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Layers of Fear Dev’s Cyberpunk Horror Game Observer Releases Today Alongside Official Launch Trailer – DualShockers

Posted: August 18, 2017 at 5:22 am

Today, Poland-based developer Bloober Team who you may recognize from 2016s psychedelic horror gameLayers of Fear are back with another horror title. This time its withObserver,a cyberpunk-themed game that is now available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux.

For those that dont know:Observeris set in a 2084 dystopia future ruled by oppressive corporations. Uniquely, the game doesnt follow normal cyberpunk trends, and rather takes the iconic sub-genre to Eastern Europe, which is to say youll findarchitecture, historical and political references, and pop-culture that would be found in Eastern European countries.

In the game you are DanLazarski played bylegendary actor, Rutger Hauer (who you may know from films such asBlade Runner, Flesh+Blood, Sin City, Batman Begins, The Hitcher, Blind Fury,and more) a detective for a special corporate-funded police unit called Observers. Following cryptic messages from his estranged son, Dan finds himself trekkingthrough the seedy underbelly of the city where horror, madness, andpsychological experiences bordering on the psychedelic await.

On top of normal horror gameplay, Observers are equipped with special augmentations that allow them to hack into minds of anyone and see things in an altered perception, which in turn grants them the ability to gather information or interrogate in unique ways. However, this process takes a noticeable toll on an Observer, but sometimes its your only way of finding clues that are otherwise hidden.

The game notably boasts options to approach the world as you want and make many choices that dictate events around you and in turn shape the narrative towards one of multiple endings.

Observercosts $29.99 USD. If you havent already, be sure to check outour interviewwith Brand Manager at Bloober Team,Rafa Basaj, where we talk aboutObserver,including its inspirations, story, themes, approach to horror, and more.

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Cyberpunk horror hacker >observer_ arrives on Xbox One – TheXboxHub (blog)

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Its 2084 and its time to start hacking the minds of millions. Yep >observer_ is here!

Available right now on Xbox One, >observer_ will set you back just 23.99 as the team behind the horrific Layers of Fear threaten to deliver another horror filled masterpiece.

>observer_ from Blooper Games places you in the shoes of an elite neural detective, Daniel Lazarksi, before leaving you to hack into the minds of both criminals and their victims in order to find clues behind numerous atrocities. Expect to find the deepest, darkest, most disturbing truth as >observer_ delivers a cyberpunk horror experience that is most definitely intended for the more mature gamer out there.

If you have interest and fancy being shocked, then the Xbox Games Store holds access to the game. Just pay it a visit, splash the cash and prepare to be taken deep into the minds of the criminal fraternity.

If you need convincing that 23.99 is a price worth paying for >observer_, then our full review will be with you in the coming days.

Game Description:

What would you do if your fears were hacked? The year is 2084. You are Daniel Lazarski, an elite neural detective known as an Observer, and part of a corporate-funded police unit whose purpose is to hack and invade suspects minds. When you receive a mysterious message from your estranged son, a high-level engineer for the almighty Chiron Corporation, you journey to the seedy Class C slums of Krakow to investigate. As you hack into the minds of criminals and their victims to find clues, you are forced to relive their darkest fears. How far will you go to discover the truth? Developed by Bloober Team, the creators of Layers of Fear, >observer_ is a cyberpunk horror game meant for mature audiences. What you see will disturb you.

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Cyberpunk adventure game Technobabylon now out on iPhone … – Develop

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Ever feel like you're living in a dystopian society where the government has gone off the rails and your every move is being watched? Technobabylon is the game for you. 🙂

Just released as a Universal App for iPhone and iPad, Technobabylon is a $4.99 USD download (or equivalent in local currency) from indie developer James Dearden and Wadjet Eye Games, the most prolific publisher of pixel art adventure games since the Sierra and LucasArts days. Technobabylon originally released on Steam in May 2015 and quickly became one of Wadjet Eye's best selling and best reviewed adventures.

