Expelled. What is the Republican Party doing . Amateur frenzy, investors trying to stick it to the mighty hedge fund. Will they succeed . Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. The enemy is within. The speaker of the house pointing the finger at members of congress when it comes to security at the capitol. The enemy is within the House Of Representatives. What exactly did you mean when you said the enemy is within . What exactly did you mean by that . It means we have members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of congress. It comes amid growing democratic calls to censure, even expel qanon aligned congresswoman greene. She indicated her support for executing democratic politicians and supported, among other truly bizarre Conspiracy Theories, you know, that a plane didnt fly into the Pentagon On 9 11. The Parkland School shooting in which 17 people were killed, kids, was engineered by left wing antigun proponents. What
Commentary: Llewellyn King - Social media and the mob factor
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Social media has an unimagined, unequaled, uncontrollable, and unpredictable ability to mobilize groups of people for antisocial action; to take a sliver of society and turn it into a mob.
Last month this new force in society was on display, from mobilizing anti-vaxxers in Los Angeles to the U.S. Capitol riot, resulting in five deaths, to the run-up of a weak stock, GameStop, by 1,800%.
These events, coupled with some strains of political thought being restricted on Facebook and Twitter, along with the outright banning of tweets from Donald Trump when he was still in office, have some in Congress convinced something should be done often the precursor to ill-conceived legislation.
republican party has their guy. and he has surpassed mike huckabee as really being the avatar for the evangelical wing of the party. it s interesting to me the way the party is breaking down. the neocons have marco rubio. establishment guys have their guys. but the evangelicals have ben carson. that s, i think, a durable, at least through iowa, support. yet, let me just say, i want to go back to the one poll result that really this week had us going, really? 42% are saying, yeah, well, whatever we want, we actually think that mr. trump is going to end up as the nominee. is that how important is that particular piece? those things tend to be the most predictive. more than the polls themselves. if you look at the predict markets, and we don t have intrade anymore, but people are very good. there s a whole theory about this called the wisdom of crowds. people are good at figuring out what the mass of people people believe in the aggregate.
this week treasury secretary said the u.s. would hit the debt ceiling on november 3rd earlier than predicted. the situation requires action but when you compare to debt to the country s gdp it s worse in other parts of the world and it brings to my question of the week. what country has the highest debt to gdp ratio? stay tuned. we ll tell you the correct answer. this week s book of the week is super forecasting. the art and science of prediction. if you re wondering if there s any way to predict an election, an economic crisis or even a war, he uses psychology and political science and a lot of kmoms and taps into what s called the wisdom of crowds. this is a fascinating book and
anxieties. howard, you mentioned the interactive, how much railroad seeing in terms of this online search effort? well, digital globe, which is a place you can go and actually look at grids, and it s a huge area. it s the size of continents there. 3 million hits, which is astounding, which is astounding, and i ll say a couple things, the wisdom of crowds is good if enough people see something in one area, i think that s important for the authorities to note, but i would also say that what the authorities see and what governments are see has much more clarity and much more definition that what we are seeing on the internet. and i m very hopeful with what the australian government found. it would give some resolution to the families.