Althouse: Sunrise

November 19, 2024

Sunrise — 6:50.

35 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...: Wai For It...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/whats-going-here-paper-shredding-truck-spotted-outside/; 11/19/24, 5:31 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: DOJ doing Spring Cleaning? Pass the BleachBit, please!; 11/19/24, 5:32 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Has Althouse still never missed a day of blogging since she started the blog?; 11/19/24, 5:44 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Cracker, please. Any business dealing in sensitive information (medical, financial, suppression of political opponents) has regular shredding purges. Even the corrupt, fascist Garland DOJ must generate mountains of legit shredding,; 11/19/24, 5:50 PM
narciso said...: The leonardo doc was good in part because he had keith david narrate it

It doesnt have any woke elements; 11/19/24, 5:52 PM
tcrosse said...: You would think such a large organization would have its own on-site shredding or burning facility.; 11/19/24, 5:57 PM
Leland said...: SpaceX had another brilliant Starship launch flight today. This sixth test was designed to push the envelope for the Orbiter and Booster. The Booster flew back to the coastline of the launch complex but intentionally landed in the water. It looked as good as the capture in terms of control. The Orbiter was in daylight at splashdown, so it was nice see its landing with sunlight. It too landed like it was fully in control, and the TPS seemed to do a lot better.

I would feel sorry for my former colleagues at NASA, but 12 years later, and they really haven't done much but complain about Trump. The 2nd SLS mission didn't even launch this year, as was the plan not long ago. It was supposed to fly even earlier than 2024 back when Trump was last President, but the Resistance wasn't going to let that happen during a 2nd Trump term, but they miscalculated on when that 2nd term would be.; 11/19/24, 6:04 PM
Jaq said...: Stop me if you've heard this one, but Starmer in the UK, who has won complete power with 32% of the vote, has called Farmers "hoarders" and plans to increase the inheritance tax on farms to the point where these farms will not pass on within the family, but will have to be sold.

Now who would have the ready capital to buy up these farms after they are forced to sell? Who could it be...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-starmer-blackrock-support-fink-b2432113.html

He's not "collectivizing" the farms the way Stalin did, when he called the farmers "hoarders," no, he's paving the way for a new feudalism.; 11/19/24, 6:08 PM
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Sprezzatura said...: Obviously you are stating that wokeness is bad. E.g., MTG was on Bannon today jabbering about how she could be physically assaulted now that "Trans Timmy" has been elected to the House. I guess the idea is that Trans Timmy will stick his dick into MTG when they cross paths in the women's showers in the capitol. Or something like that.

OTOH, MTG supports men that inappropriately (from assault to cheating) have immorally stuck their dicks into women.

I guess the we should say that a trans woman using a woman's bathroom is the same (or worse) as a man cheating on his wife, or a man raping a woman.

Manospheresplaining.; 11/19/24, 6:23 PM
tcrosse said...: An estimated 13000 marched on Whitehall to protest this land grab. The peasants are revolting.; 11/19/24, 6:26 PM
Dixcus said...: You would think a law enforcement agency paid for by taxpayers wouldn't be destroying evidence.; 11/19/24, 6:32 PM
Mikey NTH said...: The skies of November turn gloomy.; 11/19/24, 6:33 PM
Dixcus said...: Those farmers haven't shot any MPs (or whacked any in the head with shovels). Until they do, they should expect to have their farms stolen from their children.

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT. What do they think that means, exactly?; 11/19/24, 6:33 PM
Drago said...: This is a very interesting question.; 11/19/24, 6:35 PM
Drago said...: "Obviously you are stating that wokeness is bad. E.g., MTG was on Bannon today jabbering about how she could be physically assaulted now that "Trans Timmy" has been elected to the House."

Hmmmm. Why is it I don't quite believe this is an accurate representation of what MTG actually said?

Oh, that's right. 10 straight years of hoaxes, Rupar-ing and outright making up lies.

But only 10 straight years of hoaxes, Rupar-ing and outright making up lies.; 11/19/24, 6:41 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Drago, she really did say that.

"It is like a physical assault". At 20:55. of the War Room episode 4066.

BTW, I can see why you would like MTG and others to not talk about dudes with dicks being where they shouldn't be. Aside from DJT's conviction, it seems like there are a few dudes looking for cabinet jobs that don't want to talk about how their dicks were more much more immoral than Trans Timmy using a gals toilet.; 11/19/24, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: Biden misses group photo at G7, they take it without him. Photographer: "Where's Biden? He's behind a palm tree."

You can't make this stuff up.; 11/19/24, 7:03 PM
Enigma said...: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Starmer must go through Stalinism personally to believe that it won't work. But odds are he'll die before he changes his views. In the mean time, the UK will buy its food from...Russia?; 11/19/24, 7:03 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Has anyone wondered why DJT is still fat?

Everyone around me that used to be bulky is rail thin because of GLP-1 stuff. We know DJT does hair and face work. It's odd that he isn't taking these fat person meds.

IMHO.; 11/19/24, 7:05 PM
Sprezzatura said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/19/24, 7:05 PM
tcrosse said...: Althouse is the Lou Gehrig of bloggers.; 11/19/24, 7:05 PM
Drago said...: "Aside from DJT's conviction,..."

