2:00PM Water Cooler 3/8/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Chicken Track of the Day

Clamorous Reed Warbler (Brown), Buak Khang paddies & scrublands, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Clamorous certainly!

Some readers requested for one thing desk of contents-like, so listed here are a number of highlights amidst the density:

Excessive- and Lowlights

(1) Lisa Web page, like a nasty penny.

(2) MTG meets Biden on the SOTU.

(3) RFK calls out DSAC, an unpleasant public-private partnership within the Censorship Industrial Advanced

(4) The Full English..

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

Spook Nation

Slime pays:

Oh look Amazon employed Lisa Web page. Sure, former FBI lawyer of Russiagate fame Lisa Web page. To do their authorized coverage round satellite tv for pc delivered broadband. https://t.co/UJTuOuHX8a pic.twitter.com/IgYnCWmkCo

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 7, 2024

Biden Administration

I’ll preserve the fiction that the SOTU was not a marketing campaign speech. I’ll placed on my yellow waders over the weekend, and though I want all the time to work from a transcript, this time I’ll even have to observe it, the horror:

“State of the Union Exhibits There’s Life within the Outdated Boy But” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street]. Sadly, I can solely quote the deck: “Biden’s speech confirmed power and focus, although he blurred some phrases and ideas.”

“Biden’s State of the Union speech bolstered psychological acuity and age issues, Republicans say” [FOX]. However they’d, wouldn’t they? “‘A variety of the time it was arduous to know what he was saying,’ stated Home Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va. ‘He was sort of mumbling and slurring.’ ‘We couldn’t perceive him. He was so mad,’ agreed Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. ‘The quantity was up and down.’ At a number of factors, Biden did increase his voice to emphasise his factors, significantly when referring to Trump. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, remarked the president’s annual deal with was ‘harking back to an outdated, indignant man standing on his porch screaming ‘get off my entrance garden.” Whereas Republicans tended to treat Biden’s deal with as indignant and proof of his cognitive decline, congressional Democrats believed his speech showcased his power.” However they’d, wouldn’t they? Extra: ‘He was nice. He was actually improbable,’ stated Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who additionally described Biden as ‘energetic’ and ‘clear.’ Even Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Neb., conceded: ‘I believe in equity, [Biden] had night time.’” • The Juice, adrenaline, pleasure of battle, private animus, partisan and ideological dedication… It’s a surprise Crew Biden didn’t wind their man up too tight!

“President Biden rails towards ‘my predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union speech” [Semafor]. “The speech marked an unofficial kickoff of the president’s reelection push, laying out a message that he plans to tackle the street to Michigan on Friday and Georgia on Saturday, the place Trump is talking the identical day. The marketing campaign and allied teams are additionally anticipated to ramp up promoting and construct new volunteer and employees infrastructure within the coming weeks.” • We’ll must see how the marketing campaign path treats Biden.

“5 memorable moments from Biden’s State of the Union” [The Hill]. One second: “[Marjorie Taylor] Greene handed Biden a pin when he entered the chamber for his speech that learn ‘say her title Laken Riley.’ Greene had distributed the pins to lawmakers forward of Thursday night time’s deal with. Then, whereas Biden was discussing the scenario on the southern border throughout his speech, Greene yelled out, ‘It’s about Laken Riley,’ and different Republicans shouted, ‘Say her title.’ Biden held up the pin Greene gave him and responded to the congresswoman from the dais. ‘Laken Riley, an harmless younger girl who was killed by an unlawful,’ he stated. ‘To her mother and father I say my coronary heart goes out to you having misplaced youngsters myself. I perceive.’” • Exhibiting that well-known Biden empathy and stealing a Republican speaking level (“an unlawful”). Fairly good, even for a youthful man. Assembly with MTG after the speech:

This wonderful clip of Biden vs MTG proves to me he has all his marbles, all his psychological schools, all his humorousness—and that he’s going to win in November. pic.twitter.com/lP9I7tY2Kh

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 8, 2024

“Trump Provides Ranting SOTU Commentary: ‘EVERY LINE IS BEING SHOUTED’” [HuffPo]. “‘DON’T SHAKE PEOPLE’S HANDS GOING OUT – HE KEEPS COUGHING INTO HIS RIGHT HAND!’ he later wrote.” • Reinforcing fomite transmission (although certainly that is one potential case I’d keep away from; yech!!). That is additionally an outdated Republican speaking level — and a professional one!

