October 24, 2024
The Morning Report 10/24/24
open thread.
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Daily Tech News 24 October 2024
Top Story
- Arm has given notice to Qualcomm that it - Arm - plans to cancel it's - Qualcomm's - Arm architecture license. (Tom's Hardware)
CPU startup Nuvia paid for an Arm architecture license, which allowed that company to design custom Arm processor cores. Nuvia was then acquired by Qualcomm, which also had an Arm architecture license, and its - Nuvia's - designs became what is now the Qualcomm X series which has made its way into Windows laptops that for the first time ever provide adequate performance for Windows on Arm.
Arm is upset about this because its - Arm's - own cores don't provide adequate performance in Windows laptops so nobody uses them, and cores produced on an architecture license provide Arm less revenue than its - Arm's - own designs.
So Arm is suing Qualcomm for squillions of dollars and wants to prevent it - Qualcomm - from selling processors designed with its - Qualcomm's - own cores, despite it - Qualcomm and Nuvia both - having paid it - Arm - for a license to do so.
It - the entire situation - is a mess and I don't know how things will turn out.
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October 23, 2024
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (10/23/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
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Quote I “I am joining the party of the people, the party of equality, the party that was founded to fight against and end slavery in this country. It is the party of common sense and the party that is led by a president who has the courage and strength to fight for peace,” Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Quote II “The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And people go and self-select where they go for their news, for their information.” Former Climate Czar (and all around worthless human being) John Kerry
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All-Terrain Bed Cafe
A gargoyle peering out from Notre Dame.
Brassai, 1930s
Adopting a senior dog who was abused in a breeding operation and then abandoned into a shelter. Now she has the life she always deserved. The Bouncer. Aw: Saving a baby horse trapped in the mud and reuiniting it with its mother. I'm surprised the mother horse didn't attack. How did the horse know he was helping rather than stealing the foal? (I've heard horses respect humans because of their height, not realizing that the horse itself is two or three times as big as a human when you consider length.) Lost sheepdog is found guarding some sheep that strayed from the flock. Toddler helps a puppy back to mama. Dog smells her owner. Family resemblance I. Family resemblance II. Dog needs to be rescued... from boredom. Dog is proud to show off that he's a big boy and can use the pool by himself. We're at a crisis point of bear out-of-controlness. No really, these bears are learning martial arts now. Now three dogs are climbing the Pyramid of Giza!
There is no rest when baby goat are around.
A gargoyle peering out from Notre Dame.
Brassai, 1930s
This etymology hints at Le Stryge's association with darkness, mystery, and nocturnal creatures. Le Stryge, however, is not a true gargoyle, as it does not serve the architectural function of draining water. Instead, it belongs to the family of chimeras, ornamental sculptures that often adorn Gothic buildings.Cleared up!
Adopting a senior dog who was abused in a breeding operation and then abandoned into a shelter. Now she has the life she always deserved. The Bouncer. Aw: Saving a baby horse trapped in the mud and reuiniting it with its mother. I'm surprised the mother horse didn't attack. How did the horse know he was helping rather than stealing the foal? (I've heard horses respect humans because of their height, not realizing that the horse itself is two or three times as big as a human when you consider length.) Lost sheepdog is found guarding some sheep that strayed from the flock. Toddler helps a puppy back to mama. Dog smells her owner. Family resemblance I. Family resemblance II. Dog needs to be rescued... from boredom. Dog is proud to show off that he's a big boy and can use the pool by himself. We're at a crisis point of bear out-of-controlness. No really, these bears are learning martial arts now. Now three dogs are climbing the Pyramid of Giza!
There is no rest when baby goat are around.
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Biden Says "We Gotta Lock Up Trump;" White House Spins Claiming He Meant "Lock Him Up Politically," Whatever That Means
Note that this statement comes as evidence shows that Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum -- aka Nathan Wade -- met with White House officials to plot the attempt to jail Trump for fake RICO charges.
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Kamala Interrupts Her Second Consecutive Day Off to Illegally Campaign From Her Government-Provided Home and Call Trump Hitler, Chumming the Waters Further With Assassin-Bait
We have to tone down our rhetoric, guys.
