Again, With The Remedial Venn Diagram — Aimed At… Hinderaker’s Learning Disability.

Nearly every capable elementary school teacher will tell you: Repetition is the best way to help struggling students “get” concepts that are beyond their ken — wherever that line of demarcation falls, in any classroom.

So it is (obviously!) with the pointy headed John Hinderaker. This is… repetitive — but needed, apparently.

But in truth, we know… he well-knows the lesson at right. Just as we all know… horrific atrocities have occurred on BOTH sides, since October 7 [and for two thousand years prior, minimum]. And he well knows, as do we — war is always… hell.

He is simply too malignant to acknowledge the truth of it.

He wants genocide.

Not justice — or even retribution.

Damn. Just… shut it, John. You are naught but are a sad, soulless son of the darkness, now.

Gaza Not Entirely UNLIKE… What Vietnam Was To Paul, John and Scott…

This is, perhaps a minor point, but in London — about six weeks ago — well over a million people marched in support of Gazans. [The largest ever seen, inside London, according to Hinderaker himself.]

That eclipses the US protests, on all sides — and echoes numbers not seen since… Vietnam.

No, Paul — it is not one-for-one… but just as the hard right in the US badly misread how the overruling of Roe v. Wade would create a seismic shift in motivated voters, for the Democrats… you misread this one at your considerable peril, as well.

If Israel hasn’t “won” (whatever Paul might mean by that term in this context) by say about February 15, 2024… and is still inflicting numerous civilian casualties as collateral damage… it may be more than funding / checkbooks that start to disappear — for Bibi.

That is to say, I think this shift is becoming larger, day after day of collateral damage… and more durable, as a generational shift. In the US, and certainly… Europe.

Cheers.

Scott’s Glum ‘24 Cycle Forecast (For GOP) Is Likely Mostly Correct.

He’s mostly accepted one central reality — for 2024: outside of an increasingly narrow, and geo-fenced-in area… Tangerine is a mill stone around the more moderate GOP’s neck.

And in the 2020s, the “fire and brimstone of the Nineteenth Century” Trumpies… no longer excites a younger — and browner — electorate (at least not to vote for GOP candidates).

It likely drives turnout against him, especially among younger-, and all- college educated women.

So… as Scott suggests — prepare for a GOP wipe out. [I don’t think he’s right that Democrats might lose the Senate.]

This bit is likely to come true as well “When the time comes, Harris will take the presidential oath without cackling, but she will be laughing on the inside…”

Yep. I love it! Out.

Celestial Events — On The New Year’s Weekend: Juno To Dip In Close — For A Look At The Chaotic, Active Jovian Moon Io.

The data will come rushing back to us, very early in the new year at SWRI.

It will seem a firehose, on full blast, were it “writ in water“.

No doubt, it promises to give new insights into how this smallish rock is pulled and tugged — by the massive gravitational / tidal forces of mighty Jupiter. Here’s the latest:

…The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most volcanic world in our solar system, the pass is expected to allow Juno instruments to generate a firehose of data.

“By combining data from this flyby with our previous observations, the Juno science team is studying how Io’s volcanoes vary,” said Juno’s principal investigator, Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “We are looking for how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, how the shape of the lava flow changes, and how Io’s activity is connected to the flow of charged particles in Jupiter’s magnetosphere.”

A second ultra-close flyby of Io is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2024, in which Juno will again come within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the surface….

Now you know. Be excellent to all whose paths you cross, now and into the new year 2024! [Even digit years… somehow always feel… smoother, to me. Heh.]

नमस्ते

In Which DWAC… Goes… Whack-A-Doodle.

Apologies, in advance: this is about Tangerine’s crazy pants Truth social media efforts… and the increasingly-convoluted attempts of the same to become a public company.

And yes — the below is THAT Devin Nunes. Utterly… nutty — but here it is:

…TMTG’s CEO, Devin Nunes, noted “With this filing, we are closing in on the final steps before our merger becomes effective and goes to the shareholders for a vote. Once consummated, we believe that the merger will allow Truth Social to exit the research and development phase, establishing our platform as a true start-up enterprise and the centerpiece of a movement….

For now, we’ve answered the SEC’s inquiries and will be happy to address any follow-up questions they may have….”

