Dear KMAG: 20241202 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

zymotechnics

noun

  • the art of fermentation
  • fermentation technology

Used in a sentence

If one considers Pasteur and zymotechnics to be ancestral to modern biotechnology, then surely Liebig and early organic chemistry are foundational to modern pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and medicinal chemistry. (Derived from THIS LINK.)

Shown in a picture, sorta, kinda, hey, look! A squirrel!

Shown in a Soviet Uzbek film – no, wait – that’s not….. whatever!


MUSIC!

Well, now that we’re committed to the theme…..

UGH. Think I’ll have a sparkling water!


THE STUFF

If you want to see how much bad science is out there, just watch this lady review a scientific paper that was getting some “wowee” buzz.

You don’t have to understand the equations – just assume for the moment that she knows what she’s talking about (this is her area of science).

But notice that the opposite should also be true (and she says it). Some valuable gems get lost in the trash as well. Good science is increasingly not noticed, until it is rediscovered a second or third time and somehow gets more attention.

You know what they say – “third time’s a charm!”

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Forty Nine days, 11 hours, 43 minutes until our Once and Future President, Donald John Trump, is restored to his Rightful office.

Not that I’m counting, mind you.

TheseTruths

40s, now. 😎

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I just have to figure out whether I should change my title and if so what to. I’ve made a not-so-subtle adjustment to it already.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I’ve often wondered if we’d have to let them go, just to get them gone. That’s emotionally unsatisfying [but then the 8th amendment would prevent anything that truly is] but (provided they cannot come back) might be “good governance.” Get the cancer excised and move on and spend time repairing Bidenian damage, rather than tying things in knots prosecuting hundreds of shitbags–risking having them be acquitted.

cthulhu

The classic Soviet method is to put them on a plane to permanent exile……then crash the plane.

scott467

That’ll work.

Valerie Curren

Boeing?

cthulhu

Well, the Soviets used Tupolevs, but the principle would be the same.

eilert

That is also a Klintoon specialty, if they aren’t able to use the Arckancide specialty.

scott467

EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW, or there is no law to uphold or respect for anyone.

If the guilty are not punished and made an example of, then what better way could there ever be, to encourage infinitely more of the same conduct*.

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*Question mark intentionally omitted, because it isn’t actually a question.

Valerie Curren

so they get away with it all…just like no actual Lock Her Up!  😡 

cthulhu

“Lord Steve of the High Mountain, Master of Reptiles”?

Valerie Curren

just don’t call him a Reptilian…out loud 😉

TheseTruths

Why we can’t trust the science:

Good science is increasingly not noticed, until it is rediscovered a second or third time and somehow gets more attention.

Gail Combs

My Notes on Science FRAUD:

𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹, [𝗚𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗱] 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 AND DESTROYED IT.

Eye of the Storm Ep. 138
https://rumble.com/v551pqr-eye-of-the-storm-ep.-138-1030-pm-et-.html

1:04:40 They show a clip from The Joe Rogan Experience @ 3:34 mark (3 min clip)

The guy talking is Eric Weinstein: The Mathematician turned Physicist & Economist (It is an interesting article about Dr Weinstein.)
ERIC: ” … Maxwell figured out how to DESTROY SCIENCE and MAKE A FORTUNE. So he diluted the quality of the editorship of the leading journals. This was a high quality informal enterprise. Now most of the destruction of science in terms of how high quality it used to be, has taken place relatively recently. POST ROBERT MAXWELL. Because we now have an enormous number of journals staffed by people who can’t spot publication cartels, where we agree to cite each others work and we agree to publish stuff, you know Pay for Play. ALL the nonsense you see with irreproducible research…

The peer review thing got woven in so that people think that the scientific method and peer review ARE THE SAME THING. Hwere ONE IS THE UNWANTED INFECTION FROM THE BIOLOGICAL BIOMEDICAL UNIVERSE, which had peer review much longer than anything else…”

From the article:

…Eric Weinstein’s ideas have awakened me and showed a world unknown to most people, such as the real world of academia and science.

One of these ideas is what he calls 👉the DISC (Distributed Idea Suppression Complex) which explains how disruptive and innovative ideas that challenge the status quo are suppressed.👈 Keeping institutions safe from individuals who create change….

WIKI

Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, [Ghislaine Maxwell’s Dad] that published scientific and medical books and journals. Originally called Butterworth-Springer, it is now an imprint of Elsevier. 👉Maxwell acquired the company in 1951, Rosbaud held a one-quarter share.

H/T barkerjim

So much for “peer review” — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
By Jo Nova

Proving that unpaid anonymous review is worth every cent, the 217 year old Wiley science publisher “peer reviewed” 11,300 papers that were fake, and didn’t even notice. It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry. Naked “gobbledygook sandwiches” got past peer review, and the expert reviewers didn’t so much as blink.

Big Government and Big Money has captured science and strangled it. The more money they pour in, the worse it gets. John Wiley and Sons is a US $2 billion dollar machine, but they got used by criminal gangs to launder fake “science” as something real.

