Atticus
Atticus's JournalThere are times for nuance.
There are times for bipartisanship.
There are times for courtesy and respect.
None of these ways to proceed is at all appropriate when one is engaged in a knife fight in a phone booth.
We MUST pass HR 1 or prepare for another decade of having to find some way to overcome the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression their state legislators are already preparing.
They MUST stop HR 1 or face the terrifying prospect of FAIR elections which they know they would lose.
As my rural dirt-poor ancestors learned, when you find yourself having to deal with a frantic cornered rat, you'd best strike hard and fast and with whatever tools you find available---shovels, rakes, hammers, ---whatever it takes.
Now is not the time for giving a damn what Republicans want, what they might say or how they feel. Now is the time for doing "whatever it takes".
Am I the only person listening to the Senate hearing about the January 6th insurrection who
thinks that there is plenty of reason to believe that the primary question to be answered is: was this a Trump LIHOP or MIHOP situation?
So, when will we be free from Trump or his ideological successsors?
When Americans stop sending money to Nigerian princes.
When Americans refuse to pay three installments of $19.95 for a $4.00 "non-stick" skillet and a couple of $3.00 pans.
When Americans stop buying "supplements" guaranteed to restore their hair, increase their IQ and turn old men into randy studs.
When Americans come to REALLY comprehend that calling an apple a banana 5,000 times---even on TV---does not make it a banana.
In a nation where people insist on THINKING FOR THEMSELVES and have the ability to do just that, Trump would be a disgusting laughingstock.
Here's all you need to know about HR 1, which will be much-discussed in the coming days:
---Democrats want to make it easy, simple and convenient to vote for all who are qualified and so inclined.
---Republicans are desperate to preserve their ability to win elections by cheating.
There'll be a lot more "discussion", but that's it in a nutshell.
Now you can take a walk, plan your gardening or read a book instead of trying to cut through the "earnest concern about election integrity" BS the Republicans will be spewing.
You're welcome.
( Ssh-h-h-h-----I may have overlooked them, but there don't seem to be any posts or TV news blurbs
about------you know-----he who shall not be named! )
Ain't it great?
A typical line of questioning by Sen. Grassley: "Is it true, Director Wray, that snow sometimes
blankets one area while totally missing another area mere miles away?"
WRAY: "Yes, that's true."
GRASSLEY: "And, by means of snow shovels, plows and even dump trucks, snow that falls in one place is often moved to another place. Isn't that correct?"
W: "Certainly, Senator". ( baffled look on face )
G: "Did you actually WATCH it snow here in Washington, D. C. last night?"
W: "Well, no, but----"
G: ( interrupting ) "SO, Director, your prior testimony in which you were led to say---UNDER OATH!---that it snowed HERE last night, you were SPECULATING, weren't you,sir?"
W. "Well, Senator, I can't see how----"
G: "WE see, Director! WE see! Nothing further of this---"witness".
"Cancel culture" is nothing new. It's just starting to negatively impact a lot of people
who thought they were way too "important" to be cancelled.
It used to be called "shunning". In smaller face-to-face communities---villages, tribes, churches---people understandably did not want to associate with liars, thieves, cheats or bullies. They chose to exclude such miscreants from the benefits of what we would now call "networking". In extreme cases, the offensive person was physically driven away from the community.
Today's version of shunning---"cancel culture"---is just as understandable as it always has been: WHO---with an ounce of decency within them---would want to associate themselves, their business enterprise or their personal reputation---with, for example, a Trump-loving politician or someone who had voluntarily and enthusiastically done Trump's bidding?
Cancel culture? You damn betcha!
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