Thursday, April 25, 2024
How It's Done
As millions of people - including some respectable ones - have told Jake, this is outside of Columbia and the guy is just a NYC kook fixture, but he won't correct or delete. They're conducting Radio Rwanda against peaceful protesters, including plenty of Jewish students.
Only multiple senators, the Speaker of the House, and the head of the ADL, and John Podhoretz up in Josh's mentions, have called for the Guard to be sent in to do a little pacification, but apparently this is "wishcasting."
Everyone calling for the Guard to be called in is just saying, wink wink, shoot the protesters. There's no reason the police can't do anything - including shooting the protesters - all by themselves. It's just sending a message that they should be shot. Everyone understands this, especially the people pretending not to.
Only multiple senators, the Speaker of the House, and the head of the ADL, and John Podhoretz up in Josh's mentions, have called for the Guard to be sent in to do a little pacification, but apparently this is "wishcasting."
Everyone calling for the Guard to be called in is just saying, wink wink, shoot the protesters. There's no reason the police can't do anything - including shooting the protesters - all by themselves. It's just sending a message that they should be shot. Everyone understands this, especially the people pretending not to.
And how should you treat people who call for the murder of peaceful protesters? And how should you treat people who are not bothered by those people? The same.
Don't See How...
We'll see!
A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded an $83.3 million judgment by a jury that found Trump liable for defamation in January.
The judge also denied a request to strike the damages in the case, which Trump had called "entirely out of proportion" with Carroll's reputational injury.
"Mr. Trump's argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact," U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in an 18-page decision Thursday.
Law Talk
I have lost all interest in deciphering the sacred songs of the Supreme Court oral arguments. Take it as given that several of them are corrupt hacks. It should be established at this point. Spend your efforts mocking the people who pretend not to understand this stuff.
Handling The Media
This is British tabloid blackmail shit.
In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency. Beyond that, he has voiced concerns that Biden doing so few expansive interviews with experienced reporters could set a dangerous precedent for future administrations, according to a third person familiar with the publisher’s thinking. Sulzberger himself was part of a group from the Times that sat down with Trump, who gave the paper several interviews despite his rantings about its coverage. If Trump could do it, Sulzberger believes, so can Biden.I've seen journalists defend it and that says a lot about what business they think they're in.
“All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day,” one Times journalist said. “It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”
America's Mayor
Oh no.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.Imagine trying to explain Rudy-9/11 worship to The Kids Today.
The Academic Calendar
As every university administrator knows, the semester is ending (most places), students will be going home soon, and as is almost always the case with student activities, you can just wait them out for a few weeks and move on. Not doing so is quite the choice!
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Joe Biden Might Have The Chance To Do The Funniest Thing Possible
I have no idea what the conservative Supremos are really plotting with Trump's immunity case, but there are fascinating possibilities.
Good Enough For Investors
Elon's big new idea is that a fleet of Teslas can be used as distributed computing power in their idle time and yah whatever buddy.
The dumbasses who buy stocks love it though!
Zone of Interest
A lot is incredibly stupid and offense in the McWhorter piece (as always) , but wow is he dumb.
Listen to the ambient sounds - no not those.
The Good Guys
I know the bad orange man is bad, but since October, people with actual influence have been mostly yelling at people for objecting to the slaughter in Gaza instead of using their platforms to actually shift the administration. Don't argue that no one has any influence; Biden is a creature of DC and listens to these people.
I know they generally believed the following:
I said, at the start, that in any major conflict it doesn't much matter who is right or wrong, the goal needs to be de-escalation. That isn't always an easy goal to achieve, but it should be the ultimate goal! The kill the brutes crowd got their way, as they always do, and they're still yelling about college kids.
As I said, my list is very long or very short now, depending on how you look at it, because a bunch of powerful people had the easiest test in the world and they will keep failing it rather than admit error.
I know they generally believed the following:
The Palestinians have it coming for what Hamas did, and you certainly have to allow Israel some collective punishment, as a treat. All Palestinians have genocide in their hearts, they deserve it anyway.
It will all be wrapped up by January or so, and we can gloat about how it was all worth it.
For a couple of months we get to yell at hippies, which is our favorite thing to do. What fun we're going to have!The more wrong they turn out to have been, the more they completely fucked it into the sun, the more they'll keep doubling down. I am not kidding when I say that "proving the hippies fucking wrong" is a primary interest for these people, though "killing subhuman Arab people" is a bonus treat for some of them.
I said, at the start, that in any major conflict it doesn't much matter who is right or wrong, the goal needs to be de-escalation. That isn't always an easy goal to achieve, but it should be the ultimate goal! The kill the brutes crowd got their way, as they always do, and they're still yelling about college kids.
As I said, my list is very long or very short now, depending on how you look at it, because a bunch of powerful people had the easiest test in the world and they will keep failing it rather than admit error.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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