Althouse: Sunrise

February 5, 2025

Sunrise — 7:10.

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78 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...: Althouse Blog great work, great play! Thanks Ann.; 2/5/25, 5:45 PM
Jaq said...: I hope Chuck's paycheck didn't bounce. Today is the day we found out that his favorite publication, kind of an off-stage character on this blog, The Bulwark, is a paid information operation.

Somebody should check on Bloomberg. They used to have a great morning show, even had a couple of guys who took Trump seriously and discussed his actions seriously, which I took came from the fact that people watched the network to inform business decisions, and they had better hew pretty close to the truth, then one day, they replace these guys with a woman who knows even less than I do about finance and the stock market, but has DNC talking points down to a science. Given that the NYT suddenly under Joe Biden began to receive millions from the government, it would be interesting to see if Bloomberg also was paid to put that DNC shill on their morning news broadcast.; 2/5/25, 5:57 PM
Iman said...: This reporter Garrett Haake (NBC/MSLSD), who asked a dipshit question in the WH press room today, is adept at making faces and acting out. He was sitting next to Fox’s Peter Doocy, sneaking looks at Doocy’s notes when he wasn’t rolling his eyes and acting pissy.

He’s as ethical as a piece of schiff can muster.; 2/5/25, 6:13 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/Incidental41__/status/1887247176658551032; 2/5/25, 6:15 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/ThomasCatenacci/status/1887176791397167201; 2/5/25, 6:26 PM
Leland said...: Rep Al Green already bringing Articles of Impeachment. I love this paragraph from the announcement (emphasis mine):
“The people have got to move forward,” Green continued. “The people have to demand it. And when the people demand it, it will be done. I did it before — I laid the foundation for impeachment — and it was done. Nobody knows more about it than I, and I know that it’s time for us to lay the foundation again. On some issues, it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. On this issue, I stand alone but I stand for justice.”

I guess the people are not demanding it. Or to quote Althouse, “ I think a lot of people who are just keeping quiet actually like what Trump is doing. ”; 2/5/25, 6:43 PM
Political Junkie said...: Gosh there are lots of funnies out there now about MAGA and GAZA.; 2/5/25, 6:45 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1887277661572989037; 2/5/25, 6:46 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: HUMPTY DUMPTY SHOW you know bad guys already got the info by now..The New York Times is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency, complying with Trump’s attempts to purge the federal government, sent his administration an unclassified email containing a list of every single person the CIA had hired over the past two years. Security experts everywhere are alarmed at the news, as many of those named closely monitor U.S. adversaries like Russia and China—and could soon become targets because of it.
The list, which was sent to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, contained names of operatives whose identities are typically guarded. It’s not clear how many names were in the email.
Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China,” Democratic Senator Mark Warner wrote on X. “A disastrous national security development.”
A former CIA officer described the email as a “counterintelligence disaster.” This comes as Trump offered CIA employees an unauthorized “buyout” in return for their resignations. The Kings Court is a perfect reflection of the King and his ignorance...China and the other international perps say give us more!; 2/5/25, 6:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I got banned from r/TikTokCringe for this?

“It is stupid to ask Trump to go somewhere, where they are busy looking for remains, just so he can stand around for photo opps. WHAT WOULD HE DO THERE, OTHER THAN GET IN THE WAY? you are the unhinged people not thinking things through.”

The Trumpian Caps must’ve been triggering.; 2/5/25, 6:54 PM
narciso said...: The people who cheered turners halloween massacre say what now; 2/5/25, 6:56 PM
Political Junkie said...: JFK said "Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you."
Here are a couple I wish Team DJT would try to make happen:

1. USA Soverign Wealth Fund - Have the funding come entirely from USA billioniares and individuals worth 100 million or more.
2. Ask the same #1 group above in USA and the world to fund the redevelopment of Club GAZA.
3. Raise marginal tax rates on MFJ with taxable income above 400k.

There are many, many more out there.