2024

Lower than a 12 months to go!

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Trump (R): “Trump is ordered to pay authorized charges after failed lawsuit over the Steele file” [Associated Press]. ” Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a six-figure authorized invoice to an organization based by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer known as ‘surprising and scandalous’ false claims that harmed his repute. A London decide, who threw out the case towards Orbis Enterprise Intelligence final month saying it was ‘sure to fail,’ [why?] ordered Trump to pay authorized charges of 300,000 kilos ($382,000), in line with courtroom paperwork launched Thursday. Orbis was based by Christopher Steele, who as soon as ran the Russia desk for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also called MI6.” • Six methods from Sunday, and throughout the Large Pond, too.

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Trump (R): “Intel businesses eye transient for Trump, amid fears he might spill secrets and techniques” [Politico]. • I don’t see what the concern is; they may all the time feed him chickenfeed. So they may faux to transient him, and he might faux to hear (or, extra seemingly, attempt to reverse engineer what they have been mendacity to him about).

Trump (R): “Dr. John Gartner: The world is watching ‘a elementary breakdown in Trump’s capacity to make use of language’” (interview) [Salon] Gartner: “And at last, there have been extra examples final week of a elementary breakdown in Trump’s capacity to make use of language, to suppose and to speak. When Trump visited the border, he stated: “No person [can] clarify to me how permitting thousands and thousands of individuals from locations unknown, from nations unknown, who don’t communicate languages — we have now languages coming into our nation, we have now no one that even speaks these languages. They’re actually overseas languages. No person speaks them.” For my part, Donald Trump is getting worse as his cognitive state continues to degrade. If Trump have been your relative, you’d be enthusiastic about assisted care proper now.” • On the Gartner quote: Not shopping for it; I can hear Trump saying these phrases, and Gartner’s giving an instance of how Trump spirals round a subject. I believe that is cope and tu quoque although I could possibly be persauded in any other case. Readers?

Trump (R): “Who Actually Stands With American Staff?” [Paul Krugman, New York Times]. “Total, wage positive factors have greater than stored up with inflation, and wage positive factors have been most speedy for lower-paid employees. Because of this, most employees’ wages adjusted for inflation are increased than earlier than the pandemic, and are literally above the prepandemic development. Briefly, there’s a purpose the United Vehicle Staff endorsed Biden, though lots of its members will vote for Trump anyway, imagining that he’s on their facet. However Trump isn’t a populist, he’s a poseur. When making precise coverage versus speeches, he mainly ruled as Mitch McConnell with tariffs. Biden, however, actually has pursued a pro-worker agenda — extra so, arguably, than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt — and has presided over a major discount in inequality.” • First, to “stand with” employees means to extend their class energy; anything devolves into giving with one hand and taking away with the opposite. Additionally, a careless reader would assume that the hyperlink for “a major discount in inequality” means a lower within the Gini Coefficient, or another metric for a diminution of the category energy of our oligarchs. Not so. The hyperlink refers to “mixture wage compression.” Clearly, capitalists aren’t wage-earners. Tsk!

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Kennedy (I): Good for him:

Ha.. My small enterprise doesn’t qualify for membership. pic.twitter.com/E95ceX7BeM

— The Cooks (@fiveskillets) March 7, 2024

So (see the ultimate tweet) DSAC is an particularly rancid public-private partnership. And given the membership of the Govt Board, which incorporates executives from firms with over $1 billion in gross sales, you’ve bought to ask your self who’s within the driver’s seat (and never essentially the Federal authorities, as Kennedy would have it).

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“Third-party group No Labels is predicted to maneuver ahead with a 2024 marketing campaign, AP sources say” [Associated Press]. “After months of leaving open whether or not the group would supply a ticket, No Labels delegates are anticipated to vote Friday in favor of launching a presidential marketing campaign for this fall’s election, in line with the individuals accustomed to the matter, who spoke on situation of anonymity to debate the group’s inner deliberations. No Labels is not going to title its presidential and vice presidential picks on Friday, when roughly 800 delegates meet nearly in a non-public assembly. The group is as a substitute anticipated to debut a proper choice course of late subsequent week for potential candidates who could be chosen within the coming weeks, the individuals stated.” • Drawing out the suspense!

