December 23, 2024
Daily Mail: "Depressed" Joe Biden is Being Encouraged by "Vengeful" Doktor Jill Biden to "Burn the Whole Thing Down" as Payback for Coup
As you know, Biden is particularly enraged at Nancy Pelosi for ringleading the coup against him. Well, her and Obama, of course.
It is no coincidence that Biden is considering proposing banning congressmen trading in individual stocks -- far too late, of course, but he's considering that to embarrass Nancy Pelosi, who is infamous for somehow being the most astute individual sock-picker in the world. She's just that smart. Like Hillary Clinton making a fortune trading cattle futures -- all of their successes are due to their own research and sky-high IQs. Getting passed insider information, and having advanced knowledge of what market-altering bills are about to be proposed, has nothing to do with it. Not a thing, Woman-Hating Bigots! Damn your mouths for even whispering it!-- In a call with news media last week, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville characterized President Joe Biden's recent call to ban congressional stock trading as a retaliation against U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, for her alleged role in pressuring the president to step out of the 2024 race. "I don't think (Biden) and Nancy Pelosi are getting along very well right now after Pelosi fired him from being president," Tuberville told Alabama Daily News. "I don't know how she was able to do that, but she convinced him to get out of the race, which he should have, but it was her." Pelosi, along with her husband, Paul Pelosi, have seen among the highest returns in the stock market among members of Congress, with her stock trades yielding returns of more than 720% over the past decade. As of August, the Pelosis have an estimated net worth of more than $230 million.This is probable cause for arrest right here.
Pelosi has been reluctant to support legislation that would outright ban members of Congress from trading stocks, telling reporters in 2021 that "we are a free market economy," and that members of Congress "should be able to participate in that."The famously pro-free-market Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she's so pro-free-market that it would be a deprivation of her rights to block her from making trades in individual stocks. Note this ban is just about picking individual stocks -- congressmen could still do what 90% of the public does, which is just invest in a broad money-market type pool of stocks. Via andycanuck, nasty whore "doctor" Jill Biden is urging Biden to "burn it all down" on their way out. At least according to the Daily Mail:
What next for this pair of diseased grifters?
Tis the season for revenge! For President Joe Biden is spending the remaining weeks of his presidency settling scores. Between organizing this year's White House Christmas decorations, staff holiday parties and a string of final goodbyes, the president and First Lady Jill Biden have been quietly sharpening the metaphorical carving knives, with their sights set firmly on the one-time allies they perceive as having wronged them. Biden infuriated many senior members of the Democratic Party with his shocking U-turn and pardon of his son Hunter a fortnight ago, after months of publicly vowing he wouldn't make such a move. The pardon came alongside the quiet commuting of around 1,500 sentences, including for the relative of a member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been caught with child porn on his computer. Now, sources say, the first lady has been egging her husband on to further inflame fury among his colleagues. 'Jill views Democrats on Capitol Hill, the [wider] party, the Obamas, staff inside and outside the White House, the media, and all of Washington DC with such misguided resentment that I can't imagine she [isn't] encouraging [Joe] to burn the whole thing down, despite his better judgment,' an insider said. A particular target for the First Couple is said to be former house speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led the effort to push Biden out of the 2024 election race -- personally calling him and demanding he quit in the hours before he withdrew on June 21. The pair had been friends for some 50 years, but a wounded Biden has since been giving her the silent treatment. Any repair in relations is thought to be unlikely. At the annual Kennedy Center Honors held earlier this month in DC, it was noted that Pelosi was seated far away and out of the Bidens' eye-line. She and her husband Paul Pelosi had been guests of honor in the presidential box in previous years. Now they had been relegated to the orchestra section on the floor. Also in attendance at the awards ceremony were vice president and recent election-loser Kamala Harris, alongside her husband Doug Emhoff. As is correct for a VP, they were in the presidential box, placed next to the Bidens. Though keen observers were quick to point out that, as the crowd stood to welcome the president and his wife, neither so much as glanced at Harris or Emhoff. Why? One Democratic mega-donor, Floridian attorney John Morgan, is now wondering aloud whether Biden deliberately forced Kamala Harris onto the ticket -- throwing his endorsement behind her within minutes of pulling out -- to spite Pelosi and Barack Obama, who had also worked behind the scenes to push Biden out, and who both held serious reservations about Harris's capabilities. '[Biden] basically had the palace coup from all directions, from George Clooney to Pelosi. I think he got pissed off [and] said, "F*** you", and gave us Harris,' said Morgan, who has known Biden for decades and attended a 'thank you' dinner for donors at the White House last month. 'Pelosi had told her delegation that there would be a convention and a nominating process. And Barack Obama did not endorse [Harris] for five days,' Morgan pointed out.
