The savage terrorist attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza are spurring many young Americans to engage with the political moment at a heightened intensity that could, ultimately, influence the 2024 presidential race. President Biden is offering plentiful support to Israel, though with more words of caution recently. Yet according to multiple recent polls, fewer than a quarter of young voters — who were crucial to Democratic victories in 2020 and overperformance in 2022 — approve of the way that the president is handling the response to the war between Israel and Hamas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/We are one year out from the 2024 general election, and media outlets are busy predicting a future they cannot know. I routinely advise readers to “ignore the polls,” so whenever I write about the polls, readers tell me I should follow my own advice. Fair point. But the poll by the New York Times released over the weekend prompted dozens of readers to send panicked emails asking me to “Talk them off the ledge.” The NYTimes poll will get more coverage in the Monday news cycle, so in anticipation of hundreds of additional panicked reactions, I will once again address the issue of polling. It is a scourge that we will live with for the next year, so occasional reminders that the only poll that matters will occur on November 5, 2024, is in order. https://roberthubbell.
“Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds – Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.”
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STFU. That’s what all the boomer Democrats tell me when I express doubts about Biden. They’re incensed, pissed that I would break the code, I must vote for Biden, because he’s the only one who can beat Trump. OH YEAH?
Isn’t it funny that the RNC has lost control of the Republican party and the DNC still has a firm grip upon the Democratic party. https://lefsetz.com/
Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is.
— One theory is that variations in dust concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere’s atmosphere — a function of the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean allowing more or less fine dirt to be picked up and carried aloft from northern Africa — are changing the reflectivity of the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat. https://hartmannreport.com/
Earlier this year, I stood outside the hospital in New Mexico where I worked as an emergency physician. I was, for the first time, picketing. The next day I would be fired, another first. At least I wasn’t the only one – all of my colleagues would also be terminated.
Why would a hospital fire an entire department of doctors
Leavenworth, Kansas
Dear Louise,
It’s been almost a year since the last time I saw you, as they were arresting me on the sedition charge that’s kept me in this prison. If the underground network here succeeds, you should get this letter within a few weeks; it’s the third I’ve written you that got out of the prison, but I understand the first two couriers were busted for carrying contraband mail and are now in prison themselves.
In that respect, Trump-o was a different breed of cat, because he not only plays golf all the time, but he owns a whole bunch of golf courses not just in the United States, but in Scotland, Ireland, Indonesia, Oman and Dubai.
But Trump isn’t just a golf course owner, he’s also a golf promoter, or at least was a promoter until a month or so ago. https://mikeweisser.medium.
Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think we can. The sudden acceleration of environmental crises we have seen this year, coupled with the strategic uselessness of powerful governments, rushes us towards the point of no return.
And they said it wouldn’t have happened to Elizabeth Holmes if she was a man. OH YEAH?
I’m sick and tired of people venerating the rich. As if being rich made you great across the board, a virtuous genius who we must all make way for. Even worse, some of these pricks, like Elon Musk, truly think they’re untouchable. Look at Elon’s legal track record. He believes he can act with impunity, and now he wants a governmental penalty to be lifted because why? HE’S ELON MUSK!
But it’s even worse, we had to see Michael Lewis hyping his book on every TV and news outlet extant. Yes, if Michael Lewis is involved, it gets a pass. Why? You don’t have to look too deep to see that Lewis was snookered. But Lewis is bright and articulate and we can’t say no, he deserves a slot on “60 Minutes.” Welcome to the hype industrial complex, where we promote you and forget you. Can you say OLIVER ANTHONY?
Hell, if FTX was on the up and up, why was it based in the Bahamas? This guy wanted no oversight, no regulation. And when he got nailed he said he wasn’t guilty, told not to use electronic devices at home and he did anyway, thank god they sent him to jail. This guy thinks he’s above the law. https://lefsetz.com/
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, astonishing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 97th newsletter. You can find the October 22-28 edition here on Reddit if you missed it last week. Thank you for subscribing to the Substack; your support inspires me.
The top climate scientist James Hansen is warning of massive warming ahead. He advocates a carbon tax and solar geoengineering attempts. “We would be damned fools and bad scientists if we didn’t expect an acceleration of global warming,” said Hansen. The full, 33-page study has some interesting graphs illustrating the rate of warming. https://lastweekincollapse.
In mid-September, just three weeks after Hurricane Idalia tore through Taylor County in North Florida, the tiny community suffered a second disaster.
The company that operates a large pulp-and-fiber mill in the area — a 69-year-old factory known locally as the “Foley mill” that has long been one of the region’s most important employers — announced that it would shut the facility down and lay off all 500-plus people who work there.
It’s a devastating blow to Taylor County, a timber-dependent community with a shrinking population of fewer than 22,000 people where one-in-five families live in poverty. A report by the University of Florida estimates the Foley mill closure will lead to the loss of approximately 2,000 jobs in total, including the truckers and loggers who supply the mill with slash pine.
·I changed my iPod name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
·I tried to catch some fog. I mist.
·When chemists die, they barium.
·Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
·A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
·I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
·How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
·I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
·This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.
·I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.
·I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words .
·They told me I had type A blood, but it was a type-O.
·A dyslexic man walks into a bra .
·PMS jokes aren't funny, period.
·Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
·Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory-- I hope there's no pop quiz.
·The Energizer bunny arrested and charged with battery.
·I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
·Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
·When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
·What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds.
·I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!
·Broken pencils are pointless.
·What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
·England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool .
·I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
·I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
·All the toilets in New York 's police stations have been stolen. Police have nothing to go on.·I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
·Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
·Velcro - what a rip off!
·Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.
·Venison for dinner? Oh deer!
·Earthquake in Washington obviously government's fault.
·I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
My Neighbor from Across the Street
She's single
Are you busy tonight"?
What were you thinking......
A man was stocking produce at the grocery store when a woman approached, asking, "Excuse me, where's the broccoli? I can't seem to find it."
He replied, "I apologize, ma'am, we're out of broccoli today. We'll have more tomorrow morning."
Resuming his work, he was arranging oranges when the same woman tapped his shoulder and inquired again, "Where's the broccoli? Do you have any?"
He patiently responded, "No, ma'am, we're still out of broccoli. We'll have some tomorrow morning."
Moments later, the woman confronted him once more, demanding, "Why can't I find any broccoli? Where is it?"
The man said, "Please indulge me for a moment. How do you spell 'cat' as in 'catastrophic'?"
She answered, "C-A-T."
He continued, "How do you spell 'dog' as in 'dogmatic'?"
She replied, "D-O-G."
Then he asked, "How do you spell 'fu*k' as in 'broccoli'?"
Puzzled, she said, "There is no 'fu*k' in broccoli."
He exclaimed, "THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU, LADY!"
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