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Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter (arstechnica.com)
In an effort to appeal to more young voters, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has unveiled a "geofilter" ad campaign for Snapchat that slaps on the banner phrase "Donald J. Trump vs. Crooked Hillary" to a user's photo and video Snaps. Ars Technica reports: "The ad rolled out to American Snapchat users today, just ahead of the 2016 presidential election's first major debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton (the debate starts tonight at 9pm EDT). The ad joins the usual geofilter available to Snapchat users, which usually list the name of a city or a nearby event as determined by GPS and time information. The campaign differs from the deluge of text, photo, and video ads that politicans have relied on in recent years, as it doesn't publish or display to the public without a personal photo or video attached. While other political campaigns have paid for geofilter ad campaigns on Snapchat in the past, including Clinton and Bernie Sanders, those have been timed and targeted for smaller-scale events like political conventions and primary voting periods. In a statement to CNN, the Clinton campaign said that Trump was "throwing his money into a fire pit," and it pointed out the ad's potential for backfiring, since "given Trump's deep unpopularity with young voters, [the ad's phrasing] will be used mainly at [his] own expense."
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Trump 2016!
Very presidential.
Why is it that, in the media, everything Trump does is "bad".
It's almost like he doesn't have a team of extremely smart people working on tactics which are vetted with A-B testing and focus groups.
It seems like everything he does has a negative editorial comment nowadays.
Are Clintons actions editorialized as well? I haven't seen any good examples.
Trump vs Clinton
Too bad it's not a deathmatch.
Not fair. Trump will eat Clinton's children.
Twisted Orange Goon lies every 3 minutes.
The crooked one is Trump. The email thing is nothing compared to all the shady things Trump is doing. Hate the guy as much as you want, but John Oliver said quite nicely on Last Week Tonight's latest video (available on youtube) how much worst Trump is than Hilary.
Does anyone over the age of 30 care?
Trump should listen to Clinton here because by outspending Trump 5-to-1 on ads, she has proven she is an expert at throwing money into a fire pit for no gain.
Why don't you go one step further and claim that his own words were placed in his mouth by the liberal media conspiracy. You guys are practically that dumb already.
Liberals. Always with the insults.
Other than name calling, what have you got? Name one thing that Clinton has done *ever* that has benefited the American people?
for folks who don't use snapchat? I've read two articles and I still don't get it. Is this just something you can just put over a picture you post to the service? What keeps me from taking a photo of a dog's butt with it? I guess it at least still gets the "Crooked Hilary" meme out there though.
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Cooked Hillary? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The man wrote a book about conning people for fucks sake.
His name is DRUMPF. Do not disrespect the man or his heritage. Get it right.
That said...
Screw you, Donald Drumpf. You are satan. You are not the spawn of satan, like Ted Cruz. You are satan incarnate. Screw you. FUCK YOU. And the horse you rode in on.
Where is the Snapchat filter that shortens one's fingers so that you look more like Trump? http://www.vanityfair.com/cult...
People still use Snapchat? I bailed when the Ads started.
Still in the tank for the Dems.
Eight successful years as Secretary of State.
What is so bloody sad is that you aren't even right about THIS thing, and you probably vote...
Remind me again HOW LONG she was Secretary of State for?
And that is ignoring the "Why were they successful?" point...
Not to bring facts into the argument, but during her stint as SoS, Clinton:
1) Sold 1/3 of our Uranium reserves to Russia
2) Sold dual use (civil/military) tech to Russia
3) Overrode expert opinion and ordered military intervention into Libya that led to the downfall of Gaddafi
That #3 is interesting. Clinton was advised that Gaddafi was the only thing keeping militant islamists at bay, and that taking him out would result in them forming a separate state based on terrorism.
We now know that by overriding the advice of experts, Clinton essentially caused the formation of ISIS and the subsequent deaths of hundreds of people, here and abroad.
Here's what the Washington Times reported at the time:
“I had facts that indicated America was headed once again into an intervention that was going to be disastrous,” Mr. Kucinich told The Times. “What was being said at the State Department — if you look at the charge at the time — it wasn’t so much about what happened as it was about what would happen. So there was a distortion of events that were occurring in Libya to justify an intervention which was essentially wrong and illegal.”
