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Team Harris will take this right now – politicalbetting.com
Kamala Harris has a 1-point edge over Donald Trump nationally – something Joe Biden never had (he was down 5 points when he left the race). And Harris and Trump are tied across the collective battleground states. https://t.co/QhtbC8yPEj pic.twitter.com/vqZSuQIZZs
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Having taken legal advice.
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I endorse this message V .
Kamala, aka Karma.
I misused an apostrophe at work and well everyone is having fun that the Grammar Nazi has been hoist by his own petard.
I was like should be Harris’s or Harris’ and I’ve lost faith in myself and thought feck it, Team Harris will do.
Perhaps the name "Boris" curried favour with his oligarch friends.
South Africa and Brazil may be next, then Russia and India will start warning about the terrible corrpution here.
The whole point of making an obvious mistake is to allow everything else you are trying to slip through pass unnoticed as everyone picks on the mistake.
It's a trick I've used fairly often followed by Thank you for picking up on the minor grammar mistake, as there are no objections to the suggestings of XYZ so we are implementing it.
I stick to the old rule - no added s after monosyllabic words ending in s or z. Always safer. Unless it's publisher house rules in which case I go by them.
A teacher in the 1970s had a trick to remember when to use an apostrophe before a possessive noun. He suggested the apostrophe allowed "his" to be shortened (irrespective of gender) so "Peter his car" would be shortened to "Peter's car". Equally "Jane his car" would be shortened to "Jane's car". So under that rule "Harris his team's" would be shortened to "Harris's team".
Well, it's generally worked for me.
(Incidentally, one of the defects in Kamala Harris's career is the high staff turnover while she was VP. Dunno any more about it than that, but I think it does call for an explanation.)
Have a friend currently overseas who lives by an asylum hotel, who is concerned things may spill to his locale. Checked the Telegram channel posted on the earlier thread. Oh my. I sincerely hope that among the 15k members, there are lurking employees of our security establishment and that they’ve cracked the anonymity of Telegram.
Because either it’s a lot of nefarious propaganda by a certain foreign state, or it’s a yellow pages of the biggest wronguns in our country. It does seem to have been filled this afternoon with bot generated white noise, wrecking its usefulness for edl riot organisers.
Telegram is Mos Eisley. There is little we can do about it.
(Done)
https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1820462091863777767
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Speaking of "high staff turnover" what about Donald Trump's while he was POTUS?
Does make you think that Russia will sue for peace shortly after the U.S. election whoever is the winner.
Less than a month in and already clear they're going to be terrible- in every respect.
The Italian boxer who ignited the controversy over the ALgerian and Thai boxers at the Olympics is getting a $50,000 payout.
From the Russian IBA.
https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/boxing-iba-award-prize-money-italys-carini-despite-loss-algerias-khelif-2024-08-02/
This whole thing has been Russian shit-stirring.
Firstly, Dave had a got a grip by now - Starmer has not, and it's not clear he's anywhere close - and nor did he go full finger-in-the-ears and cryptoauthoritarian.
Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to “immediately implement changes” to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.
The letter, spearheaded by Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and signed by his counterparts Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania, Steve Hobbs of Washington, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan and Maggie Toulouse Oliver of New Mexico, urges Musk to “immediately implement changes to X’s AI search assistant, Grok, to ensure voters have accurate information in this critical election year.”
Within hours of President Biden’s announcement that he was suspending his presidential campaign on July 21, “false information on ballot deadlines produced by Grok was shared on multiple social media platforms,” the secretaries wrote.
The secretaries cited a post from Grok that circulated after Biden stepped out of the race: “The ballot deadline has passed for several states for the 2024 election,” the post read, naming nine states: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.
Had the deadlines passed in those states, the vice president would not have been able to replace Biden on the ballot. But the information was false. In all nine states, the ballot deadlines have not passed and upcoming ballot deadlines allow for changes to candidates. . . .
Musk launched Grok last year as an anti-“woke” chatbot, professing to be frustrated by what he says is the liberal bias of ChatGPT. In contrast to AI tools built by OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, which are trained to carefully navigate controversial topics, Musk said he wanted Grok to be unfiltered and “answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.”
