By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Hen Track of the Day
Frequent Nightingale, Rio Gilão–Ponte de São Domingues, Tavira, Faro, Portugal.
Come, hoatzin, come, the sport is afoot:
A little bit of a dream achieved. At some point within the Decrease Amazon and I’ve ringed a Hoatzin. These are one of the vital primitive birds on the planet that’s thought-about as being a step away from the archaeopteryx. pic.twitter.com/GaXSWkhV71
— matt prior (@mattthesparrow) October 26, 2024
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- Biden does name Trump supporters “rubbish”.
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Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024
Countdown!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
Lambert right here: Tiny margins, however all purple. If I had been working the Kamala marketing campaign, I’d wish to see some blue. In fact, we on the surface would possibly as effectively be analyzing the entrails of birds after we attempt to predict what’s going to occur to the subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars, particularly, who will decide the end result of the election however would possibly as effectively be quantum foam, however presumably the marketing campaign professionals have higher information, and have the scenario as beneath management as it may be MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!.
“What time will we get exit polls for the US election?” [The Telegraph]. “The embargo interval for exit polls will finish at 5pm ET on polling day, after which information organisations are allowed to start reporting outcomes from particular person states. Nonetheless, at this level they don’t seem to be permitted to undertaking a winner whereas voting continues to be happening. Exit polls will solely be introduced in states the place the margins are giant sufficient and they won’t be used within the battleground states to undertaking whether or not Kamala Harris or Donald Trump have gained. As a substitute, statisticians will use a mix of the exit ballot, precise declared votes and different information to forecast a winner. Together with establishing how respondents voted, the exit ballot additionally questions voters on their demographics and what motivated their resolution. If one candidate has a major lead over the opposite, then the outcome could also be clear inside a matter of hours. Nonetheless, a fantastic margin of victory will imply delays in how lengthy it should take for specialists to declare whether or not Ms Harris or Trump has come out on high. Earlier contests have taken days and even weeks to be referred to as.” • Thrilling!
“US election exit polls: Course of and timing for outcomes” [RBC-Ukraine]. “On Election Day, over 3,000 Edison Analysis staff can be stationed at polling locations throughout the US, sending information to the central staff workplace. They are going to work alongside a number of hundred telephone operators to promptly collect and course of survey outcomes. Within the 2020 presidential election, Edison Analysis surveyed over 100,000 voters. The corporate additionally deployed staff to 200 early voting websites throughout the nation. Earlier than Election Day, roughly 30,000 individuals who voted by mail had been interviewed by telephone. Within the 2024 election, an analogous variety of respondents is anticipated.” • On the telephone interviews: If, because the Harris marketing campaign urged they do, wives mislead their husbands about how they vote, they’ll be unlikely to reveal that to Edison in the event that they may be overheard. So the Harris marketing campaign has managed to bias the exit polls to Trump, albeit to an unknown diploma. Good job!
“Georgia’s elections are over. Opposition exit polls present 40% for the ruling celebration, whereas authorities polls report over 51%” [JAM News]. “In response to an exit ballot carried out by Gorbi for the pro-government TV channel Imedi, the outcomes of the parliamentary elections are as follows: Georgian Dream — 56.1%…. In response to an exit ballot by Edison Analysis for the TV channel Method, the vote distribution is as follows: Georgian Dream — 40.9%.” • Usually, I’d consider Edison Analysis as somewhat like a boring and boring public utility. Right here, nonetheless, we discover them concerned in what seems to be awfully like Rose Revolution 2.0, full with heavy NGO involvement, the standard road protests, pronouncements of election theft by Ursula von der Leyen, and little doubt a heavy leavening of spooks. In fact, even when the permission construction created by “Trump is Hitler” does enable spook-adjacency to Edison Analysis right here at house, considering that might truly occur is tinfoil hat stuff, proper? I definitely hope so!
* * * “Nostradamus pollster reveals newest 2024 prediction – and the way he’s by no means had ‘a lot hate’ in an election” [Independent]. “Historian Allan Lichtman [of “Keys to the White House” fame] has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race regardless of current polls – and revealed that he has ‘by no means skilled’ a lot ‘hate’ in an election cycle…. ‘I’ve been getting suggestions that’s vulgar, violent, threatening, and even past that, the security and safety of my household has been compromised.’”
