Althouse: Sunrise

November 7, 2022

Sunrise — 6:43.

41 comments:

Meade said...: Going out on a limb here. Tomorrow’s red wave will be big. How big? As large as a small tsunami.; 11/7/22, 6:19 PM
traditionalguy said...: After 2 days the UGA football team’s New World Order has calmed down. And K. Smart now rules over the land of Football displacing Nick Sabin and Newt Rockne. This could also be a good omen for Herschel Walker being our new UGA Senator.; 11/7/22, 6:19 PM
Lurker21 said...: I watched Whirlybird, the Bob/Zoe Tur documentary. It was very good on crime and journalism and the hell that LA became in recent decades. The impression I got from the film was that Bob was an extremely angry, abusive man and the only way he thought he could purge that side of himself was to become Zoe, so it was a kind of penance or intervention. Or maybe there was a part of Bob that his angry, abusive father hated and that hated his father and identified with his mother, and eventually he gave into that side. It is a little strange, though: trans identity was the big topic of the summer. Lately it's been pushed aside. Probably too inconvenient with the election coming up.

With/In is a COVID drama, or a collection of dramatized COVID stories. It's three hours long. I couldn't take it, especially with a flu coming on. I also have a Danish crime drama about a macho, tough as nails, yet also vulnerable lady detective and the murderers she tracks down. The murderers are all men. So are the incompetent cops who stand in her way. I don't know if I'll be able to take much of that either.; 11/7/22, 6:23 PM
Drago said...: Traditionalguy: "This could also be a good omen for Herschel Walker being our new UGA Senator."

We'll see if Herschel can overcome the dems, the media, McConnell's sabotage and Raffensberger's corrupt team.

I am relatively optimistic.; 11/7/22, 6:33 PM
Jamie said...: So - why is it that for my entire life of noticing election results, news organizations have been able to call elections with, oh, 25%-50% of the vote in, and if I'm not mistaken based on exit polls in some cases, but for this election, we have to "be patient" for several days?

What interpretation can I put on Biden's urging several days of patience, besides battlespace preparation for Democrats to do Whatever It Takes?; 11/7/22, 6:34 PM
Kevin said...: As large as a small tsunami.

A large tsunami the size of a small tsunami.; 11/7/22, 6:43 PM
gilbar said...: As large as a small tsunami.

i hope so, but i wouldn't be surprised if the democrats "win" Every close race..
And by close, i mean the races the republican is only up by 4 or 5 percent when they 'send everyone home'; 11/7/22, 6:45 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Tsunami? Ride the wild surf. Oh Wait... Charlie doesn't surf.; 11/7/22, 6:57 PM
Narr said...: So if Latinas go GOP, will Sunny call them Las Cucarachas? If not, why not?

See you on the other side. Of Tucker.; 11/7/22, 6:58 PM
gilbar said...: Jamie said...
So - why is it that for my entire life of noticing election results, news organizations have been able to call elections with, oh, 25%-50% of the vote in, and if I'm not mistaken based on exit polls in some cases, but for this election, we have to "be patient" for several days?

HEY! counting votes is NOT easy!
1st, you have to see how many votes you need.
2nd, you have to have a waterpipe 'burst', or something; so that you can close up shop
3rd, you have to print TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ballots
FINALLY! you have to count those 'legitimate' ballots; 11/7/22, 7:06 PM
Andrew said...: The most egregious, underrated story about election manipulation by the media was the calling of Florida for Gore in the year 2000, when voting had not finished in the panhandle due to the different time zone. Many people, on hearing the call, didn't bother voting. All of the chaos of the 2000 election could have been avoided if the media had just shut up until the entire state had finished voting. After the fact, the only place you could even hear about this story was talk radio.; 11/7/22, 7:38 PM
gilbar said...: Trump is having a rally in Ohio right now.. It's pathetic!
They've curtained off HALF of the arena, and then on the half they're using; they had to hang up flags, because they STILL couldn't fill the seats!! He's the former President of the USA, and he can't even fill HALF an hall!!!
Oh, wait a minute; that was O'Bama and Biden's 'rally' in Penn last night.
Trump's Ohio rally is CLEAR FULL; just like you'd expect; 11/7/22, 7:45 PM
Political Junkie said...: I hope Meade is correct. I worry though. R's went down one in senate and one in governorship on RCP.; 11/7/22, 7:55 PM
gadfly said...: The powerful Russian businessman and a close Vladimir Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted to interfering in US elections on the eve of a midterm vote in which Republicans will seek to take control of Congress and state-wide offices across the country.

