That AMA was locked hours ago when I checked and they required you be a Trump supporter to participate
“inside a Star of David: an image of the same five-point star shape on the cover of a “Frozen” coloring book.”
Ah, TPM editorial crew… missed it by that much…
Are we now going to see the media and bloggers elect T.Rump president with reports on every gumball he spews? We have a historical event with a woman nominated to run for president and of all the headlines on my feeders today she is mentioned in passing. Even the newspapers didn’t have the balls to print her paper.
The media brought us T.Rump and if this trend continues they will bring us T.Rump for president, it would serve them right if he started persecuting them. Sadly it will be everyone who suffers not just the media, but the children, women and elderly and the young and healthy sent to war also.
rotflmao…Oh this is going to go well. Even if it is a subreddit that’s a big old white supremecist swamp and cesspool and even if they try not to let any hostile questions in, I’m guessing the hostile trolls will burn him so badly that he’s out in 5 minutes or less.
/r/The_Donald I believe started as a joke subreddit but there’s plenty of true believers there as well. Reddit took an interesting change in course this past year. It used to have a very liberal, very progressive slant to all of it’s politics (which makes sense since it’s visited by 15-40 somethings), but after Bernie’s rise it turned mostly anti-Hillary, all the time, and it didn’t matter which angle you approached the anti-Hillary side from, pro-Bernie, pro-Trump, libertarian, anti-establishment, anti-woman, etc., as long as you were anti-Hillary you would get upvoted. The circle jerk in that community at large is very strong and a glance at http://reddit.com/r/all shows what a massive amount of our young people are seeing for their main source of political news.
“It does, however, give credibility to the left wing narrative that Trump’s campaign is built on racism.”
A narrative we spun together out of thin air and Trump’s many racist statements.
So apparently no one in the Republican party or in Trump’s campaign has successfully explained to their candidate that securing the nomination means its time to pivot to the supposed middle of the political spectrum, full of juicy undecided voters, rather than letting your right wing freak flag fly.
Slactivists who have never had to actually deal with a room of people who may disagree with you.
PSA: this is not an actual reddit AMA with moderators and fair question/answer rules. Those AMAs would have been a killer. This is a fake “AMA” where a highly moderated pro Donal subreddit will be carefully picking questions and can block any/all posts and users that do not offer/shower praise upon the Donald.
I am actually kind of pissed that MSM keeps referring to this as a reddit AMA. That has a completely different connotation. This is just a closed echo chamber discussion board.
Ok. So this is his game. The great conflator. Mix the DNC hack with Hillary’s “lost” (deliberately hidden!) State email and jail her, shoot her on the Mall, etc. I’m sure Wall St and Vince Foster can be worked in. Where’s the smoke there’s fire! Then Alex Jones starts a fist fight. Wait – isn’t there something in Nostradamus about the Bear uniting with the Eagle…
This is how Trump works the deal.
I’m always floored by what people will believe.
Meanwhile, this from the BernieBusters:
If Trump wins, the DNC and the superdelegates who vote for Clinton would be responsible – not Sanders fans who desert the Democratic party in November, said Victor Tiffany, founder of the #BernieorBust movement.
“They can’t blame us now,” Tiffany said, speaking to the crowd after Stein. “They know what our plans are.”
A bit inflated, ya think?
Thanks for the info. I was about to point out that doing an AMA is hardly an unusual or threatening thing. Obama did one, among many others. But since it’s a fake one…
I don’t know about a change of course. It depends on what sub-reddit you go to, but it’s been a hot-bed of misogynist crap for a long time.
That said, there are decent places. But this reporter seems to have bought Trump’s switch and bait here hook, line, and sinker.
Actually real Reddit AMAs can go bad FAST if community this his someone (PR person) is doing the responses or the person doesn’t answer honestly. Because of community up vote/down vote things can get interesting.
See here:
Donald spending some quality time with his base.
Ah, the joys of speaking in an echo chamber…
But that’s too h-a-a-a-a-rd! More fun to keep ginning up the base!
To paraphrase a line from the original Ghost Busters.
There is no MSM, only ZUHL
Actually the GOP’s voter base bought us Trump.