The secretaries of state, who are the chief elections officers in their states, are objecting not to Grok’s tone but its factual inaccuracies and the sluggishness of the company’s move to correct bad information. . . .
SSI - Fanboys/bot of Comrade Musko please explain?
Weirdly his surname was also Harris. And despite being 'the Ugandan giant' was born in Mississippi.
All their initial instincts are wrong. They’ve already shown they have no ideas and those ideas they have are fucking contemptibly stupid. Starmer is an over promoted dork and reeves is probably worse
Mostly due to it being more organised on social media and the plans for mass murder that is being planned.
- He suspended an account of a group raising millions for Harris through the platform
- He prevented users following the Harris campaign on the day of launch
- He has a chatbot saying she is not on the ballot
Cameron however quickly showed himself to be arrogant and entitled, whereas Starrmer is surprising on the upside, so far.
He seens, to me, surprisingly wable to carry off a number of modes; serious, empathic, hopeful, or stern. The first signs for his premiership, I would say, look pretty hopeful.
- Is providing evidence of inconsistent policing between different groups "excusing" the riots?
- Is discussing the contributors to ethnic tensions in the relevant towns "condoning" the riots?
- Is discussing previous government amd media failures that have led to distrust in authorities "glorifying" the riots?
There is a specific immediate need to do something about these riots, but there is also a longer-term need to address the grinding poverty which is the backdrop for all of these places currently ablaze.
Labour's challenge is not to shat the bed as spectacularly as the Tories did. You can't offer hope then deliver more failure. But if we get a few years in and there is no change and no hope, then I can see how Farage and even further to the right populists can clean up. Offering neo-fascist solutions to problems that nobody wants to address.
I have no problem debating the whys and wherefores of migration. But if we want to significantly reduce it we will need a significant restructure of the economy to cover both the costs of labour and the huge investment needed into these places to pull them and the underclass out of grinding poverty. Farage et al offer crayon economics as to how they could fund such things, but in the real world it is much harder.
Ultimately, the cost of action may be less than the cost of inaction. Tories endlessly say "how will we pay for x" even though we always find the higher cost of y when we say that x is unaffordable and suffer y as a direct consequence.
Incidentally, my tinfoil-hat view is that much of our border 'crisis' is being generated directly and/or indirectly by Russia, as they are doing at the Polish, Finnish and Estonian borders. Probably America's as well.
(*) In the General Melchett map-scale sense of advance.
In response to somebody saying it was really kicking off in Rotherham you responded (and this is close to a quote) ...
"Now let me see, is there anything that might have happened in Rotherham recently that might explain that?"
(not to pick on you, there were other posters in similar mode, but just to try and illustrate what I think is being got at here)
*) She looks a little male; depending on the photos.
*) The IBA said she was intersex.
Do you know of other reasons?
The timing of the IBA's announcement of the rest 'results' is also suspicious; *after* the competition in which she beat a Russian boxer. As is their refusal to given even details of the tests performed.
There's the awful possibility that she is fully female, without DSD/Intersex, and has been placed in this hideous situation. even if she is DSD/intersex, the amount of hate displayed towards her has been sad to behold. And a lot of people would never believe it if 1,001 tests showed she was female.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
Three of you, all clutching the same tiny straw.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Such a bill can't pass if the Republicans try to talk it out but doing so would be a huge embarrassment to them in this election year.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
Going for that PB-obligatory 80's music reference of Kamala Chameleon?
Liverpool riots: First group of people involved in riots appear in court - with one swearing as he was taken away
Hundreds of people have been arrested across the country. Here are the details of some of their court appearances today.
https://news.sky.com/story/liverpool-riots-people-appear-in-court-the-youngest-just-14-and-the-oldest-a-69-year-old-who-turned-up-with-wooden-bat-13191287
Adam Wharton and Ellis Wharton - Liverpool
Two brothers appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court accused of crimes relating to a library which was set on fire during the riots.
28-year-old Adam Wharton appeared first, admitting burglary with intent to steal from the Spellow Lane Library Hub, which suffered severe damage to the ground floor due to the fire.
The library was opened last year to provide support for one of the most deprived communities in the country.
Wharton, who has 16 previous convictions for 26 offences, including robbery and burglary, stood in the dock at Liverpool Magistrates' Court wearing a grey, prison-issue tracksuit.
