Chris Murphy has a new (and younger, but not necessarily more attractive) lover less than four months after ditching his wife. The prominent social media user and Democratic senator from Connecticut is reportedly dating Tara McGowan, the Soros-funded dark money operative who has been denounced by the Washington Post for pushing "partisan propaganda" via a […]
  • Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Chris Murphy has a new (and younger, but not necessarily more attractive)

    First line. What absolute trash of an article.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah that’s an angle from conservatives who don’t care about a serial cheater and rapist lmao.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I read the Washington Post (via Seatle Times) article instead of the free beacon garbage.

    So… a software company with piss-poor development discipline got bought by a bigger company that seemingly knows even less. And they were contracted by the Democratic party to create a vote reporting application, which they largely failed to do.

    I’ve been a software developer for almost thirty years, mostly working for contractors. The only scandal I see here is how god-fucking-awful software project management is, and believe me that isn’t news. This is what you get for hiring a bunch of developers who are either green or don’t give a shit about the quality of the software they write. I could write an epic fucking rant here about that.

    But what I don’t see is a single relevant detail in the actually submitted article.

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        She’s over the age of majority, which is more than I can say for the scandals of a disturbing number of Republicans, and beyond that I just don’t care. I’m fifty-one. I’ve seen a lot of life. Yeah, if we had a much better class of people in politics, maybe this would be disqualifying, but right now if someone isn’t actively trying to destroy the Constitution through both overt acts and indifference, that’s where my fucking bar is.

        I don’t fucking care.

        • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I only care so much as her involvement in the Iowa caucuses, and what else she may be up to now. Her connection to Murphy is notable.

          • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            Funny, are you all up in arms about all the corruption Republicans are doing out in the open? No? Then shut the fuck up.

            And mind you, this story is a huge nothing burger. Concern trolling at its worst right here.

          • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            1 month ago

            But, mate, she’s not actually connected to this story. She didn’t build the app, didn’t run the project—nothing.

            It’s like seeing some nefarious connection because someone’s girlfriend works at Tesla and your Cybertruck won’t start. Not only is there no there there, but a Cybertruck not starting is completely unsurprising.

            • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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              1 month ago

              “Democratic operative Tara McGowan is denying that her high-profile liberal firm ACRONYM played a role in the Monday evening caucus debacle…But previous statements and internal Acronym documents suggest that the two companies, which share office space in Denver, Colorado, are deeply intertwined…top officials at the company regularly expressed hostility to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s supporters…

              …McGowan is married to Michael Halle, a senior strategist with the Buttigieg campaign…

              … Federal campaign finance records show that the Iowa Democratic Party and the Nevada Democratic Party retained Shadow to develop its caucus app. Shadow has also been retained for digital services by Buttigieg’s campaign, which paid the company $42,500 for software-related services last July, and by Joe Biden’s campaign, which paid Shadow $1,225 for text messaging services, last July as well…

              …Shadow was launched by former staffers to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, including Niemira, Krista Davis, Ahna Rao, and James Hickey, according to professional biographies listed on LinkedIn.”

              • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                1 month ago

                Sure, there’s overlap. Democratic orgs often share staff, money, and office space—it’s a dense web. But none of that makes McGowan responsible for the app’s failure, nor does it suggest any connection between her relationship with Murphy and the breakdown of a software development process. It’s innuendo, not evidence.

                Hostility to Bernie, if true, has no bearing on code quality. Nor does a relationship with the Buttigieg or Biden campaigns.

                And as a developer, I can tell you: it’s much harder to sabotage an app in a specific way than it is to simply build one that works. If there’s a conspiracy here, it’s hiding behind a wall of very ordinary technical incompetence.