Althouse: Sunrise — 6:35, 6:54.

November 13, 2024

Sunrise — 6:35, 6:54.

73 comments:

Mickey said...: I’m sorry if you’ve explained this, but is there a particular reason you post these in the evening? Perhaps to signal that you’re done blogging for the day? I seem to recall you posting them in the morning once upon a time.; 11/13/24, 5:25 PM
Dixcus said...: Remember everybody ... Joe Biden told us the choice was between Kamala and Hitler and that Trump would end Democracy in favor of a fascist Dictatorship.

And Biden today had him over for tea and congratulated him.

So when elections are cancelled, don't be alarmed. That's the plan. That's what we voted for. And even Joe Biden knows that we all must now welcome our new Overlord.; 11/13/24, 5:46 PM
Dixcus said...: It's the signal that she's done for the day.; 11/13/24, 5:47 PM
Iman said...: How about we just enjoy the evening.; 11/13/24, 5:55 PM
Kay said...: It’s why they often feel like sunsets even though they’re not.; 11/13/24, 5:57 PM
Jaq said...: Remember when the Iranians read the leaked Hillary emails on her "private server" and made clumsily camouflaged references to an Iranian who had helped us as a spy, who was held in Iranian custody. And then a knock came on his cell door, and he was taken away and hanged? I am trying to remember why she wasn't charged and prosecuted for that? Oh yeah, the FBI decided that she, a former Senator, and Secretary of State, you know, confirmed by a vote of the Senate after hearings, did not understand the seriousness of her violations, and therefore lacked "mens rea" so she was let off.

In the defense of the DoJ, no jury will ever convict a Democrat, and you can find juries to convict Republicans of just about anything with the thinnest gruel for a case. So he was probably right about not being able to find a jury to convict her of her obvious criminal activity.; 11/13/24, 6:04 PM
PM said...: It's Morning Again in America and David Remnick is losing his mind and typing typing typing.; 11/13/24, 6:10 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Matt Gets is the perfect revenge on the people that okayed all the law-fare against Trump.; 11/13/24, 6:11 PM
rehajm said...: Cool day here and the wildlife got a head start on the night. A big buck in the front yard before sunset and there’s been about half a dozen raccoons on the game cams so far…; 11/13/24, 6:47 PM
Dixcus said...: Our own CIA is providing intel to Iranian terrorists on plans by Israel to defend themselves. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been giving Iran billions of dollars in funds legally seized after Iran stole US land, our embassy in Tehran.

The enemy is here.; 11/13/24, 7:14 PM
Dixcus said...: ^ It will keep a lot of the enemy busy while the real work happens behind the scenes.; 11/13/24, 7:15 PM
Jaq said...: https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-left-should-welcome-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general/; 11/13/24, 7:24 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Illinois, Colorado governors announce state-level coalition to resist Trump policies

"Democratic Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Jared Polis of Colorado will be the co-chairs of a new "non-partisan" coalition of the nation's governors committed to protecting the "state-level institutions of democracy" ahead of Donald Trump's incoming presidency.

Governors Safeguarding Democracy, or GSD, will be overseen by governors and supported by a network of senior staff designated by each leader while being supported by GovAct, an organization "championing fundamental freedoms."

GovAct is advised by a bipartisan board that includes former Republican and Democratic governors and senior officials like former GOP Gov. Arne Carlson of Minnesota, former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and former GOP Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts.

GSD will "implement affirmative strategies to protect the rule of law," and bolster key state institutions to protect executive agencies, elections, state courts and other core democratic bodies. It will establish playbooks to "enable Governors and their teams to anticipate and swiftly respond to emerging threats."

"How will this work? Well, at its core, GSD will catalyze collaboration across state lines," Pritzker said during a call announcing the initiative on Tuesday.

He added, "GSD will leverage our collective strength, experience and institutional knowledge to drive policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of all of our states. We'll also leverage governor's unique legislative and budgetary and executive and administrative powers to deliver results."

Polis said the organization was founded because "we know that simple hope alone won't save our democracy." The initiative is not funded by Pritzker, the billionaire governor confirmed on Tuesday, but rather is paid for by other "philanthropic dollars."

Pritzker and Polis would not confirm on Tuesday which other governors had agreed to be part of this alliance, but that both were "talking to governors across the country" and that "there's been outreach to Republican governors."

Pritzker said the group is built off a model initiative, the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, that Democratic governors formed in February 2023, after the Supreme Court's ruling overturning the right to abortion. That initiative was spearheaded by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is not confirmed to be in this new alliance.

