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November 9, 2023
November 8, 2023
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: Making the same old mistakes in the newest ways.
STRATEGYPAGE DESERVES SOME CLICKS: Time To Strike Ayatollah Iran? Of course it’s time — high time. Long overdue. Should have hit the murderous creeps hard in 1979. But — Jimmy Carter. Then Obama-Biden. Glenn went with the Creators Syndicate link since it went on the web around 1500 hours Eastern Standard.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE: Hamas to NYT: War of Annihilation Is Exactly What We Wanted.
WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: ‘Rogue’ star won’t collide with our solar system in 29,000 years after all.
STEPHEN GREEN IS DRUNKBLOGGING THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE.
FINALLY: Figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover identified as Victorian Wiltshire thatcher.
The album’s cover artwork was radically absent of any indication of the band name or a title. The framed, coloured image of the stooped man, which has often been referred to as a painting, was juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of a partly demolished suburban house. The back cover of the album was a block of flats, thought to be Salisbury Tower in Ladywood, Birmingham.
It is understood that the Led Zeppelin lead singer, Robert Plant, discovered a framed, coloured photograph of the original image of the Wiltshire thatcher in an antique shop near guitarist Jimmy Page’s house in Pangbourne, Berkshire.
The original image was discovered in a Victorian photograph album titled: “Reminiscences of a visit to Shaftesbury. Whitsuntide 1892. A present to Auntie from Ernest.” It contained more than 100 architectural views and street scenes together with a few portraits of rural workers from Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset.
Beneath the stooped man’s image, the photographer wrote: “A Wiltshire thatcher.” Further research suggests the thatcher is Lot Long (sometimes Longyear), who was born in Mere in 1823 and died in 1893. At the time the photograph was taken, Long was a widower living in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere.
Meanwhile, a part-signature matching the writing in the album suggests the photographer is Ernest Howard Farmer (1856-1944), the first head of the school of photography at the then newly renamed Regent Street Polytechnic, now part of the University of Westminster.
When do we crack the mystery of what Page’s “Zoso” symbol means?
ED MORRISSEY: There’s One More Word for What Happened Yesterday…
For evidence of this, we can go all the way back to 2018, when the current Republican losing streak started. At that time, Trump was wildly popular with his base but deeply unpopular everywhere else. The midterm losses were not historically large, and perhaps even somewhat limited given the Russia-collusion hysteria whipped up by the Democrats.
But the losses continued in 2019 elections, including in Kentucky where a Trump ally contended for the governor’s office. They continued in 2020, resulting in the loss of Senate control as well as the presidency, although Trump’s allies insisted the elections were illegitimate. All of that took place before the Supreme Court even agreed to hear the Dobbs case and reverse Roe and Casey.
The specter of Dobbs and abortion clearly overshadowed the 2022 midterms, but then again, so did the specter of Trump and the January 6 riot. Trump-endorsed candidates that campaigned on the 2020 election lost winnable Senate races. If it hadn’t been for a revolt against Bidenomics in New York, of all states, Republicans would have fallen short of control of the House in 2022’s midterms as well. The only place where a midterm red wave materialized was in Florida, even with DeSantis backing a heartbeat-based abortion bill.
And now we have last night’s results to add to the list of disappointments. Given the turmoil within the Democrat Party, this might be the most surprising of them yet. Abortion certainly contributed to their unity of purpose yesterday, but so did their use of Trump and the “ultra-MAGA” betes noires they used effectively in 2020, 2022, and will certainly exploit in 2024 if given the chance. Even with polls that say Biden’s losing to Trump, which raises big question about just how predictive those polls will be, those attacks were very effective. Biden’s voters came home with a vengeance last night.
Read the whole thing.
WELL, OKAY: Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal. “There is uncertainty over what a poststrike Hollywood will look like. But one thing is certain: There will be fewer jobs for actors and writers in the coming years, undercutting the wins that unions achieved at the bargaining table.”
YOU’LL NEVER GUESS TO WHOM HILLARY CLINTON COMPARED TRUMP (ACTUALLY, YOU WILL):
Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the wreckage from another Trump presidency would be “almost unimaginable” and likened the former president who beat her in the 2016 election to Adolf Hitler.
In an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Clinton said when she was secretary of State, she saw people who would “get legitimately elected” and then would try “to do away with elections and do away with opposition.”
“You could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected, right?” Clinton said. “And so all of a sudden somebody with those tendencies, so dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, OK, we’re going to shut this down.”
“Trump is telling us what he intends to do,” Clinton continued. “Take him at his word.
The entire [Insert Republican Leader] is Hitler canard goes back at least to Coolidge. But if Trump is Hitler, what does that make the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson?
MSNBC's @MatthewJDowd: @SpeakerJohnson "is way worse than Donald Trump" pic.twitter.com/WqR3WmiAqH
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2023
BLOGGING LIVE FROM MIAMI: Grab a Drink and Join Us for the 3rd GOP Presidential Primary Debate.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: 115 Million Years Ago An Entire Continent Vanished. Now We’ve Found Where It’s Hiding.
PUSHBACK: US military strikes Iranian weapons facility in Syria following attacks against troops.
They must have read Austin Bay: Time To Strike Ayatollah Iran? “Despite waging proxy offensive wars throughout the Middle East — wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, in the Persian Gulf littoral, Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel — Iran’s ayatollah regime has escaped deadly retribution.”
SHOCKER: The Real Drivers of Global Migration: A Twenty-Year Analysis Debunks Common Narrative. “A study has found that socioeconomic conditions, rather than climate factors, are the primary drivers of global migration.”
THAT’S A SHAME: Disney Executives Reportedly “Butthurt” Over South Park: Joining The Panderverse Special.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse released on Paramount+ at the end of October and took a number of shots at The Walt Disney Company and heavily lampooned Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.
The episode also turned Kennedy into a meme mocking her vision as a producer by repeating the same tired and failed formula. Specifically, Eric Cartman as Kathleen Kennedy informs the Disney board how to make their movies, “Put a chick in it. Make her lame and gay.”
Following the release of the episode, Midnight’s Edge reported on rumors they heard about what the reactions at Disney were like.
The channel’s founder Andre Einherjar states, “What we have heard is that the powers in Disney and Lucasfilm like everyone else knew the episode was coming and they knew it was going to have a go at them, but they didn’t know in advance in exactly which way.”
“And what they saw, allegedly went beyond anything they ever imagined than even their worst of nightmares,” he continued.
Next, Einherjar shared, “The behind-the-scenes response then at Disney was a mix of shock, embarrassment, feelings of betrayal, and overall butthurt.”
“There apparently were some lines of communication between Disney and Paramount over the course of the weekend, but from what I gather very little constructive came out of it. As apparently many in Disney’s end were a tad emotional Especially the True Believers of the woke cause as South Park just gave it a black eye,” he continued.
The 48-minute long extended episode was wildly inconsistent, with its long segments on the town’s professional men being replaced by AI a bit of a snooze. But the segments mocking Kennedy were dead on-target.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: New Grand Theft Auto Game Will Have Unlockable ‘Soros DA Mode’ Where All Crime Is Legal.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Drones could deliver defibrillators to save patients in cardiac arrest.
THAT SEEMS WRONG: 2025 Ram 1500 Drops Hemi V-8s, Swaps In Hurricane Turbo Sixes.