App Store page: https://itunes.apple.com/app/technobabylon/id1229840883

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Original trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVsTmfaFXZw

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About Technobabylon

City of Newton, 2087. CEL agents Charlie Regis and Max Lao are investigating a serial Mindjacker who is tapping into the neural wiring of seemingly ordinary citizens, stealing their knowledge and leaving them dead. An agoraphobic net addict named Latha Sesame might be the next target. But when Charlie's past comes back to haunt him, he and his partner find themselves on opposite sides of the law, with Latha's fate in the crossfire.

Blade Runner meets Police Quest in Technobabylon, a slick point & click adventure that blends past and future with its retro-styled pixel art and intense cyberpunk plotline. Technobabylon sets you loose in a world where 'wetware' wires people directly to the web, where the cerebral online Trance has replaced almost any need for human interaction, where the city's omnipresent AI, Central, has eyes on everyone and everything -- a world that could be ours sooner than we think.

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3GTMS partners with project44 – Fleet Owner

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project44 and 3GTMS, a global provider of Tier 1 transportation management software (TMS), announced the launch of a global integration that the companies say will provide real-time full lifecycle LTL and volume automation services through the 3GTMS interface.

According to the company, this partnership optimizes how 3GTMS users secure a rate quote, analyze live transit times, execute a shipment, access real-time visibility insights, and retrieve delivery documents. 3GTMS customers will have access to turnkey LTL and Volume LTL API solutions directly within their current 3GTMS interface and workflows.

"In today's world, automation and speed is essential. Thats exactly what the project44 and 3GTMS integration delivers, said David Joe Freitas, general manager of Premier Logistics. The partnership allows us to quickly embrace best-in-class API technology directly within our current TMS environment. Within seconds, we're able to pull rate quotes from our entire capacity provider network and see their live, lane-by-lane transit times. Most importantly, I know the data is 100 percent accurate and up-to-dateincreasing my confidence in the carrier selection process and my ability to make strategic transportation decisions for Premier's clients."

Our partnership with project44 strengthens the innovation we bring to our customers for rating and managing freight, said J.P. Wiggins, vice president of logistics at 3GTMS. By partnering with project44, 3GTMS can provide its customers and their clients instant access to real-time data, radically improving their ability to manage supply chain disruptions, increase on-time delivery performance, and minimize carrier fees.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Fall River hoping to dethrown CF in conference in Zander’s third year as coach – WiscNews

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A return to the WIAA playoffs last season was nice for the Fall River prep football team, but the Pirates are thinking bigger this year.

I think our team is extremely hungry to get back into the playoffs, but were really looking towards getting the first conference championship in a while, offensive lineman Keegan Wodill said. Well be battling with Oshkosh Lourdes and Cambria-Friesland for the conference championship. Were improving every single year and hopefully we can improve to a conference championship.

Fall River went 6-3 in the regular season last year, a four-win turnaround from coach Joe Zanders first season in 2015. The Pirates went 4-2 in Trailways South Conference play, finishing third behind Cambria-Friesland and Lourdes.

Several freshmen and sophomores started two years ago, when the Pirates were 1-5 in conference play, but those players are now experienced upperclassmen ready to make a run at a league crown.

We know weve got a conference championship caliber team, Zander said. Weve just got to finish and put all the pieces together.

Zander said the difference between his first two seasons was the turnover margin. The Pirates were minus-10 in 2015, but engineered a dramatic improvement last year and were plus-29.

Look at the swing, Zander said. It went from two wins to six wins. Thats why were hoping we can do a 9-0 season this year.

Its how you execute and capitalize on other teams mistakes.

The team knows it experience will be an asset.

Were not freshmen or sophomores coming in, said Wodill, a junior entering his third season as a starter. Were juniors and seniors. Were pretty much veterans with six or seven junior guys that have been playing varsity since they were freshmen. We didnt really know what we were getting ourselves into until now.

