2:00PM Water Cooler 11/10/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Chicken Tune of the Day

Thrush Nightingale, Spurn Chicken Observatory Recording Space, East Driving of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

Search for the Helpers

From alert reader CC:

At one time you had put out the decision for articles ( and photos I hope), of helpers. Within the above is little Penny, a miniature border collie on my daughter’s farm. She’s going to assist by being a watchdog, maintain the free vary chickens out of the barn or areas they don’t belong. Simply say the phrase and she or he shoos them out. Helps maintain away different critters that wander across the hills of Vermont. Possibly most significantly, only a fantastic, throughout nice companion to all, at dwelling or on the highway. Trucking cattle, hay or on product supply routes of farm subscribers.

Affected person readers, I’ve not given up on this class! Nonetheless, I really feel that I’ve not characterised it adequately. Nonetheless, “I do know what I like,” and CC’s image + caption contribution was so on level I felt I needed to print it.

Politics

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

The Constitutional Order

“A Excessive-Danger Authorized Effort to Preserve Trump Off the Poll” [The New Yorker]. “Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification says that anybody who has taken an oath to uphold the Structure, after which participates in an riot—or offers assist or consolation to those that have—is disqualified from holding any workplace, civil or navy.” • I want liberal Democrats would cease mendacity about this. That’s not what Part 3 says. However Larry Tribal says it does, and Larry is an honorable man. See right here (and right here for extra examples of the type of pack journalism during which I didn’t count on The New Yorker to interact_{MR SUBLIMINAL Oh, what’s the use….}

Capitol Seizure

Our Famously Free Press

“The general public doesn’t perceive the dangers of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault” [Margaret Sullivan, Guardian]. “Right here’s what have to be hammered dwelling: Trump can’t be re-elected in order for you america to be a spot the place elections determine outcomes, the place voting rights matter, and the place politicians don’t baselessly prosecute their adversaries.” • No skill to self-reflect in any respect. I’m so previous I bear in mind when Margaret Sullivan was good (when she was Ombudsman on the Instances, although I suppose by comparability….).

2024

Time for the Countdown Clock!

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“Trump picks up backing from two main GOP donors” [The Hill]. “Robert Bigelow, one in every of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) most distinguished donors, mentioned he’s switching his help from the Florida governor to Trump. Bigelow, proprietor of the Price range Suites of America and founding father of Bigelow Aerospace, instructed the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal that DeSantis is ‘not robust sufficient,’ neither is he the commander in chief the U.S. wants…. High GOP donor and Residence Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus additionally introduced his endorsement of Trump on Thursday, arguing the previous president is the ‘easy alternative’ in a high-stakes political world…. The help comes on the heels of the third GOP presidential major debate, which Trump notably didn’t attend. Regardless of his absence from the previous GOP debates and his ongoing authorized battles, the previous president continues to carry a powerful lead over his rivals.”

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“DeSantis grapples with what’s subsequent after third Republican debate” [Washington Examiner]. “Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has eased the quick strain on his marketing campaign with a strong efficiency through the third 2024 Republican debate in Miami…. DeSantis himself described his precedence through the debate as “articulating [his] imaginative and prescient instantly” to Republicans, versus his opponents or the moderators. However for the reason that first outing final August in Milwaukee, the governor’s common nationwide major help has remained at 14%, in line with RealClearPolitics. It has equally been static in Iowa at 17%.”

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“Democrats Develop Extra Assured in Marketing campaign Message, however Extra Nervous About Biden” [Wall Street Journal]. “A 12 months away from the 2024 election, Democrats see tendencies pulling in several instructions: an citizens that seems motivated to vote of their favor, notably on abortion, however can also be deeply skeptical of handing one other time period to the get together’s standard-bearer—President Biden. … Interviews with a dozen Democratic leaders in 5 swing states discovered that they registered various levels of concern concerning the president’s skill to defeat Trump, and a few questioned the knowledge of placing him ahead once more as their nominee. ‘It looks like he was the right particular person for 2020. However not for 2024,’ mentioned one former Democratic state lawmaker in Michigan, a key battleground. ‘He’s a transitional president and you need to know when to transition and it’s now.’… ‘The sense I get from individuals is that they’re hoping the president will make the choice that it’s in the most effective curiosity of the nation {that a} stronger candidate be the Democratic Get together’s nominee. I don’t suppose anybody is ready to push him out,’ mentioned , who spoke on situation of anonymity. ‘In some unspecified time in the future, he might haven’t any alternative.’” • Thus far, the press has not gone into full pulling-the-wings-off-flies mode with Biden. It might be very straightforward for them to take action.

