Showing posts with label Old Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Age. Show all posts
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- Neil A. Waring's - Confessions of a Writer of Westerns: Getting Older - Writing On - Enjoying Life
- Neil A. Waring's - Confessions of a Writer of Westerns: Getting Older - Writing On - Enjoying Life: When I was born, my life expectancy was just under 65 years. Today, for people like me born in the late 1940s, life expectancy is around 73....
Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 16, 1976. Wilson resigns at the point where Trump should have.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his retirement at age 60 due to what he knew was advancing dementia, although, in those years before this was as understood as well as it currently is, he cited physical and mental exhaustion. He would die in 1995, although his dementia never took fully hold.
The more power to him. Right now, in the United States, we have a demented President in a family with a history of dementia, who is sending people off to war based on his feelings. History will not forgive us for putting up with this.
John Thune, in the Senate, is too old for his job.
John Barrasso, in the Senate, is 73, way too old for his job.
And the people who will die in the current war can take no comfort in that, as Congress is composed, on the Republican side of abject cowards.
Last edition:
Tuesday, February 17, 1976. The ABA starts its descent. Abuna Theophilos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, arrested.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Eighth Edition. The Senile Chief Executive.
January 3, 2026
Yesterday the United States mounted an early morning military operation and removed the chief executive, arguably an illegitimate chief executive, from office and brought him to the United States to face criminal charges, even though the real ability of the US to charge somebody overseas with a crime is dubious and we ignore that when people do that to us.
Later in the day, Donald Trump, also an illegitimate chief executive, gave a press conference.
This demonstrates senility. There's no doubt about it.
January 9, 2026
There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,. . .
Donald Trump.
Need anyone say more?
The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked now.
January 10, 2026
At a meeting with oil company executives, which was odd in and of itself.
"Hold on, I need to look at my beautiful ballroom” — then got up and walked to the door.
Wow. What a view! This is the door to the ballroom!
The man is a child, but then, that's what senility does.
It's worth finding the video. Trump is clearly senile and its at the point where nobody can hide it. Rubio is sitting there grim faced, because that's all he can do.
It's not, I'd note, just me that's been noticing a rapidly declining cognitive ability in Trump.
Tim O’Brien on the decline of The Donald
"He talks in circles that would defy Magellan to make sense of."
Trump Picks the Weirdest Moment to Hype Up His New Ballroom
Big meeting? Perfect time to brag about his vanity project!
If Trump was a partner in a law or accounting firm, he'd have been wheeled out the door by now. If he ran a business on his own his employees would be jumping ship. The man is mentally gone.
At this point its absolutely the case that these conversations are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, taking place behind Trump's back. Rubio, Vance, etc., are discussing his mental incapacity. Rubio is full blown on correction mode all the time. Vance is hiding most of the time. The big question is who is angling for what. We have no reason to believe that these characters all get along with each other, and we know that the Trump administration basically breaks down into 1) National Conservatives, using him as a distraction (Vance, Miller), 2) New Apostolic Reformation Evangelicals who figure that Trump is divinely charged with a mission to bring in a new, Evangelical, Christian age (not in the admin, but think Mike Johnson), 3) rank sycophants who worship Trump unthinkingly and 4) rank opportunist (Marco Rubio). Any one of these groups save for the sycophants would have pushed Trump out by now, but no one group is really in agreement with what comes next. Opportunists don't want the NatCons or the NAR people in, the NAR people don't want the opportunists or the NatCon people in, the NatCon people know that this is their only chance.
January 15, 2025
Invoke the 25th Amendment you cowardly bastards.
January 17, 2026
He's completely unhinged:
The 25th Amendment needs to be applied now. Trump is a madman. This is utterly insane and anyone supporting it is a complete moron.
Congress, step in.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Do your duty. Congress can declare itself to be the body that declares Donald Trump to be Bat Shit Crazy. If it was a Democratic Congress, presumably it would. It only requires a few Republicans who are sycophantic toadies to go get it done.
Get it done.
January 19, 2026.
Okay, MAGA adherents and Republican politicians, explain why this isn't batshit crazy:
cont:
The Atlantic.
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
The man is bat shit crazy. He needs to be removed.
From that article:
Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.
Congress, screw up your courage and do something.
