It’s A Crime…Or Three

He Brags About Doing The Crime,
When Do We Get To Watch Him Do The Time

February 3, 2022

Just so we're clear: One of the most racist people you've ever seen, who claimed he is the “least racist person anywhere in the world” is calling African-American prosecutors who are attempting to hold him accountable for all manner of crimes, most of which everyone saw this racist asshole commit, racists. Go fucking figure.

Turmp somehow (probably brain damage from snorting so much Adderall, and the fact that he is a life-long racist, conman and sociopath) managed to call the three black prosecutors – two district attorneys and one attorney general – “vicious, horrible people, they’re racists, and they’re very sick, they’re mentally sick. In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you.” He must practice this insane shit in front of the mirror every day. It makes sense, since he is always and only talking to and about himself.

Turmp regales his festering followers with titillating tales of treason

(possibly photoshopped...or prophetic)

You Can’t Catch Me, I’m The Ginger-Faced Man

As usual, Turmp could not help himself from admitting to his crimes. Publicly. In writing. He whined to the marks at his recent Texass rally that “Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. He could have overturned the election!” For those of you just tuning in, this statement is both stunningly wrong on its face, and massively illegal.

“Put me in jail. Put me in jail.”*
Donald J. Trump, January 30, 2022

How many times can a disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, multiply-subpoenaed ex-president and failed blogger admit to treason before getting the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg treatment? Unlike Turmp, the Rosenbergs never publicly committed or incited treason, and proclaimed their innocence until the last. It’s like if every Sunday Jeffrey Dahmer set up his grill, and a picnic table to eat his victims on national television as though he was simply enjoying a hot dog and apple pie.

As if to flaunt their blatant racism in our faces, Ratpublicans in many states are hurriedly creating conditions and laws unabashedly designed (thanks to Chief (In)Justice John Roberts) to stop black people from voting.  

*Actual quote (possibly taken out of context, though more likely a spectacularly Freudian admission)

I. Mangrey, of, by and for the people.

Fahrenheit 2022

All Burned Up And Nowhere To Go

February 1, 2022

Ratpublicans are not content merely sabotaging the ability of people of color and as many Democrats as possible to vote. Or stealing Supreme Court seats. Or mounting an insurrection to overthrow the United States government. Or giving all of our tax dollars to the wealthiest Americans. Or making sure poor people stay poor. Or packing local school boards with COVID-spreading, neo-fascist numb-nuts.

Several red-meat states are worried that white, Christian, heterosexual men are becoming an endangered species. That their fragile egos, and hard-fought image as the epitome of civilization is being battered by facts and history. They want schools to teach both sides of the Nazi Holocaust, but pretend that they had nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to slavery, which they would prefer you just pretend was no big thing anyway.

For their latest ploy to whitewash history, and they hope by extension, the future, they are busily banning all kinds of books. Yes, for those of you who remember books, you would be excused for thinking that banning books went out with brown shirts, death trains and gas chambers. Unfortunately, like so much else from those days of ignorance horror, and toxic whiteness, book-banning is coming back in vogue in red states all across the land. Besides banning masks, vaccines, science and reality, the freshly minted governor of Virginia Glen Youngkin, (What, no recount?), was first out of the gate, hard(ly) at work banning anything that vaguely implies that white people in America, and one presumes anywhere on God’s white Earth, ever did anything to be ashamed of, since God chose them to be in charge of everything, and none of that stuff really happened anyway.

When not quoting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to make it sound like he loved white folks and thought black people just needed to get with the program, Youngkin is finally putting a full stop to something that never actually happened – teaching Critical Race Theory in public schools in Virginia. Youngkin has set up a tip/snitch line so that good white folks can rat out anyone they think is teaching Critical Race Theory. Thank blond, white Jesus that Youngkin had the courage to, oh I don’t know, grovel before MAGAts as he tries to woo them away from various Don Turmps to clear a path to the White House.

Burn, Asshole, Burn

It is not only Virginia that is hell-bent on taking us all backwards in time. Why would they stop with banning books? You know they want to clean up – well, whiten up – America. Pretend slavery never happened. Deny the Holocaust. Pray the gay away. Get rid of voting. It can’t happen here? It is in process at this very moment. Several states are doing their best to do the worst. They will not stop voluntarily. They must be figuratively beaten down. At first.

It ain’t spring break, it’s a psychotic break!
You won’t believe what these yahoos are up to.
Inappropriate for…well, everyone!
Jews may not replace them, but somebody better do it!

