IGNORE THE NUMBERS AND JUST VOTE:
Top Democratic strategist Jim Messina calling early voting numbers “scary” on MSNBC “is the biggest indication we’ve seen that the early vote is a problem for” Kamala Harris, says @MarkHalperin. Messina’s comments are “brutal honesty. Look at every major urban center in the swing… pic.twitter.com/iXEa027m17
— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) November 4, 2024
Women, too.
NEITHER ONE OF THEM IS AT ALL DEFT AT RETAIL POLITICS: Van Jones Is Worried That Kamala Is Pulling a Hillary.
THE COUNTRY IS ABOUT TO BE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:
A colleague just shared an email from a major university's public policy school, which is planning a "self-care suite" for students the day after the election featuring Legos, coloring, and milk & cookies.
Folks, this isn't funny anymore. It's disturbing to treat adults like…
— Robert Pondiscio (@rpondiscio) November 4, 2024
The kicker? This is Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
BAD NEWS BEES: Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center. “The blow comes as rivals Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all struck deals recently with nuclear power plant operators to fulfill rising energy demands from data centers as they race to train and maintain power-hungry AI models. One AI query consumes up to 10 times the energy of a standard Google search.”
KRUISER, JUST BACK FROM AN EXTENDED STAY IN MICHIGAN: Michigan Election Preview: Pay No Attention to the Polls Behind the Curtain.
SANCTUARY IS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Rich whites with Harris signs are terrified after receiving letters thanking them for accepting "to house a migrant family" pic.twitter.com/mKMkhCGRbp
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 3, 2024
“Scare tactic?” No, dear — you just got called out on your hypocrisy.
THE “CNN” PART IS USUALLY A STRONG INDICATOR: I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry at CNN’s Final Election Projection.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship.
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors strapped onto its sides.
Since then, the Asian country has been revising the design of this rocket, named Long March 9, in response to the development of reusable rockets by SpaceX. As of two years ago, China had recalibrated the design to have a reusable first stage.
Now, based on information released at a major airshow in Zhuhai, China, the design has morphed again. And this time, the plan for the Long March 9 rocket looks almost exactly like a clone of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
Based on its latest specifications, the Long March 9 rocket will have a fully reusable first stage powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which are full-flow staged combustion engines fueled by methane and liquid oxygen, each with a thrust of approximately 200 tons. By way of comparison, Starship’s first stage is powered by 33 Raptor engines, also fueled with methane and liquid oxygen, each with a thrust of about 280 tons.
The new specifications also include a fully reusable configuration of the rocket, with an upper stage that looks eerily similar to Starship’s second stage, complete with flaps in a similar location. According to a presentation at the airshow, China intends to fly this vehicle for the first time in 2033, nearly a decade from now.
Yeah, the Communist Chinese are copycats — but they’re smart enough to ditch old ideas and steal our best stuff.
Meanwhile, Congress insists on saddling NASA (and taxpayers) with the outdated and unaffordable SLS.
BY THE NUMBERS: I Don’t Want to Jinx Anything but Trump’s Looking Good in Pennsylvania. “Before I share this afternoon’s potentially blockbuster numbers, I want you to write it 100 times on the blackboard: “I will not get cocky.” Also please note that text formatting for our THM mobile app and notifications is the only reason I didn’t put “potentially” in italics, boldface, and all caps. Because all of the things you’re about to read are only POTENTIAL indicators of a Donald Trump win in Pennsylvania.”
THE RIGHT DOES SEEM BETTER PREPARED THIS TIME AROUND BUT THERE’S NO WAY TO BE SURE UNTIL IT’S OVER:
Election workers around the country have cameras in jurisdictions where it’s legal to record.
If there’s fraud, we’ll catch it.
I’m on the ground somewhere right now, in disguise.
If you’re lying stealing, or cheating, please know that I will make you famous.
Say when.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 3, 2024
One of the most recent—and notable—changes is that the company intends to bring back a “human touch” by writing customer names on their coffee cup. Originally, the idea was to “honor everyone who walked through the door as an individual.” That’s according to Starbucks, which adopted the practice in 2012.