In their launch call, Pritzker and Polis were specifically asked about incoming deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller's recent comments that he'd accomplish mass deportations by potentially using National Guard units from red states within the borders of blue states.

"I'll begin by saying that that's unacceptable," Pritzker said. "That's not something that within Title 32 anybody would anticipate would be allowed and we would not -- certainly not -- cooperate with that. You know, beyond that, I can't speak to you know, how they would intend to get that accomplished."; 11/13/24, 7:32 PM
Tina Trent said...: Gaetz is such a scumbag.; 11/13/24, 7:35 PM
MadisonMan said...: Sounds like election denialism by the two Governors. "Non-partisan" LOL.; 11/13/24, 7:39 PM
Jaq said...: Tulsi heading up the DNI reminds me of something that happened to me once. It started out that I got an absurd bill from my long distance carrier (this was a long time ago) and I called them, and they refused to remove the charges. Eventually I just paid them as I had no choice.

A couple of years later I got a job as a programmer in the company that did their billing system. I was in a meeting with some of my new co-workers, I was working on a different telecom related project, but I brought up what had happened with my bill, just in conversation, and one of the guys in the meeting got such a look on his face, and looked at another guy there and said something, I can't remember exactly what. I never got my money back, but it was fun to have the satisfaction of actually confronting the guys who had screwed up my bill with an ill thought out SQL query.

What brought this to mind was when Tulsi Gabbard was put on the terror watch list. Imagine her first day at work.; 11/13/24, 7:39 PM
narciso said...: So it turns out p nut was not rabid, but they executed him anyways; 11/13/24, 7:41 PM
Peachy said...: They want to keep the illegals. They cannot.; 11/13/24, 7:48 PM
Megaera3 said...: The minute they invoked "rabies" Pnut and Fred were goners, The virus resides in the brain and the only test for it is to kill the animal and take brain tissue samples. Nothing survives a rabies test. You do get a yes/no answer on infection, but the animal is just as dead either way, This would not have slipped the authority's attention, ie, they meant it to happen.; 11/13/24, 8:00 PM
planetgeo said...: Exactly how are these governors "safeguarding democracy"? What bullshit. Who do they think they're kidding anymore? The country voted. A majority of the country doesn't believe them.

Why? Everyone knows they purposely flooded the country with millions of illegal aliens knowing that a very large number of them were murderers and rapists. How is that safeguarding democracy? These governors have broken federal immigration laws. They're literally criminals themselves. Moreover, they're declaring that they intend to continue harboring, aiding, and abetting dangerous criminals.

Just stop with the fake virtue signaling. Nobody believes you. Get the heck out of the way of the people truly safeguarding democracy now.; 11/13/24, 8:07 PM
tcrosse said...: Let them keep all the illegal migrants they wish to house at their governors mansions.; 11/13/24, 8:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/13/24, 8:46 PM
Peachy said...: Democrats like to torture and abuse animals. Including dogs.; 11/13/24, 8:52 PM
Gospace said...: According to at least on update I read- they were marked for execution before the raid commenced. Can't have people flaunting the awesome power of the State and getting away with now, can we? Dictator Hochul must be so proud of her henchmen- and women. Likely convinced a few tens of thousands of stay at homes to be voters- for Trump.; 11/13/24, 8:57 PM
Peachy said...: It's time to F the left. The lying liars who lie.; 11/13/24, 9:00 PM
Peachy said...: Pritzker family funds child mutilation in the name of trans-madness.
Polis is a rich liar and a money wasting fraud.; 11/13/24, 9:00 PM
Dixcus said...: Let's not forget that Democrats tried to murder our candidate and still are trying to murder the President-Elect.; 11/13/24, 9:18 PM
Dixcus said...: Democrats put Tulsi Gabbard on a no-fly list when she abandoned the Democrat Party. Now she's going to be Director of National Intelligence.

That's perfect revenge.; 11/13/24, 9:19 PM
Gospace said...: "FBI seizes Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan's phone, electronics"
Headline at many places. No speculation at all as to what the charges might be, the accusations that allowed the FBI to get a search warrant from a judge.

Except, of course, the charge of embarrassing Democrats by allowing people to correctly predict the winner of the election. Many sites (not the leftist mainstream one) are calling it for what it is- political retribution. Revealing the Emperor is naked is always frowned upon by the high and mighty.; 11/13/24, 9:35 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Every bit of power Trump may have, beyond what the presidency constitutionally prescribes, is mostly thanked to the democrats. I say mostly because I don't believe anybody else other than Trump could have pulled off what he has been able to pull off. Trump's is the mother of comeback stories. What I'm trying to say, as best I can, is that whatever Trump does manage to accomplish, in his lame duck term, he has the Democrats to thank, even more than the Republicans. The democrats, giving in to their impulses, handed Trump the White House for a second term. The genius of Trump was acting as though he knew better than anybody what was going to happen.

