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Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms

Mic.com reports that the "total war" declared by Anonymous against presidential candidate Donald Trump has resulted in a grandly presented leak of some personal information. Items alleged to be personal information about Trump have been posted to PasteBin; these include a social security number purported to be his, contact information for some Trump business associates (including his agent and his lawyer's office), and some information about his family relationships. As Tech Insider points out, though, the YouTube video announcing the dump seems to overstate its significance, in that none of the information leaked is new or earth-shattering -- most of it could be quickly gleaned from a Google search or a visit to Wikipedia.

242 comments

  1. Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't care about anonymous's childish and sensationalized political views, that's not how democracy works. Hackers shouldn't influence votes any more than the wealthy should. Either they found real dirt or they didn't. It seems they didn't.

    1. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This

    2. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sir, are absolutely spot on.

    3. Re:Bullshit video by arbiter1 · · Score: 2

      Only thing it will do is fuel Trump's campaign even more like All the Media has been doing for him so he hasn't spend 1/5th what everyone else does on ad's.

    4. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Posted as Anonymous -- lol!

    5. Re:Bullshit video by emazing · · Score: 3, Interesting

      We don't live in a democracy, especially one that works. Mainstream media has way too much of an affect on people's choice as it is. If some people want to publish a sensationalized video with facts that are true, so be it.

    6. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Fitting, because Anonymous is a bullshit group.

      Not even script kiddies now, just firing up Google.

    7. Re:Bullshit video by nucrash · · Score: 0

      Call me when they hack his social media accounts and start posting pro-Bernie announcements or publish his tax returns. I would even be entertained with the amount of money he spends to maintain that rug on his head.

      Let's be honest, if they are going to do something, let's make it entertaining and worthwhile.

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    8. Re:Bullshit video by davester666 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Clearly Bernie Sanders is behind this attack, and therefore, Bernie Sanders is Anonymous. Arrest him!

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    9. Re:Bullshit video by DontHackMeBro · · Score: 1

      The Internet - where 12 year old morons influence the national debate.

    10. Re:Bullshit video by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... Clearly Bernie Sanders is behind this attack ...

      [ Citation please ! }

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    11. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      With a name like "donthackmebro" I'm not sure you're in a position to speak on the subject without implicating yourself.

    12. Re:Bullshit video by davester666 · · Score: 1, Redundant

      whoosh

      google "trump sanders protesters"

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    13. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Effect, you moron.

    14. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mainstream media has way too much of an affect on people's choice as it is.

      Thanks to something called the Internet people today have much broader access to independent sources of news, information, interpretations and opinions than ever before in history. Before the Internet "mainstream media" had a news monopoly. Not anymore.

      If your beef is that most people don't bother with this, then your beef really is with democracy (and that most people are not smart enough for democracy is a common argument against democracy from people arguing for more totalitarian forms of government).

    15. Re:Bullshit video by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Either they found real dirt or they didn't. It seems they didn't.

      Which proves my theory - that he's covering something up. [swivels eyes from side to side]

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    16. Re:Bullshit video by bug1 · · Score: 0

      Hackers shouldn't influence votes any more than the wealthy should

      What about the media, or lobbyists, or famous people, they shouldnt influence votes either i guess... everyone should vote based on truth rather perception. But democracy has never been like that, its never been a magic solution to select leaders, its just better than the alternatives.

      Politics is all about influencing people, hackers have just as much right as anyone else to try and influence others.

    17. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, well too bad, that is how America WORKs buddy!

      Seriously though, shit like that really needs to be fixed.
      The fact that a small niche of rich people can sway public opinion through lies, spin and even social networks (there are several companies around getting things trending on Twitter, for example) is sickening.

      Every single thing done in office should have civilian oversight. ANONYMOUS civilian oversight at that.
      That way people can't be paid off to shut up.

    18. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem (predicted decades ago) is narrowcasting. There are so many sources of "information" available that individuals can pick the one they like and ignore the others

    19. Re:Bullshit video by butzwonker · · Score: 1

      *sigh* In a working democracy, mainstream media should have a significant effect on people's choices. Would you rather prefer uninformed voters who draw all their 'information' from radical niche media, bloggers and wacky Youtube videos?

    20. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then start lobbying to overturn citizens United!

    21. Re:Bullshit video by butzwonker · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Thanks to something called the Internet people today have much broader access to independent sources of news, information, interpretations and opinions than ever before in history.

      You might not like to face the truth, but there are good reasons for claiming that this is also one of the main reasons for an emergence of new forms of radicalism, a general increase of stupidity and a substantial decline of political culture ...

    22. Re:Bullshit video by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 2

      I'm wondering: is this a real doxing, or an intentional feed from the campaign?

    23. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're quite young, I assume?

      People have had access to a plethora of views for over a century, not least thanks to the media being owned by dozens of groups with a broad range of interests.

      Today, nearly all mainstream media is owned by six companies with similar interests.

      If you think being bombarded with more information than even the most quick-witted human can process improves the broadness of one's view, you have a fantasy view of the human mind. People will be influenced most by the media with the ability to shout the loudest - and, unfortunately, that's pretty much one voice these days. It's not as bad as a government monopoly on media, but it's close enough. (And I was brought up in a fascist state with heavy censorship - even there, everyone knew what the alternative opinion were, but you just knew how and when not to express them. In fact, alternative political movements were better understood there than I've found in the "free" US.)

    24. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Would you rather prefer uninformed voters who draw all their 'information' from radical niche media, bloggers and wacky Youtube videos?

      Yes.

      It would mean a wider diversity of views, and let the best one win. Our current system allows oligarchs to shape and control public discourse and politics to their own benefit, through what is now raw and shameless propaganda posing as "news". Things have gotten so bad that wingnut bloggers and conspiracy whacks are now preferable to Fox News and CNN in several instance.

      Wacky Youtube videos didn't cause the financial crisis, and they won't cause the next one. You need an "informative" mainstream media to accomplish that.

    25. Re:Bullshit video by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 1

      "Hackers" are what brought to light the fact that Clinton had a private e-mail server.

      Are you saying that we would have been better off knowing she thought she was above the law?

    26. Re:Bullshit video by RogueWarrior65 · · Score: 1

      Precisely. IMHO, this and the protesting is going to backfire HARD because one of the motivating factors of Trump supporters is that they are sick of "children" throwing temper tantrums to get what they want and the "parents" caving every time. It's not as though there aren't legal ways for them to get what they want but they have to convince a majority of people to go along with them which doesn't happen very often.

    27. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For evidence, see comments section at The Guardian ( UK ). It's mental, but it attracts the hard-left and they convince each other that the whole of the UK is hard-left really.

    28. Re:Bullshit video by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1
      As described by José Ortega y Gasset in 1929's The Revolt of the Masses

      In this work, Ortega traces the genesis of the "mass-man" and analyzes his constitution en route to describing the rise to power and action of the masses in society. Ortega is throughout quite critical of both the masses and the mass-men of which they are made up, contrasting "noble life and common life" and excoriating the barbarism and primitivism he sees in the mass-man.

      Read it, it may save your life. Also relevant is Spengler's The Decline of the West

    29. Re:Bullshit video by malditaenvidia · · Score: 1

      See? This is what happens when moot gets a job at google.

    30. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's like when someone dumped Newt Gingrich's video rental record back in the day. They were no doubt hoping it contained incest horse porn, but all they found out was he liked westerns. Trump is a public figure with years in the entertainment industry. His affairs and his affairs are well known to all. Unless they've got a picture of him sleeping with Hillary there's nothing that will effect him.

    31. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem (predicted decades ago) is narrowcasting. There are so many sources of "information" available that individuals can pick the one they like and ignore the others

      Yes, but still free people making free choices, should they somehow be force-fed other types of information?

    32. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks to something called the Internet people today have much broader access to independent sources of news, information, interpretations and opinions than ever before in history.

      You might not like to face the truth, but there are good reasons for claiming that this is also one of the main reasons for an emergence of new forms of radicalism, a general increase of stupidity and a substantial decline of political culture ...

      Yes, and it is still what other people choose to do that you have a beef with. They have a choice (you have made one fx, I assume you don't count yourself in the groups you describe). The alternative would be to make sure they are force-fed the "right" type of information, by someones definition.