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In the Democrats' Latest Masculinity Pageant, Democrat Missouri Senate Candidate Lucas Kunce Plays GunBuddies With Noted Heterosexual Adam Kinzinger... and Shoots a Reporter Due to Complete Lack of Safety Training
Lucas Kunce actually had the audacity to tweet: "Great day at the range." Except for the accidental shooting, of course. Not even Dick Cheney had the gall to claim his accidental shooting was part of a "great day hunting ducks." Sean answered him: "Great day at the range? You shot someone."
Sean Davis
@seanmdav I'm sorry, but this tweet is INSANE. It contains multitudes. The longer you look at the photos, the worse it gets. 1) They are shooting steel at 5-7 yards with rifles, which could've killed somebody given the force with which the bullets will ricochet off the steel targets at the at distance. You would instantly get permanently banned at my range if you did that. Zero questions asked. 2) Kinzinger holds his rifle like a complete ninny, and that will never not be funny to me. And pro-tip for @AdamKinzinger: the eye protection works better when it's on your eyes, not your head. You stupid idiot. Try using your brain for once. You're lucky you still have one after today. 3) Kinzinger is for some reason using a high-powered scope (at least a 3-9x by the looks of it) to shoot a target 5 yards away. 4) There is a bolt action rifle on the table, so presumably someone was also using that to shoot steel at 5 yards. Insane. 5) There are at least two canisters of explosive Tannerite powder on the table, down range from where guns are being fired. That could've potentially killed or seriously injured someone if someone shot it or if someone was stupid enough to be shooting close enough to steel for a ricochet to hit it. 6) At one point the cameraman is down range from all the guns, which--given the violations we've found so far--we can assume are not safe and unloaded. Way to think that one through, dummy. 7) And these morons are so stupid that EVEN AFTER SHOOTING SOMEONE (whose injury was due entirely to negligence), they thought it would be an awesome idea to post the evidence of their idiocy for all the world to see. Lawyer up, dummies, because that reporter you could've killed has you dead to rights. Absolutely mind-blowing insanity from a candidate for a political party that wants to take away your guns because it claims you can't safely own them.
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)I'm just so impressed by Democratic men dressing in Hunter Drag to show us how manly they are!
@AdamKinzinger Donald Trump hates the military and is a piece of human garbage. Sean Davis
@seanmdav
You nearly murdered a reporter today while holding a rifle like you were an extra in a Grindr ad.
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Pro-Transgenderism-for-Children Partisans Receive $10 Million from Federal Government to Prove Puberty Blockers Help 11-Year-Old Children.
But Now That the Data Show Children Aren't Helped -- and May Be Hurt -- They Refuse to Pubish the Results.
But Now That the Data Show Children Aren't Helped -- and May Be Hurt -- They Refuse to Pubish the Results.
I repeat: We paid $10 million for this attempted propaganda operation and now that the proof is in that transgender drugs are harmful to children, they're locking up the results. Sue them for the $10 million back and lodge FOIA after FOIA for the results. We fucking paid for them. They have no right to classify them as Top Secret just because the truth is other than what they prayed for.
U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care.
No that's not true, as even the New York Time will note later. So her claim is "there was no improvement because they were already doing swell." Keep that in mind when they tell you we must give kids transgender drugs and surgeries or else they'll become suicidal and kill themselves. She's saying the kids were doing great before the procedures!
An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment. The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off the permanent physical changes -- like breasts or a deepening voice -- that could exacerbate their gender distress, known as dysphoria. The researchers followed the children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health. An older Dutch study had found that puberty blockers improved well-being, results that inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications as part of what is now called gender-affirming care. But the American trial did not find a similar trend, Dr. Olson-Kennedy said in a wide-ranging interview. Puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements, she said, most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began.
Before the "study:" We need to give these kids transgender surgeries because they're depressed and/or suicidal After the "study:" Never mind what I said about them being depressed and/or suicidal, their mental health hasn't improved only because their mental health was already swell!
"They're in really good shape when they come in, and they're in really good shape after two years," said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country's largest youth gender clinic at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. That conclusion seemed to contradict an earlier description of the group, in which Dr. Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.
Her findings would prove critics are right, so she's hiding the research she bilked the American taxpayer for.
In the nine years since the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and as medical care for this small group of adolescents became a searing issue in American politics, Dr. Olson-Kennedy's team has not published the data. Asked why, she said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states, one of which will soon be considered by the Supreme Court.
"I do not want our work to be weaponized," she said. "It has to be exactly on point, clear and concise. And that takes time."The findings, like the election results from Atlanta and Detroit, need more time to be tabulated.