Now were starting to get the hang of it.

Zander felt his team had opportunities to win the Trailways Small last, but the Pirates inexperience hurt them in games against Lourdes and the Toppers. Fall River lost to Lourdes 28-0 in Week 3 and was blanked 20-0 by the Toppers in Week 8.

We were in that game (against CF), but it was the little things that they were able to do that we couldnt do, Zander said. Lourdes was tough for us, though, because it was Week 3 and had some key starters out. Im not saying thats the reason why, but they obviously outplayed us.

When were in situations like that, weve got to capitalize on those mistakes. We were always the ones coughing up the ball and making those mistakes. Its what separates someone from third place and first place is the team that can make the plays.

Quarterback Luke Figol, a returning starter, wants to take the Pirates further into the postseason than theyve ever gone.

Hopefully get at least to the third playoff game, Figol said. Thats my goal because thats kind of our school record. No one has ever made it there. We want to make a big impact for our school and our football program.

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CF Industries Holdings Inc. (CF) Dips 3.48% for August 17 – Equities.com

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CF Industries Holdings Inc. is a Manufacturer & distributor of nitrogen & phosphate

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Among the S&P 500s biggest fallers on Thursday August 17 was CF Industries Holdings Inc. (CF). The stock experienced a 3.48% decline to $29.16 with 4.72 million shares changing hands.

CF Industries Holdings Inc. started at an opening price of 30.18 and hit a high of $30.30 and a low of $29.06. Ultimately, the stock took a hit and finished the day at $1.05 per share. CF Industries Holdings Inc. trades an average of 4.47 million shares a day out of a total 233.25 million shares outstanding. The current moving averages are a 50-day SMA of $28.71 and a 200-day SMA of $28.99. CF Industries Holdings Inc. hit a high of $37.17 and a low of $22.00 over the last year.

CF Industries Holdings Inc is a leading producer and distributor of nitrogen fertilizers. The company operates various nitrogen facilities in America UK, and Canada. It primarily serves the international agriculture sector.

With its headquarters located in Deerfield, IL, CF Industries Holdings Inc. employs 3,000 people. After todays trading, the companys market cap has fallen to $6.8 billion, a P/S of 1.9, a P/B of 2.08, and a P/FCF of 115.5.

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Pre-Market Technical Pulse on Agricultural Chemicals Stocks — CF Industries, EI du Pont de Nemours, Intrepid Potash … – Markets Insider

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If you want a Stock Review on CF, DD, IPI, or MON then come over to http://dailystocktracker.com/register/ and sign up for your free customized report today. Notwithstanding some lingering headwinds, the Chemicals industry's momentum is expected to continue through the remainder of 2017, supported by continued strength across key end-use markets, an upswing in the world economy, and significant shale-linked capital investment, according to a Zacks report. Today, DailyStockTracker.com focuses on select equities to see how they have fared over the past trading sessions: CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CF), E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (NYSE: DD), Intrepid Potash Inc. (NYSE: IPI), and Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON). Sign up today on DailyStockTracker.com and download our free research reports on these featured stocks at: http://dailystocktracker.com/register/

CF Industries Holdings

Deerfield, Illinois headquartered CF Industries Holdings Inc.'s stock finished Tuesday's session 0.26% higher at $30.30 with a total trading volume of 2.82 million shares. The Company's shares have advanced 3.52% in the past month and 7.94% in the previous three months. The stock is trading 5.19% above its 50-day moving average and 2.48% above its 200-day moving average. Additionally, shares of CF Industries, which manufactures and distributes nitrogen fertilizers and other nitrogen products worldwide, have a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 52.13.

On July 25th, 2017, CF Industries Holdings reported that its Board of Directors has declared a $0.30 per share dividend on the Company's common stock. The dividend will be payable on August 31st, 2017, to stockholders of record as of August 15th, 2017.

