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Atticus

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Atticus's Journal
September 4, 2020

If it was true that "losers" and "suckers" serve in the military, wouldn't everyone

in the White House be in uniform?

Just sayin'----

September 4, 2020

When a poster raises the prospect of Trump refusing to leave the White House even

after he loses the election, inciting his rabid militia supporters to disrupt Biden's inauguration, etc., we often read responses from those who are more "politically sophisticated" saying " He CAN'T do that! It's illegal, silly!"

It is just possible that these folks are making a glaring fundamental error: they are assuming that, because they abide by the law, Trump surely will AND that, because they try their best to find reasonable solutions to their problems, Trump will also. In view of what we have witnessed these past four years, I find these assumptions incredible.

Like Putin and Kim and Pol Pot and Stalin, Trump isn't like us any more than Cujo was like your pet.

Expect Trump to do ANYTHING that might help him in power and out of prison.

September 3, 2020

Several of my friends and I dressed in olive drab, strapped on our pistols, shouldered our

military style rifles and set out to confront "those damn commie bastards"!

It was 1957. We continued the game until the 2000 watt incandescent street lights came on and we had to go home for our baths.

WE outgrew the "let's play soldier" phase. RWNJs, not so much.

September 3, 2020

Things you never want to hear:

From your neurosurgeon: "Is this the thingy to open the skull?"

From your mechanic: "Disc brakes---drum brakes---what's the difference, right?"

From your dentist: "Not sure this is the tooth that needs pulled, but---."

From your sushi chef: "I don't THINK this is from one of those deadly poisonous fish."

From your Attorney General: "I don't know if voting twice in the same election is illegal."

September 3, 2020

Just a reminder: Trump lies.

The ability to shamelessly lie through your teeth and the willingness to smile and nod while HE lies are apparently the only two requirements for employment in the Trump regime.

Carry on.

September 3, 2020

HOW SHIT HAPPENS: an unnamed blogger on a freshly created website posts "I have sources in

the Biden camp who privately despair about Sleepy Joe's physical health/mental health/sex life/secret off-shore accounts/ etc."

TV program 1: "Although no corroboration was provided, an online political blogger recently stated------"

TV program 2: "Both television and internet commentators have accused Biden of------"

RW talk radio: "Lotsa people are saying that 'Sleepy Joe' -------"

Trump: "Everyone knows---it's been widely reported---that Joe Biden is actually--------"

All major news sources: "President Trump today lashed out at his opponent, citing numerous media references to Joe Biden's ------------!"

Someone you know---a neighbor, co-worker, relative---"I don't like Trump, but I can't vote for Biden because he------------!"

As disgusting as this sounds, stomp on this shit whenever and wherever you encounter it.

September 3, 2020

Real, genuine and good faith Democrats, please consider---there are "Democrats" whose sole purpose

in posting here and elsewhere is to amplify every bit of "OMG! WE ARE DOOMED!" sewage that Putin and equally reprehensible "Americans" are injecting into the body politic.

Some scream; some cry; some will publicly wet themselves and rend their clothes because some unknown blogger or poster has pulled another unsourced lie out of their ass. Some of the pros will camouflage their intent by mixing an occasional "attaboy" with their faint praise and disingenuous questioning.

These digital thugs are the on-line version of the Proud Boys: they are here to destroy us. Their "oxygen" is our responses of any kind.

Ignore them, please!

September 2, 2020

This is something that I think probably does not need to be said but, just in case there is any

doubt, I will NOT be injected with any "vaccine" made available by the Trump regime---period.

His whorish CDC has now notified all 50 state health departments to be prepared to vaccinate their citizens with a "vaccine" to be available in "late October or early November". Could this possibly be more transparent?

As far as I am concerned, Trump should use his vaccine---as a suppository.

September 2, 2020

Trump and his cult are now---plainly stated---spending hundreds of millions of dollars in a

flailing attempt to create the ILLUSION that he is competent AND competitive.

Putin-aided trolls and hackers slandering Joe and Kamala? Check.

"Manipulated" videos? Check.

Inciting Proud Boys and other fascistic incels to sow "chaos and violence"? Check.

Purchasing polls? Check.

Illegally employing his coterie of chancred whores---Barr, Pompeo, De Joy, etc.---to do LITERALLY ANYTHING to keep him in power? Check.

Blackmailing the GOP PTB with "kompromat" provided by Putin? Check.

Enlisting Trumpist state legislatures to suppress the vote of minorities and students? Check.

In general, the Trumpists have decided that any laws, rules, customs or PEOPLE who stand in the way of extending Trump's autocracy can be disregarded or destroyed. This will succeed only if we ALLOW it.

Whatever you are doing to elect the Biden/Harris ticket now, kick it up a notch or two, okay?

September 1, 2020

Does anyone know the color of Dr. Atlas's lipstick?

I'd like to be able to tell how much of the colorful shmear coating the Trump rump is his.

Quite a bit, I'm guessing.

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