Althouse: Sunrise, 6:32 — and a rainy walk in the woods, 9:33, 9:50.

November 10, 2024

Sunrise, 6:32 — and a rainy walk in the woods, 9:33, 9:50.

51 comments:

Meade said...: ❤️; 11/10/24, 4:12 PM
NT Dave said...: Mark Cuban is apparently deleting a bunch of his pro-Kamala posts.
Weird; 11/10/24, 4:12 PM
rehajm said...: Some sort of euphemism going on here…; 11/10/24, 4:31 PM
lonejustice said...: I was a high school sophomore in 1968 when George Wallace ran as an Independent candidate for President and got over 10 million votes and won 5 states. I think this was the first time in my life when I realized how important politics and elections really were. At the time, in my small town Iowa community of home, church, school and neighborhood, George Wallace was just considered a Southern redneck, racist, bigoted buffoon who hated colored people and hippies. But my two favorite historians from "The Rest is History" channel think he was one of the most influential political figures in the 20th Century in how he, even though he was first a Democrat and then an Independent, made the South a stronghold of the Republican Party. This video really opened my eyes to things I hadn't considered before. It was just recently posted. Some of you may be interested in it, as I was, so here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugwohThlyI; 11/10/24, 4:44 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I love the bottom one.; 11/10/24, 4:52 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Rainy walks are good. Assuming it doesn't rain too hard.; 11/10/24, 4:59 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: BTW Indiana Football team is undefeated. Ohio state will be "the big game".; 11/10/24, 5:00 PM
Jersey Fled said...: First Sunday I can watch football without annoying political ads.; 11/10/24, 5:06 PM
Dixcus said...: Joe Biden last week:

Trump is a THREAT to Democracy and Hitler. We gotta lock him up.

Joe Biden today:

Calls Hitler, congratulates him on winning the last American election as we transition to Dictatorship.; 11/10/24, 5:09 PM
Big Mike said...: The IU-OSU matchup will be epic. If Indiana wins they probably get a bye in the College Football Playoffs and the Buckeyes are likely out. Indiana will survive a narrow loss, but not a blowout.; 11/10/24, 5:22 PM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: I am absolutely thrilled to be living in Texas these days. Except for autumn. I so miss the colors, the scents, the sounds of crunchy leaves. Would y'all appreciate it a little extra for me, please? I thank you.; 11/10/24, 5:23 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I asked Google how many J6 have been convicted.

"Pleas: Approximately 718 individuals have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges, many of whom faced or will face incarceration at sentencing. Approximately 213 have pleaded guilty to felonies. Another 505 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. Jan 5, 2024"

The election happiest Americans.; 11/10/24, 5:28 PM
Dixcus said...: Thousands of POLITICAL prisoners in jail primarily due to Nanci Pelosi's perfidy.

Trump needs to of course pardon them on Day One ... but then deal with Nancy Pelosi's treasonous behavior immediately. She orchestrated a coup to topple Joe Biden. Put her in Gitmo.; 11/10/24, 5:44 PM
Dixcus said...: Thousands of POLITICAL prisoners in jail primarily due to Nanci Pelosi's perfidy.

Trump needs to of course pardon them on Day One ... but then deal with Nancy Pelosi's treasonous behavior immediately. She orchestrated a coup to topple Joe Biden. Put her in Gitmo.; 11/10/24, 5:44 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: The very best history podcast. Sometimes a little weak on American political motivations but how many people really understand another country’s politics.
That said, the JFK series was masterful.; 11/10/24, 5:55 PM
Christopher B said...: Lame attempt at pushing the 'Republicans became racist' BS, lonejuicebox.

