"When the trolls spread a Fox News story about Lou Dobbs’ criticism’ of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, they were instructed to describe McConnell as a “renegade” and a “vile liberal” who has done “nothing to fulfill Trump’s and other Republicans’ election promises.”
The Triumvirate
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Difficult for me to imagine they did not have Americans as actively engaged political consultants.
I’ve wondered that myself for a long time. These troll patterns reveal detailed, insider knowledge of American politics that isn’t readily available to outsiders.
I really wonder what will happen to us if there is a major national crisis, given that a third of Americans inhabit an alternative media universe and have abandoned any pretense of caring about facts. You really wonder if they are a lost cause forever.
Paul Ryan a loudmouth? Boy they got that one wrong. Ryan wants Americas to stay poor, well they got that one correct.
McConnell a vile liberal, oh please the Turtle is so conservative he won’t shit for free.
Mad props for unmasking Mitch McConnell as a “vile liberal,” I say. I always suspected he was cleverly maneuvering to get those vile liberals Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court
All this Russian meddling is to be expected given how desperate Russia is to become relevant, but it takes two to tango; the fact that so many idiot voters are gullible enough to fall for the ruse is depressing. It’s why republicans hate education (except for their tribe); if voters are stupid, credulous bovine, they can be manipulated with shiny objects and false promises. It’s DeVos’ job to make sure there’s a huge crop of uneducated voters who’ll vote for idiots like Trump.
he’s nothing compared to hillary killary who is so powerful and evil that she schemed to lose her own election in order to control the government from her island lair
These folks are “equal opportunity” trolls. What a mish mash mix of shit.
If we want to look towards a US influencer keep looking at Brad Perscale. Now and in the future.
And now we learn that for lo! these many years, Taylor Swift was only writing fluffy pop songs and wearing cute outfits in order to get impressionable 13-year-olds to obtain fake IDs in order to vote for vile liberals!
How do we stop this?
The Russian government is not going to put a stop to it – this is a state-sponsored effort to weaken Russian’s main rival.
Even if the solution was to bar foreign IPs, I think that’s not workable.
I don’t think education is going to do it either, not because it’s impossible to teach, but because a third of the populace refuses to become educated, and many of the same states have abysmal public education (and will at least as long as the GOP controls state government).
- Adelson
Difficult for me to imagine they did not have Trump’s as actively engaged political consultants.
FIFY
I’m not so sure.
America broadcasts its political environment, through the traditional medial and through the web. All it would take to attain this level of messaging sophistication is real fluency in English and dedicated observation.
That could be done by non-Americans living in the US just as easily as a Russian agent in a drab industrial park in Moscow.
Perhaps some Americans are helping (witting or unwittingly), but I don’t see it as a requirement.
- Putin
An effort supported by the Trump administration.
Maybe it’s not such a good idea to troll Mueller.
Did the Angry Mobster or any of his minions have anything to do with these trolls?
If Democrats had Russian troll farms doing this stuff, there would be arrests of Democrats, not of Russians, and treason trials. The Russia-GOP political alliance has now become normalized. Soon it will be decriminalized, if it hasn’t been already. It’s not even a political crime anymore.
We’re doomed.
Actually, we’re not. I keep wondering wtf people like you are up to here.