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The Democratic National Committee is hiring IT people for these positions:
- Chief Security Officer
- Data Science Lead
- Full-stack Engineer
- IT Help Desk Manager
- IT Systems Administrator
- Product Designer
- Product Director
- Product Manager
The Daily Wire, a conservative blog, posted an e-mail purportedly from Madeleine Leader, the DNC's Data Services Manager, showing her announcing the openings and writing
I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight while males, since they're already in the majority.
The Daily Wire blogger posted a different screenshot of the e-mail on Twitter.
Also at The Hill
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:47PM (48 children)
Pretty sure Stein offered him her Green ticket with her as VP to compete, but instead he threw his supporters under the bus and told them to vote Hillary.
The bigger issue though is nobody willing to sacrifice 4 years of a shitty president in order to get a party up to the 5-10 percent for federal campaign funds and so they can push them into the national debates.
If that happened with 2-3 new parties getting on the ticket, we could finally have some real competition for the while house, although we'd need to knock off the electoral college and move to a wholly popular vote to have an real change (and unless we wanted a tyranny of the largest minority, a more to a non-FPTP voting system, so a candidate needed at least 51 percent of the TOTAL popular vote to win, not just a majority of votes over the other candidates. Not enough votes? Hold another election.)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:50PM (27 children)
I don't know about "willing", but if Trump's presidency doesn't change voting patterns at least somewhat, it's completely hopeless. That man is a bloody disaster.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:40PM (20 children)
I like him more than I did when I voted for him. I didn't really believe he'd take his campaign promises so seriously. Sure, I can gripe:
* I don't like the situation with the FCC and net neutrality.
* She isn't locked up yet. Neither is Obama.
* There are still Muslims sneaking into our country. The numbers are reduced, but they need to be negative. We need action that will ultimately reduce the infestation to zero.
* The DACA people are still here, mostly.
* I'm really impatient about the wall. At least we have prototypes and a budget. I'm not satisfied with anything less imposing than the Korean DMZ.
Thing is though, Hillary would have done better on at most 1 of those. We're making progress. You could even say we have hope and change, finally fulfilling Obama's empty promise.
You're out of touch with mainstream America if you don't feel the love for President Trump. Probably you hate America. If I could physically do it, I'd have a huge silly grin 24x7. President Trump has done so many wonderful things for our country.
(Score: 3, Touché) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:46PM
Oh really, you don't think Hillary would have done better than Trump at fulfilling Trump's campaign promises? Shock!
That one she would've done is jailing herself, right?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:46PM (17 children)
How much is Russia paying you to post this drivel? Just asking.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:20PM (1 child)
Not as much as Correct the Record or Share Blue is paying you.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday November 03 2017, @09:54AM
Am I the only one here who isn't a psychic?
The existence of genuine Trump fans is not some fiction propagated by RT.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:22PM (14 children)
I got paid a half million less than the $500,000 which Bill Clinton got from Russians as a "speaking fee" (bribe) while Hillary Clinton was our secretary of state.
Outside your bubble, there were Trump signs everywhere and giant rallies. Yes, really, a large part of America loves President Trump. The vast majority of the counties voted for him. If you aren't seeing that, you aren't seeing America. We love our president, and you should too. (an exception: feel free to hate him if you are not a citizen)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:13PM (3 children)
Translation: Trump won the rural vote.
Why?
I didn't love Obama, Bush, or Clinton. Do you have a politician fetish?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:28PM
That's what all good little fascists do right?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:44PM (1 child)
Take a big drive. Loop around the country by car, avoiding interstates and the stuff within a couple dozen miles of the coast. America is rural.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:12PM
Translation: When planning a road trip through rural parts of the country, avoid population dense areas.
This is getting pretty funny. I don't even know what point you're trying to make besides finding different ways to describe rural areas.
What's next, "randomly throw a dart at the map of the US - it will most likely land in a rural area"?
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:28PM (9 children)
I got paid a half million less than the $500,000 which Bill Clinton got from Russians as a "speaking fee" (bribe) while Hillary Clinton was our secretary of state.
Donald Trump Jr. is getting $100,000 for university speech sponsored by GOP donor’s company [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:43PM (8 children)
That isn't even remotely similar aside from being a paid speech.
There is a group that sponsors events to fund National Merit Scholarships for UNT students. It's funded by various corporations, probably as a mix of good PR, trying to win favor with employable students, and CEOs having a personal desire to help the university. Being in Texas, obviously the companies and the speakers and the students are all generally conservative Americans.
There is a legit purpose here, that being the scholarships. There isn't a foreign connection. There isn't even really a business connection; all you have is that companies which donate to the GOP also happen to donate for National Merit Scholarships at a school in Texas.
This is yet another nothingburger.
Bill Clinton on the other hand, didn't have any good purpose for giving a speech in Russia. It's hard to imagine any non-corrupt reason that Russians would pay him.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:55PM (7 children)
That isn't even remotely similar....
