Do you think Trump will put Barron in charge of cybersecurity?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

“I have a boy who’s 10 years old; he can do anything with a computer..."

-Donald Trump

[doc03]

1. No he is 10 years old, he will put him in charge of

SS and Medicare.

[sarah FAILIN]

23. +1

True!

[smirkymonkey]

2. I'm sorry, but that kid just creeps me out.

He really looks satanic.

[doc03]

5. Trump and his whole family creep me out, especially the

older boys Uday and Kusay. Barron looks rather normal for a 10 year old.

[yeoman6987]

11. Wasn't it 2 am in that picture or even later?

I just can't believe this is ok on DU.

[MrScorpio]

13. Yeah, he has this whole Damien Thorn vibe all around him, that for sure.

FDT.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Yes! I never thought to make the comparison before, but that is

exactly who he reminds me of.

[Dave Starsky]

14. He just looks troubled to me.

And who wouldn't be with Orange Godzilla as your dad?

It's the whole rest of the family that creeps the shit out of me. All of them.

[cwydro]

21. Satanic?

Wow, DU is sinking to the level of the freepers now.

Seriously? Calling a 10 year old "satanic", and all the other nonsense in this thread?

If we've let the shitgibbon and his followers turn us into the kind of folks who insult children...wow, they've won.

[jodymarie aimee]

3. autistic they have said

perhaps why Melania is so protective of him, and won't move to WH. And Cheeto being Cheeto, would blame her genes, as his are superior. Didn't you notice how election nite, his eyes followed those released balloons strangely?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. High functioning autistics can lead normal lives and even go to college.

But first it needs to be identified and treated. There is also a link between older men fathering children and autism.

[HoneyBadger]

8. That really is too much

10 year old child. Make that your mantra today.

[smirkymonkey]

9. I know he's only 10, and normally I would not attack a child, but I think

this one is just a mini-Donald Trump and will grow up to be as horrible and evil as his father one day. I don't really see any hope for this boy turning out to be a decent human being. Just because he is young now does not mean that he cannot become a horror in ten or twenty years. Sorry, but I just don't have it in me to give a shit about any spawn of Donald Trump, regardless of their age.

[HipChick]

10. Richie Rich Trump Mini me

will grow up as the over privileged child of a hate monger

[jehop61]

7. Come on folks

He's a child! Turn your hate energy to his father, not this boy. He's hardly being raised by his father anyway. Remember how incensed we were when remarks were made about a 13 year old Chelsea Clinton?

[demtenjeep]

12. no

screw them all.

we played by the rules and look what it got us.

So screw them all

over-spoiled brats-the lot of them

[fescuerescue]

17. seriously?

"Screw them all" a 10 year old kid?

I want to see Trump defeated, but I'm not going to sell my soul doing so, by going after the children.

[fescuerescue]

16. This is a 10 year old kid

I don't think he signed up to be ridiculed.

I mean come on. This is a child.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Who is ridiculing anybody?

Relative youth and readiness for an important task are not mutually exclusive.

[flamingdem]

18. Heads up someone alerted on this post

I wonder ..

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. SMH

Alerted for what?

Apostasy?

Iconoclasm?

[cwydro]

22. I took your OP for a joke,

In and of itself, it was funny, but the responses are way ugly and beneath who we should be.

No, I didn't alert, but I would imagine that's why someone did.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. I won't comment on the other posters but my post was innocuous and jocular.

[cwydro]

29. Yes, I agree. I thought it was funny.

It was the responses that devolved into pure nastiness.

[sarah FAILIN]

25. I took it as a joke also since Barron is far too qualified

A 10 yr old kid that can do anything with computers would be the most qualified person appointed so far for their position.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. It was a joke.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. Beef ? Who ? What? Where?

I made an innocuous joke.

You should be more concerned about the Russian infiltration of our nation's social media.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

31. Let's just disentangle this.

Did I hop into a time machine and it's 1956 all over again?

No. Nikita Kruschev would not have been brazen enough to so blatantly try to manipulate an American election.

I am not afraid of the Ruskies.

Neither am I. They are a second world power. What I am "afraid of " is they have a puppet in the White House.

Now that I addressed your response you can address mine.

Do you or do you not approve of the Russian manipulation of our election on behalf of Donald Trump?


Thank you in advance.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. Do

This doesn't strike you as very similar to the MO regarding WMDs?

Ummmm, no... Intelligence can be flawed or biased. That is a reason to look at it critically. It is a not a reason to casually discard it. Would you prefer Donald Trump disband our intelligence agencies and get his intelligence from Steve Bannon or Michael Flynn?


Do you believe Donald Trump is telling the truth that there is no Russian hack and that seventeen intelligence agencies and Barack Obama are liars?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. I trust the seventeen intelligence agencies...

I trust President Obama, the seventeen intelligence agencies, and private cybersecurity firms like Crowd Strike that the Russians hacked the e-mail accounts of the DNC and key Democratic players and leaked the information to help Donald Trump and the Republicans and hurt Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.

Putin knows he presides over a second world power that doesn't export anything but gas, doesn't innovate, and basically has nothing going for it and wants to pull the western liberal democracies down to Russia's dismal level. He now has a pal in the White House. Every American, left, right, or center should be outraged.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. Did or did not Putin put his finger on the scale for Donald Trump...

Did or did not Putin put his finger on the scale for Donald Trump and if the answer is in the affirmative why would any progressive defend him unless he or she wasn't really a progressive?

[Maeve]

39. She wasn't really a progressive eom

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. This was supposed to be a light thread.

Intelligence can be flawed or biased. That is a reason to address it critically, not discard it. The consequences of acting in the absence of intelligence (basically gathered information) is unfathomable.

[Maeve]

43. I realize you weren't going after Barron but after his computer-illiterate dad

The kid probably does know more than the old guy about computers!

As for your other point--it will be hard to get the fool to accept information that goes against his perceived self-interest, no matter how much evidence is provided. Belief seems to trump truth too often.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. I have nothing against the kid. His adult children are fair game for ridicule though.

Cui bono? Who benefits by denying Russia is behind the hacks? Hillary will never be president so confirming the hacks will never be of the same benefit to her that denying the hacks is of benefit to Trump because it makes him look like a puppet.

Trump's argument that the intelligence agencies lied/were mistaken about WMDs is self serving and dangerous. What happens when there is real intelligence something bad is afoot and he needs to share it with the nation or the world. If something doesn't redound to his benefit it's useless to him.

[Calista241]

38. I am officially embarrassed to be a part of this board.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves for this shit. People that insulted the Obama kids were rightly ridiculed, laughed at, and viewed as buffoons. Welcome to that club.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. I made an innocuous joke

I am disappointed you would call fellow denizens of this board "buffoons".

[JenniferJuniper]

42. I fail to see how

the OP "ridiculed, laughed at" or portrayed Barron as a "buffoon".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. I don't want to characterize the responses.

Trump went on about Barron's computer prowess:

"So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is — it is a huge problem. I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable."

-Donald Trump

I just made a riff on it.

BTW, read it closely. The poster you are referring to is calling those commenting in this thread and the OP "buffoons.".

[JenniferJuniper]

46. I can only imagine what his father calls him...