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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I had a family debacle, and acquired a really late begin. Therefore, I’ll do politics first, since we had Tremendous Tuesday. Then I’ll do Covid, as a part of orts and scraps. Sorry! –lambert UPDATE Covid charts quickly.
Hen Track of the Day
Mrs. Moreau’s Warbler, Morogoro, Tanzania. Feels like a synthesizer making area noises!
Some readers requested for one thing desk of contents-like, so listed here are a number of highlights amidst the density:
Excessive- or Lowlights
(1) Reader question on the CDC.
(2) Open supply P2P search software program.
(3) Cuomo to be accountable for nursing house deaths?
(4) Tremendous Tuesday.
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order (Riot)
“The Court docket’s Colorado Choice Wasn’t Concerning the Regulation” [George Conway, The Atlantic]. “What little logic that does seem is within the type of a coverage argument. The Court docket accurately factors out that, with regards to the presidency, if states had been allowed to implement Part 3 in federal races, a “patchwork” might outcome, notably as to presidential candidates. You could possibly have completely different states making use of completely different requirements beneath Part 3 in several proceedings with completely different procedures and on differing information, they usually might attain differing outcomes as to a selected candidate for the presidency. This, the Court docket felt, was unhealthy.” • In case you don’t like Justice Chase (“[A] building, which should essentially event nice private and non-private mischief, mustn’t ever be most popular to a building which is able to event neither”), then maybe Justice Jackson (“[the Constitution is not] a suicide pact”) will do. If Conway thinks {that a} gaggle of Blue States deciding election 2024 with a “patchwork” of evidentiary requirements and entities is the trail to a official Biden win, then I need no matter he’s smoking.
Biden Administration
“Safety fence to go up at Capitol for State of the Union” [Roll Call]. “A safety fence will encompass the Capitol as President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union deal with on March 7, in line with three sources acquainted with the choice. The Capitol Police Board on Friday authorized the set up of the fencing. A safety fence went up across the Capitol for final yr’s State of the Union speech. The State of the Union is designated as a Nationwide Particular Safety Occasion, the best safety standing the federal authorities can assign to an occasion. These are decided by the scale, scope and potential menace profile. U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi mentioned folks ought to count on to see a heavy regulation enforcement presence across the Capitol advanced. He famous that there can be expertise, plainclothes officers and assist groups.”
“The Press Is Able to Feast on Biden’s State of the Union” [Politico]. “Apart from this yr’s. Due to the stream of reminiscence lapses that burble from the president’s lips like a Rocky Mountain stream, his stiff gait, his falls, his use of the shorter and sturdier set of stairs on Air Drive One and even his personal self-effacing jokes about his age, Biden has effortlessly attracted the amount of consideration that makes him the envy of earlier presidents. Sadly for Joe, it’s the mistaken form of consideration as a result of it makes him look infirm — veering into inept. And it’s occurring proper because the 2024 presidential marketing campaign is on the verge of being set, as a rematch between Biden and Donald Trump. The quantity of media and social media scrutiny that the deal with will blast at Biden will possible exceed the facility of a billion suns. His each handshake coming down the aisle, his each step taken, his each phrase spoken, can be magnified 100 instances over by the press, his political opposition and voters as they take his measure. And it’s solely truthful. Biden is asking for one more time period, and the press is tasked with vetting the candidates the most effective they’ll.”
“Ukraine first girl declines State of the Union invitation?” [The Hill]. “Ukraine’s first girl Olena Zelenska was invited to attend President Biden’s State of the Union deal with however is unable to come back, in line with the White Home…. The White Home had additionally invited Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, however she was additionally unable to come back, in line with the White Home.”