“Why the race isn’t as shut as you suppose: With one week to go, analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN predicts the polls are lacking a hidden voter surge” [Daily Mail]. “Individuals residing in Nevada and Arizona have had a front-row seat to the affect of mass unlawful immigration beneath the Biden-Harris administration. In each of those states, registered Republican voters have solid extra early ballots than registered Democrats — reversing a historic Democratic benefit. In fact, these early ballots don’t reveal precise vote numbers, as they don’t seem to be opened till Election Day. However this altering dynamic can’t be ignored. As of Sunday, Republicans held a 33,500 poll lead or 5.2 % of the entire early vote. Final week, Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Impartial, described the outcome as ‘unprecedented at this level in another presidential cycle’ and stated there’s ‘no excellent news’ within the figures for Democrats.” • Nixon’s “silent majority” will get a do-over?
“Donald Trump is in a robust ballot place – does it matter?” [USA Today]. “In his third race for the presidency, Republican nominee Donald Trump has by no means been in nearly as good of a ballot place as he’s now – however he’ll have to attend a minimum of every week to seek out out whether or not it means something. As of Monday, Trump leads Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris by as shut a margin as potential – 0.1% – within the Actual Clear Politics common of current polls. He trailed in the identical survey by 7.5% 4 years in the past towards Joe Biden and 4.6% in 2016, the yr he gained the presidency towards Hillary Clinton. The best way Trump and his allies see it, the nearer the polls within the standard vote, the higher his probabilities to win sufficient states to seize the Electoral Faculty and the presidency – and he outperformed the polls in each of his earlier races. Democrats say there’s purpose to doubt that may occur this time round. They stated pollsters are compensating for what they name the ‘hidden Trump voters’ of the earlier two elections, and, if something, they’re oversampling Republicans and inflating Trump’s numbers. Republican candidates underperformed the polls within the 2022 congressional elections, Democrats stated. And Trump constantly underperformed polls in a string of Republican primaries earlier this yr.” • And the polls are, in spite of everything, editorial merchandise. So.
* * * “Rubbish.” The video at :40:
I can see why Kamala’s marketing campaign would wish to say that Biden “misspoke,” however Biden’s “the one rubbish I see floatin’ out there’s his supporters” appears clear to me.
“Biden units off election firestorm with ‘rubbish’ remark” [Axios]. “President Biden handed ammo to gleeful Republicans Tuesday evening when he appeared to seek advice from former President Trump’s supporters as “rubbish.’” He didn’t “appear.” He did. Extra: “Biden’s feedback are the newest instance of why Kamala Harris’ staff has been avoiding campaigning with him. Biden is each unpopular and undisciplined, Harris aides advised Axios. Harris delivered her ‘closing argument’ speech Tuesday evening in entrance of the White Home however Biden didn’t seem alongside her regardless of being in Washington.” • Actually, Biden is the grasp of counter-programming (though I’m not clear on whether or not Biden delivered these remarks throughout Kamala’s speech).
“Trump requires supporters to ‘forgive’ Biden in present of unity after president calls supporters ‘rubbish’” [FOX]. “‘Wow. That’s horrible,’ Trump stated, invoking Hillary Clinton’s notorious ‘deplorable’ remarks within the weeks earlier than the 2016 election. ‘After which she stated irredeemable. That didn’t work out.’ The Republican nominee referred to as on his supporters to forgive him throughout a packed rally on the PPL Middle in Allentown, Pennsylvania. ‘Rubbish, I believe, is worse,’ he stated. ‘However he doesn’t know. It’s a must to please forgive him.” • Cf. Luke 23:34.
“Joe Biden Walks Again Remarks About ‘Rubbish’ At Madison Sq. Backyard” [HuffPo]. The headline is misleading. Biden was clearly tallking about Trump supporters (one in all lengthy line of comparable Democrat feedback, beginning with Obama’s “bitter” individuals who “cling to weapons and faith,” and shifting on the Clinton’s “deplorables.” Extra: “Andrew Bates, a senior deputy press secretary on the White Home, clarified [sic] that Biden was referring to the overarching rhetoric on the Manhattan rally as “rubbish,” not the folks there to help Trump. He launched a transcript that included an apostrophe within the president’s remarks ― ‘his supporter’s demonization’ ― to notice the president was criticizing Hinchcliffe’s phrases.” • Nonsense. Comedians aren’t “supporters.”
“Harris responds to Biden ‘rubbish’ comment for first time” [FOX]. “Biden made his comment throughout a Zoom name on Tuesday with Voto Latino, one of many largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations within the U.S. Harris, chatting with reporters earlier than boarding Air Pressure Two, famous that Biden had “clarified his feedback.’ ‘I strongly disagree with any criticism of individuals based mostly on who they vote ‘You heard my speech final evening and repeatedly all through my profession. I imagine that the work that I do is about representing all of the folks, whether or not they help me or not.’ Harris added that Biden had referred to as her Tuesday evening after the occasion, however she stated they didn’t focus on his ‘rubbish’ remark.” • Oh? Why?
