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Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: A San Diego CEO was fired after saying on Facebook that he would get a "sniper rifle" and "kill the president-elect." Matt Harrigan, CEO of the cybersecurity firm PacketSled, posted the comments on his personal Facebook page, but they ended up on Reddit where Trump supporters found the comments and mobilized to contact law enforcement. "I'm going to kill the president. Elect," Harrigan wrote. "Bring it Secret Service." PacketSled said in a statement that it had accepted Harrigan's resignation. "The PacketSled Board of Directors accepted the resignation of President and CEO Matthew Harrigan, effective immediately," the company said. "We want to be very clear, PacketSled does not condone the comments made by Mr. Harrigan, which do not reflect the views or opinions of the company, its employees, investors or partners." In a previous statement, the company said it reported the information to the Secret Service and placed Harrigan on administrative leave. According to The Next Web, Harrigan apologized for his remarks and said the threats were meant to be a joke: "My recent Facebook comment was intended to be a joke, in the context of a larger conversation, and only privately shared as such. Anyone who knows me, knows that I do not engage in this form of rhetoric with any level of seriousness and the comment most certainly does not represent my real personal views in any regard. I apologize if anything that I said was either taken seriously, was offensive, or caused any legitimate concern."
Now that he's unemployed, he'll be eligible for free Obamacare! .
Free Obamacare? The unemployed get free health insurance? Since when?
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Oh boy. You people really don't know much about the outside world, do you?
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on one of the major news networks today. And it wasn't Fox or MSNBC. So yeah, things are getting pretty crazy. The media just keeps right on pouring gasoline on the fire so long as it sells news.
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The problem is that, "I'm gonna get a sniper rifle and shoot Donald Trump" is in no way shape or form even *related* to humor.
At. All.
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From Wlkipedia: A former classmate, Caitie Parker, who attended high school and college with Loughner, described his political views prior to 2007, prior to his personality transformation, as "left wing, quite liberal,"[42] "radical."
Look, don't you know that 99% of ALL mass shootings in the US have been by leftists? It's always so interesting how ALL leftists are so ignorant of all facts that prove their worldview is completely wrong.
Yeah, the guy who worked on her campaign once.
Not exactly a poster boy for right wing violence, what with him being a Democrat and all.
Coming from someone who voted against Trump (didn't like Hillary but voted for her because Trump was much worse) and who is legitimately scared about the Trump administration (I'm Jewish and he's appointing an anti-Semite to a top post), First Amendment doesn't protect all speech. Yes, it protects a lot and it does protect speech that we'd rather see go away (for example, the Westboro Baptist Church). But when the speech becomes threats of violence or egging others on to commit acts of violence, a line has been crossed. You do not have the First Amendment right to threaten people. And making a threat against the President of the United States (or the President-Elect) is doubly stupid.
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No. If Trump dies before the electoral college vote, it's up to the electoral college. If Trump dies after the electoral college vote, Vice-President Elect Pence becomes President-Elect Pence. In no case is Obama eligible for a third term; that's barred by the 22nd Amendment.
Depending on how they're feeling, both may get you an interview with your local friendly secret service agent.
It basically comes off like that old Steve Martin routine, "Well, excUUUUUUuuuUUuuuuse MEEEE".
Like when David Letterman thought it perfectly hilarious to say that Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter ought to be gang-raped. ha. ha. ho. ho. how. hilarious. It took him about a week to finally offer up a very very forced "apology" through gritted teeth.
Ah, the oh so loving and tolerant Left, supporters of women... unless they're the teenage daughter of someone they don't like.
(And replies about how horrible Sarah Palin is, thus, by implication, approving of advocating the gang-rape of her 14 year old daughter, will simply prove my point.)
You're either ignorant or lying about the joke involving gang rape.
This is the joke..."One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
The joke was meant to be about Palin's 18 year old daughter, a spokesperson of sorts for teen abstinence and ironically a teenage mother at 18. Palin's younger 14 year old daughter had attended a Yankees game earlier that day or week and the writers mixed up which daughter it was that was there. The joke was not particularly well written but the punchline is that A-rod is so virile that he can make women pregnant just by attending the game - since the abstinence preacher surely wouldn't be having more pre-marital sex.