S.O.S.*

Mouth Moving = Lying

January 12, 2026

What an interesting lie. Dissing his escort wife in the bargain. You can bet your bippy (look it up kids) MELANIA never said this – or likely anything else – to her john hubby.  There is no reason to imagine Dementia Man has any real idea who FDR – or anyone who is not him – was. There’s a non-zero chance he thinks FDR was Frederick Douglass’s Real father. Someone must have told him FDR was a Democrat just before being wheeled onto the stage.

Not photoshopped – your president on meds**

As is always the case, Don was talking about himself. He did not know that FDR did not dance. He did not know that FDR had polio and was in a wheel chair when he wasn’t exerting massive amounts of energy and in great pain to briefly stand in an effort to hide his physical frailty. Trump only has polio of the brain.

Now Hitler, there was a dancer.

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*Sack.Of.Shit.
**They're clearly not working.

I. Mangrey reporting. I only laugh when it hurts.

 

Paying Attention™ Secret Word

Oils Well That Ends Before It Starts

January 12, 2026

Dumbass Trump had no plan for after kidnapping Nicolas Maduro. This is no surprise at all. Some would say Donald likes to shoot from the hip, but clearly it’s from slightly lower, from the place he talks out of. 

Trump claimed (i.e., lied) that he talked to numerous oil executives before the military assault on Minneapolis…I mean Venezuela. He said he told them something was about to happen and they should get ready. SURPRISE! Donny was lying. He did not talk to anyone before or after fucking everything up in Venezuela, including Congress, who should have been warned if not consulted before the operation, especially since there was no immediate threat requiring the invasion/kidnapping. Trump’s excuse? He didn’t trust Congress to keep a secret. Pretty funny coming from the world's biggest blabbermouth.

The surprise is that once Der Furor did talk to the oil execs, once he finished gaping out the window to admire the progress of his Balls Room, at his special oilmen summit, they wanted nothing to do with the pending debacle. 

Even the man our fading fascist addressed as Mr. Chevron (Can you guess which oil company he works for? At least he didn’t call him Tim Apple.) wasn’t ready to throw in with the Man With No Plan. Getting involved with Trump’s pipeline dream of expropriating Venezuela’s oil and pocketing the profits was described as “uninvestable”. Without going into detail, Venezuela’s infrastructure is shit, the political climate is now as unstable as ever and could devolve into total chaos at any minute. In short, a Trump-sized shitshow. But at least Donny Bonespurs isn’t worried about putting other people’s boots on the ground there.

Oh well.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Secret Word.
Don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret.

A Day At The Movies – A Fascist In The Crowd

A Trump In The Crowd

January 11, 2026

Elia Kazan’s 1957 A Face in The Crowd was oft touted as the movie to watch to understand 2015’s Donald Trump. I finally sat down and watched it the other day.

Lonesome Rhodes vs. Loathsome Toad

In 2005, those involved with the film related that it did poorly at the box office, but went on to become one of the most heralded films of all time. It was alien back when it was made and released. It was more prophetic than popular. In 1957 people didn’t get it. In 2025, we totally get it. ‘Cause we got it. Right here. Right now.

A Face in The Crowd – original trailer

Gil Scott-Heron - B Movie

I. Mangrey reviewing.

Talk Is Cheap

But None Cheaper Than This

January 11, 2026

Reporter: Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you is you wanted to…

Trump: Yeah, there one thing, my own morality, my own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop. And that’s very good.

There are a few problems with this exchange…well, with one side of it.

Dear Don:

First of all, that’s two things. Nice cognitive. You really should think before you speak. Think for a week or two and then shut the fuck up. Back to the two things. You never had the first one, and never even considered thinking about having morality. I’m guessing you don’t actually know what that is. The second, whatever small amount you might have previously possessed has been deteriorating and withering away rapidly. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Hey, dumbass, you awake? To quote the late, great Mose Allison, “Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.”

Hmmm, good idea for a song…

I. Mangrey reporting with a song in my head and a thorn in my heart.

Headline Of The Day – Revolting

Idle Brains And Tiny Hands Are The Devil’s Playground   

January 10, 2026

Trump is bleeding support with every opening of the mouth and with every action he and his idiot cabinet and braindead death squad carry out. He is losing support with his base and with members of Congress who are considering keeping their jobs come November. Plus, he is fucking losing it.

Keep up the good work, sir. 

The headline should have read "Trump ‘has a revolting GOP on his hands’"

I know we do.

