The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Thursday, February 13, 2020 20:08
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Long read - one of the best parts:
"After the (Trump) rally, I loitered near one of the exits, chatting with people as they filed out of the arena. Among liberals, there is a comforting caricature of Trump supporters as gullible personality cultists who have been hypnotized into believing whatever their leader says. The appeal of this theory is the implication that the spell can be broken, that truth can still triumph over lies, that someday everything could go back to normal—if only these voters were exposed to the facts. But the people I spoke with in Tupelo seemed to treat matters of fact as beside the point.
One woman told me that, given the president’s accomplishments, she didn’t care if he “fabricates a little bit.” A man responded to my questions about Trump’s dishonest attacks on the press with a shrug and a suggestion that the media “ought to try telling the truth once in a while.” Tony Willnow, a 34-year-old maintenance worker who had an American flag wrapped around his head, observed that Trump had won because he said things no other politician would say. When I asked him if it mattered whether those things were true, he thought for a moment before answering. “He tells you what you want to hear,” Willnow said. “And I don’t know if it’s true or not—but it sounds good, so fuck it.”
Question: can Dems win if they don't play the same game?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinfor
mation-war/605530/
"One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook account. I picked a forgettable name, snapped a profile pic with my face obscured, and clicked “Like” on the official pages of Donald Trump and his reelection campaign. Facebook’s algorithm prodded me to follow Ann Coulter, Fox Business, and a variety of fan pages with names like “In Trump We Trust.” I complied. I also gave my cellphone number to the Trump campaign, and joined a handful of private Facebook groups for MAGA diehards, one of which required an application that seemed designed to screen out interlopers.
The president’s reelection campaign was then in the midst of a multimillion-dollar ad blitz aimed at shaping Americans’ understanding of the recently launched impeachment proceedings. Thousands of micro-targeted ads had flooded the internet, portraying Trump as a heroic reformer cracking down on foreign corruption while Democrats plotted a coup. That this narrative bore little resemblance to reality seemed only to accelerate its spread. Right-wing websites amplified every claim. Pro-Trump forums teemed with conspiracy theories. An alternate information ecosystem was taking shape around the biggest news story in the country, and I wanted to see it from the inside.
The story that unfurled in my Facebook feed over the next several weeks was, at times, disorienting. There were days when I would watch, live on TV, an impeachment hearing filled with damning testimony about the president’s conduct, only to look at my phone later and find a slickly edited video—served up by the Trump campaign—that used out-of-context clips to recast the same testimony as an exoneration. Wait, I caught myself wondering more than once, is that what happened today?
As I swiped at my phone, a stream of pro-Trump propaganda filled the screen: “That’s right, the whistleblower’s own lawyer said, ‘The coup has started …’?” Swipe. “Democrats are doing Putin’s bidding …” Swipe. “The only message these radical socialists and extremists will understand is a crushing …” Swipe. “Only one man can stop this chaos …” Swipe, swipe, swipe.
I was surprised by the effect it had on me. I’d assumed that my skepticism and media literacy would inoculate me against such distortions. But I soon found myself reflexively questioning every headline. It wasn’t that I believed Trump and his boosters were telling the truth. It was that, in this state of heightened suspicion, truth itself—about Ukraine, impeachment, or anything else—felt more and more difficult to locate. With each swipe, the notion of observable reality drifted further out of
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TL;DR
Nobody cares. November is already in the bag.
Keep it up though and lose the house too. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares. November is already in the bag.
Are you saying Trump's campaign is going to spend billions when they don't have to?
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No. I'm saying I don't believe a single word your lefty news sources say about anything anymore, and that they're quickly becoming irrelevant.
Nobody cares, and Democrats are going to lose everything if they continue on the self-destructive course they can't seem to break out of.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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IN the State of the Union address, the president made a series of false claims — in particular, he repeatedly lied about his administration’s unrelenting efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act. To Democrats, Trump’s determination to surround his health-care record with what Winston Churchill once called a “bodyguard of lies” clearly signaled that the president recognizes how vulnerable his record could prove this fall.
Polls leave little doubt that voters express much more positive assessments of the economy than the health-care system. “Because people see health care as so central to both their personal well-being and their financial well-being, health care stands out as Trump’s No. 1 vulnerability,” says the longtime Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. “The simplest way for people to understand the Trump economy is that whatever wage increases they are getting are smaller than the increases in their health-care premiums and out-of-pocket health-care costs.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf. They still wont say clearly that Trump iz Putin'z puppet. They are still pretending (or beleeving) that its just politics az usual.
Uncle Sam iz being murdered.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com .
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
CARTOON
You just used a cartoon to make your point that Republicans are smarter than Democrats... funny.