The 'Southern Strategy/Party Switch' theory has been debunked numerous times. The South became Republican in exactly the way one would expect if non-racialist attitudes filtered from the North to the upper Southern states into the Deep South where Wallace won in 1968. (Ignoring, of course, the rabid anti-integration attitudes in northern states like Massachusets and Biden's home state of Delaware where it was no problem for him to cozy up to real Democrat segregationists into the 1970s.) The Alabama State Legislature didn't flip Republican until 2010, over fifty years after Wallace won Alabama's Electoral votes.; 11/10/24, 5:57 PM
Original Mike said...: I just watched an hour+ election postmortem on the Bulwark. The one thing these three (Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Jonathan Last (who's a complete idiot)) were adamant was NOT responsible for Trump's resounding victory was their candidate. Kamala Harris is a remarkable person who ran an absolutely stellar campaign. They say this even after reciting the statistics that Donald Trump gained in every demographic group except white college-educated women. I mean, wouldn't that fact alone cause you to at least consider that your candidate was not the political juggernaut you believe her to be? But, nope.; 11/10/24, 6:08 PM
Gospace said...: lonejustice.... But my two favorite historians from "The Rest is History" channel think he was one of the most influential political figures in the 20th Century in how he, even though he was first a Democrat and then an Independent, made the South a stronghold of the Republican Party.

Which is, or course, a complete fabrication. He left office in 1987 and died in 1998. Jeff Sessions was the first Republican senator from Wallace's Alabama- elected in 1996. Neither George nor his wife Lurleen endorsed him. On his election Alabama had two Republican senators- only because Richard Shelby had switched parties after being elected and reelected as a Democrat. They first had 2 elected Republicans when Richard Shelby was reelected again in 1998.

The same timeline is similar in much of the former Confederate states. Not Texas- they elected a Republican senator in 1961, and a 2nd in 1993 and have had 2 Republican senators since then. Florida didn't have 2 Republican senators until 2018. The timeline simply doesn't fit Wallace being an influence.; 11/10/24, 6:15 PM
Dixcus said...: Bill Clinton literally told Barack Obama he'd have been serving him coffee at the White House just a few years before he got elected after Joe Biden called him "one of the clean ones."

Southern Democrats are Ku Klux Klan in suits.; 11/10/24, 6:23 PM
Narr said...: Today, the colors in west Tennessee have been pretty muted, the scents are of wet earth, and the leaves are too waterlogged to crunch.

When things improve, I'll do some appreciatizing for you.; 11/10/24, 7:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Wikipedia Editors Add “Gaza Genocide” to “List of Genocides” Article; 11/10/24, 7:04 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm already at 100% appreciation, so I've got no extra to give. Regrets.; 11/10/24, 7:05 PM
Gospace said...: To continue a discussion from before, one of the problems with a federal Department of Education is that it will eventually be taken over by ideologues of one stripe of another. Like the ones in the New York State Education Department, Never quite understood it since I didn't grow up here, but NY for the longest time had a two tier standard of HS graduation- a Regents Diploma and a school diploma. But even for a school diploma you had to have a minimum passing score on some of the Regents tests. Now, no more. Seems there's a racial group that doesn't do well on Regent's tests, so they're not getting HS diplomas. And- the problem is really widespread in various cities. Where no one is reading at or above grade level in any grade in the public schools... The solution- passing Regents tests will no longer be required for HS graduation! Why? To promote...

EQUITY!

Equity, not equality. Why with everyone having a HS diploma, everyone will qualify to get jobs that require one. Wow! Isn't that great?

Here's one link that describes how a diverse group of "experts" came to decide testing for a diploma was a bad thing.
https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/new-york-will-no-longer-require-regents-exams-under-proposed-changes/article_01bcfec6-2827-11ef-885a-9bfce468e3f6.html; 11/10/24, 7:08 PM
Leland said...: https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y?si=z3bfhrBxAPX6ZYYD; 11/10/24, 7:09 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Reddit: Magallica; 11/10/24, 7:20 PM
Leland said...: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html; 11/10/24, 7:22 PM
Dixcus said...: It's funny how every new social site just becomes a content farm for the last one.; 11/10/24, 7:29 PM
Dixcus said...: Five days after the election was over, the media still hasn't found 10 million of Joe Biden's fake votes from 2020.; 11/10/24, 7:36 PM
Mason G said...: "Here's one link that describes how a diverse group of "experts"..."

"Experts" is the magic word where I conclude that the journalist writing the article has an agenda.; 11/10/24, 7:47 PM
Rory said...: The Republicans took a congressional majority in the old southern states in 1994 - exactly the same time as they took a majority in the country overall.

