive Pacific Palisades fire was started by Donald Trump’s space lasers – the same ones he plans to use to take over Canada, the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico (which he said he will rename the Gulf of America – though everyone knows he will, by fiat name it the Gulf of Trump) and of course Greenland…

Naturally, the president-reject denied everything – and we mean everything:

My beautiful and very powerful space lasers, which I do not have, but if I did would be the most beautiful and most powerful – much stronger than the Jewish ones – had nothing to do with these tremendous fires in the terrible state of California, which I would have won if they counted all the votes. But these fires were caused by Joe Biden and Camaro Harris and their open border which allows Mexican fires easy access to our horrible country, which will be great again, again very soon. Also, the very dangerous trees just begging to burn and take us with them. I promise, during my first hour as president again, to eliminate all of the far-left, communist, fascist and darkly colored trees throughout this soon-to-be-great-again-again land. They’re fired! Get it? I have spoken.

Nothing to see here folks.

I’m going back to bed.

I. Mangrey. Where’s my ENDITOL?

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled happy thoughts.

Monday, January 6, 2025

(EVERYTHING IS) Broken News

 

SPECIAL PAYING ATTENTION LATE EDITION

January 6, 2025

Here Comes The (F)Elon Administration

You might have noticed the complete absence of crazed and disgruntled Harris supporters storming the Capitol today as a deeply divided, half-brain-dead and overly deplorable nation awaits the swearing-in of and unhinged swearing by the 47th and most toxic, hateful, anti-democratic, sexist, convicted and ignorant president. Who incited seditious conspiracy – aka treason – to overthrow our newly and duly elected government in 2020. Because he lost.

How the worm has turned. Four years after the Insurrection Heard ‘Round the World, the man who incited it has been certified as the next president of the country he tried to steal. The Lord works in mysterious, some would say dangerously stupid, ways.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who had infinitely more reason to obstruct the certification of ’rump's fatal victory than Mike Pence ever had to obstruct the landslide victory of Joe Biden in 2020, and who did not need to phone everyone in Washington, DC to find out if maybe she could stand in the way of her constitutionally-mandated duty, took her place and presided over the certification of the Electoral College votes. Nowhere near the bottom of the list of reasons Harris might have done otherwise was the requirement that she carry out this solemn – only once ever coming close to being in jeopardy – duty while standing very near God’s special little rabid weasel Mike Johnson. Now that’s what I call patriotism.


The ghost of January 6, 2021 and its stench still linger

Like any significant injury, the events of Jan 6 did not simply end once the assault on the Capitol and democracy was quelled. There are scars. We have yet to stop the internal bleeding. And now the wound is being re-infected. Or maybe it is more like in the movies when the villain pushes his finger into the bullet wound he just inflected on the hero.

And now, the convicted felon/unrelenting con-man/lame-duck-president-elect faces sentencing in New York for his 34 felony convictions just 10 days before being inaugurated. And 77 million of our fellow citizens voted to give this piece of human excrement an encore. Bravo.

And, lest we forget, this psychotic sausage-for-brains scumbag has vowed, once back in office, to pardon all of his cult members who carried out his attempted coup which resulted in one of their own winding up dead, as did several law enforcement officers, with 140 of them injured. Democracy dies in Trump.

Reminding Us How It’s Done

You probably did not see Kamala Harris egging on a mentally deficient, heavily armed and dangerously violent angry mob of sociopathic crybabies unable to process the idea of losing an election – something at least 50% of all candidates in all elections throughout all of history everywhere on the planet have experienced – to fight, fight, fight in the most un-American way possible. You probably did not see this, even if you were watching very closely (maybe even hoping), because it did not happen. This is in part because Harris is not a demented, entitled, decrepit old white guy who cares for no one but himself and has not shred one of scruples, honesty, empathy or real hair, and all the social conscience of a rabid badger strapped to a hungry coyote.

Maybe you found yourself wondering, does no one realize what day this is? There was no one planting pipe bombs around Washington, DC. No tourorists beating law enforcement officers with American flag poles, or Confederate Battle Flags, or bats or bear spray or tasers. No one (including members of Congress) attempted to stop the ritual certification of the Electoral College count. No one shitting on the walls or Nancy Pelosi’s desk or trying to capture and/or kill the vice president or various members of Congress. No one smashing windows or screaming like an idiot in the House chamber while wearing headgear harking back to Fred Flintstone’s Buffalo Lodge.


Yabba dabba doofus. Can you tell which one is the cartoon character?*

Despite a bitter campaign fueled by billionaires, one of whom now owns the incoming president, disinformation and unfathomable stupidity, those of us on the losing this time side play by a different set of rules, i.e., rules. We do not throw years-long tantrums. We do not incite fact-free insurrection. We do not lie incessantly about easily and repeatedly provable realities.

Hopefully, we also do not tuck our tails between our legs and mope after the stunning, unbelievable, painful and perhaps fatal twist of fate that has a horribly failed businessman and president, known to be a racist, a fascist, a rapist and a 34-count convicted felon (not to mention the countless crimes that never made it to court) and Russian stooge once again weaseled his way back into the White House.

No friends, there was today, as almost always – with one monstrous exception – a peaceful transfer of power after an election, disastrous or otherwise.

Epilogue

This date should be remembered as a sickening assault on this nation, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on 9/11. More importantly, it should retain a place as a blot on this nation's history for all of history like the bombing of Fort Sumpter and that of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Pearl Harbor and 9/11, in whatever way we may have provoked, were outside jobs. But Fort Sumpter, Oklahoma City and the January 6, 2021 violent assault on our nation's Capitol were all perpetrated by domestic terrorists Trump’s terrorists. The latter three events being incited, instigated and enabled by the then-sitting president, who is about to subject us to his second act. 

It is exceedingly rare that the sequel measures up to the original, so keep a vomit bag handy  this promises to be sickening.

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*Sorry, that was a trick question. Both are cartoon characters. Only one of them knows it.

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled fear and loathing. 

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Broken News – Trouble-Parked

Cyberfuck

January 4, 2025

Well, we did it folks. Defying all odds, any remnants of intelligence and all attachments to sanity, we have successfully navigated the calendar and stepped into the Year of Our Discontent – 2025.

On January 1st one of Elmo Musk’s iconic idiotic Cybertrucks (the ugly trucklings that have had five recalls in less than a year) exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. If this incident had not resulted in one dead (the bomber) and several injured, it would simply be hilarious. Please feel free to chuckle after a moment of silence for the suicidal victim of Musk’s Folly. Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

At first, many people were saying that this was a metaphor for coming distractions. Others blamed Jewish space lasers.

It was then discovered that this was a purposeful attack. Naturally, right wing trolls and morons – like Donald Trump – immediately blamed illegals crossing our southern border, just as they did with the dirtbag who drove through a crowd in New Orleans earlier that day.

Well, guess what-the-fuck. Both terrorists were American citizens, both military. One appears to have been radicalized by ISIS, the other by Trump .

The Cybertruck bomber was an active-duty Green Beret who according to his uncle, “was a 100 percent patriot.” You know, like Benedict Arnold. His uncle added, “He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country. He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American.” USA, USA, USA.  

For his part, the suicide bummer left behind a note praising Trump and calling for the removal of all Democrats from the government. He will not be missed. But he is already forgotten.

Welcome 2025. Don’t look up.

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled happy thoughts.