2016 elections - because it's never too early

[alfred russel]

Ovb, if the race became a two man race tomorrow with any of the remaining candidates save carson, trump would probably get hardly any more delagates and lose almost all the states. I realize there are now 5 left and that wont happen tomorrow, but the point is there is a possibility to stop him until he gets very close to the nomination.

As it is, trump just got 32% while cruz and rubio got 22% and bush and kasich 8%. (Im on my phone and cant look up precise numbers and my memory may be off). Bush is gone and most of his votes probably go to rubio. We probably just saw peak kasich (outside of the midwest at least).

And this was not in a state famous for racial progressivism.

[Berkut]

I have no problem with them looking at someones phone with a warrant, but I do have a problem with the state thinking it has the power to compel a third party to help them do so.

Why would they need a warrant when the phone's owner has turned the phone over to them, has given them permission to try and unlock it, and in fact wants them to succeed?

They wouldn't, obviously.

So the owner of the phone wants them to look at it - good for them. Go for it.

[Jacob]

Another update on the phone story:

It appears that normally when they FBI gets someone's iPhone in hand, data can be retrieved by Apple via an iCloud backup process. Apple has - as has been discussed several times - helped the FBI doing that a number of times.

However this time someone reset the phone's iCloud password after the police obtained the phone. This apparently means that the iCloud backup process no longer provides any useful results.

It turns out that it was San Bernadino County - acting at the FBI's request - who reset the iCloud password.

I don't know if that changes anyone's assessment of the situation, but it certainly makes CdM's "Famous But Incompetent" sound pretty accurate.

More here: http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-confirms-shooters-icloud-password-reset-2016-2

[jimmy olsen]

Can someone please split this FBI phone conversation into a separate thread?

[Jacob]

Can someone please split this FBI phone conversation into a separate thread?

That would require us to build a backdoor into the encryption of languish, and we're not ready to do that at this time.

[Martinus]

Can someone please split this FBI phone conversation into a separate thread?

That would require us to build a backdoor into the encryption of languish, and we're not ready to do that at this time.

We could do this, but who is to say that after this is done once, posters will not start demanding that being done all the time - resulting in madness, and grumbler being confused about thread titles.

[CountDeMoney]

Just saw some of the new Clinton commercials narrated by Morgan Freeman.  Shit just got Shawkshanked.  Bernie is done.

[Martinus]

Just saw some of the new Clinton commercials narrated by Morgan Freeman.  Shit just got Shawkshanked.  Bernie is done.

Bernie must respond with Samuel L. Jackson.

[celedhring]

James Earl Jones, preferably in his Vader voice.

[alfred russel]

James Earl Jones, preferably in his Vader voice.

Definitely more of a republican vibe.

[garbon]

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/22/11094288/john-kasich-kitchen-women-abortion

John Kasich: women "left their kitchens" to support me

Ohio governor and GOP presidential hopeful John Kasich caused a stir Monday when he said women "left their kitchens" to help him get elected to the Ohio State Senate in 1978.

"How did I get elected?" Kasich asked. "Nobody was — I didn't have anybody for me. We just got an army of people who — and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me."

Later, a supporter referenced his comment and said: "I'll come to support you, but I won't be coming out of the kitchen."

A spokesman for Kasich responded to criticism of the comment by arguing that Kasich's campaigns have always been "homegrown" affairs literally run out of kitchens, including those of stay-at-home mom.

And as the Washington Post's Philip Bump noted, it's true that fewer women worked outside the home in 1978. But that doesn't make the comment look much better, especially in light of Kasich's record on women's issues.

Criticisms of Kasich on women's issues go beyond remarks like this

The comments come right after Kasich defunded Planned Parenthood on Sunday, a move advocates say could have disastrous consequences for public health.

Kasich, generally seen as "moderate," has been criticized for his extreme anti-abortion views. He appointed the president of Ohio Right to Life to his state medical board, and about half of Ohio's abortion clinics have closed during Kasich's tenure as governor. Advocates say the Kasich administration rejects hospital agreements that abortion clinics need to operate, for purely political reasons.

Advocates say these issues are much more serious than any offensive comments. Still, the "kitchens" comment isn't the first time Kasich has come under fire for saying something arguably tone-deaf about women's gender roles.

In November, Kasich asked a supporter at a town hall whether she had ever been on a diet in order to make a point about balancing the budget. In October, he mocked a college student's eagerness to ask him a question by telling her that he didn't "have any Taylor Swift concert tickets." And in 2012, he praised political spouses who are "at home doing the laundry" while their husbands are out getting more attention for their work.

[Legbiter]

Unreal.  And it keeps getting unrealer. 

The world is starting the likes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping with the first team, and we're drafting Johnny Manziel. 


Where have you gone, Richard Milhous Nixon
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo.
Woo, woo, woo.

Sigh.

It's not that bad. After all Trump has just rendered valuable service to the Republic by shredding Jeb's candidacy. 

[Valmy]

John Kasich: women "left their kitchens" to support me

Please tell me he said that in 1978 and not recently.

[alfred russel]

John Kasich: women "left their kitchens" to support me

Please tell me he said that in 1978 and not recently.

He is probably trying to follow the Trump playbook of getting publicity by saying moderately offensive things that don't really mean anything, and having that somehow equate to getting votes.

But...if it happened in 1978, it should still be okay to talk about in 2016, right?

[garbon]

John Kasich: women "left their kitchens" to support me

Please tell me he said that in 1978 and not recently.

Yes, it was from 1978. I would hope...hope that it being referenced is largely just to connect in with his planned parenthood bit and create narrative that he sucks with reference to women.