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John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid
An anonymous reader writes: Since this U.S. presidential election cycle clearly isn't chaotic enough already, it seems John McAfee is now considering a campaign as well. Wired reports that McAfee hasn't decided for sure yet, and he's hoping to persuade somebody more charismatic to run with his backing. He said his advisors are pressing him to run, adding, "I have many thousands of emails saying please run for President. It's not something I would just choose to do on my own." What would his platform be? It actually sounds pretty simple: "It's clear that the leadership of our country is illiterate on the fundamental technology that supports everything in life for us now, that is cyber science, our smartphones, our military hardware, our communications." He'd be a strong proponent for privacy and autonomy. We should know in a few days whether McAfee is in or out — Wired says he "seems far more concerned with having his voice heard on one particular issue than with taking a seat in the Oval Office."
Something seems to have changed his mind about politics: in a 2014 interview here, McAfee said. "I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot." According to the paperwork McAfee has filed, he is founding a new party (PDF).
I want to know which party he'd run under. Or if he would be independent.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Doesn't the President need a security clearance?
Can someone who ran a drug lab get a security clearance? I think they ask specifically about drug use if you apply for a security clearance.
This is a front page story.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Most of the other candidates are batshiat crazy, why not throw John into that mix?
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
Yep, I know I'd want a guy who's voluntarily played Russian Roulette to occupy the presidency. No wonder he wants to emphasize who he'd run with, or who'd run in his place.
"Is not a sentence" is not a sentence. Well damn.
Business leaders should spend at least 4 years as a representative in Congress or a state governor in my opinion, and show aptitude there. Running government and dealing with politics is too different from the private sector. You have to learn how to compromise and persuade, not just order around underlings to carry out your vision your way.
This also applies to Trump, Carly, and Carson.
Table-ized A.I.
I wonder if he has also reconsidered his position on driving a nail through his foot?
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
What the hell. I'd vote for McAfee before I vote for Trump. If Trump can run, why not McAfee?
Its only illegal if you don't get caught
Wasn't he a fugitive from murder charges, and also not born in the US. Only slightly better presidential option than Trump.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
Who cares if anyone runs without backing from either side of The Party? It's not like anyone who wasn't part of the DemReps was elected president in the past century and a half.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
President of the United States: Serious Business
I thought that felons were ineligible to run for the US Presidency.
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Going with the theme of April Fools for this election cycle, I would like to nominate J.R. "Bob" Dobbs with his running mate, Micky Mouse.
wanted for questioning, with a history of major drug abuse and possibly paranoia, contend with Trump?
It's free, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to install it.
If McAfee is installed in the White House, do we havet/get to renew his subscription every year?
Time to fight fire with fire, McAfee is the only bloated slow unusable solution for our governments problems
I don't believe John McAfee is running for president. He's so tripped out from the bath salts that he probably thinks he's ordering Thai food from an Irish pub on a dare his talking gorillacorn (yes, that's half gorilla, half unicorn) made.
Mod me down, I shall become more off-topic than you could possibly imagine.
Kanye West has announced he is running for President in 2020, now John is pondering it too? Give me strength...
See subject: He's intelligent enough & has accomplished things in his life I respect - plus, he's "in tune" enough w/ how "the REAL world REALLY works" on levels most of us probably will never understand (hopefully, we'll never have to).
* Plus I love his sense of humor (his "how to remove McAfee AntiVirus" video on youtube says it all, lol!).
APK
P.S.=> I know 1 thing for sure: The "career politicians" aren't doing such a 'great job', so instead, I'd say we get somebody somewhat educated & logical in there instead - Mr. McAfee fits that bill imo & what harm could it do? Nothing worse than what we've already seen from these "career politicians" already I wager... apk
Maybe the US should just consider picking someone at random. Just write a program that takes all adults that meet the criteria for president (age, born in the US, etc) and select one. Can't be worse than what's going on now. And as a added bonus US carbon emissions will plummet since there won't be all of the campaigning.