Texas wants to ban a book titled We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). The book delineates the constitutional rights of public school students and was sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society. The book includes a case in which the Supreme Court struck down the removal of books from public school libraries.

Not to be out-dumbed, a Tennessee school board has banned the ground-breaking graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, the only graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Maus is considered by many to be the gold standard for teaching children about the Holocaust – the one where the Nazis murdered six million Jews, not the one where people were required to wear protective masks to keep from dying and killing others during a deadly virus pandemic – just so we’re clear. Some board members felt that the book’s language was rough. Others weighed in that the actual Holocaust was kind of rough. Surely there must be a happier way to teach children about it. Something like Adolf and the Funny Solution. Maybe it would have been better not to have it.

Does genocide always have to be such a bummer?

Speaking of murderous dictators, why is everyone surprised to hear people like Fucker Carlson siding with Putin and Russia? All the talking heads seem to have forgotten that the moment Barack Obama became president, all kinds of Ratpublicans began singing the praises of Putin. I wonder why they pulled such a 180 on Russia, lauding a “strong” Putin while deriding a weak Obama.  Anyone with a shred of honesty knew exactly why these frightened white men sided with Putin. Now, these shameless traitors will side with anyone over any Democrat, because Democrats are supported by and (sort of) supportive of people who look like Barack Obama…whatever that means. And just look at the way these racists (there, I said it) are reacting to Joe Biden’s “threat” to put a black woman on the Extreme Court. They would rather he nominate Putin.

I. Mangrey remembering. BUY BANNED BOOKS.                                   

                                                                                                        

Question For The Day

Every Day Is Still January 6^th

January 31, 2022

“I don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. But I will always be proud of what we accomplished.”
                Mike Pence – Six months after running for his life as supporters of the guy he doesn’t know if he’ll ever see eye to eye with on that day built a gallows and chanted  “Hang Mike Pence!” as they hunted Pence down while ransacking the Capitol in an attempted coup

Mike Pence begs the question:

How can someone be a total dick and completely dickless at the same time?

Kevin McCarthy desperately begs the same question.

Dickless and Dicklesser

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

You're welcome.

What is your question for the day?

Broken News

Spit On $potify

January 28, 2022

I wish I was subscribed to Spotify so I could cancel my subscription and boycott them. The schmucks at Spotify have decided to keep disinformation disseminator, snake-oil-salesman, and all-around puke Joe Rogan, and dump Neil Young after the music legend said the streaming service wasn't big enough for both him and Rogan. I guess Spotify showed Young who's boss.

Neil                                             Unreal

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded in 2006. It is now the world's largest music streaming service provider, and clearly cares nothing for truth, justice or human life. Joe Rogan is a greedy, conspiracy-addled goon with a huge, fact-averse audience. Guess it’s profit über alles for $potify and Rogan, and a match made in hell.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) live

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled cowgirl in the sand.

The Fickle Fifth Of Fate

January 27, 2022

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
Donald J. Turmp

Between testifying before the House Jan 6 Select Committee and testifying in the case being brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, various Turmp assholes associates have invoked the Fifth Amendment, apparently worried about self-incrimination more than one thousand times thus far. And that is only the ones who dared even show up either when invited or subpoenaed. Several of these traitors are still fighting subpoenas before being forced to appear and presumably also hiding their sorry asses behind the fabulous, furry Fifth Amendment, which I believe provides the constitutional guarantee to keep and bear lies, high crimes and misdemeanors.

The Fifth Finger

Those with good memories and/or poor life choices may recall that Turmp himself has expressed some very strong and powerful opinions on the Amendment that is three down from the sacred Second. The disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-losing, coup-plotting ex-president and failed blogger who is banned from Twitter once said, “You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” The (allegedly…not really) most guilty many in America also said, “When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth, so they’re not prosecuted…I think it’s disgraceful.”

Take Two Fifths And Call Me In The Morning

The NY AG’s office submitted a 160-page filing in court stating that investigators found “significant evidence” that The Trump Organization used “fraudulent or misleading” asset value numbers to get bigger loans or reduce taxes. Turmp money-man Allen Weisselberg expressed his undying affection for the Fifth Amendment 500 times in response to questions in the New York investigation. Eric Turmp also spent six hours pleading the Fifth 500 times in the same case. Both of these criminals know where the bodies are buried, but does Eric know where his brain is buried?

