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8 Nov, 10 tweets, 5 min read
1/10
Let's talk cybersecurity.

Specifically, let's use #hysteria to snatch the electoral college from Biden so Trump can serve another White House term:

newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
2/10
We can pick ANY blue states here; I'll pick Georgia & Pennsylvania for fun

Again, our goal is to use #hysteria to snatch some electoral college votes from Biden

law360.com/articles/12287…
3/10
El Prez can begin by collecting all the research that WE THE PEOPLE in cybersecurity use to cast our own pall of fear over electronic voting:
4/10
El Prez can gather up speeches from Senators Chuck Schumer & Hillary Clinton where they came out *against* immigrant children who effortlessly hack our electronic voting
politico.com/story/2016/09/…
5/10
El Prez can cite Hillary's speech on 15 December 2015 where she called for an expansion of #cyber surveillance over tech-savvy Muslims who are prone to Internet radicalization:

c-span.org/video/?402004-…
6/10
El Prez can cite Schumer's 13 February 2002 senate hearing where he exclaimed "we're doing nothing about" immigrant children who learn computer science in U.S. schools; and his 2017 belief in "election hacking"
7/10
Thanks to #cybersecurity fearmongering, every schoolboy knows electronic voting is INHERENTLY FLAWED!

El Prez can cast his own pall of doubt over the Supreme Court's *trust* in Georgia's & Pennsylvania's elections

Poof! 40 electoral votes evaporate
8/10
What happens if neither candidate obtains 270 electoral votes?

Well, I don't mean to frighten you (ha ha #jk) but it goes to a runoff election where 26 GOP-run state houses each cast 1 of the 50 votes for Trump:
9/10
And that, my friends, is how #hysteria in cybersecurity can help Trump snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!

Don't you feel more safe & secure now that you can finally see the second- and third-order effects of our industry's hysteria?
10/10
FTR: I vote Libertarian
I advocate for The Social Contract
I believe Hillary won 2016's popular vote
I believe Biden won 2020's popular & electoral votes
Unlike Sen. Schumer, I don't believe foreign agents "hacked" either election

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1/17
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I'm talking, of course, about ROSS PEROT

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1/6
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1/4
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It ain't "networking"

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Our industry will be all the less for it. What a shame!
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¹ Not #ThoughtLeaders
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You want to tweet? That's your right.

You want to be an #infosec influencer? That's a privilege.

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Let's talk reality.

COVID creates this very situation: your closest hospital can't take more patients so you ambulance to a distant hospital and there you die.

Hurricanes create this very situation: flooding destroys your closest hospital's emergency generators and...
Let's continue to talk reality

Women die ALL THE DAMN TIME because hospital ERs won't take them seriously

Here's a story from THIS year where... oh hell, just read the headline:
amp.usatoday.com/amp/4446314002
Let's CONTINUE to talk reality.

Black people in general die needlessly in hospital ERs. Here's CCTV footage of a Black woman who died in ER. She laid dead for HOURS.

A nurse got fired for manipulating her ER records in a coverup.
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Let's begin with an oversimplified view of the 2008 housing market crash:

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