At long last, the Washington, DC professional football
mercenaries – who we have long referred to as the Washington
Racists – are jettisoning their despicable name and logo. The replacement has yet
to be determined, but finally the front office, i.e. the recalcitrant owner,
has relented and officially announced the long-overdue retirement of the
disgraceful moniker that has been the target of protest for decades. The owner
said, as recently as 2013, “We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER
– you can use caps.” Welcome to NEVER.
Unsurprisingly, the last straw was the team’s largest investors
applying the most American pressure of all. This, despite the fact that beginning
in 1968 the National Congress of American Indians launched a campaign to
eliminate insulting and harmful stereotypes of indigenous peoples perpetuated
by media and popular culture. Of particular concern was the continued use of
racist and derogatory “Indian” sports mascots, logos and symbols; of which
there is probably no more overt and shameless example than the one at issue
here, it being analogous to the “n” word, though without the obviously warranted social stigma
of the latter.
Apparently stealing the land, committing genocide on the people
and ignoring treaty after treaty, most of which continues to this day, was not
destructive and degrading enough.
The Paying Attention
team has voted on our choice to replace the old name, and they don’t even have
to change too much. Plus, it would provide at least a pretense of remorse.
We give you the
Washington, DC Rednecks:
They would only need to keep it for 87 years or
so, and
if some people object, it can be changed at that time
Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
This has been your Paying Attention
Thought For The Day.
July 13, 2020 A 30 year-old from San Antonio, Texas
went to a gathering of people who intentionally expose themselves to
coronavirusto see for themselves whether the virus is real, and they call their little soiree a “COVID party.” Now, to some of you this might seem incredibly stupid. That is because you stubbornly continue believing in science and reality. Oh ye of too much faith. These very clever
geniuses know that random people on the internet, Fux News and the Orange Loudmouth Know-nothing in the White House are much smarter than a bunch of learned scientists. And they gather together to show that Darwin, despite himself being a scientist, was on to something. According to Methodist
Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jane Appleby, the patient’s last words to
the nurse were, “I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s
not.”
With any luck, these
will become famous last words. Viral last words, if you will. I wonder how many times
Fux News will air this story. I would say zero, but more likely they will air
it once, calling it a hoax.
Please share this
story so that it might spread everywhere, until it infects millions and
millions of people who might otherwise be inclined to try their own COVID party
to take this hoax for a test drive.
This has been your
Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
Many people are wondering what is behind Chrump’s seemingly
insane demand that schools reopen as normal this fall. It is possible that this
decision is a result of the lack of mental capacity to understand anything. This
despite Chrump’s recent crowing that he “took it in front of doctors and they were
very surprised” to see him pass a very simple cognitive test battery. And why exactly do they keep having Chrump take cognitive tests?
This is the cognitive
assessment (with
some of his responses)
that Chrump claims he “aced”, apparently using a Sharpie
I guess we are supposed to take heart in the knowledge that
our “president” has the most rudimentary mental capacity to process basic
information, and is able name a lion, a rhino, and what appears to be something called a “humpy-horse.”
I wonder if Chrump is able to
process this basic information
Naturally, I am not inclined to believe that anything Chrump
says has any relationship to the truth, so his claim that doctors watched him
show even a hint of cognitive ability, must remain extremely suspect. There can
be little doubt that the doctors, if they were really there, fearing for their
careers if not their lives, told Chrump that he was a very smart little boy. It
remains uncertain whether Chrump is aware we can see and hear him. Is there a Dementia Wing in the White House?
Chrump
enjoys some “executive time” with select “staff” and incognito observer
The answer my friends is startlingly simple I’m afraid. The
Chrump administration has come under fire for kidnapping children and putting
them in cages and then purposely losing the paperwork that might one day
reunite these unfortunate victims of crimes against humanity perpetrated by
President Death, with their natural parents. Since this gross miscarriage of
justice became exposed, the program has had to become less, shall we say,
flagrant.
It must be assumed, until contrary information proves
otherwise, that Chrump is replacing his kidnapping program, which intended to
hide these children from the scrutiny of public discovery. He has decided that
instead of putting children in cages, it would be better to put them all in
Petri dishes previously known as classrooms, where they can be exposed en masse
to the coronavirus, and efficiently eliminated.
