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Relevant to the preceding discussion, I’m wearing dinosaur socks today, dancing up and down the halls of the office with the chorus from “Walk the Dinosaur” in my head. I’m sorely misunderstood in life and online. Maybe if I showed then my socks they would understand.
The monster was not the socks or the song, the monster was you.
Four words I did not need to see on CNN while eating: unprotected sex with Trump. Where did I leave that MIB Neuralyzer? I don’t need that mental image in my head!!!
Where were you in '77?
eating unprotected sex with Trump
WIR
So, do lie detector tests have any legal weight like they do in movies and tv?
Where were you in '77?
eating unprotected sex with Trump
WIR
WRONG THREAD!!!
So, do lie detector tests have any legal weight like they do in movies and tv?
Not to my knowledge, no.
So, do lie detector tests have any legal weight like they do in movies and tv?
Not to my knowledge, no.
Would you be willing to say that under oath?
No, it wasn’t a small portion of the American population. It was over sixty million people.
Which is a little under 20% of the American population. I consider 1/5 to be a small portion.
He did win the 2016 election, he just wasn’t selected by the “American voters”. Whether the alternative is better or not is irrelevant.
Back to the original statement “Americans chose him” is even further from that - “American voters” - as only a small portion of the American population actually voted for him.
When you don’t vote, or vote third party, that in itself is a choice to let the other voters make the decision on your behalf. Plenty of eligible voters were so unhappy with both available choices in 2016, or so certain that the other voters would support their preferred candidate, that they entrusted other voters to make that decision for them. So while not all eligible voters cast a ballot, they all made a choice for either Trump or Clinton, in some manner or another, with the exception of those who were disenfranchised via some sort of voter suppression effort, or were physically unable to cast a ballot due to medical reasons, etc.
This is a much better argument than just telling me a number I already know.
Saying that it was just a small portion of the American population totally excuses you from having the necessary conversation of how America has fundamental problems that got us here.
Tonight’s Channel4 report on Cambridge Analytica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-9iciNF1A
Alleging breaking of financing rules by the Trump campaign because…
…a Super-Pac which claimed they are “not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee”. Sounds reasonable.
Alexander Nix has now been suspended. Facebook being investigated by the FTC. UK’s Information Commissioner applying for warrant to search London offices of CA.
(Popcorn eating meme not included)
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/975013825010458624
The data that Facebook leaked to Cambridge Analytica is the same data Facebook retains on everyone and sells targeting services around. The problem is not shady Russian researchers; it’s Facebook’s core business model of collect, store, analyze, exploit. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html
So, do lie detector tests have any legal weight like they do in movies and tv?
It depends on the state, but generally no. They are not foolproof and their reliability has not been completely determined.
Polygraph machines simply detect stress compared to a baseline while under interrogation, and so if you can answer questions without noticeable stress, you can beat the test. Such as if one were to practice giving a particular answer.
Source: google search for “polygraph inadmissible”
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
The CIO of Facebook is stepping down. He wanted to disclose more about activity by Russia on Facebook but the management disagreed. His information security department has been annihilated and its responsibilities is being distributed into product and infrastructure divisions.
The blue elephant in the room.
No, it wasn’t a small portion of the American population. It was over sixty million people.
Which is a little under 20% of the American population. I consider 1/5 to be a small portion.
He did win the 2016 election, he just wasn’t selected by the “American voters”. Whether the alternative is better or not is irrelevant.
Back to the original statement “Americans chose him” is even further from that - “American voters” - as only a small portion of the American population actually voted for him.
When you don’t vote, or vote third party, that in itself is a choice to let the other voters make the decision on your behalf. Plenty of eligible voters were so unhappy with both available choices in 2016, or so certain that the other voters would support their preferred candidate, that they entrusted other voters to make that decision for them. So while not all eligible voters cast a ballot, they all made a choice for either Trump or Clinton, in some manner or another, with the exception of those who were disenfranchised via some sort of voter suppression effort, or were physically unable to cast a ballot due to medical reasons, etc.
