Simon Says….

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….he wants more political posts outta me! I am happy to oblige. Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
But I’m having a busy weekend here among our gorgeous fall foliage, so to start, I’ll just make one brief query:

Is there really a medication that can make people smarter and more articulate?

I ask because the first presidential debate is in 2 days and everybody is saying Biden, who has repeatedly demonstrated his general situational unawareness during his non-campaign, will be pumped full of some miracle drug that’ll keep him alert , imbue him with factual knowledge, and put him on a par with Trump ( who has impeccable comic timing and a delivery worthy of , idk, Carson and Leno, from the days when a standup routine was supposed to be, y’know, funny. If anybody remembers so far back.)

And I think there must exist such a fabled pharmaceutical! It HAS to be real, otherwise the Dems would never actually let the Joe we’ve been seeing (glimpsing is more like it) on stage all alone with Trump. Trump who is out there 3 or 4 nights a week under the hot lights, shouting the battle cry of freedom. No.Foxtrotting. Way.

To hell with a Sinos’ Infection vaccine! I demand this secret inoculation against senescence. NOW!

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  1. A physician who appeared on Tucker Carlson the other night said that there are drugs, and combinations of drugs, that will improve mental capacity for short periods of time-like, for a few hours. Such drugs could help Biden to be more cogent than his normal self, but it is difficult to picture him holding his own with President Trump. 🙂

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  2. Hyp, ADHD drugs like Adderall (= “speed”) will improve *focus* and concentration in folks with cognitive problems -but, they *won’t* impart knowledge where there is none – or shield one from: “I was against it before I was for it.” – or vice versa.

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  3. I think the drug issue is totally irrelevant and so is Joe Biden. He is a hired gun for Harris and the AOC squad. (BTW, AOC is chief advisor on the campaign and quite close with Harris.)

    Most of all, this is an anti-Trump campaign and this is what we must focus upon. I’m devastated I missed my opportunity to help in Jax and I’d like to see the rest of us stop focusing on Biden’s significant flaws and start celebrating what the Don has accomplished in his first term.

    I’m sick of the negativity on all these sites. The American people reacted positively to Reagan’s “It’s Morning in America” for a very good reason.

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  4. Liz, I hope there are enough of us who recall “morning in America” – who want to “keep America great”. There are plenty of them in my neck of the woods, but there are also “covid moms”, so to speak, who’re attracted to the quarter-long lockdown “Harris-Biden” would impose. Not to mention a branch campus of UPitt staffed by and turning out budding hedonist-anarchist-nihilist-atheists by the lecture hall-full….As DJT often says: “We’ll see.” Meanwhile, I’m waiting for my (asked-for) traditional absentee ballot to arrive – and praying for Judge Amy Coney Barrett – like mad.

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    1. We rcvd our absentee ballots today and sent out within the hour! Poor Ms. Barrett is already getting s*** about being a devout Catholic although there is a strong tradition of Catholics on the Court- Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, Sotomayor. Perhaps we should complain about Conservative Jews (the late RBG, Breyer, Kagan) as well.

      Or better yet, I want to complain that Protestants are under-represented. Only Gorsuch! Not fair!

      I have to see my ophthalmologist tomorrow because my eyes have officially rolled up inside my head.

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      1. Eeekkk, Liz! Gorsuch can hold his own – and hold up the side, I think. (The “wise Latina” doesn’t count.) 🙂 The “schnitzel” Judge Barrett is enduring began in 2017, during her confirmation hearing for the 7th Circuit. Feinstein – with her Star-Wars-like: “The dogma lives strongly in you.”, piling on by Durbin, et al. Since RWR, Catholics have largely become more politically-aligned with Conservatism. Though William F. Buckley didn’t hurt that movement one bit, either.

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  5. “Though William F. Buckley didn’t hurt that movement one bit, either.”

    THE understatement of the century. After 20 years, I just cancelled my NR subscription because I don’t care for the politically androgynous Rich Lowry. I know -after all the books- after all the episodes of Firing Line- that WJB would hate what his magazine has become. More importantly, wife Pat would have cut up RL and fed him to her King Charles spaniels.

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    1. I don’t recognize the thing much myself. As a senior in high school, I watched “Firing Line” every week – and was the only person to check NR out of the school library. 🙂

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      4. I missed it then, but not since; WFB’s menacingly-measured tone should’ve warned Vidal that this was coming. As well, the epithet (originally meaning “odd”) was one of the milder options at his disposal, wasn’t it? 🙂

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      5. Oh yes. I recently watched the famous “crypto-Nazi”::exchange between Vidal and Buckley. And nearly fainted at how beautifully BOTH of them spoke. It was like listening to angels.

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  6. Nanda, I think it meant then what it means now. 🙂 I do know WJB has written about his regret for losing his manners and indulging in “vulgar language.”

    I’m only sorry I missed this contretemps.

