Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

September 27, 2020

At the Sunrise Café...

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38 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: that Dwayne Johnson video looks like

Telly Savalas, Maidenform and Michelin

got together to do a pro-Slo Jo spot.; 9/27/20, 8:04 PM
Chuck said...: With Trump’s tax information out, and with Brad Parscale armed and barricaded in his Ft. Lauderdale home, I am looking forward to a very special edition of Hannity tomorrow night.

Wasn’t this about the time that many Althouse commenters predicted that panicked Democrats would be pulling the plug on Biden as nominee, replacing him with someone else?; 9/27/20, 8:14 PM
stephen cooper said...: People get excited about Saint Therese, who famously said that when she got to heaven she wanted to spend her time shedding rose petals on people still living in this world, in order to remind them that God created us and God loves us more than a human mother or father loves a human baby. Well, that is nice, who can argue with that?

Then there is Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, who lived around the same time as Saint Therese, and is famous because she said, again and again and again and again, all you have to do to know that God loves you is pray for a moment, with friendship in your heart, to God, asking God to let you know that you are not only loved but that you are the best friend God could have imagined.

I have lived a long time ---- there are a few commenters here older than me, but I don't sleep much, and so I have probably spent more waking hours on this earth than anyone who comments here, even the ones who are 10 or 15 years older than me ----- and I actually like people with honest affection (I also like cockroaches, though, to be fair ----- who in their way are a family-friendly species - I would not want any of them to live in your home, but in the right place they are good and decent and likeable creatures ----) - seriously, I like crabby people, because they amuse me, I like ugly people, because I know that their hearts are the hearts of beautiful people, and I even love the really really second-rate high school teachers I remember from back in the day, because I KNOW HOW MUCH THEY WANTED TO BE BETTER THAN THEY WERE - I didn't miss much.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity is much more worth listening to than Saint Therese. I like both of them but I have to say, the one who noticed how much God loves the least of us was the one who was more worth listening to. I hope someday soon you notice the rose petals Saint Therese sends your way but I hope even more you remember what Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity said ---- God likes you, and thinks of you as a friend.

"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself".; 9/27/20, 8:39 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Andy Sullivan is back! The old Andy! The excitable Andy!! We haven't seen him this excited(!) since he 6 spent assiduous months investigating Sarah Palin's uterus.

So, he thinks DJT is a tyrant! He vascillates and equivocates enough to say, well, not a real tyrant, but still. The man is a tyrant!

The man could use a large dose of Althousian composure. He gets excited!; 9/27/20, 8:46 PM
Mark said...: And . . . Peter Bishop is back.

This is where it gets complicated. Because we had Universe A and Universe B.

Then when Peter was erased, there was a quantum shift to a new timeline for both -- Universes A2 and B2.

Peter's return does not really reset things back to A1 and B1, but they don't continue A2 and B2 exactly either. It's now a hybrid of the two timelines. And of course the Observers from the future who are there to both monitor and set the conditions for their own future were manipulating some things.; 9/27/20, 8:53 PM
stephen cooper said...: Whatever you say about Dwayne Johnson, he has a genius for good quotes.

"I don't like bullies" (From Central Intelligence, with Kevin Hart and Savannah Guthrie).; 9/27/20, 9:13 PM
wild chicken said...: So our resident Godbag is back.; 9/27/20, 9:18 PM
narciso said...: Thats as close to a compliment as he could from sullivan.; 9/27/20, 9:27 PM
Crazy World said...: Chuck seems pretty excited tonight, surely the President is finally going down. How about your hero George endorsing Amy?
Peace out; 9/27/20, 9:41 PM
Ken B said...: The woman who drove the car into Trumpers has been charged with attempted murder.
Good. Ihopeshe faces federal charges though since this charge will be dismissed as soon as the attention fades.
The crowd on the street should all be charged too. Blocking the road that way is illegal.
Charge them all.; 9/27/20, 9:45 PM
heyboom said...: So Dwayne Johnson makes his first public endorsement of a presidential candidate, and immediately steps into the proverbial wrong side of history. It takes zero sacrifice or risk to toe the liberal Hollywood line, so for all of his projected bravado, he's become just another typical celebrity coward. Contrast that with the equally public endorsement of Trump by actress Samaire Armstrong. That is courage.

