Althouse: Sunrise

November 9, 2022

Sunrise — 6:49.

32 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Excellent interview about Wokeism with historian Niall Ferguson.

link to 18 minutes YouTube video; 11/9/22, 6:19 PM
Humperdink said...: Displaying attributes that are key to achieving higher office, it is being reported that Senator-elect John Fetterman is considering tossing his hoodie into the ring for a run at the presidency in 2024.

When questioned by reporters concerning the validity of the report, Fetterman was at a loss for words. However his illegal immigrant wife Gisele did speak up. She indicated the influx of newly minted voters who crossed the Rio Grande will have a major on her decision as to whether John runs.; 11/9/22, 6:32 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: So how do you forgive people who won't ask for forgiveness?

"...not even asking for forgiveness and not apologizing but asking for amnesty for those who it so wrong (from Livestream #148)"

Is there a difference between forgiveness and amnesty.

link to Darkhorse clip; 11/9/22, 6:33 PM
Dave Begley said...: My friend, Russ Barger, is down by 180 votes out of about 11k cast for the Nebraska Senate. Countywide there are still about 7k votes to count.

He was outspent 3:1 by the Dem. But he wasn’t outworked.

What I don’t understand is that it will be another week to count 7k votes. That’s insane. AZ and NV are insane.

Why wasn’t this fixed after 2020? A giant screwup. This is not hard.; 11/9/22, 6:37 PM
Humperdink said...: The Ontario Teachers Pension Fund invested $400 million in FTX, a crypto currency company, which just went belly up. Faced with a liquidity crisis, their rival Binance looked at absorbing FTX but declined. There are so many angles to this story it's hard to keep up. Sam Bankman-Fried CEO of the fund, along with Alemeda Research, had his entire fortune of $16 billion wiped out. Other investors included BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Iconiq Capital, Insight Partners, Thoma Bravo, Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank, QB Tom Brady.

"Teachers chief executive Jo Taylor told Reuters in mid-September that the FTX investment was, “In terms of the risk profile, probably the lowest risk profile you can have in that it’s everybody else is trading on your platform.” He said the investment was part of Teachers’ strategy to learn about the crypto business and whether it gives the right balance of risks and returns. “I don’t think we have the answer to that question yet,” Mr. Taylor said." (Toronto Globe and Mail)

Learn? Made me laugh. "Sam's going to teach me the crypto business" said Taylor in his best Fredo voice.

Bankman-Fried is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School. Bankman-Fried is an MIT graduate. He was the second-largest individual donor to Joe Biden in the 2020 election cycle, personally donating $5.2 million. He also has donated to alleged "Republican" campaigns of senators Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Ben Sasse of Nebraska. (excerpted from wiki with my comments added)).; 11/9/22, 7:08 PM
Saint Croix said...: Babylon Bee Smacks NPR!; 11/9/22, 7:13 PM
Lurker21 said...: I miss the old style voters who could be swayed by the state of the economy and weren't so committed to ideology and party affiliation. There was always the possibility that they could be right, even if you didn't agree with their choice at the time.

What makes Massachusetts politics the way they are is that the Irish and the other ethnics vote Democrat to stick it to the rich Brahmin Yankee Protestant WASPs, and the Yankee Protestant WASPs vote Democrat to keep the unwashed ethnics under control. The two groups' very distrust of each other strengthens their alliance. The ethnics get to split state government offices among themselves, and the elites have the satisfaction of voting against Middle America and maintaining elite rule.

It looks like much of the country has become Massachusetts. Well-off suburbanites voted Democrat to keep hoi polloi in line and out of the government, while the meatheads down the social ladder voted Democrat because they were always told that the Republicans were the party of the old, rich, white guys. There's a strange overlap between the affluent progressive's embrace of racial and sexual resentments and the traditional resentments of less affluent Democrats, who don't see themselves as the current administration's targets. Throw into the mix people who are so uninformed or misinformed that they think they are voting for competence and decency and integrity when they vote for Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer, and you've got a winning combination in much of the country.; 11/9/22, 7:13 PM
tim in vermont said...: Well I was not here when Ian passed through, but apparently there were tornados in the area and maybe my roof was damaged; water is dripping from the ceiling and inside the walls and seeping out of the baseboards. It’s been drip drip drip into pans since yesterday.

If this had hit yesterday, the day-of vote would have been severely curtailed, just saying.; 11/9/22, 7:17 PM
Mason G said...: "Why wasn’t this fixed after 2020? A giant screwup."

Not at all. This is the way the people in charge want it to work.; 11/9/22, 7:42 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: Can we all agree that it's good that the House of Representatives has changed hands, and there's still a chance for the Rs to take over the Senate?

It's looking like Kari Lake might pull off a victory, after all. The more I see of her, the more dangerous it gets. If I were, say, an insurance salesman in a 1940s film noir, she could talk me into all sorts of things.; 11/9/22, 7:50 PM
Joe Smith said...: Single white women should lose the right to vote...; 11/9/22, 8:05 PM
rhhardin said...: [An intelligent performance is trying to get things right.] This point is commonly expressed in the vernacular by saying that an action exhibits intelligence, if, and only if, the agent is thinking what he is doing in such a manner that he would not do the action so well if he were not thinking what he is doing.

- Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, in what is the worst sentence in the book probably, noted here because it's so awful.

Mostly an excellent book of distinctions of shades of meaning in various common words for mental activities used by philosophers to confuse themselves. That word he did not nail.; 11/9/22, 8:11 PM
Drago said...: Lilly: "If I were, say, an insurance salesman in a 1940s film noir, she could talk me into all sorts of things."

