Atticus
Atticus's JournalI wonder if you've heard this little-known tale from the Trump White House.
The way I heard it, it was a snowy winter morning in DC when Trump uncharacteristically decided to bundle up and stroll out into the Rose Garden on the well-cleared sidewalk. On the far side of the snow-shrouded garden, he was about to turn back when his attention was drawn to a pile of snow left by the plow where two sidewalks crossed. His jaw dropped and his face turned crimson as he saw that there on the snow pile, written in what looked like urine, someone had written "Piss on Donny!"
He stormed back to the Oval Office and screamed "I want the directors of the FBI and the CIA here in 10 minutes!" It took both a little longer than 10 minutes, but both arrived very quickly.
After sending then out to inspect the "vandalism" in the Rose Garden, he summoned them back into the Oval and, through clenched teeth, growled "Whatever it takes, I want the name of the sonofabitch who wrote that by
8:00 a.m. TOMORROW!"
Both fled and immediately and started an "all hands on deck" investigation. After countless man-hours spent by hundreds of agents and technicians, the weary directors stood before the angry Trump the next morning. "WELL?" he demanded.
"Sir," the grim faced FBI head began, "we have good news and bad news".
"Gimme the good news!" the man behind the desk roared. "WHAT'S THE GOOD NEWS?"
"We've analyzed the urine and there's no question about it. It's Cruz's" the top cop said.
"That is WONDERFUL!" Trump squealed. "That smartass insulted me during the campaign and I've been looking fo an excuse to bury him. This will do it; he's toast!"
As the ear-to-ear grin still lingered on his face, Trump asked "What's the bad news?"
After glancing first at the FBI boss and then at the door, the CIA director stared at the floor and solemnly reported "The handwriting----------is Melania's."
I think I know what happened to all of the EVIDENCE that "Trump won by a landslide"!
Rudy had it stashed at Four Seasons Landscaping in bags of cow manure, but it was stolen by the Bigfoot. He (?) was loping through Central America on his way to the Chupacabra's cave, when he was spotted by a satellite camera.
Soon, satellite lasers were firing green fireballs at him and, in his panic, he took a wrong turn and ran right off the edge of the flat earth! Bigfoot and all that "irrefutable" evidence are lost forever!
An' dat's da twoof!
Having just watched Dr. Ladapo's "testimony" before the Florida Senate, I am amazed at his strength.
If I had said the intensely stupid things he did---if I had told as many transparent provable lies as he did today before news cameras---I would be curled up in a fetal posture sucking my thumb, floored and devastated by shame. But, not the good doctor.
Dr. Ladapo nattered meaningless Palinesque word salad in response to question after rephrased question before the Florida Senate, never once actually answered a question and sauntered away with a smile on his face.
He must be a very strong man or, come to think of it, maybe he's just a shameless whore.
It's been said that "if everything is important, nothing is important". I propose a corollary.
"If everyone is a ___________, no one is a _____________."
Those blanks can be filled in with all sorts of professions that used to be understood to require a special education or talent---"scientist", "doctor", "epidemiologist", "educator", "attorney", "pharmacist", "historian"---- you get the idea.
Nowadays, any high school dropout with internet access is, according to millions of those we daily walk among, just as qualified to diagnose and treat any type of illness, prescribe substances ranging from urine to horse wormer for preventing or curing covid, interpret the US Constitution or give legal advice as all those "elite educated" people we used to think were the authorities in those "professional" fields.
Personally, I want people who have the appropriate education, training and experience to use their expertise in their specialized field. I don't want a mechanic removing my appendix and I don't want a surgeon working on my car's brakes. And, call me "picky", but I don't want anyone performing either of those services for me if their only claim to competence is "I researched this on the internet."
I'm so old I remember when that was called "common sense".
Cold and snowy in southern Illinois this morning. So far, at the feeders, I've seen
cardinals, several races of sparrows, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, tufted titmice, dark-eyed juncos, downy woodpeckers, goldfinches, redpolls and red-winged blackbirds.
They'll be lucky if one of the local Cooper's hawks don't decide to make a meal out of one of them.
At a massive protest outside the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin several years ago, someone
carried a hand-lettered sign with a message that stuck with me:
"Tax the rich we'll have to eat them!"
The gap between poor and wealthy has widened since then.
You know, there was a time when IF a member of Congress had had the sheer audacity
to publicly take credit for bringing federal funds back to his or her district or state and then people found out they had opposed the funding bill and voted against it, constituents would have all had pretty much the same response: "I'll never vote for that lying sonofabitch again!"
Lookin' at you, Senator "Florida Man" Scott and you, Florida voters.
I have no "evidence" to support this, but believe it to be true: the smarmy slanderous attacks
Senators will hurl at ANYONE President Biden nominates to fill Justice Breyer's seat on the SCOTUS are either already written or will be by "Rachel time" this evening. They will just "fill in the blank" when a nominee is named.
As our POTUS pledged to nominate a black woman, the words "too extreme", "radical liberal" and "socialist" will undoubtedly be mentioned in every speech in opposition to the nominee. That's the "out loud" part.
The "quiet part" will be heard from the Right Wing Echo Chamber on cable and the internet and will consist of smirky disingenuous references to "shrill tone", "inner city experience", "anti-white sentiment" and, of course, "hormones".
Smart Democrats will use this racist misogyny against their Trump party opponents and hang a few of their nastiest quotes around their necks. There are still more good people than bad in this country, but many are too busy putting food on the table and shoes on the kids to keep track of just how mean-spirited these people really are.
It is up to us to inform them.
Statements beginning with "IF we can get 50 Democratic votes in the Senate"---and
"IF we can get 90% of our people vaccinated and boosted---" have one thing in common: both are a waste of time.
Until Democrats TRULY control Congress, both of those "IFs" just ain't gonna happen.
If you are not willing to play "smash-mouth" politics, how do "President Trump", "Speaker Jordan" and "Senate Majority Leader Cotton" sound?
"Conservatism" has become synonymous with cruelty. Their sole remaining economic
concern is how taxes can be even further reduced for the wealthy. That the Draconian reductions already enacted will mean less of just about everything for the common folks does not bother today's "conservatives" in the least.
Less medical care--- less income---less education---less life expectancy---less time to spend with their children---less safety in the workplace---less clean water and air---less DIGNITY---less HOPE!
Today's "conservatives" would laugh at any politician so clueless as to advocate "compassionate conservatism" and consider that notion a "quaint" political slogan that did not work.
Their bedrock goal is what it has always been: powerless cheap labor. Their bedrock concern about any proposal is also what it has always been: "What's in it for me?"
My attitude is--- likewise---what it's always been: "Mean People Suck!"
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