"But when Palestinian Americans were denied a speaking slot at the DNC convention a few weeks later, residents in Dearborn started to feel disgruntled. That resentment grew when Harris in August told a pro-Palestinan protester “I am speaking now” — a line that Arab Americans now point to as a difficult moment for Harris to overcome."
"Zoom into Arab American neighborhoods and you’ll find an even more dramatic crumbling for the vice president. Trump showed up big throughout the Eastern and Southern parts of Dearborn, where a high concentration of the community lives. In one of those precincts, Harris earned only 13 percent while Trump got 51 percent. "
"Then Trump paid a visit to Dearborn four days before the election. He stood in a restaurant surrounded by a crowd of Arab Americans and declared that under his presidency, “we’re going to have peace in the Middle East — but not with the clowns that you have running the U.S. right now.”
"Harris never personally visited Dearborn. Campaign staff and surrogates went in her place instead.
“The Democrats did this,” Zahr said. “They created a situation where Donald Trump was walking around our city, putting his feet up, shaking hands, kissing babies and Harris didn’t even enter our community. She was afraid.”
In #SouthKorea 107 housefires have been started by cats turning on kitchen gas stoves when the owners were gone. The gookshits have their smart (dumb) Samsung appliances with animated touch screen interfaces and the cats have been swatting the touchscreen apparently.
The Big Bet (on the electoral outcome) is $3.2 Billion.
There are additional markets on the EC margin, and additional markets on swing states, and markets on the popular vote margin within swing states. It's well in excess of $3.2 Billion, and all of it, except for two swing states, skews towards Trump.
It's so funny to me that shitlibs on the #social sites are saying that #polymarket is rigged by muh rich #white#male oppressor.
They aren't taking into consideration that the #rich#whales are risking their own money staking on an outcome they consider to be an inevitability. Or that the total size of the betting market is too big for any one whale to manipulate. Or that every market position requires a counter-party betting on the opposite outcome.
If your local municipality laid off 10% of their cops - and be generous, give them 2 months' pay of severance - what would those cops do professionally? Would they find work as private security or personal bodyguards? Would there even be enough market demand to hire them in that sector?
Cops are tax-feeders and bureaucrats who pretend to be gigachads. They flex on thugs and no-gooder bums when they can be arsed, and they don't meaningfully impact the quality of life for the middle class.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the film #Rust has been #sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the #death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. This sentencing marks the most substantial #criminal consequence to date in the ongoing #legal proceedings related to the fatal on-set shooting that occurred in October 2021.