By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order (Rebellion)
Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I want to preen a bit for (a) recognizing that the Part Three story was essential and (b) masking it relentlessly (and from all sides). Extra, (c) I used to be skeptical of the case being made, (d) appropriately so, given the tenor of the Justices’ questioning (throughout the board, not simply the conservatives. In fact, we don’t know what the last word end result can be — and there are different case within the works — however I believe you have been properly ready for the explosion of protection now that it has lastly occurred. (Hat tip to alert reader GH for sending me the amici briefs!)
“The Supreme Courtroom appears poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the poll over the Capitol riot” [Associated Press]. “The Supreme Courtroom appears poised to reject makes an attempt to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 poll, with conservative and liberal justices in obvious settlement in a case that places them on the coronary heart of a presidential election. A definitive ruling for Trump, the main Republican candidate for president, would largely finish efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to stop his identify from showing on the poll…. However on a Supreme Courtroom that prefers to keep away from instances through which it’s the ultimate arbiter of a political dispute, the justices seemed to be looking for a consensus ruling and the problem of congressional motion appeared to attract essentially the most help. Justice Elena Kagan was amongst a number of justices who needed to know “why a single state ought to determine who will get to be president of the US.’” However it’s unlikely that Congress would act. So the place would that depart us? Lastly: “Along with the immunity concern, the courtroom additionally will hear an attraction in April from one of many greater than 1,200 individuals charged within the Capitol riot. The case may upend a cost prosecutors have introduced in opposition to greater than 300 individuals, together with Trump.” • It’s going to be fairly a 12 months!
“The 5 Minute Repair” [WaPo]. “The Supreme Courtroom didn’t even have to listen to the case. However the justices in all probability acknowledged the extraordinary public curiosity in whether or not a presidential candidate is an insurrectionist. Which suggests they may rule very quickly, earlier than extra states have their primaries in March. They’ve three major choices, ranked so as of least to probably….. 1. They may determine Trump can’t be on all state ballots: This could be cataclysmic for Trump, and it’s the least seemingly choice, based mostly on how skeptical the judges sounded right this moment about Colorado’s argument…. 2. They may determine Trump will be on all state ballots: This could maintain the established order. Trump may precede as a traditional presidential candidate. 3. They may narrowly rule on simply the Colorado case: This could be essentially the most difficult end result, in response to secretaries of states The Washington Put up has talked to. This determination would depart it as much as state election officers, and even Congress, to determine what to do with Trump. However whereas that’s an unsatisfactory reply to the general public, it could be the best determination for the justices, who by no means needed this case within the first place, [aid Jessica Levinson, a legal analyst and law professor at Loyola Marymount University] mentioned.” • Hmm. If that’s the probably choice, then “home tranquillity” appears to be like a bit shaky.
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
* * * “Trump has his finest day of 2024” [CNN]. “Donald Trump had his finest day of 2024 to this point… The previous president was handed a political present. An impartial particular counsel poured kerosene on issues about Joe Biden’s age with pointed language concerning the president’s poor reminiscence after concluding Biden had willfully mishandled labeled paperwork – and that his failing reminiscence makes him unattainable to convict. Biden was on protection at a rapidly known as White Home information convention. “My reminiscence is okay,” Biden mentioned. He’s on a glide path to the Republican nomination. Trump romped within the Nevada and US Virgin Island caucuses Thursday evening, persevering with his unbeaten streak and making Nikki Haley’s marketing campaign really feel futile. He seems poised for a win on the Supreme Courtroom. Justices expressed deep skepticism that Colorado may declare him an insurrectionist and bar him from their election ballots. It’s a one-two-three combo that ought to have Trump feeling stable about his political future, at the very least for a second.” • Fortunate in his
* * * “Report on the Investigation Into Unauthorized Removing, Retention, and Disclosure of Categorised Paperwork Found at Areas Together with the Penn Eiden Heart and the Delaware Personal Residence of President Joseph R. Eiden, Jr.” [Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, U.S. Department of Justice]. Listed below are the passages which can be inflicting a lot agita:
And it seems Biden’s reminiscence has been problematic since at the very least 2017, that’s earlier than he was President:
(Notice that an interview with a ghostwriter shouldn’t be an official continuing; individuals overlook issues in official proceedings on a regular basis!) Since I got here up in the course of the Terry Schiavo debacle, when ridiculous and tendentious armchair analysis — a lot of it from medical doctors! — was rife, I’m cautious on matters like this. Dementia has quite a lot of behavioral signs (and if Biden has been formally examined, the outcomes aren’t out there to us). Reminiscence loss is one. Aggressive habits is one other, which is why I flagged Biden’s “rage” in hyperlinks this morning. If the press actually desires to enter pulling-the-wings-off-flies mode, they’ll ask Biden to rely backwards from 100 by sevens in his subsequent presser, if any. If there’s a reliable, apartisan videopgrapher/editor on this world, they could take into account making documenting Biden’s gait over time. Lastly, it’s price noting that Biden has had Covid twice, and that dementia has been a widely known Covid sequela since 2021. As I wrote again in seq: “A sociopathic elite is one factor, that we’re used to; however a sociopathic elite with mind harm is sort of one other.”