“Biden’s Finest Potential State of the Union Is a Populist Avenue Combat” [The New Republic]. “Biden is in a near-disaster zone with working-class voters, it’s true. Earlier than we get into that, let’s rapidly appropriate one assertion typically made by pundits that’s simply mistaken. Biden doesn’t must win the working class. He didn’t in 2020. Exit polls from that yr present that Trump gained non-college voters—the closest proxy to working class in such polls—by 50 to 48 p.c. Trump crushed Biden amongst white voters with no school diploma, 67 to 32 p.c. However Biden pummeled Trump by much more amongst voters of shade with no school diploma, 72 to 26 p.c. If Biden can simply hold it shut amongst non-college voters total (who comprised 59 p.c of the voters in 2020), he can win. However he’s not there proper now, particularly with the erosion of assist amongst Black and Latino working-class males that we’ve seen in ballot after ballot. If he can’t change that, he’s in serious trouble.” And: “It’s maddening as a result of middle-out economics—the financial idea that Biden embraces and promotes—is totally about shifting wealth from the highest again to the center and dealing courses. The entire thought in a nutshell is that development comes not from chopping wealthy folks’s taxes and ready for them to speculate, however from making non-public and public investments, financed partially by wealthy folks’s cash, directed towards the center and dealing courses in order that these folks have a good shot at fulfilling their potential and residing higher and safer lives. Throw in his passionate assist of labor unions [like the railroad workers], and Biden is extra on the aspect of working-class folks than any president since arguably Harry Truman. However the truth that he’s not getting numerous credit score isn’t puzzling, as a result of both (a) no one is aware of about this wealth switch or (b) they form of comprehend it, however they don’t actually consider it. There are causes for this: First, Biden has not been a really efficient salesman for his concepts and accomplishments. He additionally suffers for the truth that his social gathering, writ massive, isn’t totally on the identical web page.” • And by not “on the identical web page” we imply “vehemently opposed” when their class oxen are gored.
Useful record of Biden’s betrayals on Covid:
hilarious to look again at bidens covid plan and skim web page after web page of stuff he didnt even attempt to do pic.twitter.com/3NZq11Kn5w
— trevor (@trrvvb) December 16, 2021
Most deadly, consequential “Lucy and the Soccer” transfer ever. Little question Biden can be treating CDC’s “someday” steering as an infinite victory, even when the pre-SOTU timing was a whole coincidence [snort]. And talking of these tips:
22. He doesn’t have time to spend 4 years neck deep in analysis. So, whose recommendation is that this?
Does the WH make use of FarUV expertise and elevated air flow? In all probability. However not at a restaurant in Iowa. Not on the marketing campaign path.
Does he use a each day antiviral? Which one(s)? /22
— Chalis Montgomery (@TheChalis) March 5, 2024
2024
Lower than a yr to go!
* * * Super Tuesday: “Donald Trump and Adam Schiff Are the Biggest Winners of Super Tuesday” [Cook Political Report]. “Donald Trump’s decisive showing on Tuesday — he won 14 of the 15 contests and 722 delegates — wasn’t surprising. But, at the start of 2023, this outcome was far from a given. At this point in 2023, polling showed Trump polling at just 46% while an ascendent and well-funded Florida governor looked well-positioned to make the race for the nomination a serious contest. A year later, Ron DeSantis is long gone, and Trump’s lone remaining opponent, Nikki Haley, only managed to pick up 46 delegates and one primary state victory (Vermont). Exit polls in North Carolina and Virginia confirmed a long-standing pattern of Trump running up the score among Republican and non-college voters, but narrowly winning, or losing, college educated and independent voters to Haley.”
Super Tuesday: “7 things Super Tuesday just taught us about the November election” [Politico]. The deck: “Biden and Trump romped on Super Tuesday. But there were warning signs for both of them.” More: “If Tuesday night cemented anything, it was that any lingering chance of Trump or Biden not getting through their primaries has become the stuff of fanfic fever dreams. Large swaths of voters in both parties aren’t relishing a 2020 rematch, polls show. And now, they’re going to have to get used to it.” Or, as we say, “live with it.” More: “From Colorado to Virginia, it was clear that the GOP’s down-ballot problems will only be exacerbated by Trump’s problems in the suburbs. In Virginia, the former president lost suburbs like Alexandria and Arlington to Haley, along with the state capital of Richmond and city of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia. In Colorado, he lost Denver and Boulder. ‘He consistently loses the most educated counties in every state,’ said GOP pollster Christine Matthews. ‘In Virginia, this was definitely true, but it was true in South Carolina, too. And everywhere. … I don’t think he wins them back by talking about how much Black voters love his mug shot T-shirt or let Russia attack NATO allies who haven’t paid their dues.’ Trump set out to remake the GOP into more of a working-class party — and November could test whether trading white-collar voters for blue-collar ones is a winning strategy in swing states.” And: “But it was in Minnesota, which hasn’t gone for a Republican for president since Richard Nixon in 1972, where Biden saw a less surprising but more threatening setback. The ‘uncommitted’ option on the ballot there had as big a night as it did in Michigan, winning 19 percent of the vote with 89 percent counted. The state’s politically significant Somali population, concentrated around the Twin Cities, rebuked Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war…. But come this fall, Biden can hardly afford such a defection in the pivotal blue wall state.”