“Elections 2023: Democrats Get pleasure from a Sturdy Evening” [Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball]. “Final evening’s outcomes have given Democrats a shot within the arm and have confounded the latest narrative about Democrats being in serious trouble subsequent 12 months. However it’s additionally true that these races in lots of respects differ from the election arising subsequent 12 months. It might be the case that President Biden is the truth is uniquely susceptible, and that even former President Trump — himself dragged down by loads of vulnerabilities that seemingly should not getting the sort of consideration now that they’ll if he’s renominated — may beat Biden. It might even be the case that polling a 12 months out from an election will not be predictive (and it typically will not be). Possibly the Democrats do exactly have a bonus now in smaller turnout, off-year elections as their base has absorbed many higher-turnout, college-educated voters whereas shedding lower-turnout voters who don’t have a four-year diploma. Possibly the presidential 12 months turnout will convey out extra Trump voters and provides the Republicans a clearer shot. About all we really feel comfy saying is that we must always proceed to count on the presidential race to be shut and aggressive — a boring assertion, we all know, however in all probability true. One different factor earlier than we take a fast take a look at some extra granular outcomes: In case it wasn’t already blindingly apparent earlier than, the abortion concern in a post-Dobbs political surroundings continues to be a major benefit for Democrats. ”

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“The actual motive Republicans aren’t profitable swing voters” [FOX]. “One other election evening during which the Republicans needed to put away these champagne bottles they’d on ice and maintain them for maybe one other day. It wasn’t a catastrophe for them, nevertheless it additionally wasn’t the outcomes they had been anticipating to listen to from the voters, both. What’s the message the voters are sending? Rather a lot has been written about how the abortion concern is backfiring on the Republicans, and it’s. However that’s not likely the explanation they’re failing to win over swing voters sad with the financial system and different points. What voters are saying is that they need extra private freedom. Abortions during the last a number of a long time have been significantly declining in numbers, down about two-thirds from their peak numbers. Folks don’t really need extra abortions, as at present most girls have entry to and use contraception — however they do need the non-public freedom of getting the selection of abortion — therefore the very identify ‘pro-choice.’” • Hmm.

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IA: “Vander Plaats Received’t Cancel Iowa Discussion board Regardless of RNC Warning” [RealClearPolitics]. “When the influential evangelical group invited every of the 2024 GOP presidential candidates to attend its Thanksgiving discussion board, the Republican Nationwide Committee quietly warned the campaigns that taking part within the occasion would disqualify them from all future sanctioned debates, RealClearPolitics was first to report. Regardless, the Iowa Household Chief doesn’t have plans to reschedule or reformat. ‘We’re going to transfer ahead with the discussion board,’ mentioned Bob Vander Plaats, the president and CEO of the group. The problem is what precisely constitutes a debate. In response to the RNC counsel, the discussion board is an unsanctioned debate, and taking part within the occasion would violate the pledge candidates signed in an effort to take part within the sanctioned debates. In response to Vander Plaats, who characterised all his conversations with the RNC as ‘amiable,’ that is nonsense. ‘To begin with, this isn’t a debate, not even shut,’ he instructed RCP in a Thursday morning interview, noting how his group beforehand hosted major candidates in 2012 and 2016 with out incident. Moderately than standing behind podiums, attendees sit across the identical desk. And slightly than exchanging barbs, in previous years, they’ve talked about their religion. The principles are easy. ‘You’ll be able to’t discuss unfavourable about anyone on the desk,’ he mentioned.” • Carry a mop and bucket to wash up the smam.

VA: “How Virginia’s Elections Got here Right down to the Wire” [Wall Street Journal]. “[A] nearer take a look at the returns reveals that GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin carried out higher in state Legislature races than the headlines recommend. The Outdated Dominion is aggressive for Republicans who aren’t within the mildew of Donald Trump…. Mr. Youngkin threw his full political weight behind holding the Home of Delegates and flipping the state Senate, a part of why Democrats had been so relieved he failed…. Of the elements of the state Donald Trump carried in 2020, Republicans outpaced ‘the previous president in each district,’ as analyst Sean Trende notes. The GOP carried 13 districts gained by President Biden in 2020 and 7 that Democrats gained in 2022 congressional races. Republicans got here up quick in suburban areas like Loudoun County in Northern Virginia and out of doors Richmond. However they did add one seat within the higher chamber for a 21-19 break up. The GOP’s Danny Diggs, a longtime native sheriff, managed to defeat Democratic incumbent Senator Monty Mason within the southeastern peninsula round Williamsburg. Yet another seat would have given the GOP management. In Northern Virginia in Manassas, Republican Invoice Woolf misplaced to his Democratic opponent by fewer than 2,000 votes of greater than 57,000 solid—in a district Democrats carried by greater than six factors in final 12 months’s congressional elections.” • This text reads like cope, an try and rehabilitate Youngkin for 2024. However a loss is a loss.