During the pandemic, Starbucks mostly shifted away from writing on cups, instead putting a sticky label on the cup with the customer’s name and order. Now, however, Niccol has said his top priority is “getting back to Starbucks.” What he means is getting back to the things customers genuinely love about Starbucks, and positioning the company as a premium brand. That’s not just about the coffee, but about the experience.
“One of the other things we’re gonna be bringing back to is bringing the Sharpies back to our baristas and it’s going to give them the opportunity to put that additional human touch on every coffee experience as well,” said Niccol on the company’s recent earnings call. “So there’s a lot of — I think there’s a lot of just simple things that go a long way of saying, you know what, this is a community place, this is a special place where people are here to connect. And I think we can do that in a really meaningful way”
People do like a personal touch. I’d like it if they didn’t burn the coffee.
COCKINESS IS NOT A GOOD LOOK: Growing Signs of a Trump Landslide: Has the Media Tipped Their Hand?
THIS:
So here’s the thing … pic.twitter.com/X9En85Qw1Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2024
They went after a squirrel to remind people who’s the boss but the election is our chance to remind them that we’re the boss.
PENNSYLVANIA BLUES: Tim Walz, Josh Shapiro, and Kamala Harris’s Buyer’s Remorse.
WHAT’S THE MANDARIN FOR DEI? China’s Next ‘Great Leap Forward.’ “Following a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and State Council, Beijing issued a new directive to develop an advanced industrial workforce aimed at driving Chinese-style modernization. The plan calls for organizing workers into groups and strengthening ideological and political guidance. To achieve this, central leadership will increase training and support for industrial workers to improve both the quality and quantity of production. Professional educators will lead these groups, providing both technical training and ideological instruction, while efforts will be made to make manufacturing jobs more attractive, especially for young people and migrant workers, potentially including ‘reeducation’ programs.”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: A Little Sweet Revenge Against Democrats Threatening to Kill Careers of Trump Lawyers.
VOTER SUPPRESSION: Active-Duty U.S. Service Members Complain of Lack of Absentee Ballots, GOP Congressmen Demand Answers. “The service members, who were not named in the letter, also complained there has been ‘inadequate education’ on how they are meant to vote while deployed on active duty, and with just four days until Election Day.”
WARGAMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ Edition.
PRIORITIES:
You can’t make this up.
The CO AG is investigating the management company of the apartment complex in Aurora, CO which was taken oven by Venezualan gangs. The gangs beat the manager, tried to extort him, and threatened him when he went to the property. The management company… pic.twitter.com/lka0dkTQT8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2024
Denver says the beatings will continue regardless of whether morale improves or not.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: High Stakes Week Is Here. “In this election, it’s important to remember that their elites are a lot scarier than ours.”
NICE JOB, FELLAS: Elite Israeli commandos storm Lebanon beach to capture top Hezbollah official Imad Amhaz in speedboat.
The weekend operation involved commandos with the Israel Defense Force’s Shayetet 13 force, who were deployed along the coast in northern Lebanon and conducted the raid on a Hezbollah facility in Batroun, CNN reports.
The highly specialized soldiers rushed the beach to reach the terrorists’ hold and capture Imad Amhaz, throwing the suspected Hezbollah senior official into a speedboat and carting him off, according to the IDF.
Amhaz, who is believed to be a “significant source of knowledge” on Hezbollah’s naval force, was handed over to Israeli interrogators so they could try to get him to divulge details of the terror group’s maritime operations.
Meanwhile, in Gaza:
All the Hamas terrorists who paraded the body of Shani Louk in Gaza have been eliminated! pic.twitter.com/E4raaWnpSf
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) November 2, 2024
Somewhat further east: US Warns Tehran It Will Not Restrain Israel If Iran Retaliates.
FORGET THE POLLS AND JUST GO VOTE TOMORROW: Brace Yourself for the Latest Poll from 2020’s Most Accurate Pollster. “As for the battleground states, the newest [Atlas Intel] poll has Trump ahead in all seven swing states, including Wisconsin. If that wasn’t good enough news for you, his lead is outside the margin of error in three states: Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Administration Working Overtime To Embed As Many Illegal Aliens In America As Possible Right Up To Inauguration Day. “It’s not just DHS that’s involved in importing illegal aliens into America, it’s also the State Department.”
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