2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Chook Track of the Day

Northern Mockingbird, Tulare Ave., Contra Costa, California, United States. “In magnolia tree at approx. 8 ft off the bottom, immediately above microphone.” Barking canine, however energetic chook!

In Case You May Miss…

1. New Covid knowledge, with wastewater improve.
2. Mangione hit with Federal fees, dying penalty attainable.
3. Biden wasn’t been governing the nation, an extra-constitutional entity was.
4. DOGE is one other extra-constitutional entity.

Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are actually a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

Biden Administration

“How the White Home Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Cost” [Wall Street Journal]. It took me awhile to get previous the paywall. As of the 2020 marketing campaign: “Biden, now 82, has lengthy operated with . The protecting tradition contained in the White Home was intensified as a result of Biden began his presidency on the peak of the Covid pandemic. His employees took nice care to forestall him from catching the virus by limiting in-person interactions with him. However the shell constructed for the pandemic was by no means absolutely taken down, and his superior age hardened it. The construction was additionally designed to forestall Biden, an undisciplined public speaker all through his half-century political profession, from making gaffes or missteps that might injury his picture, create political complications or upset the world order. The system put Biden at an uncommon take away from cupboard secretaries, the chairs of congressional committees and different high-ranking officers. It additionally insulated him from the scrutiny of the American public.” And: “Interactions between Biden and plenty of of his cupboard members have been comparatively rare and sometimes tightly scripted. At the least one cupboard member stopped requesting calls with the president, as a result of it was clear that such requests wouldn’t be welcome, a former senior cupboard aide mentioned.” And: “Former administration officers mentioned it usually didn’t seem to be Biden had his finger on the heartbeat.” • “Circle” is an attention-grabbing phrase. Proper after Biden slipped a cog in debate, I selected that phrase:

I’ve been making an attempt to think about a phrase for this extra-constitutional entity, this small group that may play — or maybe is already enjoying the identical position within the Biden Presidency that the group round Edith Wilson performed in Wilsons. The Axios URL reveals the unique headline was one thing like biden-debate-replace-advisers, however the editors jacked it as much as learn “Biden oligarchy.” However that’s fallacious; oligarchy is a complete political system. (“Biden oligarchs” might need been OK, however to me, an oligarch is a member of the one small group that basically issues: The squillioniares, and though Biden et al. might service the squillioniares, they don’t seem to be, themselves, squillionaires.) I considered cabal, milieu, gang, clique, crew, faction, workforce, troop, membership, coterie, posse, and at last settled on the time period “circle,” since a circle has a middle (Biden), connotes repetitiveness and stability, and has allied phrases “social circle” and “inside circle.”

So it’s clear that the US has been ruled by an extra-constitutional entity (Biden’s “circle”) for fairly a while, probably since Biden’s inaugural. Yikes! (“Presidenting is tough work” —George W. Bush.)

“The terrifying scandal is that Biden was NEVER president. The total fact concerning the cover-up, Dangerous Physician Jill and all of the enemies inside have to be uncovered” [Daily Mail]. “Having been lied to for years by the Democratic Occasion machine and many of the mainstream media — who insisted Joe Biden was not diminished by his age however energized by it — properly, it seems we skeptics have been proper all alongside.” The Every day Mail just isn’t fallacious right here. Extra: “And what we’re studying is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of energy, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a anonymous, faceless cohort.” Or right here. Extra: “Subpoena [Karine Jean-Pierre]. For actual. Subpoena her – and all of Biden’s prime inside circle, those who stored him ‘bodied’, as one supply mentioned, to a level unprecedented for any sitting US president: Ron Klain (former White Home chief of employees), Mike Donilon (senior advisor) and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon (marketing campaign supervisor) to call just a few.” Not a nasty concept. Why not? And: “If there’s any justice, the post-White Home e book offers and board seats will vaporize as shortly because the Biden legacy.” • ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. And deliciously–

