{"id":176152,"date":"2020-08-23T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/23\/ive-seen-this-play-before-and-i-know-who-will-prevail\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:30:00","slug":"ive-seen-this-play-before-and-i-know-who-will-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/23\/ive-seen-this-play-before-and-i-know-who-will-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Seen This Play Before, and I Know Who Will Prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1f2iawp0y5Y\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Do not pick a fight with this guy<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It appears that the Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut is <b>VERY<\/b> angry about a recent bit that John Oliver did on juries.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he&#8217;s angry that John Oliver had the throw-away line, &#8220;F%$# Danbury,&#8221; when he was discussing disparities in jury selections, and highlighted specific circumstances in Hartford and New Britain, Connecticut where the residents of those cities (about \u2154 of the minority population in those judicial districts) were excluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Danbury will not allow this to stand, and so will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/aug\/23\/danbury-connecticut-sewage-plant-john-oliver\">rename the local sewage treatment plant after the comedian<\/a>, because, and this is a quote, &#8220;Why? Because it\u2019s full of crap just like you, John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I get that the Mayor of Danbury is offended, but I&#8217;ve seen what <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/important-notice-you-have-right-to-hire.html\">Oliver did to killer coal baron Bob Murray<\/a> (Also <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/linkage_25.html\">here<\/a>), and you ain&#8217;t gonna win this fight.<\/p>\n<p>Picking a fight with John Oliver is like wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty, and the pig loves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Officials in Danbury, Connecticut, say they will name their sewage plant after the comedian John Oliver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/breaking-news\/hc-br-danbury-sewage-plant-john-oliver-20200823-55pgsmwflzfk3ly4yivh6qrtl4-story.html\">in retaliation<\/a> for an expletive-filled rant about the city on his HBO show. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Boughton announced the move on his Facebook page. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to rename it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/john-oliver\">John Oliver<\/a> Memorial Sewer Plant,\u201d the Republican mayor said. \u201cWhy? Because it\u2019s full of crap just like you, John.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of HBO\u2019s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the British-born comic explored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/aug\/17\/john-oliver-trial-juries-last-week-tonight\">racial disparities in the jury selection process<\/a>, citing problems in Hartford and New Britain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to forget a town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/connecticut\">Connecticut<\/a>,\u201d he said, \u201cwhy not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, f%$# Danbury!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Noting Danbury\u2019s \u201ccharming railway museum\u201d and its \u201chistoric Hearthstone Castle\u201d, he said: \u201cDanbury, Connecticut can eat my whole ass.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Oliver added that he knew \u201cexactly three things about Danbury. USA Today ranked it the second-best city to live in 2015, it was once the center of the American hat industry and if you\u2019re from there, you have a standing invite to come get a thrashing from John Oliver, children included, f%$# you.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# Mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I know very little about Danbury.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never been there, even when I was living in Connecticut, though I might have driven through it on the way to New York City, but I do know this:&nbsp; Don&#8217;t pick a fight with John Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>You have introduced yourself as a world of hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not pick a fight with this guy It appears that the Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut is VERY angry about a recent bit that John Oliver did on juries. Specifically, he&#8217;s angry that John Oliver had the throw-away line, &#8220;F%$# Danbury,&#8221; when he was discussing disparities in jury selections, and highlighted specific circumstances in Hartford &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[484,407,528,374,401],"class_list":["post-176152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-environment","tag-justice","tag-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","tag-politics","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}