Publicly at least, the Biden administration has been keen to reassure Americans that the president remains hard at work.Obviously, Mr. 40/40 (40% of days on vacation, working "40%" of the hours in the few working days he's in the office) is "hard at work."
... Biden is now eying his next steps, which means planning for a future outside official life. He's expected by many to establish his presidential library in Delaware. For her part, Jill Biden is retiring. She announced this week that she has taught her last semester at Northern Virigina Community College, where she has been an English professor.Biden will be dead in six months, due to age and the post-Christmas season's notoriously high death rates. Which is too bad, because I want him to live longer to feel the pain of his failure and infamy.
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Congresswoman With Advanced Dementia Has Been Living in a Memory Care Home For Six Months and Hasn't Attended Congress or Cast a Vote In All That Time;
Corrupt DC Media and Political Class Knew All About This, But Hid It From Citizens
Corrupt DC Media and Political Class Knew All About This, But Hid It From Citizens
Now the Republicans have their own Joe Biden.
Texas Rep. Kay Granger has been living in an independent living facility for six months, her family confirmed after speculation about her absence from Washington. Reports of her health struggles, including signs of dementia, have fueled controversy over her decision not to retire earlier. Key Details: Granger, 81, has not cast a vote since July and stepped down as House Appropriations Committee Chair in March. Her son confirmed she resides in an independent living facility, denying claims she's in memory care, despite acknowledging her "very rapid" cognitive decline.Well that's the important thing, that she's enjoying her life. Her constituents obviously don't matter.
Critics argue her absence from Congress has left her district underrepresented, while her family defends her decision to remain in her role until retirement. Diving Deeper: Rep. Kay Granger, the 81-year-old Republican from Texas, has spent the last six months in an independent living facility as she faces health challenges, including signs of dementia, her family revealed this weekend. Granger, who has represented Texas's 12th District since 1997, has not voted in the House since July, raising questions about her ability to fulfill her duties. Her absence became public after The Dallas Express reported she was living in a memory care unit. However, her son, Brandon Granger, refuted the claims, stating she resides in a "nice condo" in the independent living section of the facility. He added that the decision to move was hers, made in anticipation of her retirement. "She's not in memory care," Brandon Granger told the New York Post. "It's been a very rapid and difficult decline, but she's still enjoying her life."
Below, a DC reporter says that it was an open secret that she had advanced senility, and would wander through Congress asking people where she worked. And that was when she was even bothering to be physically present in DC.
Granger's spokesperson, Valerie Nelson, confirmed the congresswoman has faced "unforeseen health challenges" that make frequent travel to Washington difficult. Critics, however, argue her prolonged absence left her constituents without representation during critical legislative debates, including a recent spending showdown. The Dallas Express, run by Granger's former primary challenger Chris Putnam, faced scrutiny for breaking the story. Putnam denied any personal bias, stating, "The right thing for her to have done was quietly and gracefully resign."
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Focus Group Says That Democrats Are Weak and Overly Focused on "Diversity" and Other "Elite" Luxury Concerns Like Endless Gender Transitions for Children
Obviously, all of this was already obvious, and obvious for the past 10 years.
Trump didn't get elected in 2016 because the public supported in the Democrat "elite" agenda, after all.
New research shows the massive hole Dems are in Even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites.That massive hole? Doctor Jill Biden.
The focus groups, um, focused on Democrats who had either jumped to Trump or had just stayed home.
Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn't just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research. When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because "they've got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they're failing." Another likened them to koalas, who "are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need." Democrats, another said, are "not a friend of the working class anymore."
[W]hile some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame "losing hold of culture," the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats' problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle. ... "This weakness they see, [Democrats] not getting things done, not being able to actually fight for people -- is something that needs to be figured out," Russell said. "It might not be the message, it might be the policy. It might be something a little bit deeper that has to be addressed by the party."