On July 26th, 2017, research firm Credit Suisse downgraded the Company's stock rating from 'Outperform' to 'Neutral'. CF complete research report is just a click away at: http://dailystocktracker.com/registration/?symbol=CF

E.I. du Pont de Nemours

On Tuesday, shares in Wilmington, Delaware headquartered E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. ("DuPont") recorded a trading volume of 1.92 million shares. The stock ended the session 0.53% higher at $81.58. The Company's shares have advanced 3.14% in the previous three months and 11.14% on an YTD basis. The stock is trading 4.76% above its 200-day moving average. Moreover, shares of DuPont, which operates as a science and technology based company, have an RSI of 44.14.

On August 04th, 2017, DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. announced that all required regulatory approvals and clearances have been received, that all conditions to closing of their merger of equals have been satisfied, and that their merger of equals will close after the market closes onAugust 31st, 2017. Shares of DowDuPont will begin trading on the NYSE under the stock ticker symbol "DWDP" onSeptember 01st, 2017. The complimentary report on DD can be downloaded at: http://dailystocktracker.com/registration/?symbol=DD

Intrepid Potash

Denver, Colorado-based Intrepid Potash Inc.'s shares closed the day 1.40% higher at $3.62. The stock recorded a trading volume of 3.62 million shares, which was above its three months average volume of 1.85 million shares. The Company's shares have surged 33.09% in the last month, 54.70% over the previous three months, and 74.04% on an YTD basis. The stock is trading 35.26% and 74.67% above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Additionally, shares of Intrepid Potash, which produces and sells potash and langbeinite products in the US and internationally, have an RSI of 65.51.

On August 07th, 2017, research firm UBS downgraded the Company's stock rating from 'Neutral' to 'Sell' while revising its previous target price from $2 a share to $2.50 a share. Sign up for your complimentary report on IPI at: http://dailystocktracker.com/registration/?symbol=IPI

Monsanto

Shares in St. Louis, Missouri headquartered Monsanto Co. finished 0.10% lower at $117.02. The stock recorded a trading volume of 887,064 shares. The Company's shares have advanced 0.32% in the previous three months and 11.23% on an YTD basis. The stock is trading above its 200-day moving average by 4.72%. Furthermore, shares of Monsanto, which together with its subsidiaries, provide agricultural products for farmers worldwide, have an RSI of 46.22.

On August 10th, 2017, Monsanto announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend on the Company's common stock of 54 cents per share. The dividend relates to the Company's Q4 FY17, and is payable on October 27th, 2017, to shareowners of record on October 06th, 2017. Download the research report for free on MON at: http://dailystocktracker.com/registration/?symbol=MON

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Urban Dictionary: politically correct

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A term originally meant to describe behavior that minimises offence, particularly in relation to minorities. Now the term is an overused strawmen misused against many of those against unfair prejudice. Call a racist irrational and get branded a PC pussy. The term has effectively been used to stifle debate and thought about issues. It has reframed those who want fair and equal treatment of people, to people who have a PC agenda. The term does not censor offensive discussion against minorities, but rather censors discussion for positive social change. People get branded as PC pussies instead of raising debate and free thought. Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa calls women baby making machines. Bob: No way, he can't say that! Tom: Why not? Stop spreading your politically correct garbage here. Bob: It ain't nothing to do with political correctness. He has a responsibility to the state and people to make a good example and good policies. This statement shows he has little respect for women as people and it effects how he handles his role as a minister. It also sends the wrong message to the people.

Shintaro Ishihara claims foreigners would riot in the event of an earthquake requiring not the police but the self defense force. Bob: No way! Tom: Well someone had to come out and say the truth. All you political correct guys are pussies! Foreigners come here with their stinking culture and create crime. Bob: It has nothing to do with political correctness. It is both wrong, as foreigner in Japan have lower crime rates, and harmful, as it incites irrational xenophobic fear.

