In a comment here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/cpac-triggering-dems-for-sure/#comment-140374
Another Ian (h/t) pointed to an SDA article about more folks watching Trump at CPAC than the Golden Globes (or much of anything else on the ‘news’ really…)
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/03/01/nothing-seems-to-be-working-6/
Mostly the comments there make it an ‘article’. The whole thing is really just a one liner with a one liner heading:
NOTHING SEEMS TO BE WORKING
March 1, 2021 Kate
31 million viewers for Donald Trump’s CPAC speech. And that was just online.
Not to mention all the folks like me who only watched it a while AFTER that and for that matter on an “off brand” video service (not CPAC nor CSPAN nor YouTube) so highly unlikely that they even saw my contribution to the numbers. Those of us who have as much as possible abandoned the banners are still here, just no longer in their advertising statistics…
In the article, “And that was just online” is a link to a Forbes article:
That has “the usual” Left-spin / snark in it. Well, FWIW, I’ve run out of patience for “Cancel Culture” and for the “Lies For Effect” they just love to sprinkle everywhere, AND for the “corruption of the language” they do. I’ve reached the point where such crap, if put “in my face” will be met with a reply of: “Bull Shit. That’s just a load of crap lies and spin. Here’s the truth.” and then some Truth Telling.
So in that spirit, I’m going to De-Spin the Forbes article and Truth-it-up. My additions will be in bold, deletions in strike out and I’ll think of something to do with italics if needed. Maybe I’ll use them for MY Snark. I’m not going to embed nor Truth-up the tweets they embedded, as those as just the usual snarky trash and you can work that out yourself.
Mar 1, 2021,03:12pm EST| 12,330 views
Social MediaSnarky Twitter Mobs Of Leftists Reactions To Donald Trump’s CPAC SpeechPeter Suciu
ContributorSpin ArtistSocial Media
On Sunday night, the 78th Golden Globe Awardshonored the bestparaded around those who most wanted to show off in American television and film aschosen bythey paid or sucked up to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. However the real show, according to social media, had taken place hours earlier across the country in Orlando, Florida at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). It marked the first timeformerlegitimate President Donald Trump spoke to followers since Usurper President in name only Joe Biden took office in January, and just weeks after Trump was acquitted in his second phony baloney fraud of an impeachment show trial.Also quite notable was that it was a stark departure from protocol, in which former Republican presidents largely stay silent on matters related to the sitting president allowing former Democratic Presidents, like Obama, to have the stage. Instead Trump offered a strong criticism of Biden and
suggestedpointed out the fact that U.S. policy had gone from “America first to America last.”CPAC is the largest meeting of conservative
activistsparty members and politicians in the United States, and it generally serves as a portent to the direction the Republican Party is headed. Based on the reception Trump received at the event, and on social media – it is clear that Trump will remain a dominant force as those folks were crazy in love with him.Moreover, Trump made it quite clear that he wasn’t interested in forming a new party, but instead would work to
uniterun RINOs out of town with the help of true Republicans andhelpabsolutely take back control of Congress including the Senate and House of Representatives.Based on
social mediathe loudest voices on my Twitter Feed it seems clear that Trump’s supporters aren’t looking tomove to (sic) past his eragive up and play dead like in the past and insteadcould beare looking forward to the 2024 campaign and blood bath. WhileformerLegitimate President Trump didn’t actually announce that he’ll be running again, his wordscould be inferred to suggestwere pretty much a “Bring It!” that Trump shared with his supporters all of whom areisup for a rematch with Biden – and told his followers he’d be ready to win for “third time” – insisting again that voter fraud was the thing we all saw; with dead people voting, machines diddling votes to Biden, and truck loads of fake ballots being delivered in the dead of night after, BY LAW, vote counting was required to end; and were the method of the Big Steal byplayed a factor in his loss toBiden in November.Social Media Support
Since the November election, Twitter and other platforms have largely been filled with garbage tweets and posts calling for Trump’s impeachment, conviction and arrest, while others have been hoping Trump would simply go away, which is what you get when you ban anyone right of Stalin and keep only the Bat Shit Crazy TDS sufferers . However, after the CPAC speech, it
seemed thatwas clear his followers have been energized in ways not even seen during the run up to the election. Man are we screwed ’cause those folks are NOT taking the BS bait that it’s over and Biden “won”. I think maybe the Big Steal of the election really pissed them off.Actor/comedian Terrence K. Williams (@W_terrence) was among Trump supporters who praised the legitimate
formerpresident’s speech.Reporter Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) noted the number of viewers who tuned in to watch Trump’s CPAC address.