    33. Re:Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People will be influenced most by the media with the ability to shout the loudest

      Are you describing yourself here or just other people?

    34. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well political hackers don't claim to be part of the democratic process. You can't vote for them to not hack things. They do what they want to do to influence world events. The smart ones keep their existence a secret.

    35. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's critiquing the internet as a medium, and its effects on society. Free people making the free choice of using the internet are having their free opinions shaped in predictably fragmented ways. The medium itself is making it hard for people to achieve a consensus, which is kind of necessary for a democracy.

    36. Re: Bullshit video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not really an "either or" situation. Like the only way to spread information is on the internet, or through corporately controlled, unaccountable duopolies, who serve their own interests.

      We could establish publicly owned media

      We could break up the media giants

      We could make the cable tv infrastructure available to small media companies

      We could do many things, but we won't, because corporate media won't talk about them, and internet opinions are fragmented. And contemptuous. You bastards.

  2. Pretty disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That HRC's people would stoop to such lows.

    1. Re:Pretty disgusting by zieroh · · Score: 0

      Let me be the first to say: Fuck you, you fucking little troll. Anonymous != HRC.

      Asshole.

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      People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
    2. Re: Pretty disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's awesome that you believe that. What an interesting mind.

  3. Enemies of anonymity by DontHackMeBro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    By causing trouble anonymously, Anonymous are technically working as agents for those entities (such as Russia) which would like to eliminate anonymity.

    1. Re:Enemies of anonymity by Xest · · Score: 1

      That sounds like an awfully circular argument - no one can use anonymity to try and pursue their political views because it might cause anonymity to be taken away. If people can't use anonymity for things like pursuing political views then what's the point in it anyway? Something that's there, but can't be used, is about as useful as something just not being there in the first place.

    2. Re:Enemies of anonymity by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      Being able to be political active anonymously is necessary where those who have to money and power to subvert democracy would subvert the lives of those who are politically active against them. Get them fired by threatening their employers, the employer firing them because the employer prefers government favouring them, get them arrested on spurious charges, government declares them a security risk and denies them or their company employment and that is just for a start, there is also threatening family members in similar manner and never forget early morning law enforcement raids at gunpoint with law enforcers eager to fire, typically with seconds of issuing a warning or even firing simultaneously to the warning. "Anonymous" exists because there are enormously corrupt psychopathic authoritarians who would attack and destroy them or even kill them. "Anonymous" is not the problem, "Anonymous" is the symptom of the problem. The problems a secret conspiracies and corruption, perversion of justice and the laws, corrupt main stream media and the willingness of those involved in the corruption to resort to extremes of violence, especially of the "Stop Resisting" variety even when the victims are unconscious they are still further beaten for refusing to move. Houses trashed, goods stolen for investigation, families brutalised, joke all you want idiot, you wont be laughing when it's your turn and that level of corruption means it more random chance than any act you do, that provokes an attack.

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    3. Re:Enemies of anonymity by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      By causing trouble anonymously, Anonymous are technically working as agents for those entities (such as Russia) which would like to eliminate anonymity.

      That's like saying that by exercising your right to free speech and offending people you are working as an agent for those who would like to limit free speech that offends people.

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      To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
  4. Morons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There is literally more information on Wikipedia about him.

    Anonymous... Synonymous with stupid motherfucker.

    1. Re:Morons by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 2

      There is literally more information on Wikipedia about him.

      Shhh QUIET! You've revealed their super-secret source of info for doxxen teh Trump!

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    2. Re:Morons by alzoron · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The thing about Doxxing is that we already know most of the "dirt" about Trump. Most of the stuff about him that would kill other potential candidates he wears like a badge of honor. His whole campaign basically depends on being the biggest piece of shit candidate running to make all the small people feel like their faults aren't really all that bad and maybe even ok.

    3. Re:Morons by Greyfox · · Score: 1
      No news is bad news. As long as the media's talking about him, they're not talking about someone else. His advantage in this race is he knows how to manipulate the media much better than the career politicians. And also, apparently, much better than the people the career politicians hire to manipulate the media for them.

      What's interesting to me is that the Koch brothers and RNC Leadership are pouring millions of dollars into smearing him and it's having very little effect. The powers that be are used to just buying a race and the input from the electorate has always been a formality. It never even occurred to them that it could turn out any other way. Trump could actually be the first candidate actually chosen by the people in decades. And it turns out that those people are easily influenced by a platform of racism and a third grade vocabulary.

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    4. Re:Morons by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      What makes it a bit more perplexing is that the country is not undergoing any economic turmoil or anything like that. Trump is simply a reflection of the hate against *you-know-who*. All his "power" is derived from our (even Koch, et al) attention, offered on a sliver platter. We should be rewarded for our supporting roles. And we just might reap those rewards. And then the voters will cry that they were manipulated, anything to avoid responsibility for their own stupid choices. If Trump is truly a "man of the people", then fuck the people. They're nothing but a bunch of little antipathic dictators.

      "Will you run an engine lathe eight unfucking hours a day because the syndicate tells you the people
      need what the lathe produces? If you will, the people just becomes a new tyrant."

      Eh, it ain't over yet. There's still time to see it's a Howard Stern gag.

      --
      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
  5. False Flag Operation? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

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    1. Re:False Flag Operation? by Archfeld · · Score: 1

      I'd mod the above as insightful if I had the points.
      Will the 'real' anonymous please stand up, and out the amateurs who are parading as them.

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    2. Re:False Flag Operation? by dmomo · · Score: 1

      This has crossed my mind too. I guess that's what you get with a decentralized (supposedly) action group.

    3. Re:False Flag Operation? by dugancent · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Right...So called Anonymous is the lamest group of blowhards on the internet. Lowball drivel is all they know.

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    4. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There is no "real" anonymous.

      Anyone can claim to be anonymous and be as valid as any other group claiming to be so. That's the core nature of the philosophy.

    5. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anonymous success rates depends on the security precautions of their target. The less secure their target is the more competent they look. The only thing Anonymous has accomplished is handing the government all the ammunition they need to argue for tighter control over the Internet.

    6. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anonymity. A great strength and a terrible weakness.

    7. Re:False Flag Operation? by AchilleTalon · · Score: 1

      Well said Anonymous!

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      Hop!
    8. Re:False Flag Operation? by Guy+From+V · · Score: 1

      lol

    9. Re:False Flag Operation? by Kohath · · Score: 3, Interesting

      And if you want a Trump elected, this sort of thing helps him out a lot. Other things that help him:
      - any negative comments from Bush or Romney
      - any negative comments from Mexican government leaders
      - protests like the ones in Chicago. The more disruptive the protests, the more it helps Trump.
      - any big business CEOs or Chamber of Commerce leaders speaking out against him
      - any negative comments from Obama.
      - any other foreign leaders or celebrities speaking out against him

      If you want him to win easily, keep it up.

    10. Re:False Flag Operation? by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 1

      It's weird how nobody ever accuses an Anonymous operation of being a false flag while it's in the early boasting phase. Then it's always "Anonymous is going to fuck them up good this time". After that operation turns into a huge failure, then it was clearly a false flag from the beginning.

    11. Re:False Flag Operation? by wisnoskij · · Score: 0

      False Flag operations work better when the operation is something the people will hate. Hacking Trump will just make people like Anonymous.

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      Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
    12. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anonymous doesn't need help from anybody to look like a joke. They do that all by themselves.

      All the "real" hackers associated with that group have long since been caught, prosecuted, imprisoned, released, and offered real jobs. In other words, they've moved on. Their heyday was over several years ago.

    13. Re:False Flag Operation? by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 1

      That is the problem with anonymity, it is impossible to protect your reputation if you are anonymous (even if they were not childish twits half the time). Anyone can do wonderful or horrific things in the name of anonymous and there is nothing anyone else can do about it. In fact people can even take credit for what anonymous does by letting themselves "get caught" then claim they are the real anonymous and that all the new actions are by imposers. How could you prove they were not the original anonymous?

    14. Re:False Flag Operation? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 2

      I am on record here with concerns of a false flag operation back when the very first word of this so-called operation (your "early boasting phase) started.

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    15. Re:False Flag Operation? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 1

      Perhaps IT'S A TRAP! Maybe the goal is to goad the "real" (notice the quotes that imply some ambiguity) Anonymous into a very big action with the purpose of outing them?