Approximately 100 southern congressmen (including Senators) signed the segregationist Southern Manifesto in 1956. Of the 90+ Democrats who signed, exactly one - switched parties and became a Republican member of Congress. Most of the rest stayed Democrats, dropped segregation, and stayed in Congress and accrued seniority.; 11/10/24, 7:59 PM
Rory said...: "exactly one - switched parties and became a Republican member of Congress. "

Strom Thurmond, of course.; 11/10/24, 8:01 PM
Peachy said...: hahaha. I almost feel bad for her. She needed to let it all out. geez honey - nobody hates you. We just hate the media that made you feel that way.; 11/10/24, 8:05 PM
Rusty said...: It's a good day; 11/10/24, 8:36 PM
wildswan said...: What should Dems do? Learn to listen.
The other proposals like a sex strike and disputing who is to blame and looking up Sicilian poisons and screaming at the sky are totally useless, except as fun for Trump supporters. They're the sweetest sounds we can hear. When you guys get back to reality, we'll have to resume politics and stop slurping down the delicious sight of your ridiculous writhing about. Meanwhile, how sweet it is. It's like a carmel latte, a great and guilty pleasure. Too much will be really bad for us. Get over yourselves. For all our sakes.; 11/10/24, 9:22 PM
Hey Skipper said...: OM, I just listened to that this afternoon while working on my car.

I can't remember if it was you who pointed out The Bulwark a few days ago. So since I had many workings to do on my car, I listened to a few episodes leading up to the election.

Each of them predicted a Heels-up avalanche. The ep with Tim Miller and David French was particularly glaring for its wholly self-unaware selecting of facts, and then getting those completely wrong.

The post-mortem was far more in contact with reality — progressive policies are widely hated, and inflation hurt a lot of people (while completely failing to mention that inflation was the inevitable result of staggeringly stupid administration policies)

It was jarring that they failed to take on board that Spread Eagle, having been a pivotal part of the administration, should have been in firm grasp of the issues and able to easily discuss any of them without preparation.

After all — you could. And Yancey. And Althouse. In fact, most who comment here could give a credible précis of every significant issue facing the US.

She was utterly at sea.; 11/10/24, 10:13 PM
Hey Skipper said...: I forgot: they admitted Trump's appearance on JRE convinced a great many people that Orange Man Bad wasn't so Bad after all.

Then, without the tiniest awareness of irony, they discussed what the Dems needed to do to position themselves for the midterm elections.; 11/10/24, 10:16 PM
Hey Skipper said...: Back when James Taranto did WSJ's Best of the Web — probably at least 20 years ago — he hypothesized that Disparate Impact fueled the University—Prog complex. Previously, many jobs were filled by aptitude tests. But because they didn't yield racially neutral results, they were deemed de facto racist, despite complete absence of intent. (Oddly, some professions still have aptitude tests: law, accountancy, medicine, and airline pilots.)

With aptitude tests no longer available to employers, they chose the next best thing: a college degree as a proxy for aptitude.; 11/10/24, 10:23 PM
Aggie said...: Trump, on the other hand, has slightly exceeded his 2020 popular vote count.; 11/10/24, 10:39 PM
effinayright said...: Praise for a Netflix series on Daily Mail got me to look. Turns out, it's not new. It's called "Your Honor."

15 minutes into it Bryan Cranston is depicted as a judge in a fairly trivial criminal case, when all of a sudden-- - HE calls for a child of the black perp mom to come forward to testify.

The kid's not put under oath.

HE, the JUDGE, questions the kid, and make it clear that if his Baby Momma is sent to the Gray Bars Hotel, a whole lotta horribles are purportedly going to happen to him and his siblings. He then turns to a police officer on the witness stand and asks him if he's aware of these consequences.

Note that the prosecutors do not object to any of these obvious breaches of judicial decorum, ethics and regulations.

Other than prog fantasies, can anyone point to a JUDGE being able to call a witness to influence a case , let alone the jury? NOte that in this situation, the judge didn't call a witness to address/correct any aspect of the *charge*, but only how if the verdict went against Baby Mamma.

