Friday, November 11, 2022

‘Tis But A Scratch

You Win Some, And You Refuse To Admit You Lose Some

November 11, 2022

With 100% of the votes counted in the Keystone State, Confederate cosplayer, anti-Semite and bull-goose looney Doug Mastriano has still refused to concede his crushing 14-point defeat at the hands of Democrat Josh Shapiro.

Fun Fact: Josh is the second Shapiro to be elected governor of Pennsylvania, though only the first to use his actual, (very Jewish) surname

Mastriano’s misplaced pluck is reminiscent of another brave warrior whose grasp of reality also left something to be desired…




Armless, legless, brainless Black Knight unmasked


Neil Innes – How Sweet to Be an Idiot

Pennsylvania voters also rejected Trump-endorsed New Jersey resident and celebrity snake-oil salesman Mehmet Qz.

Not to be out-dumbed, the Godfather of Grift (who kept all the money he raised to catapult his catastrophic candidates to victory for himself) had this exchange with a “reporter” on the eve of the massive Red Wave/Tsunami that never happened, and may yet end up being a Blue Happy Ending – a Blue Job, if you will:

"Reporter": You've endorsed more than 330 candidates this election cycle. Tonight, win or lose, for Republicans [her word, not mine] um, how much of that will be because of Donald Trump?

Donald Trump: Well, I think if they win I should get all the credit and if they lose I should not be blamed at all. Okay?

Okay. Let me know how that works out for you, since most of them lost (including Donnie’s tiny-hand-picked election denier who was thrashed by the now governor-elect of Massachusetts Maura Healey – the nation’s first openly lesbian governor and the first woman to hold that office in Massachusetts).

I. Mangrey reporting. Whew.

circa November 2, 2022

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Schmuck Of The Day

Don’t Cry For Me Bolsonaro

November 9, 2022

I hope all of you took some time to vote yesterday, unless you swing Ratpublican, in which case you should go out and vote today. 

Speaking of elections, Brazil’s murderous, tree-killing authoritarian dictator just lost his re-election bid to leftist Luiz InĂ¡cio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro briefly whined and moaned about stopping the steal after closing down roads in areas known to be favoring his opponent but nonetheless losing to Lula da Silva. But surprisingly, today’s schmuck of the day is not Jair Bolsonaro – the man known as “Trump of the Tropics”.

Unlike a certain disgraced, twice-impeached, failed insurrection-leading and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president in this country, Bolsonaro voluntarily turned over the reins of power after his defeat and a moderate hissy-fit. However, as a shitful shoutout to his American counterfeit counterpart, Brazil’s Trumpster Fire refused to concede. And Bolsonaro’s malignant minions did not carry out an idiotic insurrection.

Trump (desperately applying his patented alpha hand-squeeze) and Brazil’s Trump

Also, we here in the northern America can expect countless Trump clone-clowns to refuse to concede, and it is entirely possible that many if not all of these (hopefully countless) defeated chuckleheads will throw endless Trumper tantrums, because they have been telling us for months now that the only good election is a Ratpublican election. Lord knows, their brainless leader still insists (though he knows full well that he is full of shit – and it’s the shittiest shit, believe me) that he is president and not the guy who crushed his sorry ass in the 2020 election.

So by default, today’s Schmuck Of The Day must in fact be the schmuckiest schmuck of every schmucking day, the one (thank God), the only (thanks again) Donald Jew-hater Trump. The only reason we tend to feature other schmucks in this segment is purely out of attempting to maintain variety and sanity.

I am not saying the following to be rude or mean, just accurate. Donald Trump is one seriously fucked up motherfucker.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Fuck yeah.

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Besmirch And Destroy

The Fascism At The End Of The Universe

November 8, 2022

As in-person voting and the counting of mail-in ballots in the 2022 midterm elections takes its place in American history, everything is on the line. Democracy itself, the habitability of our planet, women’s rights to choose, the middle class, Social Security, Medicare and a list of specific rights, needs and niceties too painfully numerous to mention, are all at risk as Trumpian Ratpublicans vie for permanent control of the levers of power across this land.

Ratpublicans have no policy ideas.* A while back Bitch BcConnell (sorry, I have a cold) was asked what Ratpublicans would do if they seized control of the House and Senate. His response was, “That is a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back.” No one in their right mind can doubt that Ratpublicans couldn’t care less about anything but money and power. If they did not hate America they would not have given us Trump. They would not be trying to foist upon us people like Herschel Walker, Doug Mastriano, Kari Lake, Mehmet Qz and many others too painful to name. However, here is what they are planning to do if America loses the midterms:

          - Impeach President Joe Biden.
          - Impeach Vice President Kamala Harris.
          - Impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland.
          - Impeach Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
          - Impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

It’s not me saying this. All of this has been publicly stated on video. Raphael Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz and other dim bulbs in the short-circuiting Ratpublican firmament are talking about it and spewing forth resolutions as we speak.

They also want to:

          - Outlaw voting for Democrats, and ultimately voting itself.
          - Outlaw all religions that are not radical Christian fundamentalist.
          - End abortion rights.
          - Ban books that present inconvenient truths.

