Saturday, September 13, 2025

Sucks And Violence

Trump Takes A Break From Defending Pedophiles And Domestic Violence*

September 13, 2025

We initially decided not to address the murder of right-wing mouthpiece and generally horrible person Charlie Kirk. Murder is almost always a bad thing, and despicable as Kirk was, his murder was not appropriate. A pie in the face, a kick in the balls, a punch in the face? Sure. Assuming he was not abusive to his wife and children, they deserve condolences.  

But then, president shit-for-brains opened his hateful, ignorant mouth in a very unsurprising response to Kirk’s murder.

No one has done more to engender and provoke violence, hatred and ignorance than the narcissistic, sociopathic racist currently stinking up the White House, the one who has been sending masked, armed thugs to invade cities with black mayors – bashing in car windows, dragging innocent people, including American citizens who they deem the wrong color, into unmarked vans and taken who-knows-where.

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Der Furor seen here being very peaceful

Now He Is Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds

Here are a few quotes from the psychopath-in-chief after the murder of Charlie Kirk:

“For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”
                       Donald J. Trump, September 10, 2025

That’s right sir, this kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today. That, and the ICE terrorists you’ve been sending to major cities who didn’t vote for you. Not to mention Charlie Kirk’s years of incendiary rhetoric.

“We have a radical left group of lunatics out there, just absolute lunatics. We’re gonna get that problem solved.”
                       Donald J. Trump, September 11, 2025

Sounds like he’s got a final solution in mind.

“We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them.”
                       Donald J. Trump, September 11, 2025

Yep, here we go.

“I’ll tell you something that’s gonna get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right often times are radicals because they don’t wanna see crime. They don’t wanna see crime. Radicals on the left are the problem because they’re vicious and they’re horrible…”
                       
Donald J. Trump, September 12, 2025  

Okay, that last one calls for some commentary. Let’s take it bit by psychotic bit”

“I’ll tell you something that’s gonna get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”

Yes, we all know without a doubt that you couldn’t care less; we’ve known this for a long, long time.

“The radicals on the right often times are radicals because they don’t want to see crime.”

Says the man who incited the attempted coup on Jan 6, and then pardoned all those convicted of crime, violence and sedition during the siege. First of all, bullshit. They don’t seem to mind all the crime coming out of your administration.

“They don’t wanna see crime.”

You just said that. Dementia much?

“Radicals on the left are the problem because they’re vicious and they’re horrible…”

Somebody get that man a mirror. And a psychiatrist.

Maybe Crassputin forgot about the time he urged a violent mob to take the Capitol, and that violent Trump-loving mob beat and injured more than 100 law enforcement officers, and caused several people – including law enforcement officers, and one of their own lunatics – to die.

Maybe Dementia Don doesn’t remember Nancy Pelosi’s husband beaten almost to death by a Trump fanatic with a hammer, who intended to kill Pelosi. Maybe Don forgot about Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor Shapiro having his home set on fire while he and his family were observing Passover. Maybe Don forgot about the murders committed against Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. Or the judges killed by radical right lunatics who support Trump. Or the women’s health care providers murdered by radical right/Christian anti-choice activists. Or Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City.

Or maybe Don just forgot that he is out of his fucking mind and is the most violent radical right lunatic in this country.

Either that or he’s a fucking hypocritical psycho with murder in his heart.


Trump, seen here preparing to punch out one of his cultists for no apparent reason

Here is what Governor Josh Shapiro had to say in response to Trump’s violent, inciteful rhetoric in response to the murder of fellow violence aficionado Charlie Kirk, who has incited his share of hate and violence.

“I think it is dangerous when the president cherry-picks which political violence he’s gonna condemn, and which he’s gonna allow to just simply pass. I think we need to be universal in condemning all political violence. The president missed the mark last night in his Oval Office address. He should be condemning all political violence.”

The only problem with that is that as anyone who has watched Der Furor since (at least) the moment he descended his golden escalator and began what at the time was only a verbal assault on America, and which later became much worse.

