Thought For The Day – Farm Around And Find Out

Old Muck Donald

August 23, 2025

I was rummaging around the internets and came across this beautiful farm

I can't afford it but I think Donald Trump should buy the farm.

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

Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™* – Racist edition #5,693

 

The Success, Brightness And Future Of Slavery

August 22, 2025

Unsurprisingly, the repeatedly self-professed “least racist person you’ve ever met” posted on his anti-Truth anti-Social fake Twitter/X account last Tuesday

There truly is only one thing to say to Captain Whitey – one of the most racist people you've ever seen – who goes to absurd lengths to hide just how fucking pasty-faced he really is…I mean seriously, underneath that caked-on cantaloupe-colored concoction, and down to the depths of his fake soul, the guy is white as a sheet

This sheet

Here's the one thing...

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*As always, the full context does not make it any better. Also, good chance this feature will be popping up constantly for at least the next three-and-a-half years. Sorry.

This has been another painful edition of Don Trump Actually Fucking Said This™*
Remember, things will get worse before they get much worse. And then, it’s anyone’s fucking guess.

Crassputin

Dosvedonald

August 21, 2025  

Fresh off his historic summit submit with his Russian idol, “Dictator-On-Day-One” Don is taking election advice from his role model, the murderous dictator Putin. During his Alaska Submission Mission with Putin, Trump became giddy as a schoolgirl before realizing that the big break promised her by Jeffrey Epstein was actually a “date” with Trump, by Putin stating for all the world to hear that Trump won the 2020 election due to the use of mail-in ballots. You could almost see Donnie blush right through the brand new paint job he got especially for his big date. Vlad the Impaler II told the syphilis-addled dementia patient Trump that he should ban mail-in voting. So you’ll never not guess what America’s first tsar Crassputin did next.

Tsar And Wide

Crassputin has already begun building his own army of mercenary mental patients, aka ICE, who are making big money to run rampant in American cities with Black mayors. Now, red-state-rejects are being sent to blue cities to help terrorize the populace of those cities. Tourism in Washington, DC is almost non-existent now that the nation’s capital is under Trumpian occupation. Der Furor has promised more of the same across the country. This of course is part of his plan to keep Democrats away from the polls in case he is unable to cancel midterm elections next November. It will not be for lack of trying if he fails.

Per Crassputin, “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED.” Unsurprisingly, this is total bullshit. You can tell it’s bullshit because Trump said it. Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada use mail-in voting.

Death-To-America Don prefers in-person voting because “They asked me for my license plate for identity. I said, I don't know if I have it.” Yes everyone must present their license plates at the local polling place. I guess just like the founding fathers wanted only white, male land owners to vote, today’s floundering farters want only white, male car owners, with valid license plates, to vote.

A guy named Vladimir Putin changed Russia’s electoral laws to allow mail-in voting in 2020 in his dictatorship. That is presumably why he can say with tremendous certitude that mail-in ballots can be used to rig elections. According to president Bubblebrain, Putin said unto him “It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.” This Putin guy also had the laws changed so that he could remain in power in perpetuity…or ad nauseam if you prefer.

To some it might seem counterintuitive to take advice on the democratic process from a brutal dictator who routinely has opponents put to death in myriad ways. Dumb Donald must be so jealous.

So hold on to your seats folks, because the people you elected may not be able to hold on to theirs much longer. After Dumb Old Trump, via the renegade Supreme Court, outlaws Congress.

I. Mangrey, still crazy reporting after all these years. 

Pic(s) Of The Day – Hair Today, Fascism Tomorrow

Another Horrible Cover-up
Desperate Don’s Combover And Over And Over, Etc.   

August 19, 2025

Sir, I just want to let you know that everyone – and that is everyone in the entire world – except you, and only you, thinks what is going on atop your Silly Putty-filled noggin is an absolute joke. You’re not fooling anyone…well, except for yourself. But then, you are one gullible mother fucker, sir.

 
Oops, you missed a spot streak


It’s possible that what’s going on outside his head is
even more convoluted than what’s going on inside it

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

The Piece President

Neither Noble Nor Nobel

August 18, 2025

After Doofus Trump rolled out the blood-red carpet and prostrated himself to murderous war criminal Putin, humiliating himself and our country, he simply washed his hands and patted himself on the back after a hand-job well done.

After mastering the art of the no-deal Donnie whined that “the Fake News violently distorts the TRUTH when it comes to me”, adding “If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal.”

