2:00PM Water Cooler 3/20/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Hen Track of the Day

Sadly, Cornell Ornithology Lab’s “deliberate outage” proceed via tomorrow. No hen track at present. Right here, nonetheless, is one among their cams, for Purple-tailed Hawks:

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robust>In Case You May Miss…

(1) John Barnett’s stepson (probably) speaks.

(2) Hitchhiking

(3) Trump to unload Trump Tower?

Politics

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

The Constitutional Order (Rebellion)

“Trump, GOP-led states argue presidential immunity declare to Supreme Court docket” [NC Newsline]. “As a deadline loomed for briefs within the case, 18 Republican-led states filed an amicus transient Tuesday urging the Supreme Court docket to reverse the decrease courts and grant Trump blanket immunity. Oral arguments earlier than the excessive courtroom on the immunity query are scheduled for April 25, and federal district courtroom proceedings have been halted till the Supreme Court docket points a ruling. Trump’s legal professionals, led by D. John Sauer of St. Louis, in a 52-page transient argued {that a} robust government with nearly no prison legal responsibility from the judicial system was meant by the framers of the Structure and a part of a ‘234-year unbroken custom’ of not prosecuting presidents for motion taken whereas in workplace…. ‘The President can not perform, and the Presidency itself can not retain its very important independence, if the President faces prison prosecution for official acts as soon as he leaves workplace,’ the attorneys wrote within the transient’s opening paragraph. That view is in step with how framers of the Structure noticed the presidency, they stated. ‘Even when some degree of Presidential malfeasance, not current on this case in any respect, had been to flee punishment, that danger is inherent within the Structure’s design,’ Trump’s attorneys wrote. ‘The Founders seen defending the independence of the Presidency as properly well worth the danger that some Presidents would possibly evade punishment in marginal circumstances. They had been unwilling to burn the Presidency itself to the bottom to get at each single alleged malefactor.’ The one exception to absolute immunity is a president who’s impeached by the Home and convicted within the Senate, Trump’s legal professionals stated.” And: “They requested the courtroom to reject an argument that one other exception to presidential immunity could possibly be made for prison expenses stemming from a president’s need to remain in energy. ‘As a result of nearly all first-term Presidents’ official actions carry some, at the least partial, motivation to be re-elected, this exception to immunity would swiftly engulf the rule,’ they wrote. Prosecuting or not prosecuting a president is inherently a political act, Trump’s attorneys stated. ‘This commentary applies to former Presidents as properly — and it applies most of all to a former President who’s the main candidate to interchange the incumbent who’s prosecuting him,’ they wrote.” • Go away it to Trump to search out the sting case for any system he’s concerned with.

2024

Lower than a yr to go!

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Trump (R): “Donald Trump could not pay bond — and as an alternative let Letitia James seize Trump Tower: insiders” [New York Post]. “As Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to submit a $454 million bond within the civil fraud case in opposition to him in New York, insiders stated he could also be weighing a little-discussed possibility: Doing nothing…. Whereas some experiences have raised hypothesis that Trump could ‘go nuclear’ with a Chapter 11 submitting to guard his prize actual property belongings throughout Manhattan, specialists stated chapter would create unwelcome problems because the 2024 election season involves a head. A 3rd risk, nonetheless, is to let the deadline cross, leaving it to New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James to grab Trump’s financial institution accounts or buildings — together with Trump Tower, from which he declared his 2016 presidential run, and which famously consists of his private penthouse. It’s an possibility Trump seems to have thought-about – partly as a result of he believes the possibilities are good that he may recuperate the belongings on attraction, even when he’s pressured to take his case to the US Supreme Court docket, in keeping with pals. ‘Even when there’s a taking, it doesn’t imply he can’t take it again later,’ a supply near Trump informed The Put up. A choice to do nothing poses dangers of its personal — amongst them that the New York AG’s Workplace has the best to dump any properties it confiscates as a way to recuperate the money penalties it’s owed.” • No point out, nonetheless, of the Eighth Modification.

