By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Some readers requested for one thing desk of contents-like, so listed here are a couple of highlights amidst the density:
Excessive- and Lowlights
(1) Lisa Web page, like a nasty penny.
(2) MTG meets Biden on the SOTU.
(3) RFK calls out DSAC, an unsightly public-private partnership within the Censorship Industrial Complicated
(4) The Full English..
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Spook Nation
Slime pays:
Oh look Amazon employed Lisa Web page. Sure, former FBI lawyer of Russiagate fame Lisa Web page. To do their authorized coverage round satellite tv for pc delivered broadband. https://t.co/UJTuOuHX8a pic.twitter.com/IgYnCWmkCo
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 7, 2024
Biden Administration
I’ll preserve the fiction that the SOTU was not a marketing campaign speech. I’ll placed on my yellow waders over the weekend, and though I desire at all times to work from a transcript, this time I’ll even have to observe it, the horror:
“State of the Union Exhibits There’s Life within the Outdated Boy But” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street]. Sadly, I can solely quote the deck: “Biden’s speech confirmed power and focus, although he blurred some phrases and ideas.”
“Biden’s State of the Union speech strengthened psychological acuity and age issues, Republicans say” [FOX]. However they’d, wouldn’t they? “‘Numerous the time it was exhausting to grasp what he was saying,’ stated Home Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va. ‘He was type of mumbling and slurring.’ ‘We couldn’t perceive him. He was so mad,’ agreed Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. ‘The amount was up and down.’ At a number of factors, Biden did increase his voice to emphasise his factors, notably when referring to Trump. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, remarked the president’s annual tackle was ‘harking back to an previous, indignant man standing on his porch screaming ‘get off my entrance garden.” Whereas Republicans tended to treat Biden’s tackle as indignant and proof of his cognitive decline, congressional Democrats believed his speech showcased his power.” However they’d, wouldn’t they? Extra: ‘He was nice. He was actually incredible,’ stated Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who additionally described Biden as ‘energetic’ and ‘clear.’ Even Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Neb., conceded: ‘I feel in equity, [Biden] had an excellent evening.’” • The Juice, adrenaline, pleasure of battle, private animus, partisan and ideological dedication… It’s a marvel Crew Biden didn’t wind their man up too tight!
“President Biden rails towards ‘my predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union speech” [Semafor]. “The speech marked an unofficial kickoff of the president’s reelection push, laying out a message that he plans to tackle the highway to Michigan on Friday and Georgia on Saturday, the place Trump is talking the identical day. The marketing campaign and allied teams are additionally anticipated to ramp up promoting and construct new volunteer and workers infrastructure within the coming weeks.” • We’ll must see how the marketing campaign path treats Biden.
“5 memorable moments from Biden’s State of the Union” [The Hill]. One second: “[Marjorie Taylor] Greene handed Biden a pin when he entered the chamber for his speech that learn ‘say her identify Laken Riley.’ Greene had distributed the pins to lawmakers forward of Thursday evening’s tackle. Then, whereas Biden was discussing the state of affairs on the southern border throughout his speech, Greene yelled out, ‘It’s about Laken Riley,’ and different Republicans shouted, ‘Say her identify.’ Biden held up the pin Greene gave him and responded to the congresswoman from the dais. ‘Laken Riley, an harmless younger girl who was killed by an unlawful,’ he stated. ‘To her dad and mom I say my coronary heart goes out to you having misplaced kids myself. I perceive.’” • Exhibiting that well-known Biden empathy and stealing a Republican speaking level (“an unlawful”). Fairly good, even for a youthful man. Assembly with MTG after the speech:
This wonderful clip of Biden vs MTG proves to me he has all his marbles, all his psychological schools, all his humorousness—and that he’s going to win in November. pic.twitter.com/lP9I7tY2Kh
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 8, 2024
“Trump Presents Ranting SOTU Commentary: ‘EVERY LINE IS BEING SHOUTED’” [HuffPo]. “‘DON’T SHAKE PEOPLE’S HANDS GOING OUT – HE KEEPS COUGHING INTO HIS RIGHT HAND!’ he later wrote.” • Reinforcing fomite transmission (although certainly that is one potential case I’d keep away from; yech!!). That is additionally an previous Republican speaking level — and a reputable one!
