Almost every reviewer of the Democratic National Convention agreed that this was the most moving speech of all.
Thirteen-year-old Brayden Harrington met Joe Biden at a town hall in New Hampshire. When Biden learned that the boy stutters, he asked to meet privately afterwards. He told him how he had overcome his stutter and gave him some helpful,advice. Above all, he gave him hope and the confidence to speak to a national audience. His speech was filmed on a cell phone at home in New Hampshire.
Do you think the Trump Convention will have a video of Trump performing a random act of kindness?
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Agree!
Very brave boy. He will do well in whatever he decides to do. Thank you, Joe Biden, for helping him see his own potential.
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Have Alex Jones or the QAnon maniacs claimed that Brayden Harrington is a crisis actor or a deep state agent? I wouldn’t put anything past these monsters who support their liar in chief. These right wing nuts hate anything that is decent, sincere and honest.
I swear IF Alex Jones claimed that Brayden Harrington is a crisis actor or deep state agent: I’ll call his show with NO hesitation and I know what’s Alex Jones’ weakness was because once they called Jones a controlled opposition and that’s where his weakness was (in my opinion)! Because I know that Alex Jones muted people before like forever.
I’m proud of Brayden Harrington for having the courage at the DNC Convention and like I said, If Jones claimed that Brayden is a crisis actor or deep state agent, I’ll call him controlled opposition in return and Jones may mute me for defending Brayden.
What do you think?
Because it reminds me that human decency still exists in the world, this video moves me deeply every time I see it.
As to the question posed, no I don’t think we’ll see a video at the Republican Convention of Trump performing a random act of kindness. We were, however, treated to a colloquy with a pair of upper-middle-class white suburbanites who pointed guns at peaceful protesters.
So there’s that.
trumpsy would make “fun” of that boy and be cruel. trumpsy is CRUELTY to the max. He did put children in cages and those cages are despicable and filthy.
I would like to see trumpsy and his enablers in those cages.
I taught gun safety to my middle school students for years. The wife clearly didn’t understand two of the key elements of gun safety. 1 never point a gun at someone or something that you aren’t ready to kill or destroy; 2 when using a hand gun, never put your finger on the trigger unless you are beginning to fire. Her finger was on the trigger and she was pointing it at the camera person.
You should check the internet about how this fine example of the Trump Party behaves.Check out their relationship with the synagog right next door to their home. These people fit right in with Demented Don, they are well known bullies.
Trump has performed many “acts of kindness” to which you remain intentionally blind. And, unlike Biden’s, Trump’s random acts are just that — random — rather than simply photo-ops.
Really? Name one. Like stiffing the subcontractors on his building projects? Or was it the time he ridiculed a handicapped journalist at a rally? Or could it be the belittling nicknames he created for anyone who got in his way?
Kind people don’t cheat others or ridicule others.
Will anyone testify to any of his random acts of kindness at the Trump Convention?
Surely there must be one person willing to step forward.
Michael Cohen says that Trump does not have a single friend in the world.
Maybe, James, you could offer to be his best friend.
Trump is very, very kind to Trump. Who else?
Sorry, the answer to that question is as obvious as were the answers to the dementia test that IQ45 thought proved him to be a genius. The only person Trump cares about is Trump.
He’s the guy you can count on to talk about how great he himself is to the grieving widows of dead soldiers.
Mr. Two Corinthians gases peaceful protestors for a photo-op holding a Bible he has never read upside down in front a church he has almost never attended that represents a religion that isn’t his (his only God is Mammon).
I guess his buddy Jerry Falwall, Jr., was too busy with the pool boy to be present for the grand hop of the toadies to the church.