Trump (R): “Decide grants Trump permission to attraction Fani Willis ruling” [Axios]. “The decide overseeing former President Trump’s Georgia election subversion case granted a pathway Wednesday for Trump to attraction his choice to permit Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis to stay on the helm of the prosecution. By granting a ‘certificates of instant evaluate,’ Fulton County Decide Scott McAfee enabled Trump’s legal professionals to attraction the choice to the Georgia Court docket of Appeals earlier than the beginning of a trial…. Whereas McAfee granted the protection’s request for a evaluate, he famous within the courtroom submitting that different issues associated to the case will go ahead as deliberate, pending the evaluate.” • Right here is the “certificates”:

BREAKING: Decide Scott McAfee Grants Trump and Co-Defendants Rapid Assessment Certificates, Enabling Attraction of Order Denying Disqualification of Fulton County DA Fani Willis. pic.twitter.com/luQdHQgdUe

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 20, 2024

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Trump (R): “Trump suggests 15-week abortion ban is ‘very affordable’” [Axios]. “Trump throughout an interview with conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg on WABC Tuesday repeated his boasts about serving to to overturn Roe v. Wade by nominating three conservative Supreme Court docket justices. The courtroom’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling in 2022 made abortion coverage a state-level difficulty. ‘The variety of weeks now, persons are agreeing on 15, and I’m considering by way of that, and it’ll come out to one thing that’s very affordable,’ Trump stated. He added that he would make an announcement on what limits he formally helps ‘on the applicable time.’ He referred to as views which have led Republicans to lose on the poll field ‘impractical.’ After tentatively supporting the thought of a federal ban, Trump claimed that ‘everyone agrees’ that it ought to be a state difficulty. ‘It shouldn’t be a federal difficulty, it’s a state difficulty,’ he stated.” And: “He emphasised throughout a radio interview on Tuesday that he helps “exceptions,” more and more a part of the GOP playbook, for rape, incest or lifetime of the mom.”

Trump (R): “Let the Presidential Election Mudslinging Start!” [Jeet Heer, The Nation]. “Evaluation means that the primary order of enterprise for Biden is to return Trump to his former standing as probably the most unpopular determine in American politics. In different phrases: Let the mudslinging start. Biden and people round him appear to have drawn this apparent lesson. A current New Yorker report on the Biden White Home quoted Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Like many, Whitehouse is supporting Biden extra out of resignation than enthusiasm. Whitehouse informed The New Yorker that whereas Biden was ‘not the one possibility that we had…as soon as he’d made the choice to go, he grew to become the one possibility that we now have.’ Given this actuality, Whitehouse advocates a ‘Biden plus offense’ based mostly on the truth that when persons are ‘frightened or indignant, it’s essential persuade them that you just, too, are equally involved and also you’re prepared to throw punches and choose fights. Whitehouse added, ‘When you’ve obtained your sleeves rolled up and also you’re waist-deep combating alligators within the swamp, then no person’s actually occupied with your age.’”

Trump (R): Missed this one:

Decide Napolitano: “I informed Trump, ‘you promised you’ll launch the information of the JFK assassination.’ He stated to me ‘In the event that they confirmed you what they confirmed me, you would not have launched it both.’ I stated ‘Who’s they? What did they present you?’ Trump stated “Sometime after we’re not on… pic.twitter.com/Z4I8jkknDX

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) March 15, 2024

And see Kennedy beneath.

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Biden (D): “Biden ices a controversial donor” [Politico]. “The Biden marketing campaign and the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee are freezing a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} in donations made by a businessman accused of fraudulently pretending to be related to the CIA. A Biden marketing campaign official informed West Wing Playbook they had been placing a $50,000 donation made to the Biden Victory Fund final April by GAURAV SRIVASTAVA into escrow after considerations had been raised in regards to the supply and legality of the donation. A spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee, which acquired virtually $290,000 final yr from a person figuring out as Srivastava, stated that group, too, has put aside the cash for the ‘foreseeable future’ out of an abundance of warning. The choices to freeze the cash come within the wake of current reporting round Srivastava’s enterprise dealings and philanthropic giving. A Los Angeles-based businessman, he has been concerned in quite a lot of causes via a household basis. However he was additionally the topic of an unflattering profile by Undertaking Brazen, a information outlet based by two former Wall Road Journal reporters, that urged misconduct on his half, together with pretend ties to the CIA. POLITICO Affect reported final month that the Atlantic Council had terminated its donor relationship with Srivastava after they couldn’t verify essential particulars of his background.” And this wonderful sentence: “All of it has raised the query of who, precisely, Srivastava is.”