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
* * * Trump (R): “Trump is ordered to pay authorized charges after failed lawsuit over the Steele file” [Associated Press]. ” Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a six-figure authorized invoice to an organization based by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer referred to as ‘stunning and scandalous’ false claims that harmed his popularity. A London choose, who threw out the case towards Orbis Enterprise Intelligence final month saying it was ‘sure to fail,’ [why?] ordered Trump to pay authorized charges of 300,000 kilos ($382,000), in accordance with courtroom paperwork launched Thursday. Orbis was based by Christopher Steele, who as soon as ran the Russia desk for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also called MI6.” • Six methods from Sunday, and throughout the Large Pond, too.
* * * Trump (R): “Intel businesses eye transient for Trump, amid fears he may spill secrets and techniques” [Politico]. • I don’t see what the fear is; they may at all times feed him chickenfeed. So they may faux to transient him, and he may faux to hear (or, extra doubtless, attempt to reverse engineer what they had been mendacity to him about).
Trump (R): “Dr. John Gartner: The world is watching ‘a elementary breakdown in Trump’s skill to make use of language’” (interview) [Salon] Gartner: “And eventually, there have been extra examples final week of a elementary breakdown in Trump’s skill to make use of language, to suppose and to speak. When Trump visited the border, he stated: “No person [can] clarify to me how permitting hundreds of thousands of individuals from locations unknown, from international locations unknown, who don’t converse languages — now we have languages coming into our nation, now we have no one that even speaks these languages. They’re really overseas languages. No person speaks them.” For my part, Donald Trump is getting worse as his cognitive state continues to degrade. If Trump had been your relative, you’d be eager about assisted care proper now.” • On the Gartner quote: Not shopping for it; I can hear Trump saying these phrases, and Gartner’s giving an instance of how Trump spirals round a subject. I feel that is cope and tu quoque although I could possibly be persauded in any other case. Readers?
Trump (R): “Who Actually Stands With American Employees?” [Paul Krugman, New York Times]. “Total, wage good points have greater than stored up with inflation, and wage good points have been most fast for lower-paid employees. Consequently, most employees’ wages adjusted for inflation are increased than earlier than the pandemic, and are literally above the prepandemic pattern. In brief, there’s a cause the United Vehicle Employees endorsed Biden, though lots of its members will vote for Trump anyway, imagining that he’s on their facet. However Trump isn’t a populist, he’s a poseur. When making precise coverage versus speeches, he principally ruled as Mitch McConnell with tariffs. Biden, alternatively, actually has pursued a pro-worker agenda — extra so, arguably, than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt — and has presided over a major discount in inequality.” • First, to “stand with” employees means to extend their class energy; anything devolves into giving with one hand and taking away with the opposite. Additionally, a careless reader would assume that the hyperlink for “a major discount in inequality” means a lower within the Gini Coefficient, or another metric for a diminution of the category energy of our oligarchs. Not so. The hyperlink refers to “mixture wage compression.” Clearly, capitalists aren’t wage-earners. Tsk!
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* * * Ha.. My small enterprise doesn’t qualify for membership. pic.twitter.com/E95ceX7BeM
— The Cooks (@fiveskillets) March 7, 2024
So (see the ultimate tweet) DSAC is an particularly rancid public-private partnership. And given the membership of the Govt Board, which incorporates executives from corporations with over $1 billion in gross sales, you’ve bought to ask your self who’s within the driver’s seat (and never essentially the Federal authorities, as Kennedy would have it).