In France a local soup kitchen for the homeless only has pork dishes, while having many Muslim patrons. Bob: Man that sucks they should try some non-pork dishes too so that Muslims can also eat (Muslims can't eat pork on religous grounds). Tom: Damn pussy! Stop trying to be a politically correct idiot. Bob: What! It has nothing to do with politcal correctness. I simply want the soup kitchen to help as many people as possible. If non-pork dishes help in that sense they should do that. Particularly if it is supported by government tax breaks.

"Political correctness is one of the brilliant tools that the American Right developed in the mid-1980s as part of its demolition of American liberalism....What the sharpest thinkers on the American Right saw quickly was that by declaring war on the cultural manifestations of liberalism - by levelling the charge of political correctness against its exponents - they could discredit the whole political project." - Will Hutton

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Shamed MP behind burka ban protest says political correctness will destroy Australia – Express.co.uk

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Pauline Hanson, an anti-immigration campaigner, shocked Parliament when she wore the burka into the chamber, to try to urge the attorney-general to ban the Islamic garment.

After receiving worldwide condemnation,Sky News host Tom Macleod clashed with the Australian MP as he demanded statistics following Ms Hansons claims.

Ms Hanson argued that political correctness in Australia would be to the countries detriment if the burka was not banned.

She said: It has been banned in a lot of countries in the world and actually a lot of them are Muslim countries. Malaysia, Tunisia, Egypt, Congo to name some.

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No, Australia hasnt banned it yet because we are politically correct here which is going to be to our detriment.

We are so far behind the rest of the world. They actually have the burka there and now [in Australia] and theyrealisethe impact it is having on their culture and their way of life and we need to address it now before our population of Muslims in this country grows to a stance that we cannot address.

I think this is very important. This is Australia, the burka is not Australian.

This is not the culture that we want here its not the culture of wearing the burka and hiding your face.

Its oppression of women, its control of women by a political ideology which is incompatible with our culture and way of life.

The Australian MP continued with her rant before she claimed that England hasitsown problems.

Australia hasnt banned it yet because we are politically correct here which is going to be to our detriment

Pauline Hanson

MsHanson claimed a lot of English people hhadve left the country and migrated to Australia becausethe UK has not banned the burka.

The Sky News host stepped in demanding facts from the Australian MP as he cut her off.

He snapped: You have no statistics. Whereareyour statistics?

Where is the evidence on that? Give me a number of people that have left England because of the burka.

The Australian politician angrily argued back.

She said: I am speaking. As a Member ofParliament, I have traveled my country quite extensively and I am talking to people. People are now saying, if this happens in Australia where will we go next."

MsHanson shocked the Senate chamber as she entered wearing the black Islamic body covering.

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The khimar is a long veil that fall to just above the waist. It covers the hair, neck and shoulders but leaves the face clear

Addressing the attorney-general, the leader of the One Nation party urged George Brandis to work with her to ban the burka in Australia.

The MP was quickly silenced by the attorney-general who insisted Australia would not be banning the burka before he received a rare standing ovation.

He said: To ridicule that community, to drive it into a corner, to mock its religious garments is an appalling thing to do.

I am not going to pretend to ignore the stunt that you have tried to pull today by arriving in the chamber dressed in a burka when we all know that you are not an adherent of the Islamic faith.

I would caution and counsel you with respect to be very, very careful of theoffenceyou may do to the religious sensibilities of other Australians.

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Steve Bannon: Post-Charlottesville racial strife is a political winner for Trump – Richmond.com

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It had already been widely reported that President Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, was among the very few top officials around Trump who quietly cheered as he resisted pressure to unequivocally lay the blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville on Nazis and white supremacists.

But now Bannon has gone public with this view, in a pair of new interviews. Indeed, he has gone even further: In a striking admission, Bannon confirmed that he views the racial strife and turmoil unleashed by Charlottesville as a political winner for Trump.