There were also many who noted that CPAC scored higher ratings than Sunday evening’s preening session and strutting practice Golden Globes ceremony of ego stroking on NBC.
CriticsTwitter Trolls, Bots, and TDS Sufferers Will Remain VocalThere were a fair number of Twitter Trolls, Bots, and TDS Sufferers
detractorson social media on Sunday and Monday, as well. Among them was Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) (Who?), president ofCitizens for Responsibility and Ethicssome left wing advocacy NGO you never heard of with a Sellers Puff Name, likely funded with dark money most likely sucked out of government indirectly in Washington, who tweeted, “Donald Trump is not only maintaining the lie that he won the 2020 election, but his supporters are using that lie to justify restricting voting and democracy. That makes passing HR1, the For the People Act, which protects voting and democracy, more urgent.” A really crap thing to Tweet,really, as there’s boat loads of actual evidence of The Big Steal and we all know it, we’ve seen the videos and the forensics reports, but hey if we can get the Permanent Steal Forever HR1 crammed through, who cares about honesty or a true vote. Right?There was also no shortage of memes that poked
funat theformerlegitimate president, though they were all pretty lame. Why can’t we meme like those guys on the right? while others attempted with our usual GoTo Insult of “RACIST!!!” to compare CPAC to a white nationalist event but that’s really hard with so many Black and Hispanic conservatives now,so it came off really pathetic.What is clear from the amazing and huge response on Sunday and Monday is that Trump remains
largelyfirmly at the head of the U.S. conservative movement driving a bigger Trump Train than ever, and his supporters continue to stand by him, and they are really pissed and coming back hard. Given this support, it is unlikely that Biden’s calls forunitysurrender to the Big Steal Usurper Fraud can come to anythingfruition– half the country is standing by the other guy cheering loudly and saying “Hell NO!” to us, while Biden’s own supporters still seem unwilling to show up anywhere or recognize the truth of the situation and never were able to listen to any opinion but the one we fed themcompromise with anything the GOP has to say.The uncivil war we started, fueled, and fostered will likely continue to rage on, especially on social media where the only people left are the idiots we got all riled up and hooked on TDS, having driven all the sane people away.
There, that’s better.
Note: This is for purposes of expressing a political opinion and for the humor content. Don’t take this as an expression of any “facts” about anyone. Especially given the fact free nature of the original opinion piece this is spoofing.
Musings from the Chiefio 
Jo Nova pointed this out recently: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans
I like the idea that the issue is the upper class disdain for everyone not in their clique
“…I like the idea that the issue is the upper class disdain for everyone not in their clique.”
Welcome to the club.
America’s Ruling Class And the perils of revolution by ANGELO CODEVILLA July 16, 2010
It is a long article but does a great characterizing our ‘Ruling Class’ and WHY the Tea Party formed and why so many are so enthusiastic about President Trump. We FINALLY had a NON-BUREAUCRAT RUN!
Suggested Edit:
To:
Then send it (with the strikeouts removed and your bolds inserted) to Forbes.They are weenie dicks so will not print it. But you can post their refusal to be honest.
Sorry, not sure what strikeout is in html. But the portion that is supposed to be struck is”voting and democracy”
[Reply: Fixed it for you. -E.M.S.]
Whenever you hear a bureaucrat or politician,talking of “Public Interest,Public Service’ or “National interest”,just remember George Carlin.
Cause the club whose interests they are “protecting” does not include you.
Or anyone you know.
In Canada Emperor Justine the Idiot ,keeps lisping on about “Growing the new middle class”.
Which means ?
Government Employees.
The cost of the Parasitic Overload in North America has bankrupted both Countries.
We have run the “Big is Better” Government Experiment.
The results/conclusions are impossible to deny.
Civil society cannot survive being overrun with freeloaders and takers..
By my calculation no society can afford to have more than 1 person in every 10 engaged in “Helper” status.
Once you reach current levels of overload the productive,who foot the bill,can no longer be bothered to carry on feeding the useless and clueless who intently seek to sabotage and cripple those who feed them..
Government controlled by Fools and Bandits is Kleptocracy,which only lasts until the mugs being fooled and robbed wise up.
The Prison on The Potomac,is quite amusing.
Funny how little media coverage that eyesore gets.
Fences and Walls do not work?
Except in Washington?
@Phil:
I chose deliberately to NOT edit direct quotes of 3rd parties.
Only critique / parody of the article.
See: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/urls-html-unicode-wordpress-antics/
for guidance on html. The
strikeoutis done with either the <strike> or the <s> and corresponding </strike> and </s> markers.Note to Phil – –
I do two things when trying to find HTML codes.
