UPDATE: Also: Dissembling at the Federalist Society.
What a two-for --- Heritage Society and then Federalist Society, a real gutter-Society tour.
Suits. Each and every one, a suit. As empty as can be. Talking empty suits.
Saturday, November 14, 2026
There is a new youtube site offering. The voicing is obvious AI, not a real human phrasing as a human would. It is anti-Trump. It is easy to agree with for anti-Trump Crabgrass. However, Crabgrass dislikes being propagandized to by anonymous strangers.
https://www.youtube.com/@PowerCheckDaily is the outlet = Power Check Daily, whoever the fuck that is.
Two items for this post focusing in chron time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNodJFtxHY = Stephen Miller bashing [easy work, eh]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeXk-kYpjBk = "No Deal Needed" with JD sidetracked off of Iran
Each just short of ten minutes long. Tight that way. And, you ask, biased? Yes, of course. Somebody has an agenda without putting a name or names behind it. Trustworthy? Watch each, you decide.
And do note, each has a text blurb before viewer comments, if you scroll below screen.
First, Stephen Miller trashing = You guess, a phony attempt to appear unbiased, yes/no?
Second, No deal needed = A continued status quo, with a fake look as if unbalanced, from both sides.
However, this screen capture from about the nine minute mark -
YouTube identifies basics of the outlet:
I don't need fucking anon Taiwan people telling me shit. Do you? Watch out for such sites, keyed to your profile as kept by YouTube. There is something pernicious about English Lanuguage AI propaganda from Taiwan, joined Nov. 5, 2026; or am I oversensitive? There just seems something overreaching - by somebody. Someone who took their own good and worthwhile time to do AI propaganda video posted to U.S. YouTube display. It simply rings false as to reliability/cred. Why? And why so crude?
Also, the party contracting to have someone in Taiwan to produce AI stuff and post it on YouTube could be Putin, for all we YouTube viewers know. It was not Mother Theresa who is behind it because she'd croaked years before. Otherwise, who? Why? Whose money to produce this stuff?
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Crabgrass is of the opinion "No deal needed" = keep a status quo indefinitely which is favorable to Trump backing U.S. oil interests who put a ton of money into his winning the 2024 election, and are crudely and crassly being paid back via record profits - to continue into the future, no deal necessary implying no deal will be reached and the oil soaked status quo will be Trump's answer to losing the election. Fuck you people wanting stuff like decent healthcare and decent pricing for consumer goods. Others are more important. Obscene oil firm profiteering outranks your needs and wants.
Try search = record U.S. oil company profits
That was easy. Now how hard is it to see a future where "No deal is needed" results in no deal, with a status quo we can all guess at.
Tell me I am wrong, and that Trump is not whoring for Big Oil.
More, with the evidence as it is, convince me there is any error in my analysis. It is all circumstantial, where inference aims to find a most probable true explanation.
JD sidetracked from barely possible change in that oil soaked status quo, the Trump message then being, JD, go piss on blue cities. It fits your talents.
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Expressly saying what PowerCheckDaily implies, with my name given to the opinion. How it should be done. Expressly say what you mean, and state who is saying it. PowerCheckDaily, be damned, for indirectness.
This is a total complete crock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvYPTWedkw
They shut down for 4 hrs air traffic, to undercut Medicare for All spending as a priority. Done before the Dems physically took Congress after the election chose them over more Trump bullshit.
This is artificial, and an insult.
These two dudes are bullshitting the nation and the world. It looks like a Stephen Miller idea. Create an event to be a money suck to where the Dems are subject to intended spending preemption. It sucks.
More money for Homeland Security? Get real. This was a staged pile of trash. They crashed their systems via new tampering today. These two assholes should be impeached. They are knowingly pitching a lie.
Opinions can vary.
UPDATE: Heather Cox Richardson talks of that aircraft grounding ploy and more on Friday the 13th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqjm4avbvdw
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Scott Colom news.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/12/who-is-scott-colom-mississippis-first-black-senator-in-150-years
United States prosecutor and Democrat Scott Colom has made history in Mississippi by becoming the deeply conservative state’s first Black senator in more than 150 years and ushering in the first Democratic victory there in more than four decades.