You're right, they're very dissimilar.
Bill Clinton's $500k Russia speech is an unproven allegation. [snopes.com]
Whereas my Trump Jr article includes the actual contract.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:27PM (2 children)
I'm at a loss, did I miss a news article about Trump giving that company our nuclear stockpile for pennies on the dollar?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:46PM (1 child)
Deflections work better when the topic you're deflecting to actually happened.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday November 03 2017, @04:39AM
I am at a loss as to what "didn't happen"
Selling the Russian's Uranium? Or the Clintons receiving money from several people closely associated with Uranium One and Bill receiving speaking fees?
Both happened. The best you can claim is that it was just coincidence. It all comes down to whether you think a woman who lied at being shot at in Kosovo, has promised on tape her funders different things than her voters, and was fired from her first law job for lying, is telling the truth about receiving a ton of money from Uranium One associates and then helping lubricate the wheels in getting a transfer approved.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:31PM (3 children)
Bill Clinton's $500k Russia speech is proven. The only thing unproven is pay-for-play, but... why exactly would Russians desire so strongly to hear Bill Clinton speak?
We have pictures of Bill Clinton in Russia for the speech:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/24/pictures-of-bill-clinton-giving-a-500k-speech-in-moscow/ [breitbart.com]
Got irrational hatred for Breitbart? Fine, you can "fact check" on ever-liberal politifact then:
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/26/peter-schweizer/fact-checking-clinton-cash-author-claim-about-bill/ [politifact.com]
Fuck, that is a dozen foreign countries while his wife was secretary of state.
Trump Jr gave a speech in Texas. You might not have realized it, but Texas is within the United States of America. It's not foreign.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:27PM (1 child)
He was exporting "speech" (aka hot air) and bringing good money in USA, what's wrong with that?
That's still a job you won't see taken by robots any time soon, in fact I would suggest you open an university course for that.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @06:16AM
I think Tay could replace Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopoulos and Ricky Vaughn. I think Tay could have been elected President, if Microsoft hadn't shut her down.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @03:20AM
I see you don't know many Texans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:30PM
I'm trying to figure if this is Poe's law or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:33PM (5 children)
I love him, unlike the disaster of do-nothing Obama.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:49PM (4 children)
If Obama was a "do-nothing" why is Trump spending so much time, and having so much trouble, undoing what Obama did?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:43PM (2 children)
Obama did stuff. He just didn't do much that was good for America.
One of the really painful things for me is knowing that Obama got reelected. The other is knowing that Hillary got a non-zero number of votes. These are the votes of people who despise America, Americans, and American values. Such people are not deserving of the country they infest.
If you aren't on board with curing the sickness that ails America, you should leave. Move to Mexico, Greece, Cuba, Venezuela, or Sweden. Give up your US citizenship.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:34PM
You first, you fascist scumbag who hates the real America!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @01:26PM
May I go to Germany, where my ancestors came from, instead? Sweden sounds like a swell country, and I'd gladly go there. It's just that I speak German, not Swedish.
Germany's already experienced this nationalism thing and grew up. I'm not excited about being in the USA as it goes through the same thing.
Also I would like to live somewhere where getting around on bikes is something that isn't just for children. My host family on the exchange trip I took there way back in high school used bikes, walking, or bus for everything unless they were leaving town.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @09:29AM
Starting out by re-opening Guantanamo?
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:56PM (18 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact [wikipedia.org]
It's a nice sentiment, but um...you're aware this is how the Nazis came to power, yes? They were the plurality party (33%) but nobody wanted to make a coalition with them so they kept holding votes without getting anywhere. Then they just sort of said "fuck it" and declared themselves in charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_November_1932 [wikipedia.org]
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:23PM (5 children)
That sounds great in theory, but why would over-represented states like Wyoming and Rhode Island ever agree to that?
There have also been numerous efforts to have a single national primary day ... which Iowa and New Hampshire will never ever ever agree to, in part because it's just about the only time anybody who doesn't live there gives a damn about either Iowa or New Hampshire.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:43PM
Oh, they wouldn't. But the thing is, we don't really need them to, since California already joined and they just need 50%+1 electoral votes. Texas, Florida, Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan would get it to exactly the magic number right now.
And actually Rhode Island has already passed it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:21PM (3 children)
I'm from Iowa, and most people here don't like being the first caucus. Additionally, the ones that do are slowly aging out of the human race. Younger people are getting savvy to the fact that politicians show up get votes and then disappear for months, only to show up again because we are a swing state, and then disappear again until the next cycle. Plus, we also know that going early in the primary/caucus system wastes votes. Last cycle had 5 Dems and 17 GOPs on the slate, for goodness sake and many precincts were decided by 1 vote and a relatively large fraction had "nonviable" votes, which are symbolic on their face. No the only ones that want to be first in the state are the state parties, major TV stations and the Register; you really only get dissenting opinion in the media from independent pundits and IPTV political programs, probably because they aren't getting that sweet, corrupting cash.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NewNic on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:49PM
At least they show up. Here in solid blue country (CA), politicians only show up for fund raisers.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:37PM
I'm born and raised in New Hampshire, and I never minded the quadrennial circus coming to town. It boosts business for a lot of restaurants and such, and it gives 'em way more voting power than they really should have.
