{"id":132309,"date":"2016-12-15T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-14-hackity-hacks-dont-talk-back.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T03:45:16","slug":"tweetizen-trump-2016-12-14-hackity-hacks-dont-talk-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-14-hackity-hacks-dont-talk-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2016-12-14 &quot;Hackity-Hacks, Don&#039;t Talk Back&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was kind of slow on the POETUS&#39; Twitter account &#8212; tweets about Victory Tour events, a picture of Bill Gats and Jim Brown.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, Donald is on a roll!<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>&#9658; <b><i>Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!<\/i><\/b><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809383989018497024\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809383989018497024<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Wow. The soon-to-be-Leader of the Free World, having a hissy fit about a magazine &#8212; and calling out its editor by name &#8212; that, presumably, said something mean to him.<\/p>\n<p>Thin-skinned lack of impulse control? Or an effort to bully away journalistic dissent?<\/p>\n<p>We know, at least, what GoodThinking magazines write about:<\/p>\n<p>&#9658; <b><i>Thank you to Time Magazine and Financial Times for naming me &quot;Person of the Year&quot; &#8211; a great honor!<\/i><\/b><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809384826193276928\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809384826193276928<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>On the ongoing &quot;conflict of interest&quot; debate, just stop paying attention to the man behind the curtain!<\/p>\n<p>&#9658; <b><i>The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex &#8211; when actually it isn&#39;t!<\/i><\/b><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809389774066814976\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809389774066814976<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>If you say so, Donald. Still waiting to hear how you will avoid looking like, when you make global or national policy choices, one of the factors isn&#39;t whether it affects your global and national business interests. <\/p>\n<p>Unless the lack of complexity is &quot;I&#39;m President, so I can&#39;t legally have any conflicts of interest.&quot; That does sort of simplify things, right? It&#39;s good to be the king!<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>&#9658; <b><i>If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?<\/i><\/b><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809392491514527744\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809392491514527744<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#9658; <b><i>If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?<\/i><\/b><br \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809403760099422208\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/809403760099422208<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Those two identical tweets are an hour apart (and one has since been deleted). So &#8230; is Trump getting to be forgetful? Did someone fumble finger entering messages into some sort of timed release system and end up with dupes? Who&#39;s writing (or transcribing) this stuff, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>As to the substance of the tweets, this is classic gaslighting. Because the White House <i>did<\/i> talk about Russian interference and information <i>was<\/i> released before the election about Russian hacking efforts. Really, truly, you can Google it.<\/p>\n<p>As to the specific &quot;The Russians were trying to throw this election for Trump&quot; accusation &#8212; that information <i>was<\/i> presented to senor Congressional leadership to form a bipartisan stand against the matter; instead, Mitch McConnell, who <i>now<\/i> supports a Senate accusation, <i>then<\/i> called it political shenanigans and refused to go along with it. <\/p>\n<p>And, knowing that making an announcement like this without bipartisan support, so close to the election, would in fact look like official interference in the election process &#8212; and, perhaps, being too confident that Clinton was going to win anyway &#8212; Obama didn&#39;t release what was known, except, again, in vague, non-partisan terms.<\/p>\n<p>This is documented. Again, this can be Googled. Setting up an alternate reality where all this &quot;hacking&quot; stuff only came up after Clinton lost, is to basically lie about it (but set up a new narrative that, no doubt, we will hear from Trump supporters from now until doomsday).<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6364385186208557841\/6364385186350240994'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-AWI03sLo6qo\/WFLWm2YqFOI\/AAAAAAAENvc\/cQG94M7NAMAjrsvdzp5AOcdUInlxUu9WwCJoC\/donald-trump-person-of-the-year-poy-header-desktop1%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WPRmTaucmJS'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was kind of slow on the POETUS&#39; Twitter account &#8212; tweets about Victory Tour events, a picture of Bill Gats and Jim Brown. But this morning, Donald is on a roll! === &#9658; Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-14-hackity-hacks-dont-talk-back.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2016-12-14 &quot;Hackity-Hacks, Don&#039;t Talk Back&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,375,532,12,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-computer-security","category-elections-2016","category-fourth-estate","category-nationalism-exceptionalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-person-of-the-year-poy-header-desktop15B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9262,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/shocked_shocked.html","url_meta":{"origin":132309,"position":0},"title":"Shocked!  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