Friday, June 28, 2024
"Bad Moon Rising"
I see the bad moon a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today
Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
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1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
1934 Jimmy Aquavia was born
Lights out at 10:45, all wound up and in despair over the Trump-Biden debate, lights on again at 11:25 until 1:30 when I nodded off until 2:25 when I was awake for a while until sleeping until 5 a.m. for a total of 3 and 1/2 hours of sleep. I read the papers re the debate and fell back tosleep until almost 8 a.m., perhaps another 2 hours of sleep.
Prednisone, day 47, 15 mg., day 11. I took my 15 mg. at 5:10, followed by oatmeal, berries, and some milk. My first freestyle Libre3 sensor expired and I installed a new one.
Tom Freidman: I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime — precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election. And Donald Trump, a malicious man and a petty president, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. He is the same fire hose of lies he always was, obsessed with his grievances — nowhere close to what it will take for America to lead in the 21st century.
Carlos Lozado: Trump won by forfeit. The Joe Biden of 2020 and the SOTU speech didn't show up.
Michelle Goldberg Trump, God help us. He spouted a fire hose of preposterous lies, but Biden was too incoherent to capitalize on any of it. Biden looked ancient and sounded lost. There will now be a new chorus of cries for him to drop out, and I’ll be joining it. . . The one true thing that Trump said: We're living in Hell.
Bret Stephens: [Biden's] very presence on the stage felt like a form of elder abuse.
Frank Bruni: Ten minutes in, I had a knot in my stomach. Twenty minutes in, the knot was so tight, it hurt. “We finally beat Medicare,” he said early on, and I had no idea what he was talking about.
Peter Wehner: Biden is a strange combination, at once insecure and arrogant. He finally won the presidency, after decades of trying and failing, and now there might not be anything in the world that would persuade him to pull out of the contest. But Democrats, panicked and terrified, need to try.
David Ignatius: "It was obvious nearly a year ago that President Biden shouldn’t run for a second term. In an August 2023 poll by the Associated Press, 77 percent of the public and 69 percent of Democrats said he was too old to be effective for four more years. Yet Biden and his inner circle persisted, driving on toward Thursday’s disastrous televised debate, which vividly portrayed the failings the country had already detected. How did this happen? What was the combination of moral conviction, personal confidence and selfishness that propelled Biden, despite the risks, toward his decision to seek another term?
[I composed a long rant about my ungenerous theory of why Biden is running for re-election [his sins of hubris, narcissism, vanity, envy, arrogance, and lust for power, prestige, distinction, status, power, and privilege] and pushed a wrong button and erased it somehow. It's not worth working it up again. I written about his character many times in this journal.]
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