Althouse: Sunrise.

October 8, 2026

Sunrise.

59 comments:

imTay said...: Macron fixed the elections in France to keep the globalists in power and the populists out, and look what it got them.; 10/8/26, 8:12 PM
Achilles said...: The sun doesn't come up until I am driving to work now.

I have to wait for 30 minutes or so to have twilight on the morning run.

But the autumn cool dry air does make it really nice.; 10/8/26, 8:12 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-announcement-friday/; 10/8/26, 8:33 PM
Gospace said...: I wonder what the overlap is between people protesting a traitors execution being televised and people who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination on live TV... A Venn Diagram might be an almost perfect circle.; 10/8/26, 8:37 PM
Josephbleau said...: “ Macron fixed the elections in France to keep the globalists in power and the populists out, and look what it got them.”

I’m interested Jaq. The globalist seem to be the Merkel descendent. Mertz, Macron. Are the populists the AfD and Le Penn? How do you see Europe moving. I do work in a Norway but they are not eu.; 10/8/26, 8:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Two reasons for posting this YouTube video:
1 The name of the YouTuber is Siobhan.
2 Earlier today, the post about this year’s Nobel Prize Award for Literature contained this quote : “'Many toil in the interstices of genre,' Daisy Fried wrote in a 2013 review of 'Red Doc >' for The New York Times. 'Carson’s palatable, popular, sophisticated and who-cares approach may have done the most and best work in the last two decades to stop people worrying so much about what’s poetry and what’s not.'"
In this video Siobhan goes a little bit into them “interstices“ of literary genres.

YouTube : Natalie Portman's ex-friend wrote a book about her. And she hates it.

Don’t be dissuaded from watching, because the video is primarily about a cat fight between two big letter A artists.; 10/8/26, 9:02 PM
Achilles said...: imTay said...

Macron fixed the elections in France to keep the globalists in power and the populists out, and look what it got them.

And Trump is going to keep the strait of hormuz closed until the globalists are removed from power.

Canada is falling apart. Bolsanaro is on track to win. France is burning. Britain is about to deploy the army in their streets. AfD is winning. The US is going to produce Steel again. Trump just cancelled the foreign worked program for a dozen giant tech companies.

I know it gives you the sadz to see America and Americans doing well.; 10/8/26, 9:06 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/8/26, 9:09 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Pentagon confirms Fort Hood terrorist's firing squad execution will be live-streamed: 'Details will follow' ~ FOX News

I'm literally at a loss for words.....

Well, that's the Circuses. Now all we need is the Bread.; 10/8/26, 9:13 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: I'm looking forward to post election. So many political advertisements while streaming any movie, so many mail flyers in mail, so many unasked for texts. Important election in Maine, but most have already picked candidate probably. Well, maybe not, maybe they are all for undecided voters or independents. So, I take it back.; 10/8/26, 9:32 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump threatens to ‘terminate’ top campaign advisers after revelation of work for pro-Russia Bosnia party ~ NY Post

“Russia, Russia, Russia!”—Trump used to complain.

Funny how the phrase keeps finding its way back into his own orbit.

Trump says Chris LaCivita and James Blair “do not work for me, other than as outside consultants.”

Ah, outside consultants. Because when your longtime political advisers are working for a Putin-aligned government while still operating in Trump’s political orbit, apparently they don’t work for Trump. And the lobbying firm representing Republika Srpska employs the daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff.

They just work with Trump, for Trump’s political operation, and for Russia-friendly interests.

At some point, “Russia, Russia, Russia” stops being an accusation and starts looking suspiciously like the org chart.; 10/8/26, 9:39 PM
Josephbleau said...: IEE, I think you are too smart to believe what you just said, man.; 10/8/26, 10:12 PM
Iman said...: This live steamed firing squad execution of the Fort Hood murderer is too long in coming.

The “firing squad” needs only to include two less than average ability shooters, who will take turns (and their time 😁) shooting hands, arms, feet, legs, stomach, balls… nothing immediately fatal and let the jihadi bleed out.

If that makes some quimbies think me a sick fuck, I’m okay with that.; 10/8/26, 10:18 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: Should be be stood up at wall blindfolded or in enclosure allowed to dodge as long as possible? While shooters blindfolded!

Of course Kalshi market betting how many, which bullets! Etc.; 10/8/26, 10:41 PM
Jim at said...: *This live steamed firing squad execution of the Fort Hood murderer is too long in coming.*

I agree they should've offed this POS 17 years ago, but televising his execution? What purpose does it serve?