* * * Super Tuesday: “How did ‘uncommitted’ perform on ballots across the country?” [USA Today]. MN: 18.9%; MI (last week) 13%; NC: 12.7%; MA: 9.4%; CO: 8.1%; TN: 7.9%; AL: 6%; IA: 3.9%. Could be a lot in a close race. More:
“Uncommitted” got a whopping 19% in Minnesota with virtually no organizing, but this graph is even more telling than the overall number. In many places it was over 50%, & in 2 over 75%! They talk about “younger voters”, but note the age range goes up to 34. Not just college kids! pic.twitter.com/yKIGiTX3pz
— Left I on the Information (@leftiblog) March 6, 2024
One other view of “protest votes”:
Tremendous Tues states w largest anti-Biden Protest Vote:
Minnesota:
Biden 71
Uncomm 19
Dean 8
Marianne 1Massachusetts:
Biden 83
No Pref 9
Dean 5
Marianne 3Colorado:
Biden 84
Uncomm 8
Dean 3
Marianne 3North Carolina:
Biden 87
Uncomm 13
(Dean & Marianne blocked from poll)— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) March 6, 2024
Tremendous Tuesday: “How the ‘Uncommitted’ Effort to Protest Biden Has Unfold in Tremendous Tuesday States” [New York Times]. “The campaigns have been fragmented, organized with far much less time and assets than Michigan’s operation. Many had been deliberate in a matter of days, nicely after early voting had already begun, and several other organizers declined to articulate particular benchmarks for what would represent success on Tuesday evening past the purpose of seeing Mr. Biden transfer his place.”
* * * Tremendous Tuesday: “Nikki Haley suspends her marketing campaign and leaves Donald Trump because the final main Republican candidate” [Associated Press]. “Nikki Haley suspended her presidential marketing campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated throughout the nation on Tremendous Tuesday… ‘It’s now as much as Donald Trump to earn the votes of these in our social gathering and past it who didn’t assist him. And I hope he does that,’ she mentioned. ‘At its greatest, politics is about bringing folks into your trigger, not turning them away. And our conservative trigger badly wants extra folks.’”
Tremendous Tuesday: “Dean Phillips ends presidential marketing campaign and endorses Biden” [NBC]. “‘I’m going to droop my marketing campaign and I can be, proper now, endorsing President Biden as a result of the alternatives are so clear,’ he mentioned in a Minnesota radio interview on WCCO’s ‘The Chad Hartman Present.’ ‘The choice, Donald Trump, is a really harmful, harmful man,’ he continued. ‘I might merely ask and invite and encourage Haley supporters, Trump supporters, uncommitted supporters to unify behind decency and integrity.’”
* * * Tremendous Tuesday: AIPAC a paper tiger?
And actually a seismic outcome for Dave Min to fend off practically $5 million in AIPAC advertisements and attain the runoff. Will AIPAC endorse the Republican in November? pic.twitter.com/JwU9xPCmt7
— David Dayen (@ddayen) March 6, 2024
Min additionally has a DUI conviction, so he’s not with out vulnerabilities.
* * * Trump (R): “Arizona investigators challenge grand jury subpoenas as state’s 2020 Trump election probe accelerates” [Politico]. “Arizona prosecutors in latest weeks issued grand jury subpoenas to a number of folks linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign, a pointy acceleration of their felony investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory within the state… Mayes’ investigators are scrutinizing the so-called “alternate electors” who signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump had gained the state. Prosecutors in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have already introduced expenses in opposition to pro-Trump faux electors of their states. Mayes’ staff has additionally requested folks about Trump himself, in addition to former White Home Chief of Workers Mark Meadows and Trump attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro. Chesebro, an architect of Trump’s scheme to prepare slates of false electors in six states gained by Biden, pleaded responsible for his function in that scheme in Georgia, and he has cooperated with investigators in Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin. He agreed late final yr to talk to Arizona prosecutors as nicely.” • To me, that is probably the most harmful lawsuit of all, and the one which will have already holed Trump beneath the waterline, as a result of a few of the “contingent electors” had been innocents who acquired sucked in. Voters could nicely really feel that gamers do what they do, on both sides. However when the gamers begin taking pictures civilians, that’s fairly one other factor. (I don’t know if the Democrats are able to enjoying it that means, since that will indicate that each one Trump voters aren’t evil, but when they’ll carry themselves to, I feel it might be the best method.)
