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Politico Presents Bizarre Election Year Black Swan Event Predictions

Politico Presents Bizarre Election Year Black Swan Event Predictions
Politico had an unusual homework assignment for a number of futurists, political analysts, and prognosticators.

Politico had an unusual homework assignment for a number of futurists, political analysts, and prognosticators. It was to put on their Nostradamus caps to predict what, if any, Black Swan events could affect the 2024 presidential election. The results ranged from the somewhat reasonable to the downright bizarre as you can see in Friday's "The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 Into Turmoil."
One of the assignees was the melodramatic Marquette University political science professor, Julia Azari, who rather than write a simple prediction interpreted her job as writing a novel starting with the very Hemingwayisque title of her absurdly specific thus unintentionally hilarious.
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Next up we have the head of the Galileo Project, Avi Loeb, who is so far up in the clouds beyond our solar system that he apparently overlooked the part of the assignment about the presidential campaign while focusing entirely on a Black Swan ET event.
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Finally, we have a Black Swan event prediction that is a must for all such lists presented by liberals: Global Warming. Brought to you by one Bill McKibben (not to be confused with the Tampa Bill McKibben who is one of the five white guys at the October 19 Trump rally in Julia Azari's Black Swan novella).
Fire, flood, storm, drought, sapping heat, and ingrown toenails. All can be blamed on the all-purpose global warming. And the fringe benefit is it would keep from electing "climate deniers" (aka Trump! Trump! Trump!)Given that 2024 seems almost certain to break 2023’s global temperature record (and this year was already the hottest in 125,000 years), the physics of global warming indicate that we can expect … havoc.
The precise form it will take and spots it will strike can never be known in advance — some combination of fire, flood, storm, drought and sapping heat — but it would be a shock only if it didn’t happen. And perhaps when it does, it will be one more reminder of the folly of electing climate deniers to high office.
Commentary:
This is from a hypothetical story about an altercation at a Trump rally, written by one of Politico's contributors: "Some question why the matter gets so much press when violence against people of color draws a fraction of the coverage."
A casual reader of this might assume that whites are murdering blacks in wildly disproportionate numbers, but the exact opposite is the case. For example, in 2019 566 whites were murdered by blacks, whereas only 246 blacks were murdered by whites. 92% of black murder victims were killed by other blacks.
So, to answer the Politico writer's question, the reason that the murders of black people receive so little attention is that 92% of the perps are black, and that doesn't serve the narrative.
It should be an interesting year.
I wonder what the Deep State powers have in store for us?