Apparently, Chrump was not satisfied ruining the lives, if
not murdering, only immigrant children, and has now moved on to getting rid of
as many children of all colors as possible in the shortest period of time.
At least Chrump is becoming more inclusive as his brain
melts.
I. Mangrey reporting. Just callin' 'em the way they look.
Keep America Great Again? What the fuck does that even mean?
Chrump and Republican’ts are not racist?
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
(Inigo Montoya)
Blacks For Chrump: Oxymorons or major morons?
Professional pathological liar Donald Chrump has no chance
to remember all the stupid, false and downright psychotic statements he has
made over the course of his stupid, false and downright psychotic lifetime.
Having spent the past four months denigrating the use of masks as part of the
strategy recommended by just about every health expert in the entire world,
with the exception of some number of internet whackos, Chrump is attempting to
lie his way back from conspiracy-theory-world to a pretense of accepting
reality.
Chrump recently lied to a Fox Business reporter, “I'm all
for masks. I think masks are good.” No, he is not, and no he does not. He’s all
against masks, and he thinks masks are for losers. Chrump continued lying, “People
have seen me wearing one.” Yeah, three people saw him wearing one, once, hiding
in a back room and someone, who is probably now on Chrump’s very long list of
people he is planning to shoot on Fifth Avenue, took a picture. And he ended
his pathetic, petty, prevarication with a bang, “I had a mask on. I sort of
liked the way I looked. OK. I thought it was OK. It was a dark black mask, and
I thought it looked OK. It looked like the Lone Ranger.” Yes, it was a “dark
black mask.” As opposed to a light black mask? And it looked like the
Lone Ranger? Really? What the fuck is wrong with this guy? My money is on
everything.
Chrump shows off his very stable genius approach to masks;
looks just like the Lone Ranger. Now, if someone could
just sew that hole under his nose shut.
Maybe he won’t wear a mask
unless it makes him look like the Lone Ranger
because he can’t breathe like a normal person anymore
*Well, Maybe
Sometimes
Our imaginary sources have uncovered a hidden talent in our
raging, psychotic 45th president. Until this serendipitous
discovery, it was widely assumed, if not patently obvious that Chrump possessed
absolutely zero talent of any value – hidden or otherwise. It seems that during
his almost endless spare time, when he is not lying about masks, or trying to
start a violent race war, or comparing his fight to defeat the enemy that
exists in his spacious head, the “radical left” with America’s fight against
the Nazis in WWII, King Donald reimagined one of our country’s beloved
patriotic tunes, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” Though it is possible he thinks
these are the actual words. After all, he does not know the words to the
National Anthem. Either way, this is what we found scrawled in
giant, dark black Sharpie on an Electoral College map from 2016:
My country, ‘tis of me,
sweet land of liver tea,
Of me I sing,
Land where my father lied,
I’ll make this country die,
And ev’ry mountain slide,
Let me be king.
My native country, thee,
Should all belong to me,
My name I love;
I love my orange “hair”,
My empty-headed stare;
So smart is ev’ry thing I do,
Russia loves me too.
I drink with just one hand,
There’s no one else who can,
I’m a big boy;
A stable genius guy,
Won in a landslide I,
And I didn’t even try,
Now we’re great again.
That’s all we were able to find so far. If any more verses
turn up, we promise to keep them to ourselves out of respect for what remains
of humanity.
I. Mangrey reporting. Get up, stand up, stand up for your
rights. Don’t give up the fight.
July 7, 2020 Get ready for the new improved live theater in America:
One-man shows for one-man audiences. And everyone will love the new movie
mega-complexes - instead of the now common dozen or so smallish theaters, get
ready for the Giga-plex: 1000 theaters, each seating 10 people. Just like television, but with much more expensive, worse-tasting snacks and a much longer walk to the much more dangerous bathroom.* Good times,
people. With any luck, someone will be around to tell about them and someone will
be around to hear it. Is this great enough for you?
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
You're welcome.