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      I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
    16. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm Anonymous.

      And so's my wife!

    17. Re:False Flag Operation? by stephanruby · · Score: 3, Funny

      I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

      It's the same thing with the user on slashdot called "Anonymous Coward". Sometimes, "Anonymous Coward" can be super insightful and eloquent, the rest of the time, I feel the FBI is trying to run a false flag operation against its reputation by spouting off spammy, racist, and idiotic comments under its handle. The FBI truly has no shame.

    18. Re:False Flag Operation? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

      That's a load of crap. Anonymous attacks come and go all the time. On the odd occasion the kids managed to get someone skillful to actually boost their credibility and help do something stupid online. That doesn't make them any more or less "real".

      Anonymous is and always has been a group of randoms. In that group will be some professional hackers, and some 12 year old racists thinking they're internet tough guys hoping their mothers don't realise their favourite website shows nasty pictures. Today we got the latter, but they are still "real" in the sense of what the Anonymous group means.

    19. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      wasn't the real anonymous destroyed by their members being in prison years ago?

    20. Re:False Flag Operation? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Maybe you missed the whole #GamerGate thing... The problem with Anonymous is that since anyone can use that flag and it's impossible to verify, sometimes you get great good and more often you get childish asshattery and criminality.

      Anonymous and it's offshoot GamerGate need to recognize this and form some kind of organization, because other simply disclaiming the actions of those using the name for malice is meaningless. The only way to protect yourself from people using your name for bad stuff is to have some way to positively identify members.

      Anonymity is a good thing, but it also has some severe limitations when trying to organize around it.

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    21. Re:False Flag Operation? by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      So basically any one who criticises Trump is helping him win? And any one who praises Trump is helping him win?

      So the only way not to help Trump win is to remain silent, which helps Trump win too. So Trump is bound to win whatever anyone does.

      There seems to be a logical flaw here somewhere.

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      To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
    22. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, I'm Anonymous!

    23. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There seems to be a logical flaw here somewhere.

      It's called Trump's supporters. Anybody who criticizes Trump is in the vast wicked majority of pussy gay faggot leftlist communist who want to turn your sons gay. And Trump will personally make sure that every last wicked pussy gay faggot leftist communist who wants to turn your son gay is flogged, tarred, and feathered so that the USA can return back to the small minority of the population that are the real god-fearing, hard-working Americans.

      In other words, the only way to understand what's happening here is to understand that a large portion of Americans have completely gone insane and no longer live in reality. Then there are the niggers who are voting for that racist Barry Goldwater supporter Clinton.

      America is well and truly fucked.

    24. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Huh?

      What is this "anonymous" group you speak of? I thought it was a loosely connected group of people that the media and the masses has tried to (wrongly) fit into some sort of hierarchical structure.

      Anonymous is more like "the feminists" or "the environmentalists" than it is Lulz Sec, The IRA, or The Weather Underground.

    25. Re: False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, exactly. The way to beat him was to ignore him. Instead they've given him the cheapest presidential campaign in 50 years, and a real shot at winning.

    26. Re:False Flag Operation? by Kohath · · Score: 1

      If a well-respected person criticized Trump in exactly the right way, it might be bad for him. But this is America and we don't have any well-respected people.

    27. Re:False Flag Operation? by Chas · · Score: 2

      Okay, this isn't what has happened.

      What's happened is that a good chunk of the US is fed up with the entire Washington DC Establishment.
      At this point, it's essentially a political mono-culture with two major social cliques.
      They've been playing hot-potato with power in the various arms of government for most of the last 80 years.
      In that time, the country has become a gigantic shithole for the average citizen/family.
      Both sides claim they'll fix everything. But the country just keeps getting progressively more and more screwed.

      And people aren't voting for Trump because they think he'll actually fix something. Likely he's going to buttfuck the country too.
      They're doing this because they're sending a gigantic fuck-you-gramme to the DC Establishment. If there's going to be suffering anyhow, they're going to have to shoulder their share of the burden.

      So, after 4-8 years of dealing with a fucking unwiped ass like Trump, MAYBE, just maybe the politicians might be inclined to actually DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS and fix the economy instead of wasting time, taxpayer money, and resources on stupid pork projects and drafting shitty, protectionist laws where they've piled in even more pork.

      Now I'm not going to vote for Trump (I'm still sane). But a realize what's moving his campaign.

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      THANK GOD!!!
    28. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's the same thing with the user on slashdot called "Anonymous Coward". Sometimes, "Anonymous Coward" can be super insightful and eloquent, the rest of the time, I feel the FBI is trying to run a false flag operation against its reputation by spouting off spammy, racist, and idiotic comments under its handle. The FBI truly has no shame.

      would have been better if you stated that as AC.

    29. Re:False Flag Operation? by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      I hear Vladimir Putin kind of likes the guy.

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      I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

    30. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, Please. Anonymous has done nothing that would indicate that they are anything more than a bunch of script kiddies. The "real" Anonymous has been long gone for some time. These little kids claiming to be hackers couldn't crack 127.0.0.1 if their mom gave them the root password.

      As to whether this is a false flag, who knows, and more importantly, who cares?

    31. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

      ROFL, anyone can be Anonymous right?

    32. Re:False Flag Operation? by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      Will the 'real' anonymous please stand up...?

      Very funny

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    33. Re:False Flag Operation? by jrumney · · Score: 1

      Probably the best ammunition against Trump is the fact that Putin likes him.

    34. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Slightly off-topic, but do now believe, or have you ever believed that dropping bombs on terrorists in the middle east only helps create more terrorists?

    35. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are completely out of touch.

    36. Re:False Flag Operation? by cwsumner · · Score: 1

      What? You think Trump did it to himself?

      On second thought, I wouldn't put it past him...

    37. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The best surmise regarding the current state of US politics I've heard yet.

      Can someone pass the popcorn please?

    38. Re:False Flag Operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you kidding? Romney destroyed his support in Utah.

    39. Re:False Flag Operation? by Kohath · · Score: 1

      Utah is a special case. Other places Romney is just another establishment voice.

  6. Trump is untouchable by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Informative

    This just goes to show that Trump is untouchable.

    Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

    This is exactly why "trumped" up reports of things like racism don't hold water and don't affect Trump in the polls - because most people in America know his history with things like choosing a black woman as w winner on the Apprentice (someone who supports his candidacy now BTW), or his supposed hatred of immigrants when everyone knows he married a few (and probably slept with many more).

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    1. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

      So utterly clean and free of crime connections despite wallowing in cesspits like New York property development and Nevada casinos? Maybe he can sell you a bridge?

    2. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This just goes to show that Trump is untouchable.

      Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

      This is exactly why "trumped" up reports of things like racism don't hold water and don't affect Trump in the polls - because most people in America know his history with things like choosing a black woman as w winner on the Apprentice (someone who supports his candidacy now BTW), or his supposed hatred of immigrants when everyone knows he married a few (and probably slept with many more).

      Where is the West borough Baptist Church Cult during all of this? The WBC doesn't care about facts, they just show up and cause shit and can't be reasoned with.
      They would destroy Trump.

    3. Re:Trump is untouchable by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Is he undergoing an FBI investigation like another candidate?

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    4. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      How is New York property development crime? It's legal business. And he's not in Vegas Casinos, he's in Atlantic city casinos.

      Just because he operates in a particular business does not mean he actually is engaged in a crime.

    5. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      Try comprehending what you read and look "cesspit" up in a dictionary if that helps.

    6. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      So arguing for the lesser of two evils? I was expressing an opinion that I do not think Trump is "untouchable" and your lesser of two evils argument is not relevant to that in any way at all. Please try something less boring than noise for the purpose of distraction.other

    7. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      And he's not in Vegas Casinos, he's in Atlantic city casinos.

      Are you seriously suggesting that the building in Las Vegas with Trump's name in large letters on the front is not his casino and also suggesting that Atlantic City gambling is squeaky clean?

      Why do people pretend to be so stupid?

    8. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 2

      There's been a lot of stuff like this for years:
      http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826
      http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-mob-mafia/
      http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/news1222_trump.html

      That's just what google turned up today so don't blame me if you don't like the politics of any of those sites.

      Trump talks like a gangster due to practice talking to the real thing.

    9. Re:Trump is untouchable by kuzb · · Score: 1

      All elections are essentially arguing for the lesser of a group of evils.

