Althouse: Sunrise

October 14, 2024

Sunrise — 7:14.

85 comments:

Bill Crawford said...: Hey Meade, Are you seeing any buses at the Trump rallies?; 10/14/24, 6:58 PM
Dixcus said...: Didn't expect this today: Bill Clinton giving a Georgia audience a rousing speech on why they should reject Kamala Harris and elect instead Donald Trump.

Former President Bill Clinton: "You had a case in Georgia not too long ago. About a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant. If they'd have all been vetted properly, that probably wouldn't have happened."

Of course, Kamala Harris is the Border Czar of the Biden Administration. She is the one who is supposed to be doing the vetting, but of course, as Clinton points out, they're not doing any vetting.

And young American women are dying because of them. Because of Kamala Harris.

Kinda makes you wonder why any American woman would vote for her.; 10/14/24, 6:59 PM
Dixcus said...: I wonder if Meade is using publicly available cell phone positioning data to determine who exactly is at Kamala Harris' rallies. How many of them have they been to. Are they grouped on vehicles? Are they being transported around to each of her rallies?

Probably not. Meade doesn't seem like a technical type person.

But others are doing that. Technical type people.; 10/14/24, 7:01 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Only the over educated ones seem to want to.; 10/14/24, 7:06 PM
Clyde said...: Althouse, just for a change of pace, you should go out and take a sunset picture over the lake with the comet.; 10/14/24, 7:10 PM
Clyde said...: "Muh 'bortions!"; 10/14/24, 7:11 PM
traditionalguy said...: Winter cometh.; 10/14/24, 7:23 PM
William50 said...: Harmeet Dhillon: The shocking origin story of Kamala Harris and all the crimes she’s committed

Kamala Has a Plagiarism Scandal on Her Hands; 10/14/24, 7:25 PM
Sebastian said...: Hey, did you hear, "Conservative activist seizes on passages in Harris book"! Bad conservative!; 10/14/24, 7:26 PM
traditionalguy said...: Maybe Slow Joe taught her how.; 10/14/24, 7:36 PM
traditionalguy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/14/24, 7:36 PM
traditionalguy said...: We MAGA monsters pounced again. Too bad, so sad.; 10/14/24, 7:39 PM
traditionalguy said...: Ole J D has been pouncing on the MSM lately. He’s practicing for 2028.; 10/14/24, 7:41 PM
“Bad Genes” said...: An armed North Carolina Trump supporter was arrested for threatening FEMA hurricane responders, highlighting political violence in the Biden era.
https://www.fox16.com/crime/man-armed-with-rifle-accused-of-threatening-fema-workers-in-north-carolina/

Trump has been radicalizing his supporters. Now that he’s normalized violence against the government and other citizens he can convince them to do almost anything.; 10/14/24, 7:43 PM
Dixcus said...: Donald Trump didn't radicalize me. You know who did? That guy with the gray hair who boarded up the windows in the vote counting room so that they could steal the election.

I want to find that guy. He radicalized me.; 10/14/24, 7:52 PM
Vance said...: Old Rich here has, let us remember, zero problems at all with Democrats radicalizing their violent supporters against the Supreme Court and Republicans and just plain old Republican voters. Rich cheered, I believe, the far leftist in North Dakota who ran over and killed a teenage boy because he thought the boy was a Trump voter. That didn't bother Rich or Inga any....; 10/14/24, 8:04 PM
Eva Marie said...: The news today is that “Christopher Columbus was Jewish, DNA experts concluded in a long-awaited investigation into the true origins of one of history’s most famous explorers.”
In 1973 Simon Wiesenthal (Nazi hunter ) wrote Sails of Hope: The Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus.
According to one of the reviews of the book on Amazon:
“The real story about Columbus, that you wont find in other history books. Of course, you know that the Italian discoverer didn't speak any Italian, came from a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, and was trying to find a safe haven for Jews, not a short cut to the West Indies or America.”
The book isn’t available on kindle. Hardback is being sold for over $500.; 10/14/24, 8:05 PM
Vance said...: And I don't think Rich had anything bad to say about an agent of the State calling for the execution of all Trump voters. That professor is one of Rich's heroes, most likely.

And Rich didn't have anything to say when some of his good buddies firebombed the Powerline Blog guys offices in Minnesota. Just like Walz had nothing to say either.; 10/14/24, 8:08 PM
Jim at said...: An armed North Carolina Trump supporter ...

I read the article and nowhere does it even hint the guy was a Trump supporter.