What is your thought for the day? * Though perhaps safer than the Dangerous Kitchen
Black Hills Matter While you were happily reading our First Annual Fourth of
July/COVID-19 Holiday Extravaganza Eve Thought For The Day, Donald Chrump was
preparing his incursion into Oglala Sioux Lakota territory without
the tribe’s permission, to hold yet another potentially deadly Coronafest
at the foot of the disgraceful slap in the face to the sacred Lakota land known
to white people as Mt. Rushmore (carved by a devoted Klansman no less).
A section of the majestic and sacred Black Hills of the Lakota Nation
that has not been illegally defaced by carvings of three white Indian
killers and one who said, “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good
Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are.”
South Dakota’s Chrumpian governor is seeing to it that the
event will feature the exact opposite of social distancing and that masks are
scarce. This should guarantee that a significant number of knuckle draggers
will end up infected and will take their dumb-gotten gains into the larger
community. Native peoples everywhere are already suffering outsized numbers of
dead from COVID-19, and now they have to try to dodge 75,000 pasty-faced
pinheads, some unknown number of whom will be spreading themselves and their
perverted bodily fluids so thickly across Lakota territory for the foreseeable
future. Donald Chrump’s wanton murder spree rages on unabated, with no end in
sight.
Protesters made their voices heard, but thanks to Chrump’s
neo-fascist regime predilection to sic the Second Amendment on the First, which
is now standard operating procedure, these righteous protesters were sequestered,
harassed and arrested more than a mile away from Chrump’s danger zone. While
this was probably best as regards the health and safety of the protesters, it
is just another affront to the Constitution and participatory democracy.
The all-white counter protesters, who were not harassed or
arrested, taunted the Lakota led protest, screaming (in true Chrumpian fashion
to say the least) “Go home. Go home. Leave. This is not your land,” while
standing as ignorantly as humanly possible on sovereign Lakota land. I kid you
not people. These ignorant white motherfuckers need to get the fuck off of this
flat fucking Earth before I pull out my chainsaw and cut this motherfucker
right in half so it falls out of the sky for good.
For his part, Chrump’s “totaleetariatism” (sic) was on full
display. Bemoaning what he described as America “witnessing a merciless
campaign to wipe out” our history and heroes, Chrump lauded “heroes” like
Andrew Jackson, who the ever tone-deaf, brain dead Chrump felt compelled to
call out by name, describing the genocidal maniac who mercilessly tortured thousands of Indians, killing hundreds with his Trail of Tears as “a great man.” This while standing on treaty-defying, thrice-stolen, sacred Native
ground. Chrump also used the Fourth of July to promise to protect the legacies of “the giants of our past…the
greatest Americans who ever lived,” clearly alluding to the likes of Robert E.
Lee, Jefferson Davis and many more perpetrators of treason-in-the-name-of-perpetuating-slavery.
One wonders why Frederick Douglass has not spoken up during all of this.
The Projector-in-chief sounded more like Hitler
or Mussolini than Kennedy or Obama as he stoked fear, hatred, division and an
almost fanatical devotion to himself, and whined about “far-left fascism.” To be fair, this is all Chrump has ever done throughout his miserable
excuse for a life. As I always say, you have to go with your strengths. With
Chrump though, his strength is his weakness, and his very strong and powerful
weakness may well be America’s undoing.
Shame Over (Well, One Of Them, Anyway)
Well, it looks like - probably thanks to this very
strong and powerful blog – the NFL’s Washington Racists will soon be forced
to give up their racist moniker and excremental emblem. Might I suggest the DC Chrumps,
which has the added advantage of doing nothing to lessen their racist status, but
is at least less insulting to Native Americans. Or how about the Washington
Wankers, or the Capital Creeps? Either way, the perfect emblem is right in
front of their racist faces. And the owner of the image is always willing to
prostitute himself and certainly happy to plaster his name all over the place,
and always ready to make a great deal. With the added bonus of already looking
cartoonish, which will save money on designing. They deserve each other.
Apparently, team owner Dan Snyder has relented under immense
pressure from $pon$or$ to conduct “a thorough review” of the team name. Snyder
is still blathering on about needing to consider the “proud tradition and
history of the franchise.” He might want to weigh that against the actual
justifiably, proud and much longer (he may want to look that up; helpful hint:
don’t bother asking any Chrump supporters) history of the original people of
this land against whom Syder’s cherished cash cow’s name is a flagrant, shameless
slur, Snyder’s hollow claims of the slur honoring the original people aside.
