Angry Users Delete ‘HQ Trivia’ App After Trump Supporter Peter Thiel Becomes Major Investor

HQ Trivia, the gaming phenomenon which often attracts more than a million people on their mobile devices to its cash-awarding daily live trivia challenges, is facing calls for users to delete the app after it was revealed that Trump supporter Peter Thiel is the main investor behind a new $15 million round of funding.

Thiel, a billionaire who co-founded PayPal, donated $1.25 million to the Trump campaign through a combination of super PAC donations and funds given directly. Thiel also funded a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan in order to destroy the media company Gawker for outing him.

Thiel, who announced he was “proud to be gay” at the Republican National Convention in 2016, said he was confident Trump would expand and not restrict LGBT rights as president.

Thiel made waves at the RNCC when he publicly endorsed Trump, slammed “fake culture wars”, and said of transgender bathroom rights, “who cares?”

Said Thiel at the time, “I don’t pretend to agree with every plank in our party’s platform but fake culture wars only distract us from our country’s decline, and nobody in this campaign is being honest about it but Donald Trump.”

In September 2016, reports circulated that Thiel was telling friends Trump would appoint him to the Supreme Court if elected president.

Thiel made headlines back in December when it was revealed that his venture capital firm is the sole backer of Yass, a new members-only LGBTQ “co-working space and social club” in San Francisco.

To summarize:

Peter Thiel is now involved
Alleged bad behavior by co-founder towards women
It’s not fun anymore anyway

Time to #DeleteHQ t.co/JNhwlCom8u

— Tim Baker (@IAmTimBaker) February 2, 2018

@hqtrivia everyone hates you now
You took @peterthiel ‘s dirty blood money #DeleteHQ #GrabYourWallet

— Smith&Co (@Justica4all) February 3, 2018

Fuuuuck @hqtrivia provides a much needed break in the workday but their massive new investment from Peter Thiel is enough to make me #deleteHQ. He took away my number one love, Gawker. Fuck that guy.

— Katie Roscher (@ButtzGalore) February 2, 2018

Dear @hqtrivia I will be deleting your app today. I cannot support a business associated with @peterthiel. I hope this is simply a failure on your part to due diligence on before accepting his help. #DELETEHQ

— josephcouture (@josephcouture) February 2, 2018

Here’s a trivia question: do I want to keep my HQ Trivia account? The answer is no. #DeleteHQ pic.twitter.com/imiA3Rt2bX

— Jordan•Parker•Rae•Jepsen•Bouvier (@jbouvier) February 2, 2018

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Angry Users Delete ‘HQ Trivia’ App After Trump Supporter Peter Thiel Becomes Major Investor

Mehr als 2000 Menschen demonstrieren in Cottbus gegen Flüchtlingspolitik

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GroKo-Endspurt: Wo es bei den Verhandlungen noch hakt

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Donald Trump Says Republican Memo Vindicates Him In Russia Probe
Donald Trump claims that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

Trump’s fervent embrace of the memo on Saturday raised again the prospect that he may use it as justification to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the probe, or Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller, Reuters reported.

Tweeting from his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the memo “totally vindicates” him but added “the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their (sic) was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction.” He called the investigation “an American disgrace”.

This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!

February 3, 2018
The White House told Reuters on Friday there would be no changes at the Justice Department as a result of the memo’s conclusions.

The memo, written by Republicans on the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes, argues the federal investigation of potential collusion betweenTrump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was a product of political bias against Trump at the FBI and Justice Department.

Trump approved the release of the formerly classified memo without redactions, despite objections from the FBI in a move that deepens tension between the White House and senior law enforcement that has existed since Trump first took office.

Democrats contend the four-page memo mischaracterises highly sensitive classified information and was intended to undermine the Mueller criminal probe that was launched in May 2017 as an outgrowth of an earlier FBI investigation.

Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that Trump’s decision to allow the release of the memo was “part of a coordinated propaganda effort to discredit, disable and defeat the Russia investigation”.

Some Republicans were also critical of the memo’s release. John Kasich, the governor of Ohio and a former rival of Trump’s for the presidential nomination, released a statement on Saturday calling it “a disservice to our country.”

Asked by reporters on Friday whether the memo made him more likely to fire Rosenstein or whether he had confidence in him, Trump replied, “You figure it out”.

Dismissing Rosenstein or Mueller would trigger a political firestorm much like the sacking of FBI Director James Comey by Trump last year.

Mueller also is examining whether Trump has obstructed justice in trying to thwart the Russia investigation.

QUESTIONS OF AUTHORITY

The memo alleges the FBI concealed the Democratic ties of a source the agency used to justify surveillance on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser with links to Russia. The memo revealed the names of senior FBI and Justice Department officials, including Rosenstein, who it said had signed off the surveillance.

The document was commissioned by Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence panel. He said it laid bare “serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes”.

Mueller’s investigation so far has led to guilty pleas by two of Trump’s foreign policy advisers on charges of lying to the FBI, and indictments of former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates.

On Friday, the Justice Department backed Mueller by dismissing a civil suit filed by Manafort claiming Rosenstein had exceeded his legal authority in giving Mueller “carte blanche”.

The Republican memo focused on court-approved surveillance of Page and said the FBI used a source who was strongly biased against Trump, former British spy Christopher Steele, to justify the action.

It alleged that a dossier of alleged Trump-Russia contacts compiled by Steele, and funded in part by Democrats, formed an “essential part” of requests to a special court to be allowed to conduct electronic surveillance on Page that began in October 2016.

Despite the memo’s charges, neither the focus on Page nor the FBI’s investigation of Trump-Russia ties began with the Steele dossier.

Page came to the FBI’s attention as early as 2013, when he met in New York with Russians who were officers of the Kremlin’s foreign intelligence service, sources have said.

The memo acknowledges that the FBI counterintelligence investigation began in July 2016, three months before the request for electronic surveillance on Page, as a result of the activities of another Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos.

Steve Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas-Austin, said it was unprecedented for the president to feud so publicly with leaders of the US intelligence agencies.

“You do long-term damage to these institutions if you convince a large swath of the American public that they can’t be trusted,” he said.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-russia-probe_uk_5a76169be4b01ce33eb33e96

And the average age when gay people give up their V-card is…
1,000 people from the U.S. and U.K. participated in the study.

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Eine neue Studie warnt: China ist dabei, die EU zu unterwandern

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Wormwood Scrubs Death Sees Three Men Charged With Murder
men have been charged with murder and have appeared in court after a prisoner was stabbed at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, the Metropolitan Police said.

Ahmed Khyre, 21, Kalif Dibbassey, 21 and Enton Marku, 20 – all inmates at the west London jail – were charged and appeared at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Friday, the force said.

Khader Saleh, 25, was found with a number of knife injuries on Wednesday afternoon and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.

The three men are due to appear at the Old Bailey on February 6, Scotland Yard said.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/wormwood-scrubs-death_uk_5a75ffaae4b06ee97af314e3

Drag Race’s Courtney Act Defeats Conservative Politician to Win Big Brother

Using compassion and affability, the Australian drag sensation wins Britain’s biggest reality competition.

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