“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere,” Prigozhin, who has previously been accused of influencing the outcome of elections across continents, said in a statement posted by his catering company, Concord.

“Carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can,” Prigozhin, 61, added.; 11/7/22, 7:57 PM
gspencer said...: Almost a touchable feeling around here waiting for tomorrow.

But I remember Election Night, 2012, when we thought Mittens had a chance. So I'm tempering things.; 11/7/22, 8:13 PM
Narr said...: Thanks for the music links and suggestions on the Lehrer/Weird Al threads. I only recalled a few of the Lehrers, and will now lose several hours (over a span of days) laughing at witty and clever foolishness from both artists.; 11/7/22, 8:14 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Fetter-you've-got-to-be-kidding-man and Cortez Masto have been pleading for campaign funds for the last two weeks and then some, calling in folks like James Carville, John Legend, Barack Obama, and even Bill & Hillary Clinton in their appeals for funds. I'm wondering why they need donations in the short time before Election Day.; 11/7/22, 8:17 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Here in Georgia, I hear the people who handle elections are already asking for an extension. For what reason? It’s not even been reported.

Let the shenanigans begin.; 11/7/22, 8:22 PM
Narr said...: The rich, technologically sophisticated US of A finds it difficult to do what other countries do routinely: educate the majority of their children to some standard of literacy, numeracy, and cultural awareness, and, conduct fair and transparent elections and have solid results within a day or so.

As Tucker points out, the Ds have moved from peddling the Immaculate Election of 2020 to pleading the Corrupted Count of 2022 without skipping a beat.; 11/7/22, 8:23 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: look st this.
Thanks for the discovery Ann; 11/7/22, 8:23 PM
Beasts of England said...: ‘And K. Smart now rules over the land of Football displacing Nick Sabin[sic]…’

Georgia looks unbeatable this season and Kirby is the real deal, but Saban has a few good years remaining.; 11/7/22, 8:29 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: What media slant?

Copy pasta to your browser 👉🏽 https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/ya8sij/your_media_hates_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf; 11/7/22, 8:29 PM
MayBee said...: The Democrats couldn't get their results out for Iowa in 2020 primaries, and the rest of the primary season was a disaster. And now we are being sold the idea that that is completely normal.; 11/7/22, 8:59 PM
chickelit said...: Meade said...Going out on a limb here. Tomorrow’s red wave will be big. How big? As large as a small tsunami.

I went out on that same limb a couple days ago, whence my new (old) avatar update. We'll see how Trumpealeau County votes tomorrow.; 11/7/22, 9:22 PM
As my whimsy leads me.. said...: At the JD Vance Rally that just concluded in Ohio, Trump said that he would have a big announcement next Tuesday. He spoke well for way over an hour. I can’t imagine Biden getting through a much shorter speech as smoothly.
Toy; 11/7/22, 9:23 PM
Vance said...: Everything is pointing towards epic attempts at theft by the Democrats.

And if they blatantly and obviously steal the election then what?; 11/7/22, 10:09 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: Oh boy, here's gadfly! Ejaculating blanks of drivel into everyone tonight! Tooting fruity toots into the wind!; 11/7/22, 10:22 PM
Political Junkie said...: Andrew...another big media/entertainment bias example is MTV in 2000. In 1992 MTV was all excited about Rock The Vote. In 2000, with Climate Man vs Gregarious George, MTV decided to focus less heavily on voting. Yeah...right...I understand their motivations...the bastards.; 11/7/22, 11:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Earlier tonight we read and commented on the 11th step of Alcoholics Anonymous. Thinking and rereading the 11th step prayer, better known as the Saint Francis prayer, I made a connection between the last seven words uttered by Jesus, while nailed to the cross, and the Saint Francis prayer.

