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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Affected person readers, brunch was fairly one thing immediately, so please forgive any solecisms or infelicities. –lambert

Fowl Tune of the Day

Northern Mockingbird, The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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In Case You Would possibly Miss…

  1. Election 2024 roundup.
  2. Gram Parson’s birthday.
  3. Welding.

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Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

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2024

Outcomes: Useful map:

Definitely Trump’s strong win within the in style vote is legitimizing, and makes the sort of spook manipulations I used to be involved about, like a coloration revolution, far much less seemingly, although the character and position of the Intelligence Neighborhood as an extra-constitutional entity stays a query. (Sadly, CIA Democrat Elissa Slotkin could but pull out a win.)

Trump’s in style vote win was additionally surprising:

“Harris to concede Wednesday afternoon” [Associated Press]. “Vice President Kamala Harris will ship a concession speech Wednesday at 4 p.m., her workplace introduced. Harris will communicate at Howard College, her alma mater in Washington, the place her supporters watched returns Tuesday night time earlier than being despatched residence after midnight as President-elect Donald Trump pulled forward in battleground state outcomes.” • Within the election Dwell Weblog, I revealed a schedule of returns from the Harris marketing campaign: “Thursday, 11/07 & Past: If outcomes are very shut in any state, the race nonetheless will not be known as.” However occasions moved a lot, a lot quicker than the Harris marketing campaign anticipated!

“Harris congratulates Trump on successful the presidential race” [Politico]. “Kamala Harris has known as Donald Trump to congratulate him on successful the 2024 presidential election, in response to a senior Harris aide. The vice chairman talked concerning the significance of a peaceable switch of energy and being a president for all People, the aide stated.” • Oh. Hopefully she’s not mendacity on the “peaceable switch” half; I nonetheless don’t see the way you simply hand the keys to the White Home over to somebody you devoutly imagine is a fascist. (until they have been mendacity all alongside). RussiaGate was launched, IIRC, within the Clinton marketing campaign airplane the day after the election, so perhaps Kamala’s folks have been hatching the identical kind of plot earlier than 4:00pm immediately. We will see.

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A compendium of reactions. –lambert

Class: Harris all the time did effectively within the Hamptons:

Shoutout to Ferguson and Storm:

Trump being an knowledgeable in sniffing out weak spot. Seems the Democrat weak spot was class, as one would anticipate from a celebration whose base is the PMC. Sadly, the one option to categorical that is by way of immigration. “Lived expertise,” doncha know.

Common concrete materials advantages:

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Missouri:

Counties: “Early Outcomes Present a Pink Shift Throughout the U.S.” [New York Times]: “Of the counties with almost full outcomes, greater than 90 p.c shifted in favor of former President Donald J. Trump within the 2024 presidential election.”

Kamala’s underperformance:

See the group observe. There are 3.144 counties in the USA, and 58/3,144 = 0.01844783715, which is zero for all sensible functions. (I additionally suppose Twitter, or, I suppose, Musk, deservers credit score for the “Neighborhood Notes” function. I discover it helpful.)

Information level (1):

Information level (2):

The Blob: I ponder how the “thirty 5 yr nationwide safety knowledgeable” is feeling?

Maybe all of the endorsements from generals and spooks and nationwide safety goons have been — hear me out — a detrimental?

Our Democracy: Distress:

One celebration’s candidate was chosen in primaries; the opposite’s was chosen by a small cabal. One celebration’s base hated its management, and used the first mechanism to do away with it. The opposite celebration wouldn’t even contemplate such a factor, and operates strictly by seniority. Which celebration is extra democratic?

Democrat Management: The complete Democrat management should be purged, for starters:

After all, that received’t occur, and all the celebration has been remodeled within the picture of the failed leaders (Exhibit A: AOC), so even when it did occur, it could make no differenece.

Id Politics: “A historic realignment” –Trump

Abortion: “Reproductive Freedom” outperformed Kamala:

This implies, maybe counter-intuitively, that the Supreme Courtroom in Dobbs, which left abortion as much as the states, will in actual fact maximize poltically possible codification (assuming Trump retains his promise to not push for a nationwide ban. Little doubt the Christianists will push for a nationwide ban when Congress reconvenes, so we’ll see what occurs. Personally, I feel Trump would really like the entire problem, and its zealots, to go away).

Our Famously Free Press:

The “darkish” meme reappears:

Fascism:

I disagree with scholar-of-fascism Paxton’s declare that this can be a fascist second (see prolonged dialogue right here). I don’t suppose it’s evidence-based, not to mention primarily based on scholarship. That stated, I agree wholeheartedly with him right here: “No matter Trumpism is, it’s coming ‘from under as a mass phenomenon, and the leaders are operating to maintain forward of it.’” Democrats will, after all, be incapable of even perceiving this “mass phenomenon,” not to mention analyzing it. Ditto RINOs. In the present day’s Republicans? I don’t know.

Liberal Incapacity to Self-Mirror: “Would it not not in that case be less complicated for the federal government to dissolve the folks and elect one other?” — Bertolt Brecht

The unhappy factor is that despite the fact that Kolbert is at The New Yorker, I’ve loved her writing on local weather.

Schadenfreude: The Bidens (1): Ouch!

The Bidens (2): Biden’s counter-programming, regardless of the trigger, can not have been useful:

(“I would like her to understand it was me” is a Sport of Thrones reference.)

