Tuesday, August 08, 2023
Vote You Ohio Diner Bastards
Not that I need to tell anyone who reads this very fine website, but if you are in Ohio go vote! Vote no!
WSJ Editorial Page
Regularly people are shocked to discover that the WSJ editorial page is as loony as Fox News (not Scott here, he knows). But they rarely take the next step and consider the likely consequences of that being pumped into the heads of the richest people in the country daily. There's this odd belief that those people must just read it for the news, that they are smart enough to chuckle at the opinion page, that the rich people (who must be smart!!!) can't possibly be this brain poisoned.
It's the companion to the idea that it's only the dumbasses in Ohio diners who are MAGA conservatives.
It's the companion to the idea that it's only the dumbasses in Ohio diners who are MAGA conservatives.
And Why Would They Think That
I've seen it expressed by not horrible people that there are reasons Trump couldn't possibly (not will not - that's quite likely - but should not) spend time in a normal prison. One reason stated was "we can't put the secret service in prison" or something.
And, I dunno, what do you think prison is? The staff aren't all locked up in there too. They get to leave. The secret service wouldn't have to live there. No one has to be Trump's bunk mate. They just serve their 8 hour shifts guarding him from being shivved and go home when the replacements show up. Outfit a couple of special cells for their "offices" or whatever.
Anyway people are grasping for logistical reasons (honestly in some cases) to express their basic resistance to treating elites like normal people.
"We" always have this backwards. It's powerful people who need to be treated like "normal" people, and normal people need to be treated a bit better.
And, I dunno, what do you think prison is? The staff aren't all locked up in there too. They get to leave. The secret service wouldn't have to live there. No one has to be Trump's bunk mate. They just serve their 8 hour shifts guarding him from being shivved and go home when the replacements show up. Outfit a couple of special cells for their "offices" or whatever.
Anyway people are grasping for logistical reasons (honestly in some cases) to express their basic resistance to treating elites like normal people.
"We" always have this backwards. It's powerful people who need to be treated like "normal" people, and normal people need to be treated a bit better.
Monday, August 07, 2023
The Worst Family
All of them.
Made up almost entirely of women inspired by Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the Covid pandemic, We Decide New York rapidly joined forces in spring 2021 to defend an increasingly isolated governor as traditional allies abandoned him. The group swarmed his critics on social media, sold Cuomo swag and pushed for due process.
But four of the group’s current leaders said in interviews that even as their work appeared organic to the outside world, Ms. Cuomo, 58, began privately exerting control. Starting just weeks after the group was formed, she steered its volunteer activists — many in their 50s, 60s and 70s — to prop up her brother and hound his accusers ever more aggressively.
But Isn't What Matters It Felt Like It Could Be True
The narrative, once established, can't be debunked.
Trump's Fans Are Fans Of Trump
I suppose it's mild progress that the NYT political desk is outsourcing this endless series to Rich Lowry now.
Biofuels, Bitches!
Lots of things are above my pay grade, but my whole life there have been fanciful technological solutions offered in place of doing sensible things with existing technologies, some of which were just complete frauds (carbon capture! clean coal!).
Solar is cheap now. Wind is cheap now. Sure both have some storage issues, and won't solve every problem (won't curse cancer or stop racism, either), but the impediment to a lot of shifts are the current stakeholders in those interests.
Very Serious People love to get mad at enviros opposing nuclear, or some rich NIMBYs stopping a wind project (somehow they are hypocrites instead of just rich assholes), but really you're an idiot if you think it's environmentalists who have the power to stop progress on climate change.
Solar is cheap now. Wind is cheap now. Sure both have some storage issues, and won't solve every problem (won't curse cancer or stop racism, either), but the impediment to a lot of shifts are the current stakeholders in those interests.
Very Serious People love to get mad at enviros opposing nuclear, or some rich NIMBYs stopping a wind project (somehow they are hypocrites instead of just rich assholes), but really you're an idiot if you think it's environmentalists who have the power to stop progress on climate change.
This post wasn't inspired by anything specific, but there has been an uptick in "well I guess it's time for geoengineering" commentary and, yah, sure, let's do that. No way to fuck that up!
Car Bloat
I get people think that given everyone is driving a huge vehicle, they're safer driving one themselves. Maybe that's even true. But it's one thing to have to use the poorly positioned video screen to give you an extra look when you're backing up, quite another to have to rely on it entirely to to basic driving because the blind spots are so massive.
And if the video screen is essential for driving (it shouldn't be!), then it really isn't appropriate to place it where they generally are.
Not the only issue with car bloat. In general its making a fundamentally flawed transportation concept much worse.
And if the video screen is essential for driving (it shouldn't be!), then it really isn't appropriate to place it where they generally are.
Not the only issue with car bloat. In general its making a fundamentally flawed transportation concept much worse.
Sunday, August 06, 2023
A Little Light Treason
We're in round 2 of "spray a bunch of shit against the wall and see what sticks."
Which reporters will bite on this one? Give it to Maggie, she'll eat anything!Former President Trump may have committed a “technical violation of the Constitution,” but doing so doesn’t mean he broke any criminal laws, John Lauro, Trump’s criminal defense attorney, argues on @MeetThePress. https://t.co/dPWrWdZwgB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2023
Saturday, August 05, 2023
A Play In Three Acts
The Mag Habs Maneuver:
And the quiet Haberman acknowledgment:
Savage isn't a political reporter, unlike Haberman.
If only they had some editors over there!
The Charlie Savage retort:2/2
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 5, 2023
And they absolutely went with it on the inside page.
Essay question: How does this differ from the way Fox would have framed the news? Or Trump's own team? pic.twitter.com/6xyVS704wE
And the quiet Haberman acknowledgment:
I actually understand what happened now. The Trumpkins were anticipating certain things in the indictment, Jack Smith didn't deliver, but they had already pre-briefed their favorite reporters who of course ran with it anyway.Worthwhile read from @charlie_savage https://t.co/kSopfXiGGp
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 5, 2023
Savage isn't a political reporter, unlike Haberman.
If only they had some editors over there!
Freeze Peach
I shouldn't be amazed, but on the first page of the indictment, Jack Smith basically wrote, "Look you chucklefuck political reporters, Donald Trump can lie as much as he wants because of your blessed free speech, this isn't about that," and all those chucklefucks ran with it being a free speech issue anyway.
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