Senator-elect Colom’s narrow victory against Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was declared late on Wednesday, more than a week after the US midterms, which many have called a “blue tsunami” as Democrats firmly seized control of both the Senate and House of Representatives.
It has been 43 years since Democrats last won a Senate seat in the state, in 1982.
But Colom’s win is significant beyond party politics and marks a turning point for Mississippi’s African American community too: he’ll be the first Black American senator since 1874.
And before Trump 45, Mississippi had Jeff Sessions as Senator, with Stephen Miller as an aide.
Time flies. Try to find out where Jeff Sessions is now, and what he is doing.
Stephen Miller, we know where/what and the only mystery is why he's such an asshole.
We'll miss the leather jacket being redone with a suit.
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The link = https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/12/ai-titan-jensen-huang-out-as-nvidia-ceo
The story, the little head got the big head ousted. It can be dressed up and analyzed, but that's the essence.
Jensen has a future. He can quietly wait a bit, and then move to Intel's GPU development group. Or In the interim he can short Nvidia, wait, and then sell his shares when the market recovers. AMD likely would also add him onto the payroll, if he is willing. CUDA is a market share advantage, but Nvidia as a leading software and hardware company is not beyond challenge. Jensen also likely is well off enough that buying a yacht and retiring as Bezos has might also appeal. China likely would be open to Jensen locating there. Taiwan. Singapore.
If the market does not recover, we all will see hard times. Crabgrass believes the AI bubble has more life still in it than some analysts may believe. We'll see.
But Anthropic or OpenAI having immediate IPOs, or waiting in hope of better future pricing, that is now the story to track. Do they show risk aversion toward the AI bubble breaking and move fast, or do they wait for a recovery after leadership indiscretion having struck Nvidia becomes old news, adapted to with the firm moving on?
Spanish news.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/11/i-pay-500-for-5-square-metres-spains-protesters-in-their-own-words
‘I pay $500 for 5 square metres’: Spain’s protesters, in their own words
Young people are trapped in the family home or forced to pay high rents for cramped accommodation, at the mercy of landlords.
It is the bankers at fault for the landlords. The landlords, they get their credit to buy, at the bankers' pricing, the interest rate that tracks the central bank, and they charge rent to clear a profit. Or to at least service their mortgage, since failure there is foreclosure and going broke.
But the bankers are responsible. New, affordable housing cuts into supply/demand mechanics to where high rents cannot be sustained if there is a surplus of housing, or if the supply/demand equilibrium price exceeds what landlord can charge as at least sufficient to service the landlord's loan.
Banking is a mean and greedy thing. There used to be a site, "Hang The Bankers" which title had charm.
That said, as Crabgrass economic theory, the bankers in opposition to housing expansion and wanting a surplus of renters rather than a surplus of housing, or a supply/demand balance favoring their greed, by a plethora of unhoused people. Such a latter surplus has the additional banker-perspective of quelling expressions of dissent among the prols. See the unhoused suffering and then STF up. Figure it better, get data and plug in numbers, massage the data, and there might be a counterargument, just as tabacco firms arguing the science was smoking was independent of lung cancer frequency, other things being responsible.
But - the bankers. When housing availability pinches, always blame the bankers first, before the landlords who the bankers have hold of and are squeezing. Not that landlords are a good bunch, just that they have to pay regularly as their tenants do.
Now an excerpt of the item cited at the start of the post:
Madrid, Spain – Tens of thousands of young people have protested across Spain in recent weeks, rallying against the country’s acute housing crisis. On Wednesday, many have gone on strike, heeding calls by Spain’s biggest unions for a nationwide walkout under the slogan: “Salarios, vivienda y precios” – or “wages, housing, and prices”.
Anger grew last month after the forcible eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the Madrid flat where she had lived for the past seven decades. Her corporate landlord had raised the rent to a level above her means. As the public outcry worsened, she died in hospital the day the property owners who had evicted her agreed to allow her to return to her home.
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To protect vulnerable renters, the government presented two emergency decrees to parliament, but these were defeated by right-wing parties.
