Sock It To Me??? Nixon on “Laugh-In” 1968 –
Nixon was too humorless to get the joke, but being game enough to display it (unlike HHH who declined the invitation) made him more likeable to some people. Perhaps swing voters who didn’t get the joke either.
A fine sense of humor is an asset for presidential candidates and Presidents. Standouts on this qualifty are Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. Thick-skinned enough to take and make jokes. Those in the second tier– better at making than taking — include Truman, Reagan, and Obama.
With the exception of Bernie, the 2016 presidential election was dour. (Despite the efforts of the Clinton comedy writers.) Even mild chiding of Clinton or Trump instantly became another verbal war with accusations of “fake news,” sexism, etc. by the candidates and/or his/her supporters. They not only can’t take a joke, they don’t even get it.
Hillbots have completely lost their cookies over a VF humor video — mostly mild chiding and not LOL funny that any losing presidential candidate gets, particularly if she/he appears to be considering another run. (Wasn’t there similar ha-ha jokes about Romney after the 2012 election?)
Six New Year’s Resolutions for Hillary Clinton
As I try to avoid as much filth as possible, I’ll take GG’s word for the worst of the hillbot responses to the VF video (but the ones I’ve seen are similarly unhinged):
[Frm GG] One of the reporters for the “don’t-run-again-Hillary” video has locked her account after being subjected to the most foul vitriol and abuse, endlessly, over several days.
(Hillbots also fail to comprehend that their abusive behavior is straight out of the McCarthy playbook.)
What seems to have raised the ire of hillbots and their standard, go-to charge of “sexism” is the suggestion that Clinton take up knitting. As if that were an off-the-wall recommendation to engage in a sterotypical form of ‘women’s work.’ It was a joke — their very own symbol — and they totally failed to get it.
How To Knit: The Pussy Hat Project
How demeaning to suggest that Hillary actually engage in making one of the approved symbol of her Resistance, tm
May 2017 – Donovan dropping out as Trump’s nominee for deputy Treasury secretary
December 2017 – John J. Donovan, former MIT professor, indicted for forgery and fraud
Property owned by the estate of John J. Donovan, Jr. who died in 2015 and who is survived by a wife and children. In 2006 The WSJ covered the family feud in Estate of War:
More specifically he claimed they were Russian hitmen hired by his son John. Senior was convicted for that stunt. Subsequently his five children, spouses, and grandchildren secured protective orders, the old man is to stay away from all of them. He obviously has a few loose screws, but it’s tough to say that anyone, like his son James, that is willing to work for Trump isn’t a bit nutty as well.
“by two men he believed to be Russians. “
Maybe he was an undercover agent of the DNC.
“The Goldman Sachs executive”
“was indicted on seven counts of forgery and single charges of uttering, filing a false document with the registry of deeds, attempted larceny of property over $250, false statement under penalty of perjury, obtaining a signature by false pretenses, and witness intimidation”
redundant.
No, no. The GS executive is one of the nutty (fmr) professor’s sons who Trump nominated for a deputy position at Treasury. His grown children have apparently been successful on their own. Although each of them did received several million dollars from a trust the old man set up years ago after he became wealthy. The distribution of the trust (along with near zero relationship between the old man and his kids before then) seems to have set off the rupture as the old man tried to renege on the trust. That’s the short version from my skimming and it’s likely more complicated than that, but regardless, the old man is a kook.
Was reading it fast. Thanks for the clarification. The general comment still stands, however.
A tragedy led to a valuable voice being found and another tragedy has silenced that voice forever: Erica Garner, Who Became An Activist After Her Father’s Death, Dies .
Thank you for being Ms. Erica Garner. As much too short as it was.
RIP
May her activism spread in her memory and of her father’s.