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Under the Fedora: As Even as You Get, The Greatest Show in DC, The Radio Oracle, As Uneven as You Get and Clark and Olympic Sized Pressure

Posted: June 11, 2024 by datechguy in under the fedora
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Thinking of the Boston Red Sox, after watching this version of the team play I’ve decided that they are one of the most interesting teams in the league for two simple reasons:

  1. They have a lot of young players with great futures ahead of them.
  2. They are good enough to beat the best teams on any given day, and also bad enough to lose to the worst team on any given day (They split series with the Braves AND the White Sox who had lost 14 straight.

That means it’s always worth watching because you never know what’s coming up on any given day.

Watching the left go absolutely ape-shit over Israel rescuing four of their hostages has been one of the most interesting spectacles I’ve ever seen. I suspect it has been an eye opener to a lot of folks who didn’t recognize what they had become.

The Obama (oops I mean Biden) administration’s determination to not only save Hamas but to avoid any credit on this point is rather astounding, well given as I said the fact that it’s the Obama team running the show perhaps it’s not.

But all of this makes a great backdrop to Bibi’s speech before congress coming up.

That will be quite a spectacle complete with insurrectioney leftists outside and perhaps inside, who will of course not be prosecuted.

Unexpectedly of course

A long time ago my former radio co-host John Weston told a story about Obama that I won’t repeat without evidence but I will say two things:

  1. All of the actions of this and the first Obama terms are consistent with said story
  2. Just about unthinkable things that has happened in our culture over the last 10 years was predicted by John 15 years ago

If he knew stock futures like he knew America’s future he’d be rich today

Unlike the Redsox the Celtics have been less interesting to watch as they have pretty much rolled over everyone they have played lately.

So far the Boston Celtics have been unstoppable in the finals. Dallas is going to need to go 4-1 against the Celtics over the next five games to take this title.

While this is possible in theory the Celtics have not gone 1-4 or even 2-3 over any five game period this entire season.

At this point the only real danger to the Celtics are themselves and you can see that both Tatum and Brown have bad memories of their last trip to the finals and are determined not to repeat it.

That’s a good sign for the team but bad for talk radio who are running out of things to say.

The fuss about Catlyn Clarke being left off the US Olympic teams has made for an interesting dynamic.

The US woman’s team has won seven straight goal medals at the Olympics in fact their winning streak is seven years older then my 1999 LeSabre. They have not lost a game in the lifetime of my youngest son who was born in 1993.

Given these facts it’s safe to say they are a better bet to win the Gold then the Celtics are to win the NBA title up 2-0 already. The team doesn’t need Clarke to win and I suspect not a woman on that team wants her straight white untattooed ass on the court with them. But Clarke’s omission does create one problem for their team.

With the length of this 32 year winning streak it would be only natural that sooner or later they would drop a game as the rest of the world slowly catches up. Under normal circumstances such a loss on the road to Gold would be no big deal.

But can you imagine what the reaction will be if they finally lose a game the year Clarke is left off the team?

I think the reaction of fans would be humiliating for the team and the coaches and this is going to mean extra pressure for that team to win and win big.

Well you asked for it.

I Don’t Know if this Means Anything or Not for Election 2024…

Posted: June 10, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024

..but at work yesterday a Hispanic Gent who has like me survived all the layoffs came up to me and suddenly volunteered in broken English: “Trump no good, Biden no good I vote Kennedy he good.”

Now I’m figuring that he knows I did some reporting so that’s why he decided to just volunteer this so I dug a little deeper with him and found that of four voters in his family 3 were with Kennedy and one with Trump, but not a single one with Joe Biden.

I have talked to a lot of people at work, and a lot whose first language is Spanish. Four years ago I could find a mix of voters, some for Trump some for Biden. So far I have not found a single person who has a good thing to say about Biden. There are still the folks who like Trump and the folks who don’t but so far those who don’t all seem in the Kennedy camp.

Now this isn’t scientific but I think the Dems made a big mistake booting him from their primary.

Again this might mean nothing but that’s what I’m hearing at work at least so far.

Update: Talked to Jose again and asked him if he knows anyone who likes Biden, he answered: “Biden no good, last time I vote for him, now Bah!”

Then I approached another Hispanic fellow at work younger than Jose (who is mid 60’s) a fellow in his late 20’s early 30’s who also speaks fluent English. I’ve heard him talk politics before and asked him: “Of the people you’ve talked to in Spanish here, does anyone support Joe Biden?” He could not name one, some were for Trump others not but not a one had a good word for Biden.

Now these folks don’t run in white liberal circles so they don’t have to worry about being excluded or shunned if they are not sufficiently in the tank for old Joe and I STRONGLY suspect that this is being repeated in the working class non-white communities.

If my gut is right and this is true, this is going to be a whopper.

The Growing Election 2024 Preference Cascade

Posted: June 9, 2024 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, election 2024, elections
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Prime Minister James Hacker:  If there were a conflict of interests which side would the civil service really be on?

Bernard Woolley:  The winning side prime Minister

Yes Prime Minister:  A Real Partnership 1985

If there is one axiom in the political world it’s that people want to be on the winning side because it’s the winning side that will decide who gets the contracts and patronage that comes from government.

Furthermore it’s the losing side that tends to get scrutiny and if you are someone doing something dishonest or if the people who decide to examine you (think J6 committee) are dishonest.