WV: “Why I Received’t Be Searching for Re-Election to the Senate” [Joe Manchin, Wall Street Journal]. “I’ll end my time period whereas touring the nation and talking out to see if there’s curiosity in constructing a motion to mobilize the center, discover frequent floor and convey People collectively.” • Hey, perhaps a Phillips-Manchin ticket? Interesting to the “Exhausted Majority”? Or perhaps… Manchin-Phillips? Or perhaps not–

WV: “Dems’ new query for 2024: What’s going to Manchin do?” [Axios]. “In a press release, No Labels — a well-funded group that’s exploring a possible bipartisan presidential ticket — known as Manchin a ‘tireless voice for America’s commonsense majority and a longtime ally of the No Labels motion.’ ‘Concerning our No Labels Unity presidential ticket, we’re gathering enter from our members throughout the nation to grasp the sort of leaders they want to see within the White Home,’ the assertion mentioned.” • Numerous good element on these “No Labels” weasels (“Classification struggles? What classification struggles?”

WV: “Manchin Goes From Biden’s Most-Prized Democrat to Most Harmful” [Bloomberg]. “A Manchin candidacy may capitalize on the rising variety of “double haters” — voters who’re dissatisfied with each Biden and Donald Trump — which now stands at 19% of the citizens in swing states, in line with the Bloomberg Information/Morning Seek the advice of ballot launched Thursday. Proper now, that void is being stuffed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The ballot reveals that Kennedy’s unbiased marketing campaign attracts supporters about equally from Trump and Biden supporters, owing to his household’s Democratic pedigree mixed with anti-vaccine rhetoric that many Republicans discover interesting. Nonetheless, an unbiased bid by Manchin, an ex-Democrat, may harm Biden rather more than Trump.” However: “With out get together backing, the method to get an unbiased candidate on 50 state ballots — and even sufficient to plausibly compete within the Electoral Faculty — will be costly and time-consuming. And Manchin, at 76, would undergo from the identical questions on age that canine Trump and Biden, the oldest presidential candidates on document.”

WV: “Joe Manchin retires, making Democrats’ brutal 2024 Senate map much more brutal” [VOX]. “Democrats presently have a 51-49 majority within the Senate, so shedding Manchin’s seat would put them again to 50-50 — nonetheless sufficient for management if President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris win reelection. The issue is that Democrats’ 2024 Senate challenges go far past West Virginia. They face such a starkly unfavorable map that, if issues even go considerably poorly for the get together, they might fall right into a deep Senate gap for years to come back. Apart from Manchin, two different Democratic senators symbolize states Donald Trump gained in 2020, and so they’re additionally up for reelection in 2024. Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are each working once more, however these are all very crimson states, and profitable them in a presidential 12 months might be fairly tough for Democrats. However the vulnerabilities go deeper. The one remotely shut states (per presidential outcomes) the place Republicans are defending seats are Florida and Texas — two states the place Democrats have had few victories lately. In the meantime, Democrats are additionally defending seats in 5 states Joe Biden very narrowly gained in 2020. These seats are presently held by Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).”

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, evidently individuals are really studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I should do this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, the truth is, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working elements of the Get together reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Get together (ka-ching, however not fully) these components comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Observe, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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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 information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the deal with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

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Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Keep secure on the market!

“One thing Terrible”

Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” may be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind harm, together with character modifications therefrom.

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Elite Maleficence

All a part of “the urgency of regular”:

The pandemic college closure debate is now typically framed as being solely concerning the children. Nonetheless, it is essential to acknowledge that in 2020, the main target was largely about utilizing the youngsters as guinea pigs (ie subjecting them to a brand new virus) to attain herd
immunity + quicker reopening.👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/PjwdDSAcHO

— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 8, 2023

Case Information

NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater information, November 6:

Lambert right here: Circumstances up, simply in time for Thanksgiving (and tinfoil hat time: That is the, er, inflection level CDC was making an attempt to hide once they gave the contract to Verily and didn’t guarantee a seamless transition).

Regional information:

In every single place!

NOTE I’m so completely satisfied to see that Biobot is again. I confess that I’ve not made a severe comparability of Biobot’s pattern units pre- and post-Verily. Nor to my information has anybody. Readers?