... Dr. Olson-Kennedy is one of the country's most vocal advocates of adolescent gender treatments and has served as an expert witness in many legal challenges to the state bans. She said she was concerned the study's results could be used in court to argue that "we shouldn't use blockers because it doesn't impact them," referring to transgender adolescents. Other researchers, however, were alarmed by the idea of delaying results that would have immediate implications for families around the world. "I understand the fear about it being weaponized, but it's really important to get the science out there," said Amy Tishelman, a clinical and research psychologist at Boston College who was one of the study's original researchers.Note that this study was intended to support the tiny Dutch study -- which itself was repudiated by the much more robust Cass Study in the UK.
England's youth gender clinic in 2011 tried to replicate the Dutch results with a study of 44 children. But at a conference five years later, the British researchers reported that puberty blockers had not changed volunteers' well-being, including rates of self-harm. Those results were not made public until 2020, years after puberty blockers had become the standard treatment for children with gender dysphoria in England. In 2020, Dr. Olson-Kennedy's group described the initial psychological profile of the children enrolled in the U.S. study of puberty blockers, whose average age was 11. Before receiving the drugs, around one quarter of the group reported depression symptoms and significant anxiety, and one quarter reported ever having thoughts of suicide. Eight percent reported a past suicide attempt. In a progress report submitted to the N.I.H. at that time, Dr. Olson-Kennedy outlined her hypothesis of how the children would fare after two years on puberty blockers: that they would show "decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury, and suicidality, and increased body esteem and quality of life over time." That hypothesis does not seem to have borne out.Now check out this spin:
"They have good mental health on average," Dr. Olson-Kennedy said in the interview with The New York Times. "They're not in any concerning ranges, either at the beginning or after two years." She reiterated this idea several times.What? The NIH says it's fine if they take the $10 million grant and bury the report:
When asked in follow-up emails to clarify how the children could have good initial mental health when her preliminary findings had showed one quarter of them struggling, Dr. Olson-Kennedy said that, in the interview, she was referring to data averages and that she was still analyzing the full data set.
An N.I.H. spokesman said that while the agency generally encourages the publication of data supported by its grants, researchers decide how and when to do so.Note the whole purpose of a study is to take a small but representative sample of the general population, study that sample, and extrapolate the results to the general population. Obviously you can't track the health of every single person. But we have accepted for hundreds of years of medical science research (as well as polling or any other statistical sampling) that a small but representative sample shows what the whole group is experiencing. In order to justify refusing to release the results, this Dick-Chopping Maniac now says there's no point in studying a small sample, because that tells us nothing about the larger group at all:
Although the N.I.H. studies are large, she said, "these are minuscule compared to the amount of people that we've taken care of."OUT: "Trust the science" IN: Fuck the science, we're doing Transgender Justice on the taxpayer's dime! Fuck you.
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Kamala Harris: Trump Is So Old He's "Exhausted" and Cancelling Events
Also Kamala Harris: I'm So Tired of Working a Job for the First Time in My Life I'm Taking Two Consecutive Days Off Just to Memorize Fake Answers in a Fake CNN "Interview"
Also Kamala Harris: I'm So Tired of Working a Job for the First Time in My Life I'm Taking Two Consecutive Days Off Just to Memorize Fake Answers in a Fake CNN "Interview"
Kamala Harris's latest fake narrative is that Trump -- who has been on the trail relentlessly for 52 straight days without a break -- is "exhausted" and "dodging debates" and "cancelling events."
Trump has cancelled no events, despite being targeted by assassins at least twice and maybe a third time. He's not dodging debates -- he accepted Fox's invitation for a debate, which Kamala refused. She wants another leftwing media rigged fake debate where Trump gets yelled at by frustrated theater kids in make-up. But this is her line, because she's a liar and a DEI hire who has never achieved anything and has never even been expected to achieve anything. She's mad at Trump for refusing to take up the White Man's Burden and Position Her for Success:Kamala HarrisSo Trump's exhausted, huh? Well Kamala, who just turned 60 and is no spring chicken and who has never worked hard in her life, is now taking two days off, back-to-back, in the crucial last 12 days before the election:
@KamalaHarris Donald Trump is dodging debates and ducking interviews. His campaign team says it's because of "exhaustion." Well, if he's exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises the question: Is he fit for the toughest job in the world?
