A New Politics Thread

[Diomedes]

Bibi came to town expecting to be the headline...oops.

[General_Failure]

Even this dead back corner of the internet has been flooded with Russian bots trying to sign up the last week. Just one time I'd like an election cycle to not be worse than the last one.

[Diomedes]

How much of your time does that actually take?

Are you like manually removing new user accounts every day?

[General_Failure]

About a minute a day. The usernames are all the same format and easy to spot even if there were actual humans signing up as well. I click maybe ten buttons.

[PhillyPhreak54]

While we're talking odds, what do you think they are that Trump ever actually faces Harris in a debate?

One way or another I all but guarantee he won't.

Yeah no shot.

I've read stories wheee the campaign were completely caught off guard by Joe dropping out. Even leading up to the RNC/Milwaukee Klan a rally they told guest speakers to not direct any talk towards Harris - to focus on Biden.

The monumental fundraising and jolt of energy are encouraging to boot.

And now I read that Cheeto Dick's campaign wants the FEC to block Hardis access to the campaign funds. That plus the only real "talking points" from Magatville are her laugh and how they're feigning concern with Biden's delegates/primary voters shows they're shook.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Even this dead back corner of the internet has been flooded with Russian bots trying to sign up the last week. Just one time I'd like an election cycle to not be worse than the last one.

It cracks me up that some Russian bot farm targets CF.

Good job being better defense than the secret service

[MDS]

its one poll but kamala gained 2 points from where biden was....she is still on aggregate like 9-10 points off where she needs to be. i have no idea how shes going to get there.

[ice grillin you]

Even this dead back corner of the internet has been flooded with Russian bots trying to sign up the last week. Just one time I'd like an election cycle to not be worse than the last one.

this is crazy...facebook must get 10,000 a minute

its kind of ironic with the disinformation industry because their intent is generally evil but the more they disseminate the less effective it is because it essentially trains people to not believe anything which diminishes the power of it...

you are always going to get people who were going to vote for trump anyway to believe the crazy shtein but that isnt getting new votes for trump or whatever you are trying to sway people to do...i feel like bots are just as plentiful this potus cycle but far less effective because of this

[ice grillin you]

While we're talking odds, what do you think they are that Trump ever actually faces Harris in a debate?

One way or another I all but guarantee he won't.

at first i highly doubted it but now im all but certain he wont after he came out yesterday and said he wants to debate her multiple times...whenever he projects that hard one way the opposite is the reality

[Diomedes]

Russia (and other authoritarian regimes that sponsor mis-and dis-information campaigns) are not really trying to get anyone to vote for Trump.  What they're trying to do is erode public confidence in information generally, in the idea that some things are true and others not, etc.  By flooding people with mis-and dis-information, they weaken the institutions of democracy.  The game is much bigger and longer-played than this election or that one.

[ice grillin you]

they are one million percent trying to get trump elected as his goal is the same as the people he would put in the government which is to burn our institutions and democracy itself to the ground...project 2025 is nothing more than the russian playbook for america

[General_Failure]

It's a lot of goals going back a lot of years. Getting Trump installed, a general mistrust of information, the promotion of fossil fuels over nuclear or solar. Hell, they even make money off porn now.

[MDS]

we live in a deeply unserious country where 10% of people are like sure ok fine sounds good bobby kennedy's freak show son

[Rome]

RFK Jr's paternal grandfather was a Nazi sympathizing piece of shtein.  He's garnering  all the retarded libertarian lunatics who think Trump is a liberal in sheep's clothing. 

Yeah, we're screwed alright.  Gotta hope women and youngin's carry the day. 

[Munson]

He's not going to pull 10%. By the time it gets to Election Day it'll be down below 5