It's time for me to write a bit more regularly and longer-form. The Hat Tip launches this week. arieh.substack.com/p/coming-soon
The Hat Tip will provide reporting, analysis and predictions about current affairs, especially US, UK, Israel. I plan to cover politics, public policy, political extremism and a little science and technology too.
There will be data – expect the occasional graph – and original reporting at times. There might be some of my odder interests (eg, I'm a calendar geek. Yes, that's a thing).
I'll try to balance bringing things that I think are important and interesting with things that my readers want to hear about, so if you have suggestions of things you want me to dig into, you'll be able to ask.
Anyway, you can sign up now, though I get it if you want to wait until the first one is out. I probably would. I've never been the best salesman. arieh.substack.com/p/coming-soon
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The biggest pro-Trump forum TheDonald, which was formed after Reddit banned /r/the_Donald, has rebranded as "Patriots".
This change was partly because they didn't have full control over the old domain name. But it points, again, to an attempt to change the MAGA movement into a "Patriot Party", something Trump himself has spoken privately about in recent days.
I wrote about the Patriot Party / Lion Party, Trump and Third Positionism in the first edition of the Hat Tip: arieh.substack.com/p/the-hat-tips…
A personal plea: If you have people in your life who believe in QAnon, today is the day to reach out to them, compassionately, and let them know you still care about them.
It's NOT the day to gloat and say you told them so, how ever tempting that must be. It's not the day to mock them or call them crazy.
Don't let people in your life feel that they have no choice but to go deeper. And don't them feel like they have no choices at all.
Israel's coronavirus Tzar, Prof. Nahman Ash, told the Israeli Cabinet today that the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine appears to be less effective than what Pfizer's study suggested. That's bad news for the UK's "first dose" vaccination strategy.
One reason for this difference could be the older population of vaccine recipients in real practice compared to the study.
Prof. Ash was talking specifically about the *first* vaccine shot, not the full two-shot regimen. Israel is giving the second shot 21-28 days after the first and only began administering second shots last week.
1. If Trump leaves office and allows Biden to be sworn in, he'd be cucking out and surrendering America to Communism.
2. If Biden *is* inaugurated, then the it's time for action, including violent action. Most of these people are all talk, of course. But it only takes one or two.
For now, both these messages are overwhelmed by the MAGAts who are either "trusting the plan" or, at minimum, "hoping" that Biden won't be inaugurated at all and Trump will magically stay President.