Also, New Hampshire has a fairly good track record of picking wisely, mostly in who we want to not win:
- In 1992, New Hampshire voted for Paul Tsongas over Bill Clinton, mostly on the grounds that Clinton was a philandering scumbag. We were right.
- In 2000, had the rest of the country listened to New Hampshire, we would have had John McCain in charge in 2001 rather than George W Bush. Say what you will about John McCain, but he's consistently opposed torture (no surprise - he was tortured himself), and might not have been dumb enough to let Al Qaida hijack those planes in the first place.
- In 2016, New Hampshire absolutely had the right idea about Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:12PM
Believe me, I love Iowa! I had a big rally in Cedar Rapids in June. To celebrate Karen Handel's huge victory. Amazing, amazing rally! youtu.be/H4ILRco6CNo [youtu.be] @VP Pence also paid you a visit in June. And I went to Iowa again two weeks ago. I reminded the Heritage Foundation about my commitment to Iowa's wonderful biofuel industry. To keeping the Renewable Fuel Standard exactly as it is, no changes at all. I kept my promise. Carl Icahn hates that! He could make a lot of money if I changed RFS. But Senator Grassley and Senator Ernst, who has a terrific smile, love what I did. Which was nothing at all. #TRUMP2020 🇺🇸
(Score: 3, Touché) by crafoo on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:24PM (7 children)
... and then they turned around the economy, kicked out non-native investment banking ruining their monetary system, and in general, got the place back on track after some grossly abusive agreements with the "winners" of WWI.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:51PM (1 child)
.... and then they turned around the economy, kicked out non-native investment banking ruining their monetary system, and in general, got the place back on track after some grossly abusive agreements with the "winners" of WWI.
And all it took was a smidge of genocide!
Glad you care more about money that being an actual evil human being.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:44AM
The genocides came later
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:43PM (4 children)
So you're literally cheering on the rise of the Nazis. Are you dumb? Trolling? Or actually a neo nazi?
YAY NATIONALISM! /sarcasm
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:46AM (2 children)
He's cheering the economic turnaround of a downtrodden and persecuted nation. Not everything is identity politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @02:15AM
One thing I've been wondering about human sociology and psychology lately is whether such a miraculous recovery is possible without the genocide part.
My hypothesis is that it is not. People define themselves by what they hate. Without a common enemy, people find life lacking in meaning.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:39AM
Thanks. I guess I'm old fashioned. I think civic pride and love for your countrymen is a good thing. So much could be accomplished if we worked together. It feels like there are forces that see that as a danger and constantly slam in wedges to prevent it. I think this latest round of identity politics is this method, fully weaponized. It's quite literately splitting people up based on race/gender/sex/whatever and assigning oppression points. Then pitting them against each other.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 03 2017, @07:25AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:02PM
The problem wasn't requiring 51% or the popular vote to take power, nor was it the lack of interest in forming a coalition. The problem was:
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 03 2017, @01:00AM
What happened is that they were able to game a vote [wikipedia.org] to give Hitler the power to make law. It took teaming up with the Centre Party, and excluding most of the people (all the Communists and some of the Social Democrats) that would vote against the measure - plus some good, old fashion thuggery to intimidate would be fence sitters and procedural shenanigans. Three months later, the Nazi Party was the only legal party in Germany. Hitler was astoundingly good at negotiating with others. He wasn't so good at keeping promises once he got what he wanted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @03:23AM (1 child)
What if one day all the rulers of the world woke up and realized that all they really care about is staying in power and that if they all collude with each other pretending to be at odds, then they can cement their rulership while all of us peons fight and die to subsidize their expensive fun?
What if that happened a long time ago, as evidenced by the fact that Hitler lived to a ripe old age and was partially funded by US banks?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 03 2017, @02:36PM
I wouldn't exactly call 56 "a ripe old age." It was kind of dumb luck he made it that far, considering there were several assassination attempts that almost got him.
Yeah, the current situation sucks too; I'm just saying careful what you wish for. The Weimar Republic sounded like a great idea on paper.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:01PM
Moving to something other than first-past-the-post would be a good move, and could even be done state-by-state rather than have to be done all in one go, making it more likely to actually happen.
Switching to a completely popular vote for President ignores the entire rationale for having a federal system in the first place, though. It's a really stupid idea, and it was a really stupid idea when we switch to it for Senators (and removing that particular check has indeed resulted in a major expansion of federal government over-reach). It is, however, a really popular idea to a certain class of people (not only Democrats by any means) who hate the idea of checks and balances (when it's their ideas being checked) and want to make things as easy for themselves as possible.
The delusion (again shared by both parties) that "this time it's forever" after a win doesn't help matters.