Variants

NOT UPDATED From CDC, October 28:

Lambert right here: High of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a powerful second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…

From CDC, October 14:

Lambert right here: I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to amenities minimize by directors of ailing intent).

CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information might be reported biweekly, primarily based on the supply of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

Covid Emergency Room Visits

NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, November 4:

Lambert right here: Nonetheless flattening. Solely every week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I might doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).

NOTE “Charts and information supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not all the pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for each_{MR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot}. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the very least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, though CDC is making an attempt to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.

Hospitalization

Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of November 10:

A particular lower. Must be up in two weeks, although! (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).

NOT UPDATED Right here’s a special CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, at the very least. October 28:

Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and information supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?

Positivity

NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, November 6:

-1.4%. However bouncing round. (It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and obtained examined anyhow.)

NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, November 4:

Lambert right here: Slight enhance. I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is sweet*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is making an attempt to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.

NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, October 16:

Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed below are the variants for vacationers:

Sudden huge BA.2.86 look. This variant chart has not been up to date, which makes me marvel if CDC is gaming the information, and BA.2.86 is worse than we expect.

Deaths

NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, September 27:

Lambert right here: Dunno why no updates. I’ll need to drop this one, with nice reluctance; I like my sources non-CDC.

Complete: 1,181,863 – 1,181,620 = 243 (243 * 365 = 88,695 deaths per 12 months, at present’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would love, although they will discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could need to determine that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of demise and illness). 

Extra Deaths

The Economist, November 10:

Lambert right here: Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin.

Stats Watch

There are not any official statistics of curiosity at present.

The Bezzle: “What occurred to Airbnb?” [Vox]. “Between mid-2021 and mid-2022, the variety of new Airbnb hosts within the US jumped by over 50 p.c, and the expansion was largest in small cities, says Lane. Growth, nevertheless, hasn’t been a wholly constructive change: In some instances, Airbnb has quickly modified the character of those neighborhoods from residential areas to vacationer cities. As a result of there are such a lot of extra listings now, Airbnb hosts say they’re watching their bookings plummet. The flood of recent hosts has meant fewer can earn good cash. ‘Now, the markets are utterly oversaturated,’ says Melody Wright, founding father of mortgage technique and know-how firm Huringa. In the meantime, extra provide hasn’t led to decrease costs, and anecdotes about dangerous Airbnb experiences maintain pouring in. A few of the most vocal grievances heart on cleansing charges. Within the US, solely 15 p.c of Airbnb listings don’t have cleansing charges, and a NerdWallet evaluation discovered that cleansing charges now make up a few quarter of the whole worth visitors pay. Airbnb’s service price is mostly underneath 14 p.c on high of the nightly price, and it additionally takes 3 p.c from most hosts. All that is encouraging a hospitality-industry doom loop: If hosts see their bookings drop, they may attempt to elevate charges to make up for it (or at the very least resist decreasing them), which drives visitors again to resorts or the most affordable Airbnbs that are typically run by larger skilled hosts who can afford to chop costs in methods small hosts can’t. If hosts attempt to decrease charges to attract in additional bookings, they may nonetheless be unable to show a revenue. ‘For each the visitor and the host, it’s simply not worth proposition anymore,” says Wright. The one one profitable, it appears, is Airbnb.’” • Appears like enshittification….

Tech: “Restaurant Homeowners Are Fed Up With Reservation-Hoarding Bots” [Bloomberg]. The deck: “Platforms like Resy and Tock are looking for methods round algorithms that snatch up prime-time reservations after which re-sell them to determined diners.”

Tech: “AI may trigger ‘catastrophic’ monetary disaster, says Yuval Noah Harari” [Guardian]. “‘What occurs if AI will not be solely given better management over the monetary system of the world, nevertheless it begins creating new monetary gadgets that solely AI can perceive, that no human being can perceive?’ mentioned [Yuval Noah Harari], including that the 2007-08 monetary disaster was attributable to debt devices similar to collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) that few individuals understood and had been thus inadequately regulated. ‘AI has the potential to create monetary gadgets that are orders of magnitude extra complicated than CDOs. And simply think about the state of affairs the place we’ve a monetary system that no human being is ready to perceive and subsequently additionally not in a position to regulate,’ he mentioned. ‘After which there’s a monetary disaster and no person understands what is occurring.’” • Simply pull the plug and return to paper to unwind every thing… What enjoyable!

At the moment’s Concern & Greed Index: 42 Concern (earlier shut: 41 Concern) [CNN]. One week in the past: 39 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 10 at 1:41:38 PM ET.

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