I'm not going to claim one group is smarter than the other, I think that this Trump voter is closer to the truth:
“He tells you what you want to hear,” Willnow said. “And I don’t know if it’s true or not—but it sounds good, so fuck it."
Trump is all about Attitude, and plenty of people eat it up. He's definitely different than what came before him, and New is always a bit appealing even if it's just a short lived thrill.
The only positive take aways for me from his being president are:
1. IF he's having any influence on the continued up swing in the market, and:
2. At least he's not Hillary. Done that.
BUT he's such a lying snake selfish f-wad pos - you may not see it or care just like Willnow doesn't, but ultimately he's going to be bad for this country if not already. He's making a lot of enemies. What goes up... splat. Just like Hillary.
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Originally posted by JO753:
We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf. They still wont say clearly that Trump iz Putin'z puppet. They are still pretending (or beleeving) that its just politics az usual.
Uncle Sam iz being murdered.
Cheer up Jo! At least it's going to get worse before it gets better but at least President Ivanka won't be as bad as Donnie - either one!
< / black humor >
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf. They still wont say clearly that Trump iz Putin'z puppet. They are still pretending (or beleeving) that its just politics az usual.
Uncle Sam iz being murdered.
Cheer up Jo! At least it's going to get worse before it gets better but at least President Ivanka won't be as bad as Donnie - either one!
< / black humor >
Yeah bud.
"At least it's going to get worse before it gets better". ~Captain Shitstain
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf. They still wont say clearly that Trump iz Putin'z puppet. They are still pretending (or beleeving) that its just politics az usual.
Uncle Sam iz being murdered.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com .
Your boy Olbermann let everybody know.
Then Putin brainwashed him and all he tweets about day and night in 2020 are rescue dogs.
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann
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Is this what Maddow told you to think today?
It took you clowns a week to come up with that?
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Quote:Dems lie all the time.
Question: can Dems win if they don't play the same game?
Quote:somehow, they all missed me, or I missed them ...
Thousands of micro-targeted ads had flooded the internet
Quote:I feel the same way every time I hear Madcow or read CNN.
The story that unfurled in my Facebook feed over the next several weeks was, at times, disorienting.
Quote:And, if he had been able to analyze what he was reading or listening to, he might have noticed that NONE of the witnesses had actual, firsthand knowledge about ... anything.
There were days when I would watch, live on TV, an impeachment hearing filled with damning testimony
Quote:You should. You should also question everything that comes out of the Trump campaign. Nobody it telling the truth.
I soon found myself reflexively questioning every headline.
Quote:And almost none of it was true. proving that American-made media disinformation is alive and well, in America.
After the 2016 election, much was made of the threats posed to American democracy by foreign disinformation.
Quote:Obama lied. Hillary lied. GWB lied. The FBI lied. Jeezus, he should stop being so precious.
But in the hands of a president who lies constantly...
blah blah blah ... and more blah blah blah.
Why is he pretending that candidates and Presidents of both parties don't lie? THEY DO. Obama didn't lie about little things, like how many people were at his inauguration. Oh, no. He just lied about BIG things.
People were fed up with same-old-same-old. Both the Tea Party and Occupy should have been wakeup calls to the establishments of both parties that things were a-changing. But them Dems ignored the message of frustration, and tried to jam a candidate down everyone's throats who represented even more of the same.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Quote:Seriously? That's all Madcow talked about for three years!
Originally posted by JO753:
We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf.
Quote:You just keep posting yourself into irrelevance, JO.
They still wont say clearly that Trump iz Putin'z puppet. They are still pretending (or beleeving) that its just politics az usual.
Uncle Sam iz being murdered.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Seriously? That's all Madcow talked about for three years!
Originally posted by JO753:
We're in big trubl.
The Demz and the main stream media get part uv the blame for not sounding the alarm soon enuf or loud enuf.
She didn't REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE hard enough.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
People were fed up with same-old-same-old. Both the Tea Party and Occupy should have been wakeup calls to the establishments of both parties that things were a-changing. But them Dems ignored the message of frustration, and tried to jam a candidate down everyone's throats who represented even more of the same.
You keep saying that... like it makes it all ok to get behind a dirty lying con man with all the tact of a crackhead.
"Well there weren't any GOOD choices, so we got behind the most unethical one we could find."
I heard his administration killed off a few more brown people this week.
Gooo Chump, right??
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Gooo ...
What does that mean?
Hey, WISHY, how about that conversation that Signy and I never had? Yanno, the one only you saw?
Belief is for wimps and mental midgets!