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    10. Re:Trump is untouchable by Jack9 · · Score: 2

      Trying to leverage the reputation of a city's history of corruption into some kind of appearance of inpropriety is pathetic.

      Trump's name (along with Bill Clinton and others) in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. That's something to hide.

      Stay out of the voting booth, if you're too emotionally unstable understand the difference between tangible facts and the fantasies you hope will come up.

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    11. Re: Trump is untouchable by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Are you talking about Hillary Clinton or Harry Reid?

    12. Re:Trump is untouchable by Darinbob · · Score: 1, Insightful

      And yet people claim he's a great business person despite the actual evidence of all his failures.

    13. Re:Trump is untouchable by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1

      ... Trump talks like a gangster due to practice talking to the real thing ...

      Contrast that with that 'lawyer' inside the White House who is practically the biggest motherfooking gangster of all time

      Even after Snowden expose how the American government has been eavesdropping on us, Obama came out accusing Snowden as a traitor, and vowing to continue his Saddam Hussein style of wiping his ass with our Constitution and Bill of Right

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    14. Re:Trump is untouchable by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      I see a picture of Hillary Clinton wallowing in shit. Appears accurate.

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    15. Re:Trump is untouchable by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      Even after Snowden expose how the American government has been eavesdropping on us, Obama came out accusing Snowden as a traitor, and vowing to continue his Saddam Hussein style of wiping his ass with our Constitution and Bill of Right

      "This guys a bad guy and you know thereâ(TM)s still a thing called execution."

      "You know, spies in the old days used to be executed"

    16. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

      I wouldn't exactly put it that way. It's more like things that would sink any politician doesn't harm Trump because he hasn't tried to keep it secret.
      If you uncover Clintons secret plans to build super expensive concentration camps to put you in that will hurt her campaign. In Trumps case it doesn't because he has already told you that he intends to do it, and anyone who opposes him is a lame dickhead.

      As an outside observer I think the main divide between Republicans and Democrats is that of idealists and pragmatics.
      Everyone knows that both sides are psychopath assholes and are just looking for the lesser evil.
      The idealist side would rather vote for someone that screws them over more but does so honestly while the pragmatic side accepts the lies as long as the end result is less evil.
      I'm not entirely sure what the best option would be. While it seems insane to vote for someone like Trump that easily could get away with complete atrocities it could in the long run lead to a situation where politicians have to be more honest during the election.
      Getting rid of the doublespeak might be better in the long run, assuming that Trump doesn't tank the nation (Or start a world war.) before the reelection.

    17. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > or his supposed hatred of immigrants when everyone knows he married a few (and probably slept with many more).

      Ah, the old "I'm not racist because I have black friends" argument. Nigel Farage in the UK is married to a German but that doesn't change the fact he hypocritically supports kicking immigrants out of the country, just not his wife, because well, it's different apparently.

      The things you describe don't mean Trump is being misrepresented, they merely demonstrate his rampant hypocrisy.

      Trump is popular because he's using the same succesful tactic used by some of the worst eventual dictators in history - charismatic populism. But I'm not surprised someone so prone to swallowing corporate marketing propaganda to the extent of being Slashdot's biggest fanboy is also prone to swallowing charismatic populism.

      If only you'd ever learn to "think different" and actually think for yourself rather than being so prone to zealously pursuing whatever propaganda comes your way be it Apple marketing spiel or Trump's far right populism. You might actually become something other than pondlife if that ever happened.

    18. Re:Trump is untouchable by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Just being nice to black people or marrying an immigrant doesn't mean you can't still be racist. Racism isn't just a blind hatred of other races, it's doing things and making policies that disproportionately affect certain racial groups.

      Similarly, just because he has hired women and married some, doesn't meant he can't have sexist views. It's not like there is a shortage of sexist things he has said. I'd also point out that it's pretty obvious that being attractive (to Trump) was a massive advantage for women on The Apprentice.

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    19. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, 'racism' means 'white people associating with their own kind, and having NOTHING to do with other races, and thus being unable to affect them in any way, positive or negative'.

      Unless you believe (as you obviously do), that white people make SUPERIOR societies, and thus to deny non-whites the ability to live among whites you are making their lives worse. LOL. You idiot. You don't even know why you believe what you claim to believe.

      So you believe that white people, and ONLY white people, don't have the right to simply have their own countries.

      Why?

    20. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This just goes to show that Trump is untouchable.

      The canonical meme is "You can't stump the trump".

    21. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Turning USD 1 million into 10 billion is clearly a mark of a bad businessman. You cannot blame a business for maximizing its profits.

    22. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're in the US, isn't it a little early to be posting while drunk?

    23. Re:Trump is untouchable by gerddie · · Score: 3, Funny

      As an outside observer I think the main divide between Republicans and Democrats is that of idealists and pragmatics.

      I think it's more like Jarod Kintz put it in This Book is Not FOR SALE: “There exists a big circus tent, and the right entrance is named The Republicans, and the left entrance is called The Democrats. People argue over which is the correct path, not realizing everyone inside is a clown.”

    24. Re:Trump is untouchable by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 1

      Two words:
      Chicago politics
      If we are going to crucify someone by things associated with location then Obama would be just as tied to Chicago politics as Trump would be to AC gambling.

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    25. Re:Trump is untouchable by tehcyder · · Score: 2

      Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

      He still won't admit the truth about that poor creature that lives on his head.

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    26. Re:Trump is untouchable by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 1

      Well. Yes.

      IF it comes down to a Clinton/Trump general I'm voting Trump. Short of them reforming the vote laws so we stop doing 'first past the post' and a legitimate 3rd candidate showing up.

      I don't like Trump. But I loathe Clinton. Her family has continually shown that they think they're above the law. The "Clinton Foundation" is little more than a slush fund. 6 out of her top 10 contributors are banks she voted to bail out while in the Senate.

      And is "Slick Willie" the guy you really want as First Gentleman? The guy that settled a rape case out of court and then was prohibited from practicing law for 5 years in Arkansas? With the Clintons in a political office I know exactly what I'm getting and because of that I would vote for Inanimate Carbon Rod over her.

    27. Re:Trump is untouchable by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 2

      Wait. So you honestly believe that the guy who has bankrupted several of his own companies, the guy who is encouraging physical violence at his rallies, the guy advocating for targeting Muslims, and the guy advocating for spending billions and billions of dollars on building a wall is the LESSER of two evils? I'm not saying the Clintons are without sin, absolutely they've got some dirty laundry. But man, it's a real stretch calling Trump the lesser of those two "evils".

    28. Re:Trump is untouchable by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      Nope. Just pointing out the obvious. You implied he's dirty, and yet he's not the one undergoing an FBI investigation. I wonder why he's not under any criminal investigations - maybe he is clean?

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    29. Re:Trump is untouchable by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

      He had a bunch of failures in the 80's but came back from them, what's more successful than taking a lot of risks and surviving?

      That's why you will never understand Trump, nor those who support him (not saying I support him, just that I understand those that do).

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    30. Re:Trump is untouchable by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      I'm pretty sure he wasn't actually born in the USA. I think he was born in Loompa land. It's pretty clear that he's a Ooompa Loompa.

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    31. Re:Trump is untouchable by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 1

      Yes, and that says more about how Evil I find the Clintons than anything else.

      It's my vote, I get to do with it what I want.

    32. Re:Trump is untouchable by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 1

      Dude, you need therapy. Cutting off your nose to spite your face is not a smart strategy. But, hey, maybe you're into that kind of thing. It's OK. He has no chance at winning the General Election anyway.

    33. Re:Trump is untouchable by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1
    34. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry, I read that as "Trump is un-douche-able."

    35. Re:Trump is untouchable by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 1

      Look at the polls of him vs Clinton in a theoretical general. He most certainly does.

      That said, there is a lot more in play if Trump wins.

      For example the GOP already hates him, meaning they might actually have to create a new party to leave him behind (and run in 2020). Congress might actually work together against the president, something that certainly won't happen with Clinton.

      I would take 4 years of Trump over 8 years of Clinton. Additionally if you look past what he says to get his core voters he doesn't have half bad ideas. Protectionism is what helped build US's industry. An import Tax from China would be an entertaining shit show but might cause companies to actually spring up in the void.

