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MONARCH CASINO & RESORT INC MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (form 10-Q) – Marketscreener.com

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The lease is up at St. Petes Manhattan Casino, and the city wants residents to tell them whats next – Creative Loafing Tampa

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The English major at UT offers a first-rate education. Our students graduate with a thorough grounding in British, American, and World Literature written in English and its cultural and historical contexts, yet our degree plan is flexible enough to allow students to concentrate in other areas of particular interest, such as creative writing or cultural studies. Just as importantly, English majors learn to articulate and defend their ideas, to turn research and critical thinking into cogent arguments, and to express themselves clearly and with style. Many students use the English major as a starting point for their chosen career or for post-graduate education. English majors work in such diverse fields as teaching and education, law, editing and publishing, advertising and marketing, freelance and technical writing, research, corporate communications, government and public service, and non-profit organizations.

The Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin is home to two fully-funded and highly-rated graduate programs: the Ph.D. in English and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing. The Department has also partnered with the School of Information to provide a joint M.S.I.S./M.A. in Information Studies and English Dual Degree program.

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Cancel Culture: Its Causes and Its Consequences

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The Cancel Culture Mob knows few limitations. While social media has empowered people to speak their minds, it has also empowered the masses to attempt to cancel those who express controversial opinions. Victims of cancel culture often end up jobless, friendless, and helpless.

Those engaging in canceling people, however, gain nothing but empty satisfaction. In a Cancel Culture, everyone loses the ability to understand differing perspectives, making echo chambers and their disastrous consequences inevitable.

What is Cancel Culture

Cancel Culture has been described as accountability by its proponents, but that is not a fair assessment of this phenomenon. If Cancel Culture implied accountability, then there would be an avenue for redemption. When the mob controls justice, there is no means by which you can regain their respect.

In the research paper, Does Apologizing Work? An Empirical Test of the Conventional Wisdom, Richard Hanania of Columbia University shows that public apologies typically have no effect or make the mob want the offender to be punished even more. In other words, Cancel Culture is not about Accountability.

Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, provides a great definition: Cancel culture means shutting people out of jobs, opportunities, platforms, & social settings- attempting to impoverish people, financially and otherwise. The point of Cancel Culture rests in the name eliminating thought criminals from polite society. If the mob cannot control what you say, they will attempt to control your ability to function in society. To put it another way, Cancel Culture is the necessary tactic the mob adopts when the conventional tactics of Political Correctness fails.

Weaponized Political Correctness

Jeff Deist defines Political Correctness as the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda. The goal of PC is to shape modern humanity into something that goes against our very nature. It destroys individualism and distinct communities and replaces our nature with mob-imposed values. It is not about good manners; it is about control.

But what happens when people refuse to be controlled? What happens when the programming fails? When people push back against PC, the mob must resort to more drastic measures. In the same way fascism emerged as a socialists last resort to impose their unnatural worldview, Cancel Culture emerged as a means to achieve a politically correct society. If you do not bend your knee to the mob, then the mob will unperson you.

This works remarkably well against ordinary people. But with someone like Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who imposed racist Stop-and-Frisk upon millions of people, there is no way to cancel him. Bloombergs money and financial connections shield him from being canceled. Those engaged in Cancel Culture do not fight for justice. Rather, they target vulnerable individuals and preclude them from ever redeeming themselves (assuming what they said was actually wrong). Rather than have a conversation with people who hold different opinions, the Cancel Culture mob would prefer to dehumanize their adversaries.

The Consequences

Cancel Culture not only harms individuals who fall in the mobs crosshairs, it harms all of society. When you hold a view that the PC Mob may disagree with, the Herd Psychology of the canceler imposes fear upon your psyche. Because of this fear, you either dont express your opinion or you only express your opinion around people you know to agree with you. In other words, Cancel Culture curbs public discourse and creates echo chambers. A 1996 MIT study prophetically predicted that the internet would lead to more echo chambers, areas of conversation in which no differing views are expressed.