“How vengeful Jill Biden is urging ‘depressed’ Joe to ‘burn the entire thing down’ of their remaining days… with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi on the prime of her ‘naughty listing’ [Daily Mail]. “Between organizing this yr’s White Home Christmas decorations, employees vacation events and a string of ultimate goodbyes, the president and First Girl Jill Biden have been quietly sharpening the metaphorical carving knives, with their sights set firmly on the one-time allies they understand as having wronged them….. ‘Jill views Democrats on Capitol Hill, the [wider] get together, the Obamas, employees inside and out of doors the White Home, the media, and all of Washington DC with such misguided resentment that I can’t think about she [isn’t] encouraging [Joe] to burn the entire thing down, regardless of his higher judgment,’ an insider mentioned.” And: “One Democratic mega-donor, Floridian lawyer John Morgan, is now questioning aloud whether or not Biden intentionally pressured Kamala Harris onto the ticket – throwing his endorsement behind her inside minutes of pulling out – to spite Pelosi and Barack Obama, who had additionally labored behind the scenes to push Biden out, and who each held severe reservations about Harris’s capabilities.”

“Joe Biden goes out quietly however with trademark decency” [Margaret Sullivan, Guardian]. “Biden stays himself to a big extent: respectable, optimistic, patriotic and empathetic.” • Nicely, apart from the genocide. I used to respect Sullivan till she began writing about politics.

I haven’t adopted all of the twist and turns of the most recent authorities shutdown saga as a result of its simply too silly:

“Closures, Social Safety checks, furloughs: What a authorities shutdown may imply” [Associated Press]. “Congress has till midnight Friday to provide you with a option to fund the federal government or federal businesses will shut down, that means lots of of hundreds of federal workers may very well be despatched house — or keep on the job with out pay — simply forward of the vacations. Republicans deserted a bipartisan plan Wednesday to forestall a shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk got here out in opposition to it. Trump informed Home Speaker Mike Johnson to primarily renegotiate the deal days earlier than a deadline when federal funding runs out.” Importantly to some: “Recipients of each Social Safety and Medicare would proceed to obtain their advantages, that are a part of obligatory spending that’s not topic to annual appropriations measures.”

Elon’s glad dance on Wednesday:

Yesterday’s invoice vs at the moment’s invoice 😂 pic.twitter.com/L3Omn964mw

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2024

That is amazingly silly, even for a billionaire. The measure of a invoice just isn’t its web page depend, however how efficiently it provisions the citizenry (“common concrete materials advantages”), simply because the measure for software program is notice strains of code, however performance for the consumer.

“Johnson strikes ahead on spending Plan C: Breaking apart the payments” [Politico]. “Speaker Mike Johnson has moved on to a Plan C to avert a authorities shutdown: Breaking apart every bit to move them individually. Beneath the Home GOP’s newest plan, Republicans will attempt to move three separate payments: stopgap funding laws with a one-year farm invoice extension, cash for latest pure disasters and assist for farmers, based on two folks with direct information of negotiations. A shutdown deadline is now about 12 hours away — the plan would punt that deadline to March 14. ;We’re going to speak to the convention and I’ll provide the remaining determination when that is over,” Johnson mentioned as he walked into a non-public Home GOP assembly Friday morning.”

A nation that’s sovereign in its personal foreign money can’t go bankrupt. However right here we’re:

Both there’s large change or America goes bankrupt, due to this fact there have to be large change! https://t.co/JLDBbvt41w

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

How true it’s: “Sensible males, who consider themselves to be fairly exempt from any mental affect, are normally the slaves of some defunct economist.” —John Maynard Keynes

“DOGE Can’t Do It All. Right here’s What It Can Do” [Politico]. “However given the sensible limits of DOGE’s energy (it’s not truly a authorities company, regardless of its identify), it might want to have buy-in — from lawmakers, from the incoming Cupboard as properly and, after all, from Trump. ‘They don’t have any authorities,’ Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former head of the Congressional Price range Workplace who’s president of the American Motion Discussion board, mentioned to me about DOGE. ‘On my most cynical days, I feel they’re only a suppose tank, and I run a suppose tank. I understand how little energy I’ve.’ Simply have a look at a previous, DOGE-like effort: the Grace Fee within the Eighties. It was the identical primary concept — a private-sector advisory group designed to take a look at methods to make authorities work higher. Virtually none of that physique’s recommendations have been truly adopted, regardless of a mandate from then-President Ronald Reagan.” • DOGE definitely isn’t a thinktank, as a result of a suppose tank has some company type, like a 501(c)(3). DOGE is definitely not a govenrment company. Not is it advisory physique, as a result of it doens’t meet the necessities of FACA (as HICPAC should do, for instance). DOGE is simply two guys stirring up froth on social media. To the extent it has any actual energy, it’s as an extra-constitutional entity. Didn’t we simply undergo that with Biden?

