Atticus
Atticus's JournalIF I was to state---which I am NOT doing, Agent Mike---that "the only good Donald Trump is a DEAD
Donald Trump", I would fully expect to be at least interviewed, if not taken for a ride in the back of a government vehicle, rather promptly. I would also, of course, expect to get tombstoned from DU.
Yet, there is virtually no consequence beyond the usual tsk-tsking and head shaking when Trump retweets some yahoo's declaration that " the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat". And, to the knee-jerk and utterly ridiculous response by the bleach-drinkers that "he didn't SAY it, he ONLY retweeted it", I ask "are you really that stupid or do you just hope everyone else is?"
Retweeting is Trump's version of a Limbaugh fan's "ditto". It's a lazy way to say "here's what I think". There is no "only" in front of "retweeted".
I'm sure this evening's news will be clogged by Republicans demanding air time to denounce Trump's cowardly retweeted threat---or---- mebbenot.
Trump "has no empathy" because empathy requires that you open your soul and expose your
weakness and your pain to the world. You have to voluntarily say "I am like you, therefore i can feel and share your pain."
Trump has never admitted any weakness and his consistent approach to dealing with others is "Yes, of course i am smarter, stronger, tougher---BETTER---than you!"
He "don't need no stinkin' empathy"!
Having accurately pegged Trump as an ignorant cowardly weakling, China has just taken control
of Hong Kong. The US., to its everlasting shame, meekly accepted this "new reality".
Does anyone think Taiwan will not be next?
Trump can take his executive order about Twitter, fold it in half and
use it as a suppository.
Who in hell does this childish poltroon think he is?
Just read a great new (to me, at least) term for obnoxious Trumpers:
"bleach drinkers"!
Donald, Donald, Donald! Ease up with the threats against Twitter, dude! That fact check icon
ain't no thang! Obviously, the Twitter sitters are still totally intimidated by you. They are still treating you with respect and using civil language. IF you were treated as you deserve (I know, I know---it will never happen, but---), all of your tweets would be bracketed with skull and crossbone insignias and have the something like the following in all caps preceding it:
"HEY, YOU---DUMBASS! WHY ARE YOU READING THIS?
DID YOU NOT SEE WHO TWEETED IT?
ARE YOU SOMEHOW SO IGNORANT THAT YOU ARE UNAWARE THAT TRUMP IS THE LYINGEST HUMAN BEING EVER TO DRAW A BREATH?
DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT THE ONLY PRODUCTS OF THE TRUMP REGIME TO DATE ARE HATE, DIVISION, CHAOS, VIRAL DEATH AND MASS UNEMPLOYMENT?
LOOK AT CUTE CAT PHOTOS; CRUISE THE PORN SITES; WATCH VIDEOS OF PAINT DRYING---ANYTHING BUT VOLUNTARILY POISONING YOUR SOUL WITH THIS TRIPE!
So, you see, Donnie, things could be worse. Some real asshole lib like me could be running Twitter!
If having no taste is a symptom of Corona virus infection
Trump could be "Patient Zero".
Hearing Trump describe "only" 100,000 dead as a "great job" reminded me of Robert Southey's
"The Battle of Blenheim" in which a field of rotting corpses is termed a "great victory". https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45178/the-battle-of-blenheim
To the MAGATs considering attending a Trump rally this summer, a question:
"Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?"
We knew about this pandemic years ago. Oh, we did not know about this specific Covid 19 virus
and we did not know just when it would come ashore in America, but we knew several years ago that a pandemic---probably involving an airborne virus impacting the lungs---would occur. And, you know what? We prepared for it.
Beginning in the George W. Bush administration, but coming to fruition during the Obama administration, some of our best and brightest generated a detailed and comprehensive plan to handle this Corona virus. Qualified experts were given positions within our government to keep watch for the plague everyone KNEW was bound to sweep across the world. Ironically, until about two months before Covid 19 reared its ugly head, we had US scientists inside the very lab where it was identified, placed there specifically to monitor developing disease threats and alert our CDC if warranted.
But,these plans were all for naught. Trump's people trashed the plans and scientifically recommended protocols, eliminated the government group with the knowledge and experience to implement the plans and cut the budget of the CDC by over 100 million dollars. Again ironically, they "justified" the budget cut by insisting that the Obama administration had already done all the pandemic prep necessary and nothing else was needed. And, we all know that the primary motivation for Trump's elimination of all the pandemic response plans and staff was simply because they were the product of "the black guy".
Trump's repeated insistence that "no one expected" this deadly pandemic is beyond bullshit: it is perhaps the most damnable lie ever uttered by any American political figure.
"Recovery"--- of the economy, our public health, our status in the world, our national self esteem, our democracy---cannot and will not even begin until Trump is "removed".
Twixt now and November, behave like the lives of everyone you love depend on defeating the maniac in the White House.
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