RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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MENSCH WITH SOME NEW HEAT


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Cali Dems who mentioned Facebook last year. Pelosi wasn't one of them.

 

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"I love the poorly educated."

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The big question then becomes: did Cambridge Analytica use the Need for Cognition Scale to prune the RNC list? This is a very seductive hypothesis, as it would explain many facts of this election, among them: the emotional grip Trump had on his electorate, his electorate’s weakness for fake news [4], and Trump’s immunity to any form of fact-checking.[5]

Could this hypothesis be construed as a left-wing conspiracy theory? Maybe, but I have one small but precise piece of evidence. It’s hidden in the video below, can you catch it? [video since removed from YouTube, but available here].

The interesting screenshot is at 0:59.
Supporting evidence, no proof
SkyNews ran a report on Cambridge Analytica a couple weeks before the election. That report includes one shot, at 0:59, that is particularly interesting. [6]

Google Scholar to the rescue!

ENHANCE!!!
Through some online sleuthing, one can figure out that this employee is reading page 24 of the academic paper Method Effects and the Need for Cognition Scale [7]. I am not a psychologist, but I understand this paper to be comparing methods for refining raw survey data into a precise measurement on the Need for Cognition Scale. In other words, it’s the paper you would read if you were conducting Need for Cognition Scale assessments, and wanted to go beyond a rough, standard measurement. It’s really only justified if you have conducted lots of such surveys and are looking for nuances.

I find this compelling evidence that Cambridge Analytica had interest in assessing many individuals on that scale. What is lacking for a proof of our hypothesis is whether this was used for the Trump campaign. There might be a match between the reader of that article and the woman appearing a few seconds later in the video, with a Trump sticker, but that’s very weak.

 

[Reece]

Dog I'm disappointed in my friends and family all this shyt going on and most of the people i know are oblivious or just don't really care.

Same here

And then down the line, they'll be complaining about the price of shyt, how much shyt is getting expensive, how the rent is too high, how the roads are fukked up, how the trains are fukked up, how police are fukked up, how everything is fukked up...

But at no point do they fully engage themselves in the political events that are taking place RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES

Most Americans too busy watching American Idol, Love & Hip Hop and professional sports to care. I been stopped trying. I remember posting about the Dakota Access Pipeline and getting zero likes but, my jawn be ringing when it’s something low brow and stupid.

People don’t care.

 

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January 2017

The Data Firm That Helped Elect Trump Just Poached Its CTO from the RNC

 

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Reclusive U.S. billionaire Robert Mercer helped Trump win the presidency — but what does he really want?

 

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Interesting to read what Kellyane's husband retweets. Btw he's a lawyer at the most profitable law firm in the world.

George Conway (@gtconway3d) on Twitter

For example, some of his retweets.

 

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They invited him after he called them out.

 

[Shogun]

An "Ashamed" Fox News Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine"

On March 1st, I informed Fox that I would not renew my contract. The purpose of this message to all of you is twofold:

First, I must thank each of you for the cooperation and support you've shown me over the years. Those working off-camera, the bookers and producers, don't often get the recognition you deserve, but I want you to know that I have always appreciated the challenges you face and the skill with which you master them.

Second, I feel compelled to explain why I have to leave. Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to "support and defend the Constitution," and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.

In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts--who have never served our country in any capacity--dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller--all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of "deep-state" machinations-- I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the "nothing-burger" has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true--that's how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.

I do not apply the above criticisms in full to Fox Business, where numerous hosts retain a respect for facts and maintain a measure of integrity (nor is every host at Fox News a propaganda mouthpiece--some have shown courage). I have enjoyed and valued my relationship with Fox Business, and I will miss a number of hosts and staff members. You're the grown-ups.

Also, I deeply respect the hard-news reporters at Fox, who continue to do their best as talented professionals in a poisoned environment. These are some of the best men and women in the business..

So, to all of you: Thanks, and, as our president's favorite world leader would say, "Das vidanya."

 

[DonKnock]

January 2017

The Data Firm That Helped Elect Trump Just Poached Its CTO from the RNC

Yea, between Fire and Fury and stuff that was posted in this thread, a lot of this CA saga and the major players were already known. This recent drop was mostly tying stuff together and a few new details about how they actually got busy (sex workers/ financial plants)

 

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What a thread.

 

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October 2016

http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/sites/default/files/10-06-16 RBA+MAN1+Trump final.pdf

December 2016

Press Release: New Evidence of Illegal Compensation to Steve Bannon by Mercer-Backed Super PAC

Apr 2017

New Evidence Suggests Mercer-Backed Super PAC Unlawfully Coordinated with Trump Campaign

 

[thernbroom]

 

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An "Ashamed" Fox News Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine"

The fukkery