All of this begs the question: Is there a Nobel Piece-of-Shit Prize? That one’s got Trump’s name on it.

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*Trump said the following while dishonestly claiming he reduced crime in Washington, DC by 87%: “And much lesser things, things that take place in the home, they call crime. They'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, 'This was a crime’, see? So now I can't claim [to have reduced crime in D.C. by] 100%.”

I. Mangrey reporting.

UPDATE

According to the grandmother of Kirk's killer, the whole family are staunch Republicans and MAGAts. Charlie Kirk was insisting on releasing the Trump-infested Epstein Files, so it's entirely possible that a troubled young man might think he was doing his cult leader a favor. Oh, and the shitter, I mean shooter once dressed up as Trump for Halloween.

Friday, September 12, 2025

Schmuck Of The Day – Greg Gutfeld

An Ass By Any Other Name

September 12, 2025

Well, here’s what’s going on* over at Fux Dead Horses…I mean “News”

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Maximum asshole Gutfeld fancies himself a funny man. Wrong on both counts.

However, this is quite the interesting response to calling Trump’s masked, excessively armed, terrorizing stormtroopers who are acting like the Nazi Gestapo, and those who sicced them on the American public like we see them – Nazis.

So yeah, go ahead and own your identity, my Nazi.

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*Actually, this ‘went on’ a bit of a while ago, it just got lost in the flood of fascist fucknuttery that has been the summer of ’25.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Schmuck on!

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Thought For The Day – Siddhar-this

The Buddha Will Be Rolling In His Grave Lifetime After Lifetime After Lifetime
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Gautama Bullshit

September 10, 2025

If I didn’t know better, and as you all well know, I don’t, I might be fairly certain that this event, beyond all others, signals the imminent end of the world.

Seventy-thousand Cambodian Buddhist monks broke their vows of silence to endorse the nomination of GULP! Donald Trump – you know, the ijit who just changed the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War”* – for the Nobel Peace Prize.

WTF
Apparently, 70,000 monks can not only be wrong, but bought, shameful and stupid. May the karmic wheel become as a steamroller flattening them for eternity.

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*Like everything else Trump, it is merely a pathetic façade. Only Congress can change the name of a department, so this is essentially just another of Don’s pitiable nicknames. You go gurl.

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

Monday, September 8, 2025

Late Nite With I. Mangrey

 

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Best Headline of The Day

September 8, 2025

Having disappeared and shut the fuck up for several days, fueling concerns/hopes that the executive interloper was gravely ill. Crassputin ultimately resurfaced to share “important” news. That news? Dear Leader announced he was moving Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. He is punishing Colorado because, he says, “they do mail-in voting... so they have automatically crooked elections.”

From the good folks at Crooks & Liars

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The Elephant in the room…

All apologies to elephants everywhere

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Thought For The Day – Trump Is Like Hitler*

Don't Take This The Wrong Way

September 4, 2025

Given the relentless abrogation of his oath of office and his utter and relentless contempt for anyone who is not Donald Trump, including deploying the United States military against American citizens on home soil, blatantly demanding Texas to steal House seats from voters, and a list of other infractions too long and nauseating to mention, many people are saying Trump is like Hitler.

Almost every day people come up to me, big strong men, women and even children, tears in their eyes, they say “Sir, we are so sad that Trump is like Hitler. We did not vote for Hitler. We don’t want Hitler. We don’t want Trump to be like Hitler. How do we stop Trump from being like Hitler?”

I try to calm their nerves by responding with an answer to simple, so true, it cannot be denied and should without any doubt put the whole issue to rest; “It makes no sense to say Trump is like Hitler. Hitler had a mustache.” Case closed. 

“Our capitol city has been taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”
                                     
Donald Trump

We at Paying Attention™ would never say that Trump is like Hitler because if we were to say Trump is like Hitler, and to be clear, we are not saying that Trump is like Hitler, many other people – those who like us, refuse to say that Trump is like Hitler – might take a statement like “Trump is like Hitler” the wrong way.

