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mfc2006

Idiots. They should keep it in place and try to come up with an alternative if they want to change it so much. Fucking idiots.

dignin

Top security expert: Trump's unsecured Android phone could be used to spy on the president

He says the "bigger risk" stemming from Trump's unsecured Android phone isn't that the data on it could be stolen, but that a hacker could compromise the device and turn it into a presidential spying machine.

"That Android has a microphone, which means that it can be turned into a room bug without anyone's knowledge," he wrote. "That's my real fear."

Schneier also says a forged email could "easily move the stock market," and that by using a consumer device, Trump is "at risk from everybody, ranging from lone hackers to the better-funded intelligence agencies of the world."

http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-schneier-trump-android-phone-room-bug-2017-1

Hacker to Trump: Fix your security settings on Twitter

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/trump-white-house-twitter-security/

mcgruff10

So what grade would you give president trump for his first week in office?
To me, too much change in a little amount of time. D-

Go Beavers

dignin said:

Top security expert: Trump's unsecured Android phone could be used to spy on the president

He says the "bigger risk" stemming from Trump's unsecured Android phone isn't that the data on it could be stolen, but that a hacker could compromise the device and turn it into a presidential spying machine.

"That Android has a microphone, which means that it can be turned into a room bug without anyone's knowledge," he wrote. "That's my real fear."

Schneier also says a forged email could "easily move the stock market," and that by using a consumer device, Trump is "at risk from everybody, ranging from lone hackers to the better-funded intelligence agencies of the world."

http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-schneier-trump-android-phone-room-bug-2017-1

Hacker to Trump: Fix your security settings on Twitter

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/trump-white-house-twitter-security/

If he gets rid of his android, how will Putin listen in on meetings?

Thirty Bills Unpaid

mcgruff10 said:

So what grade would you give president trump for his first week in office?
To me, too much change in a little amount of time. D-

But he's trying. At least give him a C- and move him through.

Go Beavers

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

So what grade would you give president trump for his first week in office?
To me, too much change in a little amount of time. D-

But he's trying. At least give him a C- and move him through.

Let's kick him out and send to to one of those new charter countries. I heard those are way better. Betsy says so.

ledvedderman

I'll give him a D+ and the White House staff an F-. The communication (well, lack of) and misdirection on policy is insane. The left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing.

dignin

jeffbr said:

Not that we didn't already know Trump is a narcissist, but here's an interesting "diagnosis" from a psychotherapist at Johns Hopkins Medical School who teaches psychiatric residents there. From the article Temperament Tantrum:

John D. Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who teaches psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, minces as few words as the president in his professional assessment of Trump.

"Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president," says Gartner, author of "In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography." Trump, Gartner says, has "malignant narcissism," which is different from narcissistic personality disorder and which is incurable.

Gartner acknowledges that he has not personally examined Trump, but says it's obvious from Trump's behavior that he meets the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, which include anti-social behavior, sadism, aggressiveness, paranoia and grandiosity. Trump's personality disorder (which includes hypomania) is also displayed through a lack of impulse control and empathy, and "a feeling that people ... don't recognize their greatness.

"We've seen enough public behavior by Donald Trump now that we can make this diagnosis indisputably," says Gartner. His comments run afoul of the so-called Goldwater Rule, the informal term for part of the ethics code of the American Psychiatric Association saying it is wrong to provide a professional opinion of a public figure without examining that person and gaining consent to discuss the evaluation. But Gartner says the Trump case warrants breaking that ethical code.

Trump himself has defended his demeanor as – perhaps paradoxically – the best. "I think I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that's ever run for the office of president. Ever," Trump told a rally of supporters in Colorado Springs during the campaign. And he dismissed questions during the ABC interview about whether he was disturbingly obsessed with his crowd sizes and popularity. Instead, Trump complained that Democratic leaders wrongly revealed that in a private meeting with Capitol Hill leaders earlier in the week, Trump brought up what he said were unfair stories about his inaugural crowd and reiterated the unsubstantiated claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally – and all against him.