Right-wing conspiracy theorist, sociopath and seditious radio loudmouth Alex Jones desperately tried to not incriminate himself nearly 100 times during his interview with the Jan 6 Select Committee. John Eastman, one of Turmp’s very fine lawyers, who offered up a well-thought-out (so to speak) coup plan in writing to Dear Leader, serenaded the committee with 146 Fifth Amendment pleas during his dis-appearance.

Long-time Turmp confidante and proud sleazebag Roger Stone did not provide the number of times he took the Fifth, and claims that he – apparently for the first time in his life – did nothing wrong, but that he asserted the Fifth because he believes Democrats will conspire against him. Good one, Rog.

We are still waiting to hear nothing from Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Steve Bannon, Ivanka, and Donald Drunk, Jr. So much bullshit, so little time. I shudder at the very thought that I might agree with Don, Sr., but I do have to wonder how many innocent people have invoked the Fifth Amendment throughout the course of American history. If there actually are any, he will not be one of them.

Don and Donner

“Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Horrible.”

Donald Turmp, the elder

When will Eric’s dad have a chance to, pardon the word – exercise – his Fifth A rights? Can you avoid incriminating yourself when everyone who doesn’t watch Fux News already heard the recording of your crime? How exactly does that work? And why the fuck do we have to wait so long for him to be forced to listen to and struggle to explain away another of his patented, impeachment-worthy “perfect phone calls” where he once again tried to play the “I would like you to do us a favor, though” card, in a desperate, demented and astoundingly illegal attempt to strong-arm the Georgia secretary of state to “find 11,780 votes” in order to overturn the repeatedly certified vote in that state? Many people – Donald Turmp, for example – are unaware that votes are not something you “find.”  They are something you count once they have been cast. By people commonly known as voters.

For the rest of us, ingesting the fifth might be the best option for the time being:

Meanwhile, Fucker Carlson cheerleads for Putin invading Ukraine, and disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that “when you have a Republican Congress,” members of the Jan 6 Select Commission “face a real risk of jail” for exposing the truth of his party’s complicity in trying to overthrow the duly elected government they pretend to be part of. Or as Gingrich put it, “for the kind of laws they’re breaking.” Fascist much, Newt?

I. Mangrey testifying. I know what I saw and heard.

Thought For The Night

Whew! Hopefully
Bye, Bye, Breyer

January 26, 2022

While running for president in 2020, Joe Biden committed to nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court should he have the opportunity. He has doubled down on that promise now that Justice Stephen Breyer has announced he is stepping down. No doubt Bitch McConnell will try something despicable, but hopefully Biden will be able to count on all 50 Democrats suck it up and get this done.

No doubt that most if not all Ratpublicans will insist that a black woman will be unable to impartially rule on cases, since they are not white men, who as we all know, are always unbiased and apolitical and never rule on anything but the merits. They never pretend that they, and they alone, know the intent of the founders. Even when they go hunting with Dick Cheney while they were about to hear a case in which plaintiffs were trying to get Cheney to reveal who was on his energy anti-environmental task force – which by the way, excluded any members that were not fossil fuel fanatics. Thank goodness we have white men to tell us what is right and wrong.

Anyway, thank you Justice Breyer for putting America’s future ahead of your past. With any luck, your decision will at some point come back to haunt the six white nationalist, religious fanatics who are currently holding two stolen seats on the Court hostage.

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

You're welcome.

What is your thought for the night?

Fraught For The Day

Electoral Evisceration

January 23, 2022

Ratpublicans are trying to make voting a full-time job…without pay. The 90%-white party, which continues to whole-heartedly support their disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, multiply-subpoenaed, virulently racist ex-president and failed blogger, is doing everything in their power to ensure that they cannot lose another election…at any level of government.

States' Wrongs

A Ratpublican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives lost his election bid by 60%. He has refused to concede and is claiming he has My-Pillow-Guy-like evidence that proves he did not lose. The Pillow Guy, as you may recall, continues to insist he has tremendous evidence proving that Donald Turmp defeated Joe Biden in 2020. He has yet to show a single shred of any such evidence, or any shred of intelligence for that matter. Once a deranged crack-head, always a deranged crack-head I guess.

Also in the COVID-loving state, Gov. Ron DuhSantis (R-COVID) has taken it upon himself to redraw Florida’s redistricting map to ensure that no Democrats can win any districts. Is that really so wrong? One expert described DuhSantis’ twisted treasure map as “the most brutal gerrymander proposed by a Florida Republican yet.”