      Or you can vote Clinton and get more of the same. Who knows what she'll believe in 6 months once Bernie stops pulling her left.

    36. Re:Trump is untouchable by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      We only have his word that he's successful though. He's also being sued by relatively recent bad deals, forget the Taj Mahal fiasco he's been sued over casinos 12 years ago. He points out he never had personal bankruptcy but that's just passing the buck that his biggest deal was a flop which he was primarily responsible for personally. More recently, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Magazine, and other flops where he was more interested in pushing his name than making sound business decisions. And Trump University which was an outright scam.

      For someone who starts off his professional life with $200 million, he should have a few billion by now even if he was lousy, and tens of billions if he was as good as he claims he is. But he's listing his name as an asset which doesn't sound like something normally accepted by accountants, however most of his big claims are really just having his name on other people's products like Trump Tower.

      I just don't think he's all that good at business, and his fans are pretty gullible for believing him.

    37. Re:Trump is untouchable by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 1

      Look at the polls of him vs Clinton in a theoretical general. He most certainly does.

      He most certainly does not.

      And no, he does not have good ideas. It's been pretty well documented by some pretty smart folks that his policies would be financial suicide for our country. His ideas go beyond protectionism and instead veer out into utter fantasy.

    38. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ted Cruz can help you with that.

      That isn't the limit of his potential misdeeds, there was a lawsuit about Trump University as well, and many others, so no, you can't say he is clean beyond any question, no.

    39. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      Wow - marked me foe already? Just for pointing out that Trump has gambling interests? How incredibly thin skinned.

    40. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      Obama is not running.
      Funny how even if Trump was by some magic squeaky clean despite the people he associated with he's still seen as wonderful despite his gambling empire feeding off the poor with rigged games and a government licence to do so. It's perfectly legal for the house to always come out ahead but they are still rigged games and it's perfectly legal for government to keep others who don't bid on the limited gambling licences out of the game, but he's still gained the benefit of governments preventing others from competing with him.
      So a parasite that depends on big government to allow him to prey on the people - and that's if he's been up to nothing else.

    41. Re:Trump is untouchable by dbIII · · Score: 1

      Hillary isn't close to the topic and Obama is out of the running, thus nowhere near a "lesser of two evils" stupid argument.

      Have you considered that there are people that think both Hillary and Trump should not be trusted with the job?

    42. Re:Trump is untouchable by jrumney · · Score: 1

      So... his supporters actually like the fact that he has already established that his actions don't match his words?

    43. Re:Trump is untouchable by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      You don't know anything about business, do you. That's common when you're in business. It's bullshit. Just call him a bunch of names because they don't want him to become president. They want the status quo.

      Don't buy into it. Think. They really hate it when people think. Politicians could lose their jobs. They don't want that.

    44. Re:Trump is untouchable by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      He didn't start off with $200 million, he didn't inherit anything until his dad died in the 90s, by which time Trump was already a billionaire. He started with a loan of $1 million.

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    45. Re:Trump is untouchable by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      There's nothing anyone can do that doesn't disproportionately effect certain racial groups. Affirmative action disproportionately negatively effects asian students.

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    46. Re:Trump is untouchable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong. Because of the debt issue, there is some doubt he was ever a billionaire.

  7. Didn't know ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    .... that as a certified Microsoft CopyPaste Professional (c)(tm)(r) I could join the ranks of Anonymous.

  8. Anonymous has to ratchet down their boasting by dmomo · · Score: 1

    And save it for when they actually have something. They are starting to sound like Best North Korea. They "exposed" Hillary recently, but all they did was mention public knowledge. I guess you get what you pay for.

  9. No shit, sherlock by gman003 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The man publicly advocates war crimes, jokes about shooting people in the street, and managed to turn a televised debate into a literal argument over his dick size. If he managed to keep anything *worse* than that secret, it would have to be something like sacrificing babies to satan, or orphanage arson, or maybe being literal Hitler with a bad wig and a spray-tan.

    1. Re:No shit, sherlock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Terrorists aren't protected under geneva convention, thus no war crime. Be careful. Everyone who calls trump Hitler really has no where else to go after that comment. It just becomes noise.

    2. Re:No shit, sherlock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obama Jokes About Killing Jonas Brothers With Predator Drone

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4

  10. This isn't the Drumpfster fire you are looking for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    But then again at least we can huddle around burning Drumpfsters after he causes the US economy to collapse.

  11. I'm a trumpther by slashdime · · Score: 1

    What they needed to d0x was his birth certificate in long form. I'm not certain Trump is from this planet.

    1. Re:I'm a trumpther by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      What they needed to d0x was his birth certificate in long form. I'm not certain Trump is from this planet.

      Of course not. If he wasn't a lizardman, he wouldn't be allowed to run for president.

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    2. Re:I'm a trumpther by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What they needed to d0x was his birth certificate in long form. I'm not certain Trump is from this planet.

      Trump is hiding a second face under that hair. He's up to his own games again. Remember how Galactic President Beeblebrox was given the inconsequential title to distract the citizenry from meddling in how the government actually works? Trump is really Zaphod Beeblebrox.

  12. Is that it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anonymous is getting more and more inept all the time. What a joke.

    1. Re:Is that it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anonymous is getting more and more inept all the time. What a joke.

      What do you expect from a volunteer group of script kiddies? Most people conflate Lulsec with Anonymous, when the major hacks that are attributed to Anonymous actually were planned and directed by Lulsec. (FYI Most of Lulsec are in prison.)

    2. Re:Is that it? by Z80a · · Score: 1

      It's the side effect of becoming activist brats.

    3. Re:Is that it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ....where they belong

      I laugh pretty hard when I think of lulsec. They didn't change anything - they're just a pack of fucking idiots.

    4. Re:Is that it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's because the real anonymous crowd actually supports Trump. 4chan supports Trump. This is some paid shilling against Trump and a very poor attempt at pretending to be anonymous against Trump. No one believes one bit that "anonymous" is going after Trump.

    5. Re:Is that it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ....where they belong

      I laugh pretty hard when I think of lulsec. They didn't change anything - they're just a pack of fucking idiots.

      I agree, though they are 1 interesting case study on how to get caught doing something stupid, whilst conning yourself into thinking you are doing something smart to make a difference. Take Mr. Hector Monsegur for instance, he got busted because he copied and pasted his actual name in a chat log and that gave the FBI what they needed to find him, from there he pretty much was forced to out the entire group under the threat that he would be put in prison and never see his kids again. (In a nutshell) Under that pretense, he conned himself into thinking that he was an "FBI agent" and had some delusions of his importance, due to having had an inferiority complex since being bullied in high school. If I were him when the feds knocked on the door, I would have Lawyered up and told them to go fuck themselves if they didn't have a warrant, and if they did that I was not going to say one more fucking word until a lawyer was present and then calmly shut the door.

      If you read these stories (I am referring to books like "We Are Anonymous" and "Ghost in the Wire") you learn a lot about the long list of things you do not want to do. I have learned over 20 years in IT for different and varied companies, that I know just enough to know why you don't want to hack a major company. It is because in short there are teams upon teams of people out there who are out to get you and will not stop until they get you and don't care whether they violate the law to do so and are just waiting and watching for you to make that one little mistake that gets your name or identifying information on their radar screen.. then you are done.

      Activism or "Hactivism" is irrelevant. You do something illegal and think you can't be caught and it is just a matter of time before you do, unless you happen to be in that 0.0001% like DB Cooper , who gets away with the "Perfect Crime". There is more chance of you getting struck by lightning twice whilst drawing 2 winning lottery numbers one after the other whilst making 0 mistakes. It never happens in this universe kids!

  13. SSN by ichthus · · Score: 1

    Does the social security number originate from a state in which Trump never resided? Because, if so, that would be news worthy. Amiright?

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    1. Re:SSN by arbiter1 · · Score: 1

      i remember seeing a bit about if you knew which hospital and time they were born you could get first 2 sections of numbers of his SSN. just figuring out last 4 is the thing. But really knowing Trump's gonna really mean you can steal his identity? I bet Trump has a team of professionals probably protecting his name and his # at all times like his own personal LifeLock company.

    2. Re:SSN by jittles · · Score: 1

      And how did that work out for the CEO of LifeLock? Well maybe they finally protected him the 14th time...