Trump (R): “Trump lawfare replace” [Washington Examiner]. A helpful abstract, concluding “The rationale for the Democratic panic is that this: Some within the social gathering suppose, certain, President Joe Biden is weak and his polls are horrible, but when he falters, there may be at all times lawfare. We’ve thrown case after case in opposition to Trump. Absolutely one in every of them will work. Now, there was numerous motion with the large six circumstances. 5 of them won’t be resolved, or resolved in Biden’s favor, earlier than the election. So it may very well be that the whole hopes of the Democratic Occasion and all those that search to carry down Trump earlier than Election Day relaxation with Bragg.” Bragg’s case is the Trump’s funds to a mistress: “Bragg[‘s] expenses had been weak. It’s actually a bunch of misdemeanors that Bragg conjured into felonies by means of a legally questionable maneuver.” Looks as if regular observe in New York.” And: “The opposite circumstances, unhealthy as a few of them are, acquired extra respect and a focus, and Bragg stepped into the background, providing to delay making an attempt his case whereas the others went first. However now all these circumstances have encountered issues, and Bragg is steaming forward to a March 25 trial date, lower than three weeks away. It’s a nasty case, however it’s a case.”
Trump (R): “FAU ballot exhibits 1 in 7 Republicans don’t plan to vote for Trump in November” [Orlando Sentinel]. “The ballot requested folks — Democrats, Republicans and independents — who mentioned they aren’t voting for Trump in November why. There have been two central causes folks cited for his or her intentions to not vote for Trump within the fall. (1) His observe document as president and his efficiency on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the tried rebellion aimed toward stopping the official declaration of President Joe Biden’s victory (cited by 30%); (2) The way in which Trump conducts himself personally (cited by 21%). There have been notable variations by political social gathering. Amongst Democrats, 31% cited his presidential efficiency/Jan. 6. Amongst Republicans, 29% cited his private habits. The precise query was, ‘Why are you not voting for Donald Trump?’” And, on abortion: “Simply 4% mentioned it was their high concern.” • The query cause #1 actually was “His observe document as president together with his efficiency on Jan. sixth.” If this had been a journal paper, I’d say there have been confounders.
* * * Biden (D): Yikes:
Oh my Lord. This man isn’t nicely. pic.twitter.com/5UoEW90FD6
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) March 6, 2024
Staffer yelling “Thanks” to get the press outta there…
Biden (D): “The White Home is betting the election on a idea of skewed polls” (excerpt) [Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin]. “One of many oddities of my profession protecting politics is that Democrats have by no means actually been down within the polls of a presidential race — till now…. So it’s straightforward sufficient to see why Democratic marketing campaign officers have a sure confidence, typically verging on swagger. Or at the very least these officers most intently related to Biden, for the reason that one election out of the 4 that Democrats misplaced (2016) was the one when Biden wasn’t on the ticket…. In case you held the election right this moment, it wouldn’t be a fait accompli: Biden can be in an identical place to Trump in 2016, inside hanging distance within the occasion of a scientific polling error. However Trump can be favored…. This issues extra, as a result of one cause polls in March aren’t traditionally all that dependable is as a result of campaigns have the chance to alter course and tweak a method that isn’t working. And but, blessed with numerous runway and confronted with plentiful proof that voters have soured on Biden — his approval score is 38 p.c — Democratic officers have principally reacted with denial.” • Democrats?! Beneath the fold (sigh), Silver reacts to Osnos’ New Yorker piece yesterday. One other response to that article–
Biden (D): “Is Biden in Denial Concerning the Polls?” [Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine]. “Essentially the most disturbing chance of Biden’s posture of polling denial isn’t that it’s honest however that it comes from a way of entitlement. In keeping with Osnos, Biden’s view is ‘I’ve earned this.’ In different phrases, he believes his presidency has been profitable sufficient that he doesn’t should be going through questions on his effectiveness.” • A posture very interesting to the PMC typically.
