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TRUMP WARNS CROOKED HILLARY: “Look at What She is Getting Away With, But Let’s See if She Gets Away With It” (VIDEO)
Trump threatens DOJ, FBI to 'start doing their job' or he'll 'get involved' during Indiana rally
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...r-hell-get-involved-during-indiana-rally.html
TRUMP WARNS CROOKED HILLARY: “Look at What She is Getting Away With, But Let’s See if She Gets Away With It” (VIDEO)
Trump threatens DOJ, FBI to 'start doing their job' or he'll 'get involved' during Indiana rally
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...r-hell-get-involved-during-indiana-rally.html
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HUGE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD KILL MUELLER INVESTIGATION: Bruce Ohr Testimony Reveals Massive DOJ Corruption (VIDEO)
DOJ's Bruce Ohr kept Mueller deputy 'in the loop' about anti-Trump dossier, sources say
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...oop-about-anti-trump-dossier-sources-say.html
DOJ's Bruce Ohr kept Mueller deputy 'in the loop' about anti-Trump dossier, sources say
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...oop-about-anti-trump-dossier-sources-say.html
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Leave it to EJ to bring assholes into the conversation....he just can't get his head out of his work.
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cool ..... now you can get bitchslapped on whole different thread.
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https://www.msnbc.com/brian-william...olved-at-the-justice-department-1310319683537
Breaking news
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Breaking news
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is english your second language.?...wtf does ..".You like the slap the bitch" mean...try again.
so explain to me wtf does .."You like the slap the bitch".....is it some pidgen english jibberish slang from the phillipines...
good luck with that.
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"The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.
For a second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times federal employees told citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn’t find a single page of files that were requested."
Man accused of grabbing ‘MAGA’ cap, throwing drink in teen’s face indicted
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/l...ed-of-grabbing-MAGA-cap-throwing-13193988.php
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/l...ed-of-grabbing-MAGA-cap-throwing-13193988.php
https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/mccain-casket-arrives-at-joint-base-andrews-1310198339964
John is a fucking hero
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John is a fucking hero
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The argument—that it's bad that Google leads people to find democratic news organization—is dangerous. What we want is for people to have access to common understandings about what’s happening in the world, and investigative journalism that’s vetted and in many ways credible,” says Safiya Noble, professor at the University of Southern California and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. "We certainly want people to have access to multiple news outlets, and search engines often do lead us to multiple voices. It’s just the more powerful voices are often on the first page.”
Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out.
Again, it depends on how you define the terms. But this sentence features at least two levels of absurdity. The conceptual problem with Trump’s tweets is the idea that an algorithm is only fair if it returns an equally balanced number of stories favoring one side versus the other,” says Nyhan. “Take that to its logical extreme: Imagine if you searched for ‘does gravity exist,’ and Google had to return half of the search results saying ‘actually it doesn’t.’ It’s a preposterous notion, but that’s the implication of the president’s claim here.”
The idea that Google and other platforms have shut out conservative voices is also broadly incorrect. “What we have found over and over again, for a long time, is that the most conservative and racist and misogynist voices are deeply skilled in optimizing content, and have had more than their fair share of control and representation in search. In fact, it was that phenomenon that led to President Trump getting elected,” adds Noble. “The ways in which right-wing organizations have been able to manipulate Google and Facebook have actually worked in Donald Trump’s favor."
Illegal?
Algorithms can indeed be found to be in violation of the law, according to Salome Viljoen, a privacy fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. But that's not what's happening here. If Google’s algorithms did in some way infringe on free speech, that would only be legally problematic if Google were the US government. “You have no constitutionally protected free-speech right on Google. It’s a private platform,” says Viljoen. Similarly, Google would be in legal trouble if its search algorithm were discriminating against a constitutionally protected class, but the 14th Amendment does not cover political conservatives. Lastly, algorithmic bias could be illegal if it somehow caused someone to, say, be turned down for a loan application, notes Viljoen. But since with news results there’s no information being sold to third parties—for example, banks, to continue the hypothetical—that concern doesn't apply.
So, to answer Trump's question in one word: No.
96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous.
See above. The 96 percent number comes from the PJ Media story, which defines “National Left-Wing Media” as anything mainstream. Yet a study following the 2016 election actually found the candidate who most benefited from mainstream media bias was Trump, since coverage of Hillary Clinton was found to be overwhelmingly negative, and mainstream outlets paid comparatively little attention to Bernie Sanders.
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Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out.
