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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by joshmn on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:35AM (#14136720)
And he wonders why people are increasingly skeptical of his administration.
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by jonknee on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:56AM (#14136792)
I don't think he wonders about anything at all. He knows (and is wrong).
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by coldtea on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:18AM (#14137208)
Because people read the ending of "the selective publication of White House visitor logs online" as something menacing?

Especially if it was "selective" to begin with...

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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by flukus on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:07AM (#14137001)
Increasingly? Weren't most of his supporters somewhat skeptical from the start?
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by mistersys on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:31AM (#14138265)
His approval rating was highest his first week as president:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by Delmania on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:45AM (#14138340)
That's because he fired missiles in Syria and detonated the MOAB in Afghanistan. Whenever a president commits an act of war against a publicly perceived threat, their ratings get a temporary boost.
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by zie on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:05AM (#14138884)
Neither of these things were done the first week of his presidency.. He started in January, it's now April, which is when these events happened...
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