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Open thread 1/11/24

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I don’t usually post cute little videos of kids, but sometimes I make an exception. This is one of those exceptions:

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Open thread 1/11/24 — 39 Comments

  2. Very interesting (not channeling Arte Johnson) interview by Megyn Kelly with Dean Phillips who is now challenging Biden. Phillips is definitely a Democrat throwback to the days of Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman, or even further back to the 70s. I think he presents even more of a challenge than RFKJr.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDTZvDPT4GQ

  4. On conformity and non-conformity again: I was in the city and saw two folks who looked like they just walked out of a 1980s punk rock club. How much non-conformity isn’t original, but is just conformity to some older fashion?
    _________

    And cities now. It seems like the Democrats are trying to make things so bad to provoke disturbances that will justify a further crackdown. They need to make sure though, that the people who make the disturbances will be people they want to crack down on, and most of them don’t live in the cities.

    I also remember the weaponization of homelessness against Reagan. Plenty of people sleeping in the streets now, and there’s even media coverage of that, but the MSM never gets around to blaming Biden for that. True, the vast majority of the homeless have other problems that politicians aren’t going to solve, but bringing in millions of illegals isn’t helping any.

  6. Last night I watched a video about the Obama produced movie on NetFlix, “Leave the World Behind” which is about cyberattacks leading to apocalypse.

    –Brett Cooper, “Is This Movie Predicting Future Events?”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfc_T7x6p0

    Cooper is a young actress turned conservative commentator. She does many videos with Ben Shapiro.

    Cooper notes that the good old “World Economic Forum” has put out out a warning:

    –WEF, “A cyber-attack with COVID-like characteristics?”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0oZA1B3ooI

    Note the linkage to COVID. It’s interesting that WEF was warning about a pandemic in 2019 before COVID.

    https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/10/live-simulation-exercise-to-prepare-public-and-private-leaders-for-pandemic-response/

    Are cyberattacks the elite plan for the 2024 election?

  8. Because of the Houthis in the Red Sea and drought in Central America shippers are avoiding the Suez and Panama Canals. This will mean more supply chain problems and higher costs for imports. The Taiwan elections this weekend could add new wrinkles to the international situation.

    Brett Cooper hurts my ears.

  9. Its a scenario presented by one writer alaam but considering how secure our it infrastructure is. Sarc who knows

  10. Fetterman 2.0 continuing to impress.

    Who’d a thunk it?

    Bonus; His annoying wife seems to have disappeared or, at least, gone quiet.

  12. Yesterday, late in the open comments section, ” Om ” said ” Ah, the worshiper in the Unicorns Face No Obstacles ( UFNO) cult posit spacecraft ( watercraft…) that can only travel at 186000 miles per second x .5. Why not x 0.999 ? It’s only numbers , and physics doubt bound or constrain UNFOs! .
    …”

    So Om, are you saying that you think that the mass of an object at 0.5 c is nearer to it’s theoretical mass at .99 c than to it’s original , pre acceleration mass?

  13. Stargate was perhaps the first series that I recall that tried to develop the einstein rosenman bridge in the Ancient Astronauts vein, but there are problems with that scenario as well, those were entertaining shows but scientifically they had gaps in them,

    no the mass would geometric magnitudes greater, at those speeds,

  14. are you saying that you think that the mass of an object at 0.5 c is nearer to it’s theoretical mass at .99 c than to it’s original , pre acceleration mass?

    The inflection point of the mass/speed graph appears to be somewhere around 0.9 c. In other words, it starts of somewhat gradually then shoots up asymptotically near 90% of the speen of light.

  16. Brett Cooper hurts my ears.

    Abraxas:

    She does have an interesting voice.

    I’m trying to figure out how far out she is.

  17. The chief Rabbi of South Africa tells us that the UN is driving anti-Democratic nations to control and persecute free nations like Israel versus the ICJ.

    “ Labeling allegations of genocide against Israel as “bizarre and without foundation in fact or law”, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein slammed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) proceedings as a “dangerous farce”, pointing to the illegitimacy of its parent body, the UN, whose General Assembly selects the judges.

    “The UN, dominated by dictatorships, riddled with antisemitism, appoints ICJ judges, who therefore, by definition, lack the moral authority to stand in judgment over any democracy, especially Israel.”

    He says the UN and its institutions “have increasingly been hijacked by undemocratic societies to advance objectives that threaten freedom, peace, and prosperity in the world”….

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383446

    HEAR HEAR!

  18. I was a bit depressed this morning about the World Situation. Then I happened across this old poem and it restored a bit of faith in humans as a species:
    ______________________

    The Cave

    Leaning over me her hair
    makes a cave around her

    face a darkness where her
    eyes are hardly seen she

    tells me she is a cat she
    says she hates me because

    I make her show her pleas-
    ure she makes a cat-hate

    sound and then ever so
    tenderly hands under my

    head raises my mouth into
    the dark cave of her love.

    –James Laughlin (1914-1997)
    ______________________

    I consider Laughlin the most under-rated American poet of the 20th Century.

    He was an heir to his family steel company fortune. He went to Paris in the 30s and met all the literary lights. He used his money to start the New Directions publishing house.

    If you have never heard of James Laughlin, it’s because he worked harder to make other writers famous than himself.

  19. Nonapod,
    Thanks, I recalled that it was a sharp increase near c . Not linear and certainly not on the left side of the graph.

  21. yes he was a contemporary of james angleton, the poet spymaster, whose
    father was an executive of national cash register in India, he was half mexican hence his gaunt figure his bio was sort of mangled in the good shepherd by Matt Damon,

  24. The mass of a moving object is the mass of the unmoving object devided by the square root of the quantity 1 minus the ratio of the velocity squared to the square of the speed of light. That divisor is essentially 1 for all velocities lower than about 1/10 the speed of light.

  25. For example- at 1/10th the speed of light, an object has gained only 0.5% of its at rest mass. At 1/2th the speed of light, it has gained 15% of its original mass. At 9/10th the speed of light, it has gained 229% of its original mass. At 99/100ths the speed of light, it has gained 709% of its original mass.

  28. Three themes of interest here for me to share.

    huxley, THANKS! So, vblogger Brett Cooper has 4 million subscribers? Who knew! Not me.

    Neo herself ought have such numbers.

    My thoughts on the Obama produced movie on Netflix: it features explicitly Woke flags of the evil untrustworthy white folks and dangerous Tesla cars, a dig against Elon Musk.

    These are were included to message the indoctrinated young about the newest virtue signals to mocking bird-style Repeat. Obama’s ideology was formed as a Red Diaper Baby (cf, David Horowitz Sam named memoir), who’s solidly behind the latest neoMarxist versions, namely, SWJ/CRT/Woke religion.

    Just say “I Believe!” If you want to belong.

    Just as I’m sure evil actors have designs to control events like cyberattacks, the Deep State has a menus list of actions to count an unlikely Trump victory.

    MrReagan has a similar length video this mid-week up, but the subject is this. What does the Deep State do about a Prez election where an overwhelming Vox populi results in a Trump return to the White House? Numbers that defeat the Democrat voter fraud?

    MrReagan argues for a domestic terrorism attack on a 911 scale by 2025. We do know that 10 million new unfettered illegals have entered the US over recent years. And a substantial number are young and brown males who can be recruited.

    In such an event engineered by the FIB and Central Intelligence, Trump would be forced to respond to it with a national Federal troop roll-out in America.

    I haven’t finished this YT video yet. And I have been pondering EXACTLY how it might be a menu item the Deep State/IC chooses. (Likewise with WEF and Cooper thing, I’m certain Deep State planners like this are BIGLY scheming out the dining options found on the menus to them to preserve their power.

    But I scratch my head to grasp exactly why they would want this? I guess this: if it fails or continues, Trump will be delegitimised. If not, the IC benefits by controlling this domestic occupation, and as bureaucratic parasites, they benefit from the spending entailed.

    My final share concerns DIE totalitarianism. This thesis is advanced by Glenn Loury and John McWhorter in their new video, looking at the Harvard/Claudine Fay fallout. Affirmative action REQUIRES the lowering of standards, and liberal white folds don’t want to see that — instead insisting that it’s just a needed thumb on the scale (which used to be the most common form of retail fraud, in fact)! Commentary and video here
    https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/01/10/mcwhorter-and-loury-on-the-departure-of-claudine-gay/

    Maybe the more facile look articulating the Woke=totalitarianism thesis is offered by Bruce Gilley in the first 30 minutes of his new talk on Beneficial Colonialism with Peter Boghossian.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYA_sjHztQ&t=4437s

    Peter is sad to see Gay go. She was a perfect fit!
    Gilley explains THIS mediocrity is what modern decolonized university institution that Harvard’s Money Bags demand.

    Just as with Soviet Union times, continually citing the same sources generating the same cliches — see, I belong! — it signals agreement with the orthodox ideological catechism. Gay fails upward BECAUSE she embraces their Woke shibboleths. Therefore, “plagiarism” is excused because the dogmas are narrow and limited. Totalitarian, in fact.

    Gilley adds that he can offer a hundred cases in the decolonising world where the same thing happened, and backwater excellence was supplanted by ideological and party hacks at universities. These cases are just like Claudine Gay — as well as the Soviet Union’s educational decline, marching into communism. For example, the road to career success was through heralding agreement to some obscure CCP theory, and thus get promoted.

    Anyway, rethinking how to characterise DIE and that there is indeed measurable decline in DIE job adverts, for instance, finds me undergoing some real re-framing of the future in the struggle against educational corruption.

  29. back in the 90s, lawrence wright who had spent time in a Saudi paper Okaz, wrote the Siege, he took elements of the Blind Sheikh subsequent plot,

    of course he changed the particulars, making the blind sheikh Iraqi?? of all things, the villain who sets off the fireworks is a general who kidnaps the sheikh ala musa sadr, the leading light of shiism, his travel to Libya, allowed the Iranians to hijack the Amal Militia which became Hezbollah, first under Fadlallah now Nasrallah,

    He knows his action is why the cell is causing havoc, as does Annette Benings character who is CIA he recruited the cell leader who was subsequently discarded

  30. Paolo states “Females are different, magical beings.”

    This was one of French film director François Truffaut’s central themes, are women magic?

    Take his Oscar winning film, “Day For Night,” inaugurating the voyeuristic “film within a film” tradition in movie-making.

    One lead actor, Alphonse is jilted. His GF leaves him and he’s left to wander at bed-time on the film shoot in Nice, crying “money for a whore?” Until he settles on asking the crew and other actors the open and serial question, “Are women magic?”

    “Alphonse, the young actor played by Truffaut’s frequent star Jean-Pierre Léaud, keeps asking. Are movies magic? By peeling away the layers of performance and craft, Truffaut seems to be asking that question, and finding that even when we see the celluloid unspool and the soundtrack frizz, hear the offscreen arguments, and experience the plans gone awry, some essence of the wondrous remains.”
    https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3659-day-for-night-are-movies-magic

    After getting a No and a yes, Alphonse seems to find comfort from the opinion that “but some women are.” This, too, seems be Truffaut’s opinion as seen through his other films, almost always concerning love and romantic loving,

  32. John baker:

    The UFNO cultists claim that physics and conceivablly mathematics don’t constrain their objects of desire so why do you bother in your conjectured UFNO travel time estimates? (Unicorns Face No Obstacles)

    Any ideas on how to reach a velocity of 0.5c?

    “Super easy, barely an unconviemce!” h/t Ryan George “Pitch Meeting” on YouTube.

  35. TJ:

    Glad you appreciated the Brett Cooper link. I will have to watch “Leave the World Behind” eventually.

    Here’s that astonishing racist clip from “Leave the World Behind,” a film which has its good points to make, but with the Obamas as producers, they’ve got to go racist.

    Black daughter and father having a heart-to-heart in the midst of chaos:
    _____________________________________

    I’m asking for you to remember that if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially to white people. Even Mom would agree with me on this.

    –Brett Cooper, “Is This Movie Predicting Future Events?””
    https://youtu.be/vZfc_T7x6p0?t=175
    _____________________________________

    This wasn’t in the source novel. But Obamas gots to do what Obamas gots to do.

    They are starting to get on my nerves.

    The good news is that Rotten Tomatoes shows LTWB with 76% Critics score and a 34% Audience score, which usually means it’s a woke movie which Normies despise and the Critics are too woke and/or frightened to criticize.

  36. Re: Truffaut “Day for Night”

    TJ:

    I saw it forty or so years ago and I remember I liked it but not much else.

    I tried to watch it in French a few months back but it was too hard. I’ll give it another shot.

  38. Omri Ceren, here a compilation of a 7 part Twitter thread (sans 7 images of documents, so go to the twitter-link for those), https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1745650337854214380?t=uLhyBighiOke8g1Vw-tbFQ&s=19

    The Biden admin made a Day 1 decision to appease Iran and dismantle Houthi sanctions.

    They knew they were doing bad things for bad reasons so
    they lied to the public and reporters about their decision. As the Houthis escalated, they couldn’t respond.

    They’re still doing it.

    On Jan 11, 2021, the Trump administration imposed terrorism sanctions on the Houthis as a group and on their terrorist leaders. To limit any humanitarian fallout they broadly exempted aid groups, agriculture, medicine, etc.

    But Washington DC’s expert class – think tankers, journalists, the Hill, Democrat operatives, etc. – always considered anything Trump did on foreign policy illegitimate, and at this point we were post-January 6 so they were convinced they’d be in power forever. They bragged that they were going to quickly and permanently reshape America and American foreign policy. Especially Iran policy: Rob Malley, who had hired operatives who literally answered to Iranian regime figures, was put in charge of America’s Iran policy.

    Remember also that for the Obama-Biden foreign policy crew everything is comms. The Trump administration’s late sanctions announcement had left the issue at the top of the news cycle.

    So here’s Blinken at his first press availability, on Jan 28. He was asked which Trump administration policies from “the last several months” he was going to prioritize reversing. He said Houthi sanctions. “That’s the priority in my book.”

    Biden officials suspended terrorism sanctions on the Houthis on Jan 25 and announced revoking them on Feb 5. That was a Friday.

    Then immediately that weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, the Houthis launched an offensive of mass murdering Yemeni civilians and attacking Saudi Arabia.

    Now again, everything for this crew is comms. So when they came into work on Monday, instead of reevaluating their policy they came up with a narrative to get out of the news cycle. They said they only lifted the “broad designation” on the Houthis as a group for technical humanitarian reasons, but not the terrorism sanctions on any individual Houthi terrorist, and so actually they remained committed to pressuring the Houthis and their leaders. Sometimes they said that explicitly. Other times they tried to muddy the waters by talking about other weaker sanctions that had nothing to do with terrorism.

    But they had 3 problems.

    1) They were lying about what they had done. They absolutely dismantled terrorism sanctions on the Houthi leaders, because of course they did, because that was their whole point: as policy, to pivot away from terrorism sanctions on Iranian terrorists, and as politics, to undo whatever Trump did.

    2) They had been incandescent pricks and bragged to journalists the whole time they were doing it. ‘The adults are back in charge. We’re going to show these knuckle-dragging Republicans how adults do foreign policy. We’re going to flip all of Iran policy and Saudi policy, starting right now. And there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it.’ Now they had to tell those same journalists they had only implemented a technical fix, they were hardline on Iran and the Houthis, they considered the Saudis to be close allies and would cooperate with them, etc.

    3) Both of those things – what they did and how they did it – had happened just a few days before, and everyone remembered.

    But their goal was to get through the week and out of the news cycle. So they just lied and kept lying.

    Here’s the press briefing on Feb 11:

    QUESTION: So, in fact, there is no change to any sanctions on these individuals.

    MR PRICE: There is no change.

    QUESTION: So what was the point, then?

    MR PRICE: Well, I just spent I think five minutes explaining it. The point was to – the intent was to revoke the broad designation that has profound, steep, and precarious humanitarian implications for the people of Yemen. We are distinguishing between the people of Yemen and the Houthi leadership.

    In fact, here are the press briefings for the whole week. Feb 8, 10, 11, and 12 in order. Just look at them lying.

    Eventually the actual decision was published in the Federal Register, but not until Feb 16. They had successfully gotten through the news cycle.

    One last thing: this entire trick shouldn’t have worked.

    If you go back to the Feb 8 briefing, you’ll see Price said “You may have heard from members of Congress who have been vocal about this, that we notified the Hill of the Secretary’s intent to revoke the foreign terrorist organization and specially designated global terrorist designations of Ansarallah.” Then he said “we will certainly keep up the pressure on the leadership of the Ansarallah movement of the Houthis.”

    The “heard from members of Congress” part is about Sen. Ted Cruz, and he was right and they were lying, but OK – if Congress had the notification, and knew the administration was lying, why didn’t anybody say so?

    There’s an answer! Biden officials deliberately co-mingled unclassified and classified information so they could throw the whole notification into a secure space, preventing is from being discussed publicly.

    It’s an old Obama-era trick they used all the time to hide the details of how they were appeasing Iran (check out the pasted article, note the date). When they got back into power, they picked up right where they left off.

    They’re still doing it. When they were negotiating their ransom deal they co-mingled unclassified and classified information about Iranian assassination plots, because it would have been inconvenient for them if the public knew about ongoing Iranian aggression against Americans while they were trying to send tens of billions of dollars to Iran.

    Real populists, this crew.

  39. But, one could say, they’re lying for a good reason…
    (Well, a good reason as they see it….)
    But they can’t say they’re lying because “Biden”‘s alliance with the Mullahs must NOT be mentioned.
    (Still, they know we know they’re lying…but they’re OK with that because they have the media on their side. Think Hunter Biden. Think Southern Border. Think the economy. Think Energy. Think Education. Think crime in the cities. It doesn’t matter that they know that we know that they’re lying. They are ALL POWERFUL—and their alternative is HITLER!!!—Just ask ’em… So they’re all smiles.)

    + Bonus: One more example of that glorious peace dividend!!
    “Jordan accuses: Tensions in Red Sea due to Israeli aggression;
    “Jordan’s FM Safadi claims Israeli ‘war crimes against Palestinians’ are central cause of increased attacks by Houthis in Red Sea.”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383492

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