The CEO of Shadow Inc. urged his Twitter followers to "plan ahead" even as his tech firm’s app derailed the Democratic Iowa caucus.

Gerard Niemira protected his Twitter account after Shadow’s Iowa caucus reporting app failed due to multiple glitches Monday, leaving the winner of the caucus unknown as of Thursday. Despite these measures, social media users could still see the CEO’s banner image, a humorous cross-stitch pattern in which the phrase "Plan Ahead" fails to fit in a box it was intended for.

Niemira’s LinkedIn account links to the @gjniemira Twitter account and uses the same profile picture, indicating the account is genuine. While the image remained visible as Iowa party officials scrambled to tally votes on Tuesday, Niemira has since taken the Twitter banner down.

Tech experts who examined Shadow’s app told NBC News that it suffered from a flaw that kept results from being properly transmitted, as well as an unfriendly user design that led many caucus chairs to give up and report the results by phone. "The app appears rushed," said one expert. "Someone was not paying attention or on a deadline."

Niemira apologized personally for the app’s failure. "I’m really disappointed that some of our technology created an issue that made the caucus difficult," he told Bloomberg in an interview. "We feel really terrible about that."

He continued to defend the product even as it melted down in front of a national audience.

"The app was sound and good," he said. "It did the job it was supposed to do, which is help precinct chairs in the field do the math correctly."

Before joining Shadow, Niemira was chief operating officer at ACRONYM, a Democratic dark money group that launched the tech firm in 2019. ACRONYM has since distanced itself from its own creation, purging its website of all references to having "launched" Shadow. The firm now claims it merely "invested" in the app.

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Senator Bernie Sanders is blasting the Democratic National Committee for changing their rules to allow Michael Bloomberg to participate in the next debate, while keeping out others like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

Speaking at a press conference in New Hampshire, Sanders called the rule change an “outrage.”

“I think it is an outrage,” Sanders said. “Listen, rules are rules and people like Julián Castro played by the rules, campaigned really hard. Cory Booker played by the rules. Tulsi Gabbard played by the rules. Andrew Yang played by the rules.”

“And based on the rules determined by the DNC, they were unable to participate in one or more debates,” he continued.

Sanders did not say Bloomberg’s name, just referring to him as a guy “worth $55 billion.”

“Suddenly a guy comes in who has not campaigned one bit in Iowa or New Hampshire…but he’s worth $55 billion and I guess if you’re worth $55 billion you can get the rules changed for a debate,” Sanders said.

Last week, the DNC dropped the donor requirement for participation in the February debate in Las Vegas — meaning that Bloomberg and his self-funded campaign could potentially be eligible to participate. To make the stage, candidates must now only meet a delegates threshold or a polling threshold.

In order to be eligible, candidates must have gained either one delegate in the disastrous Iowa caucus or New Hampshire primary, reach 10 percent support in at least four national polls or surveys of South Carolina and Nevada between Jan. 15 and Feb. 18., or reach 12 percent support in two sanctioned national or early-state surveys.

Bloomberg has previously not been eligible for the debates because he did not reach the donor threshold that was previously required.

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Suspicions Fly After DNC Chair Calls For ‘Immediate Recanvass’ Of Iowa Caucus

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Biden is stumping in New Hampshire after taking a punch to the gut in Iowa.

Joe Biden looked defeated this week after he came in last place in the Iowa caucuses.

New Hampshire isn’t looking good for him either.

But the former VP looked really excited at the site of a bevy of young girls and made a mad dash to sit in the middle of the group!

Creepy hands Biden ran over to young girls at an event in the greater Manchester area on Thursday.

WATCH:

What’s wrong with @JoeBiden ?.

"Hellooo Cuckooo"??Hilarious . pic.twitter.com/kvXXuYKbmS

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Joe’s entrance to the venue was even creepier.

WATCH:

Joe gets creepy with his entrance ??. pic.twitter.com/5pSmTfAGhG

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Federal oversight authorities are warning that the Department of Homeland Security is not prepared to ensure the integrity and security of the 2020 presidential election amid mounting concerns that foreign actors such as Russia could again influence the American vote.

While DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has made strides in implementing election security plans in recent years, it "is not well-positioned to execute a nationwide strategy for securing election infrastructure prior to the start of the 2020 election cycle," according to the Government Accountability Office, which investigates election security.

