A lot of people are depressed. I understand that completely. I also understand that those of us who supported Kamala Harris want her sworn in. That might make us prone to believe grifters.
Jennifer Denson has made a fool of herself. Some of you think she's amazing. She's not. She's run of the mill. Actually, she's worse than that.
Two hours ago, she posted "Evidence of HACK Surfaces in Breaking Election Investigation │ Lights On with Jessica Denson" to YOUTUBE. A Navy Seal is her guest in the bulls**t segment that goes on for over one hour and 20 minutes.
She doesn't know the first thing about journalism or the law. Ten minutes in, she's talking about everything but the "evidence of Hack." Ten minutes in.
She's talking about herself and how she left her last outlet and what she's doing and done and SHUT THE F**K UP.
If you have evidence of a hack, you bring that up at the top. You don't tease it out, you stupid idiot.
You do learn, as the video goes on and on, other things. 18 minutes in, for instance, you learn that Jessica so busy she can't sleep!!!! and that she learned of this -- whatever "this" is -- days ago. But it didn't go up on YOUTUBE until two hours ago.
If that's the truth, if there was a hack, you come forward immediately. You're an idiot or a liar to sit on it until hours before the electoral college votes.
Do you get that? She's a con artist. She's using this for views. "Maybe she believes in it!" Did you not read what I said about "until hours before the electoral college votes."
That's what a con artist does. Wait until it's too late.
And, yes, kids, it's too late.
I didn't believe the 2020 election was stolen. But, when Trump made questionable claim after questionable claim, I noted that he had until January 6th for this nonsense. Over and over, we noted that here.
Once the electoral college votes, that's it.
There's no do over.
There is no legal process to overturn the electoral college. Not in the Constitution. And so if Jessica The Con Artist got her nonsense correct, so what?
Nothing will happen.
The most you could hope for is that it would be appealed to the Supreme Court. Their decision would be -- most likely -- to refuse to grant cert because they'd argue that the electors represented the people and the electors weren't the ones suing.
So they'd argue that this group or this person(s) did not have standing, that they had no legal right to sue.
That would be the easiest way. This is an activist Court so they might attempt writing laws. They are a Trump appointed Court so, should they write law via a decision, that decision wouldn't change the electoral college vote.
She waited too late. Too damn late. Had she presented a video of a possible hack on Friday, that would still be late in the game but it would have given people time to start a conversation, to look at the data and the media could look at it too.
Sunday night before the vote is really too damn late.
And that's if what she's presenting about a hack is accurate.
If.
I'm 27 minutes into her stupid video and I've still not heard evidence of a hack. I still haven't even heard possible evidence of a hack.
Jessica is a stupid idiot. I tried to be sympathetic and planned to note her after things were certified thinking she might have a less tin-foil hat segment to deliver.
I don't care at this point.
Have you seen THE CHINA SYNDROME? Jane Fonda won the BAFTA for her performance (the British equivalent of the Academy Award) for Best Actress.
Jack Lemmon's the whistle-blower in the film. Jane's the journalist. As he's talking about what happened and scientists might be able to follow but the average person can't, Jane's character brings it into plain speak. Jessica doesn't do that.
If you have a proof of a hack -- or even think you do -- you open with the hack. You explain in your first three minutes what you think happened. Then you go into the weeds and discuss what happened.
32 minutes in, we still don't have evidence of a hack.
Is there evidence?
I have no idea.
Jessica's a con artist because (a) apparently streams were more important to her than breaking this news or 'news' in time to change anything and (b) she doesn't know how to do her damn job. Most people are not going to give you five minutes to get to the point, let alone over thirty. This is outrageous.
This helps no one.
The night before, a shoddy video that can't make a concise point quickly helps no one.
Now people can pursue this topic -- and they should -- because election integrity matters.
But Jessica's whole point -- the reason she left her previous outlets -- was that she was going to rally everyone and get the results or 'results' exposed.
And I'm honestly done. I'm at a party and I've wasted nearly 40 minutes of my time on her crap ass video.
She will never be highlighted here. I'm trying to celebrate with friends who deservedly won awards tonight and I've taken nearly forty minutes of my time and she still can't get to the damn point.
If she even has a valid point. If.
There's no THIRD this week, by the way. I'm tired. There wasn't one this past week. Ava and I did notes on the piece we'll right for next week. Did that the day after Christmas. But we haven't tried to write it yet (we'll be calling for a long running TV series to be canceled) because we're tired. And that's before I wasted nearly forty minutes on a video an idiot posted two hours ago claiming that there was a hack. Again, if there was, she wasted too long in getting the word out. Again, if there was, her organizational and journalistic skills are so poor that she doesn't know how to report.
In school, I did feature writing. I did not do news. I did feature writing very well. I was not interested in writing news.
When you write news, it's not a discovery process. It's not a linear story. You start off with the ending. For example"
Pearl Harbor was bombed yesterday.
The naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese bombers in the early morning hours yesterday as people were finishing their breakfasts and starting their day.
The attack left at 2403 people dead, 2335 of them were US service members. The US service members were serving on the USS ARIZONA, the USS OKLAHOMA, the USS UTAH, the USS WEST VIRGINIA and the USS CALIFORNIA and at the the Hickman Field base.
