Doctor’s dementia test. Can you meet this challenge?
We’ve seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time we’ve seen it with numbers. Good example of a brain study: If you can read this out loud, you have a strong mind. And, better than that, Alzheimer’s is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
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- “Donald Trump Is an Existential Threat to America and the World” [Jonathan Granoff, Time, November 7]
- “Trump Is an Existential Threat [Charles M. Blow, NY Times, November 3]
- “President-Elect Trump Is an Existential Threat to America’s Scientific Legacy” [Robin Andrews, IFL Science, November 11]
- “Is President-elect Trump an existential threat to digital health?” [Arundhati Parmar & Stephanie Baum, MedCity News, November 14]
- “Trump’s the ‘gravest existential threat since the end of the Soviet Union’” [Leonard Pitts Jr, Miami Herald, September 27]
- “Donald Trump’s Pick to Head the EPA Is ‘An Existential Threat to the Planet’” [Ben Dreyfus, Mother Jones, December 7]
- “Donald Trump is an Existential Threat to Democracy” [Greg Wagner, Fordham Political Review, November 3]
- “Belcher: Trump Is ‘Existential Threat’ to ‘Communities of Color’” [Robert Kraychik, Daily Wire, November 30]
- “CNN’s Amanpour: Journalism Faces Existential Crisis in Trump Era” [Solange Reyner, NewsMax, November 23]
| Grateful for correspondence, Moristotle |
(Maybe an attempt to commit him to an insane asylum, or to shoot or poison him….) The only people that would be likely to do something like that are the ones that voted for him and they still think he is God Trump.
ReplyDeleteSomething truly as serious as "existential threat" could turn "not likely" into "mandatory," don't you think?
DeleteThose people don't hear anything but Trump's band playing Happy days are here again.
ReplyDeleteWell, "those people" are oblivious, which is why we're in the mess we're in. The men in white coats, or the snipers, or the chemists, will come - if they come - from a different quarter.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe not a man in a white coat, or a sniper or a chemist, but a heroic, terminally ill babe (one month to live) enlisted by a patriotic Secret Service agent to put on a suicide bra and station herself in Trump's path...He notices her, waves his handlers and followers away, and approaches her for the score, realizing for a split second that she's wired and the detonator was in her crotch. She dies a hero, the loss of one last month of life a small price to pay for her achievement for her country.
ReplyDeleteIn his NYTimes op-ed piece "Patriotic Opposition to Donald Trump" this morning, Charles M. Blow writes:
ReplyDeleteIn a 1780 letter written to a fellow revolutionary considering “retiring into private life,” staunch abolitionist Samuel Adams...wrote:
“If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experiencd Patriots to prevent its Ruin....”
There is no other time to which this could apply more perfectly than now. This is not the time for the “retiring” of “experiencd patriots.” A “vain and aspiring” man now possesses the highest seat in government and the administration of the government is on the verge of becoming a farce.
America needs you…now....
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons of dissociating himself from the rough undertones of this commentary reminds me privately that, contrary to Trump's disavowals, he implicitly endorses the use of violence against individuals. And my correspondent also reminds me that Trump is himself an individual, and far worse than disgusting.
ReplyDeleteA question of law arises with respect to the current discussion:
ReplyDeleteWould the act of removing a political figure from the scene be subject to different jurisdictions & indictments depending on the following distinctions of timing:
1. Before the election (say, before November 8, 2016).
2. Between November 8 and when the Electoral College formally votes.
3. Between the Electoral College's vote and when the House of Representatives ratifies the vote.
4. Between the House's ratification and the swearing in of the President.
5. After the President is sworn in.
I consulted an attorney, who provided the following information:
1. A state in which a homicide occurs always has jurisdiction over the homicide. Most state courts are organized on a county by county basis so the court having jurisdiction would be the county court in the county in which the homicide occurs.
2. The federal judicial district in which a federal crime is committed has jurisdiction over crimes that occur within its boundaries. However, federal court criminal jurisdiction is limited to violations of the federal - not state - criminal code.
3. 18 U.S.C. 245, which deals with deprivation of civil rights, would probably apply to all five situations.
4. 18 U.S.C. 351, which deals with candidates for the Presidency, would cover situation 1.
5. 18 U.S.C. 175, which deals with the President or the President-elect, would cover situations 2 through 5.
Apropos my mentioning Ian McEwan's novel Nutshell in a comment on Eric Meub's poem "Grades," the very next paragraph after the one I quoted from goes into fetal Hamlet's fantasy about avenging his cuckolded father:
ReplyDeleteI begin to suspect that my helplessness is not transient. Grant me all the agency the human frame can bear, retrieve my young panther-self of sculpted muscle and long cold stare, direct him to the most extreme measure – killing his uncle to save his father. Put a weapon in his hand, a tyre wrench, a frozen leg of lamb, have him stand behind his uncle's chair, where he can see the antifreeze and be hotly incited. Ask yourself, could he – could I – do it, smash that hairy knob of bone and spill its grey contents across the squalor of the table? Then murder his mother as sole witness, dispose of two bodies in the basement kitchen, a task only achieved in dreams?
For an hour this morning I seemed to be locked out of Facebook, and I began to imagine that my commenting on a Robert Reich telecast last evening (about the Electoral College's possibly rejecting Trump) that "The Electors might be let off the hook by Trump's compassionate assassination before Monday" had triggered my being black-balled as subversive. And I thought, wouldn't that be ironic - an individual nobody like me shut out for literary allusions to Trump's being removed from the scene because he's an existential threat, while Trump the billionaire incited violence in front of millions and became the anointed one?
ReplyDelete...But I decided to reboot my iPhone, and after I did that I was able to access Facebook again....No irony, just paranoia.
Some intriguing plot lines here, but does anyone like the idea of Mike Pence as president? Remember when we thought it couldn't be worse than having George W. Bush as president, well...what if it had been Dick Cheney? Maybe the real purpose of a vice president is to serve as a life insurance policy for the president?
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