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

Broken News – CORRECTION (Sort Of)

Sleepy Joe Don

January 10, 2025

In fairness, this is not so much a correction as an update based on new information, but we probably should have known better.

We previously reported that President Mental Patient gave a speech standing up because that way he would not fall asleep. As mentioned above new evidence has come to our attention regarding this matter. Thanks to AI, pictures now can lie, but this one is telling the truth

He looks so peaceful when he’s sleeping.*
There’s only one way he could look even more peaceful.

Damaged Don, clearly asleep on his feet while his nose hand-picked general tries to whitewash Trump’s illegal, globally dangerous incursion and kidnapping in Venezuela. Many are now wondering if Dire Leader may also be able to sleep with his eyes open and mouth talking. This would explain a great deal. It would also make Trump seem a bit less psychotic and brain damaged.

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*Though you can bet he’s shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue in his dreams.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled relocation planning.

EXTREMELY Broken News Follow-up

Here Comes The Flood (Again)

January 9, 2025

 “The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
                        Steve Bannon – November 16, 2021

It looks like Rapey Don finally found a way to shove the Epstein Files off the front page. Have his death squad murder a white woman, mother of three and self-described good Christian, in Minneapolis. Hopefully, we can handle two scandals at a time. We should have learned how to juggle at least several earth-shattering Trumpian disasters at once by now. We can’t let him overwhelm us by flooding the zone with shit.

For those who are hard of hearing, check out this screen shot of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey telling ICE to “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis!” You can see the signer to the mayor’s left, relaying the mayor’s message.

Can You Say Cover-up?

Phase two of this heinous operation consists of the Fucked Bureau of Instigation (FBI) – part of the Department of What Was Formerly Known as Justice – taking control of the investigation of its goons. Minnesota created a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in response to the police murder of George Floyd, which took place less than one mile from the site of Renee Good’s murder. The FBI has locked local authorities, including the bureau cited above, out of the investigation into the brutal, unwarranted and literally senseless murder of Renee Good, which was committed by FBI colleagues. Nothing fascist about that.

Phase three is sending thousands more potential murderers into Minneapolis to terrorize the citizenry and maintain disorder. What (else) could possibly go wrong?

As an aside, it is – let’s call it interesting – that the Trumpers are blaming a murdered woman, who was attempting to leave the scene* in order to avoid further confrontation with the masked, armed violence-prone StormTrumpers one day after the traitors Trump pardoned were celebrating, yes celebrating, and attempting to rewrite the facts of January 6, 2021. Facts that everyone saw with their own eyes: the crazed, extremely violent mob who stormed the Capitol resulting in the death of one of their own who was shot and killed while attempting to breach the last barrier between the psychotic, seditionist mob and their prey – members of Congress and the vice president, all of whom they intended to, at the very least, kidnap, if not inflict bodily harm, or worse. Ashli Babbitt was not attempting to leave the scene; she was on the attack and would not retreat – that is called suicide by police. Babbitt is worshipped as a martyr by the same people blaming Renee Good for getting murdered by government agents.** Maybe I’m just not very good at math, but I don’t see how that shit adds up.

One More Thing

To quote Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis

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*At least one “officer”/goon present commanded Good to leave the scene, which is exactly what she was doing as she completely avoided making contact with the psycho who nonetheless shot her in the face as Good drove off.
**The government paid Babbitt’s family $5M in a “wrongful death” settlement. How much will Renee Good’s family get?

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled seething and cringing.

EXTREMELY Broken News – Terror On American Streets

Donald Death Squad

January 8, 2025

The first fatality in Donald Trump's (that's the Peace Prize wannabe guy) ICE Wars is now in the books. Renee Nicole Good, the proverbial Crispus Attucks of today has fallen in Minneapolis, Minnesota (a favorite target of Trump’s sociopathic ire) as a result of being shot in cold blood yesterday by ICE mercenaries. The 37-year-old mother of a young child was shot in the face while leaving the scene, not far from where George Floyd was brutally tortured and murdered by local police five years ago. Trump wanted peaceful protesters of Floyd’s murder “shot in the legs, or something” but was rebuffed by cooler heads. There are no cooler heads in his new administration – just Kool-Aid heads. Ms. Good’s blood is on Trump’s hands.

MURDERED BY DONALD TRUMP

There have been 14 shootings at the hands of Trump’s untrained, underbrained, overpaid terror – now death – squad across the country at the behest of Donald Trump. Marimar Martinez was shot by Customs and Border Protection agents in Chicago, Illinois last October. She was shot five times but survived. The officer who shot Martinez sent a text message that read, “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” These are the people Trump wants “protecting” us from…What exactly?

