Perhaps they think that is better than voting for people that despise their culture and call them "rubes".
Today, we got a little insight into how Donald Trump feels about that "culture".
President Donald Trump reportedly called Attorney General Jeff Sessions a "dumb southerner" and mocked Sessions' accent behind his back. Trump, mimicking Sessions' southern accent, called his attorney general "mentally retarded" and said that Sessions "couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama."
Trump Jr. gets contacted by some lawyer (who turns out to be Russian)... Lawyer: "I has dirt Hillary, you vaunt meet up?" Trump Jr: "Uh, okay. Sure." Meet up happens. There is no dirt, meeting turns out to be a worthless waste of time...
Just a casual meetup that includes Trump's son, his son-in-law, and his campaign chairman (now in prison). And the president knows nothing about it. Sure, that's the ticket.
Meanwhile, Hillary pays British firm to generate dirt against Trump using questionable sources from Russia.
First, it was the conservative Washington Free Beacon that got the ball rolling on the Trump dossier. Steele produced the dossier for Fusion GPS who was later hired by the Clinton campaign. They never had to deal with any Russians. It was all arms-length transactions, which makes all the difference in the world. Finally, everything in the Trump dossier has been verified except for the Russian hookers golden showers party, and given Trump's known degenerate behavior, is almost certainly true.
If anyone is going down on that one, Hillary is in deeper trouble me thinks.
I realize that's the Q fantasy. Every day that passes it gets farther out of your reach, and you have to work harder to maintain the fantasy.
Also, Trump was a private citizen at the time of this event and therefore nothing that happened there has anything to do with his time in office or the laws that apply to the conduct of an administration.
No, it was plenty illegal.
Federal law prohibits a foreign national from giving anything of value to a campaign engaged in a U.S. election. Further, it’s also a crime to solicit a foreign national to give anything of value to a campaign, or even to "knowingly provide substantial assistance" in receiving something of value. Third, lying about the whole thing to the FBI is also a felony. Fourth, if the "oppo research" was stolen property, that's also a possible felony. Finally, the meeting is evidence of an ongoing criminal conspiracy to defraud the US government and the American people.
If Trump wasn't president, hie'd have already been indicted. So would Don Jr. So would the other people who were present at that meeting --- oh wait, they've already been indicted. And the convictions are mounting.
People who buy the whole line, "I didn't do it, and anyway everyone else does it and even if I did do it, it's not illegal and even if it's illegal I'm the president," will wake up one day and be embarrassed that they tried to excuse away this degenerate president.
I don't think Nixon was actually "busted". There was no impeachment, no criminal case.
Articles of Impeachment had been presented, and were dead-certain to pass, but Nixon bravely spared the country the spectacle and resigned before the vote could take place. So, if we're going to use the criminal justice system as comparison, he basically plead guilty before the trial began. So yes, he was "convicted".
According to whip counts of the time, not only would the Articles of Impeachment have passed the House, but the Senate would have certainly voted to convict. Nixon comes from a time when there were still some Republicans with honor.
This is just flat wrong. He got in trouble for trying to cover it up after he had been made aware that it took place.
As with the infamous "Trump Tower Meeting", it's simply naive to believe the principle beneficiary, on whose behalf the entire enterprise was undertaken, was not "in on it". Especially with a famous micromanager like Nixon (or Trump).
I've started doing the Patreon thing for a few Podcasts.
Sure, I support the podcasts I listen to on Patreon. The problem is, all the ones that use the Podcast One service to distribute their podcasts now has broken RSS. I don't know what they hell they did, but when I try to subscribe, it actually makes my RSS application crash in some cases.
This Podcast One is the devil. You can't even download the episodes individually from the website any more.
At first, not. But if cuts are forced, companies would have to remove some of the bloated and excessive layers of CSS and JS libraries to make their sites maintainable with less staff.
I have to say, blaming H1-B workers for the excessive layers of CSS and Javascript is a novel viewpoint.
True, false or otherwise, they were not socialists. Nazis killed socialists.
Here's something else you can ruminate on: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea really isn't democratic. It's just a name.
Nazis were indisputably fascist. They arose out of a far right movement in Europe that was a reaction against leftists. The original name of Hitler's party was Deutcher Arbeiter Partei (D.A.P). It didn't become the N.S.D.A.P. until they were trying to steal socialist support (which they never got). There is not a single historian that will say the Nazis were socialists or leftists. It's the same today. You will notice that when the Nazis marched in Charlottesville, they didn't call their rally, "Unite the Left". They called it "Unite the Right".
Also, did you know that the Nazis hated being called Nazis? They have that in common with the Nazis of today.
It happened in 2015. But reversed before it took effect by Ajit Pai and friends.
Twitter was never considered by the FCC to be a common carrier.
Actually, ISPs were common carriers, back when the internet was on phone lines.
That's simply not true. When the internet was on phone lines, the phone lines belonged to a common carrier. However, the actual ISP were never considered common carriers.
Freedom is a high price to pay to get rid of "jerks".
Freedom is a high price to pay to use a social media platform, but you do it willingly.
There is nothing "unfree" in any way about requiring a real name and identity for every Twitter account. You can still say what you want, but now you're accountable. They're private web sites for god's sake. They can do what they want.
If this banning / not banning continues then sooner or later, twitter (and others) may soon learn the hard way what "Common Carrier" means.
No, they won't. There is absolutely no valid argument that Twitter is a common carrier. To designate them as such, all ISPs and telcos would have to also be so designated, and that's never going to happen.
They'd have to pay out more of their profits to American workers, though. And that, pretty much everyone agrees, is a tragedy that must never be allowed to happen. The deplorables must never win.
American workers are not "deplorables". You don't find a lot of the people you would call "deplorable" in Silicon Valley.
