Into A Void Of Their Own Creation
By Mitch Berg
So we learned – after the 2020 eection, naturally – that if the whole population had heard about the Hunter Biden laptop story, enough Biden voters would have switched to Trump to have created a bit of a landslide.
So, whew, good thing the media and big tech hushed up the story, right?
Of course, the Minnesota media did cover Mark Dayton’s myriad physical and mental health issues – in January, 2010, about nine months before anyone in Minnesota cared about the election, which Dayton won over Tom Emmer, largely due to the presence of potemkin Republican, Tom Horner, but significantly because the media refused to report anything non-regal about Dayton other than long before anyone cared or long after it mattered anymore.
Ilhan Omar’s family and financial issues? Mitch, please.
And now, we learn that the media – this is shocking, I know – sat on the details of John Fetterman’s stroke until Pennsylvania was safe from the scourge of (checks notes) Mehmet Oz.
Mr. Fetterman declined to be interviewed for this story. But aides and confidantes describe his introduction to the Senate as a difficult period, filled with unfamiliar duties that are taxing for someone still in recovery: meetings with constituents, attending caucus and committee meetings, appearing in public at White House events and at the State of the Union address, as well as making appearances in Pennsylvania.
The most evident disability is a neurological condition that impairs his hearing. Mr. Fetterman suffers from auditory processing issues, forcing him to rely primarily on a tablet to transcribe what is being said to him. The hearing issues are inconsistent; they often get worse when he is in a stressful or unfamiliar situation. When it’s bad, Mr. Fetterman has described it as trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the “Peanuts” cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered.
Nick Coleman used to claim the conservative bloggers that so bedeviled him were “trying to shut down the Strib”.
It wasn’t entirely true – back then.
Today? That’s the kindest possible interpretation.
February 15th, 2023 at 6:22 pm
What you need to remember is that Emery has no demonstrated expertise in anything.
Emery is kind of the opposite of me. I rarely make predictions, but when I do they are confirmed by reality. Contrast this with Emery, who predicted the Brexit vote would fail, that Hillary would win the presidential election over Trump by a landslide, and that the Mueller report would expose evidence that Trump had colluded with Putin to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.
Emery was wrong. Emery is always wrong.
February 16th, 2023 at 5:15 am
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1625943685249785856?s=20&t=aGajeCJb-dfXv7bYY2XEQg
I am proven correct, again: http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=84273#comment-243623
February 16th, 2023 at 10:06 am
Just a note on wafer fabs; modern wafer fabs are not class 10000, but class 100 or perhaps less (my experience in a few of ’em, including a nice big one on the border of Edina and Bloomington on Normandale).
It is true, though, that guzzling a gallon of Mountain Dew and eating plate of bran muffins before you go in there is not a good idea. You really ought to be able to stay in there half a shift without taking a bathroom break, because each time you go through the gowning area, you introduce more contamination.
Another key point is that the key issue for wafer fabs here in the U.S. is not wages, but the cost of electricity. I remember meeting a guy outside another wafer fab where I worked who asked why the transformers outside the building were so warm. So if we want to bring wafer fab back to the U.S., the big thing to be handled is the cost of electricity. Biden’s doing exactly the wrong things about that.
February 16th, 2023 at 9:29 pm
And now Fetterman is in the Cuckoo’s nest for depression. Couldn’t have guessed that!