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were creations of CA? They were provided for Trump to use in his campaigning? CA created and managed Trump's campaign and Trump was just their puppet?
sheshe2
(96,618 posts)
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts).
And the CEO of CA and his companion mentioned how they would plant it in the internet and let it spread with gentle prodding, just enough so poeple would not suspect it as being politically motivated.
That whole "Deep State" narrative spread though Republican and Democratic camps. Last night, MSNBC (I think Hardball) had a survey that showed more Democrats believe in the Deep State than Republicans. So, it seems like the message resonates on some common ground between both party groups.
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Sophia4
(3,515 posts)backtoblue
(13,126 posts)The Puppet used "any means necessary" to get elected. Greed, ego, and apathy. It's hard to figure out who's using who to get their agenda realised.
Volaris
(11,506 posts)Putin needed a Bitch.
Trump needed cash.
The Republicans needed Power.
Their donors 'needed' a tax cut.
This is what the summation of Muellers investigation will be.
BigOleDummy
(2,274 posts)... Well said.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Would make a great poster or t-shirt
mshasta
(2,108 posts)coming to theaters summer 2018
Volaris
(11,506 posts)Bannon was the only one with anything that could be called 'higher ideals'; everybody else was in it for the payday.
And Bannon is fuckin crazy. It's shock doctrine, domesticated. I think Chris Hedges was probably right.
global1
(26,475 posts)The base learning that he isn't the linguistic genius he's made himself out to be. That the lines they thought were 100% Trump were just words from a script he was given to read and repeat to them. That even his using and calling out 'crooked hillary' was a fraud. That he was using them just like he was being used - as a puppet.
backtoblue
(13,126 posts)Some won't care....
CrispyQ
(40,807 posts)they will never admit when they are wrong. In fact, they often double down. Just like Trump.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)who coined the phrase in 2006 to campaign against the Abramoff GOP Congress.
Our Trump-infatuated media gushed over Donnie's supposedly clever linguistics creation that wasn't even his.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Skittles
(170,204 posts)BadgerMom
(3,392 posts)CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)Fake News comes from too. Do you really think don the con could up with anything on his own. Only thing he thinks with is his teenie weenie.
Celtic
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,446 posts)Nice T-Shirt, Maria:

Also Maria Katasonova:
Also Maria Katasonova:
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(44,446 posts)CrispyQ
(40,807 posts)I'll bet there are days that Putin is thinking, "I had no idea he was this fucking stupid."
oberliner
(58,724 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Often, the discovery of small details adds greater context to the whole. As it's doing in this case.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If their messiah didn't come up with all his brilliant sayings, if he's just parroting memes fed to him by Russian trolls, some of them might begin to doubt his powers. Some of them might begin to question their previous fealty to a man who tells it like it is when they find out that he really just tells it like he's been told. Those feet might just be made of clay overlaid with gilt.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)eleny
(46,176 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)But if people are going to allow themselves to be led instead of doing research, tactics like that work. Large numbers of democrats bought into those caricatures during the primary.
emulatorloo
(46,151 posts)They analyzed each of the profiles by running them thru a computer to get a psychological profile of their fears and paranoia, as well as their habits.
Besides Trump folk they targeted potential Clinton voters and sent false messages designed to convince them to literally be scared to vote for her.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)They should flog this fact until every rabid idiot shouting those horrific slogans realizes it wasnt the brilliance of their leader, that he was indeed a puppet and his words meant nothing but Me! Me!
dameatball
(7,660 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)DBoon
(24,824 posts)Cambridge Associates seems to specialize in scientifically targeted Nazi propaganda
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Donald Trump Supporters Are Using a Nazi Word to Attack Journalists
http://time.com/4544562/donald-trump-supporters-lugenpresse/
emulatorloo
(46,151 posts)Worth watching if you havent seen already
iluvtennis
(21,480 posts)Cha
(317,721 posts)about right?
RussBLib
(10,464 posts)I remember when Trump first tried that phrase. He said he didn't like it, but the crowds loved it, and so he loved it.
He gets this phrase from CA, tries it out, it resonates, so he uses it.
He's a total con man, a media creation, and we are paying the price for stupidity.
BSdetect
(9,048 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)They literally tested Nazism on their focus groups and decided it was a winning message.
Trump used a campaign strategy firm run by his campaign manager that decided the best way to appeal through voters was a combination of racism of authoritarianism. They literally tested Nazism on their focus groups and decided it was a winning message.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210387823
