That was interesting, and makes some sense.
âSpicer said Sunday on ABCâs âThis Weekâ that he thinks it freaks the mainstream media out that Trump has more than 45 million people following him on social media.â
Isnât it cool how much of a shit-stirring troll my boss is??
Presumably that 45M is twitter + facebook + instagram? I imagine thereâs quite a lot of overlap.
His twitter account has 18.3M followers, not 45M.
I donât think thatâs enough to compensate for not bothering with press conferences. But still, at least Iâm not Sean Spicer. Whatâs a press secretary meant to do if the guy he works for doesnât bother with press releases?
Also, this means that as long as I keep the President blocked on twitter for 4 years, I can avoid all his drivel.
Guesses on the surprise?
- âPeter Thielâs Palantir has been tremendous in hacking, just huge. Weâre proud to announce weâll be creating a permanent public-private partnership between the NSA and Palantirâ
- âWeâre upgrading the firewall at Mar a Lago.â
- âThe US and Russiaâs cyberdefences finally can join forces to protect the cyber.â
- âI have a son. Heâs 10 years old. Heâll be taking over US cybersecurity.â
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Haldemanâs notes prove Nixon was interfering to subvert the Vietnam peace process:
Maybe some day weâll have William Caseyâs notes proving Reagan did the same with Iran in '80. Have to wonder what Trumpâs connections to Putin will yield in 50 years.
Last year he was following a random Australian cricketer, apparently.
Didnât this guy also recently claim China was a bigger cyber threat than Russia? Something about hacking a bunch of files recently?
[quote]âChina took over a million records, sensitive data of people like me who had worked in the government at any time,â Spicer said. âNot one thing happened.â
âThere is a question about whether thereâs a political retribution here, versus a diplomatic response,â he added.[/quote]I see he also fails to mention Russia hacking into millions of federal employee records in 2015 too, unless he is trying to claim China hacked the US recently or something.
That would be amazing up until the point the crowd cheered for it.
This is fine.
If you hold a secret vote during a secret meeting on a national holiday to remove the power of an independent ethics watchdog, and youâre cheered by actual Nazis, can you in any way still think youâre the good guys?
When youâve defined âgoodâ as âpower to my own in-groupâ and âremoval/denial of power to the out-groupâ.
I understand that the GOP is drunk on power and eager to destroy, but Iâd think there would be a tiny inkling of âHey, pretty much everything weâre doing right now makes us look cartoonishly evil to the public and nakedly awful, maybe we shouldnât make the FIRST thing we do in 2017 be something the bad guys do in a comic book movie.â
Iâm too sleepy to dig it up right now, but Iâm just remembering that political cartoon going around that basically said that Mike Pence looks like someone getting ready to pass an anti-mutant law, and the next panel is a scarily similar-looking character from the X-Men comics pointing at Nightcrawler, calling him inhuman.
âAre we the baddies?â springs to mind:
