but i want to say one other thing that i think is important. just keep your eye on this child predator, child pred store and not only does it hook up to qanon and comment and that kind of stuff, this is really, really a veilance of political discourse meant to suggest that all progressives are child porn og raffers and this has a long ugly tail and i fear it is sowing the seeds to not just de legitimate but for decades to come. yeah, you just connected several dots including the very horrific where an online conspiracy theory led someone to atrack. if you are against crime you are against those kind of attacks that pit american s lives in danger that was considered very fringe and now you have qanon
and its western allies along with russia s military preg on the battlefield. they rarely mention the fierce resistance and suffering in war torn ukraine. publicly beijing stresses its impartiality in the conflict, even indicating its willingness to be a mediator. cnn combing through chinese tv and digital news report in the first eight days of the russian atrack along with thousands of social media posts froe outlets. our findings, china has largely adopted russia s talking points, actively helping the kremlin disseminate its version of the bloody war to millions here and beyond. the chinese foreign ministry has yet to respond to our request for comment, but remember russian president vladimir putin s last foreign visit before he launched the invasion was here to china. following the 38th meeting between putin and chinese president xi jinping in 2013 and just hours before the opening ceremony of the winter olympics the two governments declared a
skeleton a social media sensation sold out almost immediately in july. in salem, massachusetts the halloween capital of the world, ghosts and goblins have already started creeping in. salem in october is craziness. this family home has been a local atrack. it brings us a lot of joy. decorating brings people can come. it doesn t matter who you are. if you love halloween just come look, take pictures, and it s just a lot of fun for the kids. reporter: nationwide shoppers are expected to spend a record $10 billion this year. that is over a billion dollars more than pre-pandemic levels. after a year off halloween is back in a big way but decorating our homes might not be so easy. supply chain backups are haunting u.s. retailers. shipping delays, trucker shortages, and port congestion all causing a slowdown on inventory. historically we would have delivered probably 90 plus percent of our merchandise to our stores. today we are probably at 80%.
different is on the horizon in terms of how we hire strategists, how we think about consultants, the way that we think about polling. the first thing is he s trying to occupy the lane of the uniter, unity. cory booker jumped into that lane when he came out. his book was entitled united. it will be interesting to see how when he was asked about medicare, when he was asked about policy, we saw he s simply slogan, really just simply celebrity right now. it has to be attractive with substance because we need substantive change. and, third, is the way in which he s and this is linked to the second point yesterday linked to obama, the obama charisma. remember obama s atrack initially was all about this
this is all great news. the fact that we re getting pulled into kardashians on the potomac. it s not quite that, when you have steve bannon who is as close to the president i was disappointed he didn t come out and say anything about this, or apologize. and the direct quotes in the book are bannon quotes, bannon is the guy that was bringing michael wolf into the white house. it s troubling that he didn t come out and apologize or say those things. this book is an atrack on the presidency, not just trump. you go back to the reporting over the past year and a half, we were all stunned. 3020 sources, 30 sources. the fact that some of these people went on the record may be a surprise.