Atticus
Atticus's JournalI understand that many here are pleased with Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger's recent
criticisms of Trump.
I view him with a very jaundiced eye and would like him to answer one question before I deem him genuine: "What do you know about Trump now that everyone with an IQ above room temperature knew four years ago?"
For the past several days, I've watched TV ads featuring Maryland governor Hogan
extolling the virtues of bipartisanship and the "No Labels" group's "Problem Solver's" caucus. He praises the last-minute band-aid $600 "stimulus bill" as an example of what their bipartisan attitude can achieve.
And, each time I see it, I have to fight both the urge to scream and the urge to puke.
Have we come to this?
If our government assures us that something life-saving ( vaccinations ) will be available by a given date and it does not arrive and we are outraged, it is now OUR FAULT for depending on what we were told?
Have we forfeited our right to be pissed off? Is being lied to now "no biggie"? Is deadly incompetence a "given" and, therefore, not something we should mention? Complain about? SCREAM ABOUT?
Two weeks ago, we were told 20 million of us would be vaccinated by the end
of December. With 3 days left in 2020, only 2 million have been vaccinated.
People, we need to start SCREAMING at any Republican we can reach: "WTF IS GOING ON? THOUSANDS A DAY ARE DYING!"
This is no time for nice, no time for polite, no time for "indoor voices".
"WTF IS GOING ON?"
After seeing the Andre Hill video from the Columbus, Ohio killing of another
unarmed black man, it occurred to me that officer-worn cameras aren't called "body cams" because they are worn on the cop's body; it's because that's what they so often film---black bodies.
Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) is now on CNN speculating that "since Mr. Trump is a man of
his word---( I'll pause here till you recover from that--------------) and he did say he had GOOD NEWS", he "probably has negotiated an agreement with the Senate to get the $2000 and "of course the House will pass it"
Two questions: 1.) Has McConnell very recently "gone the way of all flesh?"
2.) Does Markwayne have brothers named Billybob and Jimmyjoe?
CNN just reporting Trump APPARENTLY to sign covid relief bill this evening. A ballroom at
Mar-A-Lago has been "set up" for the "ceremony".
I know it must be reported, but it does NOT need to be televised. This steaming pile should not be allowed to further pollute the airwaves by strutting on stage before a national audience to put out the fire he poured gasoline onto!
I won't bother naming names, but it seems to me that there have been a handful
of characters in every past Republican administration who were very easy to "intensely dislike". Most of their fellow GOPers, while not generally admirable, were just "average garden-variety" wrong-headed politicos.
The Trump regime, however, is overflowing with people who are not just easy to dislike, they richly deserve to be despised and these I will name. Trump, of course, but also Pence, Barr, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Flynn, Manafort, Kushner(s), Stone, McConnell, Blackburn, DeVos, DeJoy, Gaetz, Gohmert, Paul, Cotton, Kavanaugh, Graham----that's enough. I am sure I have left off at least several dozen greedy arrogant racist wastes of skin, but my point is: being a despicable person has become an accepted threshold requirement for those wanting a job with "IT" or seeking his approval.
Unpredictability equals stress equals insanity---for lab mice, at least.
I recall reading of an experiment conducted by scientists using mice released into a pair of special mazes. Each maze had sections of the wall marked with circles, squares, triangles or stars.
In one maze, when mice touched a circle they received a morsel of food. Touching squares or triangles had no effect whatsoever, but touching a star marking delivered a painful electrical shock. The mice learned and adjusted their behavior. They sought out circles, avoided stars and ignored the squares and triangles. They appeared to be thriving once they knew how to navigate the maze.
In the other maze, the consequences of touching the various shapes constantly changed. One time, squares delivered food and circles gave shocks. On the next run, just the opposite would occur. Sometimes all shapes meant food; sometimes all delivered shocks. In short, there was no predictable result of touching a given shape.
This second group of mice "panicked". They began running rapidly into walls and attacking each other. After a period of this frenzy, they eventually just stood in place, rocking back and forth and staring into space.
I don't think it is too much of a stretch to compare what Trump has done to us to what the experimenters did to the second group of mice.
We get out of the maze on January 20th.
I believe it to be a fact that even people who have been diagnosed as insane and incompetent
to care for themselves may, nonetheless, cast valid votes for POTUS.
These folks cannot get a driver's license, sign a valid contract or spend their own money, but they can vote for their choice to occupy the White House.
Don't think about that for too long.
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