That's such a "Doesn't he look tired" move on Kamala's part. Love it.
I watched that Trump town hall, it was not a good look for him at all. It started very late, questions came off of prepared queue cards, Trump rambled nonsense while holding himself up on a chair and sitting like there was something in his pants, then he called it early and just stood there swaying back and forth.
Dude is not all there, and it's worse than before, and I say that as someone who believed until yesterday he was just as bad as always, he isn't, it's much much worse now.
Comment sections for this article have some serious "all lives matter" vibes. These policies likely matter to black people, especially black men, because they're disproportionately impacted by them.
They're 3.6 times more likely to be arrested for possession. But almost 10x more likely in some red states.
Want to know what's a big barrier to economic success? A felony like getting busted with cannabis.
Why Crypto? Well a disproportionate number of Black people don't trust the banks or financial services in general, and are under serviced by them. There is a generational mistrust of banks due to discriminatory practices in the banking sector. They're five times more likely to not even have a bank account than white households. This makes loans to start a business harder to get, it increases costs to cash cheques and pushes black people towards less traditional financing or banking services like crypto.
Folks, I'm just saying, we all know that you too are impacted by these things, but it's not out of line at all to direct messages to those who are impacted the most.
When a hurricane hits Florida, threads don't full up with comments "what about Maine?"
The link to black men is pretty clear as far as I'm concerned. Possession is used as an excuse to target black men, to increase sentences, to imprison, it's no joke.
Try this on, I had my daughter at the pool yesterday and she wandered off a bit, a lady saw her wander off from me and told her to go back with her "Papa".
Wall of text, but a good read if you have the time.
"One of the first known references to FEMA concentration camps comes from a newsletter issued by the Posse Comitatus organization in 1982, with the warning that "hardcore patriots" were to be detained in them.[2] The prevalence of the conspiracy theory increased in line with the rise of the militia movement in the 1990s.[2] The conspiracy was part of the rhetoric of the now largely disbanded Militia of Montana. The self-styled congressional analyst David Fletcher was their spokesman and brought it up in meetings, even pointing out "United Nations Reserves" that the government was building camps for in the Northern Cascades.[13]
A supposed FEMA camp was featured in Linda Thompson's 1994 film America Under Siege; in reality, the "FEMA camp" was an Amtrak repair facility.[14][15] She accused the government of using "black helicopters" against patriots to prevent them from interfering with plans to establish a New World Order.[16][17][18] Following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the conspiracy theory was discussed by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Domestic Terrorism.[9] The theory's inclusion in the plot of the 1998 X-Files movie showed its growing reach.[1]
Fears of FEMA declined in the early 2000s as foreign terrorists were perceived as the major threat but the late-2000s recession and the election of Barack Obama renewed opposition among conservatives and libertarians to the federal government. Obama's election also enabled the theory to reach more mainstream right-wing circles whereas it had previously been confined to the fringes. There was a resurgence in the militia movement, and with it a resurgence of the FEMA camps conspiracy theory[9] and a corresponding boom in the "prepper" economy.[19] Reader emails published by the magazine National Review have also promoted the theory.[3]
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann alluded to the theory while in office,[20] as have other Republican Party politicians.[21] In December 2011 Camille Marino of the animal liberation website Negotiation is Over posted an alert on her website titled "Military Now Recruiting Guards for FEMA Domestic Detainment/Internment Camps" containing the usual warnings about the end of civil liberties and the announcement that the U.S. Army is looking for "a Few Good Totalitarians" to herd dissenters into camps.[22]
In 2015, fears of the FEMA roundup beginning surfaced with the announcement of a domestic military training operation called Jade Helm 15. County and state officials in Texas denounced the fears[23] and the exercise was completed with no one being placed into an internment camp.[24] Also in 2015, additional speculation about the theory was stoked by retired general Wesley Clark when he called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived to combat Muslim extremism. He stated, "If these people are radicalized and they do not support the United States and they're disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine, that's their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."[25]
According to the Las Vegas Police Department and witnesses in the weeks leading up to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunman Stephen Paddock reportedly espoused right-wing anti-government and conspiratorial views, including FEMA conspiracies. He reportedly told a friend that "sometimes, sacrifices have to be made" in order to encourage the American public to arm themselves.[26][27]
Conspiracy theorists have used the actual internment of Japanese Americans during World War II in specifically constructed camps as evidence that such a scenario has historic precedent.[2] Proponents have cited a contingency plan (Rex 84) drafted in part by U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North calling for the suspension of the Constitution and the detainment of citizens in the event of a national crisis.[2] This was aimed at left-wing activists, not the libertarians and right-wingers generally associated with FEMA theories.[28] This has been linked to a 1970 document by Louis Giuffrida (years later, the director of FEMA) calling for the establishment of martial law in the event of an uprising by African American militants and the internment of millions of African Americans.[2]
Alex Jones has promoted conspiracy theories about FEMA on InfoWars. In 2010, Jones produced and directed Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA, a film he claimed "conclusively proves the existence of a secret network of FEMA camps" and that "The military-industrial complex is transforming our once free nation into a giant prison camp." In 2012, Jones linked to a story titled "List of All FEMA Concentration Camps in America Revealed" from the German UFO conspiracy website Disclose.tv.[29]"
I wish I could tell you. I can guess a bit. I automatically open articles and links in private mode, so less/no tracking. I also use raspberry pi with pi hole for DNS, so less tracking again. I'm outside the US, so if there are Geo restrictions in place I might not be subject to them.
But we got several paragraphs dedicated to sane washing Trumps policy.
This is how the media help elect Trump. They had a choice here. Trump calls for domestic violence, you write an article talking about domestic violence rates, give polling info on attitudes towards domestic violence, give party legislative history on domestic violence, talk about Trumps history with violent rhetoric and his own accusations of being violent with his wife. You don't dispense of it in the first two paragraphs then spend the rest giving Trump a sane washed campaign ad.
Maybe it was watching their chief asset waving back and forth for 39 straight minutes instead of answering questions.