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Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: If you're a fan of Easter eggs hidden in source code, this is a pretty good one. Apparently, as Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham observed on Twitter, some Trump administration and GOP websites have a portion of code with a joke that throws shade at Obama's golf habits, the irony nowhere to be found. We checked the source code and sure enough the line "Oops! Something went wrong. Unlike Obama, we are working to fix the problem and not on the golf course" appears on action.donaldjtrump.com sites, like the one hosting this surely statistically sound, Obama-obsessed "Inaugural Year Approval Poll," but not on donaldjtrump.com pages. As Ingraham pointed out, it's also present on some official GOP sites, including the GOP.com homepage. In both instances, the Obama dig is paired with a 404 error message that states "What do Hillary Clinton and this link have in common? They're both dead broke." To top it off, the code itself is apparently itself broken, swapping a single equal sign where there should be two. An honest mistake? Or perhaps the world was never meant to be gifted with these very good jokes at all?
it made me lol
close enough
is always be accusing your opponent of whatever it is you do.
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It's funny because Trump has spent one day in four on a golf course. Or is it not supposed to be irony?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
You should go to Mar a Lago, where your wildest desires can be granted. It's like Disneyland for adults. Including an intimate evening with Kellyanne Conway.
Twitler, McConnell, Ryan. The whole lot of them. I just hope Dems turn out in record numbers this November and kick the whole rotten lot of them out.
—Donald Trump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqB_3j4Qts)
Next someone'll tell me that Mexico is paying for a wall.
... taking the bait each time. Go on, write a dozen articles about this little innocuous detail. Blame Trump personally. Make it sound like the end of the world. Meanwhile, your media empires are crumbling as you spend all your remaining credibility feeding your Trump Derangement Syndrome and exposing your true biased selves to the people.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Including an intimate evening with Kellyanne Conway.
I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Does she cosplay as Skeletor for you at the same time?
It was on WHAT website? donaldjrtrump.com? Who the fsck would ever go there except people that would find that funny? Is it any worse than the officialized jokes that the Dems have against Trump? The Liberals have against the Tories? (Did I spell those correctly, my British brethren?) Blacks against whites? Whites against blacks? Labor against management? (Management doesn't really joke about labor. The love us. :-)
Seriously, Ingraham needs to get a job.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
I was thinking it would be the Cryptkeeper Special
My deity what a pathetic bunch of losers rule the US.
-- Cheers!
from a mentally disturbed person with the maturity of a 10 year old?
Stop denigrating the maturity of 10 year olds. You can have an intelligent conversation with many 10 year olds, and as "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" demonstrates, many understand and accept and can accurately recite facts.
Actually the var in question was errorMessage which was supposed to be used in the digitalData (sic!) object to be feed to Adobe Analytics. Alas, none of it was done, so a big chunk of code (all of it?) could be just discarded.
we-go-we-fly
Trump's behavior is disgusting, unprofessional, and unbecoming of a sitting president of the leader of the free world. The lack of respect that he shows for the office is deplorable. Typically once an election ends, so does the name calling and blaming. Once an election ends, the elected official assumes a much more civil and responsible position. I erroneously thought Trump would do so when I heard him say, "President Obama is a good guy." and this is a direct quote during their pre-inaugural meeting. It turned out that Trump simply continues his campaign as if he is still in an election.
The power invested in the President of the United States is not one to be taken lightly: it is not reality television. A stroke of the pen that enacts a law can cause some people to suffer while others are helped. Shifting policies can cause people real and palpable hardships. The War Powers Act allows a sitting president to wage conventional warfare for a period of 90 days without congressional authority. This is serious business. Sending soldiers to a battlefield where they could be killed or maimed is a heavy responsibility and one that Trump is incapable of appreciating.
Is that when Ann Coulter joins in?
Living rent free at /. these days.
You are correct, I don't expect much from you, infantile cocksucker.
They say they are working on it instead of working on the golf course... yet Trump spent more time golfing than Obama did in his first year...
