Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[tsubaki]

I felt the Bern as much as anyone, and I've read the Wikileaks emails. But Bernie lost by over 3.5 million votes, and didn't win a single state in the South, most of which he lost by ratios of 7 to 3 or even 8 to 2. Conspiracy isn't always the most plausible answer, even if it can be the most reassuring.

The more meaningful step forward for decent people in the US is to organize rather than to blame. How many Bernie supporters can even name their state senators, for example? If we devoted even ten percent as much effort to raising awareness and mobilizing for local campaigns as we do to hailing our latest messiah-who-will-spontaneously-and-single-handedly-redeem-us, we could make a real impact at levels where the Koch brothers dominate primarily because we've abdicated them. The 2010 midterms were at least as influential as 2008, precisely because we didn't bother.

Transforming political trajectories in the US takes years of planning and concerted effort, as the Republicans continue to demonstrate. And this, rather than whinging and scapegoating our way back to the sidelines for another four years, is what it will take to improve the Democratic Party.

Hilary lost all of those Southern states anyway, though. One also wonders how much of "her" vote he would have lost if he was the candidate; one would imagine in a Sanders - Trump fight it would not have been that many, and would probably have been far fewer than the votes he would have gained off people who didn't in the end turn out for her.

I would also question your point about the Republican's planning and concerted effort - locally perhaps, but 2016 was demonstrably not what they planned for; all the establishment / money candidates were the first ones up against the wall.

 

[SNova]

Tinkle, tinkle little Tsar
Putin put you where you are.

This Russiaphobia is terrifying.

I'm literally shaking. I feel sick.

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What is it with the Russiaphobia from people?

 

[abelard]

Hilary lost all of those Southern states anyway, though. One also wonders how much of "her" vote he would have lost if he was the candidate; one would imagine in a Sanders - Trump fight it would not have been that many, and would probably have been far fewer than the votes he would have gained off people who didn't in the end turn out for her.

You're shifting the goal posts. I also suspect he would have done better than her head-to-head against Trump, but he lost the primary, by some distance in the end. He only won one of the ten most populous states. Short of Party Elders intervening to impose him as the candidate - exactly what you're condemning the Democrats for apparently doing in her favour - it's entirely academic. But it was an incredibly promising campaign, and the point I'm trying to make is that for it not to just fizzle, Sanders supporters need to see it as the first step, and to start organizing rather than just retreat into whingeing, as per usual.

I would also question your point about the Republican's planning and concerted effort - locally perhaps, but 2016 was demonstrably not what they planned for; all the establishment / money candidates were the first ones up against the wall.

I am talking about local elections. The Republicans control the Senate, and they have attempted to democracy-proof the House and most statehouses. They take local politics far, far more seriously than Democrats do. Presidential elections are almost the only elections Democrats can still win, but that's partly because they are the only elections where Democrats actually turn up. Just look at how many more people vote for the House in Presidential years.

 

[Huyton Layne]

http://gizmodo.com/the-website-of-donald-trumps-top-cyber-security-advisor-1791145791

The Website of Donald Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Is Insecure as Hell
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On Thursday, Donald Trump’s transition team announced that Rudy Giuliani would be forming a cybersecurity team for the President-elect, citing the former New York City mayor’s 16 years of experience “providing security solutions in the private sector.” In all those years, however, it appears that Giuliani never checked the defenses of his own company’s website, giulianisecurity.com, which is a bona fide security nightmare.


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Noted Tech Genius Rudy Giuliani to Form Trump's Cybersecurity Team
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As detailed by Phobos Group founder Dan Tentlerand others, the website for Giuliani Security & Safety is an all around disaster that runs on an ancient version of Joomla!, a free to use content management system (CMS). In the almost four years since the version that Giuliani’s site uses was released, more than a dozen vulnerabilities have been documented in the CMS.