Greg PriceThe Comply-or-Die media is pushing Kamala's spin that Orange Man Old. Despite her own inability to work on days when she's sitting down for 30 minute interviews. A Democrat operative at the Washington Post -- excuse my redundancy -- is married to a leftwing abortion activist who just so happened to clerk at the Supreme Court when the Dobbs decision was leaked to the leftwing media. He's claiming that Trump, who speaks literally six or eight hours a day to the public, is increasingly experiencing verbal "slip-ups." You know -- like Biden, who the left still refuses to admit was cognitively challenged and who only left the race because of "the polling." So Biden is cognitively sharp, but Trump's in the grips of dementia:
@greg_price11 Kamala is taking all of today off to prepare for two pre-taped interviews with NBC and Telemundo and is taking all day tomorrow off to prepare for a CNN town hall. President Trump is doing multiple events per day: Rallies, interviews, roundtables. The guy isn't stopping. This is happening as Kamala's campaign accuses Trump of being "exhausted."
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Do I Really Have to Talk About This Bullshit?
So, Jeffrey Goldberg, who has published lie after lie in the past, and works for a magazine owned by Steve Jobs' ultra-woke widow who's also a bestie of Kamala Harris, publishes John Kelly's latest 11th-hour Shocking Revelation.
Kelly, who worked for Trump the longest of any of his Chief of Staffs, for some reason waited five and a half years to inform us that Trump really liked Hitler's generals. Why did he never mention this earlier? He hates Trump and has been vomiting up lies about him for years; why did he never mention this one before? And what did Trump like about Hitler's generals, supposedly? Well, according to serial fabulist and defamer John Kelly, he liked Hitler's generals' loyalty. Now I don't believe a word of this, but I would say that given Trump's experiences with the Deep State constantly unconstitutionally, treasonously plotting against the elected president of the United States, I could understand someone prizing loyalty from his bureaucracy. But we're all supposed to pretend 1, this has any chance of being true, and 2, that if Trump said something like "I mean, even Hitler's generals showed loyalty, whereas mine scheme against me," we should take this as proof that Trump -- who has Jewish grandchildren -- was a Secret Nazi all along.Retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, said former President Trump praised Adolf Hitler's generals for their loyalty in a new interview in The Atlantic on Tuesday. In the interview with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Kelly affirmed reporting from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's book, "The Divider: Trump in the White House," which quoted Trump asking Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, "Why can't you be like the German generals?" According to Goldberg's account of Baker and Glasser's reporting, Kelly responded by explaining to Trump that the German generals "tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off," but Trump reportedly was not swayed by the correction.Are you kidding? That's it? My guess before reading the quote was the most Trump could have conceivably said was "why can't you show the loyalty to a president that even generals serving under Hitler showed," and that's exactly the claim being made. The paid attack dog of woke billionaire heiress Laura Powell-Jobs also "reports" an anonymously-offered smear. The claim is that Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a Mexican-American servicemember killed by Biden's incompetence, and then, for some reason, when no one could hear him (except the well-placed Mystery Source), he said "I'm not paying $60,000 to bury a Mexican, don't pay that bill." Or words to that effect. I'm not going to bother getting the "quote" right because it's fictional in the first place. It's like arguing about whether Darth Vader said "Luke, I am your father" or "No, I am your father." It doesn't matter. It's not real. (Though, as far as the correct fictional quote, it's the latter one. That made-up fictional quote is more important than this one.) The sister and family and attorney of the dead servicemember say it's a lie and are telling the Marxist Insurrection Media to stop lying and using the dead woman as a prop. And check out the lame "community note" added by a Kamala Harris partisan -- well, there's no proof he did pay for the funeral. I think the sister would mention it if he didn't. Don't you?
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Whistleblower: The Harris-Biden Administration is Paying NGOs to Fly Unaccompanied Minor Children Around, Knowing They're Being Sexually Trafficked
Happy Humpday. It's all downhill from here. But in a good way.