January 20, 2026
Trump gave a long, rambling, completely unhinged speech today in Europe.
This is effectively the final constitutional test. The Emperor Has NO Clothes. He's batshit crazy and everyone knows it. If the cabinet will not act, it's because their souls are corrupt. It's up to Congress at this point, and the Republicans are gutless cowards.
If they don't act, this is the end of the United States as a great power, and likely the end of the American economic era. It's a disaster.
It's also the end of this edition. Trump's dementia is now in the rapidly accelerating stage and we've entered a new stage of frightful senility. I had predicted the application of the 25th Amendment over a year ago. What I hadn't counted on was evil men like Stephen Miller, or complete fools like Scott Bessett. It's doubtful that it'll be applied now. Like Hitler's minions, they're rather go down in the bunker, or can't realize that they are.
May God help the USA.
Last edition:
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Seventh Edition. Night of Camp David
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Sixth Edition. The demented panicked Octogenarian edition.
November 15, 2025
Rep. Thomas Massie's wife passed away, and he's remarried.
Trump hates Massie as Massie is not a toady sycophant. In that vein, he's posted:
This from a guy whose been "married" four times and has cheated on at least three out of the four of his wives, admits that he screwed around, literally, earlier, and who hung around with kiddy diddlers.
What a vile disgusting human being Donald Trump is.
Massie's first wife died a little over a year ago. They'd been married some 30 years. His second wife is somebody he's known since 2016 who has worked for Sen. Rand Paul. FWIW, marriages in that time frame are pretty common for people in Massie's situation. Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, remarried about two years after the death of his first wife, and when he did marry, it was to somebody he had known for quite some time.
Trump, on the other hand. . .
November 17, 2025
Q: Your voice sounds rough. Are you feeling alright?
TRUMP: I was shouting at people because they were stupid about something having to do with trade and a country. I blew my stack at these people
Q: Well it sounds like there's a follow up there--
TRUMP: What? I thought you said there was a polyp. I don't want to hear that!
November 18, 2025
Trump had a confrontation with Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs yesterday on Air Force One in which he once again demonstrated he has dementia
Jennifer Jacobs: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”
Trump: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”
Trump's clearing being kept in office by the NatCons as he's unintentionally running cover for them. This can only go on so long.
Also, while it didn't at first occur to me, as its so weird, this strikes me as quite misogynistic. Calling a woman "piggy" is really vile, but it does serve to illustrate Trump's history with women, really. Going into their dressing rooms, according to one of Epstein's former girlfriends, groping her in front of Epstein, etc.
cont:
There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather. I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating. . . [Trump's] lifelong struggles with impulse control are also “deteriorating as well."
Mary Trump.
The government is in the hands of a mad man.
November 28, 2025
Trump had a full blown late night Thanksgiving meltdown.
He's now openly, and obviously, completely unstable.
This wasn't the only example of this. He also called a reporter stupid for pointing out that assailant who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. had received asylum from the Trump Administration.
There can be little doubt at this point that Trump is no longer control of himself, and probably only partially in control of the nation. NatCons behind the administration are likely largely in control, but not fully, which is in part which makes Trump doubly dangerous. A NatCon coup is basically going on while Trump retains enough authority to be legitimately dangerous.
Having allowed this to go on so long we're now in the situation where it's actually becoming increasingly difficult for the 25th Amendment to be invoked. By pretending that Trump is not deranged, the bar has been set so high that Trump's supporters will not be able to tell what he actually did that caused him to be removed. We are, therefore, really gambling now. We're gambling that his actions don't cause a war, and that the war doesn't see the use of weapons that have largely become unthinkable in modern times. We're gambling that force isn't used against American citizens. And we're gambling that Trump's disregard for the law doesn't set in on a permanent institutional basis.
And about those supporters:
60 percent of the people who constantly use the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” and 98% of those who use it as an all-explanatory theory for any inconvenient arguments or facts, suffer from pro-Trump
Derangement syndrome. Forget the terminology. If you think any information that make you doubt yourself is crazy, you are in a bubble.
Regarding that deline, the New York Times ran a recent article with this headline.
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.
The article notes that Trump has reduced his workload 39%.