Again, it depends on how you define the terms. But this sentence features at least two levels of absurdity. The conceptual problem with Trump’s tweets is the idea that an algorithm is only fair if it returns an equally balanced number of stories favoring one side versus the other,” says Nyhan. “Take that to its logical extreme: Imagine if you searched for ‘does gravity exist,’ and Google had to return half of the search results saying ‘actually it doesn’t.’ It’s a preposterous notion, but that’s the implication of the president’s claim here.”
The idea that Google and other platforms have shut out conservative voices is also broadly incorrect. “What we have found over and over again, for a long time, is that the most conservative and racist and misogynist voices are deeply skilled in optimizing content, and have had more than their fair share of control and representation in search. In fact, it was that phenomenon that led to President Trump getting elected,” adds Noble. “The ways in which right-wing organizations have been able to manipulate Google and Facebook have actually worked in Donald Trump’s favor."
Illegal?
Algorithms can indeed be found to be in violation of the law, according to Salome Viljoen, a privacy fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. But that's not what's happening here. If Google’s algorithms did in some way infringe on free speech, that would only be legally problematic if Google were the US government. “You have no constitutionally protected free-speech right on Google. It’s a private platform,” says Viljoen. Similarly, Google would be in legal trouble if its search algorithm were discriminating against a constitutionally protected class, but the 14th Amendment does not cover political conservatives. Lastly, algorithmic bias could be illegal if it somehow caused someone to, say, be turned down for a loan application, notes Viljoen. But since with news results there’s no information being sold to third parties—for example, banks, to continue the hypothetical—that concern doesn't apply.
So, to answer Trump's question in one word: No.
96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous.
See above. The 96 percent number comes from the PJ Media story, which defines “National Left-Wing Media” as anything mainstream. Yet a study following the 2016 election actually found the candidate who most benefited from mainstream media bias was Trump, since coverage of Hillary Clinton was found to be overwhelmingly negative, and mainstream outlets paid comparatively little attention to Bernie Sanders.
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Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good.
This is a new spin on the argument that Twitter was biased against conservatives because it banned several accounts for abusive behavior. It’s the behavior part that matters. Or in this case, it’s the thousands of signals that Google uses to determine which sites rise to the top of the rankings.
“When it comes to a regular Google search, people still might not realize what that represents,” says Lewis. “There’s preferential attachment for sites that have been around a long time. Sites that have more incoming links are seen as having higher authority. There are certain terms over time where you develop that Google juice, that gives you more salience in the rankings. The same factors that go into Google search go into Google News.”
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This is a new spin on the argument that Twitter was biased against conservatives because it banned several accounts for abusive behavior. It’s the behavior part that matters. Or in this case, it’s the thousands of signals that Google uses to determine which sites rise to the top of the rankings.
“When it comes to a regular Google search, people still might not realize what that represents,” says Lewis. “There’s preferential attachment for sites that have been around a long time. Sites that have more incoming links are seen as having higher authority. There are certain terms over time where you develop that Google juice, that gives you more salience in the rankings. The same factors that go into Google search go into Google News.”
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They are controlling what we can & cannot see.
It’s true! Google does control what people see, in a way that deeply impacts society—especially marginalized voices. "Google search results work in favor of people in power, quite frankly," says Noble. "What you are more likely to see are vulnerable communities, racial and ethnic minorities, women and girls, and so forth, who are often much less likely to have influence over the algorithm or over search-engine optimization strategies and so forth in a major search engine like Google."
By appropriating this argument to his own ends, Trump also shifts attention from the very real conversations that should happen around algorithms, corporate responsibility, and representation.
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It’s true! Google does control what people see, in a way that deeply impacts society—especially marginalized voices. "Google search results work in favor of people in power, quite frankly," says Noble. "What you are more likely to see are vulnerable communities, racial and ethnic minorities, women and girls, and so forth, who are often much less likely to have influence over the algorithm or over search-engine optimization strategies and so forth in a major search engine like Google."
By appropriating this argument to his own ends, Trump also shifts attention from the very real conversations that should happen around algorithms, corporate responsibility, and representation.
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There are very many real concerns about the influence these companies wield. What's disappointing about Trump's argument is that it forces people who want to defend freedom of the press into a defense of the platforms, which deserve a lot of scrutiny. They do exert a disproportionate influence over the information people see," says Nyhan. "The danger, though, is that they will be bullied into political submission" by Trump and other aggrieved conservatives.
That could take troubling forms; look no further than Facebook cowing to conservative pressure and abandoning oversight of Trending Topics, which let unvetted stories run rampant on the platform leading up to the 2016 election. Google News today shows everyone the same stories, projecting a ground-level truth. The alternative: deeply entrenched echo chambers, the kind that have turned so much of the internet toxic.