James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII BREAKING: Federal Government Whistleblower Exposes $347M Contract for Transporting Unaccompanied Minors - "What You Know, You Cannot Unknow" "My line in the sand moment was when I found out that GSA had awarded a contract to a company to transport unaccompanied minors," shared current General Services Administration (GSA) Senior Contract Specialist Clarissa Rippee, revealing shocking details about a $347 million contract awarded to the company responsible for transporting unaccompanied minors across the United States. "It felt like someone kicked me in the gut," Rippee added. Rippee, who works inside the General Services Administration (GSA), described the unaccompanied minors as being treated like "commodities... like potato chips on a truck." The contract, which she highlights as an enormous "big money business," involves moving children, often separated from their families, under inhumane conditions. "Once you know, you cannot unknow," Rippee stated, saying that the horrifying conditions she witnessed inspired her to speak out: "It's about the children, and it's my duty now to speak up." Rippee also noted the troubling normalization of such activities within the government, saying, "It's just an accepted part of the bureaucracy. But the reality is, this is exploitation, and it has to stop." Rippee's revelations come on the heels of Border Patrol Agent Zachary Apotheker (@ZachApotheker) blowing the whistle on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the film "Line in the Sand." Support brave whistleblowers like Rippee and Apotheker by donating to the Citizen Journalist Foundation at https://okeefemediagroup.com/donate/. Your contribution ensures that courageous individuals can step forward and reveal the truth, helping to hold those in power accountable.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Incomprehensible
When Emperor Hirohito's voice went out over the Japanese airwaves announcing his government's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the Empire's unconditional surrender to the Allies, it was particularly notable for two reasons. First, emperors do not speak to commoners, so it was the first time that most of his subjects had ever heard his voice. Second, Hirohito spoke in an ancient, hidebound dialect that was nearly incomprehensible to his subjects.
Between the courtly classical Japanese dialect and the careful couched language, many of those who heard it were left struggling to understand what, exactly, they had heard. The Emperor said that Japan "accepts the provisions of the Joint Declaration," but what does that mean? Did Japan surrender or not? What was the meaning of those odd words from their God-emperor?
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Study for a portrait of Jean Dupré
Félix Del Marle
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Early Morning Open Thread
More thought crimes coming to Canada? Calling out Indian mass-graves hoax could become illegal
But they want to make it illegal to criticize it!
Sefton is still in computer purgatory. I think his cat used his AoSHQ floppy disk as a chew toy...
Talk amongst yourselves! Addendum: The United States isn't the only country where free speech is under attack. The Orwellian lunatics on our northern border are skipping gleefully into totalitarianism.More thought crimes coming to Canada? Calling out Indian mass-graves hoax could become illegal
After three years of chest-beating, church burnings, historical revisionism, and national self-flagellation, the exponents of Canada's mass Indian graves hoax have produced no evidence to support their anti-Christian "blood libel."
But they want to make it illegal to criticize it!
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Daily Tech News 23 October 2024
Top Story
- The San Francisco MTA is spending $212 million to move its train control system off floppy disks. (GovTech)
The system was installed in 1998, which is rather late to be using floppy disks that were (assuming it uses 3.5" disks) introduced in 1982. But Compact Flash, the only real alternative at the time that is still supported today, was only introduced in 1994 and was likely not readily available when the project started.
And given that it's been working for 26 years so far, we can't really blame the designers for being short-sighted.
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October 22, 2024
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (10/22/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I “All tech we are relying on is performing adequately, any issues are immediately addressed, and of course – like any big organization – we have parallel backup systems as a failsafe,” Trump campaign political director James Blair
Quote II “We have collectively acknowledged that a membership dues increase is needed which is greater than the 25 percent (or $6.25) the National Board has authority to approve in a single triennium,” Girl Scouts of the USA President Noorain Khan and CEO Bonnie Barczykowski wrote in a handbook
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FAFO Theatre Cafe
I spelled "Theatre" the classy way (TM).
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Quick Hits
The Hill: Maybe Joe Biden was a stronger candidate than Kamala.
With the Nov. 5 election just over a fortnight away, here is an intriguing thought experiment. By most accounts, the election is still a horse race too close to call.Um, no. Nice cope, though.