Um, Donald, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to get Russia to give up Moscow, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Asshole.

As usual, Donnie was very objective in assessing his unparalleled greatness. “I think the meeting was a ‘ten’ because we got along great. The meeting was a warm meeting. You know, he’s a strong guy, he’s tough as hell.”

A strong guy? What? Did they fucking arm wrestle? Greco-Roman? What the actual fuck?

They got along great? What was this, a fucking episode of The Dating Game?

“Well Donnie, this is the big moment. Who’s it gonna be? Bachelor #1, #2 or #3?”
“Ooooh, I don’t know. I Think #3 – he sounds so strong and tough.
I think we’ll get along great. I want to have his child.”

The Consternation Prize
The Prize For Pees (In Pants)

Now he expects a Nobel Peace Prize* because he fancies himself a “peace president”. One thing this peacemaker forgot to bring – Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was like throwing a birthday party for someone and not inviting them. Oddly, nothing whatsoever was achieved by this “summit” other than cementing Putin’s ownership of Trump’s balls.

The closest he’ll ever get

To paraphrase Gil Scott Heron, Donald Trump is the ‘peace’ president – a piece of Columbia, a piece of Harvard, a piece of CBS, a piece of Washington, D.C . He is simply running a protection racket: Nice college you got there, be a shame if somethin’ happened to it. Nice law firm you got there, be a shame if somethin’ happened to it. Nice network you got there, be a shame if somethin’ happened to it. Nice city you got there, actually, your city is a rotten mess, we’re gonna fix it up real nice for ya.

Trump doesn’t have an off switch. He is an off switch.

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*He only craves it because it is gold.

I. Mangrey reporting. 

Crass v. Krasner

More Like This

August 17, 2025

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner had some choice words for Drear Leader. Dictator-in-training Trump first sent the Marines to occupy Los Angeles. Now he has National Guard troops occupying Washington, D.C. to handle an imaginary crime wave.

Krasner all but dared the criminal-in-chief to pull his racist authoritarian shit in the home of the room where it happened. And he did not take any crap from CNN’s Caitlin Collins either.

DA Larry Krasner on CNN

Well, That Happened

Is It Day One Yet?

August 16, 2025

“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we all together win the presidency, we will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled. The war is going to be settled. I’ll get them both – I know Zelensky, I know Putin, it’ll be done within 24 hours, you watch. They all say, ‘That’s such a boast.’ It will be done very quickly.”
                                      Donald Trump, July 2023*

Well, Trumpy the Clown once again got his ass handed to him by Vladimir Putin. Before Trumpy literally rolled out the red carpet for Russia’s murderous dictator, Putin’s #2 man Sergei Lavrov showed up in Alaska (or Russia, as Trumpy called it) sporting a CCCP (USSR) t-shirt to make sure that everyone in the world would know the main purpose of this tete-a-taint was to humiliate Trumpy, who has never vacillated in his obeisance to Putin. Lavrov has previously always worn a suit and tie when he is in town obtaining national security secrets directly from Trumpy.

Lavrov arriving in Alaska rubbing Trump’s face in his own poop

Donnie’s campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize suffered yet another blow-job as the world watched The Don struggle to get up from his knees after the Summit-Minus-One where nothing of substance happened. The alleged peace talks, which excluded the country that was invaded by Putin, resulted in another embarrassing, disgraceful show of farce by the American president.

No agreement was reached. No agreement was discussed. No concept of an agreement was mentioned when Putin blathered on for 10 of the 12 minutes of post-summit statements about what great friends Russia and America are, followed by a very weak and brief statement by a clearly drained and useless Trumpy.

Trumpy gave himself a ten-out-of-ten for his performance in this Alaska summit/farce. All one can do is wonder if he swallows, or if there is now a stain on his blue dress suit. Putin still owns Trumpy lock, stock and blubber.

Tune in next time when we learn that Dancing Donnie is selling weapons to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine. And Ukraine.

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*Trump said things to this effect 53 times while campaigning, later claiming it was “figurative” and/or said in “jest”. Ha, fucking ha.

I. Mangrey, taking a break from vomiting just long enough to keep reporting.

Question For The Day – Doomsnight

It’s Later Than You Think*

August 15, 2025

On the eve of Trump’s visit to Alaska to meet with Putin and without Zelenskyy – despite him saying he is meeting him in Russia (because his dementia is raging out of control) – Trump announced on social media that he was positioning nuclear submarines closer to Russia

Yes, he announced it on social media. You know, because that’s what a fucking president of the country formerly known as America does – glibly waggling his tiny, albeit nuclear dick around on social fucking media.  

