August 6, 2025 – A Date That Will Live In Infamy

A Sad, Shameful Anniversary

August 6, 2025

Today is the 80^th anniversary of the day America dropped the biggest, deadliest bomb ever deployed, killing 140,000 in Hiroshima, Japan. Seventy thousand instantly. Three days later we dropped a bigger one on Nagasaki, Japan killing another 70,000. Forty thousand instantly. Not to mention the subsequent suffering and horror that smothered the survivors. America did that.

This is what those bombs looked like:

November 5, 2024 – Another Date That Will Live In Infamy
The New Little Boy/Fat Man

Today, we are dropping the second most destructive bomb on the entire world. Though it may end up being the most horrific when all is said and done. Already responsible for at least 100,000 dead Americans. Killed slowly by a pandemic it chose to ignore. Poised to murder perhaps millions by cutting off Medicaid to millions of Americans and vital aid to many across the globe, having already destroyed hundreds of tons of food and medicine. Hundreds of tons. Warehoused, just waiting to be distributed. Destroyed. Senseless. Heartless.

Sixty years ago today President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.” America’s new bomb is preparing to blow that up too. That and the environment.

This is what this bomb looks like:

Seen here indicating the size of its brain
and/or heart and/or its whatever

 Charles Mingus – Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me

I. Mangrey for real. Possibly forever.

Thought For The Day – Fascism Is Be Here Now

Germany 1930s = Amerika 2020s

August 5, 2025

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff’s new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky. This excerpt from the chapter Fleeing One Step Ahead of Fascism was posted on his column ‘Doomsday Scenario’:

Spoiler Alert: they are

In 1930s Europe,

…many of Europe’s top scientists watched with remarkable clarity as German democracy turned itself over – often much too willingly and easily – to Hitler, and the scoffed at their colleagues and friends who assured them, “Don’t worry, Hitler won’t be so bad – he won’t actually do the things he says he will.”

Any of that sound familiar?

Louis Fischer, correspondent, The Nation: How did Hitler come to power in Germany? Hitler’s policy, at home and abroad, has always been to reveal his plans. Hyper-suspicion of propaganda, however, led many people to doubt what he said. The Nazis boasted that they would rule Germany, and Hitler painted a picture of his future game. “Heads will roll,” he said. He would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history. German democracy marched to its grave with eyes wide open, and singing, “Beware of Adolf Hitler.” Democracy is temperate. Its foe is extremism. In Germany, extremism was the thermometer of a sick social system and an ailing economy.

Sound familiar?

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

Broken News – Fade To White

Take Back The White

August 3, 2025

In a “Sir’s Eyes Only” memo obtained by Paying Attention™ (replete with pictures, cartoons and crude drawings, large print and very few words – most of which were obsequious praise of Donny Dearest) we have learned of a new phase in Der Furor’s plan for more and more and more deportations and overpopulating his new, big, beautiful concentration camps. Thanks to our super-secret robot-fly drone, deployed to the White House, we can tell you that there is a new phase of fascist fucknuttery. It is Project Bash Every Alien Thug Immigrant Today .

The completely undetectable

Paying Attention™ SuperFly Spy

It is unclear whether the memo came from the office of Botox Barbie Noem or the Bad Blondi Witch of the South or the deputy chief-of-staff reptile/Nazi Skeevin’ Miller. But this other, other operation appears to be Miller’s final solution for placing America back in the hands of white, wealthy, male landowners again. Just as the founders and framers originally intended. The good old days – amiright?

It is unclear if Herman Cain – had he not been killed by Trump via COVID – and his fortune would be permitted to frolic among his white billionaire brethren once the purge has been completed.
 

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled nausea.

Call It By Its Name

Full Frontal Fascist Fuckery

August 1, 2025

Returning to our frog theme...

Our neighbor

While the proverbial frog in a pot of water (who immediately jumps out an survives if thrown into boiling water, but will not attempt to escape until it’s too late if the water is gradually heated) turns out to be myth, it is probably different with humans.