But although Vice President Kamala Harris quickly assumed the presidential mantle from Joe Biden and put in place an impressive start-up, October has not been particularly kind to her. Donald Trump has closed the electoral gaps, and some believe he is actually leading. No matter who wins, we have to ask: Would President Biden have been a better candidate and choice despite suffering from the effects of age and 81 years? Further, suppose that the disastrous June 27 debate with Trump had not taken place, or that Biden had been firing on all cylinders that night. Would Biden have been forced to withdraw? And whether Harris loses or wins, some will ask whether Biden might still have been a better candidate. Bob Woodward's new book, "War," might not be dispositive in representing Biden's strengths and weaknesses. The book does add weight to this thought experiment, though. Woodward paints a very positive picture of Biden's ability to lead and to govern despite making mistakes, most notably the disastrous withdrawal from Kabul. Woodward also reports that Biden's obvious decline was physical and not mental. This was caused in part by prior medical conditions accelerating the effects of age on a body. There were also the strains of high office; the president refused to limit his overworked schedule despite valid criticisms that he was on near-permanent holiday in Delaware or Camp David.Bob Woodward is a huckster and a fraud.
Yes, you're all saying that. Why are you all saying that? Bob Casey and Tammy Baldwin don't believe Kamala is winning. We know this because they're running ads claiming that they stand with Trump on key issues.
As I have previously written, Americans may not know the winner right away...
Two Democratic senators facing reelection in battleground states are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into adverts that play up their support for Donald Trump and his policies, according to an exclusive analysis of broadcast data. It suggests they are trying to win over Trump supporters to hold their seats, even if it undermines Kamala Harris' campaign. In key counties in Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey has shifted the bulk of his TV advertising to a 30-second spot entitled 'Independent' that features a married couple comprising a Republican and Democrat explaining how he 'bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China. 'And in Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin has made a similar move with an ad that emphasizes how she worked with Trump on ensuring U.S. iron and steel is used in infrastructure projects. Between them, they spent $650,000 on those two ads in the four days up to Monday, according to an analysis of data collected by AdImpact which monitors election advertising. 'And in Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin has made a similar move with an ad that emphasizes how she worked with Trump on ensuring U.S. iron and steel is used in infrastructure projects. Between them, they spent $650,000 on those two ads in the four days up to Monday, according to an analysis of data collected by AdImpact which monitors election advertising. The move is most distinct in Pennsylvania. From Monday, 'Independent' was the only advert Casey's campaign was running in the Erie, Harrisburg, Johnstown and Pittsburgh areas, according to the analysis. Yet in the deep blue Democratic areas of Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia his campaign is running a different ad, entitled 'Selling Out America,' which attacks his opponent. 'It is like he is running two campaigns, which is not a stupid thing to do,' said a person familiar with political ad buying. 'But it is also fair to say that in much of the state his closing message is a pro-Trump message.' The ad includes a 2017 headline linking the Democrat to Trump's policies. 'Casey supports Trump's trade order,' it says. The race is finely poised. A slew of recent polls shows that Republican Dave McCormick has eaten into Casey's lead. On Monday, the Cook Political Report moved the race from 'lean Democratic' to 'toss up.'Bob Casey voted with Biden more than almost any other Democrat Senator -- but now, two weeks before the election, he's an "independent" and almost Trump's running mate, huh? Nate Silver wrote a list of 24 reasons why Kamala "might" -- or will, I'd say -- lose.
Harris is the favorite to win the popular vote, but the Electoral College bias favors Republicans by about 2 percentage points. In an era of intense partisanship and close elections, this is inherently difficult for Democrats to overcome. Inflation hit a peak of 9.1 percentage points in June 2022. It has abated now, but prices remain much higher than when Joe Biden took office, and voters are historically highly sensitive to inflation. Democrats can also plausibly be blamed for it given intensive increases in government spending during COVID recovery efforts.Dude, Fauci and Birx were in control of this country's covid policy and they are obviously hardcore authoritarian leftists.
... Incumbent parties worldwide are doing very poorly, and the historical incumbency advantage has diminished to the point where it may now be an incumbency handicap instead given perpetually negative perceptions about the direction of the country. ... Illegal/unauthorized immigration increased substantially during the first few years of the Biden/Harris administration amid a rising global backlash to immigration.
Harris ran far to her left in 2019, adopting many unpopular positions, and doesn't really have a viable strategy for explaining her changing stances. The cultural vibes are shifting to the right, and the left continues to pay a price for the excesses of 2020 on COVID, crime, "wokeness," and other issues. Voters have nostalgia for the relatively strong economic performance in the first three years of Trump's term and associate the problems of 2020 with Democrats, even though they weren't in charge at the time.