You might say I went full Bob Dylan at the meeting. What if Saint Francis was just expanding on what Jesus had said? I'm assuming Saint Francis was well versed on what Jesus said... I mean, if you make it to sainthood, you better be.

I'm probably not the only one to speculate on this. I mean, Jesus "I'm thirsty" and Saint Francis "make me a channel" just slaps you on the face... I don't know. I'm not a theologist, nor a songwriter.; 11/7/22, 11:45 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Vote for us, so we can kill children, but don't vote for them, because they will kill children. If you vote for anyone but us, and you disagree that we should rule everything, you will end democracy.

I don't want to jinx it, so I won't give my actual prediction. But it's going to be out of scale of anything expected.; 11/7/22, 11:55 PM
Saint Croix said...: ha ha

Okay, so Donald Trump gave me a lot of confidence, because he married a woman a lot younger than he is. I'm like, "If he can do it, I can do that shit." I know he's got $1 billion, which helps, but I figure I can out-charm the bastard. I got charms. So I'm like, "I'm going for a Millennial, Mom."

She's like, "Taylor, just marry someone your own age."

"Mom, I'm happy. I got a dog. I'm good! I don't want to get married just to get married. I want a baby. I got to go younger, for a baby."

"You can adopt!"

"Okay, whatever."

So this week, I was like, "Mom! Got a coffee date with a hot Millennial, who is 25 years younger than me." I did not tell her about the tattoos. Got to work up to that. I got a little excited about the "yes." It's been a while.

What I forgot, because it's been a while since I was a child, is the game-playing.

"Oh shit! The game-playing. I'm too old for the game-playing. That shit takes forever!"

You know, the intricacies of texting and ghosting and all that shit. I was in the coffee house, sitting there with a coffee and an ice water and my copy of Platonic so she wouldn't freak the fuck out, and after about an hour of that I was like, "Fuck! Another lesson!" Like I need lessons.

Anyway, the next time a woman bitches to you about "game playing," calmly (sometimes I have to work on the calmly) tell her that women invented that shit.

I got so irritable I asked out the hot barista, also a Millennial, also with tattoos, and she said, "No." And I about gave her a hug. "Thank you! Thank you for the no!" Holy shit. Say yes if you mean yes and no if you mean no. Not rocket science. I think it was somebody in Stripes -- that movie that no Millennial has ever fucking seen -- who said it best. "I'm too old for this shit."

The other thought I had was that 1) this shit does not happen to James Bond and 2) my orgasms are way bigger than his because I have passion and he's just a boring old sport-fucker, which is a nothing-burger, I've done it before. Peace out.; 11/8/22, 2:02 AM
wendybar said...: Never forget who the violence is coming from, and WHY. When you have the Swalwell's of the political class calling the other side FASCIST, and many thinking that it is FINE to attack FASCISTS, you get Progressive violence and hate....right Howard?? It is ALWAYS the progressives who are the violent ones...just like the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi.

https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/08/someone-chucked-a-beer-can-at-ted-cruz-who-was-with-his-young-daughter-and-twitter-lefties-love-it/; 11/8/22, 5:08 AM
wendybar said...: And they are doing it ALL purposely, so the left can call us conspiracy theorists for repeating what they reported to us.

https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2022/11/08/the-paul-pelosi-saga-is-turning-into-a-miscarriage-of-journalism-n2615613; 11/8/22, 5:37 AM
wendybar said...: Any white woman who votes Republican are ROACHES running towards a RAID can?? Sunny Hostin is a RACIST. The Spew should fire her immediately, like they would have if a white woman said that about a black woman voting Democrat.; 11/8/22, 5:39 AM
wendybar said...: A video showing a white city councilmember choking a Latina woman at a New York City event has gone viral on social media. But the activist media isn’t covering it because she has the wrong political affiliation.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/11/07/its-perfectly-fine-to-choke-a-latina-woman-as-long-as-shes-a-republican-n655837; 11/8/22, 6:51 AM
Lurker21 said...: The Powerball drawing was delayed to fix it so that I didn't win.; 11/8/22, 7:40 AM
Rusty said...: Just gear up for the ensuing violence. There are going to be a lot of disappointed leftists.; 11/8/22, 7:43 AM
Rusty said...: The picture; A flock of coots. Appropriate? I think yes.; 11/8/22, 8:32 AM
Saint Croix said...: ha ha ha

So I admire the work habits of Althouse and Reynolds. And they admire each other, which is why sometimes Reynolds links to Althouse. I think their conversations go something like this.