This study indicated that echo chambers lead to increased radicalization and decreased understanding of the other side. In a study on links between echo chambers, radicalism, and violence, Nature Research indicates that such an atmosphere is a breeding ground for violence. People internalize their beliefs. Rather than you believing in your politics, you become your politics. If someone disagrees with your perspective, they do so with ill will according to PC culture. Society confirms this grim prediction as people become more hostile about their politics. Radical organizations like Antifa and other groups engage in violence against their political opponents. To lay it bare, politics drops its pretenses and exposes itself as the violent struggle it truly is.

Cancel Culture benefits no one. Rather, it gives a false sense of dispute resolution and gives the canceler a false sense of improved social status while isolating people from civil society. The time to fight back is now. First, refuse to cancel anyone. Dont engage in the mobs tactics. Talk with people with whom you disagree. Second, engage in alternative media. The State Linguistic Complex has its filthy fingers in all mainstream media. Provide your own counter-narrative. Tell the Truth. Unless we fight back against Political Correctness and Cancel Culture, discourse will die.

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, world’s most powerful rocket, launches after three-year hiatus – CNN

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Donald Trump campaigned for candidates in Iowa, including Kim Reynolds, Chuck Grassley

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SIOUX CITY As he stumped for Iowa Republicans Thursday night, Donald Trump told his huddled, chilly fans that next weeks midterm elections are the first step toward a greater victory one, he hinted strongly, with him at the center.

In order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, the former Republican president said, I will very, very, very probably do it again.

Everyone understood what "it" was run for president.

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Outside the Sioux Gateway Airport, where frigid winds carried a strong stench of manure, the crowd cheered louder than it had all evening. They chanted his name.

Get ready, he said. Thats all Im telling you. Get ready.

Ostensibly, Trump came to deep red northwest Iowa Thursday night to stump for states Republicans, headlined by Gov. Kim Reynolds and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley. But his speech quickly shifted and fixated on Trump himself.

He spent a few minutes trumpeting what he described as wins for Iowa farmers, including negotiated trade deals with Canada, China and Mexico. He also complimented the candidates, making a point on how tough Grassley was.

But those comments were sandwiched among many claims about himself, launching into unproven accusations of voter fraud and debunked claims of rigged elections, endorsing same-day-only voting and paper ballots that he said would "save a lot of money" and promising to "make America great again."

He wrapped up the speech by connecting next weeks midterm election results to larger victories in 2024.

This is the year were going to take back the House, he said. Were going to take back the Senate. Were going to take back America. And in 2024 most importantly were going to take back our magnificent White House. Were going to take it back. We should have never left.

Trump has coyly suggested at recent events that he will run for president again in 2024, though he hasn't made any official declarations.

Thursdays visit comes as he is reportedly preparing to launch a new presidential campaign in 2024. Associates of Trump said they expect the former president to announce his candidacy shortly after Election Day but cautioned that the timing is up to him,USA TODAY reported.

Iowa will once again lead off the presidential nominating process with its Republican caucus in 2024, and potential challengers have already made stops in the state.

Iowa Republicans hope Trump's visit will fire up the partys base and drive turnout in critical midterm elections next week. Outside the event, the parking lot lawn featured the usual Trump-centric merchandise, with vendors hawking hats and flags and hoodies dedicated to the former president.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a firebrand Republican from Georgia, warmed up the crowd, taking the stage to hail her party's "one true leader" Trump.

"Republicans are going to have to be the new Republican Party," she said, urging on the crowd. "We can no longer be the party of Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Dick Cheney, George Bush and Mitt Romney or any other sell-out, weak Republican."

There were plenty of Iowans eager to hear that message. By 2:30 p.m., lines of people had already formed.

Bob Witchey arrived at the Sioux Gateway Airport at 10 a.m. Thursday, nine hours before Trump was scheduled to take the stage.

