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March 24, 2018

I watched 2 minute of Fox Noise

Right after Mr. Hogg was done speaking ..... they had on a Kyle a student from
Parkman, High School and they were feeding the young man through his ear piece
and from a teleprompter in front of him.

He message ..... the NRA isn't that bad, they (the students) don't have all the answers,
the crowd was anti republican, and Mr. Hogg is being used by the left for un-American goals.

Fox is a cancer on America and is working for Vlad Putin.

March 22, 2018

Dear Mark Z., .. Without Facebook, we wouldnt have won, said Theresa Hong, a member of ...

..... the digital arm of Trump’s presidential campaign.


Eat shit and die, Mark. The Trump campaign had people who were facebook employees
working full time at Trump's HQ and getting data and information from Cambridge
Analytica and wikileaks and they helped to weaponize that data/information for
the Trump campaign. Facebook was also being used by the Russians to data mine
information on Americans for Cambridge Analytica.

BTW you cashed the checks too. This isn't just about apps motherfucker.

Does the name Theresa Hong ring a bell, Mark?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029566031

FB, YouTube, Twitter, Cambridge Analytica, Russia, the GOP & Trump.

In an online BBC video, Theresa Hong, the Donald Trump campaign’s Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. She’s revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trump’s behalf, ran its operations out of the same offices where the Trump campaign itself was plotting its paid Facebook ad strategy. But the truly shocking revelation is who else she admits was in the building, which Trump’s people called “Project Alamo.”


The BBC interviewer asks Hong, “What were Facebook and Google and YouTube people actually doing here? Why were they here?” She responds by saying “They were helping us, you know. They were basically our hands-on partners as far as being able to utilize the platform as effectively as possible.” Shen then bragged “When you’re pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, you’re going to get white glove treatment. So they would send people, you know, representatives to the Project Alamo to ensure that all our needs were being met.” Watch the shocking BBC video below

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-is-what-facebook-powered-election-cheating-looks-like.html

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Is What Facebook-Powered Election Cheating Looks Like

“Without Facebook, we wouldn’t have won,” said Theresa Hong, a member of the digital arm of Trump’s presidential campaign, in an interview with the BBC last year when giving a tour of Trump’s digital campaign headquarters, dubbed Project Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas. Alamo was the name of the dataset used by Cambridge Analytica, according to Hong, who said Cambridge Analytica shared offices with the Trump campaign’s digital efforts and confirmed Facebook and Google sent liaisons to their offices to help Trump’s campaign. Hong showed the BBC how Cambridge Analytica could identify if, say, it was targeting a working mother concerned about childcare: She probably wouldn’t be interested in “a war ridden destructive ad” popping up in her Facebook app, but might respond to something more “warm and fuzzy,” lacking Trump’s voice, Hong said. “It wasn’t uncommon to have about 35 to 45 thousand iterations of these types of ads everyday.”

March 21, 2018

NY Times Ben Carson Defends Buying $31,000 Dining Set to Congress: I Left It to My Wife

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/ben-carson-hud-dining-room.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, told a House committee on Tuesday that he had “dismissed” himself from the decision to buy a $31,000 dining room set for his office last year, leaving the details to his wife and staff.

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The hearing, before the House Appropriations subcommittee that determines the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget, was supposed to center on the administration’s proposed budget cuts to the agency. Instead it was dominated by questions about Mr. Carson’s judgment, the conduct of his wife, Candy Carson, and son Ben Carson Jr., and Mr. Carson’s initial denial that he was aware of the expenditure, a position he has modified.

“I was not big into redecorating. If it were up to me, my office would look like a hospital waiting room,” said Mr. Carson, who repeatedly told committee members that he had no knowledge of the $5,000 limit imposed on cabinet secretaries for redecorating their offices — despite the release of emails between top aides discussing how to justify getting around the cap.

Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon with no prior government experience, said the decision to replace the furniture was made in the interest of safety rather than redecorating.

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"Safety, That's the ticket." Besides it was my wife's fault.



March 21, 2018

Rep. Swalwell to Trump: "You Will Be Fired Soon"

After the disgraceful firing of Andrew McCabe, Pres. Dennison tweeted this:

“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!”

Today, Representative Eric Swalwell fired back:


“Gloat now, but you will be fired soon. And it’s not going to be done cowardly, as you’ve done to so
many who’ve served you. There’s a storm gathering, Mr. President, and it’s going to wipe out you
and your corrupt organization all the way down to the studs.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/17/1749877/-Rep-Swalwell-to-Trump-You-Will-Be-Fired-Soon?detail=emaildkre

March 18, 2018

If it was shown that Don Trump paid for an abortion for Stormy Daniels* .....

..... would the evangelicals still support him?


* or anybody else too .... I have no doubt that Trump has paid for an abortion in the past.

March 18, 2018

Trump's AM tweet and lie storm "... and Zero Republicans?"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/975350027169206273

"Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters,
and Zero Republicans?"

Except that Bob Mueller is a life long republican and he was picked by Rod Rosenstein who is a republican too.
March 17, 2018

Vanessa Trump hires criminal defense attorney for Donald Jr. divorce

Source: page 6

Vanessa Trump hires criminal defense attorney for Donald Jr. divorce

Vanessa Trump has hired a criminal defense attorney to represent her in her divorce from Donald Trump Jr. just as special counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed the presidents family business.

White Plains, NY-based lawyer David Feureisen is representing Vanessa, according to paperwork filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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Despite that, Feureisen clearly does practice criminal defense and most notably secured the release of a New York man named Anthony DiSimone from federal prison in 2007 after a judge overturned a murder conviction related to a bar fight in 1994.

Inside the marriage of Vanessa and Donald Trump Jr.
Don Jr.s been running his father, President Donald Trumps, business, The Trump Organization, while hes in office. The presidents oldest son had also met with a Russian lawyer who was promising but did not deliver dirt on Hillary Clinton at Trump Tower in 2016.

Read more: https://pagesix.com/2018/03/16/vanessa-trump-hires-criminal-defense-attorney-for-donald-jr-divorce/





Does somebody want out before the shit hits the fan?

BTW I wish Vanessa and the child well but as for the elephant killing and then
tail cutting Trump Jr. I have nothing buy contempt.
March 17, 2018

Breaking on Joy Reid

John Dowd just sent an email to Besty Woodruff and said he wasn't speaking for the President ...



https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142016118


Trump's Lawyer: It's Time to Fire Robert Mueller

He told The Daily Beast he was speaking on behalf of the president, in his capacity as the presidents attorney.

March 17, 2018

Eva Cassidy - Danny Boy

March 17, 2018

R you kidding me? UMBC!

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