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data

ABSTRACT

….A pooled weighted average of 1.97% (N = 7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) of scientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to 33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. In surveys asking about the behaviour of colleagues, admission rates were 14.12%< (N = 12, 95% CI: 9.91–19.72) for falsification, and up to 72% for other questionable research practices. Meta-regression showed that self reports surveys, surveys using the words “falsification” or “fabrication”, and mailed surveys yielded lower percentages of misconduct. When these factors were controlled for, misconduct was reported more frequently by medical/pharmacological researchers than others.

Considering that these surveys ask sensitive questions and have other limitations, it appears likely that this is a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of scientific misconduct.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Abstract

Summary

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias…..

Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration:
Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Importance

Every year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects several hundred clinical sites performing biomedical research on human participants and occasionally finds evidence of substantial departures from good clinical practice and research misconduct. However, the FDA has no systematic method of communicating these findings to the scientific community, leaving open the possibility that research misconduct detected by a government agency goes unremarked in the peer-reviewed literature….

Objectives

To identify published clinical trials in which an FDA inspection found significant evidence of objectionable conditions or practices, to describe violations, and to determine whether the violations are mentioned in the peer-reviewed literature.

Design and Setting

Cross-sectional analysis of publicly available documents, dated from January 1, 1998, to September 30, 2013, describing FDA inspections of clinical trial sites in which significant evidence of objectionable conditions or practices was found.

Results: Fifty-seven published clinical trials were identified for which an FDA inspection of a trial site had found significant evidence of 1 or more of the following problems:

falsification or submission of false information, 22 trials (39%);

problems with adverse events reporting, 14 trials (25%);

protocol violations, 42 trials (74%);

inadequate or inaccurate recordkeeping, 35 trials (61%);

failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent, 30 trials (53%);and violations not otherwise categorized, 20 trials (35%).

Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection. No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.

Conclusions and Relevance

When the FDA finds significant departures from good clinical practice, those findings are seldom reflected in the peer-reviewed literature, even when there is evidence of data fabrication or other forms of research misconduct.

(Blogs are now performing the important tasks of scrutinizing papers and conclusions often finding gross mistakes.)

Editors In Chief of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”

… “It Is Simply No Longer Possible To Believe Much of the Clinical Research That Is Published”
Posted on June 1, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
Corruption Is Destroying Basic Science

“Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world.

It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science.

The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote:
*http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)60696-1.pdf

Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity [i.e. pervasiveness within the scientific culture] of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale….

(I have a lot more…)

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The same person (Sabine Hossenfelder) is claiming that a lot of the stuff JWST is reporting (such as surprisingly early galaxy formation) is an indication that dark matter doesn’t exist, but rather that the competing idea, Modified Newtonian Dynamics (“MOND” for short), might actually be true. MOND claims that at great distances gravity drops off as the inverse of distance, rather than the inverse of distance squared. Very few still took it seriously when I did my physics series, but it might make a comeback. Except that according to Sabine, most physicists refuse to see this implication. Interesting times ahead.

TheseTruths

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Hell, he should sign the paperwork DURING the inaugural address.

TheseTruths

That would make a point and make history at the same time.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

If that slobbering fool manages to babble so long that Trump is sworn in a few minutes late…well, he will already have been sworn in privately, because Biden’s term ends at noon, period. This is a precaution they take, to ensure the office isn’t vacant even for a second.

Anyhow, if the slobbering fool manages to delay the public oath taking, Trump can sign the pardon at 12:00:01 while Joe is babbling.

Gail Combs

I sincerely hope he does!

It will send a message that is very much needed.

TheseTruths

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Did you ever make it over to Saturday’s open?

TheseTruths

I’m working my way through and have read about a third of it, I think.

TheseTruths

June 6, 2024. We “MAGA cultists” have a great track record for telling it like it is, but the Left never learns.

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TheseTruths

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scott467

Hunter has a really creepy grin… I think he knows something… and it’s not something good!

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

Devin Nunes:

@Kash Congratulations! 🇺🇸

An immensely talented lawyer and investigator with an unimpeachable devotion to our Constitution, Kash is a brilliant pick to serve as Director of the FBI. Kash and I worked closely together to expose the saboteurs within the Intelligence Community who perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax. Based on that experience, along with his service in key positions in the first Trump Administration, I know Kash has the intelligence and fearlessness to expose the corruption in the FBI, reverse its damaging politicization, and restore Americans’ confidence in the Bureau’s basic honesty. Those who denounce the darkness at the FBI can now rest assured that light will soon shine through.

TheseTruths

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Repudiating does no good, it can’t undo the pardon.

OTOH he probably is just saying “Don’t vote for anyone who doesn’t condemn Biden for doing it.”

scott467

“Don’t vote for any democrat in 2028 who doesn’t blah, blah, blah…”

There, fixed it for ya.