Being angry at slack-assed federal employees isn't confined to one party, boy. Chances are this guy doesn't even vote at all.; 10/14/24, 8:10 PM
“Bad Genes” said...: The NFL and Major League Baseball are running ads calling for a "Timeout Against Hate." Should Trump be offered free airtime to give a rebuttal?; 10/14/24, 8:15 PM
Original Mike said...: "I read the article and nowhere does it even hint the guy was a Trump supporter."

Holy Cow, it doesn't, does it!

I have a low view of Rich's opinions, but I did not consider him a bald-faced liar. I shall update my database to include this new information.; 10/14/24, 8:18 PM
traditionalguy said...: Christopher Columbus has long been known to be a Jew. The Pope’s guys tried to pretend he was Spanish.

Glen Reynolds has a great article on this over on Substack.; 10/14/24, 8:19 PM
Narr said...: I had a great time with the other old wargaming farts in Belgium. Five days exploring the Waterloo Campaign battles and marches, often on back roads and farm tracks, by car and on foot, in superb weather for it.

It was wet and cold the day we drove through Namur on the way to Bastogne, and was mostly wet and cold for the two days we were thereabouts. The Namur fortress itself was amazing, but we didn't have much time to spend there, or at Eben Emael outside Liege later (a few hours each).

The privately run and public museums in Bastogne were outstanding, and at Waterloo the museum they built for the bicentennial was also very fine--there was a fairly small and tatty museum there in '78 IIRC.

Belgium has clearly decided to capitalize on its heritage as the cockpit of Europe, and the crown jewel is Waterloo. The military museum in Brussels is worth a visit if you like that sort of thing.

The food and drink were excellent and the people friendly, but what is it with duvet bedcovers? What's wrong with honest topsheets and blankets as needed? Duvets are all or nothing--sweating beneath them or being cold above them are the only modes, and I don't like the weight.; 10/14/24, 8:20 PM
Original Mike said...: "but what is it with duvet bedcovers?"

One of life's mysteries.; 10/14/24, 8:23 PM
traditionalguy said...: Belgium is the origin territory of Charlemagne’s fighting guys the Mohammedans bitterly call the Franks.; 10/14/24, 8:23 PM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Headline: "CBS Backs Gayle King for Informing Author Ta-Nehisi Coates of Topics Before Controversial Interview"

They sandbag their own news man?

It's like after Charlie Rose went down with #metoo allegations, Gail King is the boss, fresh with a new contract to prove it.; 10/14/24, 8:28 PM
Michael K said...: We were there in 2015 and just missed a big terrorist attack in Brussels. Waterloo was great.; 10/14/24, 8:31 PM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Headline: "Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election"

Joe Biden was unavailable for comment.; 10/14/24, 8:38 PM
rehajm said...: There’s still time to install Hillary! he thinks.; 10/14/24, 8:44 PM
traditionalguy said...: Meanwhile the NFL battle of New York is vicious with up state Buffalo leading the New Jersey Jets. Aaron Rogers is throwing it perfectly but he ain’t beating Buffalo’s QB.; 10/14/24, 8:45 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Bich is Maddow. A lying liar who lies. Or perhaps Rolling Stone Magazine. No credibility; 10/14/24, 8:49 PM
Original Mike said...: Once you've been caught lying, that's pretty much it.; 10/14/24, 8:51 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: "Howell said that while Ashe County didn’t get any threats, FEMA suspended operations in some areas “out of an abundance of caution” to assess the potential risk. "

LOL/ Cautions. Those poor poor Fema gov employees. Under such stress.; 10/14/24, 8:51 PM
Original Mike said...: You know, like, 'I'm a conservative Republican'.; 10/14/24, 8:53 PM
Jersey Fled said...: From Bari Weiss at The Free Press.

https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-americas-fastest-growing-criminal; 10/14/24, 8:56 PM
Iman said...: Herr Biden did a masterful job of radicalizing people with his September 2022 Leni Riefenstahl/NSDAP inspired speech, the rotter.; 10/14/24, 8:56 PM
Original Mike said...: And, Trump's performance at rallies shows him to be feeble and cognitively impaired. Lies.; 10/14/24, 8:56 PM
Humperdink said...: Read on the interwebs today: “Tim Awalz makes John Kerry look like Davey Crockett”.; 10/14/24, 9:15 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Iman - yes. Progs forget about their own insular radicalized feedback loop.
Flashback:

The anti-Make America Great Again - Leni Reifenstahl speech. MAGA evil! MAGA die! Biden trashed 50%+ of the nation.; 10/14/24, 9:23 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking.

