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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Trump Campaign Staffer Behind Fake Joe Biden Site
From top to bottom, the website, JoeBiden.info, breezily mocks the candidate in terms that would warm the heart of any Bernie Sanders supporter: There are GIFs of Mr. Biden touching women and girls, and blurbs about his less-than-liberal policy positions, including his opposition to court-ordered busing in the 1970s and his support for the Iraq war. Pull quotes highlight some of his more famous verbal gaffes, like his description of his future boss, Barack Obama, as articulate and bright and clean. The introductory text declares, Uncle Joe is back and ready to take a hands-on approach to Americas problems!
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Yet in anonymously trying to exploit the fissures within the Democratic ranks fissures that ran through this past weeks debates Mr. Mauldins website hews far closer to the disinformation spread by Russian trolls in 2016 than typical political messaging. With nothing to indicate its creators motives or employer, the website offers a preview of what election experts and national security officials say Americans can expect to be bombarded with for the next year and a half: anonymous and hard-to-trace digital messaging spread by sophisticated political operatives whose aim is to sow discord through deceit. Trolling, that is, as a political strategy.
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Yet in anonymously trying to exploit the fissures within the Democratic ranks fissures that ran through this past weeks debates Mr. Mauldins website hews far closer to the disinformation spread by Russian trolls in 2016 than typical political messaging. With nothing to indicate its creators motives or employer, the website offers a preview of what election experts and national security officials say Americans can expect to be bombarded with for the next year and a half: anonymous and hard-to-trace digital messaging spread by sophisticated political operatives whose aim is to sow discord through deceit. Trolling, that is, as a political strategy.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/us/politics/fake-joe-biden-website.html|
18 more months of this bollocks on the way.
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Trump Campaign Staffer Behind Fake Joe Biden Site (Original Post)
Soph0571
Jul 2019
OP
"Oh, look! Tricky Dick has sent us a nice Wish-You-Were-Here postcard from Hell!"
struggle4progress
Jul 2019
#5
lark
(23,097 posts)1. First - fake news sites, 2nd - fake trolls piling on.
3rd - repugs pick it up and spread the lie, 4th - or sometimes 2nd later in the campaign - robocalls based on fake news. God, I hate those robocalls especially in the last few months before the election - especially living in NE FL that was red prior to 2016.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Curky
(45 posts)2. They're afraid of Joe
Because he's electable.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)3. Now we're all pretty darn good at shining flashlights on these cockroaches.
Loud and proud.
Let's Tell/shout/show it everywhere we have contact and influence ....
a whole new "underground" is afoot!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)4. Posted in GD a day or so ago:
We can expect months more of this fuckery.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212230410
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)5. "Oh, look! Tricky Dick has sent us a nice Wish-You-Were-Here postcard from Hell!"
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden