Midweek Meh-Ness [DOT 9/10/24]

9/10/24 MegMegMcGee 29

Hope everyone’s week is going well and if you’re in the path of bad weather wishing you good luck and safety!!

Florida Man be safe!

Biden says Hurricane Milton could be one of Florida’s worst storms in a century
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/08/hurricane-milton-florida-live-updates

Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida as thousands flee
https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/hurricane-milton-florida-10-08-24/index.html

If you had this type of information you probably should have shared it at the time, eh Bob?

Trump secretly gave Putin Covid test machines, Bob Woodward book says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-putin-covid-test-machines-bob-woodward

This is wild

Deloitte feels the wrath of Trump world over employee’s leaked JD Vance messages
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/business/deloitte-trump-leaked-jd-vance-messages/index.html

Do we have any zoomers around here? Well this is what they think of you!

Why Do the Young Vote Left? Socialist teachers lead them to think of government as a free-money tree.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-do-the-young-vote-left-progressive-democrats-socialism-e2397290?st=koZRPN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Sprots!

New York Jets fire head coach Robert Saleh after disappointing season start

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/sport/new-york-jets-fire-robert-saleh-spt-intl/index.html

Stonks!

S&P 500 rebounds from Monday’s decline as oil prices ease: Live updates

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/07/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Awwww

Have a great day!

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29 Comments

    • The WSJ essay, or whatever it was, was a little bizarre. I remember being as far left as I could be (Walter Mondale 1984: What were we thinking?) but I wasn’t voting for handouts. If the young’uns really want to experience socialism with a human face, they just need to have good insurance and get old. Handouts galore!

    • It says something noble about Biden that on the day he was preparing to hand over the campaign to Harris, he was also working the phones to make sure the deal to free WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was sealed up. He did it knowing that the Murdoch press is filled with toads and that there would be no reward for it, just because it was the right thing to do.

      It also says something about his effectiveness that both sets of maneuvers were carried out so competently and without leaks. And it’s clear that a lot of the relentless sniping by the political press about Biden and Harris supposedly being hostile to the press has to do with their intense distaste for competency and their need for dumb leaks.

      After Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev to walk the streets with Zelensky, Peter Baker (who was left behind in favor of reporters with the AP and WSJ) wrote a snarky supposedly insider story about how the trip was organized. But of course why would an operation that needed strictest secrecy trust the Times, which had already shown its eagerness to collude with Lev Parnas on framing Biden and trashing Ukraine, and never acknowledged what it was up to?

      Political reporters hate covering policy. As Jamelle Bouie keeps bringing up, they don’t understand it and can’t write competently about it. They can’t develop meaningful framings for events, which is why they run to right wingers to feed them narratives. And that’s why so many stupid ideas from the WSJ editorial page end up being treated as legitimate narratives on the news side. What are they supposed to do, admit which side actually cares about a free press?

  2. Oh no, the badgers! I wonder if Andy lives in Wisconsin.

    The only time I ever saw a colony of badgers at work was when my parents took us somewhere and there was a stream behind a church and the badgers were busy building a dam. I have no idea how we stumbled on this. This was western MA or maybe Lancaster County, PA?

    Elderly badger(s), if you were there, please reply at this address.

  5. /raises hand/

    Maybe I can answer the WSJ’s whiny bullshit question.

    Gen Z (the generation that Gen X spawned (would have been my kids if my own personal plans went thru)) were just kids during 2008 when things blew up because of the fuckwads  like Jack Welch your paper gave sloppy blow jobs to and the policies that you shat out from your Ayn Rand shit holes (low taxes and little to no regulations.)

    Maybe YOU forgot, but a lot of people were seriously fucked up because of that… including myself but you would rather publish an op-ed written by my former incompetent asshole of a CEO begging for a job than try to remember those dark days when everything you pushed and loved nearly went over the financial precipice…./editor HEY! enough personal trauma you dumb self absorbed fuck/ They watched their parents struggle or drown in the financial tidelwave you unleashed and their own lives get turned upside down. As I discovered with my parents is that childhood trauma gets carried over a lifetime (Korean War.) Instead of becoming like many stoneheaded GenX types who still believe that corporations will save us, the Gen Z types realized you’re just a bunch of greedy ass moronic cannibals who’d eat your grandma’s bones if it would net you an extra 10g a year and prefer government over the corps.

    /raises middle finger/

      • A big part of the reason for the regular press freakouts over college kids, whether it’s the PC panic of the 1990s to the Gaza protestors today, is that underqualified people in the pundit class are scared about losing their positions and prestige.

        Someone like Megan McCardle or Ross Douthat who’s been churning out vapid nonsense on the same two subjects for decades is scared to death of honest competition. The older they get, the more they have to dig into the cranky oldster persona.

        The only young writers they’ll ever accept are people like Bari Weiss who got her start early bashing every other young person. The only fresh blood they’ll accept is pre-curdled.

    • I would add that they also saw decades of unfettered capitalism slowly (and sometimes fastly) fuck over their families. Despite their parents, aunts uncles whatever, doing the right things and trying to follow what should be the American dream.

      I’m an old millennial. But also I’ll say this. Wah wah socialism is just the govt handouts etc. Well you know what – we’ve seen a fuckton of companies get handouts and people get fuck all. Where’s our handouts?

      • And the stuff that gets branded as socialism is the most basic stuff like health care and education. When people aren’t cobbling together health care and buried under student loan debt they’re more likely to be engaged in the economy.

        Which I think scares the WSJ Editorial Page crowd. They’re scared to death of an engaged, independent younger generation where they can’t be gatekeepers.

      • Also outright theft is somehow never branded as socialism, and never gets punished. Rick Scott steals billions and billions of dollars from Medicare, and walks away a rich man who keeps getting elected to public office by the very people he stole from.

        • i think you just cant break through the american aversion to taxes…..

          yeah but why should i pay for anyone else….is your problem

          if its everyone for themselves…..yeah….thats gonna be pricey when its you

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