At the barbecue joint off Route 75 in Dallas, Lisa pulls out her phone to show me the dozen or so online platforms that traffickers and pimps use to sell girls for sex. The platforms—which include apps like TikTok, OnlyFans, and Facebook—are chockablock with ads of women, usually wearing lingerie, their faces covered to prevent anyone guessing their age. The sheer number of ads is astonishing. “Each week, we track over 12,000 ads for women in Houston, 2,600 in San Antonio, 3,500 in Austin, and 14,000 in Dallas,” says Lisa.

I ask her if the sex trafficking of migrant girls had increased since the Biden administration threw open the border, leading to 8 million migrants crossing the southern border since 2021. “Yes,” she says. “Nearly all of my sex-trafficking rings now are migrant girls. The ads exploded within the first three months of the border being open. We started noticing new sites and ads in Spanish. That was very few before. Then sites dedicated to Latino girls popped up everywhere.” Since the border opened, Lisa added, over 90 percent of the ads are for migrant girls.
Link

“If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes,” Lisa says. “It’s that easy.”; 10/14/24, 9:28 PM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Yesterday:

via @realDonaldTrump : Thank you to the 16,000 Border Patrol Officers for your COMPLETE ENDORSEMENT and SUPPORT!

Today:

via Newsweek: "Bill Clinton Criticizes Border Security at Kamala Harris Event"

Know your memes; 10/14/24, 9:36 PM
Original Mike said...: Looks like Rich has skedaddled. I'm sure he'll be back, spreading more lies. But we've seen what he is.; 10/14/24, 10:00 PM
wildswan said...: Hey Narr
Try sticking your bare foot out from under the duvet. Cools you right down.; 10/14/24, 10:58 PM
Narayanan said...: clinton reliving sister souljah moment; 10/14/24, 11:03 PM
walter said...: Kamala drank a beer!; 10/14/24, 11:10 PM
effinayright said...: We celebrated Indigenous Savages Day at a nearby archery range, pumping arrows into Colonizer Dummies. We worked off a lot of Righteous Rage against the people who brought us metals, horses, writing and civilization itself. Damn them!; 10/14/24, 11:29 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: What shocks me most about the left is the amount of evil they will sweep under the rug in the name of compassion.

I have ranted about this before regarding illegal immigration. The left thinks it is compassionate to allow it because of the "needs" of the people coming across the border as if there is some either/or condition. Either you allow unrestricted illegal immigration or you are racist. What they miss is all the pain, and misery that this kind of immigration causes innocent people at many different levels. Most especially children.

We do not have but 2 choices. It is not unrestricted vs none. It is unrestricted where the criminal element controls the process, or it is through proper vetting where the people are vetted and protected from exploitation.

The left are the evil people because they turn a blind eye to mass exploitation simply because the right opposes it.

You are EVIL. prove me wrong.

https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-americas-fastest-growing-criminal; 10/14/24, 11:42 PM
Original Mike said...: "What shocks me most about the left is the amount of evil they will sweep under the rug in the name of compassion."

That's a ruse. They're importing voters.; 10/14/24, 11:55 PM
gadfly said...: Trump lost it in Oaks PA last night where he supposedly hosted a Townhall meeting in the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center that seats less than 7500. But he quickly lost interest after reminding everyone to vote on January 5th. So Plan B was to have two attendees feign faints so that he could play songs from his infamous Spotify playlist and bounce around the stage for 39 minutes. His MC was Kristi Noem, who can kill pet goats and dogs in SD but would be in big trouble in Springfield.

“Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?” he said.

Some in the crowd began to leave. Some looked around, wondering if he was done speaking for the night and how much longer the sway session would last. “Nobody’s leaving, what’s going on? There’s nobody leaving. Keep going,” Trump said.; 10/15/24, 2:27 AM
wendybar said...: Jason Howerton
@jason_howerton
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Follow
.@MarthaRaddatz would like to remind you that it's only a "handful" of apartments in America that have been invaded by Venezuelan gang members.

That's why you shouldn't vote for Trump. It's only a handful.
New York Post
@nypost
Pictured: Aurora apartment worker beaten to a pulp by Tren de Aragua — as owners say migrant gang took over and tried to extort them https://trib.al/8rtS5a7

https://x.com/jason_howerton/status/1845948776038781226; 10/15/24, 3:05 AM
wendybar said...: Jason Howerton
@jason_howerton
·
Follow
.@MarthaRaddatz would like to remind you that it's only a "handful" of apartments in America that have been invaded by Venezuelan gang members.