Hilarious. This has been. . . nearly three years of disorganization, failures to meet fund-raising goals, delays… and questionable efforts at solid SEC rules compliance. Charming. G’night!

नमस्ते

[U: Felony Trial Prep.] Hinderaker’s Senseless Right-Wing AZ Polling…

Update (late night; unrelated): Since when is it “chutzpah”… to be well-prepared, in advance, for a momentous (in fact, rarely-seen) felony trial — as a prosecutor? Sheesh… Hinderaker is… senile. Obviously. End, unrelated update.

In any event, here is his nonsense — 11 months out.

All I can say for sure — based on yard signs in Scottsdale, Phoenix and the wealthier ex-urbs to the West, by the White Tank Mountains… as well as dozens of conversations… it is only the non-GED crowd that wants Tangerine (or Lake).

Specifically, I’ve seen tons of Haley yard signs. Which means Tangerine may end up third party.

Now you know.

Out.

[U] So… Mirengoff Is Simply Retreading Bill Ackman’s… Third-Hand Rumors. Yawn.

updated: 01.02.24 — she has resigned. End update.

Not a surprise.

His zeal for claiming “reverse racism” / victimhood knows no bounds.

Now he repeats a rumor… in a “subscribers only” post. Hilarious.

He hopes it is true.

Even if the purported rumor is true — he (and we) will never know. Claudine Gay, PhD… will remain the titular head of Harvard University. One way, or another.

Here endeth the lesson. Silly old Paul.

Out.

Billingsley: A Man Without… A Clue.

It’s Christmas Day 2023.

And Billingspuss… offers his most insipid post yet this year.

He feels a few sentences, across several thousand pages of original written material… are a vast national scandal.

This, while his candidate has been found liable for forcible sexual assault, libel and defamation… and is facing four separate indictments on 93 felony counts.

And that’s before we address his on-tape “just grab her by the p#ssy!” exhortations.

Yes, it’s Xmas… but on Billingsley’s lost lil’ Island of Misfit Toys… the GOP has nothing to atone for, or worry about.

Charming!

Hinderaker’s KKK Advocacy — Re Harvard’s President (Like Mirengoff’s, Of Last Week).

Ah — just like Paul, so burps John.

I think this merits yet another new graphic, for John at Powerline, as well as Paul — at Ringside.

Done. It will appear shortly. [In fairness, I’ll note that Scott Johnson’s writing about it… did not allege… reverse race discrimination. Is that… progress, of a sort? I dunno. But I digress. Back to it:]

Hinderaker and Mirengoff tell us the sole reason Harvard has a Black woman president is… (wait for it!) reverse race discrimination. A claim for which there is only… the opposite of evidence. It is his baseless conjecture — and his open virulent racism… on display, in writing — yet again.

In Paul’s mind, the whole thing comes down to skin color — not the fact that she was far more nuanced in her remarks before the Congressional Kangaroo Court, on Speech Codes and Gaza.

In John’s mind, Harvard Corporation hired — and keeps — her, as an activist (not an academic) for far left agendas. Again he levels this charge with only the opposite of evidence. Like Paul, he thinks Harvard chose her for her color alone. He’s an… ass.

Both are malign, mediocre, embittered old whyte chuckleheads. And yes, Paul’s Jewish faith in no manner removes him from that classification: he’s KKK-er / shiny whyte. Her it is — in context:

…But if Harvard’s extraordinary financial health wasn’t sufficient to ensure Gay’s retention, I think we can assume her race was. Gay is black; Magill’s white. On American college campuses, that makes a huge difference.

In fact, Gay’s race was probably the reason Harvard selected her in the first place. Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and major donor to Harvard, wrote on X, “I have confirmed now from multiple sources that the search committee that led to President Gay’s appointment excluded non-DEI eligible candidates from the process.”

After today, Gay isn’t just a DEI hire. She’s also a DEI non-fire….

I think — as we say in the law… the thing speaks… for itself.

And, John certainly is… a “thing“: he’s earned his white hood and robes, with the red teardrop embroidered on the sleeve.

Let them both wear them, henceforth — in shame.

Damn Paul & John — was chasing Ackman’s donation worth selling… your soul?