If it's some sort of message being sent to Muslim terrorists, televise them shaving his precious beard. That means more to them than their lives.; 10/8/26, 10:50 PM
Iman said...: I think barbering is too good for’em.; 10/9/26, 12:22 AM
Eva Marie said...: I want to know what the play is here. The Trump administration is going through a highly coordinated set of steps leading up to the midterms. You can see the pieces slowly fall onto place. I’d like to know what they think the impact of the execution will be. I’m assuming they’re relying on a reaction from the Democrats which will . . . do what exactly?
Maybe . . .
1.Reframe the war with Iran
2. Sharpen the difference between the Dems and Republicans on terrorism, specifically Islamic terrorism.
What else?; 10/9/26, 12:34 AM
Eva Marie said...: I’m assuming that all these steps are made with the goal of helping the Trump Administration whether they win or lose the midterms . . . although they are playing to win the midterms. But win or lose, they are repositioning themselves in the political arena.; 10/9/26, 12:37 AM
Eva Marie said...: You can see the pivot.; 10/9/26, 12:39 AM
Eva Marie said...: I wish Scott Adams and Rush Limbaugh could still be around to talk about the deeper meaning. That’s what’s really interesting (in my opinion).; 10/9/26, 12:43 AM
Eva Marie said...: What’s also interesting to me is Amazon’s best seller list. Over half of the books on the list now are puzzle books and children’s books. That’s never happened before (in my unscientific estimation). Most of the rest of the books are escapist fiction. Very unusual.; 10/9/26, 12:52 AM
Eva Marie said...: I’m also assuming they are positioning themselves for the 2028 elections. Could Ken Paxton be minority leader if they lose the midterms? He’s a fighter.; 10/9/26, 12:54 AM
Aggie said...: @Eva Marie, maybe they have some insight on what the actual polling numbers are - I mean the inside-baseball professional polling. Maybe their insight is suggesting that the majority of voter's sentiments are against open borders, against H-1B visa abuse that cost Americans jobs, are pro-police, pro-ICE, and with a preference to support the action in Iran. Maybe the attention to these issues is designed to get Republicans to the polls to actually vote, and maybe the intelligence is suggesting that Democrats are already motivated by their own messaging.

It feels like they're prodding Republican voters, trying to juice turnout.; 10/9/26, 1:10 AM
Eva Marie said...: I think that’s what’s behind the public execution. I think it’s supposed to appeal to men specifically and to motivate them to vote. Also gun ownership os going up, that’s got to be factored in there.; 10/9/26, 1:34 AM
Eva Marie said...: They must have gamed that out.; 10/9/26, 1:35 AM
Eva Marie said...: You want your vote to screw big corporations? Well Trump just went after one of the biggest ones - Microsoft.; 10/9/26, 1:38 AM
Eva Marie said...: The Cornel play seems also to have backfired. A pox on college educations, value free sex, and a politicized judiciary. These are all conservative/Republican values. If the Democrats are right and colleges are a rapist’s playground, then maybe they need to be defunded in favor of on line education and trade schools - that’s also a conservative/Republican position.; 10/9/26, 1:48 AM
Howard said...: Nothing is going to convince voters with a doubling of gasoline prices and the continuing obstinate Mad Mullahs over President TACO Bone Spurs empty threats.

No amount of superficial distractions designed to get you people either wet and horny or hopping mad will put President Humpty Dumpty back together again.; 10/9/26, 3:35 AM
wendybar said...: She consented. PERIOD.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/08/us-news/texts-between-cornell-7-jane-doe-frat-brother-she-later-accused-of-rape-revealed-our-body-our-choice/; 10/9/26, 3:38 AM
wendybar said...: Obama is a deadbeat employer. Not that I am surprised.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/08/us-news/workers-at-obamas-death-star-library-strike-back-vow-to-unionize-over-benefit-cuts-increasing-workloads/; 10/9/26, 3:43 AM
john mosby said...: Eva Marie, yes, and. The livestreamed execution is classic Trump 4D chess. Hasan's lawyers, joined by the usual amici, are going to move to stop the livestreaming and the firing squad method. The thing will get fought all the way up to SCOTUS. If Trump/Hegseth lose, oh well, they just got all those people to show their true colors right before an election. If T/H win, there will be one more piece of precedent saying the POTUS and SECDEF can do what the hell they want with the military.

