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March 20, 2024

Taylor Swift

I believe she will turn the world upside down on April 19 with The Tortured Poets Department. Bookmark this. I have been wrong so many times but here we are.

March 20, 2024

How President Biden can reshape the Supreme Court -

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of total presidential immunity, President Biden could restore confidence in the Court by filling a vacancy or three: The Seal team can deliver a gun and a statement of resignation. Your choice Tom and Sam.

March 19, 2024

Trump / Slobfather / Smelvis / The Sick Fuck

Don't get overconfident. We are not the electorate.

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Donald Trump?

March 16-18, 2,007 RV, Morning Consult
Favorable 45% Unfavorable 52% -7

March 12-13, 837 RV, Public Policy Polling
Favorable 43% Unfavorable 50% -7

March 10-12, 1,367 RV, YouGov
Favorable 46% Unfavorable 53% -7

March 18, Biden Approval, 538 Average
Approve 38%, Disapprove 55 -17

Yes there earlier polls less favorable to Trump, but as the pros say, campaign like you are 20 points behind.

March 8-11, 1,000 RV, Suffolk University
Favorable 39% Unfavorable 55% -16

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

March 17, 2024

Trump refuses to blame Putin for Alexei Navalny's death.

Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
During an interview with Fox News, Trump refused to blame Putin for Navalny's death:
When asked if Putin was responsible for his death, Trump answered, “I don’t know,” and added, “Something happened that was unusual.”
"You certainly can’t say for sure, but certainly that would look like something very bad happened. Right?"
Putin's Puppet


https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1769460126887321709

March 17, 2024

Giant sequoias: There are less than 80,000 of these redwoods left in California,

... and half a million in the UK.

Redwoods are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins

[A Redwood's] thick, spongy bark insulates against fire and disease, and they can survive severe winters and arid summers. Despite these challenges, these trees absorb and store CO₂ faster and in greater quantities than almost any other in the world, storing up to five times more carbon per hectare than even tropical rainforests. However, the changing climate means Californian giant sequoias are under threat from more frequent and extreme droughts and fires. More than 10 percent of the remaining population of around 80,000 wild trees were killed in a single fire in 2020 alone.

What is much less well-known is that there are an estimated half a million sequoias (wild and planted) in England, dotted across the landscape ...
These remarkable trees are being planted in an effort to help absorb carbon, but perhaps more importantly they are becoming a striking and much-admired part of the UK landscape..
So, how did these trees get here? Exotic plant collecting was big business in the 18th and 19th centuries, in large part as a display of wealth and taste. Giant sequoias were first introduced in 1853 by Scottish grain merchant and keen amateur collector Patrick Matthew, who gave them to friends. Later that same year commercial nurseryman William Lobb brought many more from California, along with accounts of the giant trees from which they came.

Giant sequoias quickly became a sensation and were planted to create imposing avenues, at the entrances of grand houses and estates, in churchyards, parks and botanic gardens. The letters about these trees helps us to accurately age planted trees, enabling us to calculate their growth rates.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/redwoods-are-growing-almost-as-fast-in-the-uk-as-their-californian-cousins/


Hamsterley Forest, UK
March 17, 2024

"all without encouraging the American people to inject bleach"

In the coming months, Kamala and I will be making the case how Americans are better off than four years ago. How we got so much though the pandemic, turned around the economy, reestablished America's leadership in the world, all without encouraging the American people to inject bleach,"

"All without destroying the economy, embarrassing us around the world or itching for insurrection," he added. "Look, I wish these were jokes but they're not."

Joe Biden at the Gridiron Dinner
https://abcnews.go.com/US/biden-jabs-trump-gridiron-dinner-closing-note/story?id=108196542
March 14, 2024

The Freedom Caucus reacts to Ken Buck's early retirement.



The howlers ain't happy.
March 12, 2024

Opinion Polls - Strange, very strange.

Polls can deliver different results: There are sampling sizes, sampling errors and sampling biases. But sometimes the results are so different, that one, or both , have to be wrong.

So I looked up 538 polls of Trump favorables after President Biden's SOTU. And here is what they posted :-

abc News, Ipsos, March 8-9: Trump favorables -30: (Unfavorable 59% Favorable 29%, )

Morning Consult, March 9-11: Trump favorables -5: (Unfavorable 51% Favorable 46%, )

Strange, very strange. (Rick Wilson: "Campaign like you are 20 points behind" )

538

March 10, 2024

Its just Me's Image Dumps.

I missed you when you were away. How about a round of applause, DUers

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