Althouse: Sunrise — 7:00, 7:15, 7:16, 7:21.

February 8, 2024

Sunrise — 7:00, 7:15, 7:16, 7:21.

63 comments:

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: Looks like AI. Bravo!; 2/8/24, 6:32 PM
Clyde said...: Waiting to see what President John Gill has to say. Where's Captain Kirk when we need him?; 2/8/24, 6:46 PM
Joe Smith said...: Typing this before the speech.

Have to believe he will announce his resignation.

He can't survive this.

His usefulness as a puppet is over.; 2/8/24, 6:46 PM
Clyde said...: Also, which dead European leader will Cryptkeeper Joe name-drop next? Gorbachev? Francisco Franco?; 2/8/24, 6:48 PM
Joe Smith said...: They've known Biden was gone before the election.

Liberals will fuck with the security of the nation if it means keeping power.

But kudos to Obama, he's destroyed America.; 2/8/24, 6:49 PM
Joe Smith said...: They needed to get him to the convention.

This wasn't part of the plan.

He's fighting this, but it won't save him.

Put a fork in him.

I will wait for the arguments about whether or not a VP can be voted on successfully...; 2/8/24, 7:02 PM
Joe Smith said...: He just exonerated Trump...

"Documents were moved by my staff, not me."; 2/8/24, 7:05 PM
Owen said...: Absolutely wild sky!; 2/8/24, 7:05 PM
Joe Smith said...: It's a feeding frenzy.

Every journalist wants to get their 15 minutes...; 2/8/24, 7:06 PM
rhhardin said...: Biden missed a great chance in his 8:00 speech, of pardoning Trump for his classified documents case. Instead he went the "Let me show you what an asshole I am" route.; 2/8/24, 7:07 PM
Joe Smith said...: Biden says he was 'exonerated.'

I thought he was a lawyer...he was never tried.

***

He walks off and them comes back and mumbles incoherently.

He really hurt himself with that move.; 2/8/24, 7:08 PM
Clyde said...: President John Gill looked kinda shaky there. Asked about Gaza, Biden says, "I was the one who got the President of Mexico to open the gates to let in humanitarian relief." "President of Mexico"?!?! Scary times, people. Scary times.; 2/8/24, 7:15 PM
Joe Smith said...: Impeachment back on the table???; 2/8/24, 7:18 PM
rhhardin said...: Marian Anderson sings white music Erbarme dich; 2/8/24, 7:37 PM
Josephbleau said...: All of the Democrat Fantasies sleep in the ground.

1. Trump the rapist. if A DC jury charges Steyn 1MM for Mann's ugliness what is the shame of an NYC jury charging trump for non rape of an undetailed nature.

2. Fanni is a worse criminal than Trump regarding RICO.

3. Beiden is a worse criminal than Trump regarding classified docs.

4. 14th Amendment, children who point fingers have fingers slapped.

5. Biden can have seecret docs but Trump can't. That sounds good.

What remains? Stupid democrats need to be run out of town for being stupid.

Hillary, you started all of this shit. You destroyed liberalism.; 2/8/24, 7:57 PM
rehajm said...: So nice of New York Times to some drill holes in the paywall in an election year so everyone can see the propaganda and psy-ops.

Nice of Ann to help distribute the pamphlets with links. No more hearsay…; 2/8/24, 8:03 PM
Joe Smith said...: Flipped on CNN to see how much ass they could kiss.

They reported it, and apparently it's a nothing-burger.

Spent almost all of their time reporting on the Trump SCOTUS arguments.

WTF?

Turns out, it's a lot of ass...; 2/8/24, 8:04 PM
Josephbleau said...: "From "Michael Mann, a Leading Climate Scientist, Wins His Defamation Suit/The researcher had sued two writers for libel and slander over comments about his work. The jury awarded him damages of more than $1 million" (NYT)."

Did you see what the asshole fucking NYT just did! "damages of more that $1 Million" One Million plus one fucking dollar! You fucking NYT PRICKS! You are worthy of derision. You disgust me. You can lie by telling the mathematical truth. Propaganda is thy name. Can you say one million plus one dollar? was it 1.3M no, you are sick. Sick and evil. Stick it in deeper every chance you get.

Weeel that is just a minor point!

It's all direction asshole. It's all direction.
I will vote for any non Democrat I can find, because democrats are disgusting.; 2/8/24, 8:21 PM
Gospace said...: Apparently Biden’s press conference tonight was not awe inspiring. The 25th Amendment is going to make sudden appearances in opinion pieces. From the left.

My prediction it’s not going to be Biden vs Trump is getting closer to fulfillment.; 2/8/24, 8:23 PM
Joe Smith said...: Breaking: White House Trades In Presidential Limo For Short Bus.; 2/8/24, 8:23 PM
Jaq said...: Kamala Harris cannot be worse.; 2/8/24, 8:43 PM
Big Mike said...: @Joe Smith, Short Bus? Clown car!; 2/8/24, 9:14 PM
Humperdink said...: How did his Visiting Angel Jill Biden let him escape confinement tonight? Biden aides can't be pleased. I suppose we should be thankful Biden was clothed. I half expected Biden would surface in an open back hospital shirt. After all it is past sundown.

Putin, Xi and Kim have to be scratching their heads about the stupidity of American populace (at least the blue half).; 2/8/24, 9:16 PM
Joe Smith said...: Who will be the first prominent democrat politician to call for him to step down?; 2/8/24, 9:20 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, judging by today there doesn’t seem to be much left of the US legal system. Do you have enough humility to recognize the role you and the rest of the US law school professoriate played in getting us to this point?; 2/8/24, 9:22 PM
rhhardin said...: Biden didn't do what I expected right at the beginning of his speech, namely pardon Trump for Trump's documents case. Moral moment missed.

Instead Biden attacked Trump for his case, going full out for derangement.; 2/8/24, 9:32 PM
Drago said...: Like most Americans tonight, I have become quite concerned about Hamas terrorists slipping thru Gazan tunnels into Texas.; 2/8/24, 9:32 PM
Drago said...: I am still waiting for Mitterand and Kohl to issue statements in support of their good friend Joe Biden, who is apparently President, did he stop being VP yet(?), or something.; 2/8/24, 9:40 PM
Jaq said...: So Joe just said that the Special Counsel was wrong, he is mentally fit to charge with the crimes he has committed. I say take him up on his word.; 2/8/24, 9:48 PM
Mason G said...: "Kamala Harris cannot be worse."

First black female president.

First, Joe. Then, Kamala. They were right- anybody *can* grow up to be president. What a country!; 2/8/24, 9:49 PM
mezzrow said...: I'm thinking of the moment when the surface tension breaks on the top of a container that overspills its liquid contents. I picture the mysterious 'whoever is actually in charge of Plan B' individual uttering "release the hounds" like a latter-day Montgomery Burns.

Do the hounds go for the old guy or the press corps? The boys in the copy room are working on a rewrite of the standard narrative. The last version is no longer operative.

Stay alert for updates.; 2/8/24, 10:06 PM
Josephbleau said...: So, how long is your sentence
5 years

What did you do

I raped a woman, how long are you in for

20 years
what did you do?

I walked into the Capitol building.; 2/8/24, 10:08 PM
Jaq said...: "Republicans pounce on report that put's spotlight on Biden's memory lapses." - New York Times

Like when he was Vice President, stuff like that. That's not a lapse of memory, that's cognitive impairment. Unless the claim is that he doesn't remember when he was elected, or how many years he served. That would be cognitive impairment too, though.

