Yes panic and sex sells.
It has always been a top hit, which is why media and companies will always use it to get attention and make you click on their news article.
Most sites are so full of ads now, so they really want you to click and spend time on the site.

I read an article saying a large portion of CHAZ 'residents' were fleeing the zone because of the high amount of crime and violence inside the No-Cop zone.

These kids cannot even see their own irony.

('Kids'- can also include Liberals in this context)



I had someone ask me the other day "How do you know which side are the good guys?" I told her it's usually the side that doesn't support burning buildings, erasing history, attacking the police, race baiting, taking away your rights and silencing free speech.

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Yes, I think so, based on trajectory over the last few decades. It depends on your metric, but this site provides some useful comparators (albeit 18 months old).
You also mentioned the China/India 'conflict'. This I think is a separate issue and the Himalayas will become more of a battleground in the decades to come as growing populations combine with climate change to make control of water sources tremendously important (see also the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam).

Same shit, different election..

The propaganda riles up all those who lap it up like dogs and bark really loud, and those who see through it and don't agree with the whole burning cities thing stay mainly quiet, but don't forget..
They are even pissing off all the Nascar fans lately I hear..

Whatever.. It will be what it is going to be..
Ain't gonna catch me voting for anyone who panders to the violent left over "racism" or whatever, while the only "racism" actually growing is anti-white racism..

Polls?
I wonder if virtue signalers just might be more likely to respond..

Left is just getting more and more radical, and that's what lost them the last one..

Nooses really? People are afraid of knots?
Everyone in the old days was hung by a noose.. Betcha more whites were hung by nooses than blacks in the history of the country..
Just like they make a big deal out of one or 2 black criminals getting shot by cops, while black on black crime kills monumentally more of them..
If they weren't so dangerous then they would probably get shot a lot less..

And this is the reason why, in my home, we wash poultry with white vinegar, then rinse it with tap water (our tap water is safe to drink, no one buys bottled water) and then cut it / prep it and cook it.
The immediate vicinity of the food prep area, gets cleaned with diluted bleach to kills salmonella and others.

"Don't wash your raw chicken!" the government organization tweeted. "Washing can spread germs from the chicken to other food or utensils in the kitchen."

What happened is that declining educational standards combined with the ready availability of prepared meals has resulted in Western society collectively forgetting how to safely handle poultry. In case they didn't teach you this in home economics class, raw poultry products often carry disease-causing bacteria (salmonella, campylobacter, and many more), and washing it (which has absolutely no benefit, BTW) will send droplets of contaminated water spraying everywhere, spreading those bacteria to other foods and food preparation surfaces. There's nothing more to it than that.

Definitely not time to celebrate, but Biden is currently looking very strong in the swing state polls.  I think we're going to see Biden keep the ball on the ground and Trump taking more and more risks as we get closer to the end of the summer. He needs something to change.


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-new-polling-averages-show-biden-leads-trump-by-9-points-nationally/

Not that it wasn't already obvious but:

"Prosecutor says he was pressured to cut Roger Stone 'a break' because of his ties to Trump"

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump-336075



Here's Zelinskys written opening statement for his testimony tomorrow:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519

Even in the debates all he needs to do is just stay awake and have prepared answers to the common attack vectors and whatever the crisis of the day is. If he can find something to poke Trump with that's great, but probably not necessary... you know Trump will inevitably go off script and start rambling about Hillary and too much coronavirus testing and confederate statues matter etc.

But obviously that's easier said than done for Biden.

New NYT/Siena poll was released today that's looking extremely good for Biden. Sample size 1337 registered voters conducted 6/17 - 6/22.

Biden 50, Trump 36.

Age demographic breakdowns of this poll is pretty crazy too, among 65+, Biden 47%, Trump 45%. Among the 45 - 64 year old age demographic, Biden 44%, Trump 44%.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

Put's Biden's RCP average lead at 10.2 points.

I guess older folks really did not like Trump's coronavirus response. Not a good sign when he's losing with boomers.

I have a feeling that there aren't many honest people lining up to work for Trump. He seems to demand loyalty over everything else so he gets (1) crooks who pretend to like him or (2) not very bright individuals who might genuinely like him but are shit at their jobs.


It's going to be interesting to watch how this shakes out. Bolton claims that he made all edits he was asked to make and that some information may have been classified retroactively. Neither side can really be trusted in their rhetoric.

Fingers crossed that Sleepy Joe "pervy paws" Biden will stick to the winning strategy of staying quiet and letting Trump defeat himself. And that he doesn't fall off the stage and doesn't mix Trump up with his sister during the debates.

I've always thought that the presidential election is a bit of a clown show... but this year... my oh my.

Bolton has already been labeled as all sorts of criminal by trumpists (and of course he isn't a particularly credible person), which makes me wonder why Trump tends to surround himself with these horrible people who quit or get fired after a few months and then denigrate him. There must be a common denominator in this uber-complex equation - what (or who) could it possibly be...

You misinterpreted what I said. I didn't say Trump was "running the election." As the head of state, Trump is the top representative of the federal government -- the one that upholds the constitution which created the electoral college who elects the president. By claiming the vote is "rigged" before it even happens, he is undermining the constitution and thus the legitimacy of his own office.

Have a cookie.



It is indeed not easy at all, except for when you have an extremely well organized party, but without radio and TV chains, I can imagine it's hard to get a foot on the ground in US politics. In the UK, the classical 2 party system has been turned over however, so it is not impossible though (although indeed, their voting system is still different from the US's).

I would suspect that any DOJ lawsuit against Bolton would be dropped if Biden were to win. Likewise for any criminal charges.

I suspect the Democrats had ~all of the evidence and testimony ahead of time before they started the impeachment inquiry. This is based on Mr. Vinmen meeting with Shift's office before testifying, Pelosi saying publicly that she will not support impeachment without bipartisan support ~two weeks before announcing the impeachment inquiry, and the rules that heavily favored Democrats. This would not be the case with a Bolton impeachment, Bolton would have credibility issues, and there is the risk that Bolton could recant his testimony in the middle of a trial or inquiry, which might lead to a strong bipartisan vote against impeachment, or congress voting to impeach based on literally zero evidence. I think Democrats voting to impeach is just too risky for Democrats.

Trump is also very good at 4-D chess. When Bolton tweeted about being locked out of his Twitter account after impeachment, I had suspected at the time it was a ploy to get Democrats to call Bolton to testify.

I would say a 2nd Trump term would have a decent chance of an armed conflict with China, while a Biden administration would probably mean going back to allowing China to steal US IP, and possibly China exporting computer HW to the US in masse, which would only lead to spying on the US. Being a warmonger, Bolton should favor the former.

I wouldn't be surprised if his "protesters, anarchists, looters and low lifes going to Oklahoma" tweet made a lot of his supporters decide to just watch it on TV instead of having to worry about their car getting torched in a race riot while in the Arena and then having to pay the Uber extra because they smell like pepper spray.

In the US the LP is just a tool used in lame attempts to split the vote of the opposition.

I think what makes it so schadenfreudy is that the Trump campaign was in complete delusion about this rally. Like the Brad Parscale's tweet above or this from Trump himself:


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-speaks-half-empty-arena-tulsa.html

It was still a huge crowd but a great example of woefully mismanaged expectations and terrible handling of the fallout - blaming media, protesters, etc.