Monday Mood [DOT 28/10/24]

28/10/24 MegMegMcGee 25

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We just finished watching Dame Maggie Smith in “Evil Under the Sun”. I made these Earl Grey martinis, which are delicious!

I love living in the dumbest timeline

Trump repeats ‘enemy from within’ rhetoric at Madison Square Garden rally as speakers give racist remarks – live

https://theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/27/harris-trump-election-latest-updates-live

Interesting

These swing-state counties are key to understanding the presidential race

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/27/nx-s1-5164527/swing-state-counties-election-harris-trump

I’d love to see the number of cancellations

The Washington Post is in deep turmoil as Bezos remains silent on non-endorsement
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil/index.html

Sprots!

NFL roundup: Commanders beat Bears on Jayden Daniels’ last-gasp Hail Mary
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/27/nfl-roundup-sunday-football-scores-results

Stonks!

Stock futures rise with Nasdaq set to add to records as oil prices decline
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/27/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

That’s such a good costume! Are you guys dressing up this week?

Have a great day!

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25 Comments

  1. I read about the Nuremberg MSG rally. Sounds like it was a real humdinger. All it needed was a torchlight parade and a Leni Riefenstahl to document it all. The comments about Puerto Ricans were especially unwelcome, at least to me. Has that idiot stand-up “comedian” never seen one of the greatest musicals ever made, “West Side Story?” Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give it up for Rita Moreno!

    • I was reading Bluesky commentary during the Nazi rally and was horrified. I mean, the racist joke were just the beginning. Miller screaming “America for Americans” and copying Hitler’s hand gestures was another low point. What will it take to fucking get this orange shitstain and his henchmen out of politics forever?

      It was so bad the NYT has had a “Road to Damascus” conversion and actually wrote an accurate headline.

      Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism

       

      • They can write clear headlines when they want to. To the credit of some of the staff there, the Times has retained some people with integrity who aren’t hacks.

        I suspect there’s been movement behind the scenes which is telling Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan they need to stop stop the sanewashing. It never should have taken this long to break through, though.

  2. …it’s monday…which has some implications, I guess…school night…got to see a man about a dog…all that sort of thing…but…as much to stop it quietly bugging me as anything else since it seems monday-brain is willing to haul stuff out of long term storage on racks sunday-brain is too lazy to reach…it was terry talking about neil…but where my searches went wrong was thinking magician on account of the alan moore stuff…& not conjurer…turns out the magic ingredient is to search for the same thing but “not a wizard”

    Well, he’s no genius. He’s better than that.

    He’s not a wizard, in other words, but a conjurer.

    Wizards don’t have to work. They wave their hands, and the magic happens. But conjurers, now… conjurers work very hard. They spend a lot of time in their youth watching, very carefully, the best conjurers of their day. They seek out old books of trickery and, being natural conjurers, read everything else as well, because history itself is just a magic show. They observe the way people think, and the many ways in which they don’t. They learn the subtle use of springs, and how to open mighty temple doors at a touch, and how to make the trumpets sound.

    And they take center stage and amaze you with flags of all nations and smoke and mirrors, and you cry: “Amazing! How does he do it? What happened to the elephant? Where’s the rabbit? Did he really smash my watch?”

    And in the back row we, the other conjurers, say quietly: “Well done. Isn’t that a variant of the Prague Levitating Sock? Wasn’t that Pasqual’s Spirit Mirror, where the girl isn’t really there? But where the hell did that flaming sword come from?”
    […if anyone happens to be interested…in some editions of good omens there’s a bit of an appendix at the back & part of that is each of the authors talking about the other one…& that’s where he said it, it would seem]

    …anyway…that’s what I would have block-quoted in the DOT yesterday before the story about being late for an SF radio spot made him spit feathers?

    • Speaking of wizards and conjurers, I just read that James Carville recently turned 80! October 25th. Time flies. The Ragin’ Cajun has been in the news because he has been critiquing Harris’s “ground game.” A bid for relevancy, I suppose, but he must be so rich from all the network dupes trotting him out for punditry that if I were him I would retreat to my vacation/retirement home and call it a day.

      • There’s a whole crew of Clinton leftovers like Carville, Mark Penn and Paul Begala who got lucky in 1992 when Bush got hammered by both Buchanan and Perot.

        They’ve been coasting on that ever since. It turns out they were actually remarkably incompetent and were responsible for major strategic blunders chasing short sighted tactical gains. But they managed to infiltrate the DC media world.

        When the GOP went after “liberal” media what they were actually attacking was a particular set of hacks who really diidn’t care if the GOP won. A lot of them, like Mark Penn, actually wanted the GOP to take over.

  3. …couple of other kinda-sorta-but-not-entirely connected things I’d be curious to hear folks’ opinion of…first up…there’s a puzzle in the guardian that will have a solution provided later today

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/28/can-you-solve-it-how-to-outsmart-a-shy-voter

    …& it made me wonder…if you go with the coin-toss outcome that the polling has been stuck on throughout in your patter…say you arrive at the door having just tossed the coin as you walk up & greet them while making a note…then you tell them that you aren’t doing a regular poll…you’re doing a stats project…you toss the coin, it selects a candidate…you ask if that’s the one they’d be willing to say they voted for & if it is you mark that the coin was right & if it wasn’t that the coin was wrong…& then you toss the coin until it lands their way & note down how many attempts it takes

    …but really all you’re doing is eliminating “no answer” from your results so that after the votes are counted you can find out what proportion lie on the doorstep

    …would that be a useful exercise…or nah?

    …there’s almost certainly a prisoners’ dilemma/one-door-lies-one-tells-the-truth solve for the problem as posed & it likely isn’t that…although I suppose there’s a chance it could be…but…if we need math &/or logic to arrive at a solution then I think we might be screwed if the people on board that bandwagon are sufficiently innoculated to swallow the idea scrapping any tax he personally might have to pay is somehow in their interests because the magic-fairy-pixie-tariff-dust that he is PCP levels of insanely high on will cover that spread while all else magically remains untouched by any ripples, currents, tides or other fluid mechanics metaphors that work better at modeling real economic flows than the jam-tomorrow pie-in-the-sky nonsense spouted by that egregious gobshite

    …& I doubt it’s a refresher any of you are personally shy of already understanding…but it did strike me that this wasn’t far off a thing I’d believe was a non-partisan PSA if you told me & I didn’t know the lady from eve…or indeed…a bearded dude going by beau?

  4. Fucking Edgelords.

    Every edgelord in university I’ve known has always ended up to be quite a racist asshole.

    They weren’t actually joking behind the veneer of a “joke.”

    Like former housemate, he used to tell us that we were all there to serve him. It turned out that’s actually what he believed.

    Granted there are some comedians who have edgy humor that is pretty funny, but it’s not this Tony Hinchcliff.

    • …it’s funny ‘cos one of my favorite anti-donnie placards specified that he couldn’t be a c-word…because…& I believe this is a direct quote…he lacks the requisite depth & warmth?

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