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Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com)
President-elect Donald Trump will have access to a system which can send unblockable texts to every phone in the United States once he becomes the president. From a report on NYMag: These 90-character messages, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts (or WEAs), are part of a program put in place after Congress passed the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act, in 2006. WEAs allow for targeted messages to be sent to every cell phone getting a signal from certain geographically relevant cell towers (or, in a national emergency, all of them). While it'd be a true nightmare to get screeching alerts from your phone that "Loser Senate Democrats still won't confirm great man Peter Thiel to Supreme Court. Sad!", there are some checks and balances on this. While President-elect Trump hasn't shown much impulse control when it comes to his favorite mass-messaging service, Twitter, the process for issuing a WEA isn't as simple as typing out a 90-character alert from a presidential smartphone and hitting "Send." All WEAs must be issued through FEMA's Integrated Public Alert Warning System, meaning that an emergency alert from the president still has at least one layer to pass through before being issued. While FEMA is under control of the executive branch (the head of FEMA is selected by the president, and reports to the Department of Homeland Security), the agency would have a vested interest in not seeing their alert system bent toward, uh, non-emergency ends.
LOLOLOLOL
Journalists, be careful what you publish. Don't give donald ideas!
What the fuck is this? I don't like Trump because I have a brain cell, but this is bullshit garbage. msmash/manish needs to go.
There's plenty Trump is actually doing that will have drastic consequences over the next few decades to be concerned about. Lets not start worrying about a power he hasn't abused yet, has made no comments that show he will abuse it, and if abused would be more an annoyance than a crisis. Priorities people.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
First FEMA tweet
Rosie O'donnell is a yuge bitch!!!!
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too.
And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
This is nothing new
So now I will have to turn my phone off or I'll get texts at 3am every night....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Holding enormous official powers, he schemed ceaselessly to expand them, because it was expected of him by those who had pushed him into office. He had the cunning of the unintelligent and the frantic energy of the lazy.
--Atlas Shrugged
Trump will soon have the power and authority to launch a Preemptive Nuclear Strike and you are worried about the misuse of the WEA's Text Messages?!
Instead of reading a summary of Mr. Trump's 3AM tweets in The Wall Street Journal each morning, I'll be force to read each one as they come in real time.
Why is this news? Obama has the power now. I trust Obama, as a professional Chicago-machine politician, even less than Trump.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
Trump may be all kinds of things unsavory, but this kind of "news" says more about the people reporting it than about Trump.
This counts as a pressing concern? That Trump has the power to send spam?
Never mind that he has stoking the worst bigotry and racial violence in North America in recent history. Never mind that he now has access to nookoolar weapons. Never mind that he's going to gut environmental regulations and oversight over the entire energy sector.
No! He can send us a text message! Everybody panic!
Is there an emoji for eyeroll?
Emergency alerts can already be turned off on your phone. I don't need to be getting woken up at 3AM for flash flood warnings in a different watershed or missing children in a vehicle on a major interstate hours' drive away from my out-of-the-way little hometown, so I have them off already. If that means I don't get stupid fucking Trump tweets either, great.
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
"I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
What the fuck is this? Seriously? What. The. Fuck. Taco must be turning in his grave/money pit at what the various owners of Slashdot have done to it since he sold it on.
As the old adage goes: "Let's cross that bridge when we come to it"
Can we stop complaining about things that may possibly is some crazy parallel universe happen?
I didn't vote for the guy but can we at least wait until he is in office and doing stuff before we jump off the deep end?
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
We are going to bring texts back!
We have some of the smartest texts, it's going to be YUGE!
I'm all for this "feature" if it comes with a "Reply All" button.
Neutral.. to matters that do not directly concern me
All of a sudden, the left and the media are afraid of the powers that have been given to the president...
I seemed to recall reading on Slashdot a few years ago about how the Obama admin was putting this into place
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Correct. This is a totally sensationalist story.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Yeah, yeah, right. Presidents have been able to do this for a long time. No big deal.
Why this is news is because in the past, presidents were sane.
(Idea: incoming administration should modernize nuclear launch system for the 21st century so it is possible to give launch orders via Twitter.)
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
The vast majority of government agencies are going to be Trump's bitch for the next 4 years. And there is nothing that can be done about it.
I work in government IT. As far as many of my coworkers are concern, Donald Trump is no different than any other person in the White House when it comes to day-to-day operations. Just business as usual. The Republican track record to close the Department of Commerce, Department of Education, and Department of Oops is pretty dismal.