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“New Report Mapping Christian Nationalism by State Suggests Election Want Not Be Performed Out on Christian Nationalist Phrases” [Religion Dispatches]. “Christian nationalism shouldn’t be ignored or downplayed, however on the identical time the section of the inhabitants that embraces it’s punching above its weight. Two states—Mississippi and North Dakota—attain 50% help, and solely a handful land within the 40s. The remainder of the nation ranges from the teenagers to the mid-30s. That’s a major minority, to make certain, however a minority all the identical. Which means the election needn’t be performed out on Christian nationalist phrases. Voters could also be much less supportive of immigration than they’ve been earlier than, however Democrats are in any other case solidly aligned with the values of nearly all of Individuals. That Christian nationalists are in a stable minority in locations like Ohio, Texas, or Florida additionally demonstrates the perilous place of hard-right regimes in such states. Had been it not for gerrymandering and different anti-democratic ways, their agenda could be firmly rejected. To place issues one other approach: there are much more locations that could possibly be opened up as swing states on the premise of rejecting Christian nationalism than the opposite approach round.” • Useful map:

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“Nothing New Below the Solar? Marketing campaign Departures and Parallels” [RealClearPolitics]. “Donald Trump’s presumptive candidacy has clear precedents. He would be the fifth former president to run for reelection … and, nearly implausibly, all in that unique membership have been New Yorkers. Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore Roosevelt have been former presidents who sought one other time period within the Govt Mansion – that’s, not instantly succeeding themselves. In some ways the modern Republican Social gathering could possibly be known as the Trumpublican Social gathering, a lot has it been reworked. Historical past will kind out how a lot Donald Trump has been the architect or the legatee. Van Buren needed to be a part of the brand new anti-slavery Free Soil Social gathering; Millard Fillmore was the nominee of the Know-Nothing Social gathering; and Theodore Roosevelt positioned second, beating the Republican incumbent, on the Progressive (‘Bull Moose’) ticket. These males ran below new designations as a result of they have been unable to rework the celebration institutions of their former events. To the extent that Trump has wrought change in his celebration and throughout the political panorama, enabling his renomination, there are parallels – if not coincidences – discovered within the individual of Democrat Grover Cleveland and the election of 1888. Cleveland is the one president, to date, who managed to serve two non-consecutive phrases. He was the twenty second and the twenty fourth president – a historic contortion as a result of single time period of Republican Benjamin Harrison in between. Contested outcomes, corrupt vote counts, and unresolved accusations surrounded the 1888 marketing campaign. Among the many coincidences and parallels we observe immediately, Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) in a number of methods foreshadowed Donald Trump. An instrument of reform, Cleveland tried to ‘drain the swamp’ of his time, championing Civil Service reform.”

Republican Funhouse

“Oklahoma stated to have the best charge of ‘lengthy COVID’ signs in line with current evaluation” [FOX]. “Oklahoma is claimed to have the best charge of residents who’ve been reporting the expertise of ‘lengthy COVID’ in line with an evaluation from helpadvisor.com, with the best charge of every other state at Oklahomans are experiencing signs after the virus has handed by means of, leaving them with a cough, fatigue and even long run analysis that impacts the mind, coronary heart and lungs. ‘The commonest signs that we see initially with the an infection goes to be that cough, that shortness of breath, and what individuals don’t understand is that a whole lot of these can linger and a few of the most typical ones is fatigue,’ stated [Utica Park Clinic Family Physician Dr. Matthew Else]. ‘After which we have now this excessive different finish of issues and we don’t perceive it fairly but, however as we heard there will be some fairly odd lingering signs and a few lengthy lasting new analysis corresponding to diabetes or cognitive defects.’” • Perhaps Republicans will get to Lengthy Covid first, who is aware of (that Sanders listening to positive went nowhere). The quotes from Else aren’t excellent, however no less than they perceive they’ve bought an issue, on the market in flyover.