  14. Again, this can only help Cruz by damn_registrars · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.

    The only person who has anything to gain from having Drumpf defeated before November is Cruz as he is the only GOP contender left who could possibly win the nomination if Drumpf was run out.

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    1. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Drumpf. The sound of his Junk hitting the floor.

    2. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is assuming that Hillary isn't put in jail before then for putting a lot of secret emails in a server that any hacker could get. But really, who would vote for someone who dose not care or even remember that people died in Benghazi.

      The polls that show Hillary beats Trumps are made up to get Republicans to nominate anyone but him. When it is down the Trump and Hillary, you take the lesser of 2 evils, Trump. Country would be even more messed up if Hillary is in control, bad enough after 8 years of Obama.

    3. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by skipkent · · Score: 2

      Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.

      The only person who has anything to gain from having Drumpf defeated before November is Cruz as he is the only GOP contender left who could possibly win the nomination if Drumpf was run out.

      Hillary has no chance. Trump can work the show and has owned beauty pageants. It wouldn't be beneath him to run a Ms. Bill Raped Me USA and the woman would proudly participate to have their stories heard. How can the SJW rally against rape culture then Hillary is an enabler to the extreme. Debates he can have rape victims font row, have them at rallies, etc.

    4. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

      If Hillary is nominated, half the Democratic voters aren't even going to bother showing up for the election and Republican turnout will hit record highs, regardless of the Republican nominee.

      Bernie does even worse than Hillary against Trump, and he will galvanize the silent majority like nothing else. He might get more of the youth vote but if he does get the nomination then the Dems lose whole demographics who voted for Hillary.

      If you look at election models based on the way people are actually voting and not on polls, Cruz does worse than Trump in the general election. Basically, if Trump is the nominee, he will be president. Hillary and Bernie don't stand a chance against Trump.

      But go ahead, keep on treating Trump like a joke. That went real well for Jeb! and Rubio.

    5. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She already confirmed she didn't send any classified material, so it's just a witch hunt.

    6. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your thinking about this all wrong. If trump is nominated half the republican voters won't vote and all of the democrats will. Trump will lose by the biggest margin in history.

    7. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She already confirmed she didn't send any classified material, so it's just a witch hunt.

      This. At this point, it's just the Republican-ruled FBI trying to make something out of nothing.

    8. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

      She already confirmed she didn't send any classified material, so it's just a witch hunt.

      Correction: According to news sources, some of it was retroactively classified.

      Also according to some sources, the same thing happened with Colin Powell and Condeleza Rice, with no outcry.

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    9. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And both used email despite the fact that at that time their departments didn't have email servers. They should have not decided to break the law and use email. Using email was a crime that the Republicans did. Republicans did.

    10. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly. What they did was later made illegal, so they are criminals, like the rest of those Republicans.

    11. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      Not the only one, Cruz and Kasich are dead even right now in terms of chances.

    12. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Princeofcups · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.
       

      That's what we said about George W., and look what happened. Agreed, it took some ballot stuffing to make it official, but it was not the landslide for Gore everyone predicted. People voted for that dumb fuck. They will vote for Trump, in droves.

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    13. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Drumpf. The sound of his Junk hitting the floor.

      If a ficus falls in the forrest and makes that sound can we prove it was Trumps Dong and not a ficus?

      captcha = slacken

      these three things are the funniest things I have heard all week!

    14. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And both used email despite the fact that at that time their departments didn't have email servers. They should have not decided to break the law and use email. Using email was a crime that the Republicans did. Republicans did.

      The republicans need new tactics, going after whitewater, the whole Kenneth Star thing and then the Monica Lewinsky goal post moving in that case show what retards we have on the Republican side. They are probably going to spend 7.5 years of the Clinton administration 2 trying to pin something like this on Hillary and then when they can't get caught making up some fake thing about the email server that they made a crime after the fact. How far the Republicans have fallen since the Reagan Administration.. and how we have suffered for it. The republicans need to put out a "Help wanted" ad to get better conspiracy theorists amongst their ranks. Alex Jones is just not doing it for them anymore. I keep hearing "False Flag Operation" being thrown around in this thread.. Alex, is that you? Are you working for Trump now ?

    15. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by wertigon · · Score: 1

      You are making the assumption people will vote for Hillary because they like Hillary.

      If it's Hillary vs Trump, many many people will vote Hillary just to spite Trump. Like, most mexicans, most blacks, most women.

      Hillary has this one in the bag already, of the three remaining Kasich is the only one that will give her even remotely any trouble whatsoever. The only thing stopping Hillary would be a major health problem like leukemia.

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    16. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Prediction: Trump will get enough of the black vote such that if every Republican were guaranteed the percentage of the black vote that Trump will get, the Democrat party would be instantly cease to exist.

    17. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If Trump fails to get a majority of delegates, then the GOP leaders could put Romney on the ticket.

      None of the current Republican candidates has a chance to win the November election, but Romney might actually have a decent chance of winning against Clinton or Sanders.

      (Oops. Did I just say what all Republicans are secretly hoping will happen, and what all Democrats are secretly afraid might happen?)

    18. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My democrat friends keep trying to convince me that Trump is a terrible person. You don't need to do that. I know Trump is a terrible person. What you don't seem to get is you aren't running against Trump. The number of people who actually like Trump is minuscule. You are running against a combination of three things. 1. A lot of people feel the exact same emotions about Hillary that you feel right now against Trump. You have the monumental task of proving their belief built over decades is wrong. 2. A lot of people feel like they've been harmed by the current president's policies. Not that they are fundamentally ideologically wrong, but they are pretty hard to bear especially for the middle class. Hillary has promised to double down by forgoing one of the party's ideologies (fighting income inequality) as a political favor to a democrat constituency (unions) by removing the Cadillac tax from ACA because it hit the unions hard. That will need to be made up somewhere and without a clear answer, it will go on the middle class. 3. People are tired of establishment politics. I guess what they are trying to do is fight this third battle, but it isn't really coming across well. I've heard a bunch of people try to show Trump is terrible. Not really a whole lot of cries as to what makes establishment politics better than him. I've really just seen a bunch of general hatred, petty vandalism, and mindless devotion.

    19. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by damn_registrars · · Score: 1

      That is assuming that Hillary isn't put in jail before then

      Here's something a lot of people are conveniently forgetting in this case - we don't tend to imprison the accused, especially when their trials are an unknown distance out in the future and no charges have yet been brought up. Regardless of what you think about the email situation, the chances of it making it to trial before November are about zero at this point - the government simply doesn't move that fast regardless of who is pulling the levers. Being as right now the allegations all come down to "it looks like she might have thought about doing something nefarious" there is no reason to get excited about this.

      emails in a server that any hacker could get

      Do you have information on the security of the email server? I haven't seen any information on the security of its setup one way or the other. There has been plenty made of it being "in her house" or something like that but I haven't heard anything on how secure the setup was - or was not. Considering a standard conservative mantra is to never trust the government, why would it be automatically less secure at her house than in a government installation? It's accepted that she had someone else do the setup, are you assuming that person to have been technologically incompetent?

      The polls that show Hillary beats Trumps are made up

      That is a whole lot of fabrication, there. We've seen a large number of national polls support that, and not a single one showing the opposite. Why would all these different polling organizations make up the same results?

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    20. Re:Again, this can only help Cruz by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      Ficus tree leans a bit too far left for my liking.

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    21. Re: Again, this can only help Cruz by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      And both used email despite the fact that at that time their departments didn't have email servers. They should have not decided to break the law and use email. Using email was a crime that the Republicans did. Republicans did.

      If you had managed to hold your knee down long enough to read my post, you might have noted that neither it nor what it quoted said anything about e-mail servers. They were both about retroactively classified e-mail.

      If you wanted to fault me, you could have pointed out that I should have called it a clarification rather than a correction to the post I was responding to.

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  15. You wish. by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous.

    The geek is grasping at straws.. It would be too much of a blow to his own ego to admit that Anonymous has run out our of gas, become dim-witted and futile.

  16. Best defense against hackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It just goes to show. The best defense against hackers is simply not caring whether they steal your information or not.

  17. Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is there a reason to get that upset over a guy on the television?

    1. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by gman003 · · Score: 0

      When we might be giving an amoral, incompetent buffoon command of the world's most powerful military, a stockpile of nuclear weapons, and control of the largest economy on the globe, yes, it is fully right to be concerned.