Todd Rundgren – Swing to the Right

If a fascist takeover of a democratic citizenry happens in a flash, folks might react with an equal and opposite reaction. But when that fascism creeps up more slowly, especially when large swaths of that citizenry has decided they simply cannot always be paying attention, then it is entirely possible that by the time those sitting on the sidelines trying to stay safely cocooned decide to pay closer attention and maybe even act, it could very well be too late.

While it is completely understandable that people feel the need to disengage and just live their lives as peacefully as possible, that peace could very well be permanently shattered by a metaphorical atomic bomb, never again to be within reach for the rest of their natural lives.

Our pot is already aboil. The shock troops are already in the streets, terrorizing, kidnapping, torturing, detaining and disappearing. The creature in charge of this fascist fuckery is a sociopathic criminal, a hate-filled miscreant conman, a treacherous cretin who will stop at nothing to eliminate any and all who dare look at him the wrong way – as if there was a right way to look at him that comported with his demands.

It is later than you think. Objects in mirror and on tv are closer than they appear.

America is not immune. Too late for a vaccine. Act.

Living Colour – Time's Up

I. Mangrey reporting. I’ll see myself out.                                                                                                                                                                     

Feelin' Froggy

Something Here Needs To Croak

July 30, 2025

Trump is often accused of malice aforethought; his acts evil and stupid are no accident. Premeditated stupid. The thing is, his level of thought is often that of a frog thinking about flinging his tongue accurately to catch a bug. Trump’s brain rarely goes beyond reptilian mode during what passes for waking hours. He is in perpetual cornered-rabid-animal-mode.

That being said a sincere apology to frogs everywhere for smearing their good name in service to this…let’s call it joke. Frogs are good and valuable in the great web of life. Trump is obviously neither of these things.

And really, when you get right down to it, the least important creatures on this planet are – humans. Humans could not survive without the help of the entire web of life. Most humans like to think that we are the most superior life form, but actually, that honor goes to bacteria. They are everywhere. Literally. We could not survive without them, nor could most other life forms.

Yes, we are mammals, and mammals are – again, according to a bunch of mammals – a more complex and therefore superior species, but the web of life would not miss us for one damn second.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that mammals, and humans – what Howard the Duck referred to as ‘hairless apes’ – in particular are the epitome of creation. If we think about our place in the web of life on Earth in terms of functionality, we are nothing more than parasites. Parasites are lazy fucks that feed off their host, not giving a fraction of a fuck if the host drops dead. Lazy and stupid. No other parasites have the wherewithal to realize that the death of their host just might jeopardize their own survival. Which makes humans that much more pathetic.

And now, one of our favorite songs of all time…

Dan Bern – No Missing Link

And speaking of parasites, another very special song …

Eugene McDaniels – The Parasite

I. Mangrey ribbiting.

Pic Of The Day – Fade To Blackface

White And Black In Black And White   

July 29, 2025

DC’s whitest black guy, blackest white guy and Fed Chair Jerome Powell walk into a construction site…

Fed Chair Jerome Powell seen here exposing the other guys’ lies

Don-in-Blackface (and black cracker Sen. Tim Scott) get owned by Powell after Trump attempted to create a reason to fire Powell. As Don laid out his lie, Powell was seen shaking his head in mocking disbelief, then completely exposed the pathetically transparent fib. The document piece of paper of unknown origin Trump whipped out as proof was all Powell needed to brush aside the bullshit.

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

Everything But... Part II

President Titanic Is Ready To “Sink” – The Finale (For Now)

July 28, 2025

We return now to the groping…er, gripping tale of Disaster Don and his ongoing attempts to stop everyone from talking about his association, if not guilt by, with major pedophile/sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

He knows the best people: seen here on February 12, 2000 with
whore/future wife Melania and sex traffickers Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Mark Epstein, brother of Jeffrey, told Business Insider that his brother, long-time global sex trafficker and pedophile, and former bestie with Donald Trump, stopped hanging out with Trump “when he realized Trump was a crook.” As opposed to a sex trafficker, one supposes. The jury is still out on Trump’s pedophilia. Literally.

