The Kid’s Table

Political Animal 79 Comments

Your open thread on the ABC News Presidential Debate.

Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi are liveblogging the liver damage. (link live now)

DRINK EVERY TIME:

Harris uses the words felon, extreme, threat to democracy, or for the people.

Trump uses the words communist, socialist, radical or Marxist. Double-shot for tampon.

Harris talks about her experience dealing with predators, scammers, cheaters, perpetrators, or special interests.

Trump invokes the Kamala crime wave or defund the police, or says something like They destroyed San Francisco or You can’t buy a loaf of bread without getting shot. Any story of this sort qualifies (“These Haitians, it’s unbelievable. Who would eat a cat?”). Non-negotiable double-shot for literally third world conditions.

Harris says Let me be clear, I’m talking, or “Not going back.” Take a SMALL SIP ONLY whenever she mentions the middle class. Take a full drink when Donald Trump only cares about himself.

Trump says illegal, sanctuary, Border Czar. Double shot when Harris protests she wasn’t.

Harris cackles. Trump does “stank face” or “pinchy hands.”

Harris mentions the opportunity economy, price gouging or bringing down costs. Double for groceries. If both candidates mention groceries, take an aspirin.

“CHECK, PLEASE!” Drink if Harris runs out of things to say and has to be reminded she still has time left. (Drinking game trivia: this rule was originally written for Joe Biden years ago.)

“BILLIONS AND BILLIONS!” Drink when Trump rattles off a statistic that’s off by a factor of 10x. Double if he tells us how many people were just shot in Chicago and how it was worse than Afghanistan. (He may substitute Philadelphia tonight).

From Harris: sales tax, bipartisan, reproductive freedom, different vision. Drink for any mathematically perfect tautology/redundancy (e.g. deadlines of time). More than three seconds of stoned-looking hesitation is a drink. Strike your companion if you hear joy.

From Trump: so crazy, beautiful, fake, beating the hell, never been anything like it. Drink when he says any national problem was completely eliminated when he was president and complains the media lies its face off about it. You may also drink for take a bullet or the “pull down that chart” story if you feel under-served.

Tune in tonight to the livestream at 8:45 pm for an additional MYSTERY RULE.

Tim Pool is also live casting.

As the end of the debate nears, the “moderators” are all in debating Trump. Holy moley. Wrap up: my take is “no minds changed” and despite some missed opportunities, he did ok in a 3 on 1.

Photoblogging

Baiting The Left Democrats 10 Comments

The past month I’ve spent in Boston, Massachusetts. I divided my time by mostly working on my software project, but have also taken the opportunity to explore various communities in New England. Several people I met recommended that I visit Provincetown. Not knowing exactly what to expect, I drove there one day. It turned out to be a nice little seaside town but … how should I put this … is more gay than San Francisco. Contrary to popular opinion, one does not need to be a card carrying socialist/communist to avoid being homophobic! Here are the photos I took there that day.

Just before returning to my car to leave, I saw the scene below.  My immediate thoughts were: “Stunning and Brave!”  Displaying such flags is just sooooo obvious, boring, and terribly unoriginal.

The Totalitarian Mindset

Freespeechers nannystate Surveillance State 11 Comments

If the Green Party ever gets ahold of the levers of government, western civilization will be done like dinner.

“We must stop the spread of anti-human and anti-constitutional content on the internet,” demanded Hofreiter, who serves as the chairman of the European Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Violations of applicable law must be punished consistently. With regard to social networks, this means that they “will be blocked if necessary,” said the Green politician. This would also include the X platform owned by Elon Musk, which the left views as an imminent threat due to its emphasis on free speech, according to Frankfurter Rundschau.

You Go Now

Shiny Pony 24 Comments

Blacklock’s- First Breach In Gov’t Caucus

“My constituents do not see Mr. Trudeau as the person who should carry the Party into the next election and that’s the message that I carry,” MP Mendès said in an interview with Radio-Canada. “I didn’t hear from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people. He is no longer the right leader.”

“If I listen to my constituents, which is supposedly what we’re meant to do, yes, I have to say we would have to change leadership,” Mendès was quoted. Concerns of electors in her suburban Montréal riding were focused on “the leadership of the Prime Minister,” she said.

Average Nonsense

Insufferable Twits nannystate Surveillance State 12 Comments

Economist Frank Shostak delves into the perplexing issue of governments attempting to discern an “average” price level for the economy or calculating GDP “growth”. In a nutshell, the whole idea is nuts.

Suppose two transactions were conducted: In the first transaction, one TV set is exchanged for $1,000; in the second transaction, one shirt is exchanged for $40. The price or in the first transaction is $1000/1 TV set. The price in the second transaction is $40/1 shirt. In order to calculate the “average price,” we must add these two ratios together and divide them by two. But $1000/1 TV set cannot be added to $40/1 shirt, implying that it is not possible to establish the “average price.”

The employment of various sophisticated methods to calculate the “average price” cannot bypass the essential issue that it is not possible to establish an average price of various goods and services. Accordingly, various price indices that government statisticians compute are simply arbitrary numbers. If price deflators are meaningless, so is the real GDP statistic.

 

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