* * * “Third-party group No Labels is anticipated to maneuver ahead with a 2024 marketing campaign, AP sources say” [Associated Press]. “After months of leaving open whether or not the group would provide a ticket, No Labels delegates are anticipated to vote Friday in favor of launching a presidential marketing campaign for this fall’s election, in accordance with the individuals conversant in the matter, who spoke on situation of anonymity to debate the group’s inner deliberations. No Labels is not going to identify its presidential and vice presidential picks on Friday, when roughly 800 delegates meet just about in a personal assembly. The group is as an alternative anticipated to debut a proper choice course of late subsequent week for potential candidates who can be chosen within the coming weeks, the individuals stated.” • Drawing out the suspense!
* * * * * * “Nothing New Below the Solar? Marketing campaign Departures and Parallels” [RealClearPolitics]. “Donald Trump’s presumptive candidacy has clear precedents. He would be the fifth former president to run for reelection … and, virtually implausibly, all in that unique membership had been New Yorkers. Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore Roosevelt had been former presidents who sought one other time period within the Govt Mansion – that’s, not instantly succeeding themselves. In some ways the modern Republican Get together could possibly be referred to as the Trumpublican Get together, a lot has it been reworked. Historical past will type out how a lot Donald Trump has been the architect or the legatee. Van Buren needed to be part of the brand new anti-slavery Free Soil Get together; Millard Fillmore was the nominee of the Know-Nothing Get together; and Theodore Roosevelt positioned second, beating the Republican incumbent, on the Progressive (‘Bull Moose’) ticket. These males ran underneath new designations as a result of they had been unable to rework the celebration institutions of their former events. To the extent that Trump has wrought change in his celebration and throughout the political panorama, enabling his renomination, there are parallels – if not coincidences – discovered within the individual of Democrat Grover Cleveland and the election of 1888. Cleveland is the one president, to this point, who managed to serve two non-consecutive phrases. He was the twenty second and the twenty fourth president – a historic contortion because of the single time period of Republican Benjamin Harrison in between. Contested outcomes, corrupt vote counts, and unresolved accusations surrounded the 1888 marketing campaign. Among the many coincidences and parallels we observe at this time, Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) in a number of methods foreshadowed Donald Trump. An instrument of reform, Cleveland tried to ‘drain the swamp’ of his time, championing Civil Service reform.”
Republican Funhouse
“Oklahoma stated to have the very best price of ‘lengthy COVID’ signs in accordance with latest evaluation” [FOX]. “Oklahoma is claimed to have the very best price of residents who’ve been reporting the expertise of ‘lengthy COVID’ in accordance with an evaluation from helpadvisor.com, with the very best price of every other state at Oklahomans are experiencing signs after the virus has handed by, leaving them with a cough, fatigue and even long run analysis that impacts the mind, coronary heart and lungs. ‘The commonest signs that we see initially with the an infection goes to be that cough, that shortness of breath, and what individuals don’t notice is that lots of these can linger and a few of the commonest ones is fatigue,’ stated [Utica Park Clinic Family Physician Dr. Matthew Else]. ‘After which now we have this excessive different finish of issues and we don’t perceive it fairly but, however as we heard there could be some fairly odd lingering signs and a few lengthy lasting new analysis similar to diabetes or cognitive defects.’” • Possibly Republicans will get to Lengthy Covid first, who is aware of (that Sanders listening to positive went nowhere). The quotes from Else aren’t superb, however a minimum of they perceive they’ve bought an issue, on the market in flyover.
Democrats en Déshabillé
“Reminder: Trump’s Final 12 months in Workplace Was a Nationwide Nightmare” [Paul Krugman, New York Times]. “There’s no actual query that 1000’s of People died unnecessarily due to Trump’s dereliction of responsibility within the face of Covid-19.” • We will examine Trump’s information to Biden’s later; suffice for now to say that there are much more deaths “underneath the curve” for Biden, not Trump. However this attitude is attention-grabbing:
100% this.
I do know this wasn’t the identical all over the place, however in my very blue county and state we dealt with the pandemic effectively underneath Trump as a result of nobody trusted him.
