I'm seeing way more "Name Removed" posts than usual lately

[MrScorpio]

I'm wondering what's going on in the winger world that's inciting them to fling themselves headlong into a frenzy of self-immolation here on DU.

Some of my own threads have been subjected to this treatment.

Like clockwise circling moths, favoring greatly their right wings, mesmerized by DU's shimmering brightness, they sparkle into tiny balls of flame at the merciless due dilligence of our MIRT Team.

Lately I've seen this ongoing theme in several unmoderated sites where unhinged bands of low-information posters are exhibiting a high degree of anger and paranoia as they fabricate a nefarious plan by the Obama Administration to declare martial law, confiscate firearms and send God-fearing Christian white folk into FEMA concentration camps.

Who comes up with this shit, Alex Jones? Glenn Beck? Drudge? Some psycho that I'm not thinking of?

Of course, none of their paranoid fantasies about Obama have come to fruition, however, that hasn't inhibited them from fabricating a fresh batch of lies to stir up the right wing groundlings that tend to show up around these parts.

In truth, whenever I come across their willingness to accept, without question, the lies and false accusations against the President and anyone else who doesn't accept their unhinged madness, I really question the general sanity of this country.

DU is a safe place for me from all of that crap. I don't need them coming here, in failed attempts to harsh all of our mellows.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. ACA and now there's a CT going around about the LAX shooter...

...that it's a "false-flag" thing done by Obama to distract the public from the shortcomings of the ACA website. As JFK said in November 1963, "We're heading into nut country".

[Ohio Joe]

2. We may be a bit more busy then usual but not much...

We are having the usual ones that return several times a day... The usual super obvious ones... The concern trolls... Actually joining MIRT and seeing just how many trolls come here, has been a wicked eye opener.

[murielm99]

6. Joining MIRT might just

curdle my view of humankind. The tea baggers and today's repubbies have warped it already.

Thanks for doing that work. I am not sure I have what it takes.

[Ohio Joe]

8. Yeah... It can be a bit ugly to see it all but it does have it's moments...

I got to ban someone claiming to be Colin Flaherty (a white supremacist scammer that writes over at WND) the other day... It brought a smile to my face

[Rhiannon12866]

41. And I once nuked MarcoRubio!

[OneGrassRoot]

23. I also want to thank you for the work all of you do...

It's truly appreciated.

[yuiyoshida]

3. Come on Mr. S...this Screams for Music!!

[boguspotus]

42. Great Video!

The whole show is excellent.

[longship]

4. Hooray for the MIR Team!

I love your moth circling the candle analogy. It's pretty much on the mark.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I think they are beginning to realize that they are increasingly becoming irrelevant in the

national discourse.

[wandy]

24. I think you're right and it goes beyond that.............

When you challenge someone's strong beliefs they tend to recede further into them. The more truth you bring to the table the more belligerent they become.
Try explaining to a birther not why but how a *.pdf is layered. It only convinces them further that it was how Obama's birth certificates was falsified.

The more desperate and out right wacky the republican party becomes the more some of it's members begin to see the fallacy.
Their belief structure is threatened so they become more entrenched and begin to strike out.

Its very much like throwing the chess board on the floor when you know your five moves from being in checkmate.

[liberal N proud]

7. I see that as a gooid thing right now

DU has been overrun of late with trolling. It has been frustrating because some of these current infiltrations are very well done and they are deceptive enough to keep them from being exposed making it difficult to alert their posts.

As I contemplate renewal of my membership, this is important to me that we are not faced with propaganda.

Glad to see that what I thought I was seeing was in fact that.

[zeemike]

14. Wow, that makes me feel like the red scare remix.

The trolls are so deceptive that it is hard to alert on them...trained I guess in the Troll School of deception...
What we need is a book of signs to go by so we can ferret them out...you know like dunking them in watter, and if they float they are guilty, and if the sink and drown then they are Innocent.

Troll hunting makes me nervous...

[skepticscott]

17. Wow, their posts are so much like

those of actual liberals that you can hardly tell the difference, eh? Or convince right-thinking DUers that they should be banned because they aren't conforming perfectly enough to some imagined party line?

That's sure scary, all right.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Sorry about that.

[Uncle Joe]

10. It's not "light," they're attracted to noise and D.U. makes a lot a racket, I watched World War Z

last night which explains the phenomena as to why they fling themselve off buildings and walls.

Thanks for the thread, MrScorpio.

[Mnemosyne]

13. That movie creeped me out! Zombies are supposed to be slow! nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. not since the Evil Dead series.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Some people would have you believe that, but they can move suprisingly fast.

