Trump, the man with a dream of a Wall

[pErvinalia]

Want me to summarise them for you 42?

[Seabass]

[Seabass]

[Tero]

Melania never knew there was a handbook!The trophy wife of the narcissist:
Your Role as a Narcissistic Extension

While the signs of a narcissist are pretty obvious once you know what they are it is more difficult to see the symptom of the narcissistic extension, which is basically the co-dependent in the relationship. This person is the focus of the narcissist’s abuse and, deep down in her spirit, feels that somehow she is to blame for his actions.

If I was prettier…

If I was smarter…

If I was sexier…

If I was thinner…

If I was more talented…

You see, the narcissist suffers from delusions of a sort, assuming things that aren’t true, but the narcissistic extension also believes things that aren’t true. The difference is that they both believe that it is the narcissistic extension’s fault no matter what “it” is. She will carry the blame for everything from the loss of his job to his latest affair and everything in between.
https://www.firstwivesworld.com/index.p ... -extension

[Tero]

Bolton to drain more of the swamp into White House
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3894294

[Tero]

Trump hired a hawk:
http://www.moonofalabama.org
Because: impeachment/distraction

[Scot Dutchy]

Yep. Deflection is the name of the game on both sides of the pond.

[Brian Peacock]

Bolton: "Many of you will die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay."

[Scot Dutchy]

Nobody wants to get tarred with his brush:

Trump's new lawyers won't join his legal team after all

The two new lawyers hired by President Trump represent him in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election will not be joining the team.

Who would blame them.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump is a player - he doesn't need lawyers. A stable genius of his calibre could break Mueller with a single put down.

[Joe]

He'd be his own perfect client.

[Tero]

We’ll have fun reading his tweets while being grilled. My best guess:
”No collusion!”

[Brian Peacock]

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• "Like all strong men, what he feared most was his own weakness. He feared it more than ignominy, and perhaps more than death itself, for it was only by the absence of all weakness in himself that the true worth of his life could be totalled in the black."
  • -- Thomas Hardy, The Duke's Reappearance, 1913

[Seabass]

Leaked: Cambridge Analytica's blueprint for Trump victory

Exclusive: Former employee explains how presentation showed techniques used to target voters

The blueprint for how Cambridge Analytica claimed to have won the White House for Donald Trump by using Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube is revealed for the first time in an internal company document obtained by the Guardian.

The 27-page presentation was produced by the Cambridge Analytica officials who worked most closely on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

A former employee explained to the Guardian how it details the techniques used by the Trump campaign to micro-target US voters with carefully tailored messages about the Republican nominee across digital channels.

Intensive survey research, data modelling and performance-optimising algorithms were used to target 10,000 different ads to different audiences in the months leading up to the election. The ads were viewed billions of times, according to the presentation.

The document was presented to Cambridge Analytica employees in London, New York and Washington DC weeks after Trump’s victory, providing an insight into how the controversial firm helped pull off one of the most dramatic political upsets in modern history.

“This is the debrief of the data-driven digital campaign that was employed for Mr Trump,” said Brittany Kaiser, 30, who was Cambridge Analytica’s business development director until two weeks ago, when she left over a contractual dispute.

She is the second former employee to come forward in less than a week, talking exclusively to the Guardian about the inner workings of the firm, including the work she said it conducted on the UK’s EU membership referendum.

She said she had access to a copy of the same document now obtained by the Guardian, and had used it to showcase the campaign’s secret methods to potential clients of Cambridge Analytica.

“There was a huge demand internally for people to see how we did it,” Kaiser said of the 2016 race. “Everyone wanted to know: past clients, future clients. The whole world wanted to see it. This is what we were allowed to confidentially show people if they signed a non-disclosure agreement.”

full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... mp-victory

[Seabass]

WaPo: Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns

LONDON — Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to ­Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections.

The assignments came amid efforts to present the newly created company as “an American brand” that would appeal to U.S. political clients even though its parent, SCL Group, was based in London, according to former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie.

Wylie, who emerged this month as a whistleblower, provided The Washington Post with documents that describe a program across several U.S. states to win campaigns for Republicans using psychological profiling to reach voters with individually tailored messages. The documents include previously unreported details about the program, which was called “Project Ripon” for the Wisconsin town where the Republican Party was born in 1854.

U.S. election regulations say foreign nationals must not “directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process” of a political campaign, although they can play lesser roles.

Those restrictions were explained in a 10-page memo prepared in July 2014 by a New York attorney, Laurence Levy, for Cambridge Analytica’s leadership at the time, including President Rebekah Mercer, Vice President Stephen K. Bannon and chief executive Alexander Nix. The memo said that foreign nationals could serve in minor roles — for example as “functionaries” handling data — but could not involve themselves in significant campaign decisions or provide high-level analysis or strategy.

Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group were overwhelmingly staffed by non-U.S. citizens — mainly Canadians, Britons and other Europeans — at least 20 of whom fanned out across the United States in 2014 to work on congressional and legislative campaigns, the three former Cambridge workers said.

Many of those employees and contractors were involved in helping to decide what voters to target with political messages and what messages to deliver to them, the former workers said. Their tasks ran the gamut of campaign work, including “managing media relations” as well as fundraising, planning events, and providing “communications strategy” and “talking points, speeches [and] debate prep,” according to a document touting the firm’s 2014 work.

“Its dirty little secret was that there was no one American involved in it, that it was a de facto foreign agent, working on an American election,” Wylie said.

Two other former Cambridge Analytica workers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear that they may have violated U.S. law in their campaign work, said concerns about the legality of Cambridge Analytica’s work in the United States were a regular subject of employee conversations at the company, especially after the 2014 vote.

The two former workers, who, like Wylie, were interviewed in London, said employees worried the company was giving its foreign employees potentially inaccurate immigration documents to provide upon entering the United States, showing that they were not there to work when they had arrived for the purpose of advising campaigns.

“We knew that everything was not above board, but we weren’t too concerned about it,” said one of the former Cambridge Analytica workers, who spent several months in the United States working on Republican campaigns. “It was the Wild West. That’s certainly how they carried on in 2014.”

full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html