...in 5... 4... 3...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I can absolutely block them, some of us are not sheeple that refuse to learn how to master technology.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
I'm so weary of all this one-sided bickering and sniping over Trump that I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.
To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.
All the things an unruly child does, but forever.
In my mind the Democrats are *permanently* a party of dishonour, disgrace, and corruption. A group that simply gets no "benefit of the doubt" or "concessions of fairness" or anything like that. They are children, now and forever. We should treat them as such.
I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing. They even pulled out the Hitler comparison for good measure.
The Democrats are defeated. Leaderless and feckless, the only thing they can do is complain.
No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption.
It's hard to see why anyone would be a part of that crowd.
Trump is, if nothing else, extremely adept at self-promotion, and so he wouldn't use this unless he felt it would be hugely popular.
Remember: Trump is a narcissist. Every one of his actions is motivated in convincing himself that he is powerful and loved.
My phone is rooted. Good luck with that.
But you don't understand. This is Trump we're talking about.
Actually that's a good point. We're talking about Trump. We're defending him. We're brushing this off as a non issue. And yet the real news of the past few days is what what kind of psychopathic fuckwits he's appointing to positions of power potentially setting America back to the early 1900s.
Cyanogenmod is FOSS.
I'm not sure if Trump's small hands will allow him to type more efficiently, making fewer mistakes, or will require him to use two hands because he likely got a ginormous screen phone and can't reach both sides of the keyboard.
What is this leftie blatant fearmongering bullshit? This mechanism is for emrgency alerts and was actually put in place by Obama, so yes any President can use it, including both Obama and Trump. Trump won, get over it and move on
Yellow journalism?
Agreed, when I first read the article I asked myself "And?". Why is this even showing up on a tech forum?
Time to move on to technical discussions and move away from the politics that have been a major distraction this past year.
This one is obviously for the lark. Have a sense of humor.
Someone had to do it.
Ridiculous overreactions much??
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
You are welcome on my lawn.
So Bush and Obama had this 'scary' power as well....
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
WRONG!!!
That is because everyone in Government IT are morons. Most are ex-military who couldn't get a job anywhere else so go begging at the taxpayer trough for jobs.
I spent 20 years in the private sector and 2+ years in the public sector. The people I work with in government IT are the most professional IT people in the business. I'm proud to serve with them.
This isn't something that Trump championed through, this was an existing idea that finally received approval.
The real headline should be:
"Office of the President now able to send unblockable mass text message to all Americans".
I don't like the guy just as much as the next person (and I don't like Hillary either), but slashdot needs to stop throwing his name out there for a reaction.
I didn't see this article as fear-mongering. Abuse of the WEA for political purposes could result in it being ignored in a real crisis. As much as I distrust Trump, I think he knows this.
What makes this news is not that it's fear-mongering, but that it's ironic.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
So are 1 out of 5 CEOs of all major corporations (Google, FB, Amazon, MS, Apple, Alphabet) take your pick which one.
There's plenty Trump is actually doing that will have drastic consequences over the next few decades to be concerned about. Lets not start worrying about a power he hasn't abused yet, has made no comments that show he will abuse it, and if abused would be more an annoyance than a crisis. Priorities people.
Part of good priority utilization is in taking care of low hanging fruit when optimal. Hashtag (mobile phone) root matters (more than the general reaction of the public in recent history has suggested). If this story directed at this audience could better achieve the critical mass of getting the vast minority of mobile phone users having root, versus the vast minority, then I would consider that something of a possibly forgivable quasi-Trumpian troll.
1. Any person acting as president would have access to the same thing, so why is this worth a story? :O
2. Just because Trump has access to it doesn't mean he's going to abuse it.
3. Obviously there are fucking checks and balances in place... so again, this story is a non-story
4. Guess what - Trump also has access to 911!
Why the fuck are people so pissy about Trump? They fucking voted him in! If everybody is so serious about Clinton 4 prez, where were they on voting night? I assume the Clinton circlejerk ran a bit late.
You don't understand! 3AM tweets are a sign of fascism. It's all spelled out right here under the "permanent warfare" section!
One day you're Tweeting at 3AM, and BAM! The next thing you know, you're ignoring the Treaty of Versailles, then invading Poland.
Don't say that nobody warned you!
Trump texting us is gonna get old real fast.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans..