[valerief]

30. I could only take 15 minutes of that last night. I like zombies but comedy ones not action ones. nt

[Zorra]

31. lol!

You have a wonderful sense of humor, Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

33. I wasn't trying to be funny, I'm series, Zorra.

[dsteve01]

11. NO HARSH-MELLOWS

here, bro, just good o'l smores over a campfire.

You dig?

[judesedit]

12. Fear & ignorance. Pity the fools, but respond to their assinine posts w/facts. They're brainwashed

unfortunately for us and the rest of the world. We're here to support you, MrScorpio

[SleeplessinSoCal]

15. I don't think it wa Obama's plan to drive the Right crazy,

but he has taken full advantage of their willingness to do so.

[indigoth]

22. Taken advantage?

I don't think he's done anything specifically aimed at "driving them crazy".

[backscatter712]

32. Crafty Obama, with that black skin of his!

Why, daring to show up in the Oval Office with that pigmentation shows how provocative he is!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

40. They're driving themselves crazy by promoting lies and believing them

He's taking advantage by appealing to that ever important middle ground and remaining sane. A truly challenging task given what is happening in the Middle East and on the home front.

[Uben]

16. Name removed

Nah, just a lot of posts with that in the title.

lol

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. "Who comes up with this shit, Alex Jones? Glenn Beck? Drudge?"

Go to the South and attend a Sunday service by the local right wing preacher.

[blue neen]

29. Actually, one could do the same thing here in Pennsylvania.

The right wing preachers and priests are more than willing to violate the separation of church and state in the so-called "North".

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. What's funny is the Right Wing infiltrated the churches for a total society takeover and all it did,

...was drive the younger generations away from the church.

[apnu]

20. They are all excited to bash PBO over ACA.

They're also happy because the shutdown is over and the ass kicking on that has stopped in the media. They were sullen and silent while that was going on.

[Rex]

21. I think a lot of it is spam promoting their for-profit website.

Spam trolls are the worst of the worst.

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. I think the extreme right is frustrated because they KNOW they are losing the argument in the court

of public opinion. There was a time when right-wing ideology was in ascendancy and liberal/progressive views were in retreat - Now it is the other way around - perhaps not altogether in policy quite yet - but in the courtroom of public opinion.

[giftedgirl77]

27. I'm just disappointed that I usually show up to

the damn thread about 10-15 minutes late so I see people's reactions but miss out on the madness.

It is obviously hunting season for them. Their party is falling apart, election season is around the corner & regardless of the reports ppl are getting insurance through ACA.

[DonCoquixote]

28. my 2 cents

People know that it takes a lot less to get Ts'ed, especially as some high profile, right wing types like dkf were deservedly marched off to the gallows.

[Sheepshank]

34. "Who comes up with this shit, Alex Jones? Glenn Beck? Drudge? "

My money's on Beck

[JHB]

35. The very same sort of people assured me in 1996 that by 1998 Clinton would have...

...invited the Red Chinese Army in (under the pretense of being blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers) in order to fulfill his dream of turning us into a socialist hellhole/"paradise".


This crap gets recycled over and over. The first time I heard about FEMA camps they were supposedly done by the Reagan administration early on, before they were backing the contras, in order to round up protesters and eliminate any "Vietnam style protests" over a military intervention in Nicaragua. My source for this (in the late 80s or early 90s) was a fellow who politically identified himself as "libertarian" and had a thing for conspiracy theories. And before FEMA even existed, the story used "gulags" and "concentration camps" for where good-hearted Americans would be put into in the event of an always-around-the-corner commie takeover.

[Ilsa]

36. In 2012, I asked a paranoid, RW FORMER friend why she

she Obama was going to take away her guns, put her in a concentration camp, etc when he already had 3 years to do that. She said he was waiting for his second term. I asked her why he would wait when there was no guarantee of a second term. Stunned silence was the answer.

[malaise]

39. Why surely you jest MrScorpio

It's that Obamacare Law thingy - it has unhinged the unhinged. They are defeated and deflated.

[Hekate]

43. The flocks come flapping by on their little batshit crazy wings, don't they?

Like clockwise circling moths, favoring greatly their right wings, mesmerized by DU's shimmering brightness, they sparkle into tiny balls of flame at the merciless due dilligence of our MIRT Team.

Sheer poetry, MrScorpio. Some manage to slip by, but we're grateful for the numbers that get caught.

[pinboy3niner]

44. Username "ourfuneral" was PPRd yesterday

Do you think he saw it coming?

[alp227]

45. I think all right wing trolls get "name removed" so they don't get the name recognition they want.

in the old days, all hidden messages still had the user name. Now when we zot newbie trolls we erase their names too! Good decision on admin part.