I preserve getting adverts like this from Kamala:

President Biden and I are dedicated to constructing an economic system that works for each American. We’ve taken historic motion to create jobs, put money into small companies, and forgive pupil mortgage and medical debt. pic.twitter.com/crBAUFiXP8

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) December 18, 2024

It’s like she thinks she’s nonetheless working. Or is that this the perfect the DNC can do on messaging proper now?

Realignment and Legitimacy

“Luigi Mangione Charged With The Stalking And Homicide Of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson And Use Of A Silencer In A Crime Of Violence” (press launch) [United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]. However not terrorism, curiously. “FBI Assistant Director James E. Dennehy mentioned: “Luigi Mangione allegedly carried out the rigorously premeditated and focused execution of Brian Thompson to incite nationwide debates. This alleged plot demonstrates a cavalier perspective in direction of humanity – deeming homicide an acceptable recourse to satiate private grievances. By continued shut partnership with the NYPD, the FBI maintains our steadfast dedication to fervently pursue any particular person who promotes a private agenda by violence.” • Versus a company agenda?

“Federal homicide cost in opposition to Mangione may imply dying penalty in CEO killing” [NPR]. “The federal fees in opposition to him embody: one depend of utilizing a firearm to commit homicide, which carries a most sentence of dying or life in jail; one depend of interstate stalking leading to dying; and one depend of stalking by use of interstate services leading to dying (every carrying a most sentence of life in jail); and one depend of discharging a firearm geared up with a silencer to commit a violent crime (which carries a sentence of 30 years to life in jail.”

“How Luigi Mangione’s pocket book helped federal prosecutors construct their case and what’s subsequent as he faces mounting fees” [CNN]. “The push for federal fees got here from the US Legal professional’s workplace, a number of legislation enforcement sources informed CNN. As a result of the FBI was already concerned within the investigation aiding the NYPD with out-of-town leads, FBI brokers have been requested to attract up the federal criticism primarily based on proof collected by NYPD detectives engaged on the state fees and police in Pennsylvania who arrested Mangione. Federal prosecutors say they’ve jurisdiction within the case as a result of Mangione’s ‘journey in interstate commerce’ – taking a bus from Atlanta to New York previous to the killing – in addition to ‘use of interstate services’ by allegedly using a cellphone and the web ‘to plan and perform the stalking, taking pictures, and killing’ of Thompson in broad daylight on a Manhattan sidewalk.” • Oh. Any crime involving a cellphone or the Web is probably a Federal case? Is that what I’m studying?

“A whirlwind day for Luigi Mangione ends with new fees, revelations from a pocket book and switch to a federal jail” [CNN]. “The 26-year-old homicide suspect started his day at a jail in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, his house for the final 10 days, and ended it in a infamous federal jail in New York…. Mangione has been indicted on 11 fees in New York, together with first-degree homicide as an act of terrorism. He has not but pleaded to the costs. He additionally faces fees in Pennsylvania in connection to the 3D-printed firearm and false ID allegedly in his possession when he was arrested. Blair County District Legal professional Peter Weeks mentioned he wouldn’t push to have these fees heard forward of Mangione’s way more severe fees in New York. And a federal criticism in opposition to him was unsealed noon Thursday including 4 new fees and offering new particulars on a pocket book authorities say was in his possession.” • Mangione’s manifesto mentions the pocket book (“The spiral pocket book, if current, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it”). Now right here it’s. Why wasn’t it within the Central Park backpack with the monopoly cash? And all the opposite paraphernalia, if it involves that.

“Learn the Luigi Mangione federal legal criticism” [CBS]. From the Pocket book as excerpted within the criticism:

(“Checks each field” feels like some species of sophistication evaluation, though box-checking per se isn’t dialectical, as Bourdieu reveals.) I don’t suppose we’ll be seeing the whole pocket book anytime quickly….