“Biden angrily pushes again at particular counsel’s report that questioned his reminiscence, dealing with of docs” [Associated Press]. “‘How within the hell dare he increase that?” Biden requested, about Hur’s feedback relating to his son’s dying, saying he didn’t imagine it was any of Hur’s enterprise. When requested concerning the report earlier Thursday in a personal second with a handful of Home Democrats forward of his speech at their suburban Virginia retreat, Biden responded angrily, in response to two individuals conversant in his feedback* , saying, ‘You assume I’d f—— overlook the day my son died?’The individuals didn’t wish to handle the matter publicly and spoke of situation of anonymity. Biden pointedly famous that he had sat for 5 hours of in-person interviews within the instant aftermath of Hamas’s October assault on Israel, when ‘I used to be in the course of dealing with a global disaster.’” • NOTE * Harris supporters?
“Joe Biden: Political grenade thrusts age into highlight” [BBC]. “Different Biden allies have pushed again on Mr Hur’s impartiality, stating that he was appointed to a US legal professional workplace by Donald Trump in 2017. It was Biden Legal professional Basic Merrick Garland who chosen Mr Hur as particular counsel, nevertheless.” • Hur’s bio.
“Eight Phrases and a Verbal Slip Put Biden’s Age Again on the Heart of 2024” [New York Times]. “[A] visibly indignant Mr. Biden made the precise kind of verbal flub that has saved Democrats so nervous for months, mistakenly referring to the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, because the ‘president of Mexico’ as he tried to handle the newest developments within the struggle in Gaza…. The Trump operation has made plain its intent to make use of Mr. Biden’s stiffer gait [see above] and generally garbled speech to forged him as weak.”
“5 takeaways from particular counsel report on Biden’s labeled paperwork” [The Hill]. “Whereas Hur’s feedback about Biden’s age and reminiscence will little doubt sting on the marketing campaign path, the particular counsel’s rationale for not bringing costs rests each on the legislation and Biden’s skill to forged doubt on claims he deliberately saved the information. The Espionage Act prohibits ‘willful’ retention of nationwide protection info, putting a burden on prosecutors to indicate violators saved paperwork deliberately. It’s a job made harder provided that Biden alerted authorities to his possession of the paperwork. ‘His cooperation with our investigation, together with by reporting to the federal government that the Afghanistan paperwork have been in his Delaware storage, will seemingly persuade some jurors that he made an harmless mistake, reasonably than performing willfully — that’s, with intent to interrupt the legislation — because the statute requires,’ Hur wrote. However there have been additionally different components that backed Biden’s stance that he was unaware the information have been in his house. The Afghanistan paperwork have been ‘in Mr. Biden’s Delaware storage — in a badly broken field surrounded by family detritus,’ Hur mentioned.” • Properly, who doesn’t have a bit “family detritus”? MR SUBLIMINAL Not you, Hunter! Significantly, although, if Trump had finished this?
* * * Something that makes Donald Trump, Jr. appear to be a winner:
So Joe Biden is previous & cognitively impaired (8 yrs in the past) in response to particular prosecutor Hur, that’s why he received’t be charged for leaving labeled paperwork in all places.