Tinseltowners like Ms. Armstrong, Nick Searcy, James Woods and Kirstie Alley have earned my utmost respect and admiration. Let me add Adam Baldwin, Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson to that list as well.; 9/27/20, 10:38 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Bay Area Guy:

The man could use a large dose of Althousian composure. He gets excited!

There is undoubtedly a melodramatic quality to Sullivan's style. He's been pushing the Trump-as-dictator analysis for a while now. I think that's very overhyped. The most obvious retort is that every time the administration has lost in court, they've accepted it. Our system presumes that a president will try to act like a dictator, and it has fairly robust defenses against it. If Trump lost the election but refuses to accept it, so what? He would need control over much of the federal bureaucracy for such a move to even go anywhere. Otherwise, he'd simply be removed from the premises if necessary. It's not so much that Trump respects the results but that the people do.

That said, Sullivan is smart, a good writer, and most importantly independent-minded. It's almost always worth reading his point of view regardless if you agree. Yes it occasionally leads Sullivan down dead ends, but it's still a small price to pay. The partisan style is so boring and lame. As best I can tell, the purpose of talk radio and cable news is to be yelled at by people you agree with. The best thing you can do for any cause or idea you support is seek out the most stringent criticism possible.

But of course, human beings simply do not operate this way. People aren't so interested in being informed but rather having their worldview validated and their assumptions confirmed. It is the difference in worldviews and assumptions that mainly drive differences in political philosophy, not malice or incompetence. People are rational actors within a relatively limited set of social interactions. Beliefs and values is an entirely different story. You don't arrive at your worldview through rationality, and you don't really learn it, either. Rather, you infer it from observing a range of social interactions. In that way, you get your culture a lot like you get your language.; 9/27/20, 10:39 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Clinton Foundation, Kanye, Barrett's kids from Haiti--

...will a spotlight on Haiti reveal Dem crap, drive away black votes?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1309931232264728576; 9/27/20, 11:16 PM
walter said...: Chuck!,
Your chosen candidate's family is absolutely FREE FROM GRIFT!
(Yes?); 9/28/20, 12:27 AM
walter said...: "What the fuckin' fuck!"; 9/28/20, 12:31 AM
Readering said...: Chuck don't forget that Biden isn't showing up for the debate Tuesday.; 9/28/20, 1:19 AM
Humperdink said...: So I go to visit my Amish friend on Saturday evening. One of his oldest children approached my truck after I parked. We were chatting briefly when he noticed a Trump mailer on my front seat. He asked if was a Trump supporter. I said yes. He said he was too. Naturally curious, I asked him why. I figured he would say abortion. Nope. He said the Dems wanted to take his guns away. Another extremist group for Trump.; 9/28/20, 2:21 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Q

A month or so ago, I opened a link to a Q post, and ultimately to Q postings in general. Then, Q got themselves deplatformed. Again. That Q link when off into nowhere for awhile, then a couple weeks ago, two links appeared there, and they led to complimentary Q postings. Which suggests to me that somewhere off in the dark web, someone is maintaining Q, and some followers of the dark web Q bring the postings out to the bright web, where it can be picked up by search engines, etc, until these new manifestations of Q are themselves deplatformed.

Today, besides the usual Strzok/Page text message dump in those two Q posting sites, I had somehow opened up Bing with the search term of “QAnons” in the adjacent tab. Weird. I don’t use Bing for obvious reasons - it is just as compromised as Google. Ok maybe not quite as bad - with Google, I get ads responding to my search terms popping up on a lot of the sites I traverse every day. They actually sometimes show as ads within minutes of searching. The difference with Bing is that they are maybe as heavy handed, but not as slick in their attempts to attack Q, Trump, and the right in general, as Google.

One of the things that was fairly obvious about that Bing search was that a lot of effort seems to be being expended debunking Q and it’s QAnons. The average article in the Bing list of search results was a major publisher talking about some more crazy Q followers acting crazy, in believing that Q is actually providing legitimate information about a deep state/tech state conspiracy. We all know, of course that Q, the QAnons, and their followers are rabid conspiracy theorists. Except that the paranoia seems to be so evident in those MSM outlets so desperately to convince us that Q and his followers are paranoid conspiracy theorists. They work so hard day in, and day out, to debunk and discredit Q. Why? And who really are the paranoid conspiracy theorists?