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Kennedy (I):

What about this epochal occasion in American historical past is so stunning that they don’t belief the American public to learn about it? I would be the most clear president this nation has ever seen. We should know the reality. https://t.co/JlLsAanEL1

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) March 15, 2024

West (I):

My Impartial marketing campaign for President is a spill over of an ideal custom of an ideal individuals into politics, targeted on who Sly Stone calls “on a regular basis individuals”. Assist us shake up the corrupt two social gathering system and provide a better option for America. Donate at https://t.co/6XGRHEYQg0… pic.twitter.com/2CCVNO3Z2n

— Cornel West (@CornelWest) March 17, 2024

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Democrats en Déshabillé

“Democrats are hemorrhaging help with voters of shade” [Nate Silver]. [John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times] “notes that the issues are significantly dangerous for Democrats amongst working-class voters of shade, and youthful ones.” Controversy ensued. However: “Adam Carlson has been performing a useful service by aggregating the outcomes of various polls collectively, which at the least solves the pattern measurement downside. And he’s discovering that Joe Biden’s share of the vote has dropped dramatically amongst Black and Hispanic voters as in contrast with a mean dependable estimates of the 2020 vote.” Helpful chart:

Extra: “As you possibly can see, Biden’s margin in opposition to Donald Trump has mainly not moved an inch amongst white voters; he’s shedding them by 12 share factors, as he did in 2020. Nonetheless, Biden is now solely successful Hispanics by 7 share factors — down from 24 factors in 2020 — and Black voters by “solely” 55 factors, as in contrast with 83 factors in 2020.”

“Thriller among the many vines: Why is the FBI probing a few of Napa Valley’s fanciest wineries?” [LA Times]. That is very detailed and dense, and will get wilder because it goes in, culminating in a landfill scandal (“An Odor of Lying”). “Why have so most of the fancy wineries alongside this highway — and their wealthy and highly effective homeowners — been named in federal subpoenas that had been served late final yr on Napa County?…. The subpoena looking for information on the wineries and their homeowners, dated Dec. 14, 2023, is filed underneath the title of Patrick Robbins, first assistant U.S. legal professional for the Northern District of California. It additionally references an FBI agent, Katherine Ferrato, who has expertise engaged on complicated monetary crimes.” Oddly, nonetheless, the names within the article are all locals. Not A-listers. Not Black feminine executives. Not Gavin Newsom or his Getty pals. And positively not Nancy Pelosi.

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Companions With Anti-Porn Foyer NCOSE” [XBIZ]. ” Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a press assertion final week prominently highlighting her partnership with religiously-inspired anti-porn foyer NCOSE, a company that seeks to criminalize all intercourse work and eradicate grownup content material, and that has an intensive, well-documented historical past of championing state censorship and opposing LGBTQ+ rights. The assertion launched by Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace celebrates her introduction of the Disrupt Express Cast Pictures and Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024 (DEFIANCE Act), which proposes to create a federal civil proper of motion for victims of deepfakes…. XBIZ contacted Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace and her Communications Director Sidney Johnson, for touch upon whether or not the congressperson is conscious of NCOSE’s historical past, previous stances in opposition to free speech, promotion of censorship and opposition to LGBTQ+ rights. XBIZ additionally requested Ocasio-Cortez to touch upon her partnership with Hawkins, a non secular conservative activist who has spoken extensively in regards to the Mormon roots of her Conflict on Porn crusades and her efforts to rebrand Morality in Media because the extra secular-sounding NCOSE. After this story’s publication, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of employees, Mike Casca, contacted XBIZ by way of X providing because the workplace’s official assertion the next: ‘Bullshit. It’s not a partnership. She has a bipartisan invoice to cease nonconsensual deepfake pornography that facilities survivors’ civil proper of motion. Orgs left, proper and middle help it. Bipartisanship is how payments change into regulation in a divided congress.’” And: “Earlier this week, Christopher Kane from LGBTQ+ politics web site the Washington Blade additionally famous the peculiar alliance between NCOSE — which typically companions with non secular Republicans for its campaigns — and Ocasio-Cortez, a notably progressive [snort] New York consultant and member of ‘The Squad.’”