Cheers all.; 2/5/25, 6:57 PM
Leland said...: Yeah, same clowns that said Hunter’s laptop was disinformation. They can’t put their credibility back after that act of insurrection against the sitting President.; 2/5/25, 6:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: From a post earlier today. It turns out the big guy Biden was getting the media he was paying for with taxpayer dollars. Isn’t it a hoot when the scandals are bigger than the conspiracy theories? Who had that in their bingo cards?; 2/5/25, 7:00 PM
Josephbleau said...: I see that USAID paid Politico $35mm, that is old news, a few hours old already. It has also been noted that Politico was the one that published the leak of the Dobbs SCOTUS decision. So we see that the US Government is paying Politico to leak its own SCOTUS decision. Why didn’t they just leak it themselves and save the money?

The answer is, that by laundering the money through NGOs and having Politico leak it, it suddenly becomes legal. So if the government wants to violate the first amendment, they pay Facebook to censor speech. Then we read the famous lines “A private company can censor anybody they want.”; 2/5/25, 7:02 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/offhandmanor1/status/1887277533655142830; 2/5/25, 7:06 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: A step ahead President Donald Trump and his supporters should be careful what they wish for when it comes to Canada.
Trump ― who ignited, then paused, a tariff war with Canada ― has been taunting the nation’s northern neighbor and steadfast ally for months. He’s repeatedly said it should be America’s 51st state, and mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its “governor.”
“Republicans seem to be rooting for this because they’re now just a party of snickering trolls,” Kimmel said. “But let’s just imagine for a second that somehow they do make this happen and Canada does become a state. Do they think it would be a red state?”
Canada, he noted, has a population of about 41 million, a little more than California, which has 54 electoral votes.
“If Canada also had 54 electoral votes, forget MAGA,” he said. “Our next president will be a kind-hearted lesbian moose.” DO IT BABY EH!; 2/5/25, 7:07 PM
Rusty said...: Ya out of a job yet, Dinky?; 2/5/25, 7:09 PM
Rusty said...: I can smell your fear from here, Dinky.; 2/5/25, 7:10 PM
Jersey Fled said...: The people never demanded it.; 2/5/25, 7:15 PM
Iman said...: Dinky is a broken man…

Read up, dinkster…

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1887201691411366176.html?utm_campaign=topunroll&fbclid=IwY2xjawIQ531leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWdBfLS8vsJ6t3K0g00SuZFsxRAR6H7e1dERt5AqkHgwNim2Nx-YcBt64g_aem_Yo0ifOn9dzab1jm9f8vHpA; 2/5/25, 7:20 PM
Mason G said...: Alberta and Saskatchewan can be states. The rest will be territories.

Work for you?; 2/5/25, 7:21 PM
Josephbleau said...: Soon you will see a paradigm shift for Democrat pols and supporting fed and ngo employees. Now they are resisting, thinking that they can keep their phony baloney jobs and cash if they work at it and find enough dc judges. Next week they will realize that they need to dump that and spend all their time trying to stay out of jail. At that point the first ones to go states evidence will win!; 2/5/25, 7:31 PM
Eva Marie said...: There’s a video of Pete Hegseth welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu to the Pentagon. They’re all sitting there in their suits with water bottles and drinking glasses and the most gooey cheesecake with strawberries and blueberries piled on top. And they’re sitting squished in with their papers and that cheesecake. I’d get it all over the cuffs of my suit - my cheesecake and my neighbor’s too. And then what do they do. OK, let’s take a break now and have some cheesecake? So odd. (Via CFP)
https://youtu.be/tQMt6qmY0g8?si=ukI1nYEVmgTP_A37; 2/5/25, 7:34 PM
robother said...: Maybe Al Green is hearing from the (dead) people! Many in the Democratic Party have that sixth sense. What is it about the dead that they all vote Democrat?; 2/5/25, 7:37 PM
Jupiter said...: Sometimes I wonder, what exactly is accomplished by all this spying. I am sure that policy-makers like to ask questions, and other people like to get paid to find out (or invent) the answers. But what does it all really accomplish? In the 1950's, during the Cold War, the US mounted a huge operation to tunnel into East Germany and tap the phone lines. It later turned out that a British double agent had told the Soviets about it before it even started. They decided it was more important to protect their double agent than to eliminate the wiretap. No doubt we collected loads of valuable data, but it doesn't seem to have had much effect. The Cold War lasted another thirty years.; 2/5/25, 7:38 PM
Jupiter said...: "Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China,”.
Yeah. Did you know, that under Obama, the OPM server was hacked, and the Chikes stole the 100+-page applications of everyone who had ever applied for a US security clearance? Yeah. My theory, is that the only reason the morons at OPM found out is because the Mossad didn't like having the Chikes know everything they know, so they left some obvious clues lying around, that even the OPM could find.; 2/5/25, 7:43 PM
Jupiter said...: Now we know what you want your country to do for you.; 2/5/25, 7:45 PM
reader said...: So what does it means when the mockery of US federal spending starts hitting tiktok? That can’t be good for the people protesting (democrats) this waste of taxpayer money; 2/5/25, 7:46 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: rand paul(jerk) and other repubs say I thought we voted for America first after genocide and military take over of GAZA with troops on the ground. Rand sorry April fools(thats you); 2/5/25, 7:48 PM
Aggie said...: That's called 'Malicious Compliance;, STINKY, and violation of classified protocols is grounds for immediate dismissal. I would imagine. When you go to the range to practice, you're supposed to miss your foot.; 2/5/25, 7:53 PM
Mason G said...: From the link:

"Buckle up. When all is revealed it will not only end many political careers, but there will be convictions and prison sentences."

I'd like to think so, but I won't believe it until I see it happen.; 2/5/25, 8:07 PM
Political Junkie said...: I might be in the called upon group.; 2/5/25, 8:08 PM
Political Junkie said...: Jupiter - #1 and #2 would not touch anyone here. As someone who wants to fight the deficit and is against big gov, I say you failed. FUCK OFF.; 2/5/25, 8:10 PM
Jon Ericson said...: I just temporarily unblocked the Dinkster to see what condition he was in and wow, poor Dinkster.; 2/5/25, 8:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Little wonder they are so one-sided.; 2/5/25, 8:17 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: All your eggs are belong to us.; 2/5/25, 8:39 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Reading now that Panama will allow U.S. warships to pass through the canal free.

More winning.; 2/5/25, 8:56 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Just for future reference, every time you hear about the government spending $1,000,000 on this or that, you are talking about the full income tax payments of 125 typical U.S. households. $1 billion = 125,000 households.; 2/5/25, 9:05 PM
robother said...: There was an anti-Trump protest in Denver today. Those supporting (or including) the "undocumented" immigrants were flying the Mexican and other flags of their various nations. To protest the horrible human rights violation of sending them back, I guess.; 2/5/25, 9:24 PM
Peachy said...: We knew the MSM was corrupt - now we know it for certain.; 2/5/25, 9:28 PM
Peachy said...: NBC, CBS, ABC = all crap; 2/5/25, 9:28 PM
Jupiter said...: Here is the CIA's official website on the whole fiasco.; 2/5/25, 9:30 PM
Jupiter said...: Here is what wikipedia has to say about the utter incompetence of the Obama political appointee at the OPM. Really, mightn't it be better to just make everything public? When you can't keep a secret from the "enemy", however you define that term, you are just keeping secrets from the public. And it is very easy to start thinking of the public as just one more enemy.; 2/5/25, 9:33 PM
Jersey Fled said...: NCAA says it will align their policies with Trump’s EO protecting women’s sports. (Like they had a choice)

More winning.; 2/5/25, 9:44 PM
Peachy said...: too bad we didn't round them up.; 2/5/25, 9:45 PM
Jerry said...: Honestly, I'm flippin' thrilled. I've always wondered how we could spend trillions a year with not a whole lot to show for most of it. Now we're seeing it was used to maintain the state, to keep the narrative as it best helped them.

Deep State. Yeah, there's no such thing - until you start looking at where the money was going such as USAid.; 2/5/25, 10:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: A principled defense of Tulsi Gabbard; 2/5/25, 10:08 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Tulsi is unusual.; 2/5/25, 10:10 PM
effinayright said...: Stinky, did you ever consider that the miserable malcontent who sent that unsecured message would have been violating US LAWS, and thus put a bullseye on his back? Not just for dismissal, but prosecution?

We should start referring to Trump's term as the FAFO Administration.; 2/5/25, 10:20 PM
effinayright said...: Yeah. So the "government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people" will be funded by the rich.

Yeah, that makes sense.