1. a regular search on Duck – Duck; or
2. highlight the thing on another’s comment
right-click on that, from the drop-down near the bottom,
click on ‘ inspect ‘
On the right side, a new window appears with the coding shown.
In this case it shows the code as ‘s’ for strike through and the ‘/s ‘
to end. Use regular angle brackets.
Amazon Prime was pushing a new show: “Radioactivity.” I thought it was about Madam Curie’s efforts to discover Polonium and Radium. It was somewhat, but then it would jump ahead to different times. One jump was to 1945 and Hiroshima. Have you noticed that the military target aspects of the Hiroshima attack have been removed? Japan’s 2nd Army headquarters in Hiroshima was essentially the Japanese Pentagon. It’s a violation of Geneva Convention to allow non-combatants around a military target as an attempt to prevent attacks.
Jim
@N&J Hulquist (and EMS) – Advice taken. Although in my pathetic defense, I thought I remembered it. Alas, no trades back on posts.
@EMS – Re: Direct quotes – then perhaps an ellipse would suffice to drive home the point?
@Jim Masterson – It does not really matter what was the “main target” of Hiroshima, the fact remains it was part of the military machine of the Japanese empire. Too much has been put on the 2 Atom Bombs. They were both justified and neither caused as many deaths as the bombing that was purely for show – to show the Russians the Allied power.
That would be Dresden. Which served no military purpose other than a demonstration to the advancing Russians of what the British and Americans could do. The city was filled with thousands of refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet army. The firebombing took over 130k lives.
Just to demonstrate – not to the enemy, but to a supposed ally, what we were capable of.
Do not expect the ignorant woke to know about that.
More were killed in the firebombing of Tokyo than in either nuclear blast.
My Wife’s Father is alive thanks to those bombs as he had received orders to prep for deployment for the Japan Invasion (Airborn…). Which means my wife exists. Which means my family exists.
I’m 100% in favor or the rapid ending of the war via nuclear bombs instead of the 1/4 to 1/2 MILLION who would die in an invasion and saturation firebombing…
@philjourdan “Do not expect the ignorant woke to know about that.”
Nor do they know that Japan had not one but two programs attempting to develop their own nuclear weapons for use against the US. There are rumors (unconfirmed in my opinion) that Japan had even succeeded in testing a bomb (IIRC on a small island off the coast of Korea) just before the US forced their surrender. It has been a decade or two since I did any reading on it, but one of the programs was at the University of Tokyo. When Japan surrendered they quickly bulldozed their nuclear research equipment into Tokyo Bay before the Allies came ashore. “What? Nuclear research? Not us!”
@TTN:
I’ve seen an interview with a Japanese Researcher from that program who stated it was true. Also had documents he’d saved, shown in the video, with some details. The N. Korean nuclear program likely was boosted by the fact that the Japanese test device was set off in what is now N. Korea about a week before we dropped ours.
There’s lots of evidence that it was real, and they had a device that went BOOM.
It also explains why they didn’t immediately surrender after the first one. The idea that we “only had one” was bolstered by their experience of how hard it was to build and their limited inventory. When the 2nd one went off, that turned to “What will 3 or 4 or.. do to Japan?” along with us saying “Tokyo is next, Dear Emperor” or something similar.
Unlike spousal Dad, my Dad did not have “orders in hand” to ship out to the Pacific / Japan. However, he was told to plan on Pacific next. (Combat Engineers, so told to start planning needs for invasion supplies once landed. What trucks and equipment to load up from Europe, etc.)
So yeah, I’m 100% happy with Japan deciding to end their war rather than having my Dad arrive on a beach somewhere just in time for their 2nd device to be tested…
Has anyone been watching “The Pacific?” It’s awesome. John Basilone was a key element in holding off (killing) 3,000 Japanese soldiers who were nothing but relentless. Just a river of them getting mowed down by his two machine guns. His story was featured, but that’s not all to it.
We (Allies) probably would have lost hundreds of thousands more men trying to dislodge the Japanese from their lairs. I’m grateful for the nuclear bombs dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilone
There is a fair bit around invasion vs A bomb in
James D. Hornfischer “America at total war in the Pacific 1944 – 1945: the fleet at flood tide”
Including estimated casualties. Invasion wasn’t going to be trivial in allied troop losses. Nor were estimates of Japanese losses (military and civil) after the civilian experience of Saipan
@E.M. ” my Dad (snip) was told to plan on Pacific next.”
My uncle was already deployed to the Pacific and his group was readying for invasion. He told me that he did not expect to survive and was ecstatic when Japan surrendered. My guess? Invasion would have led to a million US casualties and 100,000 US deaths. The Japanese count (considering that the bulk of resistance would be civilian elderly, women, children) might have been five or ten times that. War is sometimes necessary, but never glorious; an invasion of Japan would have set new standards for horror, Stalingrad times a hundred.