That, unfortunately, isn’t even the worst of it. The site fails to follow a number of other basic best practices that would be obvious to the most casual student of cyber security. Among other things, both the CMS’ login page and the server’s remote login system are public, making it far easier for an attacker to access them. It also uses an outdated version of the script language PHP, exposing the site to vulnerabilities that have gone unfixed in the months since that release was last supported.

A cached version of the site (which is currently down).
But you don’t need to try to hack the site to see how it fails the smell test: Just visiting shows how poorly set up it is. As it uses an expired SSL certificate, visitors cannot be certain the identity of Giuliani’s site is valid and can be trusted. And because it doesn’t force users to use the secure HTTPS protocol, communication is insecure by default. Good luck going to the site right now, though: the page is currently down.

Also, it uses [Poor language removed] Adobe Flash, a well-known (if ubiquitous) security disaster.

Of course, it’s unlikely that Giuliani (who has, at best, a mostly profit-oriented understanding of cyber security) built the site himself. But it hardly inspires confidence in the man charged with organizing a team to “help the government plan to make us more secure.”


Rudy Giuliani Will Be a Disaster
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“Our [cyber] offense is way ahead of our defense,” Giuliani told reporters during a conference call on Thursday. “We’ve let our defense fall behind.” Starting, it seems, with his very own security firm.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Trump is at war with the intelligence agencies and the media. In other words, the establishment.

Will that hurt him or help in terms of public opinion?

Both; his core (rational) support is small govt/anti-establishment, and they'll like this, but in general that's a bad idea and it will probably hurt him. The core federal programs are too insular, as is modern American media, stuck in more or less DC and NYC, but for their insularity and insensitivity, they're not necessarily wrong.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I'm honestly more interested in what he does in office in terms of our economic growth, debt reduction, immigration and healthcare reform. I also think he needs to work from day one to build a better consensus with our allies in terms of fighting terrorism. We'll see how his first 100 days goes but so far? I'm encouraged (please don't translate that to mean I think he won't make any mistakes or won't get anything wrong. He most certainly will. Every president does.)

Will be interested to see CBO estimates; not optimistic yet.

 

[Clint Planet]

Soon to be the actual, real, President of the United States of America

Yeah, but at least he isn't black.

 

[SerenityNigh]

An early contender for the most spot on article of 2017:

Fair points, but the rhetoric suggests the author makes assumptions on the scale of which for which he denounces the elite liberals

 

[Clint Planet]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/joe-biden-presidential-medal-freedom.html?_r=0

Farewell to a couple of swells.

 

[SerenityNigh]

On the funny side of this gawd-awful mess...

"Nevin Martell says that pair created a burger covered with cheese, loads of yellow mustard and a tiny pickle quickly…"

That's yuuuuggggeee!

 

[SerenityNigh]

Pretty much a dead heat. Expressed as temperature, we would use the Kelvin scale for clarity and stay in low numbers.

Slight tweak: while conservative elites often have empathy measured on the scale of single-digit K, liberal elites have assholes measured in microns

 

[SerenityNigh]

And Clinton isn't liberal.

He isn't, but I don't know that I can agree re: Hillary. Maybe she's less liberal than Obama, but she's such a proponent of big government that it's hard for most (at least non-liberals) to discern the difference between leftist and bureaucrat.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Very difficult to define...especially posting on my phone.

I think in simple terms it's:

Liberal = forward thinking
Conservative = backward thinking

Wow, that's fair.

It's probably more appropriate to note that in the recent 10-20 years, liberals and conservatives in the main have lost most of the qualities for which they were once known and commended.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I thought I read somewhere that the vast majority of US job growth came from Texas.....with very little growth in Democratic states........I may be wrong though......

Edit......I think I was wrong.....

Lots of job growth in Texas and other "right to work" (i.e., non-union) states. Very poor long term industrial job prospects in the Mid-west and most states with high labor union support.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Has he actually detailed through policies how he is going to "make America great again".