SNORT.; 2/5/25, 10:23 PM
effinayright said...: Stinky, you are such a dull tool. Ever think Trump said what he said KNOWING the electoral College consequences? KNOWING the sentiment in the Western provinces would be very favorable to his proposal, while the others would not? KNOWING this would cause a lot of soul-searching and turmoil among Canada's ruling elites?

Naaahhh....; 2/5/25, 10:36 PM
wildswan said...: My favorite moment so far - anyhow for the last 24 hours - was watching the bureaucrats turn out to demonstrate outside AID. It was so clear that they had no intention of doing anything, they hardly were willing to hold up signs. I guess they knew the attitude that would be taken about any kind of an insurrection. Sure you'll get a pardon. After JD Vance leaves office. If the Dems have reformed enough to win an election. Which is something which is not in their plans at the moment.
I grew up outside DC and I know those are real people wondering all of a sudden about their future. But they were pretty callous and brutal about the J6ers, about the military kicking out people for refusing Covid shots, about Riley Gaines and all the women deprived of a chance to win athletic college scholarships by masquerading men, about all the people whose small businesses were destroyed by Cod lockdowns, about all the Jews being insulted on campus, about the attempts on Trump, and Steve Scalisi, about Rand Paul's pain after the attack on him. And there's more. It's long list and all those people won't be win back by wild statements about how Trump wants to be a dictator. Because that kind of statement says very clearly that the Dems intend to go on harming with a side of indifference.; 2/6/25, 12:27 AM
Big Mike said...: @wildswsn, everything in your comment is correct, but let’s not forget the “better luck next time” attitude after Trump missed being assassinated by millimeters. The left tried to murder him at least twice, so whining that he’s trying to be a dictator for busting up a few of their graft schemes, well, I cannot get too worked up over it.; 2/6/25, 3:19 AM
gadfly said...: Two lawsuits filed yesterday by FBI agents against Trumps efforts to fire all agents who participated in the investigation and arrest of Jan 6 rioters may be better vehicles both legally and in generating stories that might lead to pushback from Republicans. The first represents nine Jane and John Doe FBI personnel, fashions itself as a class action, and demands a jury trial; It makes claims under the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment (and Fifth Amendment Privacy), and Privacy Act. The second represents seven Jane and John Doe FBI personnel, and the FBI Agent’s Association, which represents most active duty Agents.; 2/6/25, 3:30 AM
wendybar said...: Cry harder. America is sick and tired of the lying coming from your side. It is hilarious to watch all of you crying that your grift is over, you will be held accountable, and Americans WIN. Trump IS Making America Great Again, and all you can do is WHINE?? Get over yourself. You deserve this, and we deserve the right to point and laugh at all of you.; 2/6/25, 3:34 AM
wendybar said...: Yeah, he is not handling his loss well. I wonder how much they were paying him??; 2/6/25, 3:39 AM
wendybar said...: So you are okay with a Rogue Government setting up innocent people?? I can't wait until you get yours.; 2/6/25, 3:44 AM
Jaq said...: Who would have. thought that there was a first amendment right to maliciously prosecute your political opponents?; 2/6/25, 3:59 AM
Jaq said...: Given the amount of USAID money that went into the hands of the participants in the 2020 riots through conduits like the Tides Foundation. there is really no doubt that 2020 was a color revolution, where the intelligence community brought the methods we use abroad back to domestic politics.; 2/6/25, 4:04 AM
Quaestor said...: Dau is an odd slang term for the genitalia.; 2/6/25, 4:05 AM
Enigma said...: EVERYTHING BIG follows the March debt ceiling votes. Trump has some ability to do as he wishes, but funding and agency budgets will be set by Congress. If the Republicans can hang together the world may change. Expect the status quo to continue if they cannot.; 2/6/25, 4:16 AM
rhhardin said...: Victor Davis Hanson finally does a segment that summarizes Trump's strategy usefully. Normally he's a bore.; 2/6/25, 4:55 AM
Tina Trent said...: I had to read that tabloid rag, The Sun, to find out that hundreds of women and 28 of their children were brutally raped and then locked alive in a building and burned to death in Congo yesterday. No mention in the New York Times. I guess the women weren't transgender. Or Muslim. Or gay. Or Jewish. Or homeless. Or illegals. They were black, but so were their attackers, and that's not news, right?