So, the bankers, might they perhaps favor such right wing parties? Might they be a part of the propaganda that motivates otherwise sane voters to vote strangely against their own interests and vote for what the bankers, landlords, and corporate powers are financing and selling? As a part of the propaganda machine the wealthy, of Spain, manufacture and disperse via establishment media? Why deviate from what works so well in the U.S. of A. where finance and not manufacturing runs the show? The item continues -
Spain’s left-wing coalition government called a snap election for November 29, hoping to capitalise on anger over the housing crisis to rally voters as Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had trailed in the polls to the conservative People’s Party and the far-right Vox party.
Against this backdrop, the Bank of Spain has said the country has a shortage of 750,000 homes, but this figure could rise to 1 million by next year.
AJ, today, offers related coverage of unrest in Spain -
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/11/spains-first-general-strike-in-14-years-begins
Workers across Spain stage first general strike in 14 years
Strike disrupts public transport as housing reform takes centre stage ahead of the November 29 national elections. --
Published On 11 Nov 2026Updated: 11 Nov 2026 12:05 PM (GMT)
Millions of workers across Spain are striking to demand government action over the country’s housing crisis, less than three weeks before a national election that could bring the far right to power.
The 24-hour walkout, which began at midnight on Wednesday, disrupted public transport and forced businesses, factories and shops to scale back operations or close entirely across the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy. It’s Spain’s first general strike in 14 years.
Minor incidents were reported in the first hours, including roadblocks with burning tyres in Barcelona, the second-largest city in the country. There were also scuffles between picketers and police near the country’s main wholesale market on the outskirts of the capital, Madrid.
The two main unions that called the strike, UGT and CCOO, reported widespread participation in the early hours “with significant work stoppages in strategic sectors”, including 90 percent in the automotive and port sectors, according to a statement posted on social media.
The CEOE organisation, which represents business leaders, said in a statement that the impact varied by region and area of work, with a “low participation” in most sectors.
The UGT and CCOO unions called the strike following a wave of nationwide protests over access to housing, sparked by the eviction in September of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Madrid pensioner who died several days later.
The demonstrations included a five-week occupation of Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square, where hundreds of tents were pitched, sparking imitations in other cities.
The average rent in Spain has almost doubled over the past 10 years, eating into household budgets and angering voters.
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap election for November 29 after his minority government failed to secure parliamentary approval for a package of housing measures proposed in response to the protests.
“This is not a strike against anyone, but rather one in favour of a common response from all levels of government to a real problem, which is access to housing,” he said in an interview published Sunday in the daily newspaper La Vanguardia.
The mentioned organizations are unfamiliar to Crabgrass, but the mood is resonant, RIGHT ON!
Some unrest is a good thing, and general strikes are a show of solidarity which are kept short in time to not cause any great harm or distress to the people, but to clearly make a point of organized dissatisfaction.
Doubtlessly other web-wide coverage exists, but a bet is the Spanish out on general strike is underreported in the U.S. of A. Don't give the North American prols any ideas of what the French an Spanish are feeling and doing. Who knows whether the mood could spread, so mainstream media here might be motivated to downplay European moods and actions. Reporting in a they do such-and-such, we, fortunately, are more restrained way, not too obvious, but there.
An AJ video - Barcelona - https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/11/11/barcelona-erupts-in-violence-after-general-strike
UPDATE: Reuters covers. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/workers-across-spain-stage-first-general-strike-14-years-anger-over-housing-2026-11-11/
Such unrest over a government not doing enough for rank-&-file people, and with the US Democratic Party's recent election victory, if business as usual comes from the Congressional majorities, people will again become wholly disenchanted and the Party will have royally fucked up a great chance for change.
Crabgrass expects disenchantment, particularly if New York's Schumer and Jeffries keep holding things back because they at heart are coarse conservatives in a time of progresive Angst. If those two stiffs are purged, that's reaching square one of moving onto more squares. The resistance of the warring ruling class is going to be real, and leadership with a heart and mind will be needed to solidify change and progress, to establish Party preeminence and dominance longterm.
Beware, the ratchet effect, where the Republicans fuck everybody and the Democrats are tried and don't unfuck a single thing. So the machine only rotates one way. And disenchantment is okay with the Dem inner party. Their donors matter, not their voters. The money comes from the donors, and that's the story.