As he left the dock, Wharton said: "Nice one, shitty arse judge man."
His younger brother Ellis Wharton, 22, admitted trying to steal a computer screen from the library - but denied assaulting a police officer.
Who doesn't do embarrassment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-soldier-dies-after-being-stabbed-by-migrants-border-with-belarus-2024-06-06/
As for the general point
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/estonia-accuses-russia-weaponising-immigration-europe-borders
If Russia are doing it there, why do you think they wouldn't be directly or indirectly doing it at our border? Or the USA's?
The court heard he had no previous convictions and had never been in trouble with the police before.
His lawyer, Iqbal Singh Kang..."
Oh, the irony....
The next stage is exemplified by Lord Scarman's report following Brixton 1981. This stage reflects the general truth that riots, despite being undertaken by the most objectionable people imaginable are none the less the voice of the unheard.
Matt Goodwin here is partly right. If the matter is totally ignored (which Labour will find tempting, and Tories dealt with by substitution activity) expect solutions to be hard:
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/no-this-is-not-just-far-right-thuggery?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=858965&post_id=147334266&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1mnpci&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I make him around 1.7 to still be PM after the next GE. The big vulnerability is Growth. They've made that a massive deal but whether we get good growth or not is more to do with global macro factors, with events and random chance, than with anything that's in his power to do. So if he's unlucky on that the next election is losable.
Les Jeux Olympique. And the stade de France for the athletisme
Well, the gazette did ask. So I had to go
Sometimes I wonder about my job. All the free luxury travel to amazing places. Is it worth it? Is that a good way to spend your declining years when you could be a mildly left wing lawyer in a rainy British provincial city?
But then I think Yes. Do it. Someone has to: let it be YOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZT-wVnFn60
I expect Putin's attitude to change *if* the Dems win in November. The question is whether she would have the inclination, or ability, to do more than Biden already has. But even a hamstrung Harris is better for Ukraine than a Trump.
I win.
Overall I'm quite keen that these people should be locked up forever. Deep dark dungeons. That may seem a little unfair, but I see no reason to be fair. (Obviously I support the legal process, but it doesn't hurt to spin out the alternative)
We have hundreds of thousands of vacancies and that is only likely to increase as we increase the need for public/private sector workers in specific areas such as social care.
We have a small but significant core of British workers who are either incapable or unwilling of filling those positions and who are alienated from society and have no faith in politicians or the system.
We therefore have the need for a steady flow of migrants to fill those positions and to allow the economy to grow.
We also have a world that generates millions of genuine refugees in addition to millions more genuine economic migrants who simply want a better life for themselves.
We have a tiny but vociferous group of extremists who see the opportunity to use these issues as an excuse for violence and a means of stirring up hatred.
In addition we have a tiny but vocal group of radicalised citizens who, for religious reasons, are committed to a society that is seriously at odds with our own.
Mainstream society abides by a set of conventions and beliefs (in democracy, freedom of expression and thought, restraint of state and police power and the right to peaceful protest) which are open to abuse by the extremists on both sides but which cannot be changed without changing society in a seriously deliterious way. This limits the actions of both the state and society to deal with these issues.
The whole thing is stoked by external factors, both directed at us - as in the actions of Russia and other bad faith players in stirring up trouble - and undirected, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict. The British state and society have little or no control over these factors but they are capable of causing huge problems for us internally.
I don't think any Government - no matter how competent, well funded or well meaning - can deal with all of these issues as some are beyond our control and the others are contradictory and not open to simple, or perhaps even complex, solutions.
I believe the best that society and state can do here is manage and mitigate. It is a bleak perspective but sadly I think it is accurate.
https://x.com/BoLoudon/status/1820483205184557207/photo/1
The descent of America, in one picture...
England rugby's Twickenham home is to be renamed as the Allianz Stadium in a new sponsorship deal, say the Rugby Football Union.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cd9dd2xyx2ko
He travelled the world
He liked his food
He fomented racial tension on the internet
It's actually a good way to make money since you get the cash and no one will ever really call it what it is renamed.
Running and jumping and throwing
Did I mention I’m here for free? That only adds to the solemnity, to my mind