People say that Trump is scary and will lead us into war, but they conveniently forget that Hillary Clinton actually *did* lead us into war - under false pretenses!
Oh, and let's not forget all the people who had access to top secret classified information on Hillary's server.
I won't get into whether or not the things she did "benefited the American people", nor any other highly subjective stuff, but here's a list of the laws she sponsored during her eight years in the Senate:
S. 3613: A bill to name a post office the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building."
S. 3145: A bill to designate a highway in New York as the Timothy J. Russert highway.
S. 1241: A bill to establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in the State of New York.
In addition to those three laws, she also sponsored a bill the president did not sign:
2. S.Con.Res.27 â" 110th Congress (2007-2008) A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of "National Purple Heart Recognition Day".
Three laws in eight years might sound rather low. It is, the average Senator does quite a bit more.
You be the judge as to whether or not her eight years in the Senate "benefited the American people". Aside from those eight years, she has been in politics in 1977. Much of that has been running PR and especially damage control for the officeholder, her husband.
BTW she did also sponsor several amendments to other people's bills. Those include:
requires the Federal Protective Service to have at least 1,200 officers protecting the Congressional Office Building, the Capitol, and other federal buildings.
requires the Comptroller General to study sharing border enforcement with Mexico and Canada.
requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to require that DHS contracts require successful acquisition outcomes
Okian Warrior, off the top of your head, answer me right now:
Do you think that one/third of US Uranium reserves were actually physically sent to Russia?
I do not.
Why - is it important?
(I'm not mentioning that a Russian bank paid Clinton $500,000 for a speech right before the deal, because she says there was no conflict of interest.)
Funny how if you add up all of Trumps indiscretions, they don't even total one of Hillary's speaker fees.
> I rather suspect he won't release his tax records because he's the pot calling the kettle black.
He wont' release them because they would reveal that he's not a billionaire.
He wasted over a million dollars to lose a libel suit against a reporter who did a lot of research and came up with a number of about $200M. That guy, by the way, has seen his tax returns, but he's under court order not to talk about the specifics. He deserves a crowd-funding campaign to encourage him to violate that court order.
Trump certainly has assets that could be liberally valued at over a billion dollars. But he also has debt, upwards of half a billion in debt and he's added at least $50M just to finance his campaign.
Douglas Becker, head of Laureate University was in chairman of the board for Youth Initiative, where the grants went, and he steered the money to his for-profit university. In return for getting the $55 million he funneled 30% of it to Bill Clinton.
You want a good laugh, read the Washington Post article on it. They wrote multiple pages "debunking" it, and failed to mention Douglas Becker once. You would think him being a long term Clinton friend and in charge of both organizations would be a relevant fact. Its almost as if they expect their audience to be idiots.
> Three laws in eight years might sound rather low. It is, the average Senator does quite a bit more.
You are right. The average senator does a lot more. Sponsoring a bill is just a teeny-tiny part of the work of getting laws passed. Most of it is negotiation, and coordination with all the stakeholders (and plenty of non-stakeholders who just happen to have a say because they are part of the process). That's the real work of being a senator and that's what clinton spent her time on. Putting their name on everything in site no matter how little they had to do with it -- that's Trump's schtick.
You're read/heard how he underpays or fails to pay people and small contractors he's hired.
Here's another one: my PT and I were talking this morning, and he told me his father's an industrial contractor - paints bridges, drywall buildings, etc, and more than once, he's done a job for Trump, and then, when it was done, Trump comes in, says yeah, he's satisfied... but that he thinks he's already paid him enough, never mind the signed contract.
Tell me that's not criminal fraud?
He is a crook. And his wife doesn't wear a cloth coat....
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Is this campaign being run by the campaign CEO Steve Bannon? While Conway runs the physical campaign, he runs the virtual one. So it would be interesting if he puts on the Breitbart campaign on overdrive against Crooked Hilary
Trump says he'll attract companies back to the US. This will only happen by lowering the minimum wage and giving executives tax cuts. He's publicly stating that he will give the rich tax cuts. No mention of how he will make manufacturing in the US profitable. Trickle down has not, and will never work, Giving the rich more money does not mean they invest in jobs, they invest in yachts.