This is what came to my mind when I saw this story:

On Friday, in a Fox News exclusive interview, former President Donald Trump reportedly received $12 million from tech company giants in the Silicon Valley fundraiser Thursday evening, and gained the expected endorsement from one of the Valley’s heavy hitters, David Sacks:

and this one:

You see people are figuring out which way the wind is blowing and have decided that it might be a good idea to follow that breeze rather than sail against it. They might not care for Trump and they may or may not have pure motives for it but they don’t want to be on the wrong side when all is said and done.

There is a passage in the book Lord Hornblower that is a great example of how such things work:

Two hours” said Hornblower “will be ample for all preparations to be made, for the deputation to assemble, for the streets to be decorated, for quarters to be prepared for His Royal Highness and his’s suite.”

“Monsieur, you do not understand all that this implies” protested the Mayor. “It means ”

“It means that you have having to decide whether to enjoy the King’s favour or not” .said Hornblower. “That is the choice before you.”

C. S. Forester: Lord Hornblower 1946

Now even late in the Napoleonic Wars such a decision to come out against Bonaparte carried danger, unfortunately for the Democrats this is the person they are crying Vive L’Empereur! for.

and this:

You don’t need the Journal to tell you that Biden is diminished. You need only to open your eyes. Go over Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report into Biden’s unauthorized removal of classified documents. Review Biden’s Oval Office meltdown after Hur released his findings. Watch Biden try to sit at a D-Day commemoration in France on Thursday.

Or read, if you dare, the transcript of Time magazine correspondent Massimo Calabresi and editor in chief Sam Jacobs’s recent interview of Biden. It appeared the same day as Linskey and Hughes’s story.

This is the interview where Biden says—twice—that Russia invaded Russia. Where, immediately after saying, “I’m not going to comment,”

or even this:

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest if you’re reached the point of low level comics offering to hump a black voter if they come out against Trump odds are your side is not putting the fear of God into anyone..

The people see the writing on the wall and are acting accordingly.

Observation and Deduction: Stanford University Channels Batman and Teaches Students a Lesson in Law

Posted: June 8, 2024 by datechguy in culture, education
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Greta:  He knocked over another ATM.  This time at knifepoint.  He needs your legal advice.

Fletcher Reede:  [taking the phone and shouting into it]  STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE!

Liar Liar 1997

There was an old Batman comic story in Detective Comics 168 (1951) where Batman is invited as a guest instructor at State University to teach a course in criminology. The primary lesson that he teaches is the value of Observation and Deduction.

Detective Comics #168 1951 Bill Finger & Bob Kane with George Roussos on Inks

Well Stanford University deals in law rather than criminology and doesn’t have any masked Superheroes on faculty these days but has apparently discovered the value of Observation and Deduction.

  • OBSERVATION: High profile schools have allowed pro-hamas students to run wild at colleges at the cost of reputation, grants and enrollments and quality students who decide to go somewhere else where they can actually learn in safety.
  • DEDUCTION: When a group of Stamford student decided to occupy the President’s office, barricade themselves in and issue demands they decided the best move is to give said students a lesson in the application of law.

Rather than negotiate with them, the administration called the police. Police had to break through a door but then went inside and arrested all 13 students who were present. The administration also announced that seniors in the group would not graduate and everyone who was a current student would be suspended. But it turns out that was just the start. The Stanford Daily reports those students have now been charged with felonies.

The far left is already begging for money for their legal defense however I suspect even with a conviction they won’t do as well as Donald Trump did.

This move, along with the restoration of the SAT for incoming students shows that even colleges in blue states can, through observation and deduction, figure out that any short term cost in terms of leftists angry at this move will pay long term dividends in terms of the lesson it will teach potential student troublemakers:

  • OBSERVATION: The students who occupied the President’s office are facing suspension, expulsion & Felony chargers that could hinder the chances of getting a job or even a degree
  • DEDUCTION: It’s a good idea to steer clear of these protests and protesters concentrate on studies and or parties instead if I want a job after college

and of course it’s not just the current students who are getting this lesson in observation and deduction.

There are parents

  • OBSERVATION: Stamford is not putting up with this pro-hamas nonsense.
  • DEDUCTION: My $62K a year won’t be wasted and my kid will be safe and educated with a degree won’t be a red flag to employers.

Potential donors:

  • OBSERVATION: Stamford is not putting up with this pro-hamas nonsense.
  • DEDUCTION: My money won’t be wasted on folks who want to kill Jews or Destroy buildings

And of course potential employers:

  • OBSERVATION: Stamford is not putting up with this pro-hamas nonsense.
  • DEDUCTION: Hiring a Stamford grad means I’d get an employee who is not only educated but doesn’t carry the risk of causing trouble or embarrassment to the firm that a Columbia or Harvard grad might.

Of course as noted the left will try to pressure the university to reverse themselves and given the cost of tuition it’s likely that the parents of those students involved will have the resources to hire some heavy duty lawyers to defend them, but in the end the costs of such litigation and the annoyance of such pressure are miniscule compared to the returns that will come from standing their ground and preserving Stanford’s reputation as a school worth the $62K a year you will pay and these predators will likely move on to easier prey.

The only question is, will other universities in blue states Observe this result and come to the same deduction in time?

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