playing stupid is worse than being stupid. can't be sure which one is going on here but neither is great. https://t.co/eURbmNOYoY
— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) February 5, 2021
"Why is Joe Biden going to Delaware? And a follow-up question, if I may, Why is Bruce Springsteen going to New Jersey?" https://t.co/CPqqjZu2bw
— SlacktivistFred’s 1611 Project (@SlacktivistFred) February 5, 2021
He's fully vaccinated, he's masked, he's going on Air Force One (!!), and he is NOT – repeat, NOT! – going there to hold super-spreader rallies.
This is pathetic, even by Fox standards. https://t.co/bMhfMCJbF5
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 5, 2021
Almost certainly *not* the AF1 in-flight movie…
OAN is airing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's documentary about how the election was stolen for twelve consecutive hours today.
Here's the disclaimer at the top indicating that it is paid programming, "opinion only," and OAN doesn't endorse statements re: Dominion/Smartmatic. pic.twitter.com/pm4CaduJXc
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 5, 2021
just got off a zoom call with all 9 supreme court justices who can confirm the grand marshall is considering the death penalty for dominion https://t.co/mviadSPjnz
— kilgore trout, back in some form (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 5, 2021
https://t.co/ZlaxyPHRnv pic.twitter.com/MYXoT72P2r
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) February 5, 2021
Comrade Colette
I’m still fiddling around with the controls on my space laser. How tightly focused can (((we))) get these things? Close-in enough to zap one particular spot on the Capitol steps, about 2 square feet, ~5’6″, bleached blond, large mouth?
ETA: Dammit, not second.
MattF
We’re all getting very practiced at spotting psychopathic behavior. It’s necessary, but one should not conclude that it’s a good thing.
Baud
I don’t think it is pathetic by Fox standards — the network that brought you the terrorist fist bump.
Aziz, light!
The election was stolen?
Baud
@Aziz, light!:
Biden stole my heart.
JPL
@Aziz, light!: The question now is have you lost your freedoms?
Roger Moore
It’s amazing how an entire party can completely forget about the previous 4 years.
Baud
Biden is on AF1!
FelonyGovt
I guess it was fine for the orange tub of lard to travel to Florida every single weekend.
But Biden is going to (shudders) Delaware!!!
Baud
Going to DE from Washington is probably a half hour trip by plane.
Shalimar
@Roger Moore: Coming next week to Fox News: “Who is this random stranger other networks are pretending is on trial for something?”
p.a.
Are mohels allowed to use the JSL? (Jewish Space Laser)
Cameron
Q: “Why is the President going to Delaware?”
A: “To get to the other side.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I’m sure he’d rather be on the Amtrak
Is there a presidential Amtrak car? I think there should be
Baud
That looks like a smaller plane, which makes sense.
They really should change the color scheme though.
debbie
Does the AP know how stupid their guy is?
Baud
@debbie:
It really is an embarrassment. I’d certainly be embarrassed if I had to ask that question.
satby
@Comrade Colette: Hey I hope you get that laser fine tuned!
And answer my email?
Cameron
“We pray and we go to heaven; it’s over.” Sounds very much the way a bible-thumping winger would fuck up an Underpants Gnome joke.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Just watched him land in Marine 1 and board AF1. First time as POTUS. That had to have been a special moment!
bluefoot
Speaking of playing stupid or being stupid – Nate Silver needs to shut the fuck up about vaccines. He should take a little time and maybe read the FDA guidances on what data is required for the FDA to review a vaccine for approval – including pre-clinical and clinical safety, efficacy, proof of biology and CMC (chemistry, manufacturing and controls). He should also do some reading about technology transfer and qualification of manufacturing sites and processes for drugs.
Or you know, talk to someone with knowledge about these things rather than spouting bullshit.
Kristine
This may have been mentioned previously, but Nancy LeTourneau and Martin Longman are mostly leaving Washington Monthly. They may post occasionally, but they’ll be concentrating on Progress Pond.
Sometimes Longman irritates me, but I’ve been a reader since Booman Tribune. I’ve always liked LeTourneau–she’s the main reason I’m a WM subscriber. Not sure if I’ll continue now, though I know supporting liberal publications is important. But Chris Matthews? Jesus.
Baud
@Kristine:
What is Progress Pond?
BruceFromOhio
That was fun to watch. Psaki has three modes
— that’s a good question, here’s the detail that I know.
– that’s a good question, I do not know, but I will go find out. Or, that’s a question for (other agency), you should go ask them.
– that’s a really stupid question, I’m going to humor you because people are watching, and you will look and sound like an idiot. The Delaware questions were in that slot – who in this room does NOT know that the Biden’s are from DE? And, AYFKM?
One thing she does NOT do, is throw the previous admin completely under the bus. She’ll refer to “as you know, the previous administration did it differently/had a different policy” as a gentle reminder, but the Faux hounds and their ilk do not care.
Also, Congresswoman Greene (Q-GA) is persona non grata. Don’t even.
satby
She really is a perfect Press Secretary, because she manages to answer civilly without starting by asking “Seriously?!? Wow!”
satby
@Baud: Booman’s joint
Baud
@satby:
Fixed.
MazeDancer
Feels like Mitch has 2 choices now:
1) Impeach Donald Trump
or
2) Turn the GOP over to Greene and QAnon
She will be unleashed. The media will follow the new shiny crazy.
The GOP will be destroyed in 2022.
So, we kind of have a win-win. Though both will be painful.
satby
@Baud: ? ? ?
Baud
@satby:
I didn’t realize it had gotten so big as to have paid contributors.
BruceFromOhio
@bluefoot:
This. If you’re not in the medical profession, STFU. It’s like the day-trader bois ranting about short squeezes.
Benw
@Baud: it was terrorist fist JAB
Much more sinister. Like you might be standing around one day minding your own business and Obama just pops out and JABS you
Litlebritdifrnt
Alternative question “why is the president not going to one of his branded properites this weekend?Answer: because the president doed’t have any branded properties fuckass.
cmorenc
Q: Why is President Biden going to Delaware?
A: To get to the other side.
Of the river and I95.
BruceFromOhio
@MazeDancer:
No, it will not. Tens of millions of registered voters looked at the last four years, and said, “yep, looks good to me!” and filled in the bubble for the dumpster fire. That single fact should be top of mind for every Democratic voter, strategist and campaign manager.
ETA: you are correct, Yertle McTurtle has 2 choices.
Another Scott
@Benw: Not a Fauci Ouchie – Hussein Pain!!1
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose
@Cameron:
Q: Why is the President going to Delaware?
A: Why is your MOM going to Delaware?
Baud
@Benw: I hate when he does that.
Mike in NC
Fixed
jackmac
Was that question from OAN or Newsmax?
japa21
@satby: Asked earlier. Did your friend’s father get his vaccine at Tinley yesterday? What with the weather I was concerned.
Starboard Tack
@p.a.:
Only on the biggest dicks. Should work for Cruz.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I tried to watch a clip of this fool on twitter but had to stop after about 20 seconds when he said that on election night, an algorithm “broke,” and my brain seized up. I figured either I didn’t understand what an algorithm was or the pillow guy didn’t. I voted for him and clicked away.
BruceFromOhio
May Gaia bless us all that that would happen, and quickly. Don’t let the prison door hit you in the ass on the way in, Mikey. Sleep well!
Cheryl Rofer
The most important question: Are Champ and Major on AF1, going to Delaware?
Miss Bianca
@Mike in NC: Why does this guy even have any money left for this fucking idiocy?
Kristine
@Baud: Link to Progress Pond. Looks TPMish.
BruceFromOhio
@Cheryl Rofer: “And a followup, if I may, what precautions is the President taking for others on that flight who may have allergies to dogs?”
Jay
On the bright side, in the aftermath of Jan 6th, Andy Ngo “ who is a danger to out communities and provides kill lists to Atomwaffen” has fled Portland Or, for the UK.
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: That would have been my question!
BruceFromOhio
@Aziz, light!:
STILL, far and away, the best nym in existence, anywhere.
Starboard Tack
@BruceFromOhio:
Is Heaven full of cocaine, too, or just jello?
Jay
@BruceFromOhio:
“Where is the First Cat?”
it’s been almost 3 weeks.//
Starboard Tack
@Jay:
Can’t he still do that over there?
Yutsano
@Jay:
Wait…I thought he was in Vietnam.
Baud
Woman on MSNBC thinks $1400 checks are the only part of the bill.
Another Scott
Heh. Yes, indeed.
(Shelby’s not running again.)
Would be a very, very interesting turn of events. Jones and Tuberville…
Can Stacy Abrams be cloned in Alabama?
Cheers,
Scott.
BruceFromOhio
@satby:
When you hear or see reference to “it’s the plane of today”, that’s a clear sign it’s a really bad question.
NotMax
Well, not even Fox will describe Delaware as “exotic.”
:)
debbie
@Another Scott:
Considering the changes they want to make in GA, I hope Stacy’s steeling herself for a larger war.
satby
@Baud: It’s annoying because he flags interesting posts on FB and they’re inevitably paywalled.
Roger Moore
@bluefoot:
Yeah, Silver and Yglesias have been doing the pundit thing where they act as if they know more than the experts do about some obscure topic like vaccine approval. I understand where they’re coming from- they really want as many people vaccinated as soon as possible- but they need to do more to understand why things are being done the way they are. The FDA is already bending the rules substantially by giving out EUAs for something that’s going to be given out on a national scale, but the pundits are acting as though they’ve made no concessions to speed whatsoever.
satby
@japa21: Yes, and they said your info about it was so helpful and anxiety reducing. They told my friend they felt like they knew what would happen and they would have the assistance the dad would need, so thanks from my friend and me.
NotMax
@Baud
Progress Pond sounds like a water feature at Leninland.
;)
Joe Falco
@debbie:
Considering how voter disenfranchisement stole the election from her last time, I’d say Stacey is well-prepared for whatever schemes will be concocted by the Repukes.
WaterGirl
@Kristine: Yeah, saw that earlier today and put it in a comment. Then I went to my RSS reader and unsubscribed to Washington Monthly. Hers were pretty much the only ones worth reading consistently. I sometimes tried to read Martin’s, but they mostly annoy me anymore so I often wouldn’t finish.
But someone on BJ was kind enough to put a link to Nancy L’s personal blog, which I promptly added to my RSS reader. It’s called Horizons.
edit: She has 8 blogs in her blogroll, and Balloon Juice is one of them.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax:
LOL!
BruceFromOhio
Dinner beckons, cheerio mates!
Steve in the ATL
@Alison Rose: HA!
Starboard Tack
Just watched Gov. Polis COVID news conference. I like his cautious optimism and he’s still hammering on wearing masks and social distancing even as disease numbers are coming down and vaccine numbers are going up. Colorado stands a good chance of normalizing economically on the leading edge. I hope the recovery helps us get rid of our last 3 R’s in Congress and keep both the state house and senate, though no doubt our GQP is going to get crazier as their supporters wane.
kindness
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is there a presidential Amtrak car?
It’d be the best damn Bar Car you’ve ever been on.
M31
couple of cars full of reporters driving from DC to Delaware and back a few times will rack up enough tolls to fix DE’s budget
Just Biden doing his part to aid the local state gov’t
Mary G
????????
Yutsano
@BruceFromOhio: YOUR FOOD TALKS???
Gravenstone
This is right down there with Cokie Roberts calling Hawaii “some sort of foreign exotic place” when Obama visited. Conveniently ignoring he had family there…
Baud
@Mary G:
Oh, that’s good news. He’s vile.
Bill Arnold
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I read some of his “theorizing” a few weeks ago and the technical aspects were gibberish. (So was most of the non-technical parts.)
I’ll skim a transcript when there is one.
Dan B
@Cheryl Rofer: Champ and Major!?!?
Where is the kitteh we was promised? Bigliest failure!!!
Puppets need a fur ball!
Starboard Tack
@Mary G:
Yes!!
Ken
“Paid” is a relative term nowadays. Take a site that wants you to pay $1000 so they’ll put your post on their web server; isn’t getting it posted for free almost like being paid?
debbie
@MazeDancer:
I know MTG’s district is supposed to be conservative, but are they all as batshit crazy as she is? She insists she speaks for her constituents, but I wonder whether they actually share her beliefs.
Ken
@Mary G: FOX JOINS THE CANCEL CULTURE. SEND MONEY TO ME AND WATCH MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
— Thousands of people who watched Trump and said “that looks easy”
Starboard Tack
@debbie:
They do some, like the white racist part. The crazy stuff just makes her a better junkyard dog.
hueyplong
Had to look it up to know Cokie Roberts is pining for the fjords.
Good.
That I had to look it up.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
I know a now retired Secret Service agent and though he has relatively few mementos in his home office, framed certificates of his first flights on AF1 with HW Bush and Clinton are among them. I too think it’s a pretty big deal, call it a Big Biden deal.
Joe done good week 2. Take the night off, Joe. [narrator: he will work.]
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Progress! Unless they give the time to Tucker.
Jay
@Starboard Tack:
the UK does not have “freeze peach” laws that allow a Nazi to shout “antifa fire” in a crowded theatre, with out consequence.
@Yutsano:
That’s “Weezy” or “Wesel”, the Stormfront guy, who is actually hiding out amongst friends and family in Ohio to avoid lawsuits and court orders.
Andy’s the “fake concrete milkshake” neo-Nazi pho journalist who “is a danger to our communities and provides kill lists to Atomwaffen” terrorists.
Dan B
@Dan B: Puppets = puppers *
*autocorrect wanted to “correct” puppers to peppers. Even moar confusing, ha!
Starboard Tack
@Mary G:
I’m “the elderly” and FUCK LOU DOBBS!!
Baud
I just saw FliPYrWhig’s nym on LGM and realized he or she hasn’t posted here in a long time.
trollhattan
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
He said, “Al Gore rhythm” in apparent reference to how climate change fight is hurting pillow sales.
debbie
@Dan B:
I saw him on Twitter. Winston’s a real cutie.
Dan B
@Starboard Tack: Dobbs is also trying to appeal to suburban Akron residents and veterans of metro Akron. You is doubly sought!
Starboard Tack
@Jay:
They’ll have to catch him first, if they care.
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio.
KenK
Joe needs to get on the damned rowboat and cross the Delaware like George!
japa21
@satby: Good. It really was such a well run system they had in place.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Perhaps the museum in Florida could be persuaded to once again loan out the Ferdinand Magellan.
Uncle Cosmo
Ought to be, but won’t. It’s a goddamned shame, given Uncle Joe’s intimate identification with that 100-mile rail trip – but how can POTUS’s security detail protect him along the route without deploying thousands of personnel and massive amounts of ground and airborne assets? Safer and cheaper to fly.
Dan B
@debbie: I thought Winston’s bust was removed!
Oh, did you means a kitteh? Fer real?
Starboard Tack
@trollhattan:
Was that before or after R&B?
Starboard Tack
@Dan B:
I wouldn’t piss in his ass if his guts were on fire.
Mike in NC
ABC News showing a previously unknown video with Roger Stone hanging out with Oathkeeper goons in front of the Capitol on January 6.
Lock him up!
Lee
Haven’t read the thread yet, but apparently Lou Dobbs’ show was canceled.
Benw
@Another Scott: “Hussein Pain!” LOL love it!
@Baud: he’s just so fucking pleased with himself
Aleta
At 7 tonight Amythyst Kiah is playing live via
https://rockwellmuseum.org/
Firewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kePnkit0m4
“At the Purchaser’s Option” (Rhiannon Giddens song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4TVxbH8AFg
Jay
@Dan B:
Winston’s the Second Cat, ( Biden’s niece’s?) who has been filling in on social media for the promised First Cat,
Comrade Colette
@satby: ? Crap, sorry, that was a completely deserved kick in the pants. I’ll go do it.
The Fat White Duchess
@Comrade Colette: Have you seen Real Genius?
debbie
@Dan B:
I was trying to find the tweet (too goddamn many, frankly), but I believe Winston’s standing in as first cat until one is adopted. He appears to be daughter Naomi’s cat. But, still awfully cute.
cmorenc
Biden wants to find out what Della’s wearing.
Delk
Those voting machines didn’t throw the election but they sure got some assholes to shut their mouths.
dmsilev
Hahahaha:
Steeplejack (phone)
Haven’t caught up with the posts today, so apologies if this is a repeat.
Let it be known that Liz Cheney, that recently lauded example of a “sane” Republican, voted against removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments. ?
debbie
@Dan B:
I was trying to find the tweet (too goddamn many, frankly), but I believe Winston’s standing in as first cat until one is adopted. He appears to be Naomi’s cat. But, still awfully cute.
Edmund Dantes
For some reason the prosecutor didn’t oppose (white privilege), so lady gets to Mexico even though on trial for storming the Capitol.
The Pale Scot
@Starboard Tack:
I believe Heaven is on hold until Eugene Hütz arrives
matt the semi-reasonable
So many of these dumb questions are like ‘this is more a comment than a question’.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I think Trump should absolutely get “presidential” briefings. I can’t think of a better way of transmitting disinformation to other countries’ intelligence services.
jeffreyw
I remember a documentary about President Grant and a pair of SS agents in a pretty spiffy train car but it was pre-Amtrack.
debbie
@dmsilev:
Brilliant response! Tantrum ensues!
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: But wouldn’t the foreign services be aware of that possibility and automatically distrust anything they learn from T****?
dmsilev
@debbie: If a Twittler has a tantrum while his account is suspended, does it make a sound?
The Pale Scot
@Starboard Tack:
He can try, but unless he stays in London proper or goes to Scotland and keeps his mouth shut, He’s likely to encounter animosity for being asian. Not talking proper English isn’t going to help. The American dialect doesn’t give Tory wannabes the panashe that the brit dialect works on RWNJs here. Actually, I don’t think he’s going to have a good time over there unless he has bank to buy some friends
prostratedragon
“If a Twittler has a tantrum while his account is suspended, does it make a sound?”
No-o-o-o! Isn’t it marvelous?
Steeplejack (phone)
@cmorenc:
Alaska.
Jay
@Edmund Dantes:
Jenny Cudd is facing 5 new felony charges and might not be going on vacation.
bluefoot
@BruceFromOhio: It’s making me crazy. He’s acting like things aren’t going fast enough. Vaccine development, emergency approval and manufacture are going as fast as possible. The fact that we’re here is amazing. It’s literally the fastest a vaccine has gone into people ever. The non-Pfizer’s, Modernas, Regnerons, etc have been doing the analysis of where they have extra manufacturing capacity to help produce reagents, antibodies, vaccines, etc. for COVID. it’s not like they can stop producing the drugs they already make for the patients who need them. There is literally a worldwide shortage right now of pipet tips and vials.
@Roger Moore: EUA approvals already short circuit the process and require less data than a regular approval. Going faster would be f-ing irresponsible. And Silver seems to be forgetting that these vaccines have to work safely for everyone (or as close to everyone as possible). We can’t just say, hm, monkey data seems good enough let’s jab everybody including people with co morbidities, or immune conditions, young kids, or what have you.
All that is just a long way of saying the dude should STFU already.
Starboard Tack
@The Pale Scot:
I tried to ride the elliptical, but I fell off.
dmsilev
@bluefoot: There’s also the minor consideration that J&J is still ironing out production kinks and have said that late Feb/early March is the earliest they can supply in quantity, so waiting three weeks for the FDA to do its job will have minimal impact anyway.
satby
@Comrade Colette: not meant as a kick, was worried it went to spam!
Millard Filmore
@jeffreyw:
Have you never seen Wild WIld West on TV?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West
satby
@Baud: Ask them how they’re doing and tell them we miss them.
The Pale Scot
@hueyplong:
That made my day. Now if Tucker gets pancreatic cancer, I’m making a donation to the UU church
Ken
I was going to say “think of it as an employment program,” but then realized I’d have to excuse Trump’s golf trips on those grounds.
Dan B
@Starboard Tack: I believe the musical doc you’re lookin for is ‘Nerdland’. Featuring Algor and the Rythms.
RepubAnon
@Shalimar: We should start a pool to see how long it takes before Fox puts a (D) after The Donald’s name…
Maybe they’ll say it stands for “drooler.”
dimmsdale
@Kristine: wow, thanks for the tip. I think Nancy LeTourneau is one of the most underrated bloggers, and I’m glad she & Martin are continuing working together. Been reading Washington Monthly since the 70s and PP is a regular visit for me every day. Cool!
Another Scott
@jeffreyw: Great show. Probably one of my absolute favorites.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Starboard Tack
@Dan B:
My next band name.
PPCLI
@The Fat White Duchess: Space Lasers: They’re not just for making a room full of popcorn any more.
The Pale Scot
@Aleta:
Amythyst Kiah
Thank you
SFBayAreaGal
@Millard Filmore: One of the original steampunk shows.
HinTN
@Another Scott:
Let us hope so.
Dan B
@debbie: Looks like a shorter haired version of our Furr Beast who had a much smaller milk spot on his schnozzle. And the Furr Beast was much fluffier. Got almost 20 years from that cutie, giant but still a cutie.
Thanks for the links!
trnc
@Cameron:
“Because it’s harder for him to hear these stupid ass questions from there.”
LurkerNoLonger
@Steeplejack (phone): Her reasoning was some bullshit about Democrats not having a say over Republican committee choices. It’s bullshit.
MazeDancer
@debbie: My sister lives in Walker County, and is a staunch Dem. So, no, they aren’t all BSC.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
Actually, no President has ever visited Delaware for a weekend before, ever. So, “Exotic” by definition.
Other presidents have visited Dover AFB before, for the sad duty of greeting aircraft laden with deceased members of our military.
One of my best friend’s father was a pilot of large aircraft in the Air Force, and was unlucky enough to have pissed off his leadership — he spent the rest of his career flying those flights from SE Asia, loaded with coffins wrapped in the Flag. He because a pacifist, actually, and was buried at West Point IIRC (perhaps Arlington, my memory isn’t what it once was).
I’m sure President Biden will undertake that duty as needed, but not this trip.
debbie
@Joe Falco:
She will need to be. One of the proposals is to require two photo IDs. ??
Sm*t Cl*de
@Yutsano
Yours doesn’t plead?
Umm, mine neither.
Geminid
@debbie: Hard to say how many GA 14th District citizens share M.T. Greene’s beliefs. Greene won the general election 75% to 25%. Her Democratic opponent had folded his campaign by then, but no Democrat has gotten more than 30% there since the GA 14th was created in 2012. Greene had won the Republican runoff 57% to 43%, against a more establishment type Republican.
There will be polling done now that Greene has become notorious. In fact, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer is crowdfunding a poll of the GA 14th. Bitecifer is an experienced poller, and did a lot of Virginia polling for the Wason Institute, affiliated with Christopher Newport University. Bitecofer now is also a political engineer, with her own PAC, Strike Pac. She intends to publish the polling data, and also use it to devise attack ads. Bitecofer proposes to tie Greene around the neck of every Republican.
Sm*t Cl*de
@PPCLI:
Came here for the ‘Real Genius’ reference. Not disappointed.
debbie
@Geminid:
I like her proposal very much.
Amir Khalid
@prostratedragon:
Apparently, it does make a sound. When Trump learned SAG-AFTRA was fixing to expel him, he wrote the union a petulant “I quit” letter, and the letter got media coverage.
PJ
@Gravenstone: Or that Hawaii ceased being exotic sometime around the time it became a state (which Cokie apparently never realized happened) and definitely by the time the Brady Bunch visited there.
jeffreyw
@Millard Filmore: That’s the one I was talking about!
Another Scott
@Kristine: I first “discovered” Nancy at Booman Tribune. She was (and is) always a voice of reason, and a great writer. I was very happy when WaMo gave her a spot on the weekends.
What I didn’t know was that she and Martin go way, way back – her first ‘diary’ post was on BoomanTribune in 2005.
I’m not sure what’s up with WaMo. They’ve got a great history and have had some great writers. I wish them continued success, but Chris Matthews is indeed a puzzle…
Great success to Nancy and Martin.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kristine
@WaterGirl: I didn’t know about Horizons–I just signed up for emails.
I saw that Nancy has BJ on her blogroll.
Jean
@Kristine: Progress Pond is the revised Booman Tribune. TO get any of the bigger stories, you have to pay for Prime. I didn’t find it worth it. Maybe that will change when Longman focuses on it.
Geminid
@debbie: Bitecofer is an interesting thinker. She hit a career crossroads last April when Christopher Newport U. denied her a tenure track position. She landed with the Niskanen Center, and became unpaid advisor to the Lincoln Project. Some have used that connection to insinuate that she is some sort of crypto-republican. But basically, the LP people knew talent when they saw it. Besides publishing longer analytical pieces on Patreon and her website The Cycle, she keeps up a lively and informative Twitter feed. Anyone reading it can see she is as ardent a Democrat as anyone here, with a good base of knowledge.
Bitecofer made her name in 2018, when months before the midterms she predicted a 42 seat pickup for Democrats. Being an upstart, her prediction was scoffed at. But in the event, the Democrats picked up 41 seats. A good introduction to Bitecofer’s thinking, and the concept of negative partisanship, is found in her article “Hate is on the Ballot.” in the February 2020 issue of The New Republic.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott:
Read this post at her blog and you will know what’s up!
WaterGirl
@Kristine: I saw that and I was pleased!
debbie
@Geminid:
Found her on Twitter and followed. Thanks!
Another Scott
@Mike in NC:
Roger lying? Roger??! Unpossible!!!1
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
@Baud: Going to DE from Washington is probably a half hour trip by
plane.helicopter.Another Scott
@WaterGirl: “Immasmartypants” is more memorable. ;-)
Thanks for the pointer. I remember reading her there a few times over the years. There are too many good blogs (still) to keep up with all of them!
Cheers,
Scott.
Bill Arnold
@Sm*t Cl*de:
It’s actually non-trivial. One way to pop popcorn with a laser is to spin the kernels:
Can a Laser Pop Popcorn? (youtube)
(Unclear whether high-powered masers would be viable; max power (for human-created masers) I found in a quick search was several hundred kilowatts. (The megamsers at the center of some galaxies can do 1000 solar outputs.))
Geminid
@debbie: You are welcome! I like and respect Rachel Bitecofer. She has a a chip on her shoulder, with no elite academic background, and being “a data girl in a data boy’s world,” as she put it. But Bitecofer’s outsider’s point of view may make her a more perceptive analyst.
SFAW
@NotMax:
A line from Mad magazine, from sometime in the late 1960s:
“Philadelphia is NOT boring. It just seems that way because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.”
The Lodger
@Jay: Wishing Ngo a long line and a few government-sponsored overnights in the UK.
Misterpuff
@jeffreyw: No WiFi. Was equipped with a telegrapher.