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    1. True gentleman, to think that word ‘vulgar’. (I suppose WFB would’ve preferred to be clinical in his description, or not to have mentioned Gore’s proclivities at all, but I’m glad to know he was subject to temptation.) Strange that the vulgarity has become a self-adopted descriptor – like “crip” and “gimp” – among some of my ilk.)

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  8. Shoot… this video is no longer available, N!

    Update: I found it and was impressed at the way WFB just slipped that term in as if it were nothing. It was something then and something now. I can only imagine the reaction in this day and age!

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    1. The bad link is replaced in my comment, Liz, with one from C-SPAN. Enjoy the fireworks. No wonder we didn’t see it back then: The DNC in 1968 Chicago – Yikes!

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      2. It is shameful the way that those who followed him at NR have turned out. My Dad died over a year ago, but NR continues to be delivered to my Mom’s house, even though we /she didn’t renew the subscription. They must be getting desperate. I often flip through it when it arrives, and am reminded again and again why I will never give Rich Lowry et al one penny.

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  10. Late comment, (also wondering why I can’t start a post in here), but I don’t care who wants to know where this came from, it came from an American and I take no credit for it except just passing it on…

    Literally every conversation I’ve had with a Trump hater about the upcoming election:
    Hater: I can’t wait to get Donald Trump out of office.
    Me: Why?
    Hater: Why?!?! Don’t tell me you don’t think he colluded with Russia!
    Me: According to Robert Mueller’s exhaustive, multi-million dollar investigation, there was no evidence of that. But there was evidence that the Obama administration spied on him and his campaign using the FBI.
    Hater: Well, he said he’d repeal and replace Obamacare. What happened to that?
    Me: Well, he removed the tax penalty which removes the mandate. Congress now just has to move with it’s replacement. He can’t do it by Executive Order. You do know Obama had very little to do with the writing of the ACA, right?
    Hater: Well, he said he’d build a wall and Mexico was gonna pay for it. Haha. What happened to that?
    Me: They’ve built over 260 miles of new wall so far and he’s renegotiated NAFTA costing Mexico billions of dollars that were given to them by Bill Clinton through the returning of jobs in America.
    Hater: Well, that’s not them paying for it!
    Me: BILLIONS. Did you think he literally meant Mexico was gonna write a check with “Wall” in the memo?
    Hater: Well, he’s buddy buddy with Putin and Kim Jung Un.
    Me: Getting along with your adversaries is not a bad thing. Or would you prefer he antagonize them? BTW, when was the last “test missile” North Korea sent Japan’s way?
    Hater: Well, he doesn’t like the military! He called the dead soldiers “losers!”
    Me: You’re referring to a report made from “anonymous sources” when over nine people who were with the President that have gone on record saying that it wasn’t true? That doesn’t send up any red flags for you?
    He’s brought our Vets home and taken great strides, and put a lot of money into fixing the VA, ask any veteran you know. Funny way to treat people you think are “losers,” don’t you think?
    Hater: Well, he got impeached for God’s sake!
    Me: Yes, impeached by a partisan House and subsequently acquitted as there was no evidence that the President did anything wrong (no quid pro quo) in his communication with the President of Ukraine. BTW, you know Joe Biden actually admitted on national television to doing that exact thing while he was in office as VP though, right?
    Hater: Well he handled COVID horribly!
    Me: What would’ve you done differently?
    Hater: He didn’t close the borders in time!
    Me: He announce travel restrictions on 1/31 and was called xenophobic for doing so, all the while Nancy Pelosi and Bill Deblasio were walking in Chinatown telling everyone to come on down, the water is fine.
    Hater: Well, he refused to wear a mask.
    Me: Here’s a picture of him wearing a mask.
    Hater: Well, that was too far after!
    Me: After what? He had two of his experts on national TV every day giving updates and telling everyone to wear a mask?
    Hater: Well, he said everything will be fine and this will end!
    Me: Did you want him to run around screaming that the sky was falling?
    Hater: Well, listen to the way he talks! He’s nasty! He’s not how I want my President to sound.
    Me: Ahhh. NOW we’re getting somewhere. You don’t like his personality. And everything you’ve mentioned up until now is because you don’t like his personality.
    So for you it seems personal and not about the job he’s done.
    So listen, if you want a President who will tell you whatever you want to hear, flip- flopping on every issue, not getting anything done his entire time while in office, but who sounds like a nice guy (even though he seems seriously impaired), then Joe Biden is definitely your man.
    SHARED FROM A FRIEND!

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    2. (also wondering why I can’t start a post in here)

      Because you are not a ‘member’ of ST Unleashed!. I will attempt to send you an invite which you will have to accept in order to create OPs. FYI: This is all WordPress’s doing and none of my own. ST Unleashed! is run off a free WordPress platform. We do the best we can on a tight budget.

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  11. Thank you. I have accepted the invitation. It’s not too often I have words of wisdom, and less often that they are originally mine. Again, thank you and I will endeavor to act properly and maybe eventually justify your invitation.

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