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Atticus

Atticus's Journal
Atticus's Journal
February 5, 2020

So, is it working?

Trump let Ukrainians die and used $400 million dollars in an effort to extort a smear of Joe Biden.

Republicans used the impeachment trial to drag the Biden name through their un-sourced mud.

Some state GOP operatives are actively supporting Biden's strongest opponent.

Republican senators continue to threaten investigations to "get to the bottom of" the non-existent Biden "corruption".

Though very little effort has been made to corroborate this, does anyone doubt that the internet is crawling with pro-Trump/anti-Biden propaganda?

Trump himself slanders Biden and props up Bernie.

So, again, is it working? Everyone OK with this?

February 5, 2020

So, Trump had "identifiable mistruths" in his speech, did he? That's what I just heard on MSNBC.

"Identifiable mistruths"--------please turn on the RANT LIGHT

Is there some problem with calling a goddam lie a goddam lie?

Is Trump a goddam "mistruther" or is he a goddam liar?

This type of namby-pamby crap just really pisses me off. Why not say "Gee, Mr. President, sir, I'm really sorry to even mention it, but I think it is just possible that you may have---inadvertently, I'm sure---uttered something that is factually incorrect."

If you have a problem calling a lie a lie, please stop pretending to be journalists as and get your sorry ass off my TV!

February 4, 2020

Gloves on the floor, the "line" way behind me---let's "comment" on the POS in the White House

in the same manner he comments on anyone who refuses to kiss his--------ring.

I have heard that he has a full time hairdresser who spends between two and three hours a morning--- usually starting at 3:00 a.m.---to layer and weave hair from the back and sides of his head into a glued-together orange/blond/gray hat. I don't know if that's true, but lots of people---fine Americans!---seem to think it is.

I understand that, rather than being six foot three and 239 pounds---like he's repeatedly claimed--- he is barely over six feet tall and tops the scales at between 275 and 285, depending on his Big Mac consumption in a given week. He is chronically constipated and can drop as much as 7 or 8 pounds when he finally--- you know.

He dislikes being photographed from the side as it reveals his perpetual forward lean due to the two inch lifts in the heels of his shoes.

His ignorance---about nearly everything---borders on unbelievable. He not only thinks Frederick Douglas is still with us and Kansas City is in Kansas, when he visited the Wailing Wall in Israel, he asked if he should bring a harpoon!

The man has been technically insolvent for decades. If not for under the table "loans" from interests in Russia, Israel and who the hell knows where else plus his "commissions" from money laundering, he'd be at a stoplight in the Bronx with a bucket and a squeegee.

He's paid for more abortions than Epstein did.

What ever happened with that lawsuit by the woman who claimed he raped her when she was 13 or 14?

It has been widely reported that the UPS guy who delivers his monthly Adderall prescription makes two trips into the White House with a hand truck.

He's too obese to tie his own shoes and has aides do it for him. It is a chore they hate since they never know when they'll hear a whispered "While you're down there----".

These are just a few of the things "lots of people are saying" about the smelly hairball in the Oval Office. But, I have no proof for most of it, so don't repeat any if it, OK?

February 4, 2020

Now is the time, my friends, to show what we're made of. We can all see the widespread "media"

push to stampede us. "Trump's numbers up"; "Iowa a total failure"; "DNC manipulating results?"; "Trump preparing revenge".

Do we really believe that this is untainted news? Do we not realize that hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent to divide us? Confuse us? Discourage us?

Have we forgotten that virtually every responsible intelligence source is saying that Russia continues to corrupt our election process to this day?

Now is not the time to set fire to our hair and go online to spread the "All Is Lost!" bullshit.

Now is the time to renew our resolve, revisit our common sense and do what we KNOW will work. Support your preference, miss no opportunity to communicate Trump's corrupt unfitness and Vote Blue No Matter Who!

There are NO Democratic contenders who are not light years ahead of Trump in fitness for the job of POTUS. This is a "NOT TRUMP" election. We can settle our differences later. Anyone who behaves otherwise is a fool.

February 4, 2020

Whatever the shortcomings in Iowa's caucus apparatus, it is clear that one aspect of its

failure will undoubtedly be used as a weapon against Democrats everywhere. The greatest sin of the Iowa Democratic party was that it failed to provide the "horserace" data that that talking heads had planned to report, discuss, analyze, compare and distort for days. Robbed of that grist, they are now giving life to unsourced conspiracy theories and speculation about "spiked" results and "fixes".

They are so desperate to fill minutes of their fractured news cycle that they have actually given several to Krystal Ball. "Must watch TV---NOT!"

February 4, 2020

Just curious---is there anything like a "minimum acceptable IQ" before one is given a

microphone on national tv and allowed to pontificate about matters political? How about ethical thresholds? Can you be transparently in the tank for a particular candidate?

Asking for a friend.

February 3, 2020

I have just now, for the first time, witnessed a couple of the Iowa caucuses. They were

"satellite" caucuses, either for shift workers or Iowans in Arizona or Florida. I was amazed, but not in a good way.

This "gymnasium assembly" method seems more suited for choosing class officers in high school than selecting a candidate to seek the office of POTUS. I know dozens of good Democrats in my bright red community who, due to their age, physical limitations or simply a distaste for "letting it all hang out", would never attend such a public spectacle. I am speaking of others, not myself.

The privacy of the voting booth, IMHO, allows for a more honest outcome. I witnessed one "realignment" after which one voter, when asked why she had made "A" her second choice rather than "B", replied simply that the "A" supported had approached her first.

So much for sober reflection.

February 3, 2020

I just read that Trump has declared that once he's officially "off the hook", it will be "payback

time" and that he's already assembling an "enemies list". I just have one thing to say about that.

PICK ME ! PICK ME! I guarantee you that NO ONE deserves being on that list more than I do! Ask anyone: I have LOATHED you since Vlad fixed the 2016 election for you!

PICK ME, you arrogant worthless clown!

February 3, 2020

The Republicans' "OMG, DUH!" defense:

"If Donald Trump is convicted and removed, he won't be on the ballot in November!"

OMG, DUH!

If he's prosecuted and convicted for his many crimes, he'll go to prison and we don't be able to play golf!

If the courts order him to make restitution for all his grifting profits while in office, he'll be flat broke and unable to afford "hair care"!

If he is penniless, his offspring may not be such "attentive" children!

If be is placed in "gen pop" in prison, he may, for the first time in his life, find that there are immediate painful consequences to being an arrogant asshole!

DU-U-U-H!




February 3, 2020

How twisted are Senate Republicans? Wrap your head around this.

They have publicly agreed with the "Dershowitz/Nixon Doctrine": "It's not a crime if the president does it and only a crime justifies impeachment!"

Orwell is SPINNING in his grave. Doublespeak is now the official language of the US.

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