Althouse: Sunrise.

August 24, 2026

Sunrise.

30 comments:

rehajm said...: <a href="https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/french-fables?utm_source=substack&publication_id=2178684&post_id=212588927&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTMzOTQ1NTgsInBvc3RfaWQiOjIxMjU4ODkyNywiaWF0IjoxNzg3NjEwODQ3LCJleHAiOjE3OTAyMDI4NDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMTc4Njg0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.zToZJ06rhRxn_uQQ2aUbu8LkFkHE9FLms-mEvLYTPn4&r=375472&triedRedirect=true”>…since debt forgiveness is being tossed about…</a>; 8/24/26, 7:08 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Your hot link was broken because you have a curly quote at the end of your URL; 8/24/26, 7:11 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Open thread!; 8/24/26, 7:12 PM
rehajm said...: apologies…; 8/24/26, 7:15 PM
tim maguire said...: Speaking of debt forgiveness, I just watched The Big Short. Pretty appalling stuff, especially considering so few people were held responsible and no lessons were learned. The politicians and government agencies that abetted and even encouraged the scams faced no consequences at all.; 8/24/26, 7:38 PM
Eva Marie said...: Worth watching toll the end:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gffkzdj6B/; 8/24/26, 7:50 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: Photo number 1 is very… Wisconsinesque.; 8/24/26, 7:54 PM
Gospace said...: Link shortens to https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/french-fables; 8/24/26, 8:10 PM
Eva Marie said...: “no lessons were learned”
Unfortunately, lessons were learned: There doesn’t need to be accountability.; 8/24/26, 8:30 PM
Josephbleau said...: Pic 1 reminds me of stories about Mississippi riverboat pilots. How the ripples on the surface tell you about the hidden shoals and banks under the water, very apparent here.; 8/24/26, 9:23 PM
Peachy+2 said...: 3 in 10 adults are not real bright.; 8/24/26, 9:55 PM
Mason G said...: "3 in 10 adults are not real bright."

Sending up the RC/jaqsignal?; 8/24/26, 9:58 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Hasan Piker - dog abuser and quintessential democratic; 8/24/26, 10:06 PM
Peachy+2 said...: MG - heading it off at the pass prior to chores and bedtime.; 8/24/26, 10:07 PM
Iman said...: Oh I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who
Who broke the Duke of URL?; 8/24/26, 10:37 PM
wendybar said...: Royce White 🇺🇸
@Highway_30
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Royce White for President
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https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2091585138412917020?s=20; 8/25/26, 3:21 AM
wendybar said...: This is long...but worth it. Take a listen....

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
We've lost our damn minds.
The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their Wifi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok...

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2091714255141663019?s=20; 8/25/26, 3:31 AM
rehajm said...: Barney Frank pushed lending to people with terrible credit way too hard, forced banks to do it if they wanted to use the discount window, so the banks handed out the money, bundled them and dumped them. Central planning always fails…now we have ten thousand more regulations and the remnants of bad government actors with their own political agendas sitting on boards and in c suites all while believing they can prevent the next one. You want the equity investors to get wiped out in a catastrophe rather than socializing the losses that way someone obsesses over the risks being taken…; 8/25/26, 4:20 AM
Humperdink said...: Sometime you just shake your head.

Giovanni Moore, 19 years old, was arrested by the Pitttsburgh police for the 10th time ….. in August alone. In his latest adventure, he punched two women in the face and took their cash. He was out on bail for drug charges in May.

https://triblive.com/local/teen-described-by-police-as-main-cause-of-downtown-violence-is-charged-for-10th-time-in-august-alone/; 8/25/26, 4:41 AM
Humperdink said...: Give credit to Abdul Rahman Mohammed al-Sayed (D-Hasan Piker buddy) for being on Jesse Watters’s show for 15 minutes or so and not answering a single question.; 8/25/26, 4:46 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Iman said...

"Oh I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who
Who broke the Duke of URL?"

Now that's funny right there!; 8/25/26, 5:28 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Attorneys General conceal records tied to longstanding plans to sue Trump

"Attorneys general across the United States are using a range of strategies to withhold 2024 emails discussing a longstanding plan to file lawsuits against the second Trump administration over potential policies that had not yet been implemented.

A "confidential" document obtained by The Center Square shows at least 22 Democratic attorneys general plotted litigation against President Donald Trump as early as April 28, 2024 – three months before Vice President Kamala Harris announced her run for president and approximately seven months before Trump was reelected.

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Most attorneys general have declined to explain why they started planning litigation so far in advance. They have also withheld thousands of emails that would provide additional context."; 8/25/26, 5:33 AM
rehajm said...: …it is interesting they are trying to conceal the crazy now as they were quite open about the strategy. Ann’s NYT had a lengthy think piece about the stop Trump strategy with photos and bios of some if the major perpetrating strategists, in part so you could tell what race and gender(s) they were. Personally I think it is a criminal misappropriation of taxpayer funds and a breech of public trust. I suspect their political supporters appreciate it until their opponents use the same tactic…; 8/25/26, 7:05 AM
tim maguire said...: **Eva Marie said...“no lessons were learned”
Unfortunately, lessons were learned: There doesn’t need to be accountability.**

It's an old lesson--if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.; 8/25/26, 8:00 AM
tim maguire said...: In this case, the banks owned the government. And Barney Frank, who contributed to the disaster as much as any single person, got to write the rules ensuring it would never happen again.; 8/25/26, 8:02 AM
Jaq said...: Israel Firster Republican asks Israel’s US election interference organization,AIPAC, to stay out of his race against el Sayed, because people despise Israel more than they do Muslims.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260824-aipac-brand-turns-toxic-as-pro-israel-republican-asks-lobby-to-stay-out-of-michigan-race/

Genocide is not a good brand.; 8/25/26, 8:27 AM
Iman said...: “Calvin Rickson, an engineer from Texas A&M University has designed a bra that keeps women’s breasts from jiggling, bouncing up and down, and stops nipples from pushing through the fabric when cold weather sets in.

After a news conference announcing the invention, a large group of men took Mr. Rickson outside and kicked the shit out of him.”; 8/25/26, 8:57 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Is AIPAC "Israel's US election interference organization"? Even former Muslim Dan Burmawi knows that's a lie. When someone compared AIPAC to CAIR, he retorted (link): "AIPAC is American Jews trying to keep Congress pro-Israel. CAIR is non American Muslims trying to make Congress Islamic. Apples and oranges."

As usual, jaq lies. And he seems to think genocide is a good brand. The only people in or near Israel who are even trying to commit genocide are the Palestinians, who quite openly boast of wanting to slaughter every single Jew they can get their hands on, men, women, and children, and do exactly that whenever they have a chance. So far, Israel hasn't given them too many chances, and that's a good thing.; 8/25/26, 12:17 PM
Rustygrommet said...: Here's a challenge for you.
Go one day at Althouse and not mention Jews. I bet you can't do it.
You're using the word ,"genocide" wrong.; 8/25/26, 1:00 PM
wendybar said...: Not surprisingly at all, Tik Tok has censored that Spencer Pratt video I posted about above.....; 8/25/26, 2:36 PM