While the Mound has been giving comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge Analytica assault on democracy, I am taking this opportunity to supplement his work with the following. I hope it sheds further light on the ongoing subversion of politics and citizens' rights, all for the sake of facilitating victory for those who have no goal other than to attain power for its own sake.
Fittingly, for Facebook's pivotal role in this monstrous scheme, its shares lost 7% of their value for a whopping market value loss of $40 billion.
An importaant clip, Lorne. The big takeaway; "It's useless to fight political campaigns on the facts. It's all about emotion."
ReplyDeleteThat was precisely the line that struck me as well, Owen.
Delete.. welcome to the era of disasterous
ReplyDeletepolitically dazed, confused & lazy dirtbag media
and scumbag political animals scampering about
Its like rats in the granary have a deal with the barn cats
to look the other way
The surviving exemplars in politics or media
are a threatened species
Anyone with a functioning brain
knew Steve Bannon was toxic & radioactive
But he was embraced by the thug Donald Trump
Bannon was awarded top secret access
and bet the farm he crawled quickly through
the kind of files and info he could play with/share
Yes.. I did write 'share'
The entire story breaking here is mind blowing
The UK has seized the servers of Cam/Anal
Why Canada has not, or the USA is a huge question
Hardly, 'scandal' .. this seems more like treason
Robert Mueller has just been served turkey on a plate
but then he probably had that turkey in the bag already
just by following the money trail
Just imagine Mueller 'flipping' those scumbags !
The noose tightens daily, Sal. The question becomes whether there are enough surviving political exemplars left in the Republican Party to make a difference when the rest back Trump, no matter what.
Delete.. the GOP 'Brand'
Deleteis now the Trump 'Brand'
My bet is most of the GOP herd
survive the resignation of Donald Trump
You are probably right, Sal. Trump is just the visible sign of a much deeper tumour that has metastasized in the body politic.
DeleteSal has an important point. Why have Canadian authorities not impounded AggregateIQ? It was known as far back as last April that AIQ was being used as a repository of CA's data, presumably to keep it out of reach of British and American investigators. I'd have thought they would have rolled up AIQ long ago and yet it was in operation for BC's Liberal Party leadership race and is said to be courting the
DeleteBCLP for the next provincial elections.
Kushner brought CA on board? Interesting. I wonder if Lewandowski got there first. We know that Mercer brought Bannon and Kelly Anne Conway into Trump's campaign shop.
ReplyDeleteYou have to love the hubris. These people - CA, Mercer, Bannon, Lewandowski, Manafort, Flynn, Trump and his kids (Don. Jr., Kushner) had to have been confident this would never get out.
Wylie's journey is almost as interesting - from a genius high school dropout to Ignatieff's office, bounced on to Obama's data group, then off to the Liberal Dems in London who also turned him down. Then a Lib Dem friend brought him to SCL and the rest is history.
There are so many connections here and they're all high voltage. It's no wonder Trump puts "NO COLLUSION" in every email. Tillerson was right. What a moron. Trump ought to have fired Sessions as soon as he decided to recuse himself and simply weathered the Republican backlash. He thought that he could finesse his way out of it as he had so many other jams before.
Will Trump suddenly succumb to "chest pains" and hand the reins to Pence with a pardon deal in his back pocket. Sure, that would mean throwing everyone else, Don Jr. and Kushner included, to Mueller's wolves but Trump probably would do that to save his own skin.
In a normal world, all of this be enough of a basis for several indictments, Mound. We can only hope that Mueller is connecting all the dots and that there will be enough GOP backbone (probably an oxymoronic phrase) to stand up to Trump if he tries to fire him.
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