Witchey, a 61-year-old cattle rancher from ONeill, Nebraska, stopped by a vendors tent, bought a camouflage Trump 2024 hat and got in line with his fellow conservative diehards. They talked about the need for Republicans to take control of the U.S. House and Senate during next weeks elections, decrease government spending and arrest more immigrants at the Mexican border.

Witchey said he drove two hours to Sioux City on Thursday morning because the event was a once in a lifetime opportunity to stand with like-minded thinkers and see Trump up close.

I didnt wait for eight hours just to stand here, he said, shaking the green paper bracelet on his wrist that put him in a gated-off section near the stage. I want to be up front. Its kind of a trophy to me.

In fact, at Trumps urging, security let others into the gated-off section up front about halfway through the speech. Trump told the crowd it was a shame that the fake news media had a better view of them than they did. The event was also less crowded than some of his others, including his appearance in Des Moines last year.

Republicans were banking on Trump's Iowa visit to help stoke a red wave of enthusiasm and discontent that could help them wipe the board of Democrats, lifting lesser-known down-ballot candidates such as Republicanattorney general candidate Brenna Birdandauditor candidate Todd Halbur.

An October Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll showsReynolds handily leadingher Democratic opponent, businesswoman Deidre DeJear. The same pollshows Grassley with his narrowest leadsince he was first elected to the U.S. Senate andsqueaky tight contestsin two of four U.S. House districts.

We're all fired up tonight," Reynolds told the crowd. "We're five days out, and we talk an awful lot about a red wave. And the only way that red wave is going to happen is if we build it. And in order to build it, we need you to show up.

Please help me get my own attorney general in Brenna Bird! Reynolds said to cheers. Bird is challenging longtime Iowa Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller.

Grassley also tossed some political red meat for the crowd.

"Im not going to give up on trying to get political bias out of the FBI," he said, drawing his biggest cheer of the night. "And Im not going to give up on my investigation of Hunter Biden and other Bidens."

Iowa Democrats were critical of Trump and Iowa Republicans who appeared with him.

While Kim Reynolds and Chuck Grassley pal around with a defeated former president who continues to attack our democracy, Iowa Democrats are busy knocking doors, meeting Iowans where they are and mobilizing voters," Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn said in a statement. Kim Reynolds, Chuck Grassley and the Iowa GOP take orders from their corporate donors, billionaire buddies and MAGA Republicans at the expense of Iowas working families.

In a counter-rally in Des Moines at the same time Thursday night, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Franken indirectly took aim at Trump and Grassley, emphasizing the importance of "country over party."

"Our campaign centers around country over party," Franken said. "But you know, I believe at the center of every campaign, every leader, every elected office must be the basic sense that its country over yourself. Even when theres money to be made, favors to be curried, its you second to the objective."

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The former president has been on the road throughout October, holding rallies for Republicans across the country. But he remains a polarizing figure, and hes focused his attention on races where he can help drive his MAGA base without alienating potential swing voters.

Though he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, Trump carried Iowa in both 2016 and 2020.

When he led the ticket as a presidential candidate in 2020, Iowa Republicans credited him with helping to drive a surge of voters that lifted GOP candidates across the board.

There is no question, (Trump) was a real force in the turnout of Republicans, Republican strategist David Kochel told the Des Moines Register at the time. Without the base being as galvanized as they were, none of our candidates would have been successful.

The Registers latest Iowa Poll shows that most Iowans hold unfavorable views of Trump, but most Republicans view him favorably.

The poll found 52% of Iowans say their feelings toward Trump are very or mostly unfavorable up from 45% who said so in September 2021. The number of Iowans who say their feelings toward Trump are very or mostly favorable has dropped to 46% from 53% in September 2021. Yet Trump earns favorable ratings from 83% of Republicans.

During Thursdays appearance, Trump largely stumped on his usual talking points about the countrys problems under Biden. He told the crowd that too many immigrants were entering the country, that cities like Atlanta and Chicago are too dangerous and that New York taxes people too much.

