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Atticus

Atticus's Journal
Atticus's Journal
September 16, 2020

I have heard many people---fine Americans---say that Trump walked into the Oval Office

this morning with a tube of Crest in his hand and asked Meadows "Where the hell is 'Fluoristan'?"

( Meadows said he'd look it up. )

September 16, 2020

Where is the alert button? nt

September 15, 2020

Biden/Harrris---if you talk 'em up, you take 'em up; if you talk 'em down, you take 'em down.

One type of "undecided" voter is not thoughtfully considering the merits of the candidates; they are trying to decide who will likely win on November 3rd. They want to vote for the winner. Period.

Many have no idea what the candidates are promising to do. It does not matter. With their vote, they want to join the "winning team".

This is how perception can, indeed, become reality. No one voice decides how these folks vote. But, the cumulative effect of how people respect or disrespect a candidate, how enthusiastic and confident his or her supporters seem to be and, as a result of this cumulative effect, how the media SEEMS TO FEEL about the candidate. Tone of voice, facial expressions, animation---the "undecideds" soak all this in as they watch TV and try to "go with the flow". And, some of those media commentators are also watching you---and me---and "the man on the street" to see which way "the flow" seems to be going because they want to "win" also.

Is this a sad way to cast a vote? Of course, but guess what: their sad shallow vote counts just as much as your carefully informed vote.

If the only person they could watch and listen to was you, would they decide you were supporting a winner?

September 15, 2020

Dear Mr. Trump: It's me again, Zelmo, with an other whiz-bang idee for your campane!

You know how them Dems is always sayin' there "pro-choice"? Well, there cain't be any "choice" unless there's more than one of sumthin', right? There's gotta be what they call a "alternative". So, if there reelly "pro-choice", they shirley cain't skwawk about a website with all them "alternative facts" now can they?

So, what you guys do is you oregonize all the amayzing alternative facts you have come up with during your admenstruation an put 'em in one place on the innernets soze any of us rootin' for you can have a good answer to any of these deep state nerds who are always so proud of there "facts". We could just leave 'em speachless after a avalanch of official approoved "alternative facts"!

That there's a winner, sir, an I'm given it to you---"no charge"! (Course, once you win agin, if you find yourself in need of a ambassadoor to Thighland, I'm your boy---nowutImeen?)

Sinseerly, Zelmo Thudpucker.

September 15, 2020

So, the GOP float a totally silly "skinny" Corona virus aid package that was designed solely as a

"CYA" opportunity for the Republicans up for re-election this fall and then they're indignant when it is opposed by all Democrats?

These are the folks who would throw a 20 foot rope to someone drowning 100 feet from shore, watch them go under and then cluck "That should have been sufficient. Why didn't they reach out a little further?"

September 15, 2020

Trump lies about everything. The Trumpm administration lies about everything. I do not

believe ANYtHING they say unless corroborated by several objective others.

Unemployment numbers? Nope.

Coronavirus deaths? Positive test results? Number of tests given? Nope.

Economic data? Nope.

What Putin, Xi, Un, Erdogan say in private? Nope.

Trump's net worth? Nope.

NOTHING originating in the Trump regime is trustworthy. Period.

September 14, 2020

Does anyone else ever refrain from posting something they genuinely believe to be true

because they fear being "investigated"?

Do we not now live in a time when telling the wrong truth can get a person openly persecuted by a government that does not acknowledge any valid restraints on its authority?

September 14, 2020

If any foreign head of state had so willfully lied to his people, had so abysmally failed to

protect them from a pandemic that the rest of the world had managed, had so transparently and cavalierly committed crime after crime, "We the People" of the United States of America would have asked each other in astonishment "How in the world can those people allow this to continue?"

Well---?

September 13, 2020

Is there any chance we'll ever know whether Michael Reinoehl was assassinated to

please Trump?

I have no facts, but this has just smelled very wrong from the git-go IMHO.

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