Althouse: "Now I got all these damn right-wing readers, thanks a lot, Tenneessee!"

(How the fuck do you spell Tennessee, Blogger seems to like this one, but I like the first one, you be the judge).

Reynolds: "Well, just lose your readers, how hard is that."

Althouse: "It's fucking hard, man, I've tried everything! Those hillbilly fuckers won't leave! I kicked 'em all out for two months, and they came back."

Reynolds: "Don't worry, I got a plan. I'll start my own comments section, and all your hillbillies will come over here, to the Tenneessee fucking blogger, and you can pick up some damn Wisconsians. How about that?"

Althouse: "Awesome!"

Reynolds: "Here you go!"

Hillbillies: "I don't know, they're mean and stupid in Tenneessee, although maybe they know how to spell."

Althouse: "I'll never get rid of these fuckers, I almost voted for Trump, what the fuck, Glenn, what the fuck?!"

Reynolds: "Just have fun with it."

Althouse: "They're calling me a Republican and a Nazi and shit. Me! Ann Althouse! I've never been a Nazi in my life!"

Reynolds: "Welcome to the club. Listen, I got things to do. I can't hold your hand all fucking day."

Althouse: "Seriously, I've tried everything. I write stupid shit and they thank me for the red meat. What the fuck is that? I write brilliant stuff and they're arguing about umlauts and shit. That might have been me. I can't get rid of them. I married one of those fuckers, Glenn, how did that happen? That got me into the New York Times, which used to be the highlight of my life. And now I'm thinking of canceling my subscription to that shit. It's like they put a worm in my brain or something. You know what I mean?"

Glenn:

Althouse: "You know what I mean?"

Glenn:

Althouse: "Well, fuck it! I'm cruel! I'm neutral! I don't need your ass!"

Glenn:

Althouse: "I'd walk my dog right about now if I had one."; 11/8/22, 9:54 AM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse is a solo act. And Reynolds tried to keep up with her. And one day he was like, "Fuck this! I'm going Beatles. No, wait. Rolling Stones! I'm Keith, motherfuckers."

Althouse: "That's fine, Glenn. You're doing great. I'm more like Bob Dylan or Patti Smith, one of those great solo acts. That's my jazz. Although jazz is usually with a band and shit. That's my punk rock. Also with a band and shit. That's my harmonica!"

One day, decades later, Althouse is like, "Maybe I should take a vacation with my new husband. Like a honeymoon or something."

New Husband: "Fuck yeah! And I've been her husband for a decade, dumb ass. (Not you, sweetie)."

Althouse: "But I have the blog!"

New Husband: "Fuck the blog! I'm out! I've been out for years! They don't see my shit anymore! I don't even think they noticed!"

Hillbillies: "We noticed. We miss you, you dumb fucker."

New Husband: "Oh."

Althouse: "Why don't you have a group hug and cry and shit. I'm cruel! I'm neutral!"

New Husband: "I remember."

Althouse: "The question is, try to stay focused for ten seconds--"

New Husband: "If we had a dog it would help!"

Althouse: "--the question is, how do we go on a honeymoon, while I got all this blogging to do."

New Husband: "Just get a fucking substitute for a week. Like a substitute teacher. You know, in grade school? They had a substitute teacher, when people got sick and shit. I know you don't get sick, Miss Full of Shit."

Althouse: "You think it will be okay?"

New Husband: "Okay? They've been here for a decade! They know your shit back and forth!"

Althouse: "Okay, okay. I'll pick a few, and they can sub for a week. That's okay, right?"

New Husband: "Of course it's okay, honey."

Althouse: "Because I got a record, you know! A record of day-in and day-out excellence."

New Husband: "I know."

Althouse: "An unbeaten streak of excellence."