* * * From the Lincoln Undertaking, one other advert encouraging wives to mislead their husbands:
The extra I take into consideration this… Usually, I resist overheated conservative fulminations that Democrats are out to destroy the sanctity of marriage, and so on. and so on. In spite of everything, social relations change by way of historical past, luckily, regardless of conservative efforts to “preserve” them. Nonetheless, on this advert, “destroying the sancity of marriage” is, in truth, the item. The individuals who wrote the script and paid for the advert intend precisely that. What would be the subsequent “noble lie”? I’m shocked the Trump marketing campaign isn’t throughout this, as a result of to me it’s a genuinely extraordinary flip of occasions. Maybe I’m naive. Readers?
* * * Kamala (D): “Kamala Harris Makes Her Closing Pitch for Voters to ‘Flip the Web page’ on Donald Trump” [Time]. “In a forceful, 30-minute speech, Harris requested voters to elect her and ‘flip the web page’ on Trump. ‘We all know what Donald Trump has in thoughts: extra chaos, extra division, and insurance policies that assist these on the very high and damage everybody else. I provide a distinct path,’ she stated. Harris in contrast Trump to a ‘petty tyrant’ who’s ‘unstable,’ ‘obsessive about revenge,’ and needs ‘unchecked energy.’ She stated he desires again within the Oval Workplace, ;to not focus in your issues however to give attention to his.’ Trump has signaled help for navy tribunals for political enemies, promised to purge the federal paperwork of staff who don’t agree with him, and stated he’d use the navy towards opponents he calls ‘the enemy inside.’ Trump would come into the Oval Workplace with an ‘enemies record,’ Harris stated. She’ll present up with a ‘to do record.’” • Not that coping with deplorables and traitors gained’t be issues to do, in fact. The record is a superb information construction!
* * * Kamala (D): “‘The suburbs — that’s the entire deal’: How the suburbs turned Harris’ clearest path to victory” [Politico]. “Kamala Harris is relying on suburban voters to do what they’ve executed since Donald Trump gained the presidency in 2016: reject him. It might be the one most necessary piece of her electoral math. Whereas Donald Trump has made inroads with Black and Latino males, polls within the late stage of the election present the suburbs might nonetheless energy her to victory. The newest Wall Road Journal ballot discovered Harris main amongst suburban voters by 7 proportion factors, whereas a Reuters/Ipsos evaluation confirmed the vice chairman profitable suburban households by 6 factors. If both of these numbers maintain, they might possible be sufficient to offset Harris’ erosion with Black, Latino and younger males…. Contained in the Harris marketing campaign, aides stated they imagine they are going to enhance on President Joe Biden’s efficiency with suburban voters in 2020, pushed by college-educated voters and ladies who’re turned off by the riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That technique is obvious within the marketing campaign’s schedule within the closing weeks of the marketing campaign, as Harris hosts city halls with disaffected Republicans, like former Rep. Liz Cheney, and rallies centered on abortion rights.” • So abortion + genocide seems to be like a profitable system?
* * * “Madison Sq. Backyard. Similar to Hitler!” That argument makes me loopy, and I’m not the one one:
Completely disgusting… Kamala is sending a transparent message selecting that venue. https://t.co/5sReQVcSLD
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 29, 2024
* * * Trump (R): “Trump: ‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the alternative of a Nazi’” [Politico]. • In case you’re explaining, you’re shedding.
Trump (R): “Trump 2.0: What Can We Count on from US International Coverage after the Elections?” [Valdai Discussion Club]. From July. “Ukraine is a big funding of American assets, consideration, vitality, symbolic capital, which america is not going to enable to right away “collapse” with out exchanging it for one thing beneficial, much more beneficial. Can america provide Russia something on this commerce? I extremely doubt it. Sadly, Donald Trump’s first time period confirmed that there was little platform for deep and significant negotiations that might produce lasting outcomes. I’m significantly satisfied of this as a result of there isn’t a assure that any settlement with a potential future Trump administration will survive the tip of that administration. We’ve seen this in another main international coverage conditions previously. … I doubt that American international coverage pursuits on this disaster can suggest an unconditional give up of positions now concentrated not solely in Ukraine, however all through the complete circuit of allies that help Ukraine, provides it with funds, weapons, intelligence information, trains Ukrainian navy personnel, transfers from their very own arsenals are typically the newest sorts of beneficial weapons.” • Therefore a “frozen battle”?
Trump (R): “The Rumor” [Interesting Mysteries]. • The final rumor died, so a brand new one pops up (well-written, although). Coincidence? You be the choose.