This is what happens when the media, international aid, and diplomacy organizations adopt the sick perversions of the hate crime industry. Do whatever you want to however many women you want, and as long as they don't also belong to some other protected group, it's not hate.

Or news. To give credit where credit is due, the feminist Eve Ensler and a few other feminists are speaking out and raising funds. Good on them. But they took away their own voices as efficiently as the Ellen James Society by going along with the hate crime industry's sick and secret, extra-legal bureaucratic elimination of women from the "sex" category of hate crimes and international genocide definitions in the first place.

Where is the Times' last real journalist, Jeffrey Gettleman? Or have they cancelled him too?; 2/6/25, 5:04 AM
wendybar said...: Jack Poso 🇺🇸
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Remember when Politico leaked the Dobbs decision and conservative Supreme Court justices were almost assassinated?

Turns out that was govt-funded; 2/6/25, 5:06 AM
Tina Trent said...: Not to be confused with "Let's Stay Together" Al Green.; 2/6/25, 5:07 AM
Tina Trent said...: Jupiter: it's the masculine version of the musical Cats. Even for some of us women, it's a guilty catnip pleasure (I identify as she/her because I am a woman: they cleverly figured it out at birth).; 2/6/25, 5:13 AM
Tina Trent said...: I disagree. He is a bit pedantic, but given his output, it happens to everyone. His books are better. I highly recommend both Theodore Dalrymple's essay collections, which might be called sociological, but also the books he wrote as a very young man and doctor travelling South America and Africa. Like Hanson, his early life experiences battle with his political sympathies, and what emerges decades later is perhaps too on the nose to say over and over.; 2/6/25, 5:19 AM
wendybar said...: Another victim of Progressive fraud. THIS is what the Deep State does to whistleblowers of the corrupt.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/fbi_still_refusing_to_provide_information_pertaining_to_the_murder_of_seth_rich.html; 2/6/25, 5:32 AM
Leland said...: I’m seeing a lot of people, who told coal miners to learn to code and cheered the sudden cancellation of Pipeline XL, whining about losing their jobs and bringing lawsuits. It is understandable, but the results will be the same. Go find another job, because the job you had was ended. The millions that came before you don’t care because you didn’t care, and they got over it.; 2/6/25, 5:54 AM
Rocco said...: Eva Marie said...
“There’s a video of Pete Hegseth welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu to the Pentagon. They’re all sitting there in their suits with water bottles and drinking glasses and the most gooey cheesecake with strawberries and blueberries piled on top. And they’re sitting squished in with their papers and that cheesecake. I’d get it all over the cuffs of my suit - my cheesecake and my neighbor’s too. And then what do they do. OK, let’s take a break now and have some cheesecake? So odd. (Via CFP)
https://youtu.be/tQMt6qmY0g8?si=ukI1nYEVmgTP_A37”

Yes, odd.

And I don’t think what the internet needs is more cheesecake photos.; 2/6/25, 6:22 AM
rhhardin said...: Signposts of Democratic Decline by Harry Litman is a surprising turn on the left. But wait, it's actually about Trump's shocking actions and the decline of democracy, and what to watch for.; 2/6/25, 6:56 AM
boatbuilder said...: PJ pushing Joe Biden's plan to raise the rates on the high earners who already pay the highest rates, and pay about 45% of all income taxes; with the kicker that it's to fund a new piggybank for boondoggles now that USAID has been exposed.
It ain't the taxes, PJ--it's the spending.; 2/6/25, 7:18 AM
boatbuilder said...: Poor Jimmie Kimmel, political analyst, has to endure "snickering trolls." WAAAHHH!; 2/6/25, 7:22 AM
Iman said...: Yeah yeah oh yeah what condition dink’s condition was in.; 2/6/25, 8:15 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Just for context, that $35 million is roughly equal to the income taxes collected from 4,000 average U.S. households.; 2/6/25, 10:01 AM
Rusty said...: Have you started your job search yet?; 2/6/25, 12:29 PM
Rusty said...: I'm kinda sorry Doc didn't live long enough to see this.; 2/6/25, 12:30 PM