...I can't imagine what Democrats can do about this. The problem is that they have made all of these bizarre policies categorical imperatives, as Kant would call them -- questions of pure good vs. pure evil. There is no possibility of compromise when you've defined something as a categorical imperative, one of the atheists' Ten Commandments. Their weird dark pagan gods have pronounced that transgenderism is a perfect good not just for everyone but children in particular -- who is mere politician to gainsay what Satan has decreed? Democrats found themselves in a similar position post Jimmy Carter, and were not willing to moderate -- or appear to moderate -- until weak-kneed pussy George Bush (senior) embarrassed them in 1988. Only after that third electoral drubbing did the supposedly "centrist" Democratic Leadership Conference, an organization of alleged moderates including a lot of governors whose experience was more practical and less ideological, wrest control of the party from the effete pansy leftist academic/government lifer faction. I know I've already said this and in fact said it already just today, but I can't see how Democrats can throw off their (Satanic) religious dogmas based on one lost election. It will take multiple losses before a rebel "centrist" movement can take control of the Democrat Cult again. A group like the DLC doesn't even exist right now. There's not even a group of Democrats banded together to make the case that academic/tech bro leftist progressivism is an electoral dead end. Before a (fake) moderate can win the Democrat presidential nomination, there first has to be a serious movement within the party to make such a thing happen. There isn't one. Basically there's John Fetterman criticizing some of the more loopy open borders/pro-crime stuff and Bernie Sanders knocking identity politics (while still making a case for a more colorblind socialism). And who else is there? Manchin retired, Krysten Sinema was voted out. All that's left is Pelosi, AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, and a ton of Democrats united only by anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight, anti-Christian hatred. Update:
"I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is," said a Georgia man who voted for Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024. "The elites that run the Democratic Party -- I think they're way too obsessed with appealing to these very far-left social progressivism that's very popular on college campuses." ...
Even though the focus group voters did not solely blame Harris for their distaste of the Democratic Party, they also weren't happy about her candidacy. Participants described her as "inauthentic," "very dishonest" and "did not seem competent." ...
Democrats disagree on the potency of the [Trump ad about transgenderism, sauing "Trump is for you, Kamala Harris is for they/them"], but several participants raised it unprompted in the focus groups. Lagging turnout was a major problem for Democrats in November. One woman from Georgia who didn't vote in 2024 said that she didn't agree with Harris' "thinking that it's okay for children to change their body parts." "I think that there needs to be some parameters on what's accepted in society and what isn't. Some of the societal norms, and I think that the Democrats have tried to open that up a little too much," said a woman from Wisconsin who also didn't vote in 2024. When asked by the moderator if she was referring to the "trans issue," the woman said, "primarily that."
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Drunk, Insane Illegal Alien Sets Woman On Fire in NYC Subway, Burning Her to Death
This link has video of the woman standing in a stupor as her body burns. It's graphic. I don't know why she isn't running and screaming. Maybe she was high or too in shock to do anything.
A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning -- then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called "one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit." The savage killing -- which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station -- shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime "took the life of an innocent New Yorker." "As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car ... and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds," Tisch said at a press conference. Patrolling cops smelled and saw the smoke, then followed it to the flame-covered woman, the commissioner said. They extinguished the blaze, but the victim died at the scene. Officials said the 33-year-old suspect came to the US in 2018 from Guatemala. He was detained by border patrol agents in Arizona in June of that year, sources said. His legal status wasn't immediately clear Sunday night. He received a transit summons in May 2023, but his criminal record in New York City was largely clean otherwise, sources said. He was living at a shelter on Randall's Island at the time of the infraction. Horrifying video obtained by The Post showed the suspect calmly looking on as flames consumed the still-unidentified woman, who stood inside the open subway car door. A transit cop walked by, and seemed to pull out a radio and say something as they continued down the platform. After the cop passed, the suspect got up as if to walk away -- then the clip cut off. In another video, cops yelled to the gathered crowd, "Did anybody see anything? Did anybody see anything?" as smoke poured from inside the subway car. The suspect brazenly sat on a nearby bench as cops huddled around, pulling his hood up at one point just before an officer spoke to him. "Do me a favor? Walk down there," the cop said, motioning down the platform with his radio. "I need this space cleared up." The man stood up, then left the scene. "Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car," Tisch said. "The body-worn cameras on the responding officers produced a very clear, detailed look at the killer." ... Cops called ahead and halted the train at Herald Square. Then, they went from car to car until they found the suspect and arrested him, police officials said. Tisch said the suspect had a lighter in his pocket when he was picked up.
This link has video of the woman standing in a stupor as her body burns. It's graphic. I don't know why she isn't running and screaming. Maybe she was high or too in shock to do anything.