Lest you imagine there is even a hint of hyperbole in the above, Tim Michels – the GQP candidate for governor of the very purple state of Wisconsin – not realizing he was being recorded – actually said that “Republicans [his word, not mine] will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor.”

Michels also promised to de-certify the 2020 election results in Wisconsin once he becomes king of the Badger(ed) State. Such a process does not exist under current Wisconsin law, but it will all be in a day’s work once Tim Michels becomes Governor-for-life.

This is what democracy fascism looks like.

Kinks – Money and Corruption/I’m Your Man

In Other News Of The Mentally And Morally Challanged…

Right-wing talk show host, miserably-failed candidate for governor of California and current candidate for Fascist of the Week Larry Elder thought it would be a good idea to publicly state that Democratic voters should have their voting rights removed. Quoth the craven, “I support term limits. Not for politicians, but for voters. After you vote Democrat two or three times you're now disqualified from voting.”

You are certainly aware that any race won by Democrats will be labeled as rigged, and will be challenged until hell freezes over. So pace your panic drinking tonight, this could take a while.

Freak out…

I mean, Peace Out.

Steppenwolf – Power Play

VOTE BLUE OR END UP DYING BY YOUR OWN HAND!

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*To be fair, they do have a few. Never-ending tax cuts for the rich, irrevocable power, more mass shootings, Christo-fascism, and stripping rights from women and voters.

I. Mangrey reporting. I’m off to vote…while it’s still legal.

Monday, November 7, 2022

Fun Fact For The Day

Dry Tide

November 7, 2022

Here we are on the eve of the 2022 Midterm Election Circus coming to every town in America all at once. Yes, there will be endless piles of Elephant Shit to clean up on the day after. And that could very well be the least troublesome job two days from now. Many of us might need industrial-strength vacuums to sop up our tears.

Current polling – as these polls so often seem to do – appears to show that most Americans trust the party that consistently fucks up the nation’s economy and drains citizens’ wallets to fix the economy and put more money in citizens’ wallets.

It is often said (mostly by people who own boats) that a rising tide lifts all boats. What they never mention is the fact that it simultaneously drowns the majority of people who are on land. Prepare to tread water.

Just thought you might like to know.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Fun Fact For The Day.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Broken News: Fifty Shades Of WTF

November 3, 2022

Pissing On Anne Frank’s Grave 

Evangelical Ratpublican Texass congressional candidate Johnny Teague published “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank,” a novel re-imagining Anne Frank’s final days at Auschwitz. Teague thought it would be a holocaustic hoot waste his time taking a dump on the memory of Anne Frank by fantasizing in public about Frank finding Jesus – as if she had not been traumatized enough in life and as if Mormons “converting” her soul wasn’t disgraceful enough in death.

There’s cultural appropriation and then there’s this infuriating boar shit. What on Earth would inspire anyone to perpetrate such insulting religious pornography?  Isn’t it enough that Mormons claim to convert the souls of dead Jews? And what the fuck is that anyway? Are they insane? Do we really need such anti-Semitic porn? Isn’t the rampant pedophilia within the Church, perpetrated by supposed men of God disgusting enough? And don’t these radical wannabe theocratic Christo-fascists have anything better to do with their time than to disparage the memory of Anne Frank? And don’t they know that Jesus (if he ever existed) was born, lived, and died as a Jew? 

Pick On Somebody Your Own Sleaze

Won’t these fuckers be surprised when the little Jewish boy from Nazareth returns to reclaim his kingdom and has a shit-fit that in his name all of these blasphemers have usurped and perverted his life and good works (again, if any of that ever actually happened) and tells them all to go fuck themselves. I’ll save them some time just in case their anti-Semitic Rapture never happens – Go Fuck Yourselves! 

The only way Anne Frank might have found Jesus was if he was in the bunk next to her in Auschwitz with the so many other European Jews at the time. 

Is that Jesus I see back there in the corner? I sure don’t see his Dad anywhere. 

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled election torment.

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Question For The Day

Fuck You, Masked Man

October 29, 2022

Thugs in Arizona (pictured below) – as well as in 47 other states – have been observed intimidating (mainly non-white) voters attempting to place their mail-in ballots in official drop-boxes. It would not be wrong to assume they are being paid – not by Donald Trump of course, he would never use his own money, especially now that he needs every penny he can get to pay the ever-dwindling number of lawyers who go anywhere near him – by wealthy supporters of the Big Lie, the Big Stupid and Big Fascism.


Vile vigilante vermin vex voters

Unsurprisingly, a Federalist Society member, McConnell-selected, Trump-appointed judge overturned an injunction against these masked MAGAts (some armed) in body armor* menacing voters by photographing their license plates and the voters themselves, while refusing to give their names or admit to what they are doing. Judge Michael Liburdi – who presumably is hoping to get noticed and get himself on the Extreme Court one day – claimed that this flagrant voter intimidation was protected under the First Amendment. Seems more like Second Amendment bullshit to this reporter.