Many native people and their supporters have been screaming about ending this
ignominy for years.
Funny story, George Preston Marshall, the founder of the
Washington football franchise in the 1930s was a recognized racist. The team went
on to become the last in the league to integrate in 1962.
Just in case Mr. Snyder is having trouble, I have his
“thorough review” right here: Listen you racist fuck, stop demeaning this
land’s first people. Just because you’ve been doing it for years doesn’t mean
shit to a tree. STFU and do the right thing, even if it’s the first time in
your life. Any financial loss you might suffer – and let’s not kid anyone, perhaps
even more than the racism, it’s all about the money –are just tough shit and a
small price to pay for getting away with all these years of flaunting your
racism in broad daylight. So, if you feel the need for any more reviewing, make
it quick douchebag.
Next stop, Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Indians, and the
horrific tomahawk chopping assholes and their Atlanta Braves.
Oh, and let’s not forget the monument in Stone Mountain,
Georgia. It is the largest bas-relief in the world. The carving depicts three
Confederate treasonous losers, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall
Jackson. It is an injury to the otherwise beautiful mountain – as is Rushmore –
and another shameful insult to humanity. This needs to get some Berlin Wall
treatment. Thousands of black folks should be invited to line up like some
Disney World ride, and take turns swinging a sledge hammer to start knocking
that shit down. And they should be paid a decent wage to do it.
If we did not know before, we hopefully know now that this
nation’s descendants of slaves do not generally have the same sense of July 4,
1776 being Independence Day. The day the British colonies of North America (the
land the murderous Italian moron Columbus, his successors and various other
white folks stole from the original inhabitants without so much as a
mother-may-I) became the United States of America.
For those whose ancestors were dragged from their homes half
way around the world in order to be treated like property, animals and
construction equipment (or as Ben Carson called them, “immigrants”), nothing
changed for them on that July day. It would take another 88 years and 50 weeks before
they would technically gain some semblance of independence from their
oppressors – at least on paper.
“There were other immigrants
who came here in the bottom
of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.”
Carson quote (he is the less orange sleeping idiot on the left.)
Nonetheless, America, in a relentless effort to pretend the
parts of our past we should be deathly ashamed of, that many among us would
like to never have to think about or own up to in any way, likes to celebrate
July 4th with all manner of hoopla. For reasons that have nothing to
do with rethinking the meaning of it all in these times of historic racial/civil
unrest, July 4, 2020 will not have the usual degree of gathering and merriment.
America is currently under two ominous clouds – the deadly
coronavirus pandemic with its devastating job loss and general economic
collapse, and the ever-festering madness of King-in-his-own-mind Donald. And
the long overdue Black Lives Matter protests to stop police wantonly killing
black folks and finally allow black people a taste of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. And the ongoing climate crisis that has become all but
invisible as a result of the devastating virus pandemic, though considerably
more threatening, damaging and ultimately fatal.
It is nice to see that the last state in the union to have
Confederate imagery on their state flag finally remove the stars and bars.
Mississippi has finally decided to stop rubbing the failed war to protect
slavery in everyone’s face. Choose your celebratory phrase: Better late than
never. Or my preference, it’s about fucking time. For an excellent take on
monuments to hate, murder and rape that are all over this country, read this
powerful piece by Caroline Randall Williams.
Naturally, our Racist-in-chief, who recently called the
phrase BLACK LIVES MATTER a “symbol of hate,” is pretending he has the
slightest interest in any of this (other than his deep-seated racism) as he
panders to his race…I mean base, feigning umbrage that such important imagery
of our hateful, disgraceful past is being improperly disrespected.
Speaking of symbols of hate, check out Chrump 2020’s new
campaign t-shirt:
Remind you of anything?
What a coincidence. Or
something.
