jimjam wrote:You vastly over rate the level of consciousness of the American voter .
When Bill Clinton was president, you might find some nudie pics on the internet. Today, you can live stream all the porn you can handle. Take it from someone who works in mass data storage (but moving into cloud networking). Yes, a lot of what is stored is people uploading pictures of their cat, etc. Some of it is high minded, like data collected from a particle accelerator, or doing research on genetics. Some of it is people pirating movies over bit torrent. However, one hell of a lot of what is streamed over the internet is pornography.
If you want to have your mind blown from a technology perspective, you have to realize that sites like Pornhub store data at the exabyte scale--that is, over 1M Terabytes. It's a staggering amount of pornography that gets streamed everyday. Yes, YouTube is still the biggest. Yet, the porno folks are not that far behind. When the economy tanked in 2008, I ended up working for lawyers because I didn't want to have porno shops on my resume.
With the porno shops being in the top 50 of websites, that basically means that the population has seen all the porno it wants to see. So Stormy Daniels really can't blow anybody's mind, because these types of stories are a dime a dozen in today's world. As I've said before, to really capture the public's imagination, you need something decidedly more weird. If you could show Trump having sex with a midget while a monkey is watching, then you might have something.
Otherwise, all we have is the latest freak show from the "bash-the-president" cottage industry that is built up around each president.
"We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
-- Joe Biden