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Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps:
At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower.
Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes:
Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."
When the left doesn't get their way or they can't deal with facts they resort to personal attacks.
Oh my god - four cases in Colorado in the past decade. THEY'RE DESTROYING DEMOCRACY!
Meanwhile, pay not attention to Crosscheck, removing tens of thousands of voters per state that uses it from the voting rolls, most shortly before the election, based on a method that disproportionately hits african-americans, asians, and hispanics.
People said I was dumb, but I proved them.
First you have to prove that his trademark wasn't already tarnished. Settling a fraud lawsuit for $25,000,000.00 sort of puts a little patina on it. How do you prove that having "Dump Towers" on Google maps for a few minutes is what did the damage and not him talking about grabbing women's pussies?
Before this Google maps prank, you already had bookings at Trump hotels way down.
You are welcome on my lawn.
There's nothing about the last election that should be 'gotten over'. Everything that's wrong with modern politics and America happened there. I would have said that either way regardless of who won the presidential election.
My wife tried to vote absentee from Canada, her last residence was in NC. She never received a ballot or any other follow-up.
LOL. You know Trump's source for saying this was a conspiracy nut job blog that just made shit up, right?
And that the vast majority of voter fraud was GOP led in NC, IN, WI. Documented even.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
He's just copying Trump's tweet from tonight. Yes, Trump actually believes this. It's from a conspiracy nut job blog who makes shit up.
He's trying to invalidate our system of government. Blinding people with bullshit.
Sadly, it works. At least enough to get to president-elect.
But he hasn't passed the EC yet, and they most definitely are watching him.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Fair enough. So you're the right person to ask: Was he bullshitting then or is he bullshitting now? Or was the electoral college really an abomination in 2012, but is a beautiful thing now? Was resistance the right thing to do in 2012, but is a Very Bad Thing now?
Or are the very concepts of logic and consistency rigged? How far will you debase your ability to reason in order to support this corrupt urinal cake?
You are welcome on my lawn.
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Trump belongs to the most protected class of all: millionaires.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation. The positives will just keep coming. The media is supposed to exist in eternal opposition to the government, but during Obama they twisted their purpose and became pro-government mouthpieces. They were caught red-handed supporting Hillary's campaign. California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking all tight races and not a select few.
Fixed that for you. Unless you fear the outcome.
All tight races should be recounted, plus a random sample of the rest. This should be standard procedure. Plus we should also have independent re-checking of the voter registration rolls and processes. Basically, we should apply academic rigor to the election process. It's too expensive to do that universally, sure, but it could be done randomly in the normal case, and it's probably worth expending a little more effort and money on tight races.
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