Annie Jacobsen, in her excellent beach feel-good read Nuclear War: A Scenario, was asked, “How close are we [to nuclear war] right now, given the leadership in this world?” Jacobsen replied, “We are always one button-push away from nuclear annihilation. If that line is crossed, it’s end-game in 72 minutes.”

We cannot have a doomsday gap.

Today’s Question For The Day:

Is it possible that Trump could become so desperate to get out of the Epstein expose that he is willing to start nuclear combat toe-to-toe with the Ruskies?

If you haven’t already had this thought, apologies.

Bonus Question:

How long before Der Furor decides it is necessary to nuke (pick a city with a Black mayor)?

As always…

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*Even if you think it’s really, really late.

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

Happy Birthday Woodstock

Whatever Else You May Think, It Was Sure Better Than Today

August 15, 2025

Another day, another Trumpian disaster. Therapist-in-chief…oops, The Rapist-in-chief continues his non-stop-onslaught against truth, justice and the American way. He and his malignant marauders don’t even bother hiding their contempt for the law, the Constitution and you. Trump’s Fuck-You presidency will not stop dismembering democracy until something or someone kneels on his neck…metaphorically, of course. Right? When George Floyd was stopped from being alive, he was an innocent man. Donald Trump is very likely the most guilty man in American history. And America is now in a position similar to George Floyd on that horrific day.

But we would like to take this moment to remember a less tragic event.

Given that this is summer and the one month that has no commonly recognized holidays, we at Paying Attention™ have been called upon by a higher power to make our own. This was easy since there are two august events in August that are near and dear to our hearts and minds – Resignation Day(s), which recently came and went, and the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival.

Though Resignation Day(s) arrives first on the calendar, Woodstock preceded the former in real time. Both of these events provided hope for the future of humankind in my eyes, and in those of many of my generation at the time. What fools we were.

Being in a rather lazy mood, or maybe it’s more burnout than anything else, the gang here at Paying Attention™ agreed it would be best to wander aimlessly down memory lane as we celebrate another favorite August holiday around here. If nothing else, may we recommend cranking up a few of the tunes featured below.

Whatever you decide, Happy Birthday Woodstock. Here’s what appeared at Paying Attention™ on this day in 2019…

When Boomers Roamed the Earth

August 15, 2019

Max Yasgur was an upstate New York farmer and the largest milk producer in Sullivan County, New York in 1969.  Yasgur was a Republican who supported the Vietnam War, but he went against the wishes of his sleepy rural community of Bethel, and rented out his farm for a weekend music festival in August of 1969, thinking it would be good for the local economy and would help bridge the contentious generation gap. 

What could be so bad about having a few thousand kids listen to music in the fresh air for a few days?  Though the local folks for the most part wanted nothing to do with a bunch of hippies coming anywhere near their peaceful environs, no one imagined the size of the crowd or the ultimate notoriety of what was about to engulf them.  It was like an invasion, a caravan if you will, of unfamiliar outsiders, whose differences frightened these simple people.  In the end, it was, as Max Yasgur would tell the crowd on his farm, “three days of fun and music, and nothing but fun and music” that rocked the world.  Literally and figuratively.

I did not make it to Woodstock.  I really wanted to go, but I was not of driving age and my parents would not let me.  Especially now that I have fewer days to look forward to than the number I have already seen, I cannot blame them. 

I did see the movie the moment it came out because I was not willing to wait for it to come out on Netflix.  And I played the album many times on my cheapo turntable which I foolishly set up on my suburban back lawn (Surprisingly, that album still plays almost perfectly).  Since then, I have been a bit obsessed with what many have called “three days that defined a generation.”

The Woodstock Music and Art Festival began on this day 50 years ago [in 2019].  The line-up of musicians was and is legendary, if not unequaled.  From Richie Havens to Ravi Shankar, from Janis to Jimi, The Who, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Creedence, the Dead, CSNY, Country Joe and many others.

Here are a few of my (many) favorite performances.  I'll probably throw a few more choice tunes on here over the next couple days.

Richie Havens – Freedom

John Sebastian – I Had a Dream

Max Yasgur

The Ultimate Star Spangled Banner

It is said, “If you can remember Woodstock, you weren’t there.” 

I. Mangrey reminiscing.  I remember Woodstock.

SPECIAL BONUS TRACK

Country Joe & The Fish