This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
It’s not clear what sort of regulation Trump has in mind here. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday that the administration was “taking a look” at the possibility—but even the threat has serious implications.
"We should take seriously when political leaders threaten speech and media coverage they don’t like," says UMich's Nyhan. "We should worry about not just formal mechanisms of power but informal ones, political leaders bullying companies into their skewing search results or their coverage because of the threat that they'll be attacked by political leaders, or subject to regulation or other types of scrutiny.”
Facebook failed that test in 2016. Now it's Google's turn. But with its algorithm locked in a black box, and an opponent who views any media left of Breitbart with suspicion, it's going to be an unwinnable fight.
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That could take troubling forms; look no further than Facebook cowing to conservative pressure and abandoning oversight of Trending Topics, which let unvetted stories run rampant on the platform leading up to the 2016 election. Google News today shows everyone the same stories, projecting a ground-level truth. The alternative: deeply entrenched echo chambers, the kind that have turned so much of the internet toxic.
This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
It’s not clear what sort of regulation Trump has in mind here. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday that the administration was “taking a look” at the possibility—but even the threat has serious implications.
"We should take seriously when political leaders threaten speech and media coverage they don’t like," says UMich's Nyhan. "We should worry about not just formal mechanisms of power but informal ones, political leaders bullying companies into their skewing search results or their coverage because of the threat that they'll be attacked by political leaders, or subject to regulation or other types of scrutiny.”
Facebook failed that test in 2016. Now it's Google's turn. But with its algorithm locked in a black box, and an opponent who views any media left of Breitbart with suspicion, it's going to be an unwinnable fight.
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The reality of the media landscape today is unfair to satirists and science fiction writers. How can they possibly keep up? Vice's "Adventures in North Korea," one of the most heartless acts of pure sensationalism ever recorded, is straight out of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, only slightly more bizarre. And on Sunday, NBC premieres All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, a species of entertainment out of dystopia. A bunch of has-been celebrities with personality disorders and carved-up faces compete in fundraising games all in the name of charity or keeping their careers alive or something. Lil Jon is the most sensible and level-headed person present — that's how bad things are. Gary Busey is the most honest, the most memorable, and also the most obviously unstable — watching him feels actually wrong. At the center of the whole farrago is The Donald, the still eye in the hurricane of narcissism and greed, an object of pretty much pure self-satisfaction and contempt.
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Why do I hate Donald Trump so much? Why do we all hate Donald Trump so much? The most obvious answer is the sheer magnitude of his narcissism. The opening scene of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice presents the whole cast in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which Donald describes as "a personal favourite." I admit this made me laugh. We can all relax now: Human civilization and its achievements have been approved by Donald. And he wasn't kidding when he made this remark. He honestly feels that it's a score for the Met to win his respect. This is the kind of self-regard necessary to accuse presidents that they aren't American citizens. So Donald Trump is a massive narcissist. We all know that. But as Donald's show demonstrates ably, Trump doesn't have a monopoly on narcissism by a long measure. There is an endless supply of narcissists in show business. Why should I hate Donald for this particular vice more than others? And yet I do. I distinctly do.
Is it the wealth or, rather, his unabashed celebration of his wealth? Possibly. The Donald emanates tasteless expenditure like nobody else. He is the guy who tells you how much his car costs before he tells you how it runs. He's the guy who looks at a Van Gogh and thinks That's worth eighty million dollars. Everything he is and everything he has, from his wives to his clothes, is an empty status symbol. On the other hand, unlike lots of other ostentatious rich people who makes displays of themselves, he is not in any way a criminal. Even Martha Stewart got caught for insider trading, but I don't hate her, even though she too has a media empire based on conspicuous consumption and focused entirely on her personal brand. The Martha appears vastly more human in every way than the Donald.
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Is it the wealth or, rather, his unabashed celebration of his wealth? Possibly. The Donald emanates tasteless expenditure like nobody else. He is the guy who tells you how much his car costs before he tells you how it runs. He's the guy who looks at a Van Gogh and thinks That's worth eighty million dollars. Everything he is and everything he has, from his wives to his clothes, is an empty status symbol. On the other hand, unlike lots of other ostentatious rich people who makes displays of themselves, he is not in any way a criminal. Even Martha Stewart got caught for insider trading, but I don't hate her, even though she too has a media empire based on conspicuous consumption and focused entirely on her personal brand. The Martha appears vastly more human in every way than the Donald.