Chrump has no knowledge of American history, no interest in
anyone’s opinions, only what causes people to cheer his ravings. In one of the
great toddler-temper-tantrum events of all time, Der Furor is prepared to veto
the military budget (though his pathetic little veto will almost certainly be
overridden) in order to protect the good names of Confederate traitors despite
the fact that the vast majority of Americans are more than ready to be done
with our nation’s biggest losers of all time Chrump is more “concerned” with
the rights of long-dead traitorous Confederate generals than he is about the
rights of living, or more recently dead people of color.
You can’t make this shit up
folks, and neither can I.
It has been said that war is the health of the state. Chrump
is surely trying to bring back the Civil one. Peace and tranquility, like
democracy, unity and America all are anathema to the malignant narcissism and
toxic sociopathy that is Donald Chrump. He’s a grand old hag, he’s scum-sucking
drag and forever in disgrace may he leave. He’s no emblem of the land we love,
we’re not free, he’s not brave.With any
luck November 2, 2020 will see Republican’ts riding through the streets crying,
“The voters are coming, the voters are coming.” And November 3, 2020 will
become known as Independence From Donald Chrump Day. Either that or America is
over. Literally.
Since it is likely, at least if you are smarter than the
average Chrump supporter, you will not be gathering in large groups, huddling
in masses, yearning to breathe free (from Chrump and his racist minions), we
here at Paying Attention offer a glimpse of a few Independence Days past. If
you’re bored and can’t think of anything better to do with your Fourth of July,
here are some links to ghosts of Independence Days past. Just click on the date
for some painful memories and hopefully some laughs.
“There is
nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” – Goethe
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in power.” – Ed Venture
Il Douche continues his abominable pseudo-presidency
– smooching with Putin, cuddling with Kim, and practically blowing bin
Salman.Chrump is clearly more
comfortable with
America’s adversaries than with our friends, and more competent with stagecraft than statecraft.
On this 242nd anniversary of the great
experiment in democracy that is the United States, I am reminded of a day back
in 1976, during our nation’s Bicentennial Brouhaha, when the man who pardoned
the criminal Richard Nixon – unelected president Gerald R. Ford – dared to show
his face in Philadelphia – the birthplace of American democracy (Anyone
remember that?), and right outside
Independence Hall of all places.
First he went after the Mexicans and many spoke out even though
they were not Mexican. Then he went after women and many spoke out even though
they were not women. Then he went after the handicapped and many spoke out even
though they were not handicapped. Then he went after the Muslims and many spoke
out even though they were not Muslim. Now he’s going after the Jews…what the
hell took him so long?
As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s 238th birthday a
relatively small, armed and dangerous segment of America is wallowing in a
grotesque and misguided obsession with the Second Amendment to the
Constitution. It’s obvious that these pseudo-patriots have spent little if any
time actually reading the Constitution, even the ones who can read. This is
obvious because they clearly haven’t even read their beloved Second Amendment.
It says, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Even the casual reader will notice that the opening phrase refers to the
necessity of a well regulated militia.
Paying Attention’s First Annual
Fourth of July/COVID-19 Holiday Extravaganza EveThought For The Day
July 3, 2020
As we head into a long holiday weekend, not as long as the
recent COVID-19 weekend, but a long weekend nonetheless, it is time to
acknowledge another significant day in American history. Jim Morrison passed
away 49 years ago today.
Jim Morrison and The Doors – An American Prayer
Tomorrow as some of you may know, remember, and/or care is
the 244th anniversary of the day the American colonies declared their
independence from the British Crown. This of course was only really a thing for
white folks. And pretty much only really mattered for white, land-owning males,
but who’s counting. In order to whet your whistle for tomorrow’s First Annual Fourth
of July/COVID-19 Holiday Extravaganza, we present Paying Attention’s First
Annual Fourth of July/COVID-19 Holiday Extravaganza Eve Thought For The Day.
Enjoy. And don’t forget, tomorrow, be sure to stay at home. But, if you must
leave the house, please be yourself, wash your masks, and be sure to wear your
hands if you are foolish enough to leave your house. And, as always, watch out
for giant asteroids, androids and hemorrhoids.
