Choking

• The Safety Shot beverage, set to launch Q4 2023, is the first patented beverage on Earth that helps people feel better faster by reducing blood alcohol content and boosting clarity.
• The Safety Shot platform works through four different Mechanisms of Action including improving central nervous system (CNS) activity, cognition, and motor cortex function.
• “We believe a concentrated form of Safety Shot could offer an easy-to-administer, immediately supportive aid or treatment for acute alcohol consumption to help prevent alcohol poisoning and related deaths.
• “We anticipate filing an investigational new drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) for this alcohol poisoning related indication.”

• The company announced its unprecedented plan right at the beginning of the new school year when millions of children are headed back to the classroom.
• Every year, children choke to death in school.
• In fact, it was the death of a child that inspired him to invent LifeVac in the first place.
• Once every school has their donated LifeVac, no one will have to wonder "what if…" when it comes to choking emergencies.

• He is continuing the theme of "Be the One," The American Legion's initiative to prevent veteran suicide.
• An ordained minister from Wisconsin, he earned his American Legion eligibility through service in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve, where he served as a military chaplain.
• A member of American Legion Post 157 in Horicon, Wis., Seehafer served in a number of American Legion offices at every level, including national chaplain and commander of the Department of Wisconsin.
• His American Legion post was recognized for "100 percent" and "All-Time High" in membership during his terms as commander and adjutant.

• Twenty years ago, his rhetoric would have been unusual coming from any member of Congress, let alone a party leader.
• Yet language like this from the leading Republican presidential candidate is becoming remarkably common in American politics.
• In 2019, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker appeared on a talk show bemoaning Trump’s rhetoric and the lack of civility in politics.
• In my new book, I show that the level of nastiness in U.S. politics has increased dramatically.
• Particularly following the Jan. 6. insurrection by Trump’s supporters, journalists and scholars have focused on the rise of the politics of menace.

From insults to actual violence

• “Nasty politics” is an umbrella term for the aggressive rhetoric and occasional actual violence that politicians use against domestic political opponents and other domestic groups.
• Insults are the least threatening and most common form of nasty politics.
• Less common – and more ominous – are threats to jail political opponents or encouraging one’s supporters to commit violence against those opponents.
• The rarest and most extreme examples of nasty politics entail politicians actively engaging in violence themselves.

Deadly words

• In an op-ed in The New York Times, Netanyahu compared Rabin’s potential peace deal with Palestinians to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis before World War II.
• Fights among rivals regularly broke out, including the occasional egging and smoke bomb.
• In 2012, a full-blown legislative riot occurred in the Rada over the status of the Russian language in Ukraine, with rival lawmakers punching and choking one another.

Voters don’t like it

• The conventional wisdom for the reason politicians go nasty is that while voters find mudslinging or political brawling distasteful, it’s actually effective.
• Or that although they won’t admit it, voters secretly like nasty politics.
• Voters don’t like it when politicians go nasty, are worried it could lead to violence, and reduce their support for those who do use it.
• That’s what I found in countless surveys in the U.S., Ukraine and Israel, where I did research for my book.
• This toughness is something that voters seek out when they feel threatened.

From nasty words to worse

• Nasty politics has important implications for democracy.
• It can be a legitimate tool for opposition and outsider politicians to call attention to bad behavior.
• But it can also be used as a cynical, dangerous tool by incumbents to cling to power that can lead to violence.
• Eye for an eye.” The uptick in nasty politics in the U.S. is both a symptom of the country’s deeply divided politics and a harbinger of future threats to democracy.