It’s so a lot worse now. https://t.co/kLMCIZy7Qk
— Becca Peter (@DefectiveBecca) March 7, 2024
Sure, the PMC behaved a lot better underneath Trump. Keep in mind “flattening the curve”? “Important employees”? Good occasions. At the very least they confirmed some consciousness better than whinging about lacking brunch.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Why put on a masks to a protest?” [The Gauntlet]. The deck: “Or: why unfold sickness when you would not do this?” And: “Individuals who usually mock the propagandist claims of the state’s speaking heads on this case repeat them verbatim. The willingness of a lot of the organized left to fall according to Biden’s pandemic denial and minimization has resulted in a lot better social isolation of disabled and immunocompromised individuals than through the Trump period…. Search twitter for any masked selfie and browse the feedback. You will note- principally MAGA trolls- brazenly calling for masked individuals to be killed. You’ll typically not see distinguished leftists with massive platforms pushing again by encouraging masking and training it themselves…. [C]ops and the state are hellbent on peeling masks off of faces attributable to their unlawful and unconstitutional focusing on of peaceable protestors and leftist organizers.” And: “Personally, I’m now concerned within the DC-area Masks Bloc; this group has been attending protests and distributing 1000’s of free masks. Such teams have popped up all around the world and are doing the tough and infrequently thankless work of distributing free, high-quality masks, assessments, and data. To me, they’re the thrilling new frontier of the left. Extra thrilling can be the inclusion of this work in additional established areas, by extra highly effective teams and people.” • Wonderful submit and value studying in full. Don’t be like Bernie:
…and the speech ends by Bernie ripping off his medical masks to affix his posse.
Rattling.
— Girl Chuan (@LadyChuan) March 8, 2024
* * * “Battle within the Age of Fractured Publics” [The National Interest]. Divide and conquer has been an overclass tactic since perpetually; however maybe they’ve gone too far? “The delicate degree of public assist renders mass mobilization methods, which leaders on the top of the economic age practiced, almost unattainable…. Conscious of the fragility of public assist, modern international locations at struggle have typically stored taxes low, ensured a gentle stream of shopper items, and positioned the burden of warfighting on a tiny minority. Escalation to main struggle accordingly appears much less and fewer doubtless. Geopolitical wrestle will doubtless take a type completely different from latest world wars. Key variations may embrace the next: First, solely a small minority of the inhabitants could also be concerned within the contests…. Second, weak and divided public assist may change into a persistent characteristic of the competition…. Third, governments will face a robust incentive to struggle wars on a budget…. As a substitute of high-intensity wars, international locations could discover proxy, info, cyber, and financial warfare extra engaging methods to maintain stress on their adversaries.” • Seems like what we’re already doing. How about Civil wars?
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Assets, 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 Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Censorship and Propaganda
“America’s break up on whether or not the pandemic is over” [Axios]. One knowledge level: “A February Axios-Ipsos survey discovered 17% of adults reported carrying a masks in public, down from 30% a 12 months earlier.” • This within the face of the worst wave of propaganda, and the best governing class unity that I’ve ever seen. (And there’s lots of choice bias towards once they’re seen, too; maskers are inclined to keep away from crowds, go when shops are empty, and many others., so they don’t loom massive within the public thoughts.) If the rule of thumb — and I’m simply selecting this quantity at random — is that 10% of the inhabitants is resistant to look stress (right here, we would say “are important thinkers”) then 17% is impressively above that baseline. To deploy the Margaret Mead quote all people in all probability already is aware of: “By no means doubt {that a} small group of considerate dedicated people can change the world. Actually, it’s the one factor that ever has.”
Movie star Watch
“Pope seems unable to climb a couple of steps as respiratory and mobility issues take their toll” [Associated Press]. “Pope Francis once more requested an aide to learn his remarks and was unable to get again onto his popemobile Wednesday, as lingering respiratory and mobility issues continued to take their toll on the 87-year-old pontiff…. Final Wednesday, Francis went to the hospital for unspecified diagnostic assessments, the outcomes of which haven’t been launched. He has been struggling on and off this winter from what he and the Vatican have stated was a chilly, bouts of bronchitis and the flu.” • Huh. I’m wondering what it could possibly be?