Nevertheless, he’s nonetheless 100% okay to guide the free world & maintain the nuclear soccer!
Completely is sensible! pic.twitter.com/TcFJUuOdW7
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 8, 2024
“Clinton adviser Begala on Hur report: ‘That is horrible for Democrats’” [Politico]. “Democratic strategist and former Clinton advisor Paul Begala issued a warning to Democrats after the discharge of a particular counsel report that questioned President Joe Biden’s reminiscence…. ‘Look, I’m a Biden supporter. And I slept like a child final evening. I awoke each two hours and moist the mattress. That is horrible for Democrats. And anyone with a functioning mind is aware of that,’ mentioned Begala, who was a chief strategist to the 1992 Clinton-Gore marketing campaign and later served as an adviser to President Invoice Clinton within the White Home, in an look Friday on CNN…. ‘I wish to see extra Joe Biden, and the gaffes are in-built. However as an alternative of merely saying, ‘I’m OK’, he simply merely, he must be on the assault 24/7 for the subsequent 269 days,’ Begala mentioned.” • I don’t know if Biden has that functionality any extra. In 2020, he campaigned from his basement. That is 4 years later….
“Obama AG Eric Holder blasts particular counsel’s report” [Politico]. ‘Particular Counsel Hur report on Biden labeled paperwork points accommodates approach too many gratuitous remarks and is flatly inconsistent with lengthy standing DOJ traditions,’ Holder mentioned in a publish on X early Friday morning. ‘Had this report been topic to a traditional DOJ overview these remarks would undoubtedly have been excised.’”
* * * “What’s the twenty fifth Modification? A simplified rationalization of what it does, who can invoke it” [USA Today]. “The twenty fifth Modification can’t be executed by a single get together. As an alternative, it takes a number of steps of approval by a number of events. The vice chairman is the first place to begin for invoking the twenty fifth Modification, particularly the fourth part. The vice chairman, along with both a majority of the manager Cupboard or a particular “physique” designated by Congress, should invoke the Modification in tandem. The vice chairman takes over as soon as these events submit a proper written declaration to Congress. If the president refutes this, they’ll return to energy for 4 days, through which time the opposite events can once more submit a declaration invoking the president’s removing. If this occurs, the VP takes over once more and Congress should safe a two-thirds vote in each the Home and Senate inside 21 days to completely take away the president.” • So Kamala Harris pulls the set off. Oh, good. I’m wondering if the flight-trackers present any motion from Willie Brown; she’d wish to seek the advice of together with her oldest, most trusted advisors. (My thought, which I don’t assume I ever wrote up, was that the perfect time to defenestrate Biden can be a month or so earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference beginning August 19. That approach, the Conference, which has plenary powers, may merely choose the candidate in a smoke-filled room, which is what the get together grandees want to do anyhow. February is way, a lot too early; it offers rivals time to begin their very own campaigns. It additionally opens jp house for RFK Jr.
“Republicans Name For Biden’s Removing By twenty fifth Modification After Hur Report: What It Is And Why That Gained’t Occur” [Forbes]. “The requires invoking the twenty fifth Modification are amongst mounting criticism from Republicans, together with former President Donald Trump, about Biden’s psychological well-being given the report’s findings. However the calls are unlikely to be greater than partisan chatter as invoking the twenty fifth Modification would require the help of the vice chairman and of Biden’s Democratic cupboard. The group must agree he’s “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his workplace,” in response to Part 4 of the twenty fifth Modification. From there it’s a good steeper uphill battle for Biden to be faraway from workplace. Two-thirds majorities of each chambers would then must vote and approve of stripping the president of his powers.” • I’m wondering what
Mrs. Woodrow WilsonJill Biden thinks….* * * “Might Taylor Swift Assist Biden Win Re-Election? Sure, In response to the Knowledge” [Morning Consult]. “3% of U.S. voters say they’re avid followers of Swift, together with 37% who take into account themselves informal followers. Roughly 2 in 3 avid Swift followers who’re registered to vote want to see her endorse Biden’s re-election, in contrast with 30% of all voters who agree. Solely 51% of Swift’s youngest followers who’re eligible to vote (ages 18-34) mentioned they’ll undoubtedly take part within the November election, suggesting {that a} Swift advocacy effort may assist Biden run up the rating amongst this left-leaning group — particularly if she will be able to activate her informal followers. 64% of voters who determine as avid Swift followers say they’re supporting Biden for re-election this 12 months.” • Does appear a bit trivial, after the Hur report. However one carries on!