A new GAO report released Thursday identified several glaring omissions that could compromise the 2020 elections and cast doubt on the integrity of the process. Federal oversight authorities have petitioned the security agency to "urgently finalize [its] strategic plan and the supporting operations plan for securing election infrastructure for the upcoming election."

CISA has been tasked with ensuring the elections are not vulnerable to hackers and other state-backed actors.

While the agency has sought to address cyber issues and critical election infrastructure, it has failed to develop comprehensive plans that would provide security assistance to political campaigns. The agency also dropped the ball on efforts to raise public awareness of foreign influence threats, according to the GAO report.

Reviews of CISA’s response to the 2018 election found the agency is not capable of responding to incidents in a timely fashion on the ground. It also faces challenges in coordinating with other government agencies on election security issues.

The agency is "not always providing actionable recommendations in DHS classified threat briefings or making unclassified versions of the briefings available, which may have hindered election officials’ ability to effectively communicate with information technology and other personnel in their agencies who did not have clearances," the GAO found.

Officials central to the election security process did not have access to "social media websites from situational awareness rooms, which hindered their collection and analysis of threat information," according to the report.

CISA also does not have enough field staff to provide timely on-the-ground work during Election Day. This "could limit the agency’s timeliness in responding to an incident."

Further, current plans fail to outline a clear government response "in the event of a compromise that exhausts state and local resources, which may limit knowledge about agency capabilities that are available," according to the report.

The GAO in its report asked CISA to ensure its plans "fully address" all potential election hazards and address how it is responding to challenges that were brought forth during the previous election cycle.

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Actress Jameela Jamil, a radical feminist and ethnic minority who made the news recently for bragging about her abortion, discovered this week that she still somehow lacks in Identity Points. As the BBC reports, controversy erupted and backlash ensued when HBO hired Jamil as a judge for an upcoming
“unscripted voguing contest.” We’re informed that voguing is a dance genre “founded by black and Latino LGBT people.” The trouble is that Jamil is not LGBT, which somehow makes her unqualified to judge a dance competition, despite the fact that this style of dance was apparently popularized by the white, heterosexual Madonna.

Jamil knew just what to do. Taking to Twitter, the actress promptly announced that she’s “queer” — marking, after Kevin Spacey, the second time in recent history that an actor has come out of the closet as a defensive tactic. Smartly, especially because she has a boyfriend, Jamil did not claim any definitive sexual orientation or label. “Queer” can mean just about anything. All that matters is that it’s in the Sacred Acronym.

I don’t know if Jamil is really “queer,” or even what it would mean if she were, nor do I care in the slightest. The point is simply that her residence in the LGBTQ camp provides her cover from criticism and gives her access to just about any opportunity in Hollywood without fear of “appropriation” charges. On the Left, victimhood is currency. And LGBTQ victims are the wealthiest of all. They stand at the very top of the Victim Hierarchy, over and above mere women and racial minorities.

Whenever there are competing victimhood claims — for example, when transgender males say they are “victimized” by a lack of access to female locker rooms while females say they would be victimized by the privacy infringement such access would entail — the victory will always go to the claimant with the larger victimhood cache. And when one claimant is LGBT and the other is not, the former will win every time. This is why leftists feel perfectly comfortable screaming at adolescent girls to shut up and know their place as boys come into their locker rooms and get naked beside them.

On the Left, all that matters is identity. Your identity will decide what you have the right to say, think, do, and feel. Your identity will decide the content of your character and your value as a person. Your identity will decide if you are persecutor or persecuted, oppressor or martyr, slobbering racist bigot or bold and beautiful hero above reproach. But there is a rather massive problem with this system. Well, there are many problems, starting with its fundamental incoherence, but let’s focus on just one.

The problem is that the Left hangs everything on the hook of identity, but that hook is not connected to anything itself. It’s hanging precariously in the ether, not nailed into any sort of sturdy surface. According to their doctrines, identity is a nebulous, fluid, largely arbitrary, and entirely subjective concept. All that matters is how you identify, but anyone can identify as anything, so the edifice collapses in on itself. It becomes like a monetary system where everyone has a money-printing machine at their house. Just look at how the great scourge of white men have been able to manipulate things to their benefit.

By all rights, white men should be at the very bottom of the Victim Hierarchy. They are the serfs, the scum, the class beneath the peasant class. They are inherently bigoted, inherently oppressive, and inherently possessing a mythical privilege that renders all of their achievements moot. All victimhood claims supersede the white man’s claim, because the white man can make no claim. He is always the scoundrel and bully in every situation. But all that a dastardly white man need do is announce that he is a woman. This will not just move him onto the same victim status as real women, but in fact will put him above women. Five seconds ago he was a patriarchal pseudo-rapist for spreading his legs too wide on the subway. Now he is an awe-inspiring hero for barging into the women’s bathroom. He has ascended the pyramid all the way to the top simply by speaking a word. And nobody may question it or demand that he prove it or explain himself.

