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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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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:10PM (15 children)
There's something to that, if I can just articulate it. The DNC really really should have gone with Bernie, on that score alone.
Exactly, I agree 100%. Hillary should have stepped aside for him. I'm not even going to go into the rest of your comment about them, but recent history is clear: the Dems always lose when they nominate someone who has no charisma. Bernie had charisma, and Hillary did not. And Obama's election proved that when you have a popular, charismatic candidate who gets young people to actually show up at the polls, that's a recipe for success. The DNC didn't learn that obvious lesson, and instead decided to knife the campaign of that candidate and go with the highly unpopular, unlikeable, and uncharismatic candidate, and then were shocked, shocked!! when they lost.
(Score: 1) by Sourcery42 on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:20PM (1 child)
Maybe no charisma, but they thought she had Joementum.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:43PM
Oh yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they decided to run "Creepy Uncle Joe" next, Breitbart and the independent media would have a field-day repeatedly showing clips of Creepy Uncle Joe committing public frotteurism against uneasy women and young girls alike.
Don't believe me? Look it up yourself.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:35PM (2 children)
But it was her turn!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sure if you think Bernie could stop the Trump Train, but even if he won he would be murdered once he started his "Socialist Utopia" BS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:32PM
Can we put this guy into a REAL watchlist? Y'know, the kind where you can keep an eye on him and not worry about him moving farther than 10 feet in any direction?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:28PM
A few points about that:
1. Bernie Sanders still has about a 55% approval rating. That's about 15-20% higher than either the Democrats, the Republicans, or Donald Trump. He even has about 1/3 of people who usually vote Republican saying they like him. In his home state, he has an 85% approval rating, which is almost unheard of.
2. Bernie never tried to hide his socialist streak. That doesn't seem to have changed his poll numbers that much. Possibly because when younger people hear the word "socialism" they think "Denmark", not "hide under your desks, the commies are going to nuke us!"
3. The actual policies Bernie is advocating for are not out of line from when the Democrats were actually popular. Compare Bernie's rhetoric to Franklin Roosevelt's rhetoric, and you'll see some common threads.
4. Trump trying to do the "anti-establishment" thing against Bernie Sanders would have backfired. Pictures like this [mintpressnews.com] with the Trumps and Clintons being part of George Carlin's "big club" would have made the rounds.
So unless you're saying someone would have assassinated him, I'm not at all convinced that his chances would have been bad.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:19PM (8 children)
but you are missing the point
the DNC didn't want bernie to win. he was an irritatant that grew attention away from their annoited one who had already made the deals they needed to enrich themselves after she won.
he'd completely ruin everything for them and that wasn't going to happen because trump wasnt going to win anyway and they weren't just going to *hand* it over to bernie!
greed and corruption is a problem in both parties. it wasn't strategic stupidity, that they didn't see he was a winner -- indeed, that was the DNC's primary problem as they saw it. He was a threat, not a solution.
now look at them
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Oakenshield on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:44PM (7 children)
It's all over the news that Donna Brazile just turned traitor on the DNC and outed them for rigging the primaries. Hell, I even read it on Slate. The corruption is so bad that they're now eating each other.
But it's still the Russians that cost Hillary the Presidency. Or was it Comey? Or the Electoral College? Or Breitbart I can't keep it straight.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:09PM (6 children)
Didn't hear about it, made a journal on it. Thanks.
I still don't think Comey reopening and reclosing an investigation days before the election did Clinton any favors. And there was no comparable hack+leak on the RNC side (leaking sends people into a frenzy regardless of the contents).
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:54PM (5 children)
Are you brain damaged or just shilling? October 7 ring any bells? Hint: pussy grab
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:43AM
That isn't even remotely comparable. The Russian collusion (The details of which did not come to light prior to election day) is comparable.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday November 03 2017, @12:43AM (3 children)
That video had nothing to do with the RNC, and it wasn't hacked as far as I know. Learn 2 read. ☪
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday November 03 2017, @01:33AM
Neither was the DNC's mail server. Both were leaks, one from inside NBC News / Access Hollywood and the other from within the DNC.
His name was Seth Rich. Hillary Clinton had him killed, we still do not know who leaked the Billy Bush & Donald Trump video but we can be pretty sure Trump wouldn't have killed whoever did leak it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:40PM (1 child)
Nope, that video was something the Democrats (and NBC) kept in their back pockets to release at a time when it would cause the most damage to Trump, or alternatively when they had some bad news they really wanted to bury. Which is of course why the video was released the same time as Wikileaks published a bunch of Podesta's emails showing what two-faced Clinton was telling her rich donors in private versus what she was telling everyone else in public, a month before election day.
That video was from 2005, and they could have released it anytime. If they released it a year prior it may have well buried Trump right then and one of the other dozen or so Republican candidates would likely be president today. But the whole plan was to rig things so that Clinton would run against a buffoon like Trump, so they could bury him and she'd be elected as the lessor evil. But it backfired, because Clinton was just that terrible. So the moral of the story is that DNC didn't just give us Clinton, they also gave us Trump.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:21PM
It's not uncommon to have a President from another party after 2 terms of Dem or Rep.
Although the loss of Supreme Court picks will be a huge disappointment for Democrats, they couldn't ask for a more dysfunctional and divided Republican party right now. Republicans in Congress can barely agree on anything and they are repeatedly undermined and disparaged by the President.
Democrats would have to pull off a miracle to win the Senate in 2018 since more Democratic seats are up for election than Republican (23 D, 8 R, 2 I). Maybe Trump will be that miracle.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:22PM
It's sad that people see the election as a race to win more power for your side rather than an opportunity to pick the best person to lead the executive branch. Charisma > Skill