Atticus
Atticus's Journal"That's a goddam lie!" ---- something we need to say more often.
It does not need to be loud or said with clenched fists. In fact, it will likely be more effective if we say it with a small pitying smile.
When someone says something totally outrageous that has been debunked many times---i.e., "Trump won by a landslide" or "vaccinations have killed thousands" or "Those who invaded the Capitol last year were patriotic tourists", they are not "mistaken", they are evil; they are not presenting "the other side", they are lying. Don't let them hide behind the pretense that they actually believe what they just said. Damn few are truly THAT stupid.
Liars deserve to be called liars.
The question Putin didn't ask when he decided to amass troops on the Ukraine border:
"And then what?"
Will he sacrifice his troops and his nation's economy to save face now that Joe Biden and NATO have asked the question?
I know it's hard to be objective about tfg, but try, OK?
If you consider what be has said in the past month or so about his own political allies, the high crimes he has publicly admitted he committed and his continuing insistence that we didn't see what we saw on 1-6-21, can you come to any other conclusion other than that we are witnessing the frenzied desperation of a cornered rat in a burning building?
I sure hope I'm right.
Old white guy here. It seems to me that black people and female people have this in common:
both have to be smarter and work harder in order to succeed professionally.
Is there really any genuine concern that a black woman nominated by President Biden to the SCOTUS won't be extremely well qualified?
Seriously?
Would you want an amateur to do your root canal procedure?
How about having an amateur surgeon remove your appendix?
Would you be ok with an amateur mechanic adjusting your car's brakes?
Why are so many clamoring to turn the education of our children over to parents who are amateur educators?
Besides the fact that many, if not most, of those screaming about "parents rights" could not pass their kid's exams in math, science, English, history and social studies, they have no training in how to TEACH---which is a whole lot more complicated than just standing in the front of the classroom.
This nonsense needs to be rejected by thinking parents who know that letting the screamers set the curriculum will quickly lead to textbooks published by Nathan Bedford Publishing and the Q-Anon press, and---"teechurs".
As I hear the justified cries of outrage in the British Parliament about their
Prime Minister's numerous maskless drinking parties at Number 10 while forbidding others to gather or even attend dying loved ones in the hospital due to a covid spike, I was stricken by the surreal nature of OUR current and ongoing national embarrassment.
OUR twice-impeached one term ex-"potus" has publicly admitted to more serious offenses than I can list here, among them seditious conspiracy and attempting the violent overthrow of our government. One cannot compare Trump's traitorous crimes to Boris Johnson's classless insensitivity, but compare how the two "men" are being treated!
Johnson is HOUNDED by his press and his own party is in the process of "persuading" him to resign.
Trump largely avoids the press, appears only on right-wing TV stations for interviews by ass-kissers and 75 % of his party not only won't dare criticize him, they want him to be their candidate AGAIN for the presidency in 2024!
"Outer Limits"? "Twilight Zone"? Or, just "MAGAstan"?
There are no good people who STILL support Trump---period---no exceptions.
They are not simply "misled"
They are not just "uninformed".
They either know what a traitorous monstrosity he is or they don't care that he is because he wants to hurt the same people they do---us.
Trump wants to hurt us to increase his power and wealth. Those who STILL support him want to hurt us because, well---like I said: these are not good people.
I know about all of the terrible, vulgar, greedy, selfish, dishonest, ignorant, mean-spirited, racist, misogynistic things that Trump has said or done. You know about all of that, too.
How can we possibly believe that Trump's remaining base does not know all of that?
And, they still support him?
Not. Good. People.
As Garrison Keillor's bachelor Norwegian farmers might say: "Tellviddem!"
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