While we're on the subject of the grating state of Florida, DuhSantis wants to create a 52-white-manned “Office of Election Crimes and Security” to hunt down the millions thousands hundreds dozens two cases per year of voter fraud out of the millions of Florida votes cast (not counting state-sanctioned, illegal voter-roll purges, elimination of polling places in Democratic/black districts and racially-biased gerrymandering, all at the hands of Ratpublicans), which are probably committed by Ratpublican voters. Apparently this idiocy is contagious. Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue decided to add this to his platform of racist lies.

In Texas, the secretary of state claimed that supply chain issues are making it harder and more expensive to get paper, causing them to send out fewer voter registration forms to groups ahead of elections this year. Yeah, right.

There is a reason why states like Florida, Texas, et al were required to check in with their probation officer before implementing new voting laws. That is, until Extreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts declared racism in America over and oversaw the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 back in 2013 with the Shelby v. Holder decision. The day after that incredibly racist decision, many of the states that could not be trusted with free and fair elections, provided incontrovertible proof why there had been a voting rights act in the first place. A number of southern states immediately hired Jim Crow to oversee their elections. Roberts, as it turned out, had been gunning for the Voting Rights Act since he was a young fuck…I mean, buck. Actually, I meant fuck.

The Big Cheese-Curd

For his Hannibal Lecter-esque part, Mitch McConnell explained everything you need to know about Ratpublicans’ stance on voting rights. After his fellow racists Manchin and Sinema put the final nail in the voting rights coffin by standing up for the filibuster über alles, McConnell told reporters, “if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” So, McConnell is in favor of those he considers to be Americans voting (Any guess who they might be?), but not so much for African “Americans.” Get it? Got it! Good.

Democrat voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.

By the time McConnell and company are finished, the only votes that will count will be those of white, male landowners. Hmmm, now where have I heard that one before? They need to be stopped before it’s too white.

In case you very reasonably thought and/or hoped I made this up

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

You're welcome.

What has you fraught for the day?

Secret Stooges

Stupid Service

January 21, 2022

“This is Donald Trump's party, and I am a Donald Trump Republican.”
Matt Gaetz, December 20, 2020

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhh.”
Q moron shaman, January 6, 2021
 

It seems an impeached President is still entitled to Secret Service protection once he is out of office. Even a disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, multiply-subpoenaed, fascist one. Apparently, even one who incited a violent insurrection and riot at the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of the free and fair election of his opponent, who crushed him like a cockroach in the popular vote. No other incumbent president has had so many people vote to Lock Him Out! Lock Him Out!

It has yet to be determined whether this remains true if the ex-prez and failed blogger ends up in prison for some reason, but hopefully we will have a chance to settle this soon. It seems to me that it would be very awkward to cram all those Secret Service agents into a small prison cell. I think it would be fun to watch, like the famous stateroom scene in the Marx Brothers’ A Night At The Opera.

Either way, I suggest Biden expand the Extreme Court quickly, before this issue comes before the current complement of radical religious, right-wing, pro-fascist (in)justices. If Turmp does continue to live off the largess of the government he and his Ratpublican minions tried to destroy, he should be given the best agents available...just like he brought us the best people to run his administration. Might I suggest:

Louis Gohmert, Q shaman, Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz

According to the King of Delusion, what everyone saw on video of the historic, hysterical attack he fomented on January 6^th was not what actually happened. We learned from audio recorded during Turmp’s interviews with Carol Loennig and Philip Rucker that Turmp believes, “There was a lot of love, I’ve heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me, ‘That was a loving crowd.’” With any luck, Turmp can continue to be surrounded with the kind of love we all saw his very fine people express toward officers of the law, the Capitol building itself and the word and spirit of the Constitution last January 6^th.

In any event, I’m sure the very fine people shown above can be quickly trained to be the kind of quality protectors of a disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, multiply-subpoenaed ex-president and failed blogger. All it would take, given the true nature of the protectee (code-name “Catastrophic Cantaloupe”) in question, would be one pair of government-issue aviator sunglasses. What else is needed to train for a job like this?

TRAINING ACCOMPLISHED

Having protected Turmp from the Constitution and the American people throughout his historically horrendous single-term despite two impeachments and one attempted coup, these .45 caliber automatic whackos can now do it full-time. They can put their bodies on the line instead of just using them to prop up the vacant bony cavities atop their necks.

And Gaetz and Jordan may be looking for work (or prison terms) very soon.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thought For The Day

Oops

January 19, 2022

I just learned that people were not always saying, “It’s a freak country.”

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

You're welcome.

What is your thought for the day?