The sad part is that historically, the GOP is terrible at getting things done. Right now, the priorities are all over the place. I would be happy if they could trim the government. It will be a miracle akin to Trump coming back if they are able to convince enough legislators that for the good of the country government has to slim down.; 11/13/24, 9:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: YouTuber Matt Orfalea leaving the Democrat party story; 11/13/24, 10:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/13/24, 10:20 PM
Eva Marie said...: They really can’t be posted in the morning. By the time they are chosen and uploaded it would be noon. They could be posted the next morning but that would mix everyone up (me especially).; 11/13/24, 10:45 PM
walter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/13/24, 11:39 PM
walter said...: Serve has proved to be the measured pulse on things. Listen up! She might have predicted a landslide against Trump. It would not be out of character. Play any angle to not be deleted.; 11/14/24, 12:01 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Bill Weld ran for office as a Democrat and a libertarian. So, I guess that's "Bi-partisan".; 11/14/24, 12:41 AM
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https://x.com/realnewzy/status/1856719517348458842; 11/14/24, 2:51 AM
wendybar said...: Make sure you watch ALLLLLL the way to the end.....; 11/14/24, 2:53 AM
Dixcus said...: A black Secret Service agent has been fired for banging chicks in Michelle Obama's bathroom.

This is how the Secret Service looks under Democrat control.

ABCNews, which broke the story, confirmed the details and the agent's firing by the US Secret Service ... however curiously for an alleged "news" agency, they are not naming the agent, instead protecting him for some odd reason.

Only a state-owned "news" agency would do that.; 11/14/24, 3:46 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Erick Erickson Says if Pete Hegseth can navigate the politics of Fox News he can navigate the politics of the pentagon.; 11/14/24, 4:09 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Erickson used to be at CNN, he knows a thing or two about those bubbles.; 11/14/24, 4:15 AM
Gospace said...: Just read another lying article that says this: P’nut, an Instagram-famous squirrel, was seized and euthanized by New York State authorities last month.

He was not "euthanized" by any common understanding of euthanasia. His head was cut off. In the driveway. Without anesthesia. That's what numerous reports say. That is the classic sign of a psychopath. Not the squirrel- the DEC agent who performed the act.; 11/14/24, 4:51 AM
Dixcus said...: Here's Jeremy Bash, CIA ... appearing on MSNBC urging Deep State operatives to undermine the President-Elect of the United States of America when he comes into office on January 20, 2025.

You remember Jeremy Bash as one of the 51 current and former CIA and FBI officials to sign the fake "Russia Disinformation" letter about Hunter Biden's laptop to rig the 2020 election.

His wife at the time was Dana Bash.

She works at CNN.

She rigged the debate against Donald Trump.

https://x.com/Patri0tContr0l/status/1856431135670071358; 11/14/24, 5:03 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Lots of drama in picture two... wait for it.; 11/14/24, 5:42 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "I’m sorry if you’ve explained this, but is there a particular reason you post these in the evening? Perhaps to signal that you’re done blogging for the day? I seem to recall you posting them in the morning once upon a time."

I photograph the sunrise when it happens, and I don't control time, and when I get home, it's a time to read and write. I don't want to use that time to work on photographs — choosing the best photos, adjusting the lightest, uploading photos to Flickr, getting the code for a post, typing out a standard post. That's just not a good time for me to do that work. It's not my rhythm.

It's not as though I'm bringing you the news that the sun rose.

It might be confusing if the sunrise comes after that day's sunrise, but I'm using the time efficiently for my own pattern of energy. The sunrise I photographed is the photograph available for the open thread for commenters to use overnight.

In the earliest days of going out for the sunrise, I was interested in writing about what I thought about while outside running. Those posts were different, back in the fall of 2019.; 11/14/24, 5:42 AM
rehajm said...: It's not as though I'm bringing you the news that the sun rose.

The confirmation is nice though…; 11/14/24, 6:13 AM
lonejustice said...: What's up with Trump appointing Gaetz?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/whats-with-gaetz.php; 11/14/24, 6:39 AM
Tina Trent said...: As my responses were either blocked or just aren’t up yet, I suggest Gail Heriot or J Christian Adams rather than Gaetz. Brilliant, experienced in opposing government agencies, not drunk losers.; 11/14/24, 6:39 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: What a treat to wake up and read the Gaetz AG thread. Good work fellow commenters. The common thread through Trump nominations is obviously people who have been targeted for lawfare taking over the department from which the harassment originated, except for Hegseth who has other bonafides for his position.