Any advertiser / spam company wet dream!
You sure do like to repeat yourself, don't you.
So next time someone proposes a new power for the President, ask yourself, "Would I be comfortable with Donald Trump having this power?"
We reap what we sow.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
CEOs don't carry launch codes for nuclear missiles.
You are welcome on my lawn.
In a word, yes. If Hillary so much as coughed, there were news stories about it.
So yeah, when it dawns on someone that the guy who has become known for sending bursts of 3am messages is going to have the ability to send texts to everybody in the country, it gets talked about. In a country where there's probably just as much news coverage of what the Kardashians had for dinner yesterday, that's not really a surprise.
And how many of them were spoiled little narcissists that spew our ranting tweets as odd hours in the morning. Just because a grownup has the ability to do something does not mean that you should entrust that ability to a child.
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Is this an actual claim that Trump will use the cellular reverse emergency alert system for political spam?
Will he be calling them Orange Alerts?
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too. And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
But Trump is the first one who'll use this to market christmas ornaments.
You are correct they do not, they just try and buy the presidency.
It sure is nice to see authority mocked again — after eight years of any such mocking being racist.
And we just escaped it becoming sexist for another eight years...
No, it's still the same. Trump will be putting women and minorities in his cabinet, so mocking the administration is still going to be racist and sexist, don't worry.
Hah! Whew. That was funny. The media's standards on this, and hand-wringing-PC-SJW-liberal take on what's offensive or not is already so hysterically flipped around that they're getting mad at themselves. It's fantastic to watch.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Direct deposit.
You are welcome on my lawn.
First of all, thank you for following me closely and paying attention.
As to your question, some points do bear repeating, yes. I don't think, you should be doing a lot of talking — you've been telling us, we are "racists" repeatedly for 8 years...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
300 million Americans at ~5 cents per text message = $15 million per incident. He can have the phone companies give him a kickback.
It might actually help in the long run. I mean, if he spends all his time sending stupid attacks on Brazillian supermodels at 3am using the National Emergency Alert System, rather than, say, playing with the Nuclear football, or dreaming up ways to deport suspected sympathizers of flag burners, we might be a little safer.
Come to think of it, all those rumors about Twitter banning him? Maybe, for the safety of our nation, we need to let him continue with the distraction.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The limitations on what such text messages say don't apply to the acting President. They only apply to appointed staff, not to him.
Yes, it's a nightmare.
No, it won't get better.
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I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to see trump sending at least a dozen non-blockable texts per day to every cell phone in America, sold in America or owned by an American. He certainly understands the power of being able to control the media, and by "control" I mean "Hey! Look at me! Look at me! I'll have more bs for you ignorant toads later! In the meantime, here's a pic of my woo-woo!".
I can't imagine how popular he'll be after a week of this.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I don't think you realize how launching nukes actually works. He can't do this on his own. He doesn't have a red button on his desk.
At least one other person needs to approve the order and then needs to convince people actually in the position to launch the nukes to do it.
If anyone is interested, it is apparently quite simple to block presidential alerts on a rooted android phone. I never looked it up before because why would I care... before
My phone is rooted but I'm not blocking them... yet
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Nice.
With Trump's limited vocabulary, how many bits do we need to represent every word to make a nice compact dictionary? 8? 9? Fewer?
What about when Romney insulted 47% of the US?
What about the protests and threats of lynching for Obama's election?
You must have a bad memory.
I'll see your non-sequitur and raise you standing on one leg until you fall over. You're so cute when you do that.
Bush and Obama have both had this "power". You're probably leaving out those details and using Trump's name because you didn't vote for him and you're trying to stir up controversy. Quit being a liberal snow flake!!
I'll bet Melania would comply.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Thank you for recognizing that fact too. People seem to be fixed on the ideal that Trump can just roll out of bed and nuke the planet. Actually, pulling this off is much more complex than people think it is.
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
They screw this up every time because any system that relies on humans, eventually screws up. Or screws up from the git-go like our local fire company's land line telephone alert system. I learned they had one when my wife got a call in her hospital room at 10 pm with a recorded message saying be on the lookout for a lost child last seen 10 miles from town. Morons get positions of authority and decision-making across the board. That one had to publicly apologize and got demoted. Yes, I expect a call from the White House advertising the newest vintage from the Trump Winery. By coincidence it's located near where that child was last seen.