Doesn't surprise me - I can easily imagine the local officials saying 'hey, it's not like they are going to walk away from a 750 million customer country!'
Yes, they would.
Those curious about government attempts would do well to research the US government's purchasing requirement to only buy computers/periphersls that use ASCII character representation. The US gov't thought they could change 'Big Blue', but they were wrong...
The US government is still there, but "Big Blue" has had to try to remake itself.
And things have changed a lot since the days when Big Blue was holding a big stick. Today, there's not a big tech company in the world that will turn away from three quarters of a billion customers.
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Yes, and the official death toll from Hurricane Maria is 65.
Today, we got a little insight into how Donald Trump feels about that "culture".
Oopsie.
I'm here for the buffet.
Just a casual meetup that includes Trump's son, his son-in-law, and his campaign chairman (now in prison). And the president knows nothing about it. Sure, that's the ticket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
First, it was the conservative Washington Free Beacon that got the ball rolling on the Trump dossier. Steele produced the dossier for Fusion GPS who was later hired by the Clinton campaign. They never had to deal with any Russians. It was all arms-length transactions, which makes all the difference in the world. Finally, everything in the Trump dossier has been verified except for the Russian hookers golden showers party, and given Trump's known degenerate behavior, is almost certainly true.
I realize that's the Q fantasy. Every day that passes it gets farther out of your reach, and you have to work harder to maintain the fantasy.
Those things go together.
No, it was plenty illegal.
Federal law prohibits a foreign national from giving anything of value to a campaign engaged in a U.S. election. Further, it’s also a crime to solicit a foreign national to give anything of value to a campaign, or even to "knowingly provide substantial assistance" in receiving something of value. Third, lying about the whole thing to the FBI is also a felony. Fourth, if the "oppo research" was stolen property, that's also a possible felony. Finally, the meeting is evidence of an ongoing criminal conspiracy to defraud the US government and the American people.
If Trump wasn't president, hie'd have already been indicted. So would Don Jr. So would the other people who were present at that meeting --- oh wait, they've already been indicted. And the convictions are mounting.
People who buy the whole line, "I didn't do it, and anyway everyone else does it and even if I did do it, it's not illegal and even if it's illegal I'm the president," will wake up one day and be embarrassed that they tried to excuse away this degenerate president.
Articles of Impeachment had been presented, and were dead-certain to pass, but Nixon bravely spared the country the spectacle and resigned before the vote could take place. So, if we're going to use the criminal justice system as comparison, he basically plead guilty before the trial began. So yes, he was "convicted".
According to whip counts of the time, not only would the Articles of Impeachment have passed the House, but the Senate would have certainly voted to convict. Nixon comes from a time when there were still some Republicans with honor.
As with the infamous "Trump Tower Meeting", it's simply naive to believe the principle beneficiary, on whose behalf the entire enterprise was undertaken, was not "in on it". Especially with a famous micromanager like Nixon (or Trump).
Nixon didn't get busted for "spying on a campaign". He got busted for hiring a bunch of actual criminals to burglarize the DNC headquarters.
Sound familiar? Stealing stuff from the DNC in order to help a Republican candidate?
Sure, I support the podcasts I listen to on Patreon. The problem is, all the ones that use the Podcast One service to distribute their podcasts now has broken RSS. I don't know what they hell they did, but when I try to subscribe, it actually makes my RSS application crash in some cases.
This Podcast One is the devil. You can't even download the episodes individually from the website any more.
I have to say, blaming H1-B workers for the excessive layers of CSS and Javascript is a novel viewpoint.
Now you're starting to understand why they're getting rid of bad actors like Alex Jones.
True, false or otherwise, they were not socialists. Nazis killed socialists.
Here's something else you can ruminate on: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea really isn't democratic. It's just a name.
Nazis were indisputably fascist. They arose out of a far right movement in Europe that was a reaction against leftists. The original name of Hitler's party was Deutcher Arbeiter Partei (D.A.P). It didn't become the N.S.D.A.P. until they were trying to steal socialist support (which they never got). There is not a single historian that will say the Nazis were socialists or leftists. It's the same today. You will notice that when the Nazis marched in Charlottesville, they didn't call their rally, "Unite the Left". They called it "Unite the Right".
Also, did you know that the Nazis hated being called Nazis? They have that in common with the Nazis of today.
That is correct. Nazis were not socialists.
Twitter was never considered by the FCC to be a common carrier.
That's simply not true. When the internet was on phone lines, the phone lines belonged to a common carrier. However, the actual ISP were never considered common carriers.
Freedom is a high price to pay to use a social media platform, but you do it willingly.
There is nothing "unfree" in any way about requiring a real name and identity for every Twitter account. You can still say what you want, but now you're accountable. They're private web sites for god's sake. They can do what they want.
No, they won't. There is absolutely no valid argument that Twitter is a common carrier. To designate them as such, all ISPs and telcos would have to also be so designated, and that's never going to happen.
Oh, why do I feel the need to respond to people who are about as likely to understand as my cat?
https://qz.com/1335125/infowar...
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/...
Do you also believe tiger sharks are actual tigers? Do you think corn snakes are made of corn? It's in their name, after all.
Why is that? Do Indian workers "monkey" things up where you are?
American workers are not "deplorables". You don't find a lot of the people you would call "deplorable" in Silicon Valley.
Are you certain that your "tech sites" could function without the H1-Bs?
The US government is still there, but "Big Blue" has had to try to remake itself.
And things have changed a lot since the days when Big Blue was holding a big stick. Today, there's not a big tech company in the world that will turn away from three quarters of a billion customers.
I have a YuGiOh deck I will sell you for $2000.00. I got it years ago. By now it should be worth $10,000 or more.
Not the ones I like.