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So what is it? The obliviousness? Even Piers Morgan, the guy who sits in the boardroom with him during All-Star Celebrity Apprentice and who is widely despised in his own country, does not provoke anywhere near the same animosity, and he was editor of News of the World. By all rights, he should be much more despicable. Despite Trump's complete self-obsession and the fact that he is obsessed with how people regard him, he seems to have no idea what he looks like. In general, I don't like to judge people on what they wear. Or rather I judge their intelligence and their taste based on their clothes, but not their moral state. And yet the fact that Trump cannot get a collar that fits his neck upsets me. A man who has a tailor but won't listen to him is truly contemptible.
Really, it all comes down to his hair. The hair asks the fundamental question of the man: Who does he think he's fooling? He can't possibly think he's getting away with this, can he?
And here I think is the true source of why Donald is so intensely hateable, why he is the only person on Twitter everyone is allowed to swear at. It's not the narcissism, the shallowness, the stupidity, or the obliviousness. It's that he's getting away with it, that his style works. All the intelligence and humor of Spy magazine couldn't budge him, and if Spy couldn't, who can? He is proof of the fact that the world, as it is currently constructed, is a wonderful place for obliviously shallow narcissists. Donald didn't make that world. He just inhabits it. But he is its perfect icon, and that is definitely a good enough reason for hate.
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Really, it all comes down to his hair. The hair asks the fundamental question of the man: Who does he think he's fooling? He can't possibly think he's getting away with this, can he?
And here I think is the true source of why Donald is so intensely hateable, why he is the only person on Twitter everyone is allowed to swear at. It's not the narcissism, the shallowness, the stupidity, or the obliviousness. It's that he's getting away with it, that his style works. All the intelligence and humor of Spy magazine couldn't budge him, and if Spy couldn't, who can? He is proof of the fact that the world, as it is currently constructed, is a wonderful place for obliviously shallow narcissists. Donald didn't make that world. He just inhabits it. But he is its perfect icon, and that is definitely a good enough reason for hate.
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You are certainly copy/pasting enough painful verbal diarrhea all over the place to get the job done & prove to every one Pulse's assertion your reputation for wading hip deep in shit at the hospital is well earned. I know they say you get used to it, but I never realized you could actually fail to even smell what you a shoveling so much of.
I got news for you, that ain't Belgian Chocolate no matter how much that rag you are reading tries to convince you it is and you really do need to stop eating it EJ (It just can't be at all good for you) and use that rag to wipe your ass.
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You are certainly copy/pasting enough painful verbal diarrhea all over the place to get the job done & prove to every one Pulse's assertion your reputation for wading hip deep in shit at the hospital is well earned. I know they say you get used to it, but I never realized you could actually fail to even smell what you a shoveling so much of.
I got news for you, that ain't Belgian Chocolate no matter how much that rag you are reading tries to convince you it is and you really do need to stop eating it EJ (It just can't be at all good for you) and use that rag to wipe your ass.
Yeah from google!
Same as your alien bullshit
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Kino should’ve dragged that stupid spoiled mofoker home and burn that stupid hat in front of his daddy and mommy!
It’s 2am/stupid
He’s 16/minor
Wears a red hat/MOFOKER
Irresponsible parents! !
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Apparently it was NOT the Titanic that sank, but its sister ship, the Olympic. Supposedly the Olympic had been damaged in a collision, and there was evidence to prove that the owners had switched the two ships, and then sunk the “Titanic” (aka the already-damaged Olympic) for insurance money. HOLY SHIT.
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Some people believe Willy Wonka was actually a serial killer, murdering all of the kids on the tour one by one. This theory also says Wonka led Charlie to kill himself through the insanity of knowing that the murders had taken place without him knowing, and that's why they fly away at the end. Fucked up, right?
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The Phantom Time Hypothesis says Roman Emperor Otto III liked the idea of ruling during the year 1000 — even though that wasn't the date when he was in power. Did he forge documents to change the year? Were the Early Middle Ages totally made up? WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
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This theory's called the Mandela Effect, because of this example: When Nelson Mandela was in jail, people remember him dying. Then, when he was released from jail, people were confused because they had remembered his death and the details so vividly.
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British ufologist Max Spiers was closing in on details about UFOs earlier this year when he was suddenly found dead on a couch in Poland. Doctors said he died of natural causes, but his mom worries that someone wanted him gone, because he sent her a text the week before that said, "If anything happens to me, investigate."
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CIA historian recently revealed that the government knew more about the assassination than originally stated — including the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald spent quite a bit of time with some well-connected higher-ups. This pretty much says that if he was in fact guilty, he probably wasn't working alone.
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