You're awfully close to saying Beetlejuice three times there, careful. Also Coulter is a shapeshifter, she can take any form as long as it's unfuckably ugly.
In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims
I usually try to avoid politics on /, because it would destroy all my karma, but this error message - especially with the bit about Obama golfing almost seems like it's not so much "throwing shade" on his administration but rather mocking Trump's since we're all aware of how hypocritical Trump has been about golfing.
If there's one stone Trump shouldn't throw in his glass house it's accusing Obama of golfing too much - but he's been doing that so long it's an unquestioned meme for his supporters.
Does Trump even play golf at all? Well he sure tries hard to hide it when he does. He's even hiring trucks to block photographer's views of Mar-a-Lago's golf course.
I remember when Trump and others criticized Obama and Bush for playing too much golf. "Now watch this drive!" Trump was one of those who criticized Obama at least. Trump claimed he would work so hard he would never have time to golf, didn't he? And now the only thing he does more often than golf is tweet or watch TV.
That error message reminds me of a former co-worker who named a couple of servers "ecoli" and "salmonella" when we worked for a beef company. Upper level management was not pleased when word got around. They didn't fire him for that though and I suspect they actually laughed about it privately.
The sysadmin who named those servers thought it was funny and so did I because in a meat producing company that large, recalls for ecoli and salmonella are common. Most consumers never even hear about them. In his defense, those were not public servers.
If only senses of humor grew as prolifically as such bacteria.
I noticed your selective outrage and not calling out the posters above making fun of Kellyanne Conway and Ann Coulter, in disgusting manners too.
Your false outrage is noted. We now know that your opinion is worthless and that you agree with misogynists. I also suspect you had no outrage for Al Frankin or Conyers either. Thank you for letting us know sexual molestation of women is acceptable behavior according to you, but making fun of Obama playing golf by a web admin hired by Trump's son is unacceptable.
Have a good new year, and rest easily that Trump, unlike Obama, won't be sending the IRS after you for your comments.
It must be strange to have no identity of your own. No platform. No ideals. No politics. Republicans are merely a macro, defined as !Democrat. If Democrats are conservative on an issue (e.g. prosecute polluters for breaking the law, balanced budgets, etc) then Republicans are required to be liberal. If Democrats are liberal on an issue, then Republicans have to be conservative.
You can tell who is leading whom, because Democrats are the ones who change their mind about something first. When that happens, Republicans have a suicide pact where they have to change their mind about the same thing, to go the other way. ACA (a.k.a. ObamaCare) is probably the best classical example. Republicans used to say that was what they wanted, and it had conservativism all over it (fucking making people pay for their health care, so longhair hippies have to get a job), but once DINO Obama supported it, Republicans had to change their mind and take a left-wing "people shouldn't have to pay, man" approach to it. So now Republicans have to push for an Unaffordable Care Act, and every conservative hates their fucking guts for it.
It must suck to be a conservative or liberal. Nobody to vote for, unless you go third party, and most races don't even have anyone other than Rs and Ds running.
Jesus... Reliant on 'plugin' frameworks with little actual work, such that the few parts they can do they f'up. Error messages are usually the parts you want fail safe
I don't read AC
Including an intimate evening with Kellyanne Conway.
I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Does she cosplay as Skeletor for you at the same time?
Skeletor? I always thought of Kellyanne as more of a cursed mummy.
By "russian investors" you mean KG&B Inc. ? "no less than nine US government agencies" -- so if everybody else does it then all good. Not to pick on anybody specifically but w.t.f...
I observed just about ever middle school kid knew or had just learned how to blame others for their transgressions.... Remember back when every kid knew when they farted to blame somebody else 1st... and most realized the 1st to blame likely were guilty.
Seems that the greater lesson is rarely learned by a great many people; however, if Trump farted and blamed Obama sitting next to him, somehow I think most people would get it and yet still not translate it to anything else.