... Many men, especially young men, feel lost amidst declining college enrollment, contributing to a rightward shift and a growing gender gap. ... Harris is seeking to become the first woman president. In the only previous attempt, undecideds broke heavily against Hillary Clinton, and she underperformed her polls. Trust in media continues to fall to abysmal levels. One can debate how to attribute blame for this between longstanding conservative efforts to discredit the media, a secular decline in trust in institutions, and various overreaching and hypocrisy in the press. But it's hard for even legitimate Trump critiques to penetrate the mass public. Trump's conviction on a series of felony charges hardly made any difference, for instance. ...Oh right, that little thing the media has done its best to pretend out of existence.
Foreign policy might not matter much to voters, but the world has become more unstable under Biden's tenure. There has been a decline in democracy worldwide and an increase in interstate conflict, crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, deteriorating US-China relations, increasing immigration flows because of global instability, and a pullout from Afghanistan that negatively impacted Biden's popularity. The Israel-Hamas war split the Democratic base in a way no comparable issue has split the GOP base. There are more left-leaning third-party candidates than right-leaning ones, and the former leading third-party candidate (RFK Jr.) endorsed Trump and undermined Harris's post-convention momentum. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has become a huge Trump stan and is doing everything in his power to tip the election to him. Twitter/X remains an influential platform among journalists but has shifted far to the right. Elon and Silicon Valley have also created a permission structure for other wealthy elites to advocate for Trump explicitly and provided a new base of money and cultural influence.
Trump was very nearly killed in an assassination attempt, and then there was a second one against him. The first attempt was closely correlated with an increase in favorability ratings for Trump, and polling shows he's considerably more popular and sympathetic than in 2016 or 2020.
"Media reporter" Brian Stelter (who is a potato) claims that it's the right making the McDonald's stop a "three day story," and not the left for raving about it in their latest bout of hysteria:
Harris has been running on vibes and has failed to articulate a clear vision for the country. It might have been a good strategy if the "fundamentals" favored her, but they don't.
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Surprise! Kamala Harris Took Advantage of an Affirmative Action Program for "Disadvantaged Children" Despite Being the Daughter of Two Well-Off Professors
She is the worst example of DEI anti-meritocracy.
She got into a very meh law school named Hastings. And she didn't even get in on her own merits.Further evidence she's a DEI hire? She's a plagiarist. I don't just mean the extensive plagiarism in "her" book, "Smart" on Crime. We covered that last week. But there are new charges that she plagiarized almost the entire speech of an attorney general. One part she didn't plagiarize, though: she took a fictitious example of a sex crime, changed the city the imaginary incident occurred in, and presented it a real. That part, presenting a fake "for example" scenario as real? That was Pure Kamala. But apart from simply making up a lie for the speech, she stole the rest of it.
She wasn't an honors student at Howard. There is no information on what Kamala Harris scored on her LSAT. We do know that she didn't pass the Bar on the first try when 80 percent of her classmates did pass. So how did a run-of-the-mill student, and daughter of a "privileged" upbringing get into Hastings School of Law? Easy -- she fudged her application. Harris was admitted under a program called LEOP. According to the University:In a Politico article from 2021, the author describes Harris at Hastings:
UC Hastings created the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) in 1969 to make an outstanding legal education accessible to those who come from disadvantaged economic and educational backgrounds. Students are encouraged to submit a "separate LEOP statement describing the adversity they faced and its impact on their academic preparedness for law school. Diagnostic reports documenting disabilities and/or accommodations can be submitted as addenda."In the fall of 1986, Harris arrived on campus at Hastings a week before most of her classmates. She was part of the pre-orientation Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), which had been founded in 1969 to help law students from disadvantaged communities navigate the stringent demands of the first-year curriculum. Harris had come to a predominantly white institution after four years at a historically Black university. Beyond introducing students to Socratic pedagogy, case-briefing and exam-taking, the pre-orientation also gave students of color a sense of community and a hamlet of solidarity in a cut-throat environment.Harris, the daughter of two college professors, who grew up attending private schools in Canada, was not, in the least, economically or socially disadvantaged. But there she is, claiming she was.
On April 24, 2007, Kamala Harris testified before Congress in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill, which was introduced that year but never passed the upper chamber, would have created a student loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors, and Harris, then the district attorney of San Francisco, argued it would draw top legal talent to offices like hers.Go to the Free Beacon's article to see the speeches side-by-side. They're virtually identical.
