Friday, September 19, 2025

Second Thought For The Day – Say What?

First Amendment For Me, But Not For Thee

September 19, 2025

“I mean, Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled Alzheimer’s corrupt tyrant who should honestly, be put in prison or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.”
                                 Charlie Kirk, July 24, 2023

You have likely heard that Jimmy Kimmell was “suspended indefinitely” following pressure from Baby/snowflake/president Trump. Kimmell was canceled because, according to Trump, all he does is “hit Trump”. Others insist Kimmell got axed – in a stunning affront to the First Amendment – because he made a mistake in describing loudmouth hate monger Charlie Kirk’s killer. Fortunately, we here at Paying Attention™ do not make mistakes. And we always extend all due respect to President Poopypants.

Just remember:

It’s okey dokey if you say that the homeless should get “involuntary lethal injection or something; just kill them”, but it’s not okay to say displeasing things about the very sensitive, soft-spoken and always benevolent Donald Trump. Even if you did not say anything like he should get an involuntary lethal injection or something, which for the record, is not something we here at Paying Attention™ would ever say. That is simply unacceptable. That would be extremely dangerous to our democracy.

We would only find it acceptable if, in the absence of having committed a murder, Donald Trump received a voluntary lethal injection. We know he always does the right thing. Just so we’re clear.


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

Thought For The Day – Creepy, Creeping Fascism

Democracy On Life Support

September 19, 2025

I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about all the gerrymandering. Gerrymandering only matters if we’re going to have any more elections. Never assume.

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

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Question For The Day – Everybody Loves Donald

A Zero’s Welcome

September 18, 2025

American president/seditionist Donald “Death-To-America” Trump is on an extended visit to Great Britain.

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Trump fans in England showed their love for Don and Jeff in honor of Don’s visit


In case Don missed the massive banner, fans also
projected the happy couple onto Windsor Castle

Today’s Question For The Day:

Is there some way we can permanently restrict air travel from the UK to the U.S.?


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

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Thought For The Day – I Found It

Cloudy With A Chance Of Blunder Showers

September 17, 2025

Some may think me a contrarian. So be it. I've been thought and called worse.

I have long derided the ludicrous expression, “It's always in the last place you look.” As a result, when I have finally found something that I had lost, I keep looking. Thus disproving this ill-conceived clap-trap.

It makes me feel better about the world.

Your smileage may vary.

Unfortunately, though my keys are now safely back in my pocket, I seem to have misplaced my democracy. I hope it’s not in the last place I look.

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

Monday, September 15, 2025

Word Of The Day

KOYAANISQATSI

September 15, 2025

Admittedly, we at Paying Attention™ have felt that this word could be the word of the day pretty much every day. Has been that way for quite some time. So, we just like to make it official every once in a while.

This became one of our favorite words of all time after we saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983 Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.

Koyaanisqatsi – the trailer

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

You're welcome.

What is your word of the day?


Chicago – It Better End Soon

And Now, Some Gratuitous Boogie...


Canned Heat – Boogie Music

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
   or
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.