Hal Brown blog June12- 2019
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Of course anyone over the age of 70 can opt out of jury duty, and I would have done so if this was a local jury summons. However being on a federal grand jury intrigued me.
Then I read that the service would last from Dec. 2019 to Dec. 2021, two years. After thinking about it I reluctant decided to opt out because I didn't want to commit to this now because I don't know what my health will be in Dec. 2021. As it is I need an hour nap mid-afternoon unless something I am doing really interests me, as it would if I was on a jury. However I might not be able to go several hours before a recess without a bathroom break lest I feel really uncomfortable. We could take bathroom breaks in the grand jury by asking the DA while proceedings would go on without us if we left the room.
Then I got to thinking about how age has become an important consideration among many voters for the 2020 election. President Trump, in now the oldest first-term president history and will be 74 by election day 2020. Joe Biden will be just shy of 78 Bernie Sanders will be 79.
I am now 75. Many of residents of the senior facility where I live are much older and lots of them have all their mental faculties. Some could be president with the right White House staff but I wouldn't vote for them simply because of them if they were over 70.
This is behind the Washington Post paywall, however the first part is about the comedians who aren't particularly good at addressing Trump's idiocy and incompetence. Here is what the article says about the comedians who do the best job:
... I think the model lies with the more laid-back Meyers and the underrated Kimmel. Both deliver their share of anti-Trump gags, but they’ve recognized that jokes can penetrate only so far. Instead, they’ve adopted a stance of patronizing bemusement. Let the politicians and MSNBC scolds rail about Trump’s violation of the “norms of the presidency.” Meyers and Kimmel are more focused on the norms of human behavior.
Much of the time, they simply replay clips of Trump’s loonier rants — the bar-stool bluster, the run-on sentences — with an implied thought balloon: Who can take this man seriously? Meyers’s response to a particularly murky Trump word salad might be a simple “What are you talking about?” Kimmel shows a clip of Trump at a rally hugging an American flag and marvels, “Who does that?” When Trump recently told reporters that he is “the most transparent president probably in the history of this country,” prefaced by “I think most of you would agree,” Meyers responded with a weary deadpan: “No. We would not agree. We can see right through you, but I don’t think that’s what you meant.”
As some observers have noted, Trump at his rallies has adopted the rhythms of a stand-up comic: the sarcasm, the snappy put-downs, the call-and-response interplay with the crowd. But he’s actually closer in spirit to a classic comic foil: the grumpy, pompous butt of jokes, like Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie. Has there ever been an American politician who scowled so much? And though he often beams a smug, Cheshire cat grin when he’s in full taunting mode, Trump never laughs. He gets no joy from his comedy. And he can’t handle ridicule.
Pelosi may be the one Democrat who has figured this out. Her tongue was at least partly in cheek when she suggested, after Trump blew up the infrastructure talks last month, that his family ought to “have an intervention.” That followed the bizarre sight of Trump gathering his underlings in the White House and forcing them to testify to his calmness — before repeating his boast that he is “an extremely stable genius.”
The Democrat who defeats Trump in 2020, I predict, will be the one who recognizes that assertion as the greatest straight line in presidential history.
June 17, 2019
The news today related to yesterday's Daily Kos story:
It is no surprise that the sadistic malignant narcissist, down in his own internal polls, stewing in his own juices with nobody to confide in, at some level knowing almost everyone in his inner circle either fears and/or hates him including his wife and Ivanka, is lashing out at immigrants.
This cruel Gilles de Pais is relishing terrorising children and families. The good thing is that it will backfire for two main reasons. First it will provide visuals and stories that hopefully will horrify more people and some Trump supporters - in Congress and the public - and prove once and for all that he is a sadistic bully. Two it will be impossible to do to the extent he is threatening.
I tweeted this photo and caption, blanking out the man's face.
I don't consider cruel ICE goons to be real police. Who do they protect and serve? A demented sadistic dictator, that's who.
June 16, 2019
June 15, 2019
250 people (so far) commented on this story. More than 2,400 people took the poll.
More regarding Bandy Lee:
Donald Trump’s Mental Illness May Lead To Trump ‘Destroying Human Civilization,’ Yale Psychiatrist Warns
June 14, 2019
This looks like it will remain on the Daily Kos page for at least the morning, so there is time for you to participate in the discussion in the comments section. In order to post there you must register. You need to include your email but Daily Kos never sends you any emails at all let alone any spam. They do not share you email address. Of course, if you are on Daily Kos I trust that you will recommend anything I post there. If enough people do, it gets on the recommended list and more people read it.
June 16, 2019
June 15, 2019
250 people (so far) commented on this story. More than 2,400 people took the poll.
More regarding Bandy Lee:
Donald Trump’s Mental Illness May Lead To Trump ‘Destroying Human Civilization,’ Yale Psychiatrist Warns
June 14, 2019
This looks like it will remain on the Daily Kos page for at least the morning, so there is time for you to participate in the discussion in the comments section. In order to post there you must register. You need to include your email but Daily Kos never sends you any emails at all let alone any spam. They do not share you email address. Of course, if you are on Daily Kos I trust that you will recommend anything I post there. If enough people do, it gets on the recommended list and more people read it.
Educating liberal Daily Kos readers one at a time:
My quote of the day comes from Lucian Truscott IV in Trump Isn't a President, He's a Gangster, a good read but it's about something we already know. However, this is directed at the House Democrats and, without naming her, Nancy Pelosi:
"Trump could have the White House painted high gloss black and order the Treasury Department to deliver pallets of hundred dollar bills to the front door, and the Democrats would accuse him of a cover-up and order another hearing."
How back can it get. This bad:
Mexico just released the full text of the ‘secret’ deal Trump said they made - and it's much ado about horse-hockey
June 13, 2019.
Only a few comments on this story, however you can judge the number of people who viewed a story by how many people take a poll. In that case 506 people took the poll.
June 12, 2019
This story only had 67 comments, but over 500 readers took the poll.
Hal Brown blog June12- 2019
Enough news articles Hal Brown blog June12- 2019 this time, hopefully can benefit for you all. Well, see you in other article postings.
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