This is a much better argument than just telling me a number I already know.
Saying that it was just a small portion of the American population totally excuses you from having the necessary conversation of how America has fundamental problems that got us here.
That’s beside the initial point of whether electing a dumb fuck means you don’t deserve representation, but I’ll give you a pass as we’ve moved far beyond that by now.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/former-apprentice-contestant-can-sue-trump-for-defamation/
President Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” after a Manhattan judge ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that he could not claim immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief.
“No one is above the law,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in the 19-page decision released Tuesday.
Trump had argued that presidents are shielded from civil litigation in state courts under the US Constitution’s supremacy clause, but that assertion had never been fully tested by the courts — until now.
“It is settled that the President of the United States has no immunity and is ‘subject to the laws’ for purely private acts,” Schecter added.
The decision means that Summer Zervos, who in 2016 accused then-candidate Trump of groping her and pressing his privates against her in 2007, can pursue her defamation case against the president for saying that her allegations were “fiction” and claiming she made them up for “personal gain.”
I’m sure that decision will get appealed.
I’m sure that decision will get appealed.
Delay is probably all he can do.
This question of presidential immunity reached the Supreme Court again during the Clinton administration. In 1991, Paula Jones, a former secretary in the Arkansas statehouse, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Litigation was still ongoing when Clinton was inaugurated as president in 1993. As President, Clinton claimed that the office of the President granted him immunity from the civil suit and warranted suspending the case until he left office. The Court heard oral arguments for Clinton v. Jones in 1996 and reached a unanimous decision in 1997. The Court ruled that a sitting president is not immune from federal civil lawsuits for events that occurred before they were in office. In a May 1997 op-ed, the New York Times editorial board argued that the decision reinforced the constitutional principle that “no American, not even an incumbent President, is beyond the law’s reach.” While this was a landmark decision, the decision did not address whether a sitting president is immune from civil lawsuits in a state court.
President Trump may have a path to at least delay many of his current civil suits as the courts decide whether he can be sued in state courts. With so many cases pending, it may be years before the question of presidential immunity is completely answered.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/is-president-trump-immune-to-lawsuits
The blue elephant in the room.
In other news, former French President Sarkozy has been arrested.
The blue elephant in the room.
President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
The blue elephant in the room.
Can’t teach a fish to breathe.
Sounds like the phone call was unprotected as well.
Glad people are finally coming around to the Cambridge Analytica stuff, it’s been out there for ages now.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
END OF LINE
(It hasn’t happened yet)
Tonight’s Channel4 report on Cambridge Analytica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-9iciNF1A
Alleging breaking of financing rules by the Trump campaign because…
- Steve Bannon on board of CA
- Steve Bannon Trump Campaign strategist
- CA claim to have masterminded the Trump campaign
- CA financed by billionaires the Mercers (and on board of CA)
- Trump campaign financed by billionaires the Mercers
- Pro-Trump/Anti-Clinton adds made by CA, funded by Mercers outside of declared spending via “make america number 1” Super-PAC
…a Super-Pac which claimed they are “not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee”. Sounds reasonable.
Alexander Nix has now been suspended. Facebook being investigated by the FTC. UK’s Information Commissioner applying for warrant to search London offices of CA.
(Popcorn eating meme not included)
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla is well worth a look at / follow.
This tweet especially… https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/975831833257668608
‘If you are watching the Cambridge Analytica story unfold, please please support our journalism. We’ve fought off 3 legal threats from CA & 1 from Facebook. It’s a whole year’s work & we gave it to @Channel4News & @nytimes for the greater good. We need you! https://support.theguardian.com’
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President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
Hilarious.
President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
Hilarious.
Yep. It’s really funny when our President fucks things up. I think this is what I hate most about the attitudes of Trump supporters and apologists. It’s the total lack of interest they have in the horrible things he does. Often, they seem to enjoy it. I don’t get it at all.
The Person in Question
Many are trolls in love with their Troll-in-Chief.
I have no idea what Mrebo’s problem is though.