Political Double Indemnity. Triple even.; 11/9/22, 8:19 PM
Narr said...: The Senate will make accommodations for John Fetterman's special needs. He will be allowed to stamp once for 'Yes" and twice for 'No.'; 11/9/22, 8:38 PM
Narr said...: Charlie Crist: always willing to take one for a team. Anybody's team.; 11/9/22, 8:40 PM
Dave Begley said...: Crypto is finished.

Buffett and Munger were right.

Again.; 11/9/22, 8:41 PM
Sebastian said...: Trumpists learning?

Don Surber via Instapundit: "He cost America the red tsunami we need to rein in Democrats."; 11/9/22, 9:11 PM
Michael K said...: What I don’t understand is that it will be another week to count 7k votes. That’s insane. AZ and NV are insane.

Why do you think Georg Soros funded Katie Hobbs for Sec State ? To fuck up elections.; 11/9/22, 9:19 PM
Narr said...: Always glad to see Prof Ferguson get a nod. I've learned from all the books of his that I've read--he's not always right but he's worth listening to.

My old friend from NC has continued his Anti-Trump whining in brief texts through the day. My replies out-Left him with critique of the old, corrupt, warmongering hacks and frauds of imperial DC and the dangers we face from our own ambitions, and he agrees.

And goes right back to damning Trump.; 11/9/22, 9:31 PM
Narayanan said...: is this valid thesis/conclusion?
from cth ...
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots and votes.; 11/9/22, 9:48 PM
Lurker21 said...: Ferguson lost his pundit credentials by predicting a big Republican win, but I guess everybody did.

The media moguls may be forced to pick people up in the streets and draft them for columnist duty.

I was wrong too, so I won't be making a break for the border.; 11/9/22, 11:26 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Thinking about the "red wave" that didn't, and how "election deniers" are said to be the big losers. There must be way to reconcile these elections results with the movie with been watching for the last couple of years.

In their infinite wisdom, the voters decided it would be unjust to hold a declining old man responsible for the state of the union. The country is just going to continue on a leadership pause, until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Sometimes, in times of uncertainty, the wise to do is to do nothing and hope president Biden doesn't fuck that up.; 11/10/22, 12:11 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Funny thing occurred to me when I heard the price of a twitter blue check.

I'm seriously considering rejoining.; 11/10/22, 12:13 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I just got back from doing some rideshare drive.

I pick up a guy from what appeared to be a bar. Nothing unusual about that, except his destination was a pay-car-park lot. The guy hesitated a bit. And when I asked him if this was his destination, he looked at his phone like he wasn't sure. After what seemed like an interminable minute, he tried to open the sliding door, but because of the minivan safety child lock, I said, I got it, and I push the automatic button to let him out. The guy almost stumbled out. I asked him -are you ok? He didn't answer and proceded to cross the street and into the parking lot. It was late, he was my last ride and later as I drove home, I comforted myself remembering back when I would make my impaired mind up to do something, there was no talking me out of it.

If it had been a woman, maybe I would have, I don't know, tried to talk her out of it, by offering a free ride home, maybe? It's easy to imagine scenarios about what I could've, should've done after the fact. I wasn't prepared for it.; 11/10/22, 12:41 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Wait… is it the mind of a drunk that’s impaired?

Well, youall know what I mean.; 11/10/22, 12:46 AM
Humperdink said...: As my other PA US senator is Robert Casey (D-Coma), Fetterman will have no problem joining the world's greatest deliberative body. After a few days of glad-handing fellow senators, Fetterman will slink off to the cloakroom catch some daily zzz's with his bunkmate Casey. Low profile? How about no profile.; 11/10/22, 4:20 AM
Humperdink said...: A year ago Pro Shares offered a Bitcoin ETF. It opened at $42.00 in November 2021. I was curious, but declined to jump in. It closed yesterday at $9.70.; 11/10/22, 4:58 AM
tim in vermont said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/10/22, 5:59 AM
wendybar said...: "They voted to release violent criminal without bail, to allow them to continue to commit violent crimes against innocent people, to shoplift with impunity, and to use drugs on city streets with their mayors’ and governors’ blessings.

They voted for the continued invasion across our Southern border by unvetted migrants from all over the world. They stream into the U.S. by the thousands each day. They are given phones, money, hotel rooms, babysitting, laundry service, wi-fi, all on the taxpayer dime. If only our homeless vets were treated as well. More than five million migrants have entered the country since Biden took office."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/what_all_those_democrats_voted_for_in_the_midterm_election.html; 11/10/22, 6:35 AM
Rusty said...: In Illinois more people work in the public sector than in manufacturing. IOWs more people consume value than create it.; 11/10/22, 6:58 AM
Lurker21 said...: Tom Kean, Jr., whose family have been in politics longer than the country's been around, won in New Jersey, so I guess political dynasties aren't dead yet. I understand why people hate political families holding on to political power for generations, but I relish any day the news brings up names from the distant past. His opponent Malinowski, in spite of his foreign birth, is also at least second generation in politics through his stepfather, so one way or another, families pass on access to power.; 11/10/22, 8:11 AM
FullMoon said...: Lem Former Twitter Aficionado said...

Funny thing occurred to me when I heard the price of a twitter blue check.

I'm seriously considering rejoining.
Since Musk took over, my followers have doubled-to nine.; 11/10/22, 10:38 AM