New Husband: "Right."

Althouse: "Every fucking day!"

New Husband: "We all know this, dummy."

Althouse: "I'm just saying, I don't want to mess up my perfect blog."

New Husband: "Well, I don't know if it's perfect."

Althouse: "It's not my fault, it's the fucking hillbillies!"

New Husband: "Okay."

Althouse: "The hillbillies! Nobody can stop them! People are calling me a Nazi! Me! Ann Althouse!"

New Husband: "I know."

Althouse: "It's not fair!"

New Husband: "Yeah, I know. Welcome to the Republican party."

Althouse: "I'm not a fucking Republican!"

New Husband: "I know."

Althouse: "Nobody is going to red pill my ass! I've seen that movie! I'm blue pill, bitch!"

New Husband: "Okay."

Althouse: "It is kind of a fantasy."

New Husband: "Right. Anyway, I was thinking, Virgin Islands. What do you think about that?"

Althouse: "I could blog from the beach!"

New Husband: "Or you could get some substitutes for a week. That's another possibility."

Althouse: "Maybe I could do that."; 11/8/22, 10:15 AM
Saint Croix said...: New Husband: "You know, God says we should rest on the Sabbath."

Althouse: "I don't give a shit! I'm not weak like those weaklings."

New Husband: "Okay. You know, it's not a commandment so much as a healthy suggestion because daddy loves you."

Althouse: "Who's my daddy?"

New Husband: "I am."

Althouse: "You're supposed to say, Abba, dummy."

New Husband: "Abba? The fucking Swedish super-group from the 1970's with the horrible music that nobody likes but you can't get it out of your head? That Abba?"

Althouse: "Never mind. Okay. You convinced me. We'll have a honeymoon. We'll take a month."

New Husband: "Yes!"

Althouse: "Virgin Islands. Maybe Paris. Do we have to fly? Because I don't do that shit. Planes go down."

New Husband: "We can take a cruise."

Althouse: "I don't have to get naked in the airport, do I?"

New Husband: "Naked in the airport?"

Althouse: "TWA and shit like that. I heard things."

New Husband: "Honey, a cruise is a boat. It's not at the airport."

Althouse: "I know that! Don't patronize me, you fucker!"

New Husband: "Okay."

Althouse: "Don't start man-splaining shit to me!"

New Husband: "Got it."

Althouse: "But it does sound nice."

four weeks later

Hillbilly #1: "Who's this fucker?"

Hillbilly #2: "You're doing it wrong! You're doing it wrong!"

Hillbilly #3: "Why didn't you pick me?! Holy fuck. Why did you pick that guy!"

Hillbilly #4: "He's a fucking moron!"

Hillbilly #5: "You put a fucking Never Trumper in charge? What the fuck is this?"

Hillbilly #6: "I'm out of here! Never again! This is insane!"

Hillbilly #7: "Where the fuck is Althouse!"

Hillbilly #8: "Althouse!"

Hillbilly #9: "I'm lost my mind and my world has no meaning!"

Hillbilly #10: "Where the fuck is Althouse?!"

Hillbilly #11: "I'm out of here! Never again! I'm signing a fucking pledge!"

Hillbilly #12: "I'm going through Althouse withdrawal."

Hillbilly #13: "I got the shakes. Holy fuck."

Hillbilly #14: "It's like that time I did meth."

Hillbilly #15: "Motherfucker, I've got the withdrawals."

Hillbilly #16: "I think her new husband kidnapped her, and when she comes back, it's not Althouse anymore, it's a fucking clone or a robot or shit like that. It's not Althouse! I'm telling you, I'm telling you. Watch. She'll be all different. You can just run up a photograph. I know what Althouse sounds like and this is not her.

Hillbilly #17: "Dude, she hasn't come back yet. She's in fucking Fiji. I think."

Hillbilly #16: "I'm just saying. They could replace her, and nobody would know. Because it's just a fucking photograph. You know how easy it would be to replace her?"

Hillbilly #18: "I've never trusted that New Husband."

Hillbilly #19: "This is ridiculous. I am a law professor, okay. We do not sound like this, okay."; 11/8/22, 10:29 AM