TABLE 1: Each day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new at this time; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Biobot drops, conformant to Walgreen positivity knowledge (if that’s certainly not a knowledge artifact). Notice, nonetheless, the realm “underneath the curve,” apart from taking a look at peaks. That space is bigger underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it appears to be rising steadily if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Regional separation re-emerges.
[3] (CDC Variants) As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will likely be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Appears to be like like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
[4] (ER) Doesn’t assist Biobot knowledge. “Charts and knowledge offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.”
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Not flattening. (Date for knowledge corrected; it was a glitch.)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered 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] (Walgreens) That’s a giant drop! It might 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 bought examined anyhow. UPDATE Given the extraordinary and sudden drop-off, I believed I’d verify to see if the inhabitants being examined modified indirectly. Listed below are absolutely the numbers on February 14, on the fringe of the cliff:
And listed here are absolutely the numbers on March 3:
As you’ll be able to see, there’s an order of magnitude lower in these testing between these two dates. Was there an occasion on or about February 14 that could be a candidate suggesting an account of this large shift in conduct? Why sure, sure there’s:
“CDC plans to drop five-day covid isolation tips” [WaPo] (February 13, 2024).
[8] (Cleveland) Flattening, in keeping with Biobot knowledge.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Now up, albeit within the rear view mirror.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Backward revisions take away NV.1 knowledge. JN.1 dominates completely.
Stats Watch
Employment State of affairs: “United States Unemployment Price” [Trading Economics]. “The unemployment price in america rose by 0.2 share level to three.9% in February 2024, touching the very best degree since January 2022 and surpassing market expectations of three.7%.”
Tech: “Why Citi is rolling out generative AI to all its builders” [American Banker]. “Citi is evaluating a whole bunch of different generative AI use instances in areas like operations automation, customer support, fraud detection and workplace productiveness.” • How about accounting management fraud?
In the present day’s Worry & Greed Index: 68 Greed (earlier shut: 74 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 78 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Mar 8 at 1:28:39 PM ET.
Zeitgeist Watch
“The meals that make you extra (and fewer) engaging, in accordance with science” [Metro UK]. “In case you’re a sucker for a Full English then it’s excellent news for you. The hangover treatment and breakfast of kings makes males extra engaging to the alternative intercourse. Suppose sausages, bacon, toast, beans, eggs, hash browns, tomatoes – the total works. The mixture of fat and proteins, similar to dairy and meats, with fewer refined carbs, is an actual hit for males with the women. Alternatively, chaps who go for a extra continental breakfast of refined-carbohydrate meals – croissants, waffles, pancakes, pastries muffins and cereals – are apparently much less engaging, with scientists branding them an actual turn-off.” • The Full English, a lot beloved by Hubertus Bigend….
Information of the Wired
“Having Self-Management Results in Energy” (press launch) [UC San Diego]. “In a paper revealed within the Journal of Persona and Social Psychology, researchers discover that displaying self-control influences how highly effective a person is perceived to be by their friends, in addition to how a lot energy they’re granted by these friends. … The researchers additionally discovered that individuals are perceived as much less highly effective and fewer suited to highly effective roles once they fail to fulfill bold objectives, even when their efficiency is similar as their friends. In an experiment investigating how self-control typically results in energy, a gaggle of undergraduate college students interacted with people who set numerous studying objectives. Some set an bold objective of studying 200 pages every week, whereas others set a extra reasonable objective of studying 50 pages per week. All of those people learn the identical quantity – 100 pages – however those that didn’t meet their objective had been seen as much less highly effective by examine contributors. Moreover, examine contributors had been much less concerned with having those that didn’t meet their objective because the group chief in later duties. ‘To encourage their staff, organizations typically need staff to set stretch objectives – objectives which can be difficult and hard-to-reach. Nevertheless, we discovered that setting a stretch objective and never assembly it makes somebody look much less highly effective than setting a straightforward objective and surpassing it,’ stated Rady Faculty PhD pupil Shuang Wu, the primary creator of the paper.” • You say “disempower staff” like that’s a nasty factor (and do attempt to preserve an above-average degree of govt operate, since that helps one preserve self-control).
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