I'm sure Inga/Chuck/Freder/Cook/ readering et al can explain.; 11/10/24, 11:46 PM
wendybar said...: "So shame on Biden, Harris, the Obamas, CBS, the Times and all the rest: For nothing but short-term partisan ends, you’ve been sickening the minds of good people whose only mistake is to trust you.

It’s a sad thing indeed that so many of our leaders think nothing of poisoning the American mind."

https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/opinion/democrats-political-lies-are-now-literally-breeding-mental-illness/; 11/11/24, 2:59 AM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/11/24, 4:01 AM
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Big Mike said...: @Hey Skipper, the doctrine of Disparate Impact needs to join Roeand Chevron Deference in the dumpster. There are too many kids today with college degrees who can barely read and are challenged to write a coherent paragraph.; 11/11/24, 4:12 AM
Clyde said...: The news this morning is that President-Elect Trump has named Tom Homan as his new border czar and put him in charge of the deportation effort. I think his new nickname should be "Send 'Em Home" Homan.; 11/11/24, 5:07 AM
Clyde said...: Also, the United Nations is really not going to like Elise Stefanik. An organization that runs on lies will hate a truth-teller.; 11/11/24, 5:09 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Must be coincidence...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1855650251077722130; 11/11/24, 5:23 AM
rhhardin said...: YouTube offers what are apparently movie summaries scripted by AI, where there's no importance weighting for anything. As if a narrative had hundreds of plot points.; 11/11/24, 8:35 AM
wendybar said...: "The easiest place to start, as in low-hanging fruit, is the 51 intelligence officials claiming in writing with their signatures that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation,” influencing the 2020 election.
Isn’t that an insurrection? Let’s take it apart.
Government officials take an oath of office which, among other things, affirms,
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

What happens when said officials violate this oath? That’s called “insurrection,” which is defined by US Code partially as,

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States.

For clearer language, let’s turn to Britannica,

Insurrection, an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects.

Enough background. Let’s talk about two insurrections, one falsely named and the other one ignored.

According to the corporate media, Democrats, and a handful of Trump-deranged Republicans, January 6 was an “insurrection” on par with the holocaust, World War 2, or 9/11.

Except that on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump was the government. Was he trying to overthrow himself when he told his rally audience to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”? How much of this “insurrection” was instigated and carried out by federal agents? What role did Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi play?

So many questions and so little curiosity from the media and the January 6 “committee”. What about another insurrection that is being dutifully ignored? And who are these insurrectionists?"

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/let_the_reckoning_begin.html; 11/11/24, 8:42 AM
Rusty said...: Ya wanna know what's cool? I'll tell ya what's cool. Trump got himself elected president.
All my investment accounts are happy. That's cool too.; 11/11/24, 10:58 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Or just "Send 'Em" Homan, since Homan is a near-homophone of "home man".; 11/11/24, 1:30 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Fetterman says ‘bros’ are Democrats’ ‘childless cat ladies’

"Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) said the Democratic Party has made its own mistakes with a targeted demographic of voters, much like the GOP.

“We have a challenge. We have our own kind of ‘childless cat ladies’ situation: ‘Bros.’ People refer to these young guys as bros, and clearly that’s not a positive term,” Fetterman told the outlet Semafor in an article published Friday.

“They’re described as dopes, or gullible, or brutes. People were really shocked when the whole childless cat ladies thing dropped, and it is dumb,” he added, referencing a 2021 comment from Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) that resurfaced after he was chosen as President-elect Trump’s running mate. The remark was in the news for weeks.

“That violates the basic, basic rule of politics. Don’t subtract, do addition,” Fetterman said.

While Vice President Harris earned the votes of young women, Trump made gains with an audience of white, Black and Latino Generation Z men.

“I think that was part of the new coalition that really delivered a pretty crushing victory for Trump,” Fetterman stated.

The senator noted Trump’s ability to capture the heart of Pennsylvania voters, likening his impact to celebrity Taylor Swift. "

More at the link...; 11/11/24, 2:07 PM