“Meet the Authorized Insider Defending Luigi Mangione” [Wall Street Journal]. “Only a few years in the past, Karen Friedman Agnifilo managed the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace and its fleet of greater than 500 attorneys…. Whereas Friedman Agnifilo has minimal courtroom expertise as a criminal-defense lawyer, her private {and professional} curiosity in psychological well being, empathetic strategy to purchasers and intimate information of her former workplace will likely be key, colleagues mentioned. ‘She’ll be capable to predict what the prosecutors will do earlier than they do it,’ mentioned lawyer Danya Perry, who has labored along with her in personal follow… Her husband, the protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo, is predicted to play a supporting position within the case. He’s additionally representing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs [(!!!)] at his federal sex-trafficking trial this spring.

“Luigi Mangione canonized as a ‘saint’ by crazed on-line followers after dying penalty bombshell” [Daily Mail]. “Many on-line are claiming Mangione is dealing with worse punishment that hardened criminals and faculty shooters, speculating that the federal government desires to make an instance out of him and forestall some form of revolt in opposition to company America. One X submit learn: ‘They wanna give Luigi Mangione the dying penalty. That’s the one purpose they making him face federal fees. ‘They actually wanna kill him for daring to threaten capitalism and company greed. They don’t even do that to highschool shooters.’ One other X consumer added: ‘Only a few college shooters have gotten the dying penalty. But the U.S. is making an attempt to cost Luigi Mangione so he will get the dying penalty for killing one man. You possibly can kill dozens of children and get a lesser sentence as a result of their lives don’t matter as a lot as a CEO’s. That’s America.’ Some are mentioning that the federal government’s dealing with of Mangione, which included a perp stroll straight out of a Hollywood movie, is simply rising the general public’s fixation on him. One X consumer mentioned: ‘luigi stepping out with a contemporary minimize/shave, attainable dying penalty fees, and an nypd photoshoot is the craziest factor on the earth. are they actively making an attempt to make him a martyr? whether or not you’re for or in opposition to him, they’re making it SO simple for everybody to lionize him.’” • The perp stroll:

NYPD apparently sat round asking themselves “how can we prepare to move Mangione in a method that makes him look to his supporters like Christ being taken to the cross” pic.twitter.com/psP9W7PDlx

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) December 19, 2024

After all Mayor Adams (middle left, ha ha) has to get into the act…

Syndemics

“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

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Keep protected on the market!

Transmission: H5N1

Lengthy-lasting fomites:

Wow look how lengthy #H5N1 can keep infectious on 🪶 feathers, soil & feces !!!
It is winter & colder temperatures preserve the virus alive longer.

At 4 C
Feathers 5 months
Soil,mud. 4 months
Feces 2 months https://t.co/fsoQhCcCVZ

— Sphagnum Moss (@moss_sphagnum) December 20, 2024

TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts

LEGEND

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NOTES

[1] (CDC) Seeing extra purple and extra orange, however nothing new at main hubs.

[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.

[3] (CDC Variants) XEC takes over. That WHO label, “Ommicron,” has completed an excellent job normalizing successive waves of an infection.

[4] (ED) Somewhat uptick.

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Leveled out.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Leveling out.

[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.

[8] (Cleveland) Continued upward pattern since, properly, Thanksgiving.

[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Leveling out.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants). Positivity is new, however variants haven’t but been launched.

[11] Deaths low, positivity leveling out.

[12] Deaths low, ED leveling out.

Stats Watch

Inflation: “United States PCE Value Index Annual Change” [Trading Economics]. “Annual PCE inflation within the US accelerated for a second month to 2.4% in November 2024 from 2.3% in October, however beneath expectations of two.5%.”

Manufacturing: “Boeing charts ‘aggressive’ 737 Max manufacturing ramp-up in 2025” [The Air Current]. “Boeing’s provide chain desires the airplane maker to be boring in 2025. Boeing has different concepts… Now, the corporate is progressing with a steep manufacturing acceleration on its single-aisle 737 Max that can check its youthful workforce, fragile provide base and its chief regulator within the yr to return. At the moment, Boeing goals to have its manufacturing strains constructing 737 Max jets absolutely transitioned to a fee of 38 monthly in Might 2025, based on a number of folks aware of Boeing’s planning inside the corporate and the availability chain. Whereas Boeing mentioned it’s approaching its restart and ramp up “methodically”, one senior official at a serious Boeing provider informed The Air Present that the airplane maker is prone to repeating previous errors — accelerating its manufacturing facility tempo too shortly and pushing the deliveries from its provide chain past what the suppliers and their manufacturing strains can accommodate. “That’s extremely aggressive, in all probability unrealistic,” mentioned the provider official. Underscoring the fragility of the belief between Boeing and its large community of suppliers, the official mentioned: “All I need is a yr the place they’ll do what they are saying they’ll do,” noting that the corporate’s manufacturing steerage for the availability chain has repeatedly didn’t materialize since even earlier than the 737 Max was grounded for 20 months beginning in March 2019.” • Nicely, Ortberg is simply betting the corporate. So what’s the problem?