Realignment and Legitimacy

“The Proper to Vote” [Teri Kanefield]. “You don’t have an affirmative Constitutional proper to vote. (Do you know that?) The proper to vote was not (affirmatively) included within the Structure or the Invoice of Rights, or any of the opposite Amendments…. None of this offers anybody an affirmative proper to vote. The Supreme Court docket views the omission of an affirmative proper to vote from the Structure to imply that voting is a privilege that states could administer or infringe as they see match—so long as the bounds and infringement doesn’t discriminate based mostly on race, shade, or gender…. So if a state needs to disclaim the best to vote to anybody who has been convicted of a felony, the state can achieve this. If a state needs to disclaim the best to vote by mail, the state can do this as properly. The one factor states can’t do (underneath the regulation because it now stands) is cross legal guidelines that deny the vote based mostly on race, gender, or a suspect classification like faith or nationwide origin. A authorities ‘of the individuals, by the individuals, and for the individuals’ raises a query: Who’s included? Who’re the individuals? It’s apparent that in case you can’t vote, you aren’t one of many ‘individuals’ in “We the Folks.’”

#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 Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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Testing and Monitoring

Yesterday, New York. In the present day, Philly:

As @HNimanFC has been sharing constantly, samples of those extremely advanced JN. 1s have been picked up throughout surveillance networks in main US airports. They introduced an growth of this program final week. Clearly, as a result of they may see what was incoming.

— Michael (@mrmickme) March 19, 2024

TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new at present; all others usually are not 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) Our curve has now flattened out on the degree of earlier Trump peaks. Not an ideal victory. Observe additionally the realm “underneath the curve,” moreover peaks. That space is bigger underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it appears to be rising steadily if inconsistently.

[2] (Biobot) Midwest ticks up.

[3] (CDC Variants) As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

[4] (ER) “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.”

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Seems like a really gradual leveling off to a non-zero baseline, to me.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and information 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) Leveling out.

[8] (Cleveland) Flattening.

[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Now up, albeit within the rear view mirror.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates completely.

Stats Watch

There aren’t any official statistics of curiosity at present.

Tech: “Google’s Woke AI Wasn’t a Mistake. We Know. We Had been There” [The Free Press]. “These ex-Googlers, as they’re referred to as, stated that they had been discouraged from hiring white, male workers; that DEI ‘is a part of each single factor’ within the firm; and that engineers even needed to listing the ‘DEI affect’ for the tiniest of software program fixes. All of them agreed that the Silicon Valley big entered the factitious intelligence race with an higher hand however has squandered it by cowing to an activist faction within the firm that’s extra dedicated to advancing social justice than making world-class merchandise.” • Just like the 1619 Undertaking, besides fully out within the open and 1,000,000 instances worse:

Dudes (dudettes (duderinos)), come on. Though I suppose it’s re-assuring, in a means, to know that anyone can develop as much as be a Nazi. NOTE The caption to the photograph doesn’t present the immediate. However I’ve seen loads of different examples.

Manufacturing: “One other Boeing emergency: Delta Airways 737 airplane makes emergency touchdown after one of many engines caught fireplace moments after taking off in Aruba” [Daily Mail]. “A Boeing-made Delta Airways flight out of Aruba and certain for Atlanta was pressured to show again and make an emergency touchdown after an engine blow out on take-off.” • Whoops.