Mr. Waters, precisely the opposite is true. President Trump has an illness. You can look it up in the DSM. It’s called Malignant Pathological Narcissism. This is why, in every private briefing, as reporter by former members of his administration, in every press briefing, he can’t focus on the topic at hand but immediately turns the topic to himself. This is why, when we visits for photo ops, the victims of tragedies, his eyes glaze over and he looks beyond them as they start to tell their stories and then he interrupts them and begins talking about, again, himself. The entire world has watched this, day in and day out, for 3 3/4 years no, appalled. Such a person needs treatment, not four more years in an office in which this illness, writ large, becomes cruel, inhumane policy of the kind that makes those of us who post on this blog so aghast and so horrified at the prospect of what this sick man might do with four more years in office. He needs help, and so does the country, which cannot allow his sickness to be inflicted on everyone else for another term.
Some people with this disorder can encounter a young man like the one described in Dr. Ravitch’s post and know what they are SUPPOSED to feel. Trump can’t even do that most of the time, unless he is told what he is supposed to say and how he is supposed to act. It’s like colorblindness. Trump only sees Trump in every situation. It’s an illness he has. Unfortunately, it’s one that makes him unfit to lead a country.
No, Trump is very evil. ☹️👎
The RNC convention will be worse than a goat rodeo.
The convention after party:
There’s no way the Trump Party could pull off something like that. Trump would have to care about someone other than just Donald Trump.
exactly
Yeah, it was a good moment.
The day after that speech I was doing some phone calling on behalf of our Congress member’s reelection campaign. I had the most wonderful conversation with a humane, thoughtful 77-year-old gentleman I reached.
Moments like these sustain our faith in this country.
And, at other times, well, I rely on strong timber and portland cement. (Someone keeps stealing my Joe Biden signs.) So….I bought $43 worth of pressure treated lumber this afternoon and I’ll anchor my next Biden sign deep into the ground. And, if that doesn’t work, next up I’ve got a sheet of plywood ready to be painted.
The Trump National Convention is VERY slickly produced. A person from Mars would think, watching it, that Donald Trump is a champion of immigrants, working people, women, small business people, farmers, the poor, the sick, and so on. That he has a heart. That he cares about people. That he does random acts of kindness.
Who is the man they are celebrating? Certainly not the one in the Oval Office. In order to continue the con, Trump has to run as precisely the opposite of the person whom he actually is.
The four-day Trump commercial is doing a pretty bang-up job of presenting that other person, the one who is not our president.
Oops. cx: as precisely the opposite of the person WHO he actually is
or, better yet, as precisely the opposite of the person he actually is.
Predicate nominative, the object of the copulating, uh, copulative verb is. But the entire clause being the object of the preposition of makes one want the pronoun to be in the objective rather than the nominative case. Often, these forms sound odd, very much not in the vernacular. That’s because language changes, and this is a form that is being lost because it never was nature but, rather, was an imposition on the language by grammarians trained in Latin.
Let us not forget the ultimate failings of Obama. He made everything he allowed Bill Gates to Manipulate public education. It was common core that came out in his tenure.
Betsy is worse, but at least she doesn’t pretend to care, unlike Davis. He had no qualifications for that position either.
I would love to see either political party, or any candidate, take hold of our public education system and make it not such a cluster. Or maybe, just leave us all alone. Personally, I am so sick and tired of hearing All political sides saying how important education is, and how our children are our future, then they do nothing or they strangle us with Bill Gates and Michelle Rhee (remember her? Yuck! ). Glad to be rid of them both. I really think
Bill should come right out and say he wasted everybody’s money, especially the school system, on his stupid flying airplane idea. He really needs to come out and admit that he wasted everybody’s time. We are still stuck with the remnants of all that crappy material and teaching In ways that are contrary to a children’s developmental level and common sense. I can’t believe how many years I had to Endure and continue to have to use his Ridiculous common core. And listen to all the district office people who drink his Kool-Aid train us all day on nonsense teaching of common core math and language arts programs. Those are yours I will never get back, and neither will my students who had to suffer from it.
Oops! Sorry about my typing errors. I am on my cell phone and seem to have fat fingers. I’m sure you all got what I was basically saying.
Yes, the Obama education policies and Arne Duncan were disasters of major proportions. Biden has promised to correct course. Once Trump is out of office and the White House has been fumigated, we shall have to hold Biden to those promises. This is our only current hope for a new direction in national education policy.