See Ya On Facebook, Ted!
Ted Cruz just loves me. He does.
In fact, he loves me so much that he is paying some kinky people to mine information about me from my Facebook page.
A little-known data company, now embedded within Cruz’s campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
I can promise you that he wasted a lot of money to hiring psychologists to figure me out. I’m crazy. I cultivate it.
Seriously, I had someone tell me that a local district court judge was “scared of” me. “He says you can never predict what she’ll next.” Honey, it took me a long time to cultivate that reputation and I flat love it, especially when I surprise myself. I kinda suspect I’m not alone. I kinda suspect that almost everybody here is a little crazy. I mean, the reason were all here is because we ain’t all there.
Okay, but back to Cruz. So, as president, he’s not going to be big on privacy or freedom, but he’ll be able to tell you your favorite dinner and how you hate, just hate, Sally Smith.
I betcha he’s having fun with trolls. I’d love to see a psychological profile on anonymous trolls. Those guys have taken crazy to an art form.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
He’ll find out the American electorate is either a) supporting Bernie, b) thinks there aren’t enough guns on the streets and in our homes, schools, and churches, or c) obsessed with kittens. Wonder how useful that’ll be?
1Unpredictable is a good thing. Keeps em on their toes. There are lots of pluses to Crazy too. None of that is to be confused with Stupid, the registered trademark of the rightwingnut teabagger types.
2Daffy Cruz, Jr. wants crazy? Then he should submit his and his father’s Facebook profiles to his data miners.
MDB (minimal brain dysfunction) is what makes all of us individuals. Accent on the minimal. When it reaches the gluteus maximus level of a Cruz, then it becomes all out Dominionist crazy.
3Well, yeah, everybody hates Sally Smith.
4“unwitting US Facebook users” sounds like his kind of people. Oh, sorry– I meant “witless.”
Crazy is good. As someone said, I hope I’m nuts, because what passes for sane scares the hell out of me.
And if you want to stay safe in dubious places like dark alleys, you’ve got to make them think you’re the crazy one. I’ve heard of people who twitch and babble to keep off the muggers. Favorite story was of a weedy guy with a little froufrou dog who was stopped by a mugger with a knife. Weedy said, “You don’t want to mess with me, because I’m a badass [word omitted] and I’ll eat your liver.” He calmly walked on. At the end of the block he turned around and the mugger was looking at his knife as if wondering why it hadn’t worked. Weedy guy picked up his little dog and ran like hell.
5Data Mining FaceBook Users?
Say it ain’t so…
I don’t have a FaceBook Profile as I consider them wanting to know all of my family and friends kind of intrusive…
Like FaceBook is a voluntary data mining operation itself…
If I was on there it would be a fake profile…
6@Rhea
Several years ago in a DFW suburb there were three youngish boy armed robbers. There MO was to pounce out of the underbrush, point their one knife at the motor car crossing the bridge. To my utter shock and amazement more than one of the drivers stopped and were robbed at knifepoint.
My little bride asked that I not take that road late at night but I continued because the alternate route was a couple miles and 10 or 15 minutes out of my way.
And this worked a time or two. Then one night this chubby teen wearing a hoodie jumped out of the brush as we crossed the bridge. Startled me. So I kicked the transmission into neutral and gunned the motor. BTW I was driving at the time a diesel1-ton Chevy pickup. Then of course I aimed the truck at the knife wielding nit wit, which we later nicknamed “Soon Dead”. As we passed by he did a 1 and a half gainer headed to the other side of the bridge. Very athletic flat-footed dive for a fat boy.
I guess I wasn’t in the mood to be robbed. Of course the kid weighed say 200 and the truck weighed say 7200 so I guess I had something of an advantage.
7@Micr, Why go into neutral?
When they hear that tranny kick down a gear and the turbo spooling up to max boost to feed that Duramax they know you mean business…
8@Redwood
9I wish that 98 Cheby had been a Duramax, but it was a 6.5 I think, maybe 6.2 I cant accurately recall. Oddly Reliable but never averaged more than 12mpg no matter what.
You should be thrilled that Cruz is so terrified of your influence that he is mining your data. You have ARRIVED!
10Imagine all the really scary, fake data one could instill on social media that would blow the “minds” of the data trolls and scare Cruz into a cave which he zips up behind himself.
Just sayin’…
11Did anyone really believe Mark Zuckerberg made all that cash from an entertaining website for kids?
Debbo’s right, I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid enough to put personal info on his site so Zuck can sell it.
Here at The Beauty Salon, I think we’re safe. If Ted Cruz fears Miss JuanitaJeanHerOwnSelf, that speaks volumes.
Plus, Thelma’s in charge of security when JJ’s away.
Yep, I feel safe here.
12Yep. I wouldn’t want to be a thrill-crazed old lady barging into JJ’s in the middle of strange comments floating through the air. I’d turn and run, you betcha.
13Another good reason to stay off social media: Too many nutjobs trolling for profit.
14Here’s one for you, Ted. Shall I send it to T-Rump or HRC?
http://disinfo.com/2013/10/ted-cruzs-father-preaches-son-anointed-king-will-bring-end-time-transfer-wealth/
For anyone interested in how crazy Daffy Cruz, Jr. and his Dominionist daddy are, that link should remove all doubt.
15Cambridge??? I think I might be flattered to have my name in the same sentence with them……….but don’t you worry, your crew here has your back, Juanita Jean!
16How magnanimous of The Lizard King to try and learn something of our species before he tries to take us over.
17JJ, if your fans didn’t all have a touch of lunacy, this site wouldn’t be nearly as much fun! We need something to put the news into its proper perspective and make life bearable.
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