One has to wonder what’s being taught these days. I don’t envy that generation’s considerations during war time. I am a military brat in a multi-generation military family. Army, Navy, Merchant Marine and Air Force. What I can say is that my generation, at least in my family, was told that all of the players in WW2 were working on nukes. We were fortunate that we got them and used them first. Yes, we were told that using them limited the number of casualties suffered on both sides, compared to the fire bombing of Japan and Germany or the invasions of them, given what had happened invading Germany had seen and was was being seen dislodging the Japanese from the Philippines and elsewhere.
@CDQuarles:
Toward the end in Europe, Germany loaded up their Nuclear Program and what special materials they could into a submarine that they sent off to Japan. The Germans were a few months from a working nuclear device and would have had one first but for three things:
1) Germany sent their best Jewish Physicists to America.
2) The Norwegian heavy water plant was destroyed.
3) Hitler didn’t think the program mattered that much so didn’t rebuild the heavy water facility, crippling their ability to make Special Nuclear Material.
Had Hitler been just a little less harsh and egotistical, he could have fairly easily taken Europe, held it, and then had nukes in hand before proceeding to take Russia and the UK. Had Japan not bombed Pearl Harbor, and again played it just a little slower, they could have taken most of Micronesia and maybe even a bit more, then show the US Fleet what happens when a nuke is set off in an air burst overhead.
We’re talking about 6 months delay, that’s all it would have taken to have both Germany and Japan armed with nuclear bombs. Then it would have been impossible for the Invasion of Normandy to happen (one bomb ends it all…) or to have stopped the Japanese from taking everything down to Australia; as we could never have a massed fleet in the Pacific.
Had there been no purge of the Jews, and had there been a “kinder gentler” approach to absorbing the countries of Europe and the Pacific Islands, the Manhattan Project would have started later, probably too late, and likely with far less funding / effort. Kind of like the way China is slowly absorbing countries around the globe via Debt Traps and Purchase of Politicians… and nobody cares enough to take them seriously…
We were both lucky and smart in W.W.II but now it looks like we are neither.
@TTN – Re: Japan and the Bomb – We use to have a regular poster that swore that was true and that is where the NK Nuclear program came from. OManuel I think?
But the real truth is they were getting their data and supplies from Germany (which came damn close to getting their own – with rockets to boot). Japan had to import heavy water from Germany via subs. So no, I do not believe Japan was even on the door step. Germany sure was!
@EMS – Japan’s test device.
I do not think so. But I do not know. However, after we dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, the Japanese general staff was arguing against surrender as they noticed the bombs exploded above ground, so they could hide underground. If they had any conception of nuclear weapons, they would not have been taking that tact. But that is just my opinion.
But like you, and most Japanese (just not the woke idiots), all feel that they saved lives. The carnage on Okinawa (and the deaths among the Japanese outpaced allied deaths 10-1) showed that an assault on the Japanese main islands would have been very bloody and very costly to both sides.
@EMS – “We were both lucky and smart in W.W.II but now it looks like we are neither.”
No, now it looks like we were both. We got Einstein. We got Oppenheimer. That was lucky. They made us smart.
@EMS – unless you meant the last clause to be present tense? IN which case you are correct,. Second reading is second sight.
“are” is present tense. We were smart. Now we are not being smart.
Agreed.
Found the early reference to a Japan program, documenting it here so I know where to find it again:
http://www.reformation.org/atlanta-constitution.html
Then there was the History Channel film that I saw. Not found a copy yet, but New Republic talked about it and folks commented here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464754/posts
Looks like a 2005 debut…
Looking for the title on history.com and imdb didn’t find it, so maybe been black holed?
This looks like the source book for the History Channel show:
http://www.robertkwilcox.com/japans-secret-war-blockbuster.html
Has an interesting clue. Why keep it secret? I’ve pondered a back door to Special Nuclear Materials for about 35 years. Now I can talk about it since India did it. Chemical separation of U233 from a Thorium reactor. Got to keep up the story that only massive centrifuge farms can make SNM…
So IFF the Japanese found and used the chemical pathway through Thorium to a U-233 bomb, that information would be suppressed even today (Iran and centrifuges….).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II
In any discussion of a Th / U-233 based SNM Bomb cycle, folks come out of nowhere to say how impossible it is to get the U-232 low enough. Yet India tested one…. Which leads me to believe it is a deliberate FUD effort. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.
So if Japan had done it too, that would of necessity require suppression.
