Tag: MAGA

Corporate America’s deal with the Devil

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Corporate America’s deal with the Devil

I suspect that when those people read about a bunch of multinational CEOs getting together to throw around their political weight, a good chunk of them would likely think something along the lines of: “It’s true! There is a cabal of wealthy and powerful people running the country and they have influence that I don’t. They are the ones thwarting democracy.”

Sadly, they wouldn’t be delusional to think so. Anyone with a pulse knows that in the US today the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy and powerful. One particularly illuminating paper published this month by the Institute for New Economic Thinking quantifies the problem. Building on a persuasive 2014 data set, it shows that when opinion shifts among the wealthiest top 10 per cent of the US population, changes in policy become far more likely.

Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

I know that it’s become accepted wisdom among some that the various social media platforms have an “anti-conservative bias” in how they moderate content. However, we’ve yet to see any evidence to actually support such a claim. Indeed, one study that has been pointed to frequently seemed to show that Twitter, at least, had an anti-Nazi and anti-troll policy — and unless you think “conservatives” are synonymous with Nazis and trolls, then that doesn’t really prove very much. Of course, there was another report that came out around that time noting that some Republican politicians’ accounts were indistinguishable from Nazi accounts — so… who knows?

How the Trump Campaign Took Over the G.O.P.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How the Trump Campaign Took Over the G.O.P.

President Trump’s campaign manager and a circle of allies have seized control of the Republican Party’s voter data and fund-raising apparatus, using a network of private businesses whose operations and ownership are cloaked in secrecy, largely exempt from federal disclosure.

Related:

Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager’s private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules.

Trump Campaign Chief Is Funneling Pay To Eric Trump’s Wife, Don Jr.’s Girlfriend: Report
Payments are made through Brad Parscale’s company, The New York Times reported.

Inside Brad Parscale’s 2020 Plan: Reelect Donald Trump. Make Money. Maybe Not in That Order.

Is the president’s campaign manager a digital savant, or just another opportunist cleaning up on the MAGA movement?

Former Cambridge Analytica staff ‘working on Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign’
Data Propria boss overhead saying team is ‘doing the president’s work’

Trump’s 2020 campaign is secretly working with a company run by former Cambridge Analytica employees

The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with Data Propria, a new company specializing in voter and consumer targeting work similar to Cambridge Analytica’s efforts before its collapse. The company’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads the new firm, which also includes Cambridge Analytica’s former chief data scientist.