Change it, or see the Republicans take it all back shortly. Not that current Dem leaders would think that a bad thing. It is natural, we win, we do squat, we are voted out, and then the Republicans are worse, etc.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Jensen and the spy. [UPDATED]
The US has Nvidia, which is the current leader in chips for AI data centers, where number crunching the AI models grows in capability with the chip power. China has rare earth elements. There can be trade, where the Chinese rare earth advantage is not challenged or not as intensively challenged as if China were to embargo its rare earth elements. Nvidia chips, in turn might see less intensive Chinese effort put into competitive chip development if we allow the state-of-art Nvidie chips to be traded. Nvidia has competition not only potentially from China, but from Intel, and AMD. And other potential entrants, worldwide, i.e., in the U.S. and other nations as well as China.
Cutting some past deal had its pluses and minuses. Presume Jensen fucking the spy was known, and kept quiet for negotiation pursposes. Jensen is happy, the rare earth users in the U.S. would be happy, and AliBaba would be happy. And add into it, data center Nvidia chip usage was permitted in other Asian nations, Thailand perhaps, where Chinese firms could rent time on the processing power. Why own it if the rental is priced reasonably?
All that, and awareness that other chips besides data center GPU chips might have as much or more military competitive value, and that adds to an incentive to cut a deal on data center GPU trade, at the governmental as well as the industrial levels, and keeping it quiet might be seen as advantageous, i.e., no leaked knowledge, no questions from the public pinching those generating terms and conditions of some state-to-state deal.
So, why Jensen Huang's dalliance with a spy is now released publicly as "news" when it was know at national intelligence levels since early 2024? Why the timing? What's real now is Anthropic and OpenAI planning IPO effort while Musk's SpaceX already got first tracked. What does that mean, along with popular NIMBY objection to data center siting while Musk took in a money haul and now talks of data centers in space - with no objecting neighbors there. How is that a factor or not?
Then this vidio, raising concern about the deal appears to have been Nvidia getting chip sales to China to boost income, but with a 15% take to the U.S. government coffers. Was there some DARPA advanced tech involved, yes or no? It is all up for grabs in terms of speculating why drag Jensen over the rocks now, but not earlier?
Crabgrass does not pretend to have answers. Questions, and guesses, yes, but answers will have to come from elsewhere. The new Congress will investigate, and one question = was the matter elevated to public news and speculation now, to divert investigative energy from other muckraking tasks? It's a real ball of thread.
A Gordian knot. To be cut through rather than unwound? Time being of the essence now that Jensen's conduct has been injected into the pubic domain? Who is scheduling what, you tell me? And, why now?
UPDATE: Two video items - https://www.youtube.com/live/D7MDU0DUIBY
https://www.youtube.com/live/D3WOxwC7GsI
FURTHER: ZaroHedge republished a complete item behind a substack subscription wall, raising concerns:https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-nvidias-nightmare-may-be-just-beginning
With lawsuits coming out of the woodwork like vermin, there will be discovery, and this item says Nvidia's books and accounting should be squeaky clean with intensive scrutiny increasing.
FURTHER: More ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/one-short-seller-flagged-jensens-alice-huang-ties-mayand-pointed-out-multiple-other-nvidia linking to a May 2026 analyst report:https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Culper_NVDA_5-13-2026.pdf
Is it possible the matter hits now because short sellers want to maximize cashing out positions before the calendar year's end, and NYT sources might include such motivations?
FHRTHER: Latest, MSN carrying a CNBC item - Jensen Huang second extramarital affair, this second one with an Nvidia employee, Kimberly Powell, who reported to him =
Title: Nvidia prepares to oust Jensen Huang, WSJ reports — stock sinks -- Story by
Shares of Nvidia fell more than 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang.
The news landed minutes after The New York Times reported that Huang had an extramarital relationship with another executive at the company.
The alleged relationship was with Kimberly Powell, vice president of health care at Nvidia, according to the report. Powell's bio on the Nvidia website says she's "responsible for the company's worldwide healthcare business, including hardware and software platforms for accelerated computing, AI, and visualization that power the ecosystem of medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery, and healthcare analytics."
Huang and Powell were reportedly captured on camera being affectionate with one another at a hotel in San Jose, California in March, according to the Times.
Five people independently sourced the latest infidelity story with NYT.
If the Nvidia board ousts Jemsen Huang, what they do to keep a going concern is up to them, but should prove very interesting. No successor CEO has been named per any online source Crabgrass has read.
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