LOL

There was no "conviction". At all. Lets see if you can figure out why that is...

I suspect you cannot or, even if you could, your natural Rupar-ing instincts would never let you admit the truth. And, lets face it, given the violation of the Presidential immunity decision issued by the NY judge in the E. Jean Carroll case, the idiotic assertion by Judge Buffoon that Trump is an "adjudicated rapist" (LOL) will be going away in due course.

But it gets better as of today, doesn't it?

With the Merchan Morons declaring a "pause" in their corrupt proceeding which yielded a fake "conviction" which has so many purposefully reversible errors the jerkwads want NOTHING to do with an appellate review (which they will be getting anyway, won't they?), that case will also be going the way of the Dodo birds.

But it gets even better than that as of today, doesn't it?

Did you happen to catch what is happening with Fani down in GA? LOL

So, as of today, fake "adjudicated rapist" is headed for the BS Exit door, the "34 time convicted felon" never happened at all (that's the law in NY amigo) AND Fani Willis is "going down"....but not in a kamala-type way.

Tsk tsk tsk.

Well, I guess you'll always have the "fine people" hoax and the hookers peeing on Moscow beds lie and a few others to keep you nice and warm at night....or something.; 11/19/24, 7:07 PM
Enigma said...: A lot of (routine) shredding happens because government droids generate many draft documents and PowerPoint slide decks that are "classified" per their self-serving rules. Some people still work on paper, and hard copy paper is in many ways more secure / harder to steal than electronic documents.

Still, given the timing and open Democratic efforts to form a parallel government and block Trump, I'd bet a lot of inconvenient material is going away.; 11/19/24, 7:09 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Wow! He seems totally unable to be POTUS for four more years. Is it possible that there wasn't a coup when he backed out of accepting the nomination? It's a mystery.; 11/19/24, 7:11 PM
Drago said...: "Wow! He seems totally unable to be POTUS for four more years."

Not even a clever attempt at shifting the relevant discussion. A poor effort on your part, like all your other efforts.

But only all of them.; 11/19/24, 7:14 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Most farmers supported Brexit, and shot themselves in the foot. That led to a disadvantageous deal with Australia.

Jeremy Clarkson (English TV show host and journalist) told The Times in 2021 that he was buying a farm to avoid inheritance tax and now he is leading a protest against the introduction of inheritance tax on farms.

The farm land price has been driven 4x in last 20 years as a result of wealthy (think Jeremy Clarkson) using investment in the farm land as an IHT dodge. Protest is at the prospect of "farmers" losing that gravy train. It has nothing to do with farming. UK citizens don’t want to pay more tax so Jeremy Clarkson can have an exemption.

I suspect the real grievance is the inevitable sharp drop in the price of agricultural land, which has been artificially inflated by APR.

Farmers cannot possibly say this, because it sounds greedy, and moreover it would contradict what they are saying which is that they will never sell; the value of the underlying assets is of no concern to them; they have a deep bond with the land, and they just want to able to die peacefully knowing that their progeny will be able to farm it in perpetuity just like their ancestors did.

But not many businesses would sit quietly by while such a large amount was wiped off their balance sheet, even if it has just been a lucky chance that it was on there in the first place.; 11/19/24, 7:15 PM
Jaq said...: Dale Carnegie, the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" said that the stuff you say about other people, in the minds of your listener, attaches to you, and not your target. It's human nature.

He also said that you cannot be persuasive without at least giving the impression of being persuadable. Your iron clad hatred of Trump just destroys your credibility with anybody who doesn't already agree with you. This was also gadfly's problem, and why he failed and eventually stormed off calling us "reprobates." It was so clear that he could not even wrap his brain around any argument that he thought might be a threat to his belief system.

You have the same vibe.; 11/19/24, 7:16 PM
Drago said...: You can tell just how discombobulated and disoriented and out of sorts and totally flummoxed the left is after their astonishingly tone deaf, incompetent, fellow citizen hating campaign which led to Trump's victory.

They have nothing else.

The "good news"? Nancy Pelosi is running again! What better sign could the New Soviet Democraticals have that they will be adapting to new political realities on the ground given the clear political realignment that has taken place?; 11/19/24, 7:17 PM
Jaq said...: Yet he just authorized personnel to directly participate in an act of war against a nuclear superpower. He should have been removed when it became apparent that he was not all there, which was apparently some time ago.; 11/19/24, 7:18 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Jaq, I'm a few years away from being here for twenty years. So I'm not storming away. I have been banned a whole bunch over the nearly two decades. But that's a different thing.

But getting to the point, do you think it's odd that DJT is still fat? I don't know about the people you hang out w/, but for me everyone that was even a bit chubby is not super thin because of GLP-1 meds. I'm surprised DJT
is still fat.; 11/19/24, 7:20 PM
narciso said...: Do they ever get better material; 11/19/24, 7:20 PM
Leland said...: I originally missed the callout that the booster self aborted to land at coastline instead of a catch. Good safety system, but they’ll want to solve the anomaly that caused the short.; 11/19/24, 7:21 PM
Jaq said...: OK, I won't waste any more time with you.; 11/19/24, 7:25 PM
tcrosse said...: It's possible that some of Trump's appearance of fat is due to body armor.; 11/19/24, 7:25 PM