Manufacturing: “Boeing burns additional cash than anticipated because it limits 737 manufacturing” [Reuters]. “Boeing opens new tab’s MAX security disaster is inflicting it to burn additional cash than anticipated, its finance chief stated on Wednesday, that means the U.S. planemaker will want extra time to hit a key monetary goal for coming years. The corporate is making an attempt to get management of questions of safety following a Jan. 5 mid-flight panel blowout on a 737 MAX 9 plane that has positioned it underneath the watchful eye of U.S. regulators – and annoyed airways already fighting supply delays from each Boeing and its rival Airbus. CFO Brian West informed a Financial institution of America convention that Boeing’s money burn within the first quarter can be someplace between $4 billion and $4.5 billion, greater than they deliberate again in January. The order backlogs are irritating airline executives, who’ve began to chop routes and try to amass extra plane to fulfill demand. Michael O’Leary, CEO of key European Boeing buyer Ryanair (RYA.I), opens new tab, informed Reuters he’s assembly with senior firm executives on Wednesday in Dublin to debate extended supply delays. Boeing declined touch upon the go to.

U.S. regulators have restricted Boeing’s 737 manufacturing to 38 a month – however West stated Boeing is producing fewer than that allowable quantity, although didn’t elaborate.” • Whoops.

Manufacturing: I wouldn’t name this precisely authenticated, however:

Manufacturing: “Understanding the Boeing Mess” [Wall Street Journal]. “Fairly than surfacing Boeing’s deeply hidden issues, it appears the second [737 MCAS] crash gave beginning to them. The following 20-month grounding and manufacturing shutdown, mixed with Covid, value Boeing 1000’s of expert employees. The stress of its duopoly competitors with Airbus plus prospects clamoring for his or her backordered planes made administration unwisely determined to restart manufacturing. January’s nonfatal door-plug blowout of an Alaska Airways 737 seems to have been a one-off when Boeing employees didn’t reinstall the plug correctly after eradicating it to repair defective fuselage rivets. Not a one-off, apparently, are defective rivets as Boeing has strained to rent new employees and resume manufacturing of half-finished planes. Boeing will type out its troubles ultimately by making use of the oldest of producing insights: Coaching, repetition, standardization and cautious documentation are the best way to error-free complicated manufacturing.” I wager this man thinks that the most important downside with the pandemic was being disadvantaged of the Mozzarella sticks at Applebee’s; he’s actually able to that degree of denial and cope. Stoller’s perspective is IMNSHO appropriate:

Manufacturing: “TSMC, Intel suppliers delay U.S. crops on surging prices, labor crunch” [Nikkei Asia]. “Chemical and materials makers LCY Chemical, Solvay, Chang Chun Group, KPPC Superior Chemical compounds (Kanto-PPC) and Topco Scientific all introduced plans and acquired land to construct amenities in Arizona after the world’s two high chipmakers, TSMC and Intel, rolled out their very own multi-billion-dollar investments within the state. However development of those amenities — that are very important for constructing an entire chip provide chain — has been placed on maintain or considerably scaled again, a number of chip trade executives briefed on the matter informed Nikkei Asia. In some circumstances the delays are anticipated to be momentary, whereas in others the tasks can be topic to later evaluate, with no clear timeframe on once they may be reactivated. Most of these affected attribute the postponements to surging prices for constructing supplies and labor, in addition to a scarcity of development employees. A flood of funding into the state for a variety of sectors, together with chips and cars, has squeezed the constructing sector. The suppliers additionally cited slower-than-expected progress on Intel’s and TSMC’s expansions for the postponements.

The truth that a number of suppliers are slowing their tasks signifies the difficulty is just not down to at least one or two particular person corporations however is extra structural.”

In the present day’s Concern & Greed Index: 70 Greed (earlier shut: 70 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 69 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Mar 20 at 1:23:00 PM ET.

Class Warfare

Information of the Wired

“United States of America” [HitchWiki]. Overview of hitchhiking legal guidelines by state:

Relative Ease of Hitchhiking Every State of America (based mostly on a survey of hitchhikers with 114,000 miles cumulative expertise.).

Inexperienced: Simple

Yellow: Common

Purple: Tough

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