In the first interview, with The New York Times, Bannon explicitly defended the portion of Trump's comments in which he seemed to defend the rallying white supremacists' opposition to the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Trump asked rhetorically whether this would ultimately lead to the removal of statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Here's Bannon:

"Bannon . . . said in an interview that if Democrats want to fight over Confederate monuments and attack Mr. Trump as a bigot, that was a fight the president would win.

" 'President Trump, by asking, 'Where does this all end' - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln - connects with the American people about their history, culture and traditions,' he said.

"The race-identity politics of the left wants to say it's all racist," Bannon added. "Just give me more. Tear down more statues. Say the revolution is coming. I can't get enough of it."

In the second interview, with the American Prospect, Bannon (believing himself to be off the record) elaborated a bit more on this general theme:

"The Democrats," he said, "the longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats."

Remarkably, Bannon is gleefully discussing the political dividends that (he believes) Trump will reap from the fraught aftermath of racial violence that led to the burial of a young woman who was murdered for showing up to protest racism and white supremacy. In so doing, Bannon endorses the general view, also expressed by Trump, that leftist violence ("tear down more statues") is partly to blame for the ongoing racial strife, and defends Trump's drawing of an equivalence between statues honoring Washington and Jefferson on the one hand, and those honoring the leading lights of the Confederacy on the other.

On Thursday morning, Trump doubled down on this view in a seriesoftweets, calling efforts to remove Confederate statues and monuments "foolish":

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also. . .the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"

Numerous historians have already pointed out the many problems with this equivalence. While Washington and Jefferson were indeed slave owners, they helped create the nation, while Confederate leaders sought to secede from it in order to set up a separate nation perpetuating slavery. Others have noted that the whole point of many of these Confederate monuments was to celebrate white supremacy during the Jim Crow era.

Indeed, since Bannon brought Abraham Lincoln into the discussion, let's recall that Lincoln famously hailed Jefferson by saying that his authorship of the Declaration of Independence ("all men are created equal") had given voice to "an abstract truth" that would counter "tyranny and oppression" in all future times, including in the struggle to uproot and destroy slavery. Contra Bannon, Trump's absurd conflation does not "connect" us with our history; it obscures it.

Ultimately, though, what is really significant here is Bannon's frank admission that he believes the current ongoing turmoil benefits Trump. To be sure, a more cynical, self-interested motive may be at work. As The New York Times reports:

"Mr. Bannon, whose future in the White House remains uncertain, has been encouraging Mr. Trump to remain defiant. Two White House officials who have been trying to moderate the president's position suggested that Mr. Bannon was using the crisis as a way to get back in the good graces of the president, who has soured on Mr. Bannon's internal machinations and reputation for leaking stories about West Wing rivals to conservative news media outlets."

There is ample evidence that this may indeed help Bannon's standing with Trump. The Post reports that Trump - like Bannon - also believes his remarks reiterating that "both sides" are to blame for the Charlottesville violence will boost him politically:

"Trump felt vindicated after the remarks, said people familiar with his thinking. He believes that his base agrees with his assertion that both sides are guilty of violence and that the nation risks sliding into a cauldron of political correctness."

With the special counsel's probe closing in, and with his numbers sliding deeper into the danger zone, Trump plainly believes that valiantly defying the forces of political correctness (meaning, the forces that want him to unequivocally condemn racism and white supremacy) will rally his supporters to his side. Bannon is clearly feeding that instinct, at least partly to shore up his own standing with the president. Neither, naturally, recognizes any obligations or duties on the president's part to try to calm the antagonisms that are being unleashed, and neither appears even slightly concerned about the damage they could do to the country, at a time when experts are warning that this sort of rhetoric could cause an escalation in white supremacist activity.

Indeed, as Trump's new tweetstorm in defense of Confederate monuments confirms, he appears determined to keep feeding these antagonisms. And new polling explains why.

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