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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
People were fed up with same-old-same-old. Both the Tea Party and Occupy should have been wakeup calls to the establishments of both parties that things were a-changing. But them Dems ignored the message of frustration, and tried to jam a candidate down everyone's throats who represented even more of the same.
You keep saying that... like it makes it all ok to get behind a dirty lying con man with all the tact of a crackhead.
"Well there weren't any GOOD choices, so we got behind the most unethical one we could find."
I heard his administration killed off a few more brown people this week.
Gooo Chump, right??
Aren't you the one who has many posts about all of the brown people you'd kill off if a non-fascist like you were in charge?
I'm starting to think your derangement goes way beyond being on the autism spectrum.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:So, what were the choices? Pitchforks and flambaux at the Lincoln Memorial? Guilottine on the White House lawn?
SIGNY: People were fed up with same-old-same-old. Both the Tea Party and Occupy should have been wakeup calls to the establishments of both parties that things were a-changing. But them Dems ignored the message of frustration, and tried to jam a candidate down everyone's throats who represented even more of the same.
WISHY: You keep saying that... like it makes it all ok to get behind a dirty lying con man with all the tact of a crackhead.
It's kinda funny, but a phrase is stuck in my head. It had something to do with "What do you think would happen if Trump was removed from the White House? A revolution?"
The answer was "Trump WAS the revolution".
Revolutions aren't productive, logical, neat affairs. They're messy, illogical, and destructive. Like Trump. I think the Dems just entirely misread how fed up so many people were, and how much Hillary turned people off.
Get ovr it.
Oh, BTW, even if they were more couth, more suave, I consider Hillary and Obama to be more corrupt than Trump. And Biden?? YIKES!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Obama was far more corrupt than Trump. He was young and well spoken and charismatic, on top of the fact that he was the first black president so the media loved him and let him literally get away with mass murder and starting new illegal wars. The same mass murder and illegal wars that the media rightfully crucified GWB over.
The fact that Trump tweets everyday has grown on me too. Personally, I think anybody who wants to silence his ability to Tweet is crazy. Why would anybody want to go back to a President that does everything in relative secrecy and only gives out words that were scripted from him on live television appearances where the questions are screened beforehand?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares. November is already in the bag.
Are you saying Trump's campaign is going to spend billions when they don't have to?
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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I see CC and THUGR have come back from their reprogramming together.
They must have gotten their new instructions from George Soros.
Have nice time, fellas?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares. November is already in the bag.
Are you saying Trump's campaign is going to spend billions when they don't have to?
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
I already answered that T. But I'll post it here for you again since you apparently can't read. Maybe you can get your mom to read it to you.
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No. I'm saying I don't believe a single word your lefty news sources say about anything anymore, and that they're quickly becoming irrelevant.
Nobody cares, and Democrats are going to lose everything if they continue on the self-destructive course they can't seem to break out of.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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By the way... any money that Trump spends over a dollar for ad revenue is wasted.
The best advertisements he has for re-election is everything that Democrat politicians and Hollywood actors and actresses say or do.
Modern Democrats are a cancer on this country, and even high profile Neo-Liberal worms are coming out and saying as much.
They're done. The election is already over.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Was the Trump Revolution about going to war with Iran? For Trump it is. From yesterday:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The answer was "Trump WAS the revolution".
Revolutions aren't productive, logical, neat affairs. They're messy, illogical, and destructive. Like Trump. I think the Dems just entirely misread how fed up so many people were, and how much Hillary turned people off.
Get ovr it.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
It is very important for our Country’s SECURITY that the United States Senate not vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution. We are doing very well with Iran and this is not the time to show weakness. Americans overwhelmingly support our attack on terrorist Soleimani. If my hands were tied, Iran would have a field day. Sends a very bad signal. The Democrats are only doing this as an attempt to embarrass the Republican Party. Don’t let it happen!
12:32 PM · Feb 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227661693376962561
Was the Trump Revolution about lying? For Trump it is.
Debunking the biggest lies Trump tells about Iran
https://rantt.com/trump-iran-lies-debunked
Trump left the Iran Nuclear Deal, manufacturing a crisis. He put a band-aid on the crisis, telling people to accept the worsening situation as the new normal, and subsequently claiming victory to get “this is a win for Trump” coverage.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Was the Trump Revolution about lying? For Trump it is.
Debunking the biggest lies Trump tells about Iran
https://rantt.com/trump-iran-lies-debunked
Trump left the Iran Nuclear Deal, manufacturing a crisis. He put a band-aid on the crisis, telling people to accept the worsening situation as the new normal, and subsequently claiming victory to get “this is a win for Trump” coverage.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rantt-media/
Or, yanno... For whatever Rantt Media is, it is.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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