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#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Vaccination and Vaccines
“One Easy Change Could Dramatically Increase The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccines” [Science Alert]. “4 weeks after the second jab, those that obtained photographs in each arms had as much as a four-fold enhance in SARS-CoV-2-specific serum antibodies in comparison with those that acquired photographs in only one arm. What’s extra, this improved immune response lasted greater than a 12 months after the booster was administered. ‘It turned out to be one of many extra vital issues we’ve discovered, and it’s in all probability not restricted to simply COVID vaccines,’ [infectious disease specialist Marcel Curlin] hypothesizes. ‘We could also be seeing an essential immunologic operate.’ Curlin and his colleagues aren’t but positive what that particular operate is, or the way it works, however they’ve an concept. When a vaccine is given in muscle, the antigens within the drugs are acknowledged by immune cells, which ‘handcuff’ the invaders and take them to the lymph nodes for additional questioning. This then primes the immune system in opposition to this specific antigen by form of sending out needed indicators of the invader. The factor is, totally different sides of the physique drain to totally different lymph nodes, so by triggering an immune response on either side, the physique could also be extra on guard.”
Immune Dysregulation
Lastly!
Dr. Darien Sutton, medical correspondent for Good Morning America.
“COVID decreases our immune response” clip. pic.twitter.com/HYzGJqj7In
— Lazarus Lengthy (@LazarusLong13) February 9, 2024
Sequelae
“Temporal Affiliation between COVID-19 An infection and Subsequent New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults: A Systematic Overview and Meta-Evaluation” (preprint) [The Lancet]. Metastudy of 11 research. “This overview primarily aimed to research the potential function of COVID-19 in resulting in [New Onset Dementia (NOD)] amongst older adults aged 60 years and older over varied time intervals…. In subgroup analyses, NOD danger was considerably larger within the COVID-19 group in comparison with C2 at 12 months post-COVID… Cognitive impairment was almost twice as seemingly in COVID-19 survivors in comparison with these uninfected.” • See above on Biden.
“Mass Disabling Occasion Denial” [Nate Bear, ¡Do Not Panic!]. “In 2022 scientists mentioned covid was prone to be a mass disabling occasion. Mass media articles lined this forecast broadly on the time…. 4 years later, these forecasts have gotten our actuality. The variety of long-term sick within the UK was revised upwards this week to a document excessive of greater than 2.8 million after falling constantly till 2020…. Within the US the numbers are skyrocketing. On present developments the variety of Individuals registered as having a incapacity will high 10 million someday subsequent 12 months. In Canada 27% of individuals now have a registered incapacity. The identical factor is being seen in nations all over the world. All since 2020. The mass disabling occasion we have been warned of is right here. However as an alternative of headlines warning us that sure, certainly, these forecasts we wrote about have gotten actuality, one thing unusual is going on. The exact same media and politicians who warned about the specter of covid as a mass disabling occasion are actually blaming the whole lot apart from the virus for the mass incapacity.” • “It’s the lockdowns!” And folks purchase it. I’m baffled why they do….
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
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NOTES
[1] Sure, up, however we’ll wish to wait till subsequent week to see if there are backward revisions. I’d be extra snug if some positivity figures have been up, too, or the ER (UPDATE: It’s not). Verily knowledge, FWIW, additionally suggests a rise:
[2] Biobot knowledge suggests an increase within the Northeast. MRWA knowledge doesn’t counsel that:
I additionally tried Verily’s regional knowledge and CDC’s mapm however I wasn’t assured I used to be seeing a sign in both.
[3] “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge can be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
[4] Doesn’t help Biobot knowledge. “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart exhibits, at the very least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, though CDC is making an attempt to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections. And naturally, we’re not even entering into the standard of the wastewater websites that we now have as a proxy for Covid an infection total.