We went from lacrimose talking heads to exploding ones so quickly it gives me hope that Trump will successfully execute the Milei Strategy to a T.; 11/14/24, 6:40 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Good thing Trump is unconventional and not at all concerned with his own reelection.; 11/14/24, 6:43 AM
Drago said...: One of the last places any astute observer of political events over the last 10 years should go to gain clarity over thr rising populist movement and the rise of Trump are the fuddy-duddy "over the hill" tut-tutters at Powerline who have been batting about .000 over that time.

Little wonder LLR-democratical lonejustice is all over that commentary.; 11/14/24, 7:39 AM
rhhardin said...: "The channel's [CNN's] poultry election coverage numbers are a stark drop off from 2016, where CNN raked in 13.3 million viewers."

Sky News Australia CNN Layoffs; 11/14/24, 7:48 AM
Iman said...: Erickson is a fat, tub of goo has-been. IMHO.; 11/14/24, 7:52 AM
Iman said...: What would Colonel Sanders do?; 11/14/24, 7:56 AM
MadTownGuy said...: FBI Seizes Polymarket Founder’s Phone in Raid of Home

"Prediction-market startup accuses Biden administration of retaliation for calling the election for Donald Trump

The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the phone of the founder and chief executive of Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market that was a popular platform for bets on the U.S. presidential election, a person familiar with the matter said.

Federal agents woke Shayne Coplan at his Manhattan home early Wednesday morning to carry out the search, the person said. The raid was earlier reported by the New York Post. ..."

The rest is behind the paywall.; 11/14/24, 7:56 AM
Leland said...: It seems the left learned nothing from raiding the home of squirrel and killing him, so now they raided moose.; 11/14/24, 7:59 AM
Rusty said...: "It's not as though I'm bringing you the news that the sun rose."
Wait. What? You don't cause the sun to rise?; 11/14/24, 8:09 AM
Saint Croix said...: Defund the federal police.

The only question I have is whether these raid orders are

Biden to Garland to storm troopers or

Biden to storm troopers while Garland plays video games in the bathroom

hey milk toast!

are you in the loop or out of it?; 11/14/24, 8:12 AM
Clyde said...: A friend shared that one with me this morning! Funny as hell! I was going to share it here tonight, but that work has been done already.; 11/14/24, 8:17 AM
Tina Trent said...: If I were in this for kicks and giggles, I’d appoint Roger Stone. Or Ann Coulter. Or both. Coulter’s a brilliant attorney, and nobody plays dirty three dimensional chess like Roger.

But if people want to win and change the culture of the DOJ, they need someone with experience entering hostile bureaucracies and cleaning house. And Gail Heriot is that person. I don’t know anyone else like her: she has survived decades of being appointed to the highest levels of corrupt agencies and cleaned house. She is respected and works well with others, but she also has a backbone of steel. Most importantly, she is critical of the hate crimes industry, which is literally the cornerstone of the politicization of the DOJ since 1997. So she has risked a lot and gotten a lot done.

As far as people to work with her, I’m afraid I can’t recall the name of a man who wrote a great book about law schools going woke, but his recommendations on personnel purges would be cogent.

I am sorry I used pejoratives yesterday and posted insult for insult rather than laying out my objections and offering constructive explanations then, but I’m nearly 30 years into fighting the DOJ, and what they did to me and could have/might still do to my husband cost us a normal life. Every job he’s had, we have to disclose I’m on a hate group watch list. It could have cost him a federal clerkship, and me a child protection job.

And I lived 11 years in Florida, in two stints, and returned frequently to lobby. Matt Gaetz cannot get the job done. Personally, I don’t care if he spends the rest of his sorry career sniffing lines of coke off someone’s daughter’s ass, but he is not intelligent or serious or sober enough to get anything done.

I like Trump’s other picks so far. Curious, but accomplished and not corrupt. In their fields, at least. But this one will crash and burn. By demanding the Senate adjourn so he can install his cabinet unvetted, he is actually asking them, legally, to vet his cabinet two weeks before the midterms. We’ll be slaughtered. All the work we did to get him elected will probably damage JD Vance’s chance to be the president after him. Don’t people know how that works?; 11/14/24, 9:11 AM
Tina Trent said...: The stats on premature death are so bad Sweden or Finland have banned the jab. It’s still not clear if we can blame the Covid virus they manufactured, the COVID jab they manufactured, the social disruption they manufactured, or some combination of all three. Happily for us, socialist Northern European doctors keep good records on their own people. They’ll let us know.; 11/14/24, 9:20 AM
planetgeo said...: "The common thread through Trump nominations is obviously people who have been targeted for lawfare taking over the department from which the harassment originated..."

