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How Many Government Workers Does It Take To Send A "Presidential" Tweet?

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Putting the 'over' back in Big Government...  

As The New York Times reports,

 The president seldom posts his own tweets, leaving the task instead to Obama’s Office of Digital Strategy, a team of roughly 20 aides who spend their days managing his Twitter account and the White House Facebook page, Instagram account and YouTube channel.

The Washington Post adds,

The new [digital] strategy offers benefits as well as risks. The White House can reach more people without the filter of the traditional media, target its audience with precision and receive almost immediate feedback. But the approach raises the prospect of fostering further political polarization if the president opts to communicate mostly with parts of the electorate that identify with him ideologically or can be helpful politically.

 

Critics worry that governance by social media will cheapen the power of the presidency by substituting hashtag activism for serious policymaking. And in these exceptionally partisan times, some see the president’s prodigious use of social media as just another example of the cozy political relationship between the political left and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

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Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:02 | 6769542 slaughterer
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I am so sick of this president.  Get rid of him already.  

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:05 | 6769558 hedgeless_horseman
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I am so sick of this president.

I am sorry to inform you that it is likely to only get worse.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:05 | 6769564 nuubee
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indeed, always be careful what you wish for.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:11 | 6769589 highandwired
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next up, JEB!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:16 | 6769600 knukles
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How many to send a tewweeeth?  Whaza tewweeth?
Talkin' to me about teweeeth is making me feel insecure and oppressed.  I demand a safe zone from you teweeethers!
And a cuddly huggie room.
After all, I'm a grown up, mature, stable, responsible individual displaying no narcissistic, petulant childlike egomaniac tendencies and demand you treat me as special.  Or I'll cry and throw a tantrum!
And I'm perfectly capable of managing the entire planet!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:22 | 6769624 Manthong
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"How Many Government Workers Does It Take To Send A "Presidential" Tweet?" 

20 birdbrain Black House Staffers

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:25 | 6769658 Herd Redirectio...
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All hail the King!  Long live... KING OBAMA.  Long live the King!  /s

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:36 | 6769703 Dr. Spin
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Lessee, 20 employees and an 18 million dollar budget.  Yup, the taxpayers are getting another great deal from this administration.  No wonder it costs almost 5 billion dollars a year to keep the HNIC in the style to which he has become accustomed...

Spoctor Din

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:32 | 6769926 nmewn
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Jobs saved or created! 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:43 | 6769971 o r c k
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Be more positive. Didn't we train 5 terrorists for only half a billion? I LOVE to shop at CHOP-A-RAMA !!  Heads UP !

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:17 | 6770098 JLee2027
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They spent a billion on a website. A billion. You could feed Africa for weeks on that.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 21:21 | 6770345 hongdo
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It's like at Tar River polution site.  The EPA spent $70K each to change the front yard soil at $60K houses.  And left the people at the site which is still contaminated and they have elevated cancer rates.  The peoplw would rather have had the EPA buy their houses and moved.  But it's more about who it's paid to than even how much.  Citizens or cronies - guess who.

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 08:17 | 6771526 Surviver22
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Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!

http://tinyurl.com/surviveendguide

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:27 | 6769667 WorkingClassMan
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Correction ...

 

!Jeb! (upside-down exclamation point preceding the name)

 

Arbusto III (because the first two were so grand)

 

....OR...we'll get the she-man Hill-o-Beans.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:06 | 6769568 Xibalba
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Can we get rid of those who put him there?

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:11 | 6769591 Jtrillian
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Puppets have a lot of strings.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:31 | 6770157 Irish Yoga
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How many gov workers does it take?

What is the population of the USA? You are all slaves. You all work for the gov when taxation is forced at gun point.

Irish joke for today:

A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back."

The room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan's offer. One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. "Is your bet still good?", asks the Irishman.

The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back. The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.

The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, "If ya don't mind me askin', where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?"

The Irishman replies, "Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first".

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:39 | 6769723 junction
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I want that job as a tweeter.  As long as it is a supergrade.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:23 | 6770124 1033eruth
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I just got banned from a social media site called Yabberz.  The owner had emailed and invite me to join because I replied on some other website.  I was there a couple days before I discovered something horrifying.  

It was a snake den of Obama lovers.   One of the regulars had made a post about Obama's legacy and I read it and thought it was satire, like an Onion post.  Then I started to read the comments and he was racking up the votes for supporting  his post. 

I couldn't believe what I was reading.  Every once in a while a conservative would post something negative about Obama's "legacy".  Worse, the post was coming from some guy in the military all of whom consider themselves, patriots for defending their country.   My last post got me banned naturally.  I had no intention of sticking around.  

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.

But it doesn't mean I have to stick around and smell the stench.  

I'm amazed that there are so many traitors in this country, that hate freedom and liberty and now prefer socialism.  I don't like this trend and my hatred for this country is beginning to grow, because there is NO HOPE.  Not as long as the majority of Americans prefer their chains and shit on the constitution or like most, don't even think about it.   

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:58 | 6770266 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Don't worry, soon America will be no more, that is Obama's legacy. 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:02 | 6769544 Temporalist
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That is governmental efficiency...

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:16 | 6769609 813kml
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Get enough monkeys in front of a keyboard and eventually they'll pound out some Shakespeare. 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:04 | 6769552 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Can't take much more of this

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:19 | 6769622 813kml
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Just wait til Twitter Czar is a cabinet position.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:25 | 6769657 hedgeless_horseman
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Twitter czar?  Now that is a shovel-ready job.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:32 | 6769683 813kml
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The amount of BS being moved will require a fleet of CATs.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:20 | 6769890 ThirdWorldDude
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Not to mention what a boost it will be for the Baltic Dry and the entire shipping industry.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:04 | 6769560 Falconsixone
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40 million dumbass

fuck you obomba

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:05 | 6769567 ZeroPoint
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So I guess Barry will never reply back if I ask him who will he and Moochelle mooch off of when they are finally evicted from the White House?