That's why you shouldn't vote for Trump. It's only a handful.
New York Post
@nypost
Pictured: Aurora apartment worker beaten to a pulp by Tren de Aragua — as owners say migrant gang took over and tried to extort them https://trib.al/8rtS5a7
https://x.com/jason_howerton/status/1845948776038781226; 10/15/24, 3:06 AM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Biden ended up in the losing end of another switcharu all over again.; 10/15/24, 3:54 AM
Leland said...: Decided to check the RCP headlines Althouse will have to choose from today. Not many good choices, so it will be interesting if she makes anything of them or goes with NYT/WaPo.; 10/15/24, 5:38 AM
rehajm said...: The sort of Nobel in Economics was awarded to some fellows from MIT and Chicago who say humanity prospers when there exists rule of law and government institutions who don’t take from their citizens. Most of this is within the context of colonization vs the natives but the rules still hold for everyone else. The US has neither at present. Ackman didn’t spell this one out but these principles were taught in the first week of Ec10…; 10/15/24, 5:53 AM
“Bad Genes” said...: Whether it's an armed Trump supporter threatening to hunt FEMA workers, or an armed Trump supporter threatening to harm Trump, Trump supporters are consistently anti-government.; 10/15/24, 5:54 AM
“Bad Genes” said...: "Decided to check the RCP headlines"

I spend very little time looking at public polls. I just don’t. Most of them are crap. This election is very close, it’s a margin of error race, but again, I’d rather be Harris than Trump.; 10/15/24, 5:57 AM
rehajm said...: One good thing about the new format- it makes it easier to spot and skip the leftie talking points since there’s always a long stream of indented reply comments. Simply scroll down until the indent stops….; 10/15/24, 5:59 AM
traditionalguy said...: Patriots fight, fight, fight. Sorry that scares you.; 10/15/24, 6:07 AM
Political Junkie said...: David Brooks (I know, .......) has a nice article in RCP today. He is very honest about his blue/red situation. Encourage all to read it. Lots of good stuff. Cheers all.; 10/15/24, 6:07 AM
Political Junkie said...: Whoever you are - I agree with you. Can't write that often.; 10/15/24, 6:09 AM
Political Junkie said...: One more, then must go earn a living. There is an RCP writer named Adeline Von Drehle. Isn't that the coolest name? Sounds like a sexy, young, aristocrat.; 10/15/24, 6:13 AM
Christopher B said...: Early Voting Down 45% (Rick Moran, PJ Media via Instapundit). Some strong GOP areas showing suprising increases, however.; 10/15/24, 6:27 AM
Rocco said...: “The real story about Columbus, that you wont find in other history books.”

Columbus’ Jewish ancestry is not exactly new information. And he was not a Crypto-Jew; he became devout in his Catholicism later in life.

“Of course, you know that the Italian discoverer didn't speak any Italian”

Technically true. He would have spoken Ligurian and not the Tuscan dialect that we think of as standard Italian today.

“[He] came from a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany”

False. He was born in Liguria, likely Genoa itself where he grew up.

“[He] was trying to find a safe haven for Jews, not a short cut to the West Indies or America.”

While his ambitions were more complex than the “shortcut” meme, a safe haven for Jews - if he even was thinking along those lines - would have been way down on the list.; 10/15/24, 6:30 AM
tim in vermont said...: I have been doing French and Indian War sites through the War of 1812. Fort Niagara, Fort Oswego, Fort Ticonderoga, some of the original forts were destroyed, so there are two forts at Ticonderoga, one a ruin of an old French fort at Crown Point, the original fort at Oswego is long gone, but still, it's interesting to see the locations. This weekend I am headed up to Kingston to look at the site of the French fort, Frontenac.

It really enriches reading about the history when you have a sense of the landscape by being there, and I have been reading Francis Parkman, who is great, even if he is a man of the 19th Century, with all that that entails, both good and, well, regrettable.; 10/15/24, 7:13 AM
tim in vermont said...: We believe you gadfly. Just finally today Trump lost it, not the millions of times before when you posted pretty much the same thing.; 10/15/24, 7:14 AM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/15/24, 7:23 AM
Michael McNeil said...: We worked off a lot of Righteous Rage against the people who brought us metals, horses, writing and civilization itself. Damn them!

