[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #477 McGabe? You're FIRED!

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 16:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump heeft weer eens last van raaskalleritis. Wat een onsamenhangende tweets weer.

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“We found that Facebook and digital targeting were the most effective ways to reach the audiences. After the primary, we started ramping up because we knew that doing a national campaign is different than doing a primary campaign. That was when we formalized the system because we had to ramp up for digital fundraising. We brought in Cambridge Analytica. I called some of my friends from Silicon Valley who were some of the best digital marketers in the world. And I asked them how to scale this stuff. Doing it state by state is not that hard. But scaling is a very, very hard thing. They gave me a lot of their subcontractors and I built in Austin a data hub that would complement the RNC's data hub. We had about 100 people in that office, which nobody knew about, until towards the end. We used that as the nerve center that drove a lot of the deployment of our ground game resources.

"We spent a lot of time figuring out how to build a bridge between the Trump campaign and the RNC so that we could analyze the resources they had available. We found that they had a pretty good ground force that we could leverage. We used some of our best practices and some of their best practices. We kept both data operations going simultaneously—and a lot shared between them. And by doing that, we could scale to a pretty good operation."

"We played Moneyball, where we were asking, ‘Which states are will be the most cost effective—ROI per electoral vote.’ We used a lot things to get much more bang for the buck… We got rid of a lot of the political people. That's not who we hired. Our best people were mostly people who volunteered pro bono, people from the business world, people from nontraditional fields. We could squeeze the margin so that nobody was getting rich on it. And we only had people who were doing it for the right reasons, not because they wanted to go onto the next campaign, but because they felt passionately about getting Donald Trump elected."

"We ran the campaign like a business. We tried a lot of new things. We weren't afraid to make changes. We weren't afraid to fail. I found in politics is people build these big, bureaucratic machines designed not to make mistakes and not to have anyone to blame. We tried to do things very cheaply, very quickly. And if it wasn't going to work, we would kill it quickly. The media would write a quick story saying, ‘They don't know what they're doing.’ But we were just saying, ‘Look, we tried, it didn't work. Move onto the next.’"

"We did an analysis about where you spend your money. For example, a market like New Hampshire is a very, very expensive market. So your cost per vote--and thus cost per electoral vote-- is going to be substantially higher than someplace else. Take a market like Florida, we analyzed the different aspects of the state. We did our TV buying, our digital buying, our walking, our phones, all based on geographically. We asked, 'how we can get the best ROI because every vote is the same.' But some votes are more expensive to get. Some votes are less expensive to get. We were very data driven in terms of how we could always judge what the ROI was."

"It's a massive startup. We basically had to build a $400 million operation with 1,500 people operating in 50 states, in five months to then be taken apart. We started really from scratch... So you're going to make hiring mistakes... It's just problem solving, problem solving, problem solving. And making quick decisions. And then fixing things that are broken, and then scaling things that are working."

"If you're consumer product Company, you're going to look at what's your ROI, what's your cost to reach the voter. You have ten different ways that you could reach the potential consumer. You ask, 'How can I get my message to that consumer for the least amount of cost?' We did that and measured that very aggressively. But you also don't want under-touch them or over-touch them… The RNC had a lot of good methodology that they used where we started backwards and say, 'Look, to win the state of Florida, we need to get to X number of votes.’ And then we'd back up and say, ‘How many votes do we have in the bag?’ And we had two different target groups that we had to try to turn out."

"We had a very good ground game. The Democrat machine, which we were up against, is a phenomenal machine. After Obama won the first time, they basically just kept the operation in place and kept building on it, building on it, building on it. I was very impressed with the operation that they had. We didn't have the same level of resources. We didn't have the same level of institutional buildup. But what we did have was a lot of very devoted, good people who were just putting their heads down and-- and grinding and getting the work done."

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 17:02 schreef Szura het volgende:
Haha, opschepper Kushner gaat dit nog in z’n gezicht terugkrijgen:

https://www.forbes.com/si(...)-reportedly-probing/

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LOCK HIM UP

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When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.

But that’s exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.

Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.

While none of the documents during a three-year period when Kushner was CEO bore his personal signature, they provide a window into the ethics of the business empire he ran before he went on to become one of the most trusted advisers to the president of the United States.

“It’s bare-faced greed,” said Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative, a tenants’ rights watchdog that compiled the work permit application documents and shared them with The Associated Press. “The fact that the company was falsifying all these applications with the government shows a sordid attempt to avert accountability and get a rapid return on its investment.”

Kushner Cos. responded in a statement that it outsources the preparation of such documents to third parties that are reviewed by independent counsel, and “if mistakes or violations are identified, corrective action is taken immediately.”

“Kushner would never deny any tenant their due-process rights,” it said, adding that the company “has renovated thousands of apartments and developments with minimal complaints over the past 30 years.”

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mrbromwich twitterde op zondag 18-03-2018 om 18:15:47 We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in duecourse. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entireprocess that led to Mr. McCabe’s termination and has rendered itillegitimate. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 17 maart 2018 14:43 schreef livelink het volgende:
Wat heeft McCabe misdaan dat hij een paar dagen voor zijn pensioen wordt ontslagen? Ik begrijp dit echt, echt, echt niet.

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 19:56 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Een commissie binnen de FBI heeft Sessions geadviseerd McCabe te ontslaan wegens lekken en liegen. Terecht dus.

http://insider.foxnews.co(...)ions-did-right-thing

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 19:50 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Als je het niet erg vindt neem ik de uitspraken van die arts een behoorlijk stuk serieuzer dan jouw bevindingen

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 19:49 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Hoezo knijpt ie hem? Feitelijk juist wat hij daar zegt.

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 20:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hij kan niet eens een stukje lopen op de golfbaan.

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 20:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Waarom wil Trump eigenlijk dat het onderzoek stopt? Hij is toch onschuldig?

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 20:15 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Trump denkt dat je pas onderzoek naar iemand kan doen als diegene al schuldig is.

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 20:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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En blijkbaar ook dat je het woord van de verdachte maar moet geloven.

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Op zondag 18 maart 2018 20:25 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Hoe groot is de kans dat Trump Putin gaat feliciteren voor de verkiezingen?

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op zondag 18-03-2018 om 20:58:35 It’s easy to get 73% of the vote when you bar your "opponents" from running. After extolling life tenure for China’s Xi, will our President now congratulate Putin on his successful elimination of democratic opposition? reageer retweet