Like the French, we just shrug.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Laugh of the Day 3.0: Facebook outraged it was deceived!
Outraged, I tell you.
From the story here:
Facebook said Tuesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and their teams were "working around the clock to get all the facts and take the appropriate action moving forward" regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
"The entire company is outraged we were deceived," Facebook added. "We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information and will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens."
Obama campaign 2012 hoovered up Facebook data too, but was lauded for it
So says Investor's Business Daily, here:
In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends.
According to a July 2012 MIT Technology Review article, when you installed the app, "it said it would grab information about my friends: their birth dates, locations, and 'likes.' "
The campaign boasted that more than a million people downloaded the app, which, given an average friend-list size of 190, means that as many as 190 million had at least some of their Facebook data vacuumed up by the Obama campaign — without their knowledge or consent.
If anything, Facebook made it easy for Obama to do so. A former campaign director, Carol Davidsen, tweeted that "Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing."
More at the link.
Laugh of the Day 2.0: "Stepford wives cost me the election"
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| Joanna stabs "Bobbie" |
Hide the knives, folks, Hillary's on the hunt!
FedEx package screening fails, bomb in shipment headed to Austin explodes at San Antonio sorting center
The story is here but is stupid for focusing on race and Donald Trump's supposed lack of an adequate response. The victims of the tripwire bomb were white.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Laugh of the Day: Constituent asks Long Island Dem. Representative "What's the Second Amendment?"
New York values, folks.
From the story here:
Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark to constituents at a town hall last week, saying that folks opposed to Trump might resort to the “Second Amendment.” “It’s really a matter of putting public pressure on the president,” Suozzi said in a newly released video of the March 12 talk in Huntington. “This is where the Second Amendment comes in, quite frankly, because you know, what if the president was to ignore the courts? What would you do? What would we do?”
A listener then blurts out, “What’s the Second Amendment?” The left-leaning Democrat says, “The Second Amendment is the right to bear arms.” The spectators laughed — some nervously. Republicans were not amused.
Joe diGenova is joining the Trump legal team
Joe long predicted Hillary would be indicted because the FBI had too many good people in it for it to turn out otherwise.
It turned out otherwise.
The story is here.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Obviously Trump softened his anti-immigration positions in August 2016 after Bannon took over because that's what the data analytics told them to do
Trump turned on a dime in August 2016 after Bannon assumed leadership and it immediately got him in hot water with his core supporters after the Hannity Town Hall in Arizona. But it didn't matter to Trump. Trump knew that was the way to broaden his base because most Americans are forgiving and morally weak, supporting amnesty for the DACA "children". It didn't hurt, either, that softening those positions dovetailed with the libertarianism of the Mercers and their money. Trump was telegraphing to the libertarian money men of the Republican Party that he was in fact "flexible".
There's no there there, folks.
And there's no Wall, either, only a snake (remember the story of the snake?) who is willing to bite by trading a DACA amnesty for The Wall.
The Christopher Wylie story is fascinating but isn't really bombshell news: Ted Cruz used the same firm Wylie worked for
The really hysterically funny thing about it all, once again, is how Facebook and its millions of idiot users are the real chumps.
From the story here:
. . . Wylie offers a unique, worm’s-eye view of the events of 2016. Of how Facebook was hijacked, repurposed to become a theatre of war: how it became a launchpad for what seems to be an extraordinary attack on the US’s democratic process.
Wylie oversaw what may have been the first critical breach. Aged 24, while studying for a PhD in fashion trend forecasting, he came up with a plan to harvest the Facebook profiles of millions of people in the US, and to use their private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. And then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.
“We ‘broke’ Facebook,” he says.
And he did it on behalf of his new boss, Steve Bannon.
“Is it fair to say you ‘hacked’ Facebook?” I ask him one night.
He hesitates. “I’ll point out that I assumed it was entirely legal and above board.”
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
For the cost of California's LA to San Fran bullet train, we could have THREE border walls
One with Mexico, one with Canada, and one with DC.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Hillary blames married white women for her loss, and James Comey's re-opening the investigation into her
In India, quoted here:
"Democrats, going back to my husband and even before, but just in recent times going back to Bill and our candidates and then President Obama, have been losing the vote, including white women. We do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married white women," Clinton said.
"All of a sudden white women, who were going to vote for me and frankly standing up to the men in their lives and the men in their workplaces, were being told, ‘She's going to jail. You don't want to vote for her. It's terrible, you can't vote for that.' So, it just stopped my momentum and it decreased my vote enough because I was ahead. I was winning, and I thought I had fought my way back in the ten days from that letter until the election. I fell a little bit short," Clinton said.
Trump to name the brain dead Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn at National Economic Council
The brain dead Kudlow, who served during the Reagan Administration but can't remember a better month for jobs than the 313,000 reported for February 2018, is reported to be Trump's choice to head the National Economic Council.
The story is here.
Once again the libertarian pests throw an election to the Democrats
They live for this sort of thing.
If it were a jobs boom we wouldn't STILL have a deficit of 6,437,680 jobs in February 2018
The difference between civilian employment at 60% of civilian non-institutional population in February 2018 and the 62.6% average before the Great Recession is 6,437,680 jobs.
Call me when Trump gets it up.
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