Trump MAGAThread XII: A Tarriff-ic Thread!

[Jerzylvania]

Ok so when Sarah Sanders says they're not firing anyone in the immediate future it means Trump isn't personally firing anyone but he might direct someone else to fire someone on his behalf.

'It wasn't I who cut the cherry tree, it was my slave technically..'

I have to admit I in a strange way like her. Especially when that eye starts twitching. Good kind of crazy.

Same here. For me it's the way her mouth twists around and up the sides of her cheeks as she is speaking lying. Damnest thing I have ever seen!

[Jerzylvania]

Firing someone 24 hours before retirement just to deny them their pension. What a dickhead.

Good, save the taxpayer some money.

Heh. Based on that logic Donnie should fire his treasury secretary Stevie Munchkin who has run up over a million dollars in travel costs using military planes. Then there is the six figure door guy and Dr. Carson and his stupid $31,000 dining table. In fact, let's just get rid of this whole ridiculous administration now and save taxpayers the costs of investigating their crimes.

[Bakery Hill]

Good, save the taxpayer some money.

Heh. Based on that logic Donnie should fire his treasury secretary Stevie Munchkin who has run up over a million dollars in travel costs using military planes. Then there is the six figure door guy and Dr. Carson and his stupid $31,000 dining table. In fact, let's just get rid of this whole ridiculous administration now and save the costs of investigating their crimes.

You can do both.

[Internationalist Bastard]

It's more the pettiness of the act than anything. He'll be fine, but to go out of your way to deny someone an earned pension is rather shitty.

It's petty of course. But it's hard to sympathise a great deal.

Not really
He worked a very long time
It doesn’t matter how much money you make after retirement, if you were fired a day before you were gonna retire you’d be pissed

[Jerzylvania]

Heh. Based on that logic Donnie should fire his treasury secretary Stevie Munchkin who has run up over a million dollars in travel costs using military planes. Then there is the six figure door guy and Dr. Carson and his stupid $31,000 dining table. In fact, let's just get rid of this whole ridiculous administration now and save taxpayers the costs of investigating their crimes.

You can do both.

The sooner the better. Meanwhile Donnie's Russian palVlad has his paws all over our electric grid's on/off switches.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Firing someone 24 hours before retirement just to deny them their pension. What a dickhead.

Yeah, that was a dick move.

[Bakery Hill]

It's petty of course. But it's hard to sympathise a great deal.

Not really
He worked a very long time
It doesn’t matter how much money you make after retirement, if you were fired a day before you were gonna retire you’d be pissed

Good, let him be pissed.

[Bakery Hill]

You can do both.

The sooner the better. Meanwhile Donnie's Russian palVlad has his paws all over our electric grid's on/off switches.

Please, neo-McCarthyism is a bad look.

[Proctopeo]

The sooner the better. Meanwhile Donnie's Russian palVlad has his paws all over our electric grid's on/off switches.

Please, neo-McCarthyism is a bad look.

At least target actual communists if you're going to do it.

[Northern Davincia]

Please, neo-McCarthyism is a bad look.

At least target actual communists if you're going to do it.

Yes please.

[Valrifell]

At least target actual communists if you're going to do it.

Yes please.

Since Russia is closer to right-wing conservative authoritarianism than communism, neo-McCarthyism will therefore be a witchhunt against the right-wing.

I, for one, have several torches lined up already.

[Northern Davincia]

Yes please.

Since Russia is closer to right-wing conservative authoritarianism than communism, neo-McCarthyism will therefore be a witchhunt against the right-wing.

I, for one, have several torches lined up already.

Wouldn't that just result in right-wing thought becoming popular on college campuses and corrupting future generations?

[Valrifell]

Since Russia is closer to right-wing conservative authoritarianism than communism, neo-McCarthyism will therefore be a witchhunt against the right-wing.

I, for one, have several torches lined up already.

Wouldn't that just result in right-wing thought becoming popular on college campuses and corrupting future generations?

Left-wing sympathies survived in academia in spite of McCarthyism, not because of it.

[Vassenor]

So apparently Pence is being sequestered from alcohol when he attends Savannah's St Patrick's Day parade.

And dogs, for some reason.

[Northern Davincia]

Wouldn't that just result in right-wing thought becoming popular on college campuses and corrupting future generations?

Left-wing sympathies survived in academia in spite of McCarthyism, not because of it.

College leftism didn't just survive, it thrived.

[Jerzylvania]

The sooner the better. Meanwhile Donnie's Russian palVlad has his paws all over our electric grid's on/off switches.

Please, neo-McCarthyism is a bad look.

See an optometrist while the lights are still on.

Trump is a bad look, a bad feel, a bad president. Sad.

[Vassenor]

...Scuttlebutt has it that Sessions firing McCabe may be a violation of his earlier recusal, especially if the things he was fired for pertain to the ongoing SC investigation.

Now with extra sauce.

[Jerzylvania]

...Scuttlebutt has it that Sessions firing McCabe may be a violation of his earlier recusal, especially if the things he was fired for pertain to the ongoing SC investigation.

Now with extra sauce.

What a schmendrick!

[Cannot think of a name]

...Scuttlebutt has it that Sessions firing McCabe may be a violation of his earlier recusal, especially if the things he was fired for pertain to the ongoing SC investigation.

Now with extra sauce.

Wouldn’t this require oversight by a reasonable body? Do we have those yet?

[Vassenor]

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.

Christopher Wylie, who worked with an academic at Cambridge University to obtain the data, told the Observer: “We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis that the entire company was built on.”

Documents seen by the Observer, and confirmed by a Facebook statement, show that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. However, at the time it failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals.

Holy crap, that's heavy.

[Ifreann]

So apparently Pence is being sequestered from alcohol when he attends Savannah's St Patrick's Day parade.

And dogs, for some reason.

Dogs kept safe from the anti-craic entity known as Mike Pence.

[Vassenor]

So Trump's lawyers are calling for an end to the Mueller probe again.

And apparently firing McCabe was a deliberate attempt to undermine it.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.

Christopher Wylie, who worked with an academic at Cambridge University to obtain the data, told the Observer: “We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis that the entire company was built on.”

Documents seen by the Observer, and confirmed by a Facebook statement, show that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. However, at the time it failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals.

Holy crap, that's heavy.

That sounds really bad.

[Sovaal]

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach



Holy crap, that's heavy.

That sounds really bad.

So top dogs mine and monitor personal data. What else is new?

[Vassenor]

That sounds really bad.

So top dogs mine and monitor personal data. What else is new?

...Oh right I forgot that there's no equivalent to the Data Protection Act in the US.