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you're _not_ blaming others for your transgressions. You're saying someone else did the same thing in order to divert attention away from you. It's a straw man argument but it goes unnoticed because of the way human brains work. You're building an association between what you're guilty of by accusing your opponent of it. That association gives people who want to believe you an out. Karl Rove rather famously got a draft dodger elected over a war vet who'd lost their legs with these tactics. By itself it's not enough to win elections, but combined with voter suppression, gerrymandering and other unethical tactics it works.
Remember, the fundamental goal is to get middle class and poor people to vote against their own economic interests and instead vote for the interests of the extreme rich. Making that happen requires all sorts of crazy things.
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This is kibble for the brainless hordes of gibbering leftist-trained drones.
Everyone who sees the problem with the left needs to secede from this society before it's too late. We can't survive with these subhumans dragging us down. They are totally and completely brainwashed and we cannot compete against the status quo with their dead weight.
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-- A change is as good as a reboot.
I actually had to check the root URL because I thought the poll site was a satirical site making fun of Trump.
I honestly don't understand how you can create an organization so incompetent that something like that could be created and published.
I stole this Sig
Some low level person in an organization run by Donald Trump made a joke buried in HTML code! Oh holy shit! Will Hitlary Clinton never come to free us from his tyranny? Wahhhh Wahhhh I must retreat to my Fortress of Snowflakyness before I melt! My space not safe! Wahhhh hahahaha
Right, Skeletor doesn't really work. He's a big, especially muscular guy with blue skin and a floating skull for a head. Despite his name he's really not that skeletal at all.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I'd be far more worried about a president who lies so much. I''m not saying that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a honest person, but Donald John Trump has taken outright fabrication to a whole new level.
It's worse than that: lying is when you know the truth, but say something else. IMHO, Trump believes what he is saying because he lives in his own delusional reality.
What is the *-cracy term for "government by spoiled children"?
Nothing like a good body shaming exercise.
He's got all the right people foaming at the mouth, spinning around uselessly and obsessing over his every word.
Here's the responses I got to various whitehouse and congress URLs:
...then...
http://TrumpStyle.whitehouse.gov
409 Conflict
http://Talk-to-your-congressman.congress.gov
402 Payment Required
503 Service Unavailable
http://Help-Joe-Plumber-not-Joe-Billionaire.whitehouse.gov
421 Misdirected Request
http://women-are-people-too.whitehouse.gov
406 Not Acceptable
http://Melania.Trump.whitehouse.gov
416 Not Satisfiable
http://Leadership-By-Example.whitehouse.gov
301 Moved Permanently - See http://www.maralagoclub.com/
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Arth1 - are YOU a psychopath? - I utterly destroyed your fictional theoretical non-reality https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11532533&cid=55833641/ easily!
* CHUMP & when I asked you IF my method stops hosts vs. the botnet in question, not your 'theoretical phantasyland bullshit' I easily tore up & YOU WITH IT too in the link above & 6 posts you evaded it in before it? YOU RAN LIKE A BITCH, bitch!
APK
P.S.=> Not a 1st, I did the same to you on Privoxy, a proxy server that works with hosts 3++ yrs. ago & you NEVER LEARN - try to 'take me on', & I'll destroy you PUBLICLY every single time (& that's why you HIDE behind FAKE NAMES online)... apk
Your 4.03 whatever is your denominator. That means a little under 1 in 4 days. However, math aside, that doesn't detract from the larger point that Pres. von Clownstick is a fat, worthless, lying sack of shit.
regardless of your political view. I'm just jealous I didn't think of it.
using fewer words. ;]
SOOO FUNNY. MUCH LAUGHS.
Even if APK succeeded in showing that arth1 is stupid it still won't prove APK isn't a retard.
Wait that will never happen because APK can't even defend his work or statements.
Too bad retard APK you lost again as always.
Oh, now you've done it.
BLECH!!!!
Well, there goes the leftover turkey