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Biden Commutes the Sentences of Almost All Federal Convicts on Death Row
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, including child killers and mass murderers, two days before Christmas. The clemency move, part of Biden's opposition to the death penalty, reduces their sentences to life in prison without parole. Key Details: Among those spared execution are Thomas Sanders, who brutally killed a 12-year-old girl and her mother, and Iouri Mikhel, responsible for the ransom killings of five immigrants. Three high-profile inmates, including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, did not receive clemency. Biden defended the decision as necessary to ensure justice but provided no specifics on why these cases warranted commutations. Diving Deeper: President Joe Biden ignited a firestorm of controversy on Monday by commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates. The move spares the lives of individuals convicted of some of the most heinous crimes, including the murder of children, mass killings, and acts of extreme violence while in custody. Biden cited his long-standing opposition to the death penalty as justification, framing the decision as an effort to establish a "fair and effective justice system." "Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement. He added that he could not, in good conscience, allow a future administration to resume executions. The list of spared inmates includes Thomas Sanders, who killed a mother and her 12-year-old daughter, and Anthony Battle, who murdered a prison guard with a hammer while already serving a life sentence for raping and killing his wife. Others, like drug kingpins Kaboni Savage and James Roane, Jr., were responsible for the deaths of multiple victims, including children, in violent drug-related crimes. However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.
... The president's decision has reignited debates over the death penalty and his broader approach to criminal justice. Some see his actions as aligning with progressive goals, while others view them as an affront to justice and accountability. With just weeks left in his presidency, Biden's clemency spree cements his legacy as a divisive figure in the criminal justice reform debate.I'll say. Some few of you might actually be almost 29 years old and may forget the presidency of Jimmy Carter. He was the worst. Carter's humiliating failure of the presidency set up three consecutive conservative presidential terms. Well, two Reagan terms and one liberalish Bush term. But the country was ready to vote for a conservative three times. For fifteen years the humiliation and misery of the Carter years was a powerful memory that animated voters to vote Republican. Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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THE MORNING RANT: America’s Gerontocracy – AWOL Texas Congresswoman Found Living in Memory Care Facility
• Why have the public and Ms. Granger’s constituents been left in the dark about her whereabouts and the nature of her absence? • Why has Congressional District 12 gone without representation for more than five months? And how has no one in Fort Worth or her larger district, particularly the Fort Worth establishment media, seemed to notice or care? • If Ms. Granger is mentally incapacitated, why didn’t she simply retire early and allow Congressman-elect Craig Goldman to be appointed in the interim so the district could be represented during this critical vote and transition period?Kay Granger is almost 82 years old, and was elected to Congress 28 years ago. To her credit (?), she did not seek re-election this year, and she’ll be replaced by a new Congressman when the next Congress is sworn into office in January. But she should have already stepped down, and she was almost certainly not fit for re-election in 2022, so why did she return then?
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Francis William Edmonds
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The Morning Report — 12/23/24
In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day. Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up. Meanwhile, just across the East River at almost the same time. . .
A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.” The savage killing — which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station — shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime “took the life of an innocent New Yorker.” “As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a press conference. Patrolling cops smelled and saw the smoke, then followed it to the flame-covered woman, the commissioner said. They extinguished the blaze, but the victim died at the scene. Officials said the 33-year-old suspect came to the US in 2018 from Guatemala. He was detained by border patrol agents in Arizona in June of that year, sources said. His legal status wasn’t immediately clear Sunday night. He received a transit summons in May 2023, but his criminal record in New York City was largely clean otherwise, sources said. He was living at a shelter on Randall’s Island at the time of the infraction. Horrifying video obtained by The Post showed the suspect calmly looking on as flames consumed the still-unidentified woman, who stood inside the open subway car door.
He lit her on fire, he knew he could light her on fire, and no Daniel Penny appeared to save her. A message was sent with the prosecution of Penny that anyone trying to save people on a subway from psychopaths with fiery murder on their minds would go through the prosecution he did, acquitted or not. That horse has left the barn. What's more, as the cops slouched by, no one stepped in to try to put out the fire or rescue the victim. One cop bumblingly told the accused murderer, sitting on the subway station bench in order to gloatingly watch the crime, to move along, rather than collar him. He should have known better but didn't, so the alleged perp got away, until a couple of alert high schoolers called in that they saw him on another train. That was much less risk than stopping him, and with all the massive media coverage, the cops got serious about apprehending him, so he was finally picked up. He easily could have gotten away otherwise.But at the same time this horrific drama was taking place, New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul was out crowing and gaslighting about how much safer she made the subways of New York:
In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day. Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up. Meanwhile, just across the East River at almost the same time. . .