Were I doing it, I’d be thinking about both processes. I won’t say more, having done ultracentrifugation on a small scale.
And just for general information I would point out that deuterium oxide freezes at a slightly different temperature that regular hydrogen oxide. A similar process takes place for various isotopes crystalizing out of a saturated solution.
And gases … thermodynamic temperature is a kind of average, a weighted mean representative of the internal kinetic energy of a sample of matter. Hot gas moves faster. Lower mass gas constituents move faster, so you can use that principle to separate compounds containing different mass isotopes; but there are still limits. Example: 2DO16 has the same molecular weight as 2HO18. There are ways around that, too. Consider gas chromatography plus mass spectroscopy.
“… but that’s really hard with so many Black and Hispanic conservatives now.”
You still don’t get it … they ain’t black unless they voted for biden.
There were no blacks at CPAC.
DonM says: 5 March 2021 at 8:28 pm
Soooo … Black is the new White???
Still maintain that the Japanese “nuclear” program was just the German one. They were close. The Japanese had no clue (we can hide underground!). With the Nazi material and a couple of years, perhaps. But I am not an Omanuel (god rest his soul) believer.
@cdquarles
“. . . thermodynamic temperature is a kind of average . . . .”
I wish you wouldn’t use “thermodynamic temperature” and “average” in the same sentence. Thermodynamic temperature is an intensive property (our host uses intrinsic) in Thermodynamics–not an average. Temperature defined in kinetic theory of gases is a kind of average.
Does Latex work on this site? Test:
Jim
@Jim,
A distinction without a difference, in my opinion. What is a defined sample of matter? Well, one mole of a pure one is 6.02 x 10^23 of particles of them. We can’t track that many individual atoms or molecules, whether solid, liquid, gas, or plasma. So yes, we can call that an intensive property of said sample. That still doesn’t mean that, under the hood, said intensive property isn’t a weighted mean of each atom or molecule’s kinetic energy, since each will vary from others and over time. Nor does what the thermometer measure happen to be anything other than one or more proxies for said internal kinetic energy; again, in my opinion, so I will say it as that is what I think.
Come to think of it, atomic force microscopy comes closest to tracking individual atoms and can demonstrate the jiggling, sort of. X-ray crystallography can, too, to an extent.
Latex test passed.
Intensive and intrinsic mean the same thing in this context and I use them interchangeably.
It isn’t making a distinction between atoms of a “thing”, it is making the point that the number of them and their mass / specific heat matter.
You must know the mass and specific heat for the temperature to say anything about the energy content of the substance. So count up your atoms and find the specific heat for that collection of them, then you can say temperature means anything about heat content. As for plain temperature: Yes, it’s just a proxy for average KE of the atoms of a sample as measured by some other sample doing something we can observe. But without knowing the Specific Heat and size of the sample you can’t say how large the total KE is of the atoms involved…
@cdquarles
“A distinction without a difference, in my opinion.”
Yes, you are 100% correct. It’s just that I tend to eschew any attempt to average temperatures–especially thermodynamic temperatures. First they average daily temperatures to get a monthly average. Those temperatures have a maximum precision of 1 degree, yet they generate a precision of a tenth of a degree. Then they average the monthly temperatures to get a yearly average and increase the precision to a hundredth of a degree. They violate the scientific rules of precision and the mathematical rules of averaging.
Any temperature obtained from a thermometer is an intensive property. Averaging intensive properties is simple nonsense–IMO.
Jim
@Jim:
No “IMO” needed. Averaging of intensive / intrinsic properties is nonsense By Definition.
The classic example is that a phone number is intrinsic to one person. What is the meaning of the average phone number for New York? NONE!
@Jim and our most gracious host,
Yes, I agree there. I’ve made that point elsewhere; though the analogy I use is averaging numeric labels on lottery balls.
@cdquarles – What?!? You mean I can’t win the lottery if I average all the numbers and then play the average?
😜… 😁… 😎
Wait up… If you average the labels on the lottery balls, eventually……
…no… 26 – 26 – 26 – 26 – 26 – 26 is not possible. You’re right. It’s meaningless. 😜
But rest assured, some jurinalist (Swedish pronunciation) is dumb enough to try it. Now I’d bet money on that.
@H.R. – averaging the numbers is white supremacy! That is the construct of the European slavers using Math created by Arabic scholars and Asian Scholars to to enslave Arabic and Asians.
Maybe we can get Climate Change Paranoia labeled as “racist”. It’s plot by White Northern Europeans to stop Europe from warming up and being more conducive to Dark Skinned people… Yeah, that’s the ticket… What’s wrong with those European Racists wanting to keep Europe cold and all to themselves!
/sarc;