You hit the nail directly on the head, Mike. And the Gaetz and Tulsi nominations in particular need to be viewed in that context. He wants not only the new director to fully understand and personally feel the priority for swamp clearing, but also all the swamp creatures to understand what's about to happen. I really don't want to hear any more about whether these candidates know which fork to use for salad. I just want them to use the biggest pitchfork they can find.; 11/14/24, 9:22 AM
planetgeo said...: Poultry/paltry...either way it's chickenshit news at CNN.; 11/14/24, 9:24 AM
Kakistocracy said...: The Onion Says It Has Bought Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy ~ NYT

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

This is genius, look forward to seeing what they do with it!
🍿; 11/14/24, 9:47 AM
Tina Trent said...: Look, Drago and Michael, for some reason my comments answering all your question were blocked last night as you were permitted to continue to abuse me. Try reading my comments here. Gaetz hosted me for a speech. He showed up late and loaded, and most participants were elderly, and it was late for them, and I learned a whole lot about their dissatisfaction with him as we waited for him.

The host is supposed to make sure the invited frigging guest gets fed and back to the hotel and onto her next event. Drunk Gaetz wanted to go to a beach bar. There was no food. I watched him paw young women.

I also knew his legislative reputation in Florida very well, having lived there twice and returning frequently from Georgia to lobby, or doing it remotely. That’s why I knew Rubio was such a tool. He’ll do less harm overseas. But Gaetz is human scum, completely incompetent legally and bureaucratically, and he will crash and burn us at the midterms while getting nothing done to reform the DOJ.

I’m far more conservative than you, and far more informed. Since my responses to your personal attacks somehow were blocked last night, you can find my suggestions for better candidates in this thread, unless they are removed.; 11/14/24, 9:52 AM
Tina Trent said...: Erickson has little use for me as I mocked him at my time blogging for Capital Research Center, until the Kochs took it over. But over years of listening to him, I will say this: he’s a darn good election lawyer. I’ve learned from him. We don’t always agree, but if I am looking for facts around election law, he is fair.

And he has two little kids and a wife with incurable cancer. Yeah, I know this shouldn’t change your opinion of him, but that’s really tough.; 11/14/24, 10:00 AM
Kakistocracy said...: I'm suspicious if this is a ploy to enable Matt Gaetz to resign from the House with his dignity(?) intact, without actually handing his the reigns of the Justice Department.

1. He obviously can't get Senate confirmation. Whip count puts him at 45 votes to confirm, and I think that number is optimistic. Yes, a recess appointment could take place, but John Thune is unlikely to agree to recess appointments if it means Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.

2. He resigned immediately on the announcement, which isn't necessary for his confirmation (the other Representatives who are expected to be nominated for administration roles didn't resign).

3. But resigning immediately is necessary if he wants to keep the House Ethics Committee's investigation into him from being released, which was set to happen imminently. They won't release it for someone who's not a current member of the House.

So this all gives Matt Gaetz time in the spotlight, buries the ethics report, helps him for whatever his future is, whether grifting on Newsmax or launching a hopeless primary challenge to DeSantis for governor of Florida, and enables his nomination to be replaced in a month's time with someone else, maybe Josh Hawley.; 11/14/24, 10:06 AM
Tina Trent said...: Trump asked the House to recess so all his picks would be based on him only. Until two weeks before the midterms, when he endangers every Republican Senator who must then approve or denounce his cabinet picks from the recess period.

I’m tired of being abused here by morons who know nothing about legislative procedures (not you). I’m disgusted Althouse blocked my explanatory responses yesterday. Cruel Neutrality? Bullshit, Ann.; 11/14/24, 10:57 AM
Tina Trent said...: Learn something about federal legislative procedure, AA.; 11/14/24, 11:00 AM
One Fine Day said...: So Democrat states are making an organization to resist the Federal government on at least one issue that is wholly within the purview of the Feds? Sounds like a confederation of sorts. A confederacy, perhaps?; 11/14/24, 12:05 PM
One Fine Day said...: "They won't release it for someone who's not a current member of the House."

Wanna bet that's another norm that gets kicked to the curb?; 11/14/24, 12:14 PM
Kakistocracy said...: With dozens of key vacancies soon to open up in the DoJ, I can imagine Gaetz looking forward to tapping some of his young staffers.😉; 11/14/24, 1:31 PM
Tina Trent said...: I disagree Mike. I actually want to reform the DOJ and return a lot of their powers to the states, not fail at trying to burn the house down.; 11/14/24, 6:06 PM