* * * NY: Oh pricey:
AOC staff made a flyer in Arabic
Not solely are the letters not related (like they need to be), they’re additionally organized backwards https://t.co/M6kdGWOrmM pic.twitter.com/NBCtt5CzsK
— SaveGazanLives (@UdsiAsli) October 29, 2024
Nonetheless, I don’t have time to confirm this; “she would” will not be the identical as “she did.” Can readers make clear?
WI: The foundations are completely different in each state….
Wisconsin Notice: In Wisconsin, ballots should be RECEIVED by 8 pm election day, NOT postmarked. So when you have an absentee poll sitting in your kitchen counter, it is a good suggestion to make use of a dropbox or take it to your clerk’s workplace so you’re assured to have it in on time! https://t.co/m1AP0lfYgv
— Ann Jacobs (@AnnJacobsMKE) October 29, 2024
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Quiet Earlier than the Storm” [RealClearPolitics]. “. So long as the race continues, either side’s anger is reined in by the hope of victory. As soon as a winner is asserted, the loser’s rage will erupt. This political Vesuvius guarantees to inflame the land as occasions unfold in these closing days to maximise livid disappointment… Donald Trump’s aspect is changing into ever extra assured of victory…. Nonetheless, the polls are very shut, and Harris could win. If Trump might insist that he gained the 2020 race when all of the polls predicted his defeat, simply think about his response if he fails when he seemed to be succeeding. He is not going to go quietly into the great evening. Kamala Harris, in the meantime, has settled on a closing argument that focuses on Trump’s alleged unsuitability for workplace. Because the candidate herself describes her opponent as an unstable menace to the Structure, her surrogates are as soon as once more evaluating him to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. They actually imagine this rhetoric, which is able to make it unimaginable for them to bow to his ascension. We’ve got seen this film earlier than. The Democrats refused to just accept Trump’s victory in 2016; he nonetheless gained’t concede that President Biden gained in 2020. As earlier than, neither aspect will blame themselves for defeat; they are going to lash out at their perceived enemies. Every will advance their favored conspiracy concept – Trump will rail towards the press and deep state, Democrats towards international affect and misinformation – however each will solid the outcome as illegitimate.” • “I quit. Why can’t they?”
“2024 Election Doomsday State of affairs” [RealClearPolitics]. “‘There are 4 potential outcomes right here,’ Tom Bevan defined. “One is that Trump’s forward within the polls, and he wins — that might be, I believe most individuals would say, okay, I get that. One other end result could be Harris is forward within the polls, and she or he wins. I believe there’d be some of us in Trump world who’d say she didn’t actually win, no matter. But when she’s forward within the polls and she or he wins — fantastic. Another choice is Harris is forward within the polls, and Trump wins. Okay, polls undercounted Trump in 2016, and undercounted him once more in 2020. I believe lots of people would have a look at that and say it occurred once more. If Harris was barely forward within the polls, they undercounted Trump’s help, and he wins. Okay, I get it.’” However: “‘The final state of affairs is the doomsday state of affairs, which is Trump’s forward within the polls, and Harris wins. I believe that might induce… I believe that might be a sh*t present scenario the place you have got plenty of Republicans, a overwhelming majority of Trump supporters, who would say there’s no approach that occurred. There’s no approach Trump was forward within the polls after being undercounted in 2016, and undercounted in 2020; he’s forward within the polls this time, and she or he wins? I believe that might be a extremely powerful state of affairs the place you’ll even have doubtlessly, Republican states and legislatures that might simply say they don’t settle for the outcomes,’ he stated. ‘That might be an actual constitutional disaster sort second.’”
Syndemics
“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
Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Search for the Helpers
I ought to carry additional masks:
Immune Dysregulation
“Tuberculosis contaminated 8 million folks final yr, probably the most WHO has ever tracked” [Associated Press]. I ponder why? ‘Tis a thriller! And: “Tuberculosis is brought on by airborne micro organism.” • So you should definitely wash your fingers!
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States ADP Employment Change” [Trading Economics]. “Personal companies within the US added 233K staff to their payrolls in October 2024, probably the most since July 2023, following an upwardly revised 159K rise in September and far greater than forecasts of 115K.”
Manufacturing: “NAM Tells Boeing Union Management to ‘Head Again to the Desk’” [Manufacturing.net]. “Nationwide Affiliation of Producers President and CEO Jay Timmons launched the next assertion: ‘The broader affect of this ongoing work stoppage is being seen throughout the aerospace sector as producers inside the provide chain are being pressured to furlough staff and shutter operations. That’s why we’re urging union management to go again to the desk and discover a answer to finish this extended strike and why we thank Performing Secretary of Labor Julie Su for her continued engagement.’” • Solidarity?!