Today's question is:

Remember when assholes like these guys were whining that wearing masks threatened their “freedoms?”

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* It makes sense that they would be wearing tactical military gear since they are at war with reality.

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

Friday, October 28, 2022

Phake Phillies Phan

I Don't Think He's In Jersey Anymore (I Wish He Was)

October 28, 2022

Philadelphia baseball fans are on pins and needles as their hometown professional baseball mercenaries are mere hours away from Game 1 of the 2022 World Series. I am one of those fans – unlike a certain candidate for senate in the Keystone State; I am also a resident of the state – unlike a certain candidate. Unsurprisingly this fake Pennsylvanian and phony Phillies fan is pretending to ooze onto the bandwagon to score points with the locals.


Meh Oz dining out

How many Phillies fans do you know who threw out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game? How many do you know who giddily joined in a wave at a Yankees game? And how many Pennsylvania senate candidates never lived in Pennsylvania, and own houses in Turkey and voted in Turkey’s elections as recently as 2020? Has Oz ever even been to a Phillies game?

The Phillie Phanatic taking care of business

The Philadelphia Phillies ousted the San Diego Padres on their way to the 2022 World Series last Sunday afternoon. Shortly after the Phillies clinched their chance to face the post-cheating-scandal Houston Astros, some atypical tweets hit social media…

At 6:13 Eastern Time, PA State Representative and Philadelphia native Malcolm Kenyatta tweeted

Right on cue, at 6:59 PM Eastern Time, fake Pennsylvanian Meh Oz tweeted


Oz: Carpetbagger or Douchebagger? You make the call.

I didn’t see Fetterman disingenuously jumping on the Phillies bandwagon – probably because he’s a perennially depressed, yet loyal Pirates fan, and because he’s honest and was mayor of Braddock which is a Pittsburgh suburb.

I did however see that Fetterman posted these:


Pretty weird-ass Phillies hat and jersey, Meh
Speaking of Jersey, many New Jerseyites are Phils fans…


Hopefully he’ll soon be waving good-bye

I. Mangrey reporting. Fuck Meh!

Thursday, October 27, 2022

One Token Over The Line

Theoretically Speaking

October 27, 2022

A reporter on my tv just described the race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker as “a critical race.” I wonder if there’s a theory that could help provide insight into such a contest.

Also, I just heard Walker talking (lying again about the latest woman to accuse him of coercing her to have an abortion after he impregnated her). Did he have a stroke or something?

Guess who’s (not) coming to the Senate

One Token Over The Line

“[W]hat happens when the Republican Party elects and nominates Herschel Walker, an African American, Black Heisman Trophy winner, right? Olympian. It destroys the whole [Republicans as racists] narrative.” That’s right Senator Cracker…I mean, Graham Cracker…I mean, Senator Graham. One of your best tokens…I mean, friends is Black. Race closed…I mean, case racist…I mean, case closed.

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

We now return you to your regularly scheduled mishegas.

Antique News

Lordy, There Are (Two-Year-Old) Tapes

October 27, 2022

“Lordy, I hope there are tapes.”
Famous Trump abettor-turned-Trump-regretter James Comey in 2017

Famed journalist/author Bob Woodward – who was instrumental in bringing down paranoid crook Richard Nixon (yes, it turns out he was a crook) – apparently had an epiphany. But first he further stuffed his already overflowing pockets by hoarding vital information. Woodward is counted among a number of so-called journalists and other authors who managed to gain access to Trump and then sat on information that was critical to the American electorate, democracy and history. They did this in order to maximize their own potential earnings by keeping this information secret until they finished writing their self-promoting books. Fuck these assholes.

With his second book on the Trump presidency, released in 2020, Woodward regaled us with the mind-blowing proclamation that Trump was “the wrong man for the job.” Thank goodness he told us because no one had yet noticed, as we were all completely engrossed in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton’s very dangerous emails and Anthony Wiener’s dick-pics. Woodward, not satisfied with his part in allowing Trump’s deadly mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, not satisfied with his aiding and abetting Trump’s dangerous, treasonous presidency, apparently has also been sitting on audio tapes – Lordy, there are tapes! – of conversations he had with Trump. Woodward now claims that he has suddenly realized that Trump was not just “wrong for the country.” Now we are supposed to believe this 50-year-veteran journalist when he says “Two years later, I realize I didn't go far enough. Trump is an unparalleled danger.” No fucking shit Sherlock!

And you will be whatever-the-opposite-of-shocked-is to learn that Mr. Woodward is unashamed to show his face everywhere in support of his new audio book disclosing, after all this time and the near-collapse of American democracy, his years-old tapes of Donald Trump showing what we all have known all along – that he is a dangerous, dimwitted, autocratic fabulist who hates America almost as much as he loves himself. Nice job figuring this out Woodward. What timely “reporting.” I almost wish this could be chalked up to his senility or stupidity, but I’m betting it’s not. I’m going with unmitigated greed. Woodward’s tapes are so old rumor has it they are on Betamax.



I. Mangrey reporting all the news that’s fit to keep hidden for several years, today.