Actually, that jury might be out, but back in 1994, when Trump was on Lifestyles of The Rich and Fucked-up, host Robin Leech asked him, “Now, Donald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marla’s?” Here’s what alleged non-pedophile Don responded

“Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla. She's really a beautiful baby and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether or not she's got this part yet, but time will tell. [he said motioning in front of his chest with his hands and making a common obscene gesture].”

You be the judge, jury and metaphorical executioner.

At least he still has time to be caught on camera cheating at golf. Hey, even arrogant asshole autocrats need a hobby. I just wish his was sky diving or jumping the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle, or better yet a golf cart.

All of Don's big, beautiful fantasies, lies and complete non-sequiturs are meant to distract us from his long-time very close relationship with the most prolific pedophiles in history who Trump said “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Trump told Howard Stern that his personal cut-off was age 12. The guy who bragged about walking in on naked teen pageant contestants had this exchange with Stern

Stern: “Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds?”

Trump: “Oh, absolutely. I have no trouble.”

Stern: “Would you do it?”

Trump: “I have no problem.”

Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers: “Do you have an age limit or would you…”

Trump: “If I- No, no, I have no age... I mean, I have an age li…”

Quivers: “The upper bracket…”

Trump: “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

You know, 12-year-olds. Don was 63 years old at the time of this exchange. Stay classy big guy…and be sure to register yourself as a sex offender on the way out the door. You've earned it.

Trump’s latest shiny object was his new plan to lower drug prices – you know, like he very quickly and powerfully ended Obama Care, like the elusive infrastructure week that never was, like the 90 (maybe two, actually) tariff deals he was going to win six months ago – for all Americans. Bigly.

“We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40 percent, that would be great. Not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get them down 1,000%, 600%, 500% [shrug], 1,500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.”**

Unfortunately for Dishonest Don, according to Sen. Dick Durbin, “1,000 [FBI agents] on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records”. They were instructed to “flag” any documents that mentioned one of Epstein’s most frequent fellow pussy-grabber whose initials happen to be DJT. Could be anyone.

Here’s a funny story; the Wall Street Journal, clearly worried about the (never-to-be-in-court) lawsuit Trump is threatening against them, has reported that the Justice Department told Trump in May that his name appeared “multiple times” in the “truckload of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein” they reviewed.

Attorney: Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the
presence of females under the age of 18?

Epstein: “Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today, I’m going
to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights sir.”

The Justice Department acknowledges at least 1,000 victims of the global sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey Epstein – Trump’s very close friend for more than a decade while this was going on. Do the math (not Trump’s math – though he is 1,000, 1,500, 700, 1,300% guilty, real math).

Donny denies ever going to Epstein's Pedo Island, so there is a pretty good chance he did go there.

Apparently, there is untoward evidence of the Trump/Epstein connection all over the place, as though someone threw it all up in the air during a tornado and it scattered, bits and pieces turning up day after day after day. Just like every day, a little bit more of America slips away into fascism.

Stay tuned as Don prepares to unveil his most desperate attempt, the only thing left to be thrown in, to get us to look away from his very strong and powerful long-time friendship with global pedophile/sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein who ended up suicided untimely (well, very timely, in fact) demised in prison with full knowledge of all the skeletons in all the closets and where all the bodies are buried…

Drip, drip, drip.

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*File under covfefe.
**Uh, because they are not only unachievable, but non-existent. We did not make this up folks. We’re neither that creative nor that deranged. Nor gold-standard stupid.

I. Mangrey reporting. You get a schadenfreude, and you get a schadenfreude, and you get a schadenfreude. 

Everything But…

 

President Titanic Is Ready To “Sink”

July 27, 2025

In Trump’s desperate attempts to deflect from being joined at the hip to former BFF Jeffrey Epstein (who was a guest at Don’s second wedding) and being unable to avoid being permanently and irrefutably recognized as the pedophile and rapist he has always been, Donny Dearest is going for the Guinness World Record for obfuscating.

Epstein (in white pants) (White pants?) at Trump’s wedding

Have people actually forgotten all the times Daddy Don has talked about his "hot" daughter and wishing he could date her? Saying things like, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter perhaps I’d be dating her.” She was 24 and he was 63 at the time of this sickening statement.