Sounds about right to me.

From Psychology Today Malignant Narcissism is:

• Narcissistic
  
• Entitled
  
• No conscience or “Super-ego lacunae” (Holes in conscience)
  
• Sadistic
  
• Egocentric
  
• Regressed
  
• Grandiose
  
• Paranoid
  
• Destructive
  
• Manipulative
  
• Use of projection (attributing one’s own untoward actions or qualities to another)
  

He really does seem like the textbook definition.

Kev - Coat and Keys

Can't give Trump a passing grade that's for sure, look at this fool...

https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/825068505812844545

Not sure what psychologists would make of that, but everyone should see a dumb man way out of his depth.
Plus Conway's face as she realises that BBC journalists ask actual questions.

PJ_Soul

Yeah, I don't know how anyone could think he deserves a passing grade, with how he's been conducting himself. It's bloody embarrassing.

mcgruff10

PJ_Soul said:

Yeah, I don't know how anyone could think he deserves a passing grade, with how he's been conducting himself. It's bloody embarrassing.

Hey I gave him a d- since he didn't launch any nukes!

dignin

Kev - Coat and Keys said:

Can't give Trump a passing grade that's for sure, look at this fool...

https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/825068505812844545

Not sure what psychologists would make of that, but everyone should see a dumb man way out of his depth.
Plus Conway's face as she realises that BBC journalists ask actual questions.

Who the fuck is laughing at that answer? His cheerleading squad again?

ledvedderman

mcgruff10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Yeah, I don't know how anyone could think he deserves a passing grade, with how he's been conducting himself. It's bloody embarrassing.

Hey I gave him a d- since he didn't launch any nukes!

Sadly, I think that's my justification too for not failing him. It was a really awful first week, but the world is still spinning.

josevolution

dignin said:

Kev - Coat and Keys said:

Can't give Trump a passing grade that's for sure, look at this fool...

https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/825068505812844545

Not sure what psychologists would make of that, but everyone should see a dumb man way out of his depth.
Plus Conway's face as she realises that BBC journalists ask actual questions.

Who the fuck is laughing at that answer? His cheerleading squad again?

Yep probably Spicer that asshole sitting same row as Conway ..

Wma31394

I'll give Bafoon (trademark josevolution) a D..not an F since he said he'll bring the Fed's in Chicago which I can get on board with.

RoleModelsinBlood31

PJ_Soul said:

jeffbr said:

dignin said:

The party of doers. How many years have they had to figure this out?

Republicans Quietly Admit There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/gop-quietly-admits-there-will-be-no-obamacare-replacement.html

This jumped out at me from the article "Numerous members expressed fears about the backlash they would face by snatching coverage from 20 million Americans. They have spent eight years promising to implement something better, and the Republican party is still gawking at a whiteboard trying to figure out step one."

They're worried about the backlash, but no mention of the actual health/lives of those 20 million though, or their concern for their well-being. All they give a shit about is their own political position. Did it even occur to them that the way they've done this will literally cause the death of some Americans and the financial destruction of others? I doubt it.

Good call, I bet they never even thought of that.

(Insert huge eyed face thingy here)

vaggar99

i wouldn't grade him, i'd kick him out of my class and school. he doesn't belong there.

RoleModelsinBlood31

I give him a B. He's reversed the things that Obama had tried to snub with executive orders even though they were already passed. Lived up to a lot of his campaign promises which is a huge step for any president. Has brought immigration to everyone's attention when no one wanted to admit it was an issue before.

Not sure I'm down with his constant arguing with the media, not sure I'm ok with any of his scary EPA agenda, but my opinion on his policies aside, this is the most I've ever seen a president do in his first week, and that I applaud. I voted for a president to be active, so I get what I hoped for... just have to take the good with the bad.

dignin

Expelled.

PJ_Soul

mcgruff10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Yeah, I don't know how anyone could think he deserves a passing grade, with how he's been conducting himself. It's bloody embarrassing.

Hey I gave him a d- since he didn't launch any nukes!

I don't consider a D- a passing grade anyway.