And if they do get to livestream it, the usual suspects will take the normal peri-execution pearl-clutching to 11. Rightie outlets will show the stream. Lefties will show a block of dead air, or livestreams of the protesters wailing outside Leavenworth or wherever they do military DP nowadays. And probably some Muslim-on-the-street interviews. Oh and of course newsies will be doorstepping el-Sayed for comments, which he will refuse to give.

They just can't help themselves. Trump and Hegseth know it.

I think Hegseth is the real heir to Trump. It's too bad no one is talking about him for 2028. He could have Rubio as VP/Sergeant Major to talk him down from 30,000 feet as and when. CC, JSM; 10/9/26, 4:09 AM
john mosby said...: Or JD as VP/American Shogun-for-Life (look it up; no limit on how many terms you can be VP). CC, JSM; 10/9/26, 4:11 AM
Breezy said...: Trump’s cabinet has been stellar, with just an exception or two. Far cry from his first term.; 10/9/26, 4:38 AM
john mosby said...: Also, Eva Marie, ref your comment on gun issues wrt Hasan - I agree, though perhaps on different grounds. Trump will love to spark a debate wherein the lefties say the root causes of the Hasan incident were Evil Gunz, plus that lying bastard W and his stupid war. Trump and Hegseth will say the root causes were DEI and gun-free target zones, And all right before an election. CC, JSM; 10/9/26, 4:49 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: The overnight posting has reached toxic levels of rote repetition, especially among our most virulent Jew haters, and affect any post with a tentative connection to the that part of the world or the ongoing jihad here by democrats and their constituents.; 10/9/26, 5:19 AM
rehajm said...: …we still have hummingbirds. what does it mean? commuters?; 10/9/26, 5:27 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: In inflation adjusted dollars today’s gasoline prices are equal to what pump prices were during Reagan’s term. Get another hobby horse you innumerate propagandists. What other price-sensitive and inelastic product has been this price stable for 40 years?; 10/9/26, 5:30 AM
rehajm said...: the la marzocco became untethered from the wifi so I had to get instructions from their website. with the page left open I noticed the page turned green. the page said they went green because it saved energy on my phone. Considerate or too much caffeine?; 10/9/26, 5:31 AM
Saint Croix said...: Talarico has mad cow disease

spitballing

just made it up, really

could be true

I would be so mad if I was vegan who was forced to eat meat to get elected and I got mad cow disease

MOOOOOOOOOOOO!; 10/9/26, 7:11 AM
Saint Croix said...: The funniest Lake name is Titicaca

(a.k.a. "Shittin' on the Tits"); 10/9/26, 8:01 AM
Lazarus said...: Globalism is a form of imperialism. So is outright imperialism. Become the global hegemon and you have become a globalist.

The Spectator praised Rubio's speech as the best political speech in years, but they also pointed out that his idea that ancient Greece prized '“relentless ambition,” “risk and glory” and “an impatience with the notion of impossibility, chafing at all boundaries and limits,”' goes against the Greeks' praise for moderation and balance and their fear of hubris, or excessive pride and arrogance. They say that he praised the values of Alcibiades, rather than those of Pericles. I don't know enough history to know if that's accurate. Pericles was pretty hubristic himself. Athens was done in by imperial overstretch.; 10/9/26, 8:07 AM
Achilles said...: Eva Marie said...

I want to know what the play is here. The Trump administration is going through a highly coordinated set of steps leading up to the midterms. You can see the pieces slowly fall onto place. I’d like to know what they think the impact of the execution will be. I’m assuming they’re relying on a reaction from the Democrats which will . . . do what exactly?
Maybe . . .
1.Reframe the war with Iran
2. Sharpen the difference between the Dems and Republicans on terrorism, specifically Islamic terrorism.
What else?

You are on the right track.

It is funny to watch people forget that the polls all start closing the massive +democrat gaps in October right before the elections. It happens every time.

Midterms are a turnout election. People have noticed that Talarico and El Sayyid aren't exactly getting average democrats wet in the pants.

This is what retards like the Arkansas governor can't figure out. You don't shit on your voters right before you ask them to vote for you.; 10/9/26, 8:12 AM
Clyde said...: Elon couldn't pay for better advertising!; 10/9/26, 8:43 AM
Iman said...: Don’t confuse ‘em with facts, Mike (MJB Wolf) @5:30am.; 10/9/26, 8:48 AM
Iman said...: “I don't care where you get the revenue, I don't care what taxes you have to raise.”