    2. Re: Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      8 years too late.

    3. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by kuzb · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You mean like when you voted G.W. Bush in?

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    4. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      When we might be giving an amoral, incompetent buffoon command of the world's most powerful military, a stockpile of nuclear weapons, and control of the largest economy on the globe, yes, it is fully right to be concerned.

      The time for your concern was 2008. Now, after 8 years of Obama, the military is a shambles. Around the world our enemies advance while our friends retreat and the economy is still a sputtering wreck. How about a real change this time? I don't know about you, but I'm ready to cast my lot with Donald Trump. I'm tired of being led by fools, idiots and weaklings. I want somebody who fights hard for my interests, who doesn't take shit from our enemies and restores the greatness of America. It's time to think big and Trump is the only candidate who does that. You want 4 more years of the usual Washington DC bullshit? Vote for Hillary. You want real change, restoration of American greatness and a booming economy? Vote for Trump.

    5. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You describe the single most powerful military in the world several times over by any measure as "in shambles?" Please. Feed that shit to someone who doesn't know better.

    6. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nothing of what you wrote is true. Step out of your echo chamber, you are obviously being fed misinformation.

    7. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We continue to have the most powerful military in the world, there are literally zero actual threats to our safety, the economy has rebounded from the disaster that was Bush and is doing fairly well.

      Trump has run every business he's touched into the ground (while personally profiting greatly from it, albeit less than if he'd simply invested his money).

      Where are you getting your information?

    8. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by wertigon · · Score: 2

      The US military is all but in shambles. By every conceivable measurement the US military is the strongest, meanest military on the planet. In monetary wealth alone, the US military has as much funding as the entire rest of the world. The US military tech is top notch and compared to any other country outscales that country by atleast a factor 10 if not more in sheer numbers, and often they have a much better technology (compare for instance tanks - chinese have 500, The US has over 6 000 - and the US tanks are vastly superior to boot).

      See https://www.military1.com/all/... for more info.

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    9. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      GWB was not amoral or especially self-serving -- he committed immoral acts, but I see no reason to believe that he didn't mean well and believe he was doing good. Cheney probably didn't mean well, but he technically wasn't president.

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    10. Re:Why the Butthurtness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Trump being the head of the world's most powerful military does not scare me. Our soldiers won't commit war crimes even if Trump orders them to.

      What scares me is: if Trump wins the election, then he will proably get to nominate a judge for SCOTUS.

  18. Not far enough by s.petry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come now, if you are going to go the conspiracy route you have to look deeper than a single layer. Trump is being attacked by _everyone_ except the public who is supporting him.

    I find it much more likely that this is a two-for. Try and make Trump look bad and at the same time make Anonymous look bad. The elitist pricks holding power don't like either of them very much.

    All that goodness out in the open, if Anonymous does not come out and declare victimization then it is most likely yet a poor mission by them. Not everything they have done has been successful or grand. I find the latter more likely than any conspiracy. Anonymous also threatened Hillary and did a bit of damage. Nothing that the corrupt media could not cover up, unfortunately.

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    1. Re:Not far enough by Time_Ngler · · Score: 1

      You are overestimating the perceived estimation by the establishment of the intelligence of the average voter.

    2. Re:Not far enough by Chas · · Score: 1

      The average IQ in the US is approximately 98.
      The group IQ of the US populace is somewhere around 0.0000003266666666666667

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  19. Who's the real Anonymous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What does "real" Anonymous mean, anyhow? And how do we know which ones are real or fake?

    Also, shouldn't this motivate the "real" Anons to do it properly or speak up to defend their rep?

  20. Anonymous isn't one person by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone can be Anonymous. It's not possible to have a false flag.

    If it seems like goobers did this, then probably goobers did this. And some past Anonymous operations have also been seemingly done by goobers.

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    1. Re:Anonymous isn't one person by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 0

      It is possible for this to be a false flag AND also for goobers to have done it, but I would add that it is quite possibly a false flag by those who have studied goobers well.

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    2. Re:Anonymous isn't one person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anyone can be Anonymous. It's not possible to have a false flag.

      What if a government organization leaks fabricated data under the Anonymous brand?

    3. Re:Anonymous isn't one person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't imitate goober, you become

    4. Re:Anonymous isn't one person by hesiod · · Score: 1

      Anyone CAN BE Anonymous, and someone can imitate Anonymous. They are not the same thing.

    5. Re:Anonymous isn't one person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anonymous was originally a tag for online vandals. They liked to do things for the lulz. The political side of Anonymous is a much more recent minority.

  21. Hillary may not last by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 0

    Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. [...]

    It may not even come to that.

    A couple of years ago, Hillary fainted, fell and got a concussion.

    It took her over 6 months of recovery, and...

    Gave her vertigo and double vision.

    Then there was the unnaturally long bathroom break, and the fact that she's always tired and speaks with a hoarse and slightly-raspy voice.

    People are starting to wonder whether she will last until the election.

    1. Re:Hillary may not last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmm, would a pregnant president get maternity leave when the kid is born?

    2. Re:Hillary may not last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmm, would a pregnant president get maternity leave when the kid is born?

      In short, yes.

      In Hillary's case I have 1 word:
      Menopause.

      Irrelevant

  22. Does he got backyard concentration camp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This sounds very serious.

  23. Do they believe in democracy? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1

    ... I don't care about anonymous's childish and sensationalized political views, that's not how democracy works ...

    I've been around the block quite a few times, and amongst the hackers' group I've encountered, anonymous is the most Marxist in nature

    And regarding doxing ... they can't even begin to dox shit

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  24. How do you know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... Anonymous != HRC ...

    How do you know?

    1. Re:How do you know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because Hillary's emails are full of forwarded documents to her underlings with the only text "pls print".

    2. Re: How do you know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because we know where Anonymous came from? They're a bunch of punk 4 chan kids.

  25. Literally false 'flag' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Literally false flag, what looks like the fake cover even has its own flag made up, a real physical flag made by a professional flag company!
    There seems to be two agent here:

    "anonymous", a loose collective of hackers who randomly do stuff and pastebin the results.
    "Anonymous", a (governmental?) false flag operation used to cover state acts of hacking.

    The second one clearly doesn't make sense, it claims a command structure, and coordinates with international groups of similar bad-guy hackers. If bad-guys can locate other bad-guys so easily, then police could locate these bad-guys as easily. How would a command structure be maintained without pay or mechanisms of discipline? Why would hackers take orders from other anonymous people? Who would decide who is higher in the command chain? None of it makes sense.

    Thus this front will be governmental (I always think its JTRIG, the UK propaganda unit).

    When "State Anonymous" declared war on Trump, that was more akin to Bin Laden telling USA not to vote for Bush in 2004. Of course it just made more people vote for Bush.

    I thought the implied message was "we're bad guys, we hate Trump, we tell you don't vote Trump, which means good guys vote for Trump".

    And since it was done by the State, they want Trump for President. So its no surprise that the data they release would simply confirm their bad guy nature without actually being data that can damage Trump. Like a vaccine is the weakened virus, and protects against the virus, they'll be releasing mild info to weaken anything there might actually be against Trump.

  26. Who is the 'real' anonymous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... Will the 'real' anonymous please stand up ...

    Oh c'mon !

    Stop demanding that bunch of eunuch to out themselves?

    They may think that they are 'keyboard warrior" but the truth is they are as useless as the eunuch

  27. I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although I was not born in the United States of America, I am still an American, and I am sick and tired of what has happened to my government for the past 30+ years !

    It is time we kick out the D.C. establishment and get somebody else in

    I am not saying that Donald Trump will be a great POTUS, but at the very least, compare to what Obama has done (for the past 7 years) and to what George W. Bush did (during his 8 year tenure) no matter how hard Donald J. Trump tries to screw up, he won't be as bad as Obama/GW Bush

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    1. Re:I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected by Mashiki · · Score: 2

      Well you might be old enough to remember when the media, and left-wing groups were doing the same thing against Regan. The only thing they did was hand him the presidency, and it looks like they're doing it again. Which is okay with me, since the amount of benefit to Canada that came from his presidency was enormous.

      And considering the amount of stuff up shit's creek these days with the media fawning all over Trudeau Jr., we're going to need all the help we can get. With luck, it'll be enough to head off Jr., from placing wage and price controls like Sr., did.

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    2. Re:I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Informative

      the media, and left-wing groups

      You don't really have a left wing in the US. Even someone like Bernie Saunders is only a moderate social democrat by world standards.

      And the media is left wing in the same way that a piece of rocks is left wing, i.e. it's not a raving right wing lunatic.

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    3. Re:I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think most people are't voting for him, but voting against the establishment.

    4. Re:I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      You don't really have a left wing in the US

      You really don't know what you're talking about. There are plenty of "left wing" groups in the US. In ye olde Regan days it was the precursor to the groups of today. And seriously, if you don't think people like the Black Panthers or people like Bill Ayers weren't left wing you understand less about politics then you think.

      And the media is left wing in the same way that a piece of rocks is left wing, i.e. it's not a raving right wing lunatic.

      Anyone left of me is a right-wing lunatic huh? And you wonder why people are voting for Trump...

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  28. Not true Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anon is nothing more than the skin of old Anon being worn by pathetic SJWs.

  29. You really want to see pictures of real sacrifice? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... sacrificing babies to satan ...

    I am getting really sick of you guys!

    The Christian people are being sacrificed by the jihadists, as we speak, what are you guys doing here?

    Pissing contest over whether or not Donald J. Trump is the right person?

    Wake up, dudes , please!! Real Christians are being slaughtered, in the name of religion !

    The link below is a very gory picture, of a religious sacrifice, whereby a Christian Lady being slaughtered

    Be forewarned: Don't click the link if you ain't got the stomach !

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRBJ...

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  30. 'cerebral' president by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... yet people claim he's a great business person despite the actual evidence ...

    A certain lame duck president has been spinned by his people as 'cerebral' , although everything that that dude has done thus far proved to be the opposite

  31. Re:You really want to see pictures of real sacrifi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Christian people? All I see is sacrificed muslims everywhere in the middle east, all for our oil, hegemony and stupidity.

  32. Crud puppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Makes me think of Userfriendly's Crud Puppet.

  33. What did you expect? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    A loudmouth who speaks before he thinks. You honestly thought there's something left he didn't already blare out himself? Embarrassing? What's embarrassing to a man that has no shame?

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  34. says the clueless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The USAF has never, in its entire history, been smaller.

    The USN has half the ships it had under Reagan

    The government under Bush41, Clinton, Bush43, and Obama has progressively become hyper-delusional and demanded the most expensive planes and ships possible to keep a tech advantage over opponents, and then recoiled in horror at the costs and cut back the purchases thus driving up the per-unit costs and causing whiplash in the defense industries. As a result, we have too few of the new shiny high tech stuff like B-2 bombers, F-22 fighters, Seawolf submarines, etc and have been forced to keep very old systems online decades past their scheduled retirements. Bush wanted a "peace dividend" at the end of the Cold War, so he whacked the military. Clinton doubled-down. Bush43 waged two wars but did not fund the pentagon for two wars. Obama has gone full-on reckless.

    The taxpayers are going to take a MAJOR hit in the next few years. Too much of the USAF is made up of fighters that first flew in the 1970s, and B-52 bombers from the 1950's. The Nimitz class carriers in the Navy are reaching the end of their lives, and the ballistic missile submarine fleet will be overdue for replacement in 2030 with no work on replacements yet begun. The newest ICBMs in land-based silos are from the 1980s, and the entire stockpile of nuclear warheads are getting old and need their nuclear elements re-processed.

    The current administration is more dedicated to using the military to experiment with social engineering than to be prepared for war. We have LGBTQs being celebrated in uniform and all services being forced to place women into combat roles. These are things which society can jolly well choose to do if it wants to in all the rest of society, but NONE of this adds to the military's mission of killing people and destroying stuff so it's serving other political purposes and is a distraction from the actual mission. The military needs to be staffed by the most-capable, most-fit, best-trained, most-dedicated people we can get - ANYTHING else no matter how "socially just" is moronic and endangers the nation.

    If you have not warn a US military uniform, or if you only have under in the current or previous administration, then you have no clue about just how badly the military has been degraded.

  35. What happened to Anonymous supporting free speech? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...Much less supporting "The People"?

    Trump is in the race still due to the massive support from the American people. Who are Anonymous to try and subvert that?

    They're doing exactly what they claimed they were against... How sad. Add to this the material they published, and I think that Anonymous just "jumped the shark"

  36. Clinton 2016 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Clinton is a square shooter. Clinton 2016

  37. He's Not Stupid by LifesABeach · · Score: 1

    Did you DOX his friends, family, and business contacts?

  38. Re:What happened to Anonymous supporting free spee by LifesABeach · · Score: 1

    Poor A/C do you think your idle cannot withstand this? What of his tax returns? What will you do when find his taxes are like his, words?

  39. Barney the Purple Dinosaur by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I guess Barney came on before they got to the good stuff. Then nap time, Snacks and finger painting.

    In the end they just said, "what the hell", published what they had and went outside to play.

  40. Re:Crud PUPPY by Chas · · Score: 1

    Crud PUPPY.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You fail at nerd trivia...Turn in your credentials and report for summary mulching...

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  41. The "Real" Anonymous? by Chas · · Score: 1

    I thought Anonymous could be anybody/everybody.

    Now we're going to start classifying who is and isn't a member of a completely faceless organization?

    Do you see the irony/stupidity?

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  42. Real racism is far deeper with Democrats by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

    Not racist because his ACTIONS are not racist. Something you and others cannot seem to, but the black population plainly does.

    Meanwhile the Democrats pretend to not be racist, while as a whole the organization is literally farming black people for power. "No need to reach for that first rung of success" Democrats say, "instead here's some free cheese - now go and breed".

    Harsh words but true. Hillary even puts on a fake southern accent for black audiences, in part so she seems more homey but also a snide reference to her being the modern plantation owner for the plantation that is the USA...

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  43. Yeah, let's give him some more attention... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...he hates that.

  44. Trump could Win by hanging Chad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Good brains with big woods.

  45. Re:Crud PUPPY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My bad, auto-correct. Still, at least I don't sign my posts like it's Usenet ...

  46. Anonymous infiltrated? by spaceinvaders78 · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to defend this silly group of attention starved nerds, and personally I am getting sick and tired of reading headlines about their self-righteous and narcissistic crusades... but. I don't think these hacks on Trump are orchestrated by the legitimate members of the real Anonymous tribe. Because of the loose structure of this group and that basically anyone can declare themselves a member, you could have anyone behind this. My take is that these actions against Trump were done by some far left group who dislikes Trump, or a group of Islamic hackers pretending to be Anonymous. It wouldn't be hard to do.

  47. Re:Crud PUPPY by Chas · · Score: 1

    No, you don't sign your posts because you're posting AC.

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  48. Not a binary situation by dbIII · · Score: 1

    Not a binary situation - not Trump does not equal Hillary.

  49. Anonymous by pebear · · Score: 1

    They leaked information that has been on the internet for years. Wow. Maybe if they did an forensic analysis that proved that Trump is not a Billionaire but actually broke or in hock up to his eyeballs maybe that will do the trick. Of course so is the United states so oh well. I'm not a Trump Supporter but between him and Hillary. I like him better than Hillary and Hillary actually has a body count and has done more illegal things than Trump. And if you look at their styles on the campaign, Hillary likes to race bait, Hillary likes to blame the victims of their plight, (Bills Rape Victims) She likes to call people lairs. She does just about everything that Trump does campaigning except she does it in a more politically correct way. She even said in her campaign where was Senator Sanders when she was working on her health care? There was a picture of her giving a news conference and there was Bernie right behind her supporting her ill fated health care effort. She is in fact book ends with Trump. So why isn't Anonymous not going after Hillary? She has spent her entire adult life covering up for a serial rapist? Like I said I don't like Trump or Hillary but just saying.

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    1. Re:Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Hillary actually has a body count

      Don't believe everything the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy tells you...

  50. Some Newsworthy Doxes by herbierobinson · · Score: 1

    The details of his IRS audits (they don't audit you more than once unless that find a lot the first time).

    How many illegal immigrants he has hired.

    The salary distribution for employees at his companies (i.e., the kind of jobs he knows how to create).

    The manufacturing country of origin for the various products he has sold over the years (OK, that's probably not secret, but might be hard to find).

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