Making things more interesting, the Trumps, POTUS, Jr, and Eric either follow Q very closely, or are tied into it somehow. POTUS, in particular, always seems to be validating Q, by using exact phrases from Q posts in his speeches, press conferences, etc.

I asked the friend who turned me into Q several years ago, and follows a lot of the QAnon threads, why Q was wrong so often. We still haven’t seen the tens of thousands of arrests that have been predicted, on multiple occasions, by Q, etc. His response was that the Q dumps are, to some extent psyops. Deliberate misinformation introduced to panic the opposition, many of whom apparently follow Q as religiously as do his adherents. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the clearing and cleansing of the cell phones of the Mueller prosecutors, as well as many of them essentially getting errors and omissions/malpractice information at the same time, could be tied to specific Q posts. Q, if nothing else, has exposed the rot in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA, exposed as they tried to destroy Trump.; 9/28/20, 3:12 AM
tim maguire said...: Chuck said...Wasn’t this about the time that many Althouse commenters predicted that panicked Democrats would be pulling the plug on Biden as nominee, replacing him with someone else?

As you may have noticed, those predictions have borne out. Even Biden is talking about the Harris administration.; 9/28/20, 5:01 AM
Kai Akker said...: Stephen Cooper, you made an interesting point the other day about John Roberts being compromised, and that state being visible in his face. I agree that there is something haunted in his look. His eyes..... his expression. You speculated that he was being blackmailed, but I have no idea who could blackmail the Chief Justice, or for what. I wonder if he has found that for all his smarts, and his skill at the law -- that even becoming Chief Justice has not stilled the tooth that nibbles at the soul.

He won prizes as an undergraduate for his history and politics essays. He was going to get a PhD in history, but instead went to Harvard Law.

What would motivate a change of that degree? That's a big change in career plans at the critical moment of a gifted, favored young student entering adulthood. From scholarly, intellectual ambitions to the most direct application for money and power.

One obvious thought is that Roberts still needs someone else's approval and he is out seeking it. His father died a couple years after John was appointed to the Supreme Court. His mother died last year.

Is there some invisible legal genius that explains his recent startling judicial swings better than the mere exercise of political calculation does? Could his mother's death have unmoored this masterfully calculating fellow, emotionally? Even if just temporarily. Who would this man, so skilled at pleasing his superiors all his life, most like to please now?

Roberts' eulogy for RBG was highly professional but utterly devoid of any insight. He incorporated a couple fairly good jokes, but if you watch it, not one person laughed. Maybe a tiny release on his humanizing comment that she was "clueless" about sports, but that's all. Nothing on the elephant joke. And all the time, he looked strained and unhappy. It does make one wonder.; 9/28/20, 6:14 AM
tds said...: I have found source of Ann's distaste for men wearing short pants. It is a movie, 'Black Narcissus'(1947), with absolutely gorgeous visuals, but, boy, did David Farrar looked unsexy as hell (scroll to the last 2 photos).; 9/28/20, 6:50 AM
tim in vermont said...: Yuri Deigin@ydeigin
Good sign we’re onto something: the Chinese research database revoked access from whoever found the Chinese-language 2013 MSc and 2016 PhD theses confirming that in 2012 these was a SARS-like pneumonia outbreak in a mine from which WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] got RaTG13/4991 — closest SARS2 relative. - From Twitter

re Chuck

"Chuck!,
Your chosen candidate's family is absolutely FREE FROM GRIFT!
(Yes?)”

Chuck only cares that the *right people* get the graft.; 9/28/20, 6:52 AM
Mr. Forward said...: Are the Democrats really this incompetent or is this enemy action? Remember a couple of weeks ago when the Biden campaign got a sudden flush of mystery cash and the previously well funded Trump campaign was supposedly coasting on fumes? If Trump isn’t financing the Biden campaign he should be. Five bucks says the Democrats on the committee call in Christine Blasey Ford as an expert witness.; 9/28/20, 7:24 AM
Drago said...: I think it is a very healthy development that LLR-lefty Chuck has realized that its not worth it for him to continue faking support for conservative judicial nominees.