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He attacked communist Democrats for expanding the times when people can vote. He said the liberal party should not allow transgender girls to compete in girls' athletics, echoing a statement Reynolds made.

Trump also lashed out about the criminal probes against him.

They even raided Mar-a-Lago, he said. Can you believe it? They raided Mar-a-Lago. Spying on their political rivals. Silencing dissent and using the full force of government, law enforcement, and the media to try and defeat the greatest movement in the history of our country. MAGA! MAGA!

Trump again declared Democrats rigged the election against him an accusation that court after court has rejected.

"This is a very unfair thing to your favorite president," Trump said. "But what the hell? Ive been treated so unfairly. What the hell difference does it make? Your favorite president got screwed.

If Trump does officially run for president, he could have competition within his own party.

Other potential candidates have already begun flooding Iowa, which will hold its traditional first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses in 2024 to launch the presidential nominating process. They include former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton.

Sisters Brenda Vodensteine, Barb Kreber and Julie Phillips came to Sioux City Thursday to feel energized before the election. They said they hope Trump runs again in 2024.

He has the guts to stand up, said 67-year-old Bob Phillips, Julies husband.

Hes the only one whos fearless enough, added Vodensteine.

Hes got common sense, Kreber said.

We had prosperity (when he was in office), Vodensteine said. We had safety.

And we had common sense, Kreber said.

Bill Wood, 70, of Galva, said he wasnt so sure about a 2024 run for Trump. He wants to see how a primary shakes out, and he's interested in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Wood, a retired manager at the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Storm Lake, said Republicans need to take control of Congress, force government officials to patrol the border more intensely and spend less money.

Greene, a Republican U.S. representative known for espousing right-wing conspiracy theories, helped rally the crowd before Trump's arrival. She decried rising inflation and high rates of crime.

But the only crime victim you hear about from Democrats and the media is Paul Pelosi," she said, drawing boos from the crowd.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was brutally assaulted by a man who broke into his San Francisco home looking for his wife.

"Paul Pelosi should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker," Greene continued. "But Democrats in the media completely ignore horrific crimes against Americans every day.

Greene also called for a "new Republican Party" in order to "truly save America" and called out Republicans whom Grassley has served with, such as McConnell, McCain and Romney, dismissing them as sellouts who hold "hands with Democrats and serves the globalist agenda that is the enemy of us all.

"Everyone knows the one true leader of the Republican Party, and that's my favorite president and yours, Donald J. Trump.

Iowa Poll:Most Iowans disapprove of President Joe Biden, say US is on the wrong track

Brianne Pfannenstiel is the chief politics reporter for the Register. Reach her atbpfann@dmreg.comor 515-284-8244. Follow her on Twitter at@brianneDMR.

Tyler Jett covers jobs and the economy for the Des Moines Register. Reach him attjett@registermedia.com, 515-284-8215, or on Twitter at@LetsJett.

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Donald Trump, His Son and Hope Hicks Have All Been Deposed in Lawsuit Accusing Ex-President of Promoting Pyramid Scheme, Lawyers Say – Law & Crime

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Daily Archives: November 5, 2022

MONARCH CASINO & RESORT INC MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (form 10-Q) – Marketscreener.com

The lease is up at St. Petes Manhattan Casino, and the city wants residents to tell them whats next – Creative Loafing Tampa

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Cancel Culture: Its Causes and Its Consequences

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, world’s most powerful rocket, launches after three-year hiatus – CNN

Donald Trump teases Iowa crowd: ‘I will very, very, very probably’ run …

Donald Trump Might Announce White House Run On The Day Hes Scheduled To Testify Before January 6 Committee – Vanity Fair

Donald Trump, His Son and Hope Hicks Have All Been Deposed in Lawsuit Accusing Ex-President of Promoting Pyramid Scheme, Lawyers Say – Law & Crime

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