Get the phrase “Lincoln” out of your mouths:

The autumn of Home Cheney:


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Lambert right here: This put up brings Water Cooler’s each day election 2024 protection to an finish, though the election will proceed to be a wealthy vein of inquiry because the transition to a Trump administration takes place (assuming, after all, that there’s not a 3rd, profitable assassination try, or some late-breaking lawfare imbroglio). Let me briefly evaluation my methodology. Since this isn’t my weblog, I don’t make “calls” and definitely don’t make endorsements. Relatively, I lay out my proof and pondering and belief the readers to utilize them as they might. Again in December 2023 I wrote, wanting ahead, or a minimum of forward, to the yr’s protection:

340 days is a very long time in politics. Within the formulation of stability vs. volatility — that’s, the view that the race is a “common order” of Trump v. Biden, vs. the view that it’s in no way sure that Trump and/or Biden will nominated[1], elected, and allowed to imagine workplace[2], and additional, that the means by which the events will choose their candidates is unknown[3], and even the character of victory is unknown — I’m firmly on the aspect of volatility[4].

[1] Actually, Biden was defenestrated. [2] We are able to’t ensure: The transition interval is a very long time of politics. [3] Kamala was chosen not in a main, however by a small cabal. [4] I feel the upheaval on election day comes beneath the heading of volatility (along with Trump being the second President since Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive phrases). Additional:

Therefore my grimly detailed and methodical pointillist technique; we have to know as a lot about all of the gamers and fields as we probably can, as a result of we can not know who will emerge from the pack[5], and even, at this level, why[6]. The powers that be can rig the election all they need, but when the canine received’t eat the rigging, what then? And if they’ll, what then? So strap yourselves in.

[5] Robert Kennedy. [6] Uncommitted and Stein re: genocide.

I really feel that the “grimly detailed and methodical pointillist technique” can not however have given readers perception into splendor and miseries of electoral politics, the strengths and weaknesses of the events and the gamers, and “vibes.” What I didn’t anticipate, going into 2024, was the sheer quantity and solidity of the bullshit I must take care of, and the overwhelming dedication of the press to the victory of 1 candidate/celebration. These two components made the each day job of plucking nuggets from the information stream way more time-consuming and, certainly, dangerous than I’ve change into accustomed to, as a result of actually each information level needed to be “assessed,” as if I have been some kind of spook myself. One other approach of claiming that is that the PMC are my folks, the press being a subset thereof; and I’ve been accustomed to having the ability to apply a correct low cost to a big array of PMC work merchandise, venues, and so on., shortcutting the evaluation course of. Not so this yr! One other methodological problem was representing the ebb and stream of candidate assist within the marketing campaign. Right here, I made a decision to make use of the RealClearPolitics (RCP) ballot averages each week. RCP is a conservative supply, however and so its averages protected me (and also you) from polling error and manipulation. All through, potential paths to victory for the final word winner have been all the time clear. I’m additionally blissful to have saved drawing that pink field round Pennsylvania, the place the Blue Wall first cracked. (I used to be stunned that Trump received the favored vote, however I by no means did monitor it, because it wasn’t related to victory). Right here endeth my criticism/self-criticism for Water Cooler’s election protection.

Syndemics

“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

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Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the tackle given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (wastewater); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

Hat tricks to useful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, sq. coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3).

Keep protected on the market!

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Stats Watch

There aren’t any official statistics of curiosity immediately.

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In the present day’s Worry & Greed Index: 57 Greed (earlier shut: 43 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 57 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 6 at 2:00:00 PM ET.

Musical Interlude

Gram Parsons’ birthday was the opposite day:

Ebook Nook

“Report finds ‘surprising and dispiriting’ fall in youngsters studying for pleasure” [Guardian]. Within the UK: “Youngsters’s studying enjoyment has fallen to its lowest degree in virtually 20 years, with only one in three younger folks saying that they take pleasure in studying of their free time, in response to a brand new survey. Solely 34.6% of eight- to 18-year-olds surveyed by the Nationwide Literacy Belief (NLT) stated that they take pleasure in studying of their spare time. That is the bottom degree recorded by the charity because it started surveying youngsters about their studying habits 19 years in the past, representing an 8.8 proportion level drop since final yr. It’s also a part of a broader downward pattern since 2016, when virtually two in three youngsters stated that they loved studying.” • That’s a steep drop-off!

Gallery

What coloration!

Zeitgeist Watch

Lastly!

Information of the Wired

“Solely 5.3% of welders within the US are girls. After years as a writing professor, I turned one − right here’s what I realized” [The Conversation]. “Recognizing the great pay and job safety, U.S. girls have moved in larger numbers into expert trades akin to welding and fabrication inside the previous 10 years. From 2017 to 2022, the variety of girls in trades rose from about 241,000 to almost 354,000. That’s a rise of about 47%. Even so, girls nonetheless represent simply 5.3% of welders in the USA.” • Value a learn, notably when you’re a girl pondering of coming into the sphere.

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Contact data for crops: Readers, be at liberty to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a examine if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photographs of crops. Greens are nice! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you’d like your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it firstly of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Milton:

Milton writes: “Fall Colours round of Huge Pine alongside Hwy 395 within the Jap Sierra. This was taken as I took the flip off to the Bristlecone Pine forests.”

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