Maybe antivaxxers were warning us that they were going to murder everyone who got the vaccine. That actually sounds plausible in a “what were they thinking?” Sort of way.
In an interview on the Israeli Basketball Association’s website, Israeli player Dor Saar said before the game: "It’s known that they are quite anti-semitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected....
In firefox: “Browser blocked” Disable javascript and whaddya know? IT’S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
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In the lead-up to the South Carolina primary, a conservative group is eyeing the state as a valuable testing ground for messages opposing the US Food and Drug Administration’s proposed menthol cigarette ban, something they hope will chip away at President Joe Biden’s Black vote.
The Liberty Policy Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, plans on launching an aggressive ad campaign in South Carolina to see whether it can sway some public opinion against Biden and Democrats, according to a Republican strategist working with the group.
The ads rolled out on digital platforms Wednesday morning.
The ad campaign is targeting three groups, the strategist said: African Americans who disapprove of Biden and think he has been ineffective as president, small business owners and young Americans who lean independent.
The Liberty Policy Foundation sees the ads as a “high priority because we can test how or if it moves voters for the primary,” the strategist told CNN.
Republicans and conservative groups are trying to determine whether leveraging this issue can influence voter behavior and reduce the president’s vote count. Republicans are seeking to capitalize on what polls show is a dip in Biden’s support and enthusiasm among Democratic voters by potentially turning the proposed ban into a wedge issue in the 2024 election.
The strategist said the group is launching a mid-six-figure ad campaign in South Carolina followed by four other states a week later: North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Michigan, which are seen as potential swing states in a general presidential election.
Biden has yet to decide on whether to approve the FDA’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which health advocates say would save hundreds of thousands of Black lives, but which could also be unpopular with some Black voters.
Menthol cigarettes are the preferred cigarette among many Black smokers after the tobacco industry heavily marketed menthols in the Black community for decades. Menthol cigarettes continue to be widely available and priced cheaper in Black communities, according to the nonprofit advocacy group, The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
CNN viewed the ad that’s set to run in the South Carolina market, which features a woman in a voiceover. “President Biden keeps talking about uniting Americans, bringing us together, so why is he pushing policies that continue to divide us? Like his proposal to criminalize menthol cigarettes. Community leaders have warned Biden about the unintended consequences of banning menthol cigarettes.” The ad shows headlines related to Eric Garner, who died after police held him in a chokehold. Police initially confronted Garner for allegedly selling cigarettes illegally.
Some civil rights leaders with ties to the tobacco industry have raised concerns with the White House that a ban would criminalize menthol cigarettes and lead to an increase in deadly police interactions.
The proposed menthol ban explicitly states it would solely be aimed at cigarette manufacturers and retailers, not individuals.
Other groups, such as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, support the proposed menthol cigarette ban.
In a report issued on Wednesday, the American Lung Association called for the Biden administration to act “swiftly” on the proposed ban.
“Menthol cigarettes make it both easier to start and harder to quit by reducing the harshness of the smoke and cooling the throat,” notes the association’s annual State of Tobacco Control report. Researchers estimate that a regulation banning menthol cigarettes would save about 654,000 lives over the next 40 years, especially those of Black smokers, who are disproportionately more likely to smoke menthols.
On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls....
Grab a Pyle power conditioner off of Amazon. It’ll run you 100 bucks, but you get the benefit of AVR which is more important imo than being able to run while the power is out.
So ups have AVR (automatic voltage regulation), that is a big part of the selling point. The power that they output is “clean”. One of these is basically AVR without the battery.
It’s not quite as good as a good ups+AVR, but it’s a fuckload cheaper and you don’t have to replace the batteries every 6 months.
Stop with this bullshit. They aren’t influenced by Google in any ways that actually matter. Google is effectively paying to make sure that there is a competitor.
Biden figured out a while back the method of the slow burn. That’s exactly what his admin is doing with Student Debt. Since the big pushes failed thanks to republicans, they have been forgiving debt in very specific areas at a time. 10 million here, 135 million there, 25 million elsewhere, etc.
The republican base can’t bother to give much of a shit about 100 million, so the trick is to accomplish the main goal in itty bitty pieces. Pretty soon you can put 2 and 2 together and realizes that a few billion has been allocated.
That’s what I see happening here. $700,000 isn’t enough for repubs to really bitch about. It’s a hilariously small number. But if you do that a few hundred times, that small number becomes a very large number. Thankfully republicans are too stupid and short sighted to rub two braincells (if they have them) together to figure it out.
I highly recommend doing deep dives into what the Biden admin has been doing. They have gotten very clever.
In particular with the Israeli shit that has been like a foreign policy minefield. Bibi let it slip the other day that the Biden admin has been pushing for a Palestinian state from the start. The problem is that Israel has been giving Biden and company a resounding middle finger every step of the way.
Right after the attack, the Biden admin was trying to get Israel not to go further than bombing. When that didn’t work they were pushing for limited boots on the ground stuff. When that didn’t work they started pushing for humanitarian pauses and more humanitarian corridors and aid, now the Biden admin is pushing for a 2 state solution which would make Palestine and the PA a legitimate recognized entity and use a multinational force to stand between Israel and Palestine. All the whole, the Biden admin has been saying we stand with Israel and they have our full support, etc etc etc. it’s been a tightrope of publicly supporting but privately trying to hold them back.
Say what you will about Biden, but his administration has some pretty slick operators in it.
Some of it has worked. Specifically humanitarian pauses, aid corridors and the like. The problem is that Bibi is gonna lose power without war, so he is unwilling to listen.
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