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:16 | 6769616 knukles
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Guilty white people?

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:24 | 6769648 Crisismode
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The very same people who are supporting Hillary now.

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:32 | 6769685 knukles
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Oh yes, they will be eating themselves before it's all over.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:08 | 6769580 CoolidgeLives
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Motion to assemble the committee to select the next selfie stick.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:11 | 6769592 homebody
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he does not need a selfie stick - he has 20 dickheads to hold his phone.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:58 | 6769812 29.5
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The selfie stick gets a pension 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:25 | 6769908 ThirdWorldDude
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Everybody knows that if you want to reward a stick's loyalty, you appoint it an ambassador in a friendly vassal state.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:47 | 6769983 o r c k
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Never get your stick stuck.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:09 | 6769582 homebody
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He still has a year to sink this country - it seems that the power of the purse can not stop him.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:09 | 6769584 HedgeAccordingly
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20 aides?! Wut the hell

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:11 | 6769595 Normalcy Bias
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...and all probably knocking down $200K/yr+ with luxe Fed bennies...

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:30 | 6769675 813kml
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Booz Allen Hamilton will soon discover that they can outsource to "Steve" in Bangalore for $5K/year and pocket the difference.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:11 | 6769593 negative rates
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It takes one, now how many get paid to insure it happens, well skys the limit on that.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:12 | 6769599 buzzsaw99
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tegy, a team of roughly 20 aides who spend their days managing his Twitter account and the White House Face...

with a very high affirmative action racial mix meguesses. it's okay though because the discrimination goes against whites and we're fine with that.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:41 | 6769716 hedgeless_horseman
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... the creation of a gender-neutral bathroom in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, home to many White House staffers.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/transgender-white-house-obama-fir...

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:13 | 6769601 foodstampbarry
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From the industrial revolution, to a manufacturing power house, to a nation now manufacturing tweets... Wow, how America has fallen.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:31 | 6769924 ThirdWorldDude
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Manufacturing tweets (information) is very logical in the Age of Informatics. They're just following trends.    /s

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:13 | 6769602 Raymond_K._Hessel
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Jason goldman heads the department, having taken over in May for Nate Lubin. Kori Schulman is deputy director.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:19 | 6769621 TalkToLind
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Shalom bitchez!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:15 | 6769608 A_Gobshite
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Only 20 government workers to do a job that onlu takes one person... Sounds like a bargin

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:46 | 6769746 Who was that ma...
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Standard ratio.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:18 | 6769620 silverer
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You couldn't even get that many hands on a light bulb!  Thank goodness for modern technology!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:22 | 6769631 Commodity_trader
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$43.30 serves as an important level to create a new bullish momentum. The RSI and other indicators are all lining up nicely for when the support at $43.30 holds. 

http://tripstrading.com/2015/11/09/oil-daily-43-30-level-as-trigger/

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:22 | 6769632 undertow1141
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I said it then (2006) and I'll say it now. Tweets are for twits.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:31 | 6769682 EazyEasing
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And this is why the Friday jobs number was better than expected. #hashtaggingthingsisarealjob

 

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:49 | 6769760 TalkToLind
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And it is precisely why a tiny rowhouse in Alexandia, VA costs 1 million dollars. Get ready, April 15th is coming, suckers!

http://www.zillow.com/community/potomac-yard/2101455028_zpid/

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:46 | 6769743 HoserF16
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Don't know, don't care. Fuck Obama and anyone associated with this Piece Of Shit Pr.... I almost said president. Whoa...

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:51 | 6769769 blindman
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FATHER GUIDO SARDUCCI - 1980 - Comedy Routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ykYHwG5i4
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tweet this

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:54 | 6769787 blindman
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Father Guido Sarducci - Talks to "Letterman" (late 1980s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6tEWWmdOyI
.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:55 | 6769790 Berspankme
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Fuck this fairy cocksucker Obama

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:58 | 6769811 venturen
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Who really runs the government...as there is NO WAY Obama does anything...other than read a teleprompter. Most crooked goverment since Lehman

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:37 | 6769953 Not My Real Name
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Let me get this straight ... It's the most crooked government since Lehman, but Obama isn't responsible for any part of it other than reading a teleprompter? Maybe in your world. He's the chief executive and I'm holding his sorry ass accountable. 

 

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:02 | 6769826 trip kitchen
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One to tap his finger down, 20 to move the screen around.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:09 | 6769851 I AM SULLY
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It's probably the same twenty 20-something boys who suck Obama's cock all day.

(dual purpose)

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:11 | 6769861 Berspankme
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I'll bet they are all young boys, faggots who slobber on Obama's cock all day long

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:24 | 6769905 Oldballplayer
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I manage my social media by myself. And I usually have one hand down my pants.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 19:44 | 6769976 Jendrzejczyk
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While playing with your old balls?   (just a guess, no need to confirm)

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:24 | 6770127 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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Only 20 aides? Sounds low for a government operation of any kind.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:30 | 6770156 vincent
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I believe he's craving some social acceptance.

I hear the White House can be a very lonely place.

 

 

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 20:32 | 6770162 Charles Offdensen
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#acleanandarticulateblackguywhoisn'talsharpton

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 21:03 | 6770288 dbTX
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When I became a man I put away childish things.

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 09:22 | 6771682 Gohigher
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+100 for Joni Mitchell lyrical reference

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 22:11 | 6775456 GotGalt
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Now these really sound like shovel ready jobs.  Shovel 'the shit' ready jobs that is.

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