This is the trouble with declaring that everyone in such-and-such category is a drooling bigot and everyone in this other category is a blameless champion of human rights, and then following that declaration with the further declaration that everyone has the absolute and unquestioned power to decide the category in which they belong. It’s not hard to see why there is now a rush to get to the top of the Victim Hierarchy, with more and more people discovering their inner LGBT identity just in time to get whatever they want.

Consider the timely self-realization of Jonathan Yaniv, who found out he was a woman and then immediately sued a bunch of female estheticians for refusing to wax his genitals. Indeed, Yaniv seems very much to be a degenerate and predator who uses his “womanhood” to manipulate and prey upon girls. And yet even now, the media will report about him while reverently using his preferred pronouns, still feeling obliged to pretend that his “transgenderism” is anything but a perverse ploy by a deranged and despicable adult male. The only doctrine cherished more than the one that gives Yaniv ultimate victimhood privileges is the one that forbids us from questioning the self-identification that accorded those privileges in the first place.

The Left has a tangled mess on its hands. I don’t think there is any way out of it, aside from abandoning one or all of their key doctrines. But I don’t think they will ever do that. So all that the rest of us can do now is sit and watch, not without satisfaction, as the house of cards comes tumbling down.

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It’s unfair. Now Trump is just showing off. I almost feel sorry for Democrats. Almost.

Before I get to President Trump’s brilliant, masterful State of the Union performance, let me take a moment to thank Nancy Pelosi. She gets the Academy Award for “Best Supporting Actress.” She not only sealed the election for Trump, she just lost the House for Democrats.

So, thank you Nancy Pelosi for the single most selfish, ignorant, petty, childish act in U.S. political history. That image of you ripping up the State of the Union speech by the President of the United States will live in infamy. You just showed the whole country who Democrats really are. It’s so clear to everyone now…

Democrats hate Trump more than they love America.

What’s that famous saying? “If a picture paints a thousand words, then a video paints a thousand pictures.” Pelosi’s hate video will be the defining image of the 2020 election.

Now to the speech. It was Trump’s moment in time. Long ago, before Trump even won the presidency, I called him “the new Ronald Reagan.” Just like Reagan, I knew he’d turn around the country, straighten out the mess left by a Democrat president and make the economy roar. And I knew Trump’s energy and bigger-than-life personality would re-energize my beloved GOP.

Tuesday night, Trump officially became Reagan.

Trump’s State of the Union was a combination of a Reagan-like celebration of the greatness of America and a joy ride through Trump’s economic mega success, his achievements for the American people, and specifically, his achievements for black and Hispanic Americans.

Instead of partisan vitriol, Trump showcased guests who represented America’s greatness. Trump showcased stories that made us cheer and cry.

Like when that hero soldier appeared to surprise his wife and little children.

Like when Trump awarded a surprise charter school scholarship to a sweet African American girl.

Like when Trump announced he had promoted an African American WWII pilot to Brigadier General.

Like when Trump awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to conservative icon Rush Limbaugh, pinning his medal on the spot.

Like when Trump introduced us to the families of American heroes killed by terrorists, then made it clear he had given the orders to hunt those terrorists down and kill them.

This was the finest day of Trump’s presidency. Even before the speech, Trump rode into the SOTU with 49% approval at Gallop, his highest number ever. And 63% approval of his economy. That’s 18 points higher than Obama at the same time. A landslide.

Democrats are panicking. Remember James Carville? He was Bill Clinton’s brilliant strategist. He invented “It’s the economy, stupid.” Appearing on MSNBC, Carville said, “I’m scared to death” (for the Democrat Party).

Trump is now playing on the Democrats’ home turf. Trump has now secured all 63 million Trump voters from 2016. He’s secured the entire white middle class. Now, he’s going after Democrat voters. Now he’s going after black, Hispanic and female voters. Now he’s playing on Democrat’s home field.

Trump is Reagan. He’s aiming for a Reagan/Mondale-like landslide. And all Democrats have is that image of a petulant, bitter, childish Nancy Pelosi.

It’s not even fair. And that makes me smile from ear to ear.

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