At this time’s Worry & Greed Index: 28 Impartial (earlier shut: 22 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 49 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Dec 20 at 1:31:53 PM ET.

Permaculture

“Analyzing our 2024 Backyard: peas, beans, carrots and greens” [The Re-Farmer]. Generally all the pieces doesn’t go based on plan. On the beans: “With the bush beans, the primary sowing didn’t succeed in any respect – and these have been new seeds! I used to be in a position to purchase extra and tried once more. This time, we had a pleasant, brief row of bush beans emerge. They did fairly properly… Till they bought eaten by deer. They recovered and began going properly once more. Then bought eaten by deer once more. Amazingly, they recovered once more!” • Classes discovered, an attention-grabbing style.

The 420

“Hashish pollen dispersal throughout the US” [Nature]. “For the not too long ago legalized US hemp business (Hashish sativa), cross-pollination between neighboring fields has turn into a major problem, resulting in contaminated seeds, decreased oil yields, and in some instances, mandated crop destruction…. Our findings reveal that pollen deposition charges escalate from summer time to autumn because of the discount in convective exercise throughout daytime and the rise in wind shear at evening because the season progresses. We discover diurnal variations in pollen dispersion: nighttime circumstances favor deposition in proximity to the supply, whereas daytime circumstances facilitate broader dispersal albeit with decreased deposition charges. These shifting climate patterns give rise to particular areas of CONUS extra weak to hemp cross-pollination.”

Gallery

“The Lacking van Gogh Masterpiece” [kottke.org]. “I didn’t know that the whereabouts of one in every of Vincent van Gogh’s most vital works, a 1890 portray referred to as “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”, is unknown and that the portray had not been seen publicly for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.” And quoting the New York Instances; “4 artwork world insiders mentioned they think the portray is held by a non-public, very wealthy European household…. The query has grown extra related because it turns into clearer that almost all museums can now not outbid billionaire collectors for the best artworks…. ‘Individuals are allowed to personal issues privately,’ mentioned Michael Findlay, who was concerned as a specialist for Christie’s within the 1990 public sale sale of the Gachet. ‘Does it belong to everyone? No, it doesn’t.’” • Says the auctioneeer.

I can’t consider it’s not butter:

Zeitgeist Watch

“Polyamory doesn’t Liberate; Monogamy doesn’t Defend” [Carsonogenic]. “The traditional poly delusion, is to suppose that by way of poly, you will get all your wants met. Polyamory literature says you possibly can’t count on one individual to satisfy all your emotional wants. That is true. The shadow implication of this assertion is that you would be able to count on a handful of individuals to satisfy all your emotional wants. This isn’t true. Different folks don’t exist to fill our emotional voids. To cite Bo Burnham ‘If you would like love, the love has gotta come from you…...” So and however: “The main monogamy delusion is clear. It’s easy: the concept you possess your companion, or that you simply even can – the concept by irrevocably binding your self to somebody, you possibly can keep away from any risk of abandonment or heartbreak.” • Youngsters lately. San Francisco-based youngsters…..

“For airports, background music now not is an afterthought” [Associated Press]. “Background music is now not an afterthought at many airports, that are hiring native musicians and thoroughly curating playlists to assist lighten vacationers’ moods… Tiffany Idiart and her two nieces have been delighted to listen to musicians throughout a latest layover at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport. ‘I prefer it. There’s lots of people right here and so they can all hear it,’ mentioned Grace Idiart, 9. ‘If their flight bought delayed or one thing like that, they might have had a tough day. And so the music may have made them really feel higher.’ Airports are additionally rigorously curating their recorded playlists.” • This does sound like a good suggestion. OTOH, my shadow facet brings Temple Grandin to the floor…