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Jan 10, 2019
Today's Tweet
45* is a petty tin-plated strutting martinet. He has no confidence in his own ability to deal with much of anything unless he believes he has some kind of absolute power to force you into going along with whatever he wants to do.
And every day, he makes it clear that his feelings of inadequacy are perfectly justified.
He is The Daddy State.
When I asked the President if he would sign spending bills unrelated to the border wall, he repeatedly demanded to know if that is what I would do. It may be tempting to answer such a question, but that is not my job. pic.twitter.com/8HxsSep5eV— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) January 9, 2019
And A Bag Of Cheetohs
NY Daily News:
Porn star Stormy Daniels folded clothes on Instagram Live Tuesday night while President Trump went on live television to try and sell Americans on the idea that it’s necessary to build a wall on the nation’s southern border. Both broadcasts started at 9 p.m. and lasted 10 minutes. Daniels, who filmed the skit in her underwear, played Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall" while doing her chores. She said she attracted 100,000 viewers.
Porn star Stormy Daniels folded clothes on Instagram Live Tuesday night while President Trump went on live television to try and sell Americans on the idea that it’s necessary to build a wall on the nation’s southern border. Both broadcasts started at 9 p.m. and lasted 10 minutes. Daniels, who filmed the skit in her underwear, played Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall" while doing her chores. She said she attracted 100,000 viewers.
A Little History
How Wall Street got its name.
First, the local tribes just walked around it.
Then, when the British were about to land their forces from the water side, the Dutch had sense enough to know they were cooked, so they gave up.
First, the local tribes just walked around it.
Then, when the British were about to land their forces from the water side, the Dutch had sense enough to know they were cooked, so they gave up.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity." -- George S Patton
A wall - didn't work for New Amsterdam, or Hadrian, or the GDR, or the Chinese, or or or.
Jan 9, 2019
Daddy State Update
Amy Siskind's podcast on Stitcher.
This is a companion for Siskind's posts at Medium.
We're starting to accelerate the normalization of some pretty bad shit.
Jan 8, 2019
On Climate Recently
Elasticity is a thing.
We can get a spike in prices long after supply has caught up with demand.
We can see unemployment drop even after the economy starts to go south.
Etc
So 45* can crow about how US carbon emissions have been nice and low - surprising everybody by saying something that's more or less true - even as his "cabinet" and "policies-makers" are busily pulling shit on us that all but ensure a worse-than-normal outcome down the road.
And that down-the-road thing can come up pretty fast - there's always a Snap-Back.
Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, WaPo:
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4 percent in 2018, according to new research — a jarring increase that comes as scientists say the world needs to be aggressively cutting its emissions to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change.
The findings, published Tuesday by the independent economic research firm Rhodium Group, mean that the United States now has a diminishing chance of meeting its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to dramatically reduce its emissions by 2025.
The findings also underscore how the world’s second-largest emitter, once a global leader in pushing for climate action, has all but abandoned efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming world. President Trump has said he plans to officially withdraw the nation from the Paris climate agreement in 2020 and in the meantime has rolled back Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions.
“We have lost momentum. There’s no question,” Rob Jackson, a Stanford University professor who studies emissions trends, said of both U.S. and global efforts to steer the world toward a more sustainable future.
The sharp emissions rise was fueled primarily by a booming economy, researchers found. But the increase, which could prove to be the second-largest in the past 20 years, probably would not have been as stark withoutTrump administration rollbacks, said Trevor Houser, a partner at Rhodium.
“I don’t think you would have seen the same increase,” Houser said, referring to the electric power sector in particular.
We can get a spike in prices long after supply has caught up with demand.
We can see unemployment drop even after the economy starts to go south.
Etc
So 45* can crow about how US carbon emissions have been nice and low - surprising everybody by saying something that's more or less true - even as his "cabinet" and "policies-makers" are busily pulling shit on us that all but ensure a worse-than-normal outcome down the road.
And that down-the-road thing can come up pretty fast - there's always a Snap-Back.
Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, WaPo:
The findings, published Tuesday by the independent economic research firm Rhodium Group, mean that the United States now has a diminishing chance of meeting its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to dramatically reduce its emissions by 2025.
The findings also underscore how the world’s second-largest emitter, once a global leader in pushing for climate action, has all but abandoned efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming world. President Trump has said he plans to officially withdraw the nation from the Paris climate agreement in 2020 and in the meantime has rolled back Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions.
“We have lost momentum. There’s no question,” Rob Jackson, a Stanford University professor who studies emissions trends, said of both U.S. and global efforts to steer the world toward a more sustainable future.
The sharp emissions rise was fueled primarily by a booming economy, researchers found. But the increase, which could prove to be the second-largest in the past 20 years, probably would not have been as stark withoutTrump administration rollbacks, said Trevor Houser, a partner at Rhodium.
“I don’t think you would have seen the same increase,” Houser said, referring to the electric power sector in particular.
Today's Beau
Beau Of The Fifth Column
There are very few people outside of Cult45 who think he has the authority to use a Declaration of Emergency to build his wall.
And there are plenty of people who are pretty confidant that he doesn't have the actual balls to follow thru on his threat - to claim he has that authority.
There are very few people outside of Cult45 who think he has the authority to use a Declaration of Emergency to build his wall.
And there are plenty of people who are pretty confidant that he doesn't have the actual balls to follow thru on his threat - to claim he has that authority.
One great Take-Away:
Even if you support what he wants to do, if you support the way he wants to do it, then you're betraying American democracy.
There is no middle ground on that one.
We'll see what we see.
I'm going to stay with my thinking that it's a fool's errand trying to predict what this particular Ass Hat POTUS is going to do - because that's his basic game.
He sets it up with, "Maybe I will and maybe I won't", and once you've predicted he'll go one way, he'll almost always go some other way - usually, picking something he never mentioned before, which catches us more or less off guard, which is how he wants it.
The thing I try to keep in mind is that there are no guiding principles in place with Donald J Trump.
There are principles. They do exist. They're lofty-sounding and noble and familiar. But everything is fungible. Everything is situational. Every "principle" can be bent and shaped in order for it to be smash-fitted to whatever immediate need presents itself.
Maybe it's because I've been binge-ing The Sopranos on HBO the last few days, but holy crap - 45* has come into pretty sharp focus for me.
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Jan 7, 2019
About That Stoopid Name
There's an NFL team in Washington DC, and there's a controversy that kinda comes and goes concerning the name of that team - a name that I try not to use, so I'll go with "Taters".
Anyway, the controversy is always about what the name is intended to mean by the people who use the name in normal conversation. Which is pretty sly. It's a tactic that deflects the criticism by trying to flip the script in order to put the one who's objecting to the word on defense, having to explain why its use is insulting. (remember: when you're explaining, you're losing)
This is, of course, a cop out that's no different from the bullshit excuses that get thrown around whenever we have to argue about Confederate memorial statuary and the battle flag of the Army Of Northern Virginia and various other really stoopid shit that should never even pop up on the social radar.
Anyway, the 2018 midterms gave us a good way to illustrate the point on how to convince someone that the NFL needs to pressure Dan Snyder to change that name.
There's a very simple test available to anyone in the DC area.
All you have to do is walk up to this woman - US Rep Sharice Davids...
...and say, "Hey, Redskin, congratulations on being elected to Congress!"
Now, I think you'll survive this encounter - survive physically anyway - but assuming she resists the perfectly reasonable urge to stomp your ass til there's nothing left of you but a greasy spot on the rug, I'm betting you'll come away with a slightly different perspective on the subject.
Anyway, the controversy is always about what the name is intended to mean by the people who use the name in normal conversation. Which is pretty sly. It's a tactic that deflects the criticism by trying to flip the script in order to put the one who's objecting to the word on defense, having to explain why its use is insulting. (remember: when you're explaining, you're losing)
This is, of course, a cop out that's no different from the bullshit excuses that get thrown around whenever we have to argue about Confederate memorial statuary and the battle flag of the Army Of Northern Virginia and various other really stoopid shit that should never even pop up on the social radar.
Anyway, the 2018 midterms gave us a good way to illustrate the point on how to convince someone that the NFL needs to pressure Dan Snyder to change that name.
There's a very simple test available to anyone in the DC area.
All you have to do is walk up to this woman - US Rep Sharice Davids...
...and say, "Hey, Redskin, congratulations on being elected to Congress!"
Now, I think you'll survive this encounter - survive physically anyway - but assuming she resists the perfectly reasonable urge to stomp your ass til there's nothing left of you but a greasy spot on the rug, I'm betting you'll come away with a slightly different perspective on the subject.
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New Product
Dave Smith, Business Insider:
Sam Morrison likes to create thought-provoking art.
In high school, he made silk-screen shirts and decks of cards with secret compartments inside. But over the past several years, most of his projects were digital — that is, until he had the idea last year to make physical flip-flops out of President Donald Trump's tweets.
"Take a scroll through Donald Trump's 40,000 tweets, and you're sure to catch some contradicting opinions," Morrison told Business Insider over email. "I wanted to highlight this hypocrisy."
Morrison had a full-time job in the advertising industry at the time, but he got to work on producing his flip-flops. He sourced his own materials and printed and packaged every flip-flop by hand.
He made 1000 pairs, and they sold out in less than a month.
Today's Tweet
45* is that guy who desperately needs you to think he's got it all dialed in. But then he starts talking and you realize his strangle-hold on the obvious has him mesmerized to the point that he believes that what he's saying is just as amazing to you as it is to him, when it's actually what keeps him from making any cogent connections between his idiotic ideas and whatever normal people might consider reasonable and actionable plans.
“my favorite way to listen to the president is slowed down to 1/2 speed because it reveals how often times his logic is indistinguishable from that of a drunk person” - via @arlenparsa pic.twitter.com/lfGu1FdU2J— á´żealfarmacist (@real_farmacist) January 5, 2019
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