And now, without any further ado, your Paying Attention
First Annual Fourth of July/COVID-19 Holiday
Extravaganza Eve Thought For The Day…
Movie night at the White House
Interesting, Vladimir Putin, the Taliban and Donald Chrump (and
no small number of Republican’t Chrump enablers) insist that reports by U.S.
intelligence of Russia paying bounties for killing American (and some allied)
troops are nothing but…wait for it…a hoax. It really is not a surprise that
Chrump ignoring intelligence. He constantly questions the intelligence he gets.
The rest of us constantly question what intelligence he has.
Dosvedonald
This has been your Paying Attention First Annual Fourth of July/COVID-19 Holiday Extravaganza Eve Thought For The Day.
Chrump Knows His Shit (But He Thinks It Don’t Stink)
Nowhere in Particular
July 1, 2020
I wish people would stop giving Chrump good advice. Some are
idiots like Chris Christie, who continues to provide aid and comfort to the
current administration and wants to keep the Orange Usurper in office so he can
finish America off once and for all. Or perhaps you prefer the only African
American Republican’t senator Tim Scott, unwilling to provide a meaningful
comment on Chrump retweeting a video of his supporters yelling “white power”
while tooling around town in golf carts. All Scott would say was that his racist
boss, who coddles Nazis and other white supremacists, should delete the tweet.
Well played sir.
Others are pundits, whose job it is to think about what is
best for our country and are paid to say smart sounding things on television. I
understand why Republican’t scum want to keep their stranglehold on the nation
and will do whatever it takes to keep their man-child in office.
The others mean well, and they know what a president is
supposed to do, and what this country needs to succeed and survive. When they
provide these bon mots they usually include a caveat like, “Not that I want to
give Chrump any advice that will help him get re-elected, but…” or “If I were
Donald Chrump, I would stop doing such-and-such and I would start doing…” Just
stop it. Luckily, he is by nature incapable of listening to anyone, but it's
just not worth the risk. Let the man be, he knows what he needs to do. He's a
very stable genius. Stay the course. Very fine people on both sides. Thousand
points of hate.
Besides, he knows more than you do about whatever your area
of expertise might be.
What would these people do if Chrump turns around and does
something smart that might make some voters decide to give him another chance?
I know we all want a better life, a better country, less suffocating ignorance
and hatred. But we can surely wait another few months to get to that. We’ve
done without anything resembling sanity for almost four years, a few more
months can’t hurt. I mean, what the hell have we got to lose? We already have a
relentless pandemic, runaway unemployment, a recession pushing to become a
depression. We have a president who is more loyal to Russia than to the United
States, whose support for anything American is restricted to our history of
racism, those white supremacists among us and the seemingly unending river of gobsmacking
ignorance, all of which have zombie-like endurance. There are very few possible
disasters that could pile on at this point; I will not try to imagine what they
might be, let alone list them here, lest I jinx the whole mess, or heaven
forbid, give the Orange Gas Cloud any ideas.
A one-man pandemic threatens to
end the great experiment in democracy
Now is the time to just keep our good intentions, truly good
ideas and well-meaning advice to ourselves. Helping the country now will only
hurt it in the long run if it helps keep Chrump in the White House one
nanosecond longer than is absolutely necessary. Let him do what he does best –
the worst thing possible in any given situation.
The risk of Chrump making things unimaginably worse over the
next four months is unquestionably a frightening prospect – he proves that more
concretely with each passing hour. However horrific this might be, it will be
just another grain of sand on the sprawling beach of what he will surely do given
another four years. If you thought post-impeachment Chrump was bad, imagine
what lame-duck Chrump would be like. Actually, don’t do that. You have too much
to live for.
One more thing. If it happens that the Electoral College
again hands the keys to the country to the current blind, drunk, suicidal
driver currently behind the wheel, but the Democrats keep the House and take
the Senate, Democrats must – the moment after they are sworn in on January 20,
2021 – bring the rest of the impeachment charges they left in their safety
deposit box against the fascist, racist, treasonous slob, convict him forthwith
and then do to Mike Pence what Mitch McConnell did to Barack Obama for the
remainder of his ill-gotten term. Along of course, with whatever other crimes
against America and/or humanity he happens to commit between now and then.
Drug-crazed, truck “driving” man – has this fuckwit ever even driven a car?
