Atticus
Atticus's Journal"Well---it's-----complicated!" How many times is that or a similar phrase used to excuse why
we aren't doing what we damn well know needs doing?
Those who support the disregard of a valid and fair election and encourage others to overthrow our newly-elected president should not be permitted to serve in Congress.
Will history accept "It's complicated" as an explanation for our "moving on in the interest of unity"?
Are simplicity and painlessness now prerequisites for punishing criminals in office?
Must we be assured of victory before we will fight?
We know that anti-matter exists. Why not "anti-decency" or "anti-kindness"?
I am certainly not a physicist, but I am aware that anti-matter, generally speaking, is the opposite of regular matter. The electrical charge of the sub-atomic particles of which it is made is the reverse of the charge in normal matter. Though both are thought to have been created in the "Big Bang", matter and anti-matter cannot co-exist in the same space. One must annihilate the other.
Is the concept of good vs. evil so different from what I have just described?
Are attempts to co-exist with the evil we can so clearly see in our world just postponing the eventual toe-to-toe life or death battle?
I don't know, but the comparison seems at least plausible on this Saturday morning in Little Egypt.
The CDC's announcement will not immediately change my personal habits. I will
continue to wear a mask when shopping and I will avoid indoor gatherings of people who are not known to be vaccinated---and that includes restaurants. I guess you could call it a "wait and see" approach.
From what I have heard and read, at least a part of the motivation for the "unmasking" was the perceived need to "offer a reward" for getting vaccinated. The CDC believes this will "incentivize" unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. I hope they are right, but I have my doubts.
I personally know people who have not been vaccinated and "by God, NO ONE"' is going to force them to inject a "socialist experiment" into their body. Less than 45% of House Republicans have been vaccinated. These people, I believe, will now simply be even more vocal in ridiculing those of us who have been wearing masks for 14 months. Their attitude will switch from "It's a hoax!" to "It's over!"
While I fully believe that my vaccination provides 95-97% protection and even IF I am unlucky enough to get infected, the covid will be asymptomatic or very mild, I just do not want to be responsible for infecting someone, like a young grandchild, who is not vaccinated.
We are in much better shape with Joe in the White House, but I will hope for the best while trying to prepare for the worst. Although our POTUS is no longer a threat, the mindless disciples of "the former guy" still walk among us.
Chip Roy's pitch to Republicans as to why they should choose him over Stefanik:
"Why choose a pretend white supremacist nazi when you could have me, the real deal!"
A plea to those who still believe there is a way to "reach across the aisle" and "find common
ground" with people who insist Trump is their POTUS: the liars on other side of the aisle are sharpening their swords and loading their guns and they are not just "thinking about" the destruction of our democracy, they are actively making plans to do just that.
If we are not prepared to "fight fire with fire", we will not be treated kindly by history because that history will be written by the likes of Greene and Gaetz and Jordan.
I will not "go gentle into that good night".
Practice saying this: "That is total bullshit and only a lying asshole would say something
so obviously false".
Use this whenever you hear something as nauseating as GOP Rep. Clyde's remark that January 6th was like a "normal tourist day". It is much less than the traitorous pus-bag deserves, but I don't want you to get yourself arrested.
Three questions I'd love to ask the Republicans who just voted to oust Cheney:
1.) If, at one of your campaign events, you'd been asked if you would pledge to adopt and support whatever outrageous lie your party said was necessary, how would you have answered?
2.) Would that answer have been truthful?
3.) What did you just do?
Every now and then, a proposed action by Democrats is criticized---by Democrats--as "risking further
polarization" of the country.
It seems to me that, when the screaming wild-eyed barbarians are hacking at the gate with blood in their eyes, we in the castle should oppose them in any manner available without worrying about "this might piss them off".
Arrows, spears, boulders, boiling oil----whatever it takes.
I am sure this board could produce a very long list of reasons why I would be a terrible US Senator,
but let me mention just one: I could not bring myself to smile and refer to members of the traitorous "Stop the Steal" caucus as "my distinguished colleague".
I would not want to "work with" any of them.
I would refuse to "forgive and forget".
Not spitting on them would be the extent of my "civility".
I would, therefore,---seriously---be a terrible Senator.
I know I am not alone when I say that it was embarrassingly obvious the very first time that
I saw and heard from the likes of Donald Trump, Mike Lindell, Wayne LaPierre, Matt Gaetz and Ted Cruz that they were lying hypocritical phonies. I had no detailed evidence---no real "proof" that they were bad people, but still I KNEW that they were.
I have enough sense to know that such "knowledge" must be corroborated by subsequent observation before it can be acted upon and openly discussed with reference to a political figure's competence and character, BUT---whether you attribute it to "intuition" or "spidey sense", it has very seldom misled me.
Some people just seem to radiate waves of "skeevy".
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