Clearly if he wants to have ANY hope of winning he has to pick a party to run under, and that can only be the 'REPUBs or the DEM's. Sad but true, you have literally NO HOPE of winning as an independent. In fact, given that independent for PREZ are rare, at worst, you'd enable a vote split in one of the major parties, and thus you'd cause the other party to win.
If he really wants a chance, he should run as a DEM, and choose Neil DeGrasse Tyson as his running mate.
Larry Lessig is looking for a running mate, so that he can resign in favor of the VP after reforming the electoral system.
I'm gonna need a spec.
He meets all of the qualifications to run.... ...and he could even pardon himself for that murder in Belize... ...but lacks all the skills necessary to represent 319 million US Citizens.
Still... it would be the quickest way to get the Executive (including the DoJ)
to lay off pot... and he's not as loony as Donald Trump.
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As insane as this sounds, I would love to watch a debate between McAfee and Trump. I think it would be some form of epic.
Nevermore.
john mcafee would be the best choice we have.........
I don't know what to say other than something different needs to be done & perhaps we need a "different kind of somebody" to be doing it is all.
* I was trying to convey that in my initial post, but I haven't been expressing myself well enough today I guess is all...
APK
P.S.=> You have a point but then again, politicians galore (career ones) get caught in ALL KINDS of "bs" too - only they tend to "get out of it" due to being connected @ those 'higher' levels (lower levels imo, of "secret handshaking scumbags") OR, look no farther than Ted Bundy himself (who was on the 'fast track' in politics himself iirc)... apk
Would you damn birthers just STFU already? Furrfu.
I like John... but my vote would hinge on his selection of a VP.
Sadly the VP selection is so late in the game that I cannot convince myself
that knowing what I need to know when I need to know it is very much
in doubt.
I would like to keep the Electoral College and change primary laws to
address a team from the get go.
The EC may prove to to be out best check and balance in this upcoming popularity poll.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
Also on the form are some other very interesting names, including... http://www.fec.gov/press/resou... Harry Potter MLG Jesus Dog Lord Lord Freiza Jeffrey Dahmer Forrest Gump
And a gram up every backside!
Since we know for a fact that Obama came to earth from Krypton, any birth certificate is ipso facto a forgery.
And Pee-wee Herman for Vice President ...
Why? Between him and Trump, we really do need to see the pendulum swing the other way. Government has gotten huge under Bush and even worse under Obama. We need a man that is politically incorrect, someone who innately understands that demagoguery is evil. That politicians are just evil businessmen with a thin veneer of manners. Anyone would be better than Hilary. Seriously. I'd vote for anyone before Hilary, even a bum off the street. If America elects Hilary, which is unlikely, I will seriously consider leaving. America is damaged badly because of the last two presidents. We need someone big, bad and bold. We need someone like Teddy Roosevelt or John Wayne -- a straight-talking, no-BSD kinda guy. We don't need someone that's feminist, pushes a pro-homosexual agenda, or does everything possible to avoid calling islamic terrorists what they are -- islamic terrorist. We need someone to slam shut the border, remove all illegals we know about, bring manufacturing back to America, drop bombs on terrorists -- you get the picture. We need a real man. Where are the men like Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt when you need them? Surely America has some real men ready to run for office that are not so fracking corrupt.
Business leaders should spend at least 4 years as a representative in Congress or a state governor in my opinion, and show aptitude there. Running government and dealing with politics is too different from the private sector. You have to learn how to compromise and persuade, not just order around underlings to carry out your vision your way.
That's a bunch of "nice to have"s. But making it a requirement would be an arbitrary limit on the citizens' ability to elect a candidate of their choice. Sorry, I can't support it.
Between the constitutional limits on who can be president (natural-born, 14-year resident, 35 years or more of age, hasn't held the office for two terms already, and hasn't been convicted in a federal impeachment), and the de facto arbitrary limits by the two major parties' lock on the electoral process, we already have enough limits, thank you.