The audience at NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” cheered upon hearing the name of Luigi Mangione, the man who is charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City earlier this month. It happened when “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost began to talk about Mangione being transported back to New York City by authorities after he was captured in Pennsylvania. Jost barely managed to mention Mangione’s name before the audience cheered and he stopped mid-joke to acknowledge the elation in the room.Ignore the context, that is the disease-ridden sewer from which these words emanate:
“I think the whole country has what I call a low-grade fever,” Warnock said. “You know some mornings you wake up and you just don’t feel really well. You can’t even put your finger on it. We’ve been through four years of COVID. And people — you know, the early years of that, the early months of that, having to shelter in, all the trauma around that. Twenty years of what felt like an endless war, and then demagogues who make — you know, who exploit this moment through exacerbating the fault lines, the cultural fault lines of division in our country. And I think people just feel the full weight and the trauma of all of that.”The unmitigated gall of this degenerate, savage, criminal vampire to dare state this when it is he, his political party and those who installed him in office (via actual legal votes or in his case, fraudulent ballots) that have utterly trashed this nation for over 200 years in an unslakeable lust for absolute power and control that at its core is the perverted vision of absolute moral superiority and belief not just that God is on your side but indeed that you and yours are Gods and that we are an evil to be eradicated. And yet, how right he is, only not in the way perhaps he thinks. Cheering cold-blooded murder as well as what the majority of headlines in the links state, indicate how low we as a society and how much of the west has degenerated along with it. The great Victor Davis Hanson ponders whither America and the World in the wake of Donald Trump's titanic and perhaps miraculous victory last November:
In sum, for the last four years, the world has watched aghast as the United States lost its collective mind and became a radical Jacobin revolutionary society. So why is there not a sense of almost ecstatic relief, not just among conservatives but even among Democrats, that the years of darkness and madness are ending? . . . Summed up, the welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration—to dream again that nothing is impossible, and the dreary age of stasis, envy, cynicism, and nihilism is ending, replaced again by a world without limits. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare.I wish I could share the good Dr. Hanson's optimism, if indeed he is being optimistic. It's because I know as my dear mother of blessed memory taught me that evil never rests. Sadly, it is part of the human condition. It must be resisted by each of us in our own hearts and minds, and taught to the children lest we allow ourselves to be immolated on a subway car, or after a nightmarish trip in a cattle car in a gas chamber and ultimately to be turned into ashes in the crematoria. This is where it eventually leads unless we not only pay attention but are willing to risk our own comfort and perhaps security to preserve this little slice of paradise that still in many ways is the last greatest hope for humanity. We, and the relative condition of living in peace and prosperity, faltering as it had in decades past is indeed not the norm. The notion of American exceptionalism is not that we are an exceptional people, but that the nation and society our founders created was intended to be the "exception" to history, which since the beginning of human history, in one form or another were tyrannies that placed the individual citizen at the bottom of a hierarchy that more often than not ground said citizen into the earth for the benefit of kings, tyrants, dictators and czars. Well, for the first time in many many years both Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day. On that happy note, it is indeed a season and a time to celebrate holidays of salvation and of miracles. Lastly, a shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day! See you tomorrow for Christmas eve and the remainder of the week. God bless us, everyone!!!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Thad McCotter: Populism’s focus on domestic concerns may be flawed, but history proves globalist ideologies have wrought far greater destruction.
A Distinction Between Populist Movements and Globalist Ideologies
- Roger Kimball: Elon Musk’s push for transparency and fiscal responsibility has reshaped the debate over government spending, exposing inefficiency and forcing Congress to answer to the public.
Musk Derangement Syndrome
- “He is a politician,” Putin said of Biden. “And it is always important what is more in you — a politician or a human being. It turned out that Biden is more of a human being. I would not condemn him for this.” He’s not saying that as a complement! He’s saying that Biden is corrupt!
Putin: Joe Biden Is Corrupt, Unpresidential… and Less Honorable than Stalin!
- Victor Davis Hanson: Eagerness to get rid of the current nightmare is pervasive.
Are the Years of Madness Ending?