Meanwhile Putin drones out a PhD thesis, just for contrast.; 2/8/24, 10:12 PM
Jaq said...: Mueller was also senile. Didn't matter because he wasn't running the show either.; 2/8/24, 10:13 PM
Jaq said...: Tucker the Roman news commentator urges Romans watch an interview with Hannibal; 2/8/24, 10:25 PM
Money Manger said...: Some days you can snooze in the hammock.
Some days are a flood of legal news and events.
Today was a tsunami that could only be topped for reasons that would terrify me.
Nice work today Ann, I’m glad your blog is here.; 2/8/24, 10:30 PM
Mr. Forward said...: The Democrats have found their replacement for Joe Biden. Taylor Swift was born in Pennsylvania, December 13, 1989. She will be 35 years old by inauguration day.; 2/8/24, 10:37 PM
Jaq said...: There are people out there banking 7 figure increases the the value of their portfolios every year as the stock market sops up all of these dollars that the government is printing. So that accounts for the numbers, but where does the value come from? Well, they squeeze the value out of the middle class with inflation that works like a cheese press to wring out the last bit of juice. Oh yeah, and 8 million new illegals are forcing down wages, but not for the affluent Democrats.

This is why the affluent are mostly all Democrats now, and the working class people are Republicans.; 2/8/24, 10:40 PM
Josephbleau said...: So here we are Ann and Meade, sitting on the curb watching the destruction of our republic. In Wisconsin it will be slow, because the Germans there are moderate. Just stay out of Milwaukee.; 2/8/24, 10:57 PM
Josephbleau said...: Just to be sure, I am not happy that Beiden is a dumbfuck. I wish he had more brains than a potato, and nuclear war was not going to happen by a bad dream!; 2/8/24, 11:04 PM
Wandering Badger said...: hawkeyedjb said...
"What's the betting on how many times the network will show Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl? My bet is 10 times."

The formula is (Chiefs touchdowns)+(T Kelce receptions) - I think you're low.

Good start on the formula: "Bettors can wager on 89 Swift-related prop bets on BetOnline in an homage to the singer’s birth year and platinum record 1989. The company projects this year to be the most-bet Super Bowl in the book’s 25-year history." --
"Now, you can bet on it. Yes, it’s true: This coming Super Bowl Sunday, the odds are 12-to-1 that the biggest pop superstar of our era will be shown holding and eating a hot dog."

https://sports.yahoo.com/many-times-cbs-show-taylor-010727123.html
“If Travis Kelce makes a big play, we’re probably going to show her," Arnold told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. "If he has a quiet game, we probably won’t show her as much.” -- “It’s kind of what happens within the context of the game,” Rikhoff said. --
Rikhoff and Arnold will have more than 165 cameras at their disposal come Sunday. Will one be dedicated to solely to Swift? -- “We’ll make sure she’s chronicled well," Rikhoff said. "We have a good plan for that. We’re comfortable.”

I'm upping my bet to 15 times.
Super Bowl will be all about the commercials and Taylor images. If Bud Light had some guts - they'd have a commercial with Taylor and Travis doing Bud Light shooters.; 2/8/24, 11:35 PM
Josephbleau said...: All the fine points of law mean nothing. When it gets down to it, our democracy today means no more that the fight between Hamas and Israel.

Democrats want criminals to be happy. Republicans want to have a safe society.; 2/8/24, 11:51 PM
Sebastian said...: I'm sure y'all have seen it, but this is apparently a legit NYT headline: "Republicans pounce on report that puts spotlight on Biden's memory lapses." So clueless, the twitterati suspect even progs must be in on the joke by now.; 2/8/24, 11:56 PM
Rabel said...: If China wants to make a move, now would be the time.; 2/9/24, 12:09 AM
Narayanan said...: Q asked : Do you have enough humility to recognize the role you and the rest of the US law school professoriate played in getting us to this point?
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need to admit constitutional structure was ramshackle from day !; 2/9/24, 12:12 AM
Josephbleau said...: I have to ask, why study the fine points of law if political masters are going to give you the orders. Does the univ of Wisconsin school of law have any influence?; 2/9/24, 12:21 AM
Josephbleau said...: Let’s talk about if Captain Kirk would have done the green girl. That is within our scope. We are not allowed to influence the mulllas of Iran. Beiden is not to be questioned.; 2/9/24, 12:25 AM
Drago said...: Boy, that Biden "stutter" was really bad tonight, wasn't it?

LOL; 2/9/24, 12:46 AM
gadfly said...: Drago said...
Like most Americans tonight, I have become quite concerned about Hamas terrorists slipping thru Gazan tunnels into Texas.