[5] Lower for town not aligns with wastewater knowledge (if certainly Biobot’s spike is actual).
[6] Nonetheless down “Maps, charts, and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] It could be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer stress, went and acquired examined anyhow.
[8] Lambert right here: Proportion and absolute numbers down.
[9] Up, albeit within the rear view mirror.
Stats Watch
Inflation: “United States CPI seasonally adjusted” [Trading Economics]. “The seasonally-adjusted CPI in the US elevated by 0.2% month-over-month to 308.742 factors in December 2023, the identical tempo as in November, revised knowledge confirmed.” If solely our paychecks have been seasonally adjusted. And month-on-month: “US core shopper costs, which exclude unstable objects comparable to meals and power, rose by 0.3% from the earlier month in December 2023, the identical as in November and consistent with market expectations. Client costs eased for companies excluding power companies (0.4% vs 0.5% in November), amid softer will increase in transportation companies (0.1% vs 1.1%). However, price of shelter (0.5% vs 0.4%) and medical care companies (0.7% vs 0.6%) superior sooner. Amongst items, costs rebounded for attire (0.1% vs -1.3%), new automobiles (0.3% vs -0.1%) and alcoholic drinks (0.3% vs -0.1%). In the meantime, price eased for used automobiles and vehicles (0.5% vs 1.6% and fell for medical care commodities (-0.1% vs 0.5%) and tobacco and smoking merchandise (-0.1% vs 1.1%).”
Tech: “Apple Is Lobbying Towards Proper to Restore Six Months After Supporting Proper to Restore” [404 Media]. “An Apple govt lobbied in opposition to a robust right-to-repair invoice in Oregon Thursday, which is the primary time the corporate has had an worker actively define its stance on proper to restore at an open listening to. Apple’s place in Oregon exhibits that regardless of supporting a weaker proper to restore legislation in California, it nonetheless intends to manage its personal restore ecosystem. It additionally units up a extremely attention-grabbing struggle within the state as a result of Google has come out in favor of the identical laws Apple is opposing.”
Manufacturing: “FAA says 737 Max operator found unfastened bolts in rudder management system on airplane in December” [The Hill]. “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mentioned an operator of a 737 Max airplane found unfastened bolts in a rudder management system for the airplane. The FAA mentioned it obtained a report a few lacking nut, washer and ‘migrated’ bolt within the system from an operator in December of final 12 months. It mentioned Boeing then inspected all 737 Max 8, 737 Max 8-200, and 737 Max 9 planes in manufacturing and turned up one other ‘under-torqued nut on the similar location.’ Boeing mentioned in an announcement to The Hill on Friday that operators have inspected greater than 1,400 737 MAX airplanes since late December and no different airplane was discovered with the situation that initiated the inspection. Inspections on associated jets have been accomplished, the corporate added. The FAA, in the meantime, mentioned in an announcement on Thursday that inspections beneficial by Boeing in December had been accomplished by all U.S. airways in early January. ‘The FAA fastidiously reviewed the inspection outcomes, which discovered no lacking or unfastened rudder bolts,’ the FAA mentioned. An airworthiness directive from the FAA that can require ‘a one-time inspection’ of the system through which the unfastened bolts have been found for sure Max airplanes is scheduled to be revealed Monday.”
In the present day’s Concern & Greed Index: 76 Greed (earlier shut: 75 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 62 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Feb 8 at 1:33:37 PM ET.
The Gallery
“A Case for the Preservation of Deserted Locations” [Atlas Obscura]. A photograph this beautiful makes the case for abandonment:
What may very well be extra stunning than an deserted jail….
Information of the Wired
“‘Studying is so attractive’: gen Z turns to bodily books and libraries” [Guardian]. “Gerber isn’t alone. Final 12 months within the UK 669m bodily books have been bought, the best total stage ever recorded. Analysis from Nielsen BookData highlights that it’s print books that gen Z favour, accounting for 80% of purchases from November 2021 to 2022. Libraries are additionally reporting an uptick in gen Z customers who favour their quiet over noisy espresso retailers. Within the UK in-person visits are up 71%.” • Greatest information I’ve heard in a very long time!
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