Thats a good first step.; 9/28/20, 8:32 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: Then there is Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, who lived around the same time as Saint Therese, and is famous because she said, again and again and again and again, all you have to do to know that God loves you is pray for a moment, with friendship in your heart, to God, asking God to let you know that you are not only loved but that you are the best friend God could have imagined.

Steve, be aware that many people do this and hear bupkis in response, for years, even in their darkest moments.; 9/28/20, 8:42 AM
Ken B said...: My theory. Biden is sleeping a lot during the day, shifting his diurnal pattern so that the debate comes early in his day.; 9/28/20, 9:05 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The lawsuit said HuffPost and Feinberg repeatedly defamed Evans and friend Douglas Kennedy to a nationwide audience in September 2018 by falsely asserting they helped arrange the purchase and delivery of cocaine at Georgetown Prep that resulted in the April 1984 death of David Kennedy, Douglas’ brother and the son of the late U.S. attorney general and senator, Robert F. Kennedy.”

What should have tipped them off that the story was false was the idea that a Kennedy needed help scoring cocaine.; 9/28/20, 9:45 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Biden is sleeping a lot during the day, shifting his diurnal pattern so that the debate comes early in his day.”

They will probably dose him up with NuVigil too.; 9/28/20, 9:49 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Chuck only cares that the *right people* get the graft.”

“Good Republicans” like Romney and Amash who want to keep the China gravy train going at the expense of working class whites.; 9/28/20, 9:50 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger Readering said...
Chuck don't forget that Biden isn't showing up for the debate Tuesday.

I agree it is probably too late to cancel. It is a very high risk strategy for your team. It will certainly be interesting, especially if a slip requires emergency lies.; 9/28/20, 9:56 AM
Michael K said...: Wasn’t this about the time that many Althouse commenters predicted that panicked Democrats would be pulling the plug on Biden as nominee, replacing him with someone else?

No, it was the time many of us, including me, thought the debates would be canceled.

If he shows up, Tuesday night will be the most interesting since Jerry Ford said Poland was free.; 9/28/20, 9:59 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "My theory. Biden is sleeping a lot during the day, shifting his diurnal pattern so that the debate comes early in his day."

This wouldn't work even if it was the plan. Dementia sufferers already do this naturally. Believe me, I know of what I speak in this regard.; 9/28/20, 9:59 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: If he shows up, Tuesday night will be the most interesting since Jerry Ford said Poland was free.

IIRC, he was trying to say something about the spirit of Poland and got it garbled with the reality on the ground.

The one I really remember is Jimmy Carter quoting his daughter Amy on foreign policy -- a moment meant to be cute and "even a child can see it" that didn't come off at all!; 9/28/20, 10:29 AM
tim in vermont said...: " Santa Clara University lecturer: White supremacy is behind climate change.”

I think it’s a real tell that they keep saying “white supremacy” and not “white supremacism.” It’s what somebody who so deeply bought into white supremacism that they never question their premises would say.

I am old enough to remember when they hadn’t folded critical theory into climate “science” yet, and it was believed that the beginnings of rice agriculture in East Asia led to the first noticeable AGW.; 9/28/20, 10:53 AM
Michael K said...: Cheney, who was Ford's chief of staff, and Rumsfeld tried to get Ford to correct his mistake but he refused. Cost him the election.; 9/28/20, 11:05 AM
tim in vermont said...: Remember when they thought it was a good idea to have Mueller testify?; 9/28/20, 11:14 AM
tim in vermont said...: The idea of having a senile figurehead who brings a patina of moderation so that the underlings are in full control is an old ploy with Democrats.; 9/28/20, 11:16 AM
Drago said...: tim in vermont: “Good Republicans” like Romney and Amash who want to keep the China gravy train going at the expense of working class whites."

Don't forget that LLR-lefty C****'s hero, Mitt Romney, had his chief intel staffer, Cofer Black, get a seat on the Board of Burisma right next to Hunter Biden!

And that's on top of John Kerry's stepson working as a partner with #WheresHunter in the ChiCom payoff deal with....Whitey Bulgers nephew!

And that's on top of Nancy Pelosi's son being given a Board position on a different corrupt and russia connected Ukrainian oil and gas company!

I could go on but I think everyone gets the point.; 9/28/20, 3:33 PM