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Home Front: Politix
Dem Presidential Candidate Beto O'Rourke Joined ‘Cult of the Dead Cow' Hacking Group
2019-03-17
[Breitbart] Presidential candidate Robert "Beto’:O’Rourke has confirmed he participated in the controversial hacker group "Cult of the Dead Cow," at least while he was a teen.

"His background in hacking circles has repeatedly informed his strategy as he explored and subverted established procedures in technology, the media and government," according to Joseph Menn, who interviewed the 2020 hopeful while O’Rourke was still running for U.S. Senate. O’Rourke may not have participated in breaking into computers, as no evidence has surfaced to that effect, according to Menn’s Friday article in Reuters.

Menn wrote that at least 12 members of the "Cult of the Dead Cow" hacker group have come forward about O’Rourke’s membership, "Members of the group have protected O’Rourke’s secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability."
Menn held the info back until AFTER the Senate loss
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Doubly delicious! Pass the BBQ sauce, please.

I watched a Scott Adams podcast today where he argued that the reason someone like Beto with such a thin resume thinks he can become Prez is due to youthful consumption of hallucinogens. Apparently, not being constrained by normal considerations of reality makes one overly optimistic.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-17 19:55  

#11  I'm all for the cult of the dead cow. They're delicious over a open pit fire.
Posted by: ed in texas   2019-03-17 17:27  

#10  I'm all for the cult of the dead cow. They're delicious over a open pit fire.
Posted by: ed in texas   2019-03-17 17:27  

#9  
#4 How the hell did the press not do its job?

Oh, but they are.
Posted by: charger   2019-03-17 13:31  

#8  He couldn't get into the cult of the dead yak?
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-03-17 13:02  

#7  Fortunately, he's male and white so he won't go far in the dumbocrap circus tent...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-17 11:53  

#6  He's an empty suit the handlers think they can use to soften the rent-seeking regulations they can push while saying they're progressive.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-17 11:14  

#5  Why are they still talking about this guy?

His Kennedyesque horse face is the whole story. The left is completely immersed in cultic charisma worship. As words are a bit much for the younger members of the cult to manage, the back-room manipulators have figured faces that push the right buttons are the way to go.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-17 07:58  

#4  How the hell did the press not do its job?

This is nothing new, see:

Barack Hussein Obama

Ted Kennedy

Keating Five

and so forth...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-17 07:16  

#3  Regarding #1:

Cult:
NOUN
A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
A misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.

We are dealing with socialism.
Posted by: Vernal Spaick4643   2019-03-17 02:42  

#2  If he actually wins the Democratic party presidential nomination, President Trump will tear him into little pieces.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-03-17 01:54  

#1  Why are they still talking about this guy? Criminal B&E he dodges out on, drunk driving and totals out a vehicle then evades police, writes about murdering children, family involved and CONVICTED of money laundering, sells out the locals to big money in his homw town, zero legislative accomplishments, and now this - part of an illegal hacker group.

How the hell did the press not do its job? Instead they are hiding it and writing hagiographies.

Can you imagine a conservative or Republican who did all this, the press would burn him at the stake.

This deliberate disinformation campaign is as bad as anything ever done by Goebbels or Stalin.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-03-17 01:43  

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