General alerts up to emergency level can be blocked but Presidential WEAs are not considered normal alerts and can only be blocked if you actually root the phone and dig a little deeper into the OS.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Why does hate for a political party need to be a partisan issue?
Are we going to go through this every time the party in the White House changes? When this was first put in place conservatives were bitching that Obama was going to use it as a political platform. Now liberals are taking their turn. This isn't twitter, it's part of a larger national alert system that has, in long history never, once, been activated at the national level by a president. Activating this would also activate all of the other components of the alert system as well. No one is going to use it for BS political messaging.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Since the implementation of the new system has there been a single presidential alert?
It's the only type of alert I'm not allowed to disable but I've never gotten one.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Like prison rape is funny? [etc] Hypocrite.
"Lol wut"? I honestly can't even figure out what words you're trying to put in my mouth here.
Are you attacking me for (supposedly) thinking like a lot of Americans that the idea of some teenage kid in prison for smoking a joint getting raped by another prisoner is funny? I don't.
Or are you attacking me for not thinking someone's eighteen-year-old son getting sodomised is funny, when mocking Trump's "small hands" is?
We might never know. Nor care.
OK, so "tiny hands" is approved sexism?
The "tiny hands" thing isn't even funny in itself, and no-one really gives a toss- nor takes seriously- the implied connection between Trump's (alleged) small hand size and his dick. (Spoiler; yep, that's what it was about!)
I think what pretty much everyone involved in that joke (which apparently goes back to the 80s) finds funny is that the puffed-up, egotistical Trump is also so thin-skinned and insecure as to be unable to resist having to respond to it, even though it's obviously a wind-up.
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What? My point is that he's complaining about Trump, who he calls a sociopath. The point is that the Clintons are the very definition of such, only worse - there's two of them, and they have a demonstrated history enriching themselves and otherwise abusing the power of public office.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
...you shouldn't have built it in the first place.
I know, preaching to the choir. If only I could send Amber Alerts to the idiots who are apparently in control.
'You up?'
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Oh well. Nice try.
He promised he'd never spread loquacious views
Those definitely don't sound like words Trump would use.
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Yeah, militarily, 1993 - 2000 REALLY sucked.
Either give me the ability to BLOCK the messages, or give me the ability to RESPOND to the messages and tell the sender what an asshole he is!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
So next time someone proposes a new power for the President, ask yourself, "Would I be comfortable with Donald Trump having this power?"
That's why I got a "very bad feeling" three years ago when Senate Democrats used "The Nuclear Option" to lower the bar to breaking a filibuster on the Senate floor. Sure, they wanted to make it easier to get bills for Obama to sign, but I knew it would eventually come back to bite them.
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
Learn to love Alaska
No, the other option we had slept though the 3AM phone call and 4 people including a US ambassador died because nobody got sent help...
For the sake of our diplomats I think I'll take a chance with Trump sending me a 3AM text myself, at least he's up and paying attention to something, even if the twitter wars at 3 AM were about as important as his last hang nail...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
They just have the ability to destroy economies of countries when they get as big as they are right now.
it will not take too long until someone writes an Xposed module for filtering this type of messages.
I think the issue is that he's so out of control that his own campaign had to lock him out of his Twitter account..
Basically, yeah Obama has had the power and hasn't used it, but the thought is that Trump will not be able to resist the temptation to be able to directly message every cell user with unblockable text...
Also, I've already seen several excellent posts helping people block unwanted Amber alerts and some folks offering advice on rooting phones to allow that to be shut off.
I'm willing to take a wait and see attitude, but if he sends one of those texts and it's not because the Great Meteor we've all been hoping for is on its way, I'll consider rooting my phone if there's a way to block the Presidential Alerts.
He gets ONE chance on that.
The Digital Sorceress
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
One of the two of them was going to win. They're both annoying, though Clinton is far more sinister. Regardless, whoever one was going to shape the Supreme Court for decades after their turn as POTUS is long gone. Clinton said she'd be choosing activists to "reinterpret" the Constitution so she could get things done that she couldn't get through a congress that didn't agree with her agenda. Trump said he'd pick from a list of SCOTUS candidates that he published well in advance, most of whom are textbook constructionists disinclined to allow the court to be treated like a way to circumvent the legislature. That shit matters. Any "sane person" would choose the lesser of two short-term evils in happy exchange for not screwing the court up by turning it into a newly empowered lefty activist legislative branch.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
There should be. I mean, the signal should be unique enough that it's easy to block..