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Linda

Wolf, I’ve finished that article you asked me to write. I just need to give it a good proofreading. But I’m not sure how to private message it to you in WordPress. Can you explain?

TheseTruths

This link tells how to send a private message to Wolf here, but I’m not sure whether that is what you’re referring to.
https://www.theqtree.com/contact/

Gail Combs

Wolfie please put Linda’s article in my Wednesday spot. I have a bunch of gigs coming up and we will not be able to uncroggle my computer until after that.

TheseTruths

Trump Reportedly In Discussions to Appoint White House “Crypto Czar” as Bitcoin Reaches All Time Highs Since Trump’s Election

…Throughout 2024, Trump surrounded himself with and nominated pro-crypto figures to his cabinet, including Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee RFK Jr. and Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick…

President Trump and RFK Jr. both accepted cryptocurrency for 2024 presidential campaign donations, with Trump becoming the first major party nominee in history to do so.

Forbes recently reported,

Now, as traders bet on a Trump bitcoin “game-changer,” a leak has revealed Trump could appoint the first ever White House “crypto czar.”

Trump’s top team is meeting with bitcoin and crypto experts and industry executives to discuss creating a White House role dedicated to cryptocurrency policy, overseeing policy and regulation across the federal government, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.

The appointment of a White House crypto czar would likely boost already sky-high expectations that Trump could create a U.S. bitcoin strategic reserve that would see him follow through on promises made during a July bitcoin conference to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.”

Speculators on the crypto-powered Polymarket prediction platform now see a more than 40% chance that Trump will create a bitcoin strategic reserve, with the odds climbing sharply following the leak of Trump’s crypto czar discussions.

scott467

We should really do away with the term ‘czar’ for any function of government, it’s thoroughly anti-American.

………………………….
czar

noun

  1. A male monarch or emperor, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
  2. A person having great power or authority.
  3. “an energy czar.”
  4. A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.

…………………………..

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Etymology:
New Latin czar, from Russian tsar’, from Old Russian tsĭsarĭ, from Goth kaisar, from Greek or Latin; Greek, from Latin Caesar — more at caesar

scott467

“Trump’s top team is meeting with bitcoin and crypto experts and industry executives to discuss creating a White House role dedicated to cryptocurrency policy, overseeing policy and regulation across the federal government, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.”

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Obviously they need to be aware of the law of unintended consequences regarding what such a government role will morph into, which really ought to be called the law of “of course there will be negative consequences, there always are, and to not foresee what always happens is either gross criminal negligence or criminal malice aforethought.”

Also known by the handy acronym OCTWBNCTAAATNFWAHIEGCNOCMA

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cthulhu

If dealing with that acronym brings on a health crisis, you may need to use the emergency phone number —

cthulhu

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eilert
eilert

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1863386964231373232

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

The Supreme Court this year overturned “Chevron deference” in its Loper Bright ruling, which deals a seismic blow to federal bureaucracy. Under the old standard, federal courts deferred to agency interpretations of law when a statute was deemed ambiguous. That’s no longer the case & here are some facts on the scope of its impact:

Lower federal courts relied upon Chevron somewhere between 17,000 – 19,000 judicial opinions. 

A 2022 study found that federal appellate courts applied Chevron in ~85% of cases in which an agency interpretation is at stake. In ~60% of these cases, the court concluded the statute was ambiguous (Chevron Step One) and proceeded to determine whether the agency’s interpretation was reasonable (Chevron Step Two), at which point they sided with the agency 77% of the time.

A separate study evaluated more than 1,300 courts of appeals cases from 2003 to 2013 and found 94% deference to the agencies’ position at Chevron Step Two.

Overturning Chevron deference, combined with the Major Questions Doctrine codified in West Virginia vs EPA, paves the way for not a slight but a *drastic* reduction in the scope of the federal regulatory state. It’s coming.

Gail Combs

From my old notes:

2013 Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer
U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 trillion

The growth of federal regulations over the past six decades has cut U.S. economic growth by an average of 2 percentage points per year, according to a new study in the Journal of Economic Growth. As a result, the average American household receives about $277,000 less annually than it would have gotten in the absence of six decades of accumulated regulations—a median household income of $330,000 instead of the $53,000 we get now.

The researchers, economists John Dawson of Appalachian State University and John Seater of North Carolina State, constructed an index of federal regulations by tracking the growth in the number of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations since 1949. The number of pages, they note, has increased six-fold from 19,335 in 1949 to 134,261 in 2005. (As of 2011, the number of pages had risen to 169,301.) They devise a pretty standard endogenous growth theory model and then insert their regulatory burden index to calculate how federal regulations have affected economic growth. (Sometimes deregulation extends rather than shortens the number of pages in the register; they adjust their figures to take this into account.)

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Keynes vs. Hayek (H/T coothie)

cthulhu

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Gail Combs

Since I am curious… Al Aqsa Mosque

eilert

Community Notes apply to everyone:

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