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* * * “Who Will Win Management of the Home in 2024? California Could Maintain the Key” [New York Times]. “Of the 16 Home districts gained by Mr. Biden however at present in Republican arms, 5 are in California, making the state a linchpin of the social gathering’s hopes of retaking the [House], the place Republicans at present maintain a three-seat majority…. On the entire, Democrats begin at a slight numerical drawback with regards to taking again the Home. Gerrymandering and the pure sorting of voters between dense city areas which might be closely Democratic and huge rural districts which might be strongly Republican have left vanishingly few in play.” • “Pure”? Whenever you learn “pure,” at all times take into account rewriting as “synthetic.” • Useful chart on Home scores, from Larry Sabato’s Middle for American Politics:
Republican Funhouse
#COVID19
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Testing and Tracking
The United States is not a serious country:
living in europe, i can order a bulk box of 25 SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests for thirty cents a test, aka 7,5€ for 25 rapids. people in the US are getting fleeced. https://t.co/eq1mxnEvF8
— Lola Q. Germs (@LolaGerms) March 6, 2024
Sequelae
“SARS-CoV-2 causes mind irritation and induces Lewy physique formation in macaques” [bioRxiv]. From 2021, nonetheless germane. From the Summary: “SARS-CoV-2 could trigger acute respiratory illness, however the an infection can even provoke neurological signs. Right here we present that SARS-CoV-2 an infection causes mind irritation within the macaque mannequin. An elevated metabolic exercise within the pituitary gland of two macaques was noticed by longitudinal positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT). Put up-mortem evaluation demonstrated infiltration of T-cells and activated microglia within the mind, and viral RNA was detected in mind tissues from one animal. We noticed Lewy our bodies in brains of all rhesus macaques. These information emphasize the virus’ functionality to induce neuropathology on this nonhuman primate mannequin for SARS-CoV-2 an infection. As in people, Lewy physique formation is a sign for the event of Parkinson’s illness, this information represents a warning for potential long-term neurological results after SARS-CoV-2 an infection.” • “Monkeys exaggerate, and mice lie.” However.
Elite Maleficence
TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new today; all others are not updated.
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NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Biobot drops, conformant to Walgreen positivity data (if that is indeed not a data artifact). Note, however, the area “under the curve,” besides looking at peaks. That area is larger under Biden than under Trump, and it seems to be rising steadily if unevenly.
[2] (Biobot) Regional separation re-emerges.
[3] (CDC Variants) As of May 11, genomic surveillance data will be reported biweekly, based on the availability of positive test specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring every two weeks. 2. occurring twice a week; semiweekly.” Looks like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to worry about. Time will tell.
[4] (ER) Does not support Biobot data. “Charts and data provided by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the past year, using a rolling 52-week period.”
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Not flattening.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Still down. “Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates weekly for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Department Visits, Test Positivity) and weekly the following Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) That’s a big drop! It would be interesting to survey this population generally; these are people who, despite a tsunami of official propaganda and enormous peer pressure, went and got tested anyhow. UPDATE Given the extraordinary and sudden drop-off, I thought I’d check to see if the population being tested changed in some way. Here are the absolute numbers on February 14, at the edge of the cliff:
And here are the absolute numbers on March 3:
As you can see, there’s an order of magnitude decrease in those testing between those two dates. Was there an event on or about February 14 that is a candidate suggesting an account of this massive shift in behavior? Why yes, yes there is:
“CDC plans to drop five-day covid isolation guidelines” [WaPo] (February 13, 2024).
[8] (Cleveland) Flattening, consistent with Biobot data.
[9] (Travelers: Posivitity) Now up, albeit in the rear view mirror.
[10] (Travelers: Variants) Backward revisions remove NV.1 data. JN.1 dominates utterly.
Stats Watch
Employment Situation: “United States Job Quits” [Trading Economics]. “The number of job quits in the United States declined by 54,000 from the previous month to 3.385 million in January 2024, down from December’s revised figure of 3.439 million and touching the lowest level since January 2021.”
The Bezzle: “Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns” [TechCrunch]. “Spain’s data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to temporarily stop collecting and processing personal data from the market. It must also stop processing any data it previously collected there. The controversial, Sam Altman-founded eyeball-scanning blockchain crypto project started operations in the market last July, as part of a global rollout. The Spanish authority is using ‘urgency procedure’ powers contained in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the temporary data processing cessation order — which means the order can have a maximum duration of three months (so until mid June).”
Tech: Utopia this is not:
If I had an apple vision pro! pic.twitter.com/UdXgm73K1U
— Arron Crascall (@arron_crascall) February 13, 2024
Immediately’s Concern & Greed Index: 75 Excessive Greed (earlier shut: 74 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 78 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Mar 6 at 1:15:38 PM ET
Information of the Wired
YaCy is free software program in your personal search engine” [Yacy.net]. “Imagine if, rather than relying on the proprietary software of a large professional search engine operator, your search engine was run across many private devices, not under the control of any one company or individual. Well, that’s what YaCy does!” • Interesting, though requires Java or docker. (The demo page is very slow to load, presumably being overloaded by Hacker News traffic.)
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