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I believe it was to confirm some of his cabinet, and yes, I'm betting Democrats wish they had that power now as the Trump cabinet picks come rolling in.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I think that someone has lost his/her mind. This is even to stupid for a tabloid. The emergency broadcast system is just that and has nothing to do with Trump.
Then we better schould get ready to receive more "Fashion Alerts"
bickerdyke
Trump said he'd pick from a list of SCOTUS candidates that he published well in advance,
Ah, so you are a fucking idiot. He hasn't even taken office, and he's broken nearly every promise made. Want to wager that his first nomination won't be from his list?
Learn to love Alaska
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
Uh, no. You need to check out percentage of voter turnout sometime, me laddo. The story is very, very different from what you think it is. More than 50% of the voting public stayed home. They did precisely what you said they should do.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
How can he break any promises, he hasn't even taken office yet. He has merely SAID he is going to break promises. I guess he's backed himself into a corner with that. Pretty clever, now he can swear he kept his promises and just ignore the other set on contradictory promises.
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"I don't recall the Republicans..."
Well you wouldn't, that is unfortunately one of the side effects you'll suffer living your life as a partisan wingnut.
The question is why are you telling us again? We already know - your repeated posts giving evidence to the fact aren't exactly subtle.
It is easy to confuse 'did not get as much media coverage' with 'did not happen'.
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Yeah, okay, people. We get it. You liberal goons hate anything and everything about conservatives and Trump. You haven't learned your lesson, yet have you?
Want to know WHY you lost the election? Because Americans are sick and bloody tired of the constant fear-mongering, name calling and attempted character assassinations. We're tired of being told only you liberals know what's best for us. We're tired of the liberal hypocrisy. (Trump supporters will protest and not accept the election results!!!!!) We're tired of being labeled with some sort of -ism just because we disagree with you (sexist if you don't vote for Hillary, racist if you disagree with Obama, ad infinitum). We're tired of watching you bankrupt cities like Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta (and the state of California) while blaming the the failure of your 'progressive' causes on the conservatives.
Hell, we're tired of you blaming ANYTHING and ANYONE for your failures. Sexism stopped Hillary from being elected. America is full of racists. Blah, blah, blah.
The bottom line is, liberals, your ideology is nothing but hypocrisy. Your ideology is built on false premises. If your ideology was so good, why do you insist on resorting to nothing short of domestic terrorism to get your way? Why do you riot, and protest and threaten when things don't go your way? No ideology is perfect, but yours is the most self-righteous, pseudo-religious claptrap this side of Scientology. It engenders the same fanaticistic psychology you get from Radical Islam (and Radical Christianity for that matter).
And yet you just don't get it. You continue doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. Then placing blame everywhere but where it belongs.
I've said for a long time that Liberalism is a mental illness. And you've continued to strengthen my theory by how you act.
Pax Vobiscum
I recall the Republicans rioting before Bush was elected. Which helped get him elected. And flying the rioters in on planes supplied by corporate donors. And paying the rioters for their time. And pretending that it wasn't a partisan effort, it was the Good People of Florida spontaneously rising up.
https://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2000/11/sweeney_and_the_siege_of_miami.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11...
http://www.poetrywar.com/Music...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=28
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2242...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/us/counting-vote-miami-dade-county-wild-day-miami-with-end-recounting-democrats.html
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
I had this image of getting 3AM drunk texts from POTUS.
More than 50% of the voting public stayed home.
That's what I said. Read the numbers. It rounds to: 50% voter turnout, 24%Hillary 23% Trump 3% other.
Also note, not voting for Hillary *or* Trump is an option without staying home. If Jill had gotten 10% of the vote, and Gary 15% of the vote, and 38% Hillary and 37% Donald, the discussion now would be vastly different. Even more so if the 3rd parties managed to get enough states to "block" an outright majority.
3rd party votes aren't wasted. Voting D or R is a wasted vote.
Learn to love Alaska
But he already has twitter with 16 million followers!
Seconded. I've applied for government jobs two times. Both times, I was not considered for the position because a Veteran claimed to be qualified. The government does not evaluate applicants based on quality, but hires veterans (as a form of welfare) above all others.
Learn to love Alaska
So the government exists to provide jobs to vets? The government exists to do nothing but be welfare. Seems they should try to be more productive.
And when the government does as you say, and hires an unqualified applicant because of demographics, they will perform more poorly than the private sector. Which is one of the prime complaints against them.
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