(Additionally, a requirement that someone has already succeeded in running the congressional-election gauntlet, twice, in the party-dominated electoral process, would give the established parties yet another lock on their control of the government. It would make reform movements nearly impossible, delay them by four to six years, and give the parties four years notice who the potential candidate(s) were and four years opportunity to spike them.)
If the people are convinced that congressional service, or other political officeholding, is a requirement, they are free not to vote for anyone who "doesn't qualify". On the other hand, they are also free to elect anyone they want, even a convicted crook (or some anti-establishent figure convicted of some trumped-up bull-bleep in an attempt to keep him from bothering the current power structure), as long as they pass the handful of constitutional qualifications.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I wonder what Peter Norton is up to these days?
Always room for another candidate in the clown car.
Run as a Libertarian or as a Democrat. Since Biden may not run, and Hilary is imploding, that's the best opportunity
Among people who understand what McAfee software was intended to do, the Lessig/Sanders ticket probably has that demographic tied up.
I know I'd want a guy who's voluntarily played Russian Roulette to occupy the presidency.
What's wrong with a little bit of gambling with a toy gun?
A vote for Mickey Mouse is a vote for Bob Iger, and a vote for Bob Iger is a vote for copyright maximalist idiocy.
There is no truth to the rumor that John McAfee murdered a man in 2012. No truth what so ever to that rumor that John McAfee shot and killed his neighbor on the Island of Ambergris Caye on November 11th, 2012. So I really wish you would all just stop repeating that John McAfee shot and killed his neighbor on the Island of Ambergris Caye on November 11th, 2012.
Carly Fiorina, think of her next time you shell out $10,000* and ounce for printer ink.
Full disclosure, I have an HP printer. An older model. HP no longer used to sell two black ink-jet cartridge, one with about 4 times the ink of the other one. They dropped the more-ink cartridge after a few years. Then there is the time stamp and 'expiration' issue of perfectly fine cartridges...
*$10,000 was chosen out of thin air to make a point. But it is damn expensive.
Who the hell are all these people begging him to run? Or is it one person? Or a spambot? Demand.to see the emails now. If tbere really are 'thousands' of people, God help America
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He has my vote.
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It's clear that the leadership of our country is illiterate on the fundamental technology ...
Yes, there is no doubt that most politicians in most countries know pretty little about technology, science, maths, medicine etc. Being a successful politician - and even more, being a successful president - requires skills that are very far removed from what it takes to be a good engineer. They may not be skills that we as engineers appreciate or admire, but that is to some degree because we simply don't have those skills. And of course, in recognition of that, they have advisors to help them make decisions in those areas. A good politician or president is not necessarily someone who knows everything, but somebody who knows how little he understands, who is able to find good advisors and listens to them.
The same thing can be said about business leaders - just because you have been able to build up a big company and made a lot of money, it doesn't mean that you have any of the skills that would make you a good politician. In a democracy, you need to be able to make people believe that you are the right person for the job and that you will be able to unite the nation and work for the benefit of everybody, even your opponents.
He probably saw what trump gets away with and figures that if he runs for president with coke up his ass, he'll garner support and it'll be harder to arrest him for drug abuse.
He's certainly no less a narcissistic nutcase than Trump. Any differences can easily be covered by drugs.
Has the bar really been set this low?
The man has a taste for blood, wasted his genius on mindless drug abuse for decades, and is profoundly weird in every way imaginable. You wouldn't trust him with anything, let alone the fate of the nation.
Would be WIIIIIDE OPEN! Free pot to the disadvantaged, so he'd have the poor vote and the tech vote.
Free birth control of all kinds, so he'd have the women's vote.
Sounds like he could win!
"Sometimes the truth is stupid." - Lawrence, creator of Prime Intellect
McAfee said. "I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot."
But... I could actaully see him doing that. Just once to experience the sensation of it.