The surprise ariel attack followed months of negotiations between the governments of the US and Japan with regards to who would control the Pacific Ocean. Secretary of State Cordell Hull had spent weeks negotiating with the Japanese. As he reported for work yesterday morning, Hull was informed that Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's Ambassador to the US, was awaiting him. Hull was presented with a document summarizing the Japanese government's position and he declared, "In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen such a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehood and distortion."
I'm not interested in doing that. We have done it before, when reporting on a Congressional hearing we attended or when a news outlet publishes an article and a transcript and, reading the transcript, you grasp how much actual news didn't get reported in the article. Otherwise, you're reading a conversation -- Keesha long ago dubbed it, a private conversation in a public sphere.
Again, Jessica took forty minutes of my night I'm never going to get back. Done. Finished. Don't care about you anymore.
I know people are depressed over the results. I am as well. But believing grifters and idiots isn't going to help us. And Jessica's laughable hail mary run is offensive. Depression is normal this time of year -- even without Kamala losing -- and you should try to get more sunshine The Harvard School of Public Health notes:
Vitamin D is both a nutrient we eat and a hormone our bodies make. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that has long been known to help the body absorb and retain calcium and phosphorus; both are critical for building bone. Also, laboratory studies show that vitamin D can reduce cancer cell growth, help control infections and reduce inflammation. Many of the body’s organs and tissues have receptors for vitamin D, which suggest important roles beyond bone health, and scientists are actively investigating other possible functions.
Few foods naturally contain vitamin D, though some foods are fortified with the vitamin. For most people, the best way to get enough vitamin D is taking a supplement because it is hard to eat enough through food. Vitamin D supplements are available in two forms: vitamin D2 (“ergocalciferol” or pre-vitamin D) and vitamin D3 (“cholecalciferol”). Both are also naturally occurring forms that are produced in the presence of the sun’s ultraviolet-B (UVB) rays, hence its nickname, “the sunshine vitamin,” but D2 is produced in plants and fungi and D3 in animals, including humans. Vitamin D production in the skin is the primary natural source of vitamin D, but many people have insufficient levels because they live in places where sunlight is limited in winter, or because they have limited sun exposure due to being inside much of the time. Also, people with darker skin tend to have lower blood levels of vitamin D because the pigment (melanin) acts like a shade, reducing production of vitamin D (and also reducing damaging effects of sunlight on skin, including skin cancer). (Source: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/vitamin-d/)
Vitamin D isn't naturally found in many foods, but you can get it from fortified milk, fortified cereal, and fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and sardines. Your body also makes vitamin D when direct sunlight converts a chemical in your skin into an active form of the vitamin (calciferol).
The amount of vitamin D your skin makes depends on many factors, including the time of day, season, latitude and your skin pigmentation. Depending on where you live and your lifestyle, vitamin D production might decrease or be completely absent during the winter months. Sunscreen, while important to prevent skin cancer, also can decrease vitamin D production.
Many older adults don't get regular exposure to sunlight and have trouble absorbing vitamin D. If your doctor suspects you're not getting enough vitamin D, a simple blood test can check the levels of this vitamin in your blood.
Taking a multivitamin with vitamin D may help improve bone health. The recommended daily amount of vitamin D is 400 international units (IU) for children up to age 12 months, 600 IU for people ages 1 to 70 years, and 800 IU for people over 70 years.
If you're feeling depressed, you are not alone. But you'll be better off getting more sunshine, eating foods rich in vitamin D and taking a supplement. (I take a prescribed Vitamin D per my PCP for the last eight months. I have a huge deficiency.) You're really not going to improve your vitamin D level by watching a YOUTUBE video -- not even a good one.
Let's wrap things up with some news.
South African born, US president-elect, weirdo and national security threat Elon Musk is back in the news. He's targeting 158 Democrats in the US House of Representatives and using terms like "sully" which is hilarious when we're talking about a man with 11 kids by three different women -- in and outside of marriage -- but the MAGA goons were stupid enough to worship him without realizing that he'd at least twice utilized in vitro fertilization so this may work on them too.
In an attempt to distract the fools from how much he hates them (and them him) he took to his platform over the weekend to whine about this. Strangely, he failed to target the five Republicans House members that didn't vote at all.
Matthew Lynn (TELEGRAPH) notes of Elon's car business, "Its sales are falling. The share price has slumped. It is facing an end to many of the lucrative subsidies that have helped it to grow, and its chief executive is too busy helping out the president-elect – and meddling in global politics – to pay much attention to the company that made him the world’s richest man."
In condensed news, we have two items. THE HILL's Tara Suter's "Trump blasts the ‘corrupt’ and ‘broken’ legal system ahead of his sentencing" -- yes, it is corrupt and broken as demonstrated by the fact that on January 10th, he will face no jail time for his convictions. THE NEW REPUBLIC's Malcom Ferguson's "Johnson Denies Scratching Backs To Flip GOP Holdouts" -- yes, Mike is telling the truth. He doesn't scratch backs, he nuzzles crotches.
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