In a written statement to the House Judiciary Committee, she described how debt-addled prosecutors often decamp to the private sector a few years into the job, lured by the prospect of higher pay that could be used to pay off law school debt. That dynamic had left many district attorneys' offices short-staffed, she said, forcing them to put rookie attorneys on complex cases. "There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved," Harris wrote. "To name just a few--child abuse, elder neglect, domestic violence, identity theft and public corruption. The stakes are simply too high to allow any attorney other than experienced prosecutors to handle these matters." By repaying the loans of prosecutors and public defenders, Harris argued, the bill, which had been introduced with bipartisan support, would provide an incentive for lawyers to enter public service, or at least diminish the incentive to leave it. The statement was simple and pragmatic. But Harris wasn't the first person to make it. Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error--a "who" that should have been a "whom"--was corrected in Harris's transposition.
The main difference between their testimonies is that Logli submitted his to the Senate instead of the House. And unlike Harris, Logli is a Republican. Harris, who also testified about two other bills that day, devoted approximately 1,500 words to the John R. Justice Act. Nearly 1,200 of them--or 80 percent--were copied verbatim from the statement Logli submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 27, 2007, two months before Harris delivered her testimony. ... The passages are some of the most striking cases in which Harris, a former senator and state attorney general, appears to have plagiarized in her capacity as a government official, lifting large chunks of texts from other attorneys--and in one case from Wikipedia--without attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of her work. ... [A]s California attorney general, she didn't just copy boilerplate language without attribution. In one of the lengthier passages reviewed by Free Beacon, she lifted a fictionalized story about a victim of sex trafficking--and presented it as a real case. The story came from Polaris Project, a nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline. By June 2012, the project had posted a series of vignettes on its website that were "representative of the types of calls" the hotline receives and "meant for informational purposes only," according to an archived webpage. To preserve confidentiality, the project said, key details like "names, locations, and other identifying information" had been changed. But in November 2012, Harris included one of those vignettes in a report she published on the state of human trafficking in California. Though she said that the story was "courtesy of" the hotline, she copied it verbatim and did not acknowledge that it contained fictionalized material. The only detail she changed was the location. The Polaris Project described a young woman, "Kelly," who had been forced to engage in prostitution and was rescued by law enforcement in Washington, D.C. But in Harris's telling, Kelly had conveniently been found in San Francisco. The change effectively gave Harris credit for a rescue that never occurred, at least in her state, and reflects what Skinner, the former solicitor general, said was a common perception of Harris among legal officials at the time. "She was never viewed in the Attorney General community as being an intellectual leader," he said. "It is very on-brand with that reputation to hear now that she was repackaging stories from other locations as though they happened in California." The story from the hotline wasn't a one-off. In a 2010 report on organized crime, Harris copied several passages from Bill Lockyer, one of her predecessors as California attorney general, without attribution. In the 2012 report on human trafficking, she copied a paragraph from Wikipedia. And in a 2014 report on transnational gangs, she copied several sentences from Roger McDonough, a New York State judge, as well as McDonough's footnotes.
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Polls: Trump Winning Latinos 49-38%, Has Historic 29% Share of Black Vote
A Democrat panelist on Crooked CNN is wondering, Hey, maybe we should lay off calling Hispanics "Latinx" as if they're majority-transgender. They don't seem to like that. And apparently Kamala Harris agrees. She "copy-pasted her plan for black men and changed "black" to "Latino."" But she is suddenly saying "Latino" instead of "Latinx."
One big caveat: When a poll of, let's say, 1000 people claims a margin-of-error rate of 3%, that's for the whole 1000 people.
When you start digging into sub-groups, the margin of error get much bigger because the fewer people you poll, the worse the margin of error. If you ask 1000 people about voting intentions, you might wind up with 130 black voters. The margin of error for that is big. Indeed, the margin of error shown below for Latinos is 9%. And that mean that Kamala's share of Latino voters could be as high as 47%, and Trump's as low as 40%. But that's still nearly even! And the poll on black voters is from Fox, who uses a notoriously Democrat-skewing pollster! The poll on Latinexexes comes via Suffolk.A Democrat panelist on Crooked CNN is wondering, Hey, maybe we should lay off calling Hispanics "Latinx" as if they're majority-transgender. They don't seem to like that. And apparently Kamala Harris agrees. She "copy-pasted her plan for black men and changed "black" to "Latino."" But she is suddenly saying "Latino" instead of "Latinx."
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