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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 06:09 AM Sep 2016

How The Trump Campaign Is Embracing Dirty Trickster Roger Stone’s Playbook

Donald Trump and his campaign are signaling a shift toward an election strategy laid out by conspiracy theorist, dirty trickster, and informal Trump adviser Roger Stone.

The plan: Plant enough lies in the MSM about Hillary and hope some of them stick.


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-trump-campaign-embracing-dirty-trickster-roger-stone-s-playbook/213410

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How The Trump Campaign Is Embracing Dirty Trickster Roger Stone’s Playbook (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2016 OP
Only one problem, everyone is sick and tired of Trump's lies C_U_L8R Sep 2016 #1
And throwing turdballs at the Clintons 24/7 has been GOP SOP since 1992... JHB Sep 2016 #2
Guess it also means he never has to come up with policy details. sinkingfeeling Sep 2016 #3
Lies only work if you're credible tinrobot Sep 2016 #4
Embracing Dirty Trickster Roger Stone is Conceding Defeat. Coyotl Sep 2016 #5

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
1. Only one problem, everyone is sick and tired of Trump's lies
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 07:19 AM
Sep 2016

I think Trump used the Stone strategy and bungled it up.
Same thing happened to chicken little and the boy who cried wolf.
People start tuning out the bullshit pretty quickly.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
2. And throwing turdballs at the Clintons 24/7 has been GOP SOP since 1992...
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 08:01 AM
Sep 2016

When they slough off, the Republicans cast aspersions on the fogbank of steam rising off the pile. They point to the white cloud and say "where there's smoke..."

Once it became clear they were simply out to bag Bill's head, his popularity went up.

And in previous years, their background people did the sewer work, not the guy up front.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
3. Guess it also means he never has to come up with policy details.
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:26 AM
Sep 2016

Just keep bragging how he's "the only one who can fix America."

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
5. Embracing Dirty Trickster Roger Stone is Conceding Defeat.
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:08 AM
Sep 2016

It can also be viewed as an admission of more than just defeat:

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