One hell of a long deep tunnel that takes a lifetime to travel!; 2/9/24, 3:48 AM
wendybar said...: tim in vermont said...
So Joe just said that the Special Counsel was wrong, he is mentally fit to charge with the crimes he has committed. I say take him up on his word.

2/8/24, 9:48 PM

THIS^^^^; 2/9/24, 3:58 AM
Big Mike said...: So Joe just said that the Special Counsel was wrong, he is mentally fit to charge with the crimes he has committed. I say take him up on his word.

+ 1; 2/9/24, 4:44 AM
wendybar said...: When they tell you who they are....believe them!

"Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Wednesday that the Democratic Party's push for a path to citizenship in border legislation has failed the people they "care about most" in this country, "undocumented Americans.""

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/sen_chris_murphy_the_people_we_care_about_most.html; 2/9/24, 4:55 AM
Humperdink said...: In the face of damning evidence to the contrary, 51 geriatric physicians have signed a letter stating emphatically that Joe Biden is in control of all his faculties.; 2/9/24, 5:02 AM
wendybar said...: Comment @ Instapundit

William "Bill" McGill
6 hours ago
In fairness, it’s easy to confuse the closed border between Gaza and Egypt and the open border between the US and Mexico.

God knows, McConnell sure confused the two with his funding priorities.; 2/9/24, 5:07 AM
tim maguire said...: So does this mean there won’t be any debates this election?; 2/9/24, 5:10 AM
Humperdink said...: Hawaii thumbs it's nose at the recent Supreme Court decsion.

"Hawaii's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the state doesn't have to adhere to a constitutional right to carry firearms in public, deviating from a 2022 US Supreme Court decision affirming such a right.

"Article I, section 17 of the Hawaii Constitution mirrors the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution," the Supreme Court of Hawaii wrote. However, "we read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court. We hold that in Hawaii there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public."

So states can choose which Supreme Court decisions to ignore. What do you libs on blog think? Think long term now.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hawaii-ignores-us-supreme-court-strikes-down-right-carry-firearms-public; 2/9/24, 5:42 AM
rehajm said...: I’m confused as to why the White House people running everything thought they needed to risk putting him in a public media event. Maybe so he could try and spit out the word ‘exonerated’? Why bother?; 2/9/24, 5:50 AM
wendybar said...: "After three years of breathless coverage by the mainstream media, preemptively convicting every single person who just happened to step on. You would think that you would have seen or heard about this footage you’re getting ready to see."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/breaking-video-congressional-candidate-derrick-evans-releases-exclusive/; 2/9/24, 5:52 AM
Mr. Majestyk said...: If the People through their elected representatives in Congress can remove an insurrectionist's disability from holding the Office of the President, why can't the People remove that disability directly through a presidential election? Particularly since the President is not listed in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.; 2/9/24, 6:00 AM
rehajm said...: ..my only theory is they still care about polls for some reason. The election playbook strategy for when you’re ten points behind has historically been ‘do something’…; 2/9/24, 6:06 AM
Mark said...: First ever February tornado on the record books in Wisconsin. The volume of hail and lighting at my home looked more like early summer than February.; 2/9/24, 6:41 AM
Drago said...: gadfly: "One hell of a long deep tunnel that takes a lifetime to travel!"

I used to think that, however, since Mexico "officially" borders Gaza now, not so much.; 2/9/24, 6:55 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: 2/8/24, 7:02 PM
Blogger Joe Smith said...
He just exonerated Trump...

"Documents were moved by my staff, not me."

2/8/24, 7:05 PM

Those documents should have been locked up in a GSA-approved safe, not laying around for his "staff" to pack into boxes. The safe should have been in a GSA-approved room, not in his office.

The staff should have training in handling classified documents. It only takes a couple hours, usually only one, to learn everything about handling classified documents:

1 - Never leave them lying about, lock them up
2 - Use the transfer forms when transferring them to others
3 - Need to know
4 - Double wrap when personally moving them from A to B.
5 - Classified control is your friend! Use them.

Joe "Bribe me!" Biden used classified docs for personal gain. This is just another impeachment article.; 2/9/24, 7:43 AM