Atticus
Atticus's JournalIn one sense, I am glad Trump is not a reader.
If he'd ever read Kafka, you KNOW he'd have had an "apparatus" constructed by now. He'd be a big fan of "Honour your superiors!"
I guess someone needs to say it: astrology is in the same category as alchemy, palm reading
and TV psychics, i.e., horseshit.
Traditional religion is criticized here, but we actually have posts predicting future events based on the position of the stars? I thought we were past "The Age Of Aquarius".
Yeah, I know---freedom of religion, freedom of speech----. Silliness is silliness no matter what you call it.
Go for it.
Watch and listen to a couple of minutes of any Trump campaign event and one thing
becomes very apparent very quickly: he is not at the podium to lead a rally and inspire people to vote for him. He is there to incite the mob of his worshipers and encourage the self-styled militiamen in the TV audience to violently intimidate those who may vote against him.
I have heard and read numerous expressions of concern about how black people and brown
people and suburban women and millenials are going to vote. No problem; every one of those segments of our diverse population is important to our success as a party and as a nation.
But, wouldn't it help if more of us graying white guys stopped all the badass posturing, the spineless nodding and chanting and made a bonfire of those disgusting red caps?
Would it make you "girly" to admit that you care about your family, including even the females and your gay nephew?
When did being thoughtful and honest and tolerant of those somehow "different" from us become "un-American"?
Did you somehow forget how to say "Bullshit!"?
I. for one, am ashamed to be lumped in with the "old white dudes" who STILL have their heads so far up their asses that they will proudly vote for the waste of skin named Trump.
I feel deep and genuine sympathy for the numerous media fact-checkers who have made a
valiant effort to separate fact from fiction whenever Trump has spoken or tweeted.
I have a suggestion that could drastically reduce both their stress level and their work-load: just point out his true statements. Most days, your list will be empty.
In "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne was required to wear a scarlet "A" to let the world
know she was an adulteress.
In "Inglorious Basterds", Lt. Aldo Raine used his Bowie knife to carve swastikas into the foreheads of captured Nazis so they could never escape their shame.
Where should Trumpies have to wear their "T"s?
"I may be the first to bleed, but I'll be the last to quit." A childhood friend of mine, gone for
several years now, told a high school bully that as he made it clear he didn't want to fight, but, by God, he would.
We, the people, are bleeding.
Don't quit.
(The bully retreated )
A question follows. California GOP placed unauthorized ballot drop boxes all over the state. They
admit this.
California authorities notify them this is ILLEGAL. They refuse to remove the bogus drop boxes.
California serves GOP leaders with a "cease and desist" order. GOP ignores it. The bogus boxes are still receiving voters' ballots.
My question: WHY were the California Republican Party leaders not arrested and the illegal drop boxes confiscated DAYS AGO?
"Poor People Just Die", originally posted in 2009.
In view of the GOP's determination to scuttle the ACA, this might be informative for some of the newer folks here. (THANKS to DUer "Cirque du-so what" for finding it)
"Poor people just die"
Originally appeared 7-12-09
I was five when "Pap" died. Pap was my grandmother's next door neighbor and, like most who lived in our neiolghborhood, he was a working man, a laborer. One of my grandfathers died the year after I was born and the other I saw maybe twice a year. Pap filled in for them on an almost daily basis. He let me "help" in his garden and let me pet his beagles whenever I wanted.
I came home from school one afternoon that fall of my first grade year and my grandmother told me to sit down at the kitchen table. Both my parents worked and we stayed with "Nanny" after school. She said she had some real sad news and that I needed to be a "big boy". "Pap died today. His heart was sick and it quit working. The ambulance came, but it was too late", she explained, speaking softly and earnestly.
I cried. Eventually, I asked what is always asked: "Why? Why did he have to die? Why couldn't the doctors make him well? Why couldn't they save him?"
Nanny explained that doctors and hospitals and medicine cost a lot of money and Pap didn't have a lot of money. Rich people bought medicine and had surgery and went to hospitals. "Poor people just die", she said, as gently as possible and held me while I sobbed into her apron.
In the fifties, I overheard several hushed conversations between my parents and other adults that featured the word "cancer". I didn't understand what it was, but I knew it was bad, very bad. Only later did I understand that even "routine" cancers were usually a death sentence for those without insurance or wealth or both. Family members maintained gruesome vigils while the tumors spread throughout their loved ones body and sometimes the stench of necrotic tissue required those attending to the dying to smear Vicks under their nose to keep from retching.
Are we to return to those days? Are we to once again allow money to be the real medicine in our nation? Will we be too busy to march on Washington? Too busy to hound our senators and congressmen to vote for AT LEAST a public option for health care insurance?
I can accept wealth allowing some to drive a Mercedes or a Porsche while others drive Chevys or ride the bus.
I cannot accept wealth allowing some to live while others "just die".
Is it possible to find a post of mine from several years ago---during the Obama administration?
The title was "Poor People Just Die" and several DUers asked to use it.
In view of VP Biden's emphasis on what losing Obamacare would be like, I think my old OP would be informative.
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