- They break everything on their way out.
Democrats Don’t Transfer Power Peacefully
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Daily Tech News 23 December 2024
Top Story
- OpenAI's next generation model, GPT-5, is ahead of schedule and coming in under budget. (WSJ / MSN)
Sorry, just kidding. GPT-5 is not working, may never work as planned, and each training run takes six months and costs half a billion dollars.OpenAI has conducted at least two large training runs, each of which entails months of crunching huge amounts of data, with the goal of making Orion smarter. Each time, new problems arose and the software fell short of the results researchers were hoping for, people close to the project say.
Also there's the tiny problem that with GPT-4, OpenAI already looted the entire public internet. GPT-5 needs a lot more data for its training, and there isn't more data.OpenAI's solution was to create data from scratch.
But, you say, the internet contains all human knowledge. Won't trying to expand that significantly take a long time? Won't it cost a huge amount of money?It is hiring people to write fresh software code or solve math problems for Orion to learn from. The workers, some of whom are software engineers and mathematicians, also share explanations for their work with Orion.
Yes.The process is painfully slow. GPT-4 was trained on an estimated 13 trillion tokens. A thousand people writing 5,000 words a day would take months to produce a billion tokens.
What about using AI to train your new AI?OpenAI also started developing what is called synthetic data, or data created by AI, to help train Orion. The feedback loop of AI creating data for AI can often cause malfunctions or result in nonsensical answers, research has shown.
Scientists at OpenAI are paid to think that. They are paid a lot to think that.
Scientists at OpenAI think they can avoid those problems by using data generated by another of its AI models, called o1, people familiar with the matter said.
In short, your job is safe for now.
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December 22, 2024
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 22, 2024 [Doof]
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the fourth week of December and the first day of winter! Thanks for stopping by this Sunday’s ONT. Hope you are cozy and warm wherever you are! Let's see what fell out of the ONT bag of stuff tonight.
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the fourth week of December and the first day of winter! Thanks for stopping by this Sunday’s ONT. Hope you are cozy and warm wherever you are! Let's see what fell out of the ONT bag of stuff tonight.
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Gun Thread: Sunday Before Christmas Edition!
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Food Thread: End Of Year Coasting...
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I will be mostly absent this afternoon; we are having a Sunday Roast! So please...put your pants on!
I will be mostly absent this afternoon; we are having a Sunday Roast! So please...put your pants on!
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First-World Problems...
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Merry Christmas!
America is a Christian country.
Yes, I said it, and I am very happy that is the case. What is stupendous and unique about this marvelous country is that it is also a secular republic that is structurally respectful of the minority view. The Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. I am firmly and contentedly Jewish, so my appreciation is focused on the happiness and joy and beauty that is so evident everywhere. Let us get rid of the silliness of "Happy Holidays," and accept the reality that the "Holiday" is Christianity celebrating the birth of Jesus. It's called Christmas...Christ's Mass. That's pretty clear! And in case you were wondering whether you were going to dodge a bullet and miss Luciano Pavarotti? Nope.Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM | Comments (159) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 12-22-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 22 December 2024
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- Why AI is stupid garbage and everyone in the industry is lying frantically to cover up the truth. (Ars Technica)
Okay, I may have paraphrased Tim Lee at Ars just a little there, but if you look at the promises AI leaders have made against the mathematical problems they face, that is the gist of the situation.
AI - LLM-based generative AI, not the more interesting discriminative AI - uses a technology called transformers which lets it process data in a massively parallel way. This requires about the same amount of work as a traditional neural network on simple prompts, while being able to use highly parallel hardware like graphics cards, so you get the result much faster.
For simple prompts:The longer the context gets, the more attention operations (and therefore computing power) are needed to generate the next token.
So as you make your question more detailed and specific, the amount of time taken to produce an answer increases rapidly.This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the total number of tokens. Suppose a 10-token prompt requires 414,720 attention operations. Then:
- Processing a 100-token prompt will require 45.6 million attention operations.
- Processing a 1,000-token prompt will require 4.6 billion attention operations.
- Processing a 10,000-token prompt will require 460 billion attention operations.
Work is now on to replace transformer models with classic neural networks, which don't have these limitations, but also don't have the magical ease of development of the transformer model.
But that means that promises of AGI next year are simply lies.
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December 21, 2024
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Yes...Yes. It's confusing, but you maniacs will power through it!
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Yes...Yes. It's confusing, but you maniacs will power through it!