You've got one out of four. Written script (capable of recording anything that one could speak) was known to the Mayas (who, of course, also had a “civilization”), while metals in general were ancient in the New World. After millennia of experience with copper, gold, silver, etc. (and various alloys thereof), the “Bronze Age” per se in America began around the year 1000 A.D.—just about 4,000 years after its start in the Old World. (Yes, horses had been extinct in the Americas for about 10,000 years.); 10/15/24, 7:40 AM
Iman said...: Q: Who is hurting Kamala Harris the most?

a. Bill Clinton
b. Joe Biden
c. Tim Walz
d. Barack Obama
e. Kamala Harris; 10/15/24, 7:45 AM
William50 said...: CBS news thinks that the Trump plan to make auto loan interest tax deductible will mostly benefit the rich.
Who writes this shit?; 10/15/24, 7:46 AM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Yes! A big help for me also!; 10/15/24, 7:51 AM
Humperdink said...: On the plus side, Christopher Columbus brought diversity to the Americas.; 10/15/24, 7:52 AM
Clyde said...: linkedin shows her as a Summer Intern at RCP, her picture shows she is indeed young, and not unattractive.; 10/15/24, 7:56 AM
Clyde said...: Correction: She was a summer intern in 2022, has been a reporter there since November 2023.; 10/15/24, 7:58 AM
wendybar said...: Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn regret to inform you that you are always wrong.; 10/15/24, 7:58 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Tim's pheasant hunting - Kim and Matt : Hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzua5_Pit70; 10/15/24, 7:58 AM
rehajm said...: It demonstrates just how hollow and pointless these class arguments are. Here CBS defines rich as anyone with enough income to acquire a car loan. Their audience must have been reduced to people only collect public assistance and those who identify as such…; 10/15/24, 8:01 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: "Having fun while they lose".; 10/15/24, 8:06 AM
tim in vermont said...: Any cut in Federal taxes only benefits the people who actually *pay* Federal taxes, so there's that. Last number I heard was that nobody earning less than $50K pays any Federal taxes at all, beyond Social Security and Medicare, and nobody is getting any cuts in those taxes.; 10/15/24, 8:07 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Gmail Users Warned About New Account Takeover Scam: Here’s What to Look For

"A security researcher and one technology startup CEO have warned that some Gmail users could become victim to a sophisticated, AI-based scam that can lead to their accounts being taken over.

The chief executive of prominent tech-oriented venture capital firm Ycombinator wrote on X late last week that there is a “pretty elaborate” phishing scam that uses an AI-generated voice.

“You should be aware of a pretty elaborate phishing scam using AI voice that claims to be Google Support (caller ID matches, but is not verified) DO NOT CLICK YES ON THIS DIALOG—You will be phished,” wrote Garry Tan in an X post that he termed a “public service announcement,” dated Oct. 10."; 10/15/24, 8:09 AM
tim in vermont said...: Shouldn't the comet be in that pic? It's been cloudy here for both recent astronomical shows, unfortunately. The sight of a comet rising over the mountains, maybe even reflected in the lake, if I were lucky enough for it to be still as glass, would be really something. But I have seen comets before, and I have seen the Northern Lights in the past, and I shouldn't be a pig about it, since I got to see the total eclipse.; 10/15/24, 8:11 AM
Aggie said...: There's a short cut. You always know that some kind of Progressive mischief is afoot, when somebody proposes to appoint themselves as savior of a chosen underclass, using your tax money to underwrite it. The Progressive mischief makers have become sophisticated at using NGOs to mask the government resources they are drawing down on, but the drawdown is there. It is a form of thievery, and even more insulting, it's thievery that is aimed at making the situation even worse - for you.; 10/15/24, 8:16 AM
Meade said...: “Hey Meade, Are you seeing any buses at the Trump rallies?”

Yes, but they’ve all been school buses (and farm wagons pulled by John Deere tractors) used for shuttling rally goers from parking areas to the venue — 1 - 2 miles.; 10/15/24, 8:17 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Here is a straightforward explanation of their work. Well worth a read.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/popular-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf; 10/15/24, 8:18 AM
Leland said...: It could benefit them too, if they are willing to take the debt. A luxury of being rich is not being indebted to someone. Indeed, it is one of the defining characteristics of being rich. You are poor when you are indebted to others. Easing burdens on the poor such as not taxing the poor on the profits to be given to the rich seems like a boon for the poor.; 10/15/24, 8:20 AM
Leland said...: OMG, the Trump campaign is shuttling in the crowd! Meade says so.; 10/15/24, 8:21 AM