Information Gathering
Donald Trump wants to hear from you concerning the burning issues of our time. I guess Trump is getting a little antsy during his Executive Time because he has a new hobby – whining about social media.
See, I don’t understand this whole Facebook is being mean to me thing. It’s not like the health care system or the IRS is being mean to you. It’s like they are being mean to you over at Joe’s Bar. So quit going to Joe’s Bar. Nobody makes you go to Facebook. Or Twitter.
Trump doesn’t care about much, but he really really cares about social media because he has the social maturity of a 12 year old.
So, he invented a place on the damn White House website for you to whine about how unfair social media is.
Trust me with the above link. Click it and you will be taken to Trump’s idea of important crap. Immediately after you okay the first page they start collecting information on you – your name, phone number, whether or not you’re a citizen, your profile on social media, your email address, and then they ask this —
Okay, seriously, how many Trump supporters know that information?
Then they give you the caveat.
Click here for the user agreement.
Okay, so nobody is going to read what you wrote but they will harvest the information when it comes time to empty your pockets for Trump’s election.
Just thought you’d want to see your tax dollars at work.
Thanks to Sam for the heads up.
If it wasn’t for the identity-harvesting, I was going to use it to report this one clearly-biased harasser who one encounters on twitter: the man is completely unhinged: a racist, an stalker online and off, and someone known to have committed sexual assault, multiple frauds, and to have engaged in a massive illegal tax-avoidance scheme.
But I’ll be damned before I give them a way to reach me.
Hmm. Maybe with the burner yahoo email account … I wonder if that still works …
1Considering how little he knows about anything, political or otherwise, one has to wonder if trump could prove he is not a robot. Or a puppet. Or, even a member of the human race.
Not being mean, just gathering information!
2No. no. hell no.
3I have an email address from the dial-up days — would that work?
Maybe it’s a convoluted scheme for finding out when the Declaration of Independence was signed. I know at least one person in the White House who has no earthly idea.
4Heck, Trump himself doesn’t know what year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
5So he’s using a government paid for web site and workers to enhance his campaign email list? Hmmm…
6Keeping Facebook open to Russian bots to protect his re-election prospects.
7I filled out the form and made a reference to finding out what a big dick Trump was, then uploaded a Stupid Trump meme. I plan to do one with every email address I can think of.
8Wait, what? He’s using a GOVERNMENT website to harvest data for his campaign? Can we get Mueller to come back and
9do a Hatch Act investigation?
Thank you a ton! for the warning! Will let my friends and family know. Seriously. Some of them are so easily taken! As I have told them before!
10I’m with Grandma Ada and S. Zeffert; he IS using the government and its resources to fatten his campaign mailing list. However since it’s not against any known enforceable law to do so, it must be just dandy.
Just kidding. Add this to the long and ever-growing Articles of Impeachment.
11People! Do what Sam in St Paul above is doing. Make up any email name and add gmail or aol to the end of it.
12Click on the website and then click on JOBS! You can have a blast making crap up, I did!
13Yes, you can upload all kinds of pictures (and editorial cartoons) and fake email addresses and it will let you, but you do have to say that you’re a citizen, or it boots you out, just like a real live white nationalist.
14I filled it out. My name is traitor trump. My email is obstructionofjustice@aol.com. My username is trumpisatraitor. And so on.
15Looks like I might be going to work in the WH! I just got this from Trump!
Hello Fred Farklestone,
Thank you for your interest in serving America. Your commitment, dedication and service has been realized in this historic moment. The challenges ahead for us cannot be solved by any individual, but rather by a team of great Americans. Through integrity, perseverance and hard work, we will make America Great Again. Thank you for your willingness to join me in this effort.
If you have any questions, please contact ppo@who.eop.gov. Your application will remain under consideration for the duration of the Trump Administration. All submitted applications will be reviewed as we seek the best qualified candidates to assume this hard work of making America Great Again.
Sincerely,
President Donald J. Trump
I’m calling a moving company tomorrow!
16If they want an email address I give them something like upyers@screwyou.com
17If they want a phone number I give them the Time/temperature number.
I wonder if some one established an email account and only used it the one time to sign onto this thing if when they started to receive spam they could have established standing to sue over mis-use of government collected personal data by a private ( PAC’s re-elct campaign, thuglican mailings) organization?
18Also whether the end user agreement is valid on a government web site/ service?
I’m with Steven Z….looks like a Hatch Act violation. And K #18 is on to something.
I think I’ll apply for Sarah Slipupabee’s job…..what fun my first and ONLY news briefing would be!
19Freedom of speech, as long as you’re a trumpanzee.
20My email address for places like that is anon@anon.com, and my phone number is 123-456-7890. I don’t bother to remember an alias, I just make up names as I go. But it’s entirely possible to harvest your IP address. Having a free VPN account helps with that, and several are available.
21Actually, the website in the link is not a government website.
22https://whitehouse.typeform.com/ is where the link goes, and that’s a commercial website. I’m not sure if having a link to that site on a .gov website is illegal or not.