Democrats en Déshabillé

“Reminder: Trump’s Final 12 months in Workplace Was a Nationwide Nightmare” [Paul Krugman, New York Times]. “There’s no actual query that hundreds of Individuals died unnecessarily due to Trump’s dereliction of obligation within the face of Covid-19.” • We are able to examine Trump’s data to Biden’s later; suffice for now to say that there are much more deaths “below the curve” for Biden, not Trump. However this attitude is fascinating:

100% this.

I do know this wasn’t the identical in every single place, however in my very blue county and state we dealt with the pandemic nicely below Trump as a result of nobody trusted him.

It’s so a lot worse now. https://t.co/kLMCIZy7Qk

— Becca Peter (@DefectiveBecca) March 7, 2024

Sure, the PMC behaved significantly better below Trump. Keep in mind “flattening the curve”? “Important employees”? Good instances. At the very least they confirmed some consciousness higher than whinging about lacking brunch.

Realignment and Legitimacy

“Why put on a masks to a protest?” [The Gauntlet]. The deck: “Or: why unfold sickness when you would not do this?” And: “Individuals who sometimes mock the propagandist claims of the state’s speaking heads on this case repeat them verbatim. The willingness of a lot of the organized left to fall in keeping with Biden’s pandemic denial and minimization has resulted in a lot higher social isolation of disabled and immunocompromised individuals than in the course of the Trump period…. Search twitter for any masked selfie and browse the feedback. You will notice- largely MAGA trolls- overtly calling for masked individuals to be killed. You’ll typically not see outstanding leftists with massive platforms pushing again by encouraging masking and practising it themselves…. [C]ops and the state are hellbent on peeling masks off of faces on account of their unlawful and unconstitutional concentrating on of peaceable protestors and leftist organizers.” And: “Personally, I’m now concerned within the DC-area Masks Bloc; this group has been attending protests and distributing hundreds of free masks. Such teams have popped up everywhere in the world and are doing the tough and infrequently thankless work of distributing free, high-quality masks, exams, and data. To me, they’re the thrilling new frontier of the left. Extra thrilling could be the inclusion of this work in additional established areas, by extra highly effective teams and people.” • Wonderful publish and value studying in full. Don’t be like Bernie:

…and the speech ends by Bernie ripping off his medical masks to affix his posse.

Rattling.

— Girl Chuan (@LadyChuan) March 8, 2024

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“Battle within the Age of Fractured Publics” [The National Interest]. Divide and conquer has been an overclass tactic since without end; however maybe they’ve gone too far? “The delicate stage of public help renders mass mobilization methods, which leaders on the top of the commercial age practiced, almost inconceivable…. Conscious of the fragility of public help, modern nations at warfare have typically stored taxes low, ensured a gradual stream of client items, and positioned the burden of warfighting on a tiny minority. Escalation to main warfare accordingly appears much less and fewer seemingly. Geopolitical wrestle will seemingly take a kind completely different from current world wars. Key variations might embrace the next: First, solely a small minority of the inhabitants could also be concerned within the contests…. Second, weak and divided public help might change into a persistent characteristic of the competition…. Third, governments will face a robust incentive to combat wars on a budget…. As a substitute of high-intensity wars, nations might discover proxy, data, cyber, and financial warfare extra enticing methods to maintain stress on their adversaries.” • Seems like what we’re already doing. How about Civil wars?

#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

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 Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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Censorship and Propaganda

“America’s break up on whether or not the pandemic is over” [Axios]. One information level: “A February Axios-Ipsos survey discovered 17% of adults reported carrying a masks in public, down from 30% a 12 months earlier.” • This within the face of the worst wave of propaganda, and the best governing class unity that I’ve ever seen. (And there’s a whole lot of choice bias towards after they’re seen, too; maskers are inclined to keep away from crowds, go when shops are empty, and so forth., so they don’t loom massive within the public thoughts.) If the rule of thumb — and I’m simply choosing this quantity at random — is that 10% of the inhabitants is resistant to see stress (right here, we would say “are crucial thinkers”) then 17% is impressively above that baseline. To deploy the Margaret Mead quote all people in all probability already is aware of: “By no means doubt {that a} small group of considerate dedicated people can change the world. In truth, it’s the one factor that ever has.”

