All of that complex stuff versus, “Hubba Hubba Hubba, Money Money Money, who do you trust?”
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I remember some stat that I didn’t bother to verify when I was younger than “X” (I don’t remember the number, not totally relevant as it’s nonzero) number of people voted for GW Bush because they thought he’d be a better guy to have a beer and chat with
Can you imagine drinking with Trump? He’s the guy that the group would have to babysit. Throwing up all over his own shoes.
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Idk I bet he could handle his vodka pretty well…
Har har har
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That’s been common knowledge for a while.
I still can’t believe 68.5 million Americans would drink a beer with hillary
Shit I would in a heartbeat. Imagine the stories you could hear.
If I can handle being around my sister in law, I can sure as shit drink with HRC
You can’t deny that some people are Charismatic, and that some people can be swayed by Charisma.
I did hear from a First Hand, Personal Witness that George W Bush was a very decent, compassionate, down to earth, solid dude.
I would totally want to kick it with President Trump. A lifetime of ultra high roller, NYC party experience? Billionaire party favors and accomodations? Sign me up!
You pasted a section of another article that was quoted in the one I posted. The response to your paragraph was right below it:
While Shapiro doesn’t bother to provide a link to the Guardian article he is referencing, I’m pretty sure it’s this one written by Ed Pilkington and Amanda Michel. Let’s take a look at what they said about the Obama campaign.
Every time an individual volunteers to help out – for instance by offering to host a fundraising party for the president – he or she will be asked to log onto the re-election website with their Facebook credentials. That in turn will engage Facebook Connect, the digital interface that shares a user’s personal information with a third party.
Notice that this was an invitation that came directly from the Obama campaign, which the volunteer could either chose to accept or reject. From there, the information went into a central database.
The Obama database incorporates Vote Builder, a store of essential information such as age, postal address, occupation and voting history drawn from the voter files of 190 million active voters. It lines up and matches those voter files with data gathered from online interactions with the president’s supporters – notably the millions of pieces of information its army of canvassers collected across the nation during the 2008 race, a list of email addresses of supporters that it has amassed and that now stands at about 23 million, as well as the contact information of Obama’s 25 million Facebook fans.
The original 270k who willingly took that “psychological test” opted in. All of their friends/family/connections (50M in total) did not. This is fundamentally different than the way Obama did it.
There’s no shortage of dumb people out there, for sure. But what CA was hitting these targets with was nothing short of propaganda. One of Trump’s core messages was the media couldn’t be trusted; that the MSM was nothing short of “fake news”.
As the CA whistleblower illustrates below, when some technological novice is inundated with “news” on their FB feed that they don’t see on any of the main news sites or channels (except, eventually, the mouth-breathers on Fox News), they begin to believe that Trump is right.
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Incorrect. If Kogan was allowed to access the “friends” information per the Facebook terms of service (they claim that he was), that means every user of Facebook has agreed to those same terms of service. The security guy from Facebook claimed the terms of service were not violated until Kogan transferred it to CA, there was no breach or hack. He was allowed to collect on the “friends”, as they had already agreed to the TOS.
You know, the 50 paragraphs of lawyer-ese everyone just clicks “accept” on. You use Facebook, you’ve agreed to let them data mine you.
Still wondering how this can hurt Trump legally. How’s Mueller going to argue the guy that doesn’t know the difference between “wire tapping” and a FISA warrant was complicit in what CA was doing?
Ignorance isn’t a valid defense. Besides, this Cambridge Analytica story is far from over. More shoes are sure to drop.
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Do you think THIS is what gets DJT out of office? I would have thought obstruction would be a way more solid case to build. In this scenario nearly all of the potential law breaking is on CA’s plate. Not the Trump campaigns.
Trump eats dinner at 4 and is in bed by 8. He’s old. Why do you think he spends so much time in Florida?
Not necessarily. I think there’s a number of things that could be his Achilles’ heel. Hell, he could end up being taken down by a porn star and Playboy playmate at this point. But Trump hired CA; he doesn’t get to wash his hands of their wrongdoing even if he didn’t specifically know what they were up to.
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It’s even worse than that–he’s a teetotaler.
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Eats his steaks well done, doesn’t drink. Friendship over.
“Can I go hang out with Putin now?”
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So I’m terrible, granted, but I genuinely judge people way too harshly when they order well done steaks.
Just order fucking chicken…
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Not only that but super-rich people in general - I’ve had the dubious honor to interact with some extremely rich people in the course of my business career (I was and still am a nobody but was present on quite a lot of meetings) and I can attest that those super wealthy types think about money 24/7. No downtime, no vacations, no other interests, including vices. Making money is their hobby and main purpose of life and as consequence they’re extremely petty and tedious, not to mention pathologically narcissistic.
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First one on the right. She looks as honest as I require to convince myself that she really likes me until its time to pay the bill.
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No, your pretty much on the mark there. All I can think of when I hear well done is “What did that steak ever do to you?”.
Why is well done even an option?
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Most Americans think Puerto Rico is part of Mexico…once again y’all giving muricans too much credit… Crimea…c’mon man…