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 12/21/2024
A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to read Stephen King's novels in publishing order until they bored me. I've made it into his 80s output, and I picked up IT, his magnum opus. Reading it in about a month, the 1200 page novel is...a complete and total mess. The first 20% had me hooked, though. It was great. There was this promise and sense of ill-defined danger that worked marvelously well as King jumped us between 1958 and 1985 with this sense of impending doom infecting everything.
And then things began to unravel. He focuses fully on 1958 for a long stretch, and it feels like a more typical King novel than the promise of greatness that had started things. There's a heavy issue with repetitive vignettes that don't actually feel that dangerous because kids keep escaping the central monster. The adults don't actually have a whole lot to do, and when they do become the focus just after the halfway point, they also go through their repetitive, but not dangerous vignettes. Things really pick up again in the final 20% of the book when the jumping between time periods ramps up as both adults and children go into the sewers underneath the central New England town of Derry, Maine, danger ramping up once more. And then...King lets his freak flag fly while also demonstrating that he doesn't know how to pull off endings or fulfill the promise of Lovecraftian horror like he would dream.
And yet...there are people who love this book. Love it. Think it's one of the greatest pieces of English literature ever written. I'm only noting that I don't agree, and I think I am closer to the general consensus which is: good, not great, and could use real editing (I'd go with okay, not good, and in need of an axe).
In the context of film, that presents an interesting question. The book has been adapted twice over the past thirty-five years. The first was on network television, a three-hour mini-series on ABC directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (an early close compatriot of John Carpenter). The second was a two-part, big budget, feature film directed by Andy Muschietti. With such a large, messy, and generally accepted flawed original source material, it presents an interesting case study in how to approach adaptations. Add in the fact that both filmed versions are actually quite different from each other, and you've got an interesting slice of cinematic adaptation.
And, as a note, this is going to feel a fair bit opaque to those not at least passingly familiar with the characters. Sorry, but I don't think I can drag this out another 1,000 words to give that clarity. It's way too long as it is.
IT
A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to read Stephen King's novels in publishing order until they bored me. I've made it into his 80s output, and I picked up IT, his magnum opus. Reading it in about a month, the 1200 page novel is...a complete and total mess. The first 20% had me hooked, though. It was great. There was this promise and sense of ill-defined danger that worked marvelously well as King jumped us between 1958 and 1985 with this sense of impending doom infecting everything.
And then things began to unravel. He focuses fully on 1958 for a long stretch, and it feels like a more typical King novel than the promise of greatness that had started things. There's a heavy issue with repetitive vignettes that don't actually feel that dangerous because kids keep escaping the central monster. The adults don't actually have a whole lot to do, and when they do become the focus just after the halfway point, they also go through their repetitive, but not dangerous vignettes. Things really pick up again in the final 20% of the book when the jumping between time periods ramps up as both adults and children go into the sewers underneath the central New England town of Derry, Maine, danger ramping up once more. And then...King lets his freak flag fly while also demonstrating that he doesn't know how to pull off endings or fulfill the promise of Lovecraftian horror like he would dream.
And yet...there are people who love this book. Love it. Think it's one of the greatest pieces of English literature ever written. I'm only noting that I don't agree, and I think I am closer to the general consensus which is: good, not great, and could use real editing (I'd go with okay, not good, and in need of an axe).
In the context of film, that presents an interesting question. The book has been adapted twice over the past thirty-five years. The first was on network television, a three-hour mini-series on ABC directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (an early close compatriot of John Carpenter). The second was a two-part, big budget, feature film directed by Andy Muschietti. With such a large, messy, and generally accepted flawed original source material, it presents an interesting case study in how to approach adaptations. Add in the fact that both filmed versions are actually quite different from each other, and you've got an interesting slice of cinematic adaptation.
And, as a note, this is going to feel a fair bit opaque to those not at least passingly familiar with the characters. Sorry, but I don't think I can drag this out another 1,000 words to give that clarity. It's way too long as it is.
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Hobby Thread - December 21, 2024 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.
As previewed, the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) has determined that the Hobby Thread theme of the week is Christmas and Hanukkah crafting. The Wheel is feeling festive and might be a little tipsy after getting into the spiked eggnog.Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (148) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 21
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
Courtesy of Sarah Hoyt by way of mindful webworker who sent me the link to Hoyt's webpage . . . Enjoy! "Perfessor" SquirrelHeh.
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