“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country…Without law and order our nation cannot survive.”
                                     
Donald Trump**


See, completely different – Trump’s on a white horse

And Hitler never said anything like this…

“I have a right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
                         Donald Trump, August 26, 2025

I Do Not See Hitler When I Look At Trump

The main reason we would never say that Trump is like Hitler is that there is a huge difference between Trump and Hitler. Adolf Hitler wanted to take over the world. Donald Trump wants to fuck over the world.

These are very different agendas.

I mean, come on, would a murderous dictator who terrorizes his own populace go around putting giant posters of his vomitous face all over town?

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Q: Is Trump really a dictator or just a dick? A: Let’s go with both.

And it’s not like Trump is sending masked stormtroopers and tanks into minority cities to violently assault, terrorize and kidnap non-white people from courthouses, hospitals, schools, farms and Home Depots. Right?

Oh, and Hitler didn’t pal around with pedophile sex traffickers and was not himself a serial rapist. That we know of.

Also, and perhaps most important, Hitler had the good sense to blow his brains out when the going got tough.

Just so we’re clear.

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*Though this reads ‘Trump is like Hitler’, we are not saying that Trump is like Hitler; the phrase ‘Trump is like Hitler’ is merely part of the heading. As you will read, or have already read, we are in no way aligning ourselves with those who say Trump is like Hitler...even if you are one of those who believes, perhaps reasonably, that Trump is like Hitler. Our apologies to any who thought because Trump is working straight from the Hitler playbook, that we implied Trump is like Hitler. You will Nazi us claim that Trump is like Hitler.
**Oops, this one was actually Adolf Hitler. This was our mistake and for that we apologize.


This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.
And not an attempt to convince anyone that Trump is like Hitler.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Late Nite With I. Mangrey

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Best Headline of The Day

September 2, 2025

Having disappeared and shut the fuck up for 2-3 days, fueling concerns/hopes that the executive interloper was gravely ill. Crassputin ultimately resurfaced to share “important” news. That news? Dear Leader announced he was moving Space Command (is this the new branding for Space Force?) headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. President Corpse is punishing Colorado because, he says, “they do mail-in voting... so they have automatically crooked elections.”

From the good folks at Crooks & Liars

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Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Schmuck Of The Day – Greg Gut(less)feld

Fox Fucks Fondle Fascism

September 2, 2025

Well, here’s what’s going on* over at Fux Dead Horses…I mean “News”

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Proud asshole Gutfeld fancies himself a funny man. Wrong on both counts.

Yes, by all means, feel free to call yourselves Nazis. Maybe start your own Fight Club and beat yourselves to a pulp.

However, this is quite the interesting response to calling Trump’s masked, excessively armed, terrorizing stormtroopers who are acting like the Nazi Gestapo, and those who sicced them on the American public – Nazis. When it talks like a Nazi and it acts like a Nazi, it just might be a Nazi. Or something like it.

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*Actually, this ‘went on’ a bit of a while ago, it just got lost in the flood of fascist fucknuttery that has been the summer of ’25.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Schmuck on!

Monday, September 1, 2025

Thought For The Day – Something Borrowed


Carl Hiassen

The Devolution Will Be Completely Televised

September 1, 2025

We’re quite fond of Carl Hiassen’s books here at Paying Attention™. The featured quote below comes from his 2018 book for adolescents Squirm.

Working at a grocery store, you meet lots of nice folks and see many acts of kindness. But you also witness scenes that make you wonder if our species is evolving in the wrong direction – backward, into the ancient slime we crawled from millions of years ago, when we were just innocent little fish growing legs.

Working or not working just about anywhere else too.

And the jury is way out on our current direction. We are clearly at a tipping point and the most powerful person on the planet is a lizard-brained sadist with zero regard, no strike that, utter, steaming contempt for humankind and the planet we inhabit.


Maybe, but not for long.

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