Also of note, those close to Trump are begging to openly admit that they're stressed and fatigued. Poor old Mike Johnson has complained about not having a vacation in two years (yeah, well, suck it up, buttercup, I haven't had one for at least twice that long). Loyal sycophant Karoline Leavitt complained openly about stress recently.
The question now is where all this leads. Those who can invoke the 25th Amendment may simply have waited too long and now need Trump to do something that anyone would regard as fully insane. . . with the question being what that would be.
cont:
Trump is clearly vindictive and unhinged. This will set the stage up for wiping out his executive orders, and perhaps reign back in the excessive use of executive orders.
November 30, 2025
Reporter: Walz called for the release of your MRI resultsTrump: They can release it. It was perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.Reporter: What were they looking at?Trump: For what? Releasing?Reporter: no, what part of your body was the MRI looking atTrump: I have no idea. It’s just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.
Uh huh. . .
First of all, I heard Walz's remarks, and he's right. They don't give MRI's for sport. They had some brain thing they were looking into.
And they tell the patient the result. . . if they're functioning and able to understand it.
And as for cognitive tests, the entire nation gets a dose of bat shit demented from Trump weekly.
December 3, 2025
Not a sign of dementia, but rather of age, Trump is having a hard time staying awake during daytime events.
No doubt this problem is made worse by his staying up late into the night to post rage tweets.
December 8, 2025
President Trump is upset because pardoned Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat.
Trump, who pardoned him, is accusing him of disloyalty.
Cont:
Trump to ABC's Rachel Scott: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you -- you are an obnoxious-- a terrible reporter. And it's always the same thing with you. I told you."
December 10, 2025
He's clearly not well.
And he has his finger on the nuclear trigger.
Last edition:
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Fifth Edition. He's not okay.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Pushing the Introvert
I've been introverted my entire life.
The way introverts experience the world is completely foreign to extroverts. It's impossible to explain it. It's stressful to not have extroverts grasp that. It's also stressful to live in an extroverted society, which we do.
A lot of lawyers, although I doubt anywhere near 50%, are introverted. That surprises people, and it may in particular surprise people that their own lawyer may be introverted. Being introverted doesn't mean that you can't interact with people, even in a very public and effective fashion.
Added to this is the phenomenon of "Type A" personalities, who are competitive and achieving, for lack of a better way to put it. I have no idea if most Type A personalities are extroverts, but I'll bet they are. It's always universally assumed that lawyers, particularly trial lawyers, are Type A personalities, and I'll bet most are, at least the trial lawyers. but not everyone is. I'm not. I don't like competition at all and never intentionally get myself into most types of competition, at least public competition.1 Knowing that I like history and know a bunch of stuff in general, people will try to draw me into competition or even force me into ones if I'm in a setting where I can't avoid it, which I absolutely despise. "You're on my team!" I'll hear and we're off into a game of specified trivia or something, which I don't want to be in.2 I once had this occur with somebody betting on me following a bunch of "no, no, no" comments from me, all to no avail.
More than one I've been talking with some other lawyer or professional who will say to me "we're both Type A personalities. . . ".
No, I'm not.
So why do I bring this all up?
I recently have had some legal matters which featured a crop of older lawyers. Lawyers older than me. Guys who really ought to be retired. I heard at one of these things that "lawyers who retire are unhappy".
These guys love the association of other lawyers.
Recently it occurs to me that I've never really liked that. I don't pal around with big bunches of lawyers. I have some lawyers who are my friends, but I don't call up other lawyers at random to go to lunch, or things like that. Indeed recently the abuse that lawyers do to society and individuals has come into sharp focus to me, in part I guess, as I'm close enough to the end of my career that I don't have to pretend that every legal cause is somehow ennobling. I think lawyers who have the attitude expressed above have it, as they love hanging around with other lawyers and, as odd as it may seem, they like the forced captivity of witnesses and deponents as they love the game aspect of the law, and just like being around with people they don't know, even if those people really don't want to be around them. I've actually seen lawyers go on yapping at somebody in a deposition for the obvious reason that they're enjoying talking to the witness, who if examined closely is in agony.
Indeed, I bet they don't even realize that's the case.
Okay, again, why do I bring this up?
