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Fiendish Thingy

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6. Here's the truth about all this TikTok stuff:

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 09:00 AM

Jun 2020

https://apple.news/AFgLnUTtYSTWei4Roikp_VA

“ As the story spread throughout social media, it became slightly twisted — like a message at the end of a game of telephone. The common refrain shifted from “TikTokers and K-pop fans lead Trump to overestimate his crowd” to “TikTokers and K-pop fans are the reason fewer than 6,200 people showed up to the event.” The former assertion is almost certainly true to some degree, but the latter is not only unlikely but probably false.”

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The tiktok post that started the prank to order trump rally tix [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 OP

my new son in law is from Scotland and even he got two tix...and he put the link to all the samnsara Jun 2020 #1

So cool... Hate I missed it. Here's her follow up Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 #2

We should do this every single time he has a rally? When's the next one? OrlandoDem2 Jun 2020 #3

I agree! Read next up Arizona and Wisconsin. Wonder Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 #4

Nobody bought tickets - they were free, TikTok had nothing to do with low turnout Fiendish Thingy Jun 2020 #5

Corrected bought/ordered - thanks Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 #8

Here's the truth about all this TikTok stuff: Fiendish Thingy Jun 2020 #6

Both can be true, IMHO. Tiktokers caused campaign to THINK Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 #7

+1. The kids fed them bullshit data and made them brag and brag dalton99a Jun 2020 #9

Lots said that they weren't old enough to vote and this was their way Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2020 #10