The following is a partial list of Donny's attempts to shove his very real, very sticky and very unpopular connection to his long-time buddy Epstein off the front page. Think OJ Simpson's slomo white Bronco chase, every second of which was caught on camera, or...

Don is suing Rupert Murdoch, who made him and more or less owns him to this day, as well as Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, et al, because Don claims they could ruin his reputation.

Then Don, in response to calls from all corners demanding the full release (or what some might call the “happy ending”) of the Epstein files, released more than 230,000 pages relating to Epstein… oops, I meant Martin Luther King, Jr., prompting this from King's daughter Bernice.

Ouch

Then the guy who makes Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men look like Albert Einstein, decided to rehash blaming Obama for the Russians doing everything but hacking voting machines to get Trump in the White House in 2016. He accused Obama of being “sedatious” (sic)* and claimed he committed “treason”. Again.

Then he tried to convince us that the real scandal was Joe Biden using an autopen, something many, if not all, use in DC. “That’s the scandal they should be talking about, not Jeffrey Epstein. The sciandal (sic) you should be talking about is the autopen ‘cause I think it’s the biggest scandal, one of them, in American history.” Nice try autoputz.

He was so desperate to distract us that he even went so far as to release less-than-positive medical test results instead of trying to explain why his ankles were suddenly the same size as his thighs. What’s next, doctored tax returns? A stroke? Keeping my fingers crossed… for the tax returns, of course.

He also announced on his fake Twitter app that he had convinced Coca Cola to switch from high fructose corn syrup to real cand sugar to take his MAGAts minds off Epstein. He should have told them to start adding grain alcohol.

Then he had his bad-brained-bleach-blond-blow-up-bimbo attorney general start yammering about… wait for it… Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Then he decided to weigh in on forcing the Washington football team to change its name back to the old-timey racial slur against American Indians, which we will not dignify by mentioning here.

Then he had MAGA Mike evacuate the Capitol three days early in order to avoid taking a vote on debating whether or not to take a vote on releasing the Epstein files – after learning that 11 Ratpublicans would vote with the Dems to release the files, meaning that a House majority would vote against Epstein’s ex-BFF – hoping this whole thing will blow over by the time they slither back to Washington, DC after their abruptly-extended summer vacation. Hope they enjoy their quality time with their constituents.

Go and get a drink, take a nap, apologize to your eyes and your soul.
There’s much more where that came from.

Tune in next time for the exciting, excruciating, enema-tic conclusion (for the time being at least) of Trump’s weapons of mass distraction.

I. Mangrey reporting.

God, Part II

Cloudy With A Chance Of Blunder Showers

July 24, 2025

Our most recent post garnered the most comments and rave reviews in the history of Paying Attention™. Regrettably, we neglected to include in that post what could have well been a fitting closer, given the subject matter. To be fair, as you might imagine, the team was in a bit of shock during the visitation at our weekly staff meeting. Clearly we were wise, some years ago to purchase on eBay the used recording system once used in the White House in the early 1970s. Any attempt to transcribe what took place that day would surely have been lacking in detail, if at all legible, given the circumstances.

You can get anything on eBay

In the spirit of sincere atonement, we would like to present that video. If you're not familiar with this piece, we highly recommend taking a few minutes to enjoy something we couldn't have said better ourselves, and we dare say with all due respect, neither could you.

Frank Zappa – Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk

Okay, so there’s one more song that must be included here:

Martin Mull – I Found It

Also, there was one more thing They told us that we were a bit afraid to include in what we shared of our conversation

“And one more thing for those of you trying to destroy what We've created, speaking of pronouns, fuck you and yours for electing that alien gasbag with the fake hair, fake tan (without that coating he's as white as a Klan hood, just without the pointy top) – no way We created that shit... and for canceling Stephen Colbert – a personal friend of Ours – We've been on his show many times.”

Here We are at the Ed Sullivan Theater with Stephen
with Our fidget spinner (remember those fucking things?)

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ed Venture
Barely-Managing Editor