Manufacturing: “How the revolving door at FAA spins Boeing’s approach” [Seattle Times]. “In 2022 alone, the 20 highest-paid protection contractors employed 672 former authorities officers, navy officers, members of Congress and senior legislative employees, in accordance with a report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Boeing employed probably the most by far, 85. Boeing additionally employed extra former authorities officers to government positions than another Pentagon contractor, the report confirmed… Political appointees on the company move by way of the revolving door to trade extra incessantly than civil service staff there, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor stated. The common tenure for a political appointee on the company is simply 2 years and a pair of months, whereas the typical tenure of FAA civil servants is over 12 years. He famous that the FAA strives to abide by the restrictions on post-government employment that require cooling-off intervals earlier than representing their new employer in regulatory actions involving their former office. ‘We don’t agree that there’s a revolving door between the FAA and trade,’ Gregor stated, noting that FAA follows the legal guidelines governing its staff who settle for jobs within the aerospace trade. ;The FAA’s response could be laughable if it weren’t so discordant with the info,’ stated Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of presidency affairs on the Undertaking On Authorities Oversight, or POGO, a nonprofit authorities ethics watchdog. ‘For the FAA to assert that it’s not a revolving door to trade is to inform us to not imagine our mendacity eyes; really Orwellian stuff.’”
At this time’s Concern & Greed Index: 60 Greed (earlier shut: 60 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 62 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Oct 30 at 1:00:29 PM ET.
Permaculture
“Crops Discover Gentle Utilizing Gaps Between Their Cells” [Quanta]. “Since historic instances, vegetation’ capability to orient their eyeless our bodies towards the closest, brightest supply of sunshine — identified right this moment as phototropism — has fascinated students and generated numerous scientific and philosophical debates… But a vital thriller has endured. Animals use eyes — a posh organ of lenses and photoreceptors — to achieve an in depth image of the world round them, together with the course of sunshine. Crops, biologists have established, possess a strong suite of molecular instruments for measuring illumination. However within the absence of apparent bodily sensing organs like lenses, how do vegetation work out the exact course from which gentle is coming? Now, a staff of European researchers has come across a solution. In a current paper revealed in Science, they report {that a} roadside weed — Arabidopsis, a favourite of plant geneticists — makes use of the air areas between its cells to scatter gentle, modifying the trail of sunshine passing by way of its tissues. On this approach, the air channels create a lightweight gradient that helps seedlings precisely decide the place gentle is coming from. By benefiting from air channels to scatter gentle, vegetation sidestep the necessity for discrete organs like eyes in favor of a neater trick: the flexibility in impact to ‘see’ with their entire our bodies.” • One other premise for a science fiction novel!
Permaculture-adjacent, somewhat than permaculture correct:
This can be a hand-operated laundry machine. It resides in my sauna, subsequent to the wooden boiler. Heating the 90 liter (22gal) boiler solely takes a bunch of twigs that I gather from my forest. It’s insulated, so the water stays heat for 2 days in the summertime and in a single day in winter. pic.twitter.com/v9vCuzuPV6
— Self-sufficiency and degrowth. (@stop_fossil_fue) October 28, 2024
Fairly cool…
Gallery
Fauvism appears to not work in rural France, a minimum of for Gaugin:
Kneeling cow, 1888 #artbots #gauguin pic.twitter.com/Y9pFFyPlkQ
— Paul Gauguin (@artistgauguin) October 29, 2024
Class Warfare
“The wages of the white working class” [Kevin Drum]. Useful charts:
“What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Private Assistant” [The Cut]. Price studying in full, as a result of the element is nice. “One more reason these folks get stingy is that there’s some sort of psychological distortion that occurs when everybody fawns over you on a regular basis. The VIP’s mentality is, “Hey, this particular person ought to be paying me, as a result of they get to be round greatness.” They’re used to having folks need a piece of them. So that they suppose that the job is such a tremendous alternative that they shouldn’t must pay the particular person what they’re truly value. They reside in a bubble and their actuality is warped.” And: “It’s a must to have thick pores and skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you must have unimaginable endurance. The best way you phrase issues is so necessary. Your intonation and velocity of supply — I imply, it’s an artwork. You’re working for people who find themselves not used to listening to no.” And: “The Hollywood publicity machine creates a sure picture, and it’s very uncommon to fulfill a celeb who’s genuinely a tremendous, good, type, humane particular person to everybody on a regular basis. When you’ve been round it sufficient, these butterflies begin to go away.”
Information of the Wired
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