Who is Jim Bates?

[Baitball Blogger]

An acquaintance shared a post from a Jim Bates on Facebook and I suspect it's another false flagish meme.

"I live in Puerto Rico. We ARE getting help. From Army, Navy, FEMA, Volunteer Ministers and celebrities. Turn off CNN. They lie."

[spanone]

1. he must be one of the 5% that has power....fuck you jimmy

the 'president' is the true liar

[LuckyCharms]

2. Look at his...

I forget what it is called. In his "about" section. His likes or whatever that stuff is called in his "about" section on his timeline. You'll see a bunch of stuff in the Russian language.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Did you look it up already!

[LuckyCharms]

10. No, I happened to run across that yesterday. Can't remember if it was Jim Bates or not...

but he posted the same thing. When I went into his stuff, I noticed those Russian references.

[dchill]

3. That's Master Bates to you...

Mr presumptuous!

[LuckyCharms]

4. Haters gonna hate, masters gonna bate. n/t

[VOX]

5. Probably one guy in a bunker somewhere in Russia.

He shares the bunker with 999 other “Jim Bates,” all spreading right-wing-enabling crap online.

[Iggo]

6. Let's see some pictures and video, Jim Bates.

[Siwsan]

7. I was checking out a suspected troll on Facebook, and he had shared that post, too

And I was right - he was a major troll.

[Achilleaze]

9. A russian?

They are into every kind of dark, evil lying shit these days to prop up the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief...

[gratuitous]

11. I click through on Facebook posts like that

Sometimes it appears that there is a real person behind a Facebook account, but many times I have clicked through to find some stock photo, no history, no posts, and five "friends" or fewer on their account page. Sometimes with the female puppets, it will say, "If you want to see what Donna shares with his friends, sent him a friend request."

The first time I called out such an obvious puppet, I was a little nervous. But nothing happened. Nothing has ever happened to me for calling out a fake Facebook post. These accounts are set up and abandoned once the troll has spread his disinformation. Click through on Jim Bates and see if he has any friends or history. If he doesn't, call out his post as the stuff and nonsense that it is.