The violent idiots of ICE have now unsurprisingly murdered an innocent citizen. The only surprising thing is that the victim was a white woman and an American citizen. The woman surely feared for her life, faced with masked, armed thugs. She attempted to escape their clutches.

Dog-murderer Noem, behind a camo-lace-draped podium, a cowboy hat shading/obscuring her lying eyes, proceeded to call the attempted escape from terror by the innocent, unarmed dead woman, who again was trying to flee for her life, “an act of domestic terrorism”, also falsely claiming there were riots in the streets. She has her domestic terrorism backwards. Noem repeated her slander in more “detail” at a more formal press conference, sans cowboy hat, later in the day. The mayor of Minneapolis called Noem’s version of events “bullshit” and told ICE very strongly and powerfully to “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

America’s streets in the Trump era – love it or get shot

Interestingly, there is video showing the woman driving away from the masked gunmen. If she was indeed trying to kill the “agents” she clearly had no clue as to how to achieve her goal. Either that or Noem is a lying sack of shit not worthy of licking the bottoms of the Renee Good’s shoes. If Noem was not working for a violent, convicted felon psychopath, she would have been fired immediately, if not long ago. Unfortunately, lying, murder, blaming the victim, these are all assets to her boss.

It cannot even be claimed that the shooter was a rogue “officer”. Many, if not all of these ICEholes are thugs, racists and morons. The hiring criteria are essentially a pulse, a trigger finger and a lust for violence. According to Noem, shooting unarmed, fleeing individuals constitutes “following the standard protocol procedures we do in situations like this”.

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

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

Mr. Smith Returns To Washington

He Knows What You Did Five Years Ago, Don

January 7, 2026

You may have forgotten, because why wouldn’t you if you’re a mentally healthy individual with better things to think about, Jack Smith was a world-class investigator and prosecutor. Much of his time was spent at The Hague bringing justice to rancid, rapacious do-badders the world over. The one good thing, albeit much too late, that Merrick Garland did during his tenure as attorney general of the United States under Joe Biden was to select Jack Smith as special prosecutor to investigate American scumbag Donald Trump’s massive theft of classified documents and his part in the January 6, 2021 insurrection in service to his fervent desire to overturn the free and fair election of Joe Biden.

Smith, whose valiant efforts to hold accountable those, particularly the head of the snake, responsible for the Jan 6 insurrection, finally testified before Congress. He wanted to testify publicly, but his request was denied. Smith was very clear that the one person responsible for the attack on the Capitol was none other than Donald J. Trump. Smith testified that without Trump the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol “does not happen”. This might be why Fascist/Trump Party water-carrier and sex-crime-enabler Jim Jordan, chairmonkey of the House Judiciary Committee, released the transcript and video of Smith’s extremely damning testimony at a time when the fewest possible people would be paying attention, which is exactly what they did. Weeks after his testimony, on New Year’s Eve. Some of us were, however, Paying Attention™. You can scum, but you can’t hide.

Smith testified under oath for eight hours. He is everything Trump and his MAGAts are not - intelligent, honest and devoted to American democracy. Please enjoy this exchange between Mr. Smith and a congressman desperately trying to find a non-existent lifeline for arch villain, Dear Leader Don...

Jack Smith: The evidence here made it clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, as part of this case does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit. So, in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was meant in any way to hamper him in the presidential election. I would never take orders from a political leader to hamper another person in an election.

Questioner: So, did you develop evidence that President Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6^th?

Smith: Our view of the evidence is that he caused it and that he exploited it. And that it was foreseeable to him.

Questioner: But you don’t have any evidence that he instructed people to crash the Capitol, do you?

Smith: As I said, our evidence is that he, in the weeks leading up to January 6^th created a level of distrust. He used that level of distrust to get people to believe fraud claims that weren’t true. He gave false statements to state legislators, to his supporters, in all sorts of contexts, and was aware in the days leading up to January 6^th that his supporters were angry when he invited them, and then he directed them to the Capitol.

Jack Smith telling it like he’s been trying to tell us it is for years

Jack Smith testified under oath (something Traitor Trump could never do, at least not without perjuring himself), finally getting the chance to explain the findings of the exhaustive investigation that was stymied by Trump fangirl/make-believe judge Aileen “Move-Over-Benedict-Arnold” Cannon and then buried alive after Trump’s re-election. Here is the take-home from Smith’s testimony

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.

I rest his case.

I. Mangrey reporting.