—— Democrat candidate for Senate James Talarico; 10/9/26, 8:55 AM
FullMoon said...: Who would broadcast live execution? Would be available but probably not live.; 10/9/26, 9:22 AM
Gospace said...: On gas prices, locally they've been bumping up and down, but the overall slope as we approach the election is down. Wouldn't be surprised to see them below $4.00/gallon 3 weeks from now. Maybe two weeks.$4.15 non-discounted price yesterday at the local truck stops.; 10/9/26, 9:38 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦-𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 40 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴?

The inflation-adjusted comparison is only meaningful if you compare today’s prices with the entire Reagan era, not cherry-pick a particular year. Gasoline prices fell dramatically during his presidency.

And price-inelastic demand doesn’t mean price stability. It means consumers have limited short-term ability to change their consumption when prices rise. Gasoline prices have fluctuated substantially over the past 40 years, driven by oil markets, supply disruptions and geopolitics.

Calling gasoline price-stable for four decades isn’t economic analysis. It’s an argument looking for a convenient statistic.; 10/9/26, 9:44 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Hmmm…..

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-ai-enabled-false-front-operations/

Could some of our friends here be….not our friends?; 10/9/26, 10:06 AM
Michael McNeil said...: **In inflation adjusted dollars today’s gasoline prices are equal to what pump prices were during Reagan’s term. Get another hobby horse you innumerate propagandists. What other price-sensitive and inelastic product has been this price stable for 40 years?**

They all have—or actively declining in price.

An interview with Robert Zubrin (founder and president of the Mars Society) made this point a few years back.; 10/9/26, 10:29 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump establishes committee to investigate Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook in latest effort to fire her ~ FOX News

“𝘈𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸,”

In Trump's case, he has repeatedly demonstrated that the opposite is the case.

Affordability, bond sell-off, inflation, war, energy crisis, and this is where the US president chooses to direct his efforts. Hilarious....; 10/9/26, 10:55 AM
Michael McNeil said...: **Athens was done in by imperial overstretch.**

Democratic Athens was indeed very stupid and arrogant in managing relations with its Athenian Empire Greek state so-called “allies”—which pissed them off greatly. But the real cause of Athens' loss in the Athens-Sparta Peloponnesian War was that Sparta traitorously allied with the Achaemenid Persian Empire, still standing terrifically mighty just east of the Aegean Sea. The combo was fatal to Athens.; 10/9/26, 11:08 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Trump will love to spark a debate wherein the lefties say the root causes of the Hasan incident were Evil Gunz”
You may be right. Look who’s come out with a new book right before the election - “Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet (The American Way of Killing): a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.”
I read somewhere that gun control was going to be a major talking point before the midterms.
“Take the fight to your opponent”; 10/9/26, 11:38 AM
Aggie said...: ......."I'm hearing that he checked himself into a mental institution, that he had a full-blown mental breakdown sometime around, I guess, September 29th or September 30th," she said.
Now, to be clear, nobody has verified this. Wren said so herself, and she deserves credit for not dressing up a tip as a confirmed fact. "So, I heard this from someone in Texas," she said. "I have no idea what the truth is." She called on investigative reporters to chase it down .....'

Somewhere, Lyndon B Johnson is smiling about pigf*ckers.; 10/9/26, 11:51 AM
Kai Akker said...: Protect your assets.; 10/9/26, 12:11 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: US 10-year Treasury yields risk hitting 6% for first time since 2000, Pimco says ~FT
𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘴 ‘𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦’ 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘴

So this is what government by someone with lots of business world experience looks like?

Consequences of Trumponomics. Don't forget to include effects of fiscal relaxation (OBBBA), the tariffs, and a full war (which is not a war).

The Trump.premium.

He loves attaching his name to everything so the huge rise in Treasury yields, sovereign debt and the budget deficit can all have his name as the adjective alongside rapidly rising and high.

Where are the invertebrate GOP Congress who act as willing midwives to this calamity.; 10/9/26, 12:29 PM
Kai Akker said...: Protect your assets!; 10/9/26, 12:57 PM
Jersey Fled said...: And yet the markets continue to make new all-time highs.; 10/9/26, 1:09 PM
Kai Akker said...: Selling the highs is a good idea right now. But most stocks are nowhere near their highs today. New 52 highs in 2024 were over 350 on 10 separate days. Recently? In last month, 62 is the most daily. Then 53, 43, today at the moment, 37. Mids, smalls, well off their peaks. Dow averages, well off their peaks. Months back, now. Do your due diligence.; 10/9/26, 1:34 PM