Superstar Watch

“Pope seems unable to climb a number of steps as respiratory and mobility issues take their toll” [Associated Press]. “Pope Francis once more requested an aide to learn his remarks and was unable to get again onto his popemobile Wednesday, as lingering respiratory and mobility issues continued to take their toll on the 87-year-old pontiff…. Final Wednesday, Francis went to the hospital for unspecified diagnostic exams, the outcomes of which haven’t been launched. He has been struggling on and off this winter from what he and the Vatican have stated was a chilly, bouts of bronchitis and the flu.” • Huh. I’m wondering what it could possibly be?

TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new immediately; 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) Biobot drops, conformant to Walgreen positivity information (if that’s certainly not an information artifact). Be aware, nonetheless, the world “below the curve,” in addition to peaks. That space is bigger below Biden than below Trump, and it appears to be rising steadily if inconsistently.

[2] (Biobot) Regional separation re-emerges.

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

[4] (ER) Doesn’t help Biobot information. “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.”

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Not flattening. (Date for information corrected; it was a glitch.)

[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, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.

[7] (Walgreens) That’s an enormous drop! It might be fascinating to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer stress, went and bought examined anyhow. UPDATE Given the extraordinary and sudden drop-off, I assumed I’d test to see if the inhabitants being examined modified in a roundabout way. Listed here are absolutely the numbers on February 14, on the fringe of the cliff:

“CDC plans to drop five-day covid isolation pointers” [WaPo] (February 13, 2024).

[8] (Cleveland) Flattening, in keeping with Biobot information.

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

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Backward revisions take away NV.1 information. JN.1 dominates completely.

Stats Watch

Employment Scenario: “United States Unemployment Fee” [Trading Economics]. “The unemployment charge in the US rose by 0.2 proportion level to three.9% in February 2024, touching the best stage since January 2022 and surpassing market expectations of three.7%.”

Tech: “Why Citi is rolling out generative AI to all its builders” [American Banker]. “Citi is evaluating lots of of different generative AI use circumstances in areas like operations automation, customer support, fraud detection and workplace productiveness.” • How about accounting management fraud?

Immediately’s Worry & Greed Index: 68 Greed (earlier shut: 74 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 78 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Mar 8 at 1:28:39 PM ET.

Zeitgeist Watch

“The meals that make you extra (and fewer) enticing, in line with science” [Metro UK]. “For those who’re a sucker for a Full English then it’s excellent news for you. The hangover remedy and breakfast of kings makes males extra enticing to the alternative intercourse. Suppose sausages, bacon, toast, beans, eggs, hash browns, tomatoes – the complete works. The mix of fat and proteins, corresponding to dairy and meats, with fewer refined carbs, is an actual hit for males with the women. However, chaps who go for a extra continental breakfast of refined-carbohydrate meals – croissants, waffles, pancakes, pastries muffins and cereals – are apparently much less enticing, with scientists branding them an actual turn-off.” • The Full English, a lot beloved by Hubertus Bigend….

Information of the Wired

“Having Self-Management Results in Energy” (press launch) [UC San Diego]. “In a paper printed within the Journal of Character and Social Psychology, researchers discover that displaying self-control influences how highly effective a person is perceived to be by their friends, in addition to how a lot energy they’re granted by these friends. … The researchers additionally discovered that persons are perceived as much less highly effective and fewer suited to highly effective roles after they fail to satisfy bold targets, even when their efficiency is identical as their friends. In an experiment investigating how self-control usually results in energy, a bunch of undergraduate college students interacted with people who set numerous studying targets. Some set an bold objective of studying 200 pages every week, whereas others set a extra average objective of studying 50 pages per week. All of those people learn the identical quantity – 100 pages – however those that didn’t meet their objective have been seen as much less highly effective by research individuals. Moreover, research individuals have been much less occupied with having those that didn’t meet their objective because the group chief in later duties. ‘To encourage their workers, organizations usually need workers to set stretch targets – targets which can be difficult and hard-to-reach. Nevertheless, we discovered that setting a stretch objective and never assembly it makes somebody look much less highly effective than setting a simple objective and surpassing it,’ stated Rady College PhD pupil Shuang Wu, the primary writer of the paper.” • You say “disempower workers” like that’s a nasty factor (and do attempt to preserve an above-average stage of govt operate, since that helps one preserve self-control).

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