Well, first of all, I'm supposed to go to an event this week. Well, today. It's out of town. But I have a lot of work to do, and I can't afford the time, and beyond that, I just don't want to go.
I just don't want to.
I don't want to sit around with the lawyers all day, and I don't want to go to the dinner. I don't want to engage in small talk about the law, or tell war stories, or anything like that.
I shouldn't have signed up for it, but there are CLE credits, and I need those.
So yesterday, I told my long suffering spouse that I wasn't going.
Then the hard sell came on.
"You need to go". "You need to keep the networks".
My wife and I, at this stage of my career, have substantially different ideas about the near term future. I've come closer to death that I generally admit within the last couple of years, and this past week two people I know who were just a few years older than me suddenly died. A woman I went to law school with I recently learned passed away four years ago, at age 58. I really don't expect to be like those lawyers in their 70s, keeping on as (annoying) happy warriors until they die in their late 70s or early 80s. Why would I?
They could probably answer that, but I can't even fathom it.
But my wife is an extrovert, and she can't conceive of a situation in which a person doesn't want to go to work every day, or even retire. And she worries about finances, which of course is her absolute right.
So, the big push.
A lot of extroverts regard introverts not wanting to do things as something needing to be addressed. It's sort of, in their minds, like kindergarteners who don't want to go to that first day of school. They just need a little push.
And there's a lot of truth in that. Sometimes introverts do need a push to go to something they'll like.
Sometimes, they need to be able to be left alone, or just with their families.
I generally work six days a week, sometimes seven. I'm in the introvert category that needs to have some downtime. And, quite frankly, to be pushed to go to something by those who can't go themselves, due to other commitments, is agony. My first question whenever I'm invited to something is to my wife, and that question is "are you going?" More often than not, it's "no, but you need to".
I really don't.
And she doesn't grasp that, nine times out of ten, when I go and enjoy these things, it's because she went with me, which she very rarely does anymore. It was her company I enjoyed, not the attendance at the event.
I tend to yield on these things, and we'll see about this one. But, for those close to introverts, or married to them, knowing that we live in an extremely extroverted and competitive society, first do no harm.
"Don't make things worse for me" is sometimes my reply, which is not appreciated at all.
In other words, taking somebody whose brain is wired for hard on full bore activity in public, and for whom there are no casual conversations whatsoever, and pushing them into having their brain work overtime, is not always a favor.
Footnotes
1. I will participate in some sorts of competitions, but they're mostly ones that are really individual and I'm basically competing with myself. In terms of team sports, I really only like baseball, which is a team sport that has such individual positions. It's almost like a series of individual competitions. The man up to bat is really an individual.
I detest football. I find soccer boring. I do like rugby, however.
If I'm in an individual competition, I like to do well, but I'm not upset with myself if I don't. I will note that highly competitive people, however, can make even individual competitions absolutely miserable by introducing their personal competitiveness into it. Some competitive people make things into competitions that don't need to be.
As an example of the latter, two of my highly competitive colleagues are this way. On the rare occasions I've been bird hunting with them, "who has the best dog" becomes some sort of stupid aggravating competition and during football and basketball seasons endless arguments about adopted teams go on and on, in a public setting, on the presumed assumption that everyone likes to watch these verbal jousts.
For that matter, they both like to argue and will engage in verbal sparring on various topics just for sport, and again where everyone else can't avoid them. Some time ago, I actually intervened to stop their arguments on religion as they were outright insulting to two people here who are members of minoritarian religions.
Oddly, I've found that a lot of former soldiers who really liked the military have the same mindset and don't follow team sports. I think I know the reason why, but I'll deal with it in some other thread.
2. I've actually had "we'll play trivia" thrown out as an educement to attend something, which nearly guarantees that I'll try to avoid it. It's not that I mind trivia topics, or trivial pursuit as a game, but I don't want to compete with people out of a close circle who don't care if I win or lose. I really hate being made the presumed champion who will carry a team to victory as its stress I really don't need.
Monday, July 7, 2025
George W. Bush turned 79 yesterday.
Thereby making him slightly younger than Donald Trump.
That's amazing if could sider how long he's been out of office, although it shouldn't be.
He was 54 years old when he took office.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Blog Mirror: Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!
The corporate media might not be reporting on this, but I have been:
Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!
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