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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?
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?"
—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."
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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
My deity what a pathetic bunch of losers rule the US.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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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-- 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.
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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...
Generally I'm against allowing the Russians to invest in anything of any strategic or military value. However, I also feel compelled to ask why, if the deal was approved by nine different US government agencies, are you cherrypicking Hillary Clinton and the State department to be the focus of your fury instead of venting your righteous outrage equally on the leaders of all nine agency heads? Also I was under the impression that Trump and Vladimir are besties now. According to surveys, Big Vlad is enjoying great popularity and an all time high approval rating among Trump supporters. So why exactly is it such a source of blind rage for you right-wingers that a Russian company owns a Canadian company that in turn owns 20% of your uranium production capacity even if it is true that it has ties to the FSB and Big Vlad? ...especially since none of the uranium they produce can leave the United States without the express permission of the Trump administration.
The problem is, the Democrats, while not quite as blatantly awful, are nothing to cheer. I support my Representative, and I don't consider one of my Senators better dead. They are all Democrats, and I only feel moderately represented by one of them. That the Republican choices would have been worse is scant reason for liking the situation...and in the case of one of the Senators I'm not sure even that's true.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
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.
Smoke and mirrors. Trump & friends want the American people (and more importantly, the media) to pay attention to absolutely anything aside from the Russian meddling scandal and investigation.
Uranium One is an especially good target because it not only involves Hillary Clinton (to rile folks up,) the Russians (to scare folks) and Robert Muller (to defame him,) so its a triple whammy. And even though absolutely nobody has found any actual evidence of wrongdoing in that deal, Trump zealotry is so bloody high that he immediately gets 20-30% of the population calling for inquests and calling for Muller's head based on nothing more than a few tweets and the odd Hannity insanity rant.
Oh, now you've done it.
BLECH!!!!
Well, there goes the leftover turkey