‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates

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Wednesday February 20, 2019 · 1:59 PM PST

2019/02/20 · 13:59

Not surprising to anyone who has been observing and participating in social media for the past 10 years, the very real disinformation campaigns by foreign actors designed to foment discord and chaos in the United States, particularly the 2020 election have begun in earnest.

According to Politico , review of recent data extracted from Twitter and from other platforms, as well as interviews with data scientists and digital campaign strategists shows concentrated attacks on Democratic Presidential Candidates. The goal of the coordinated barrage appears to be “undermining the nascent candidacies through the dissemination of memes, hashtags, misinformation and distortions of their positions.” But the divisive nature of many of the posts also hints at a broader effort to sow discord and chaos within the Democratic presidential primary.

According to Politico, “The main targets appear to be Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), four of the most prominent announced or prospective candidates for president.”

Now I don’t want to be alarmist, but bear in mind EVERYTHING YOU SEE ONLINE IS SUSPECT. Certainly some of these bad actors are cued up here on KOS. Everything you read and hear is suspect. Like Randi Rhodes used to say, “do your homework”.

In the meantime be very suspicious of flame wars and their participants.

Except me.

Funding boycott [aka "Feingold summer"]

MikeHickerson

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Tuesday May 22, 2007 · 7:57 PM PDT

2007/05/22 · 19:57

Kossack amsterdam , posting in Russ feingold's diary on the party collapse in regards to the Iraq funding bill has the perfect idea to channel our rage :

Maybe the netroots (22+ / 0-)

should organize a close down of financial support until they are listening.

A well organized action across the netroots for a day or two may very well attract their attention.

by amsterdam on Tue May 22, 2007 at 10:51:31 AM PDT

I'm down with that. How about you?

MikeHickerson

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Saturday May 19, 2007 · 4:04 PM PDT

2007/05/19 · 16:04

It's an open secret- Big Phama is experimenting on our troops in quest of a pill that will convert our soldiers into sleepless zombies who will kill with no feeling and there are numerous products flooding into the combat zone without any public studies as to long range effects. There's unbelievable companies working in Iraq proposing unbelievable things for our bodies through chemistry.

MikeHickerson

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Wednesday May 09, 2007 · 12:31 PM PDT

2007/05/09 · 12:31

Well, our govinator is getting all kinds of friendly press lately, what with his new sexy green campaign making him friends worldwide. He's tooling around in his Hydrogen powered Hummer. He's lecturing republican groups on the virtues of giving up the "question global warming" tactic, telling them "you'll become political penguins on an ice floe". This sounds really good on paper.

Problem is, that's all it is. Words on paper, like a script. Turn the page with me.

MikeHickerson

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Thursday February 22, 2007 · 2:40 PM PST

2007/02/22 · 14:40

There's no pussyfooting around this issue. It's a demonstration of every media expert's core knowledge base. It's inherent in human conditioning ( Except maybe in England). Social strata and high school cliques owe their heirarchies to it. And of course, Presidential politics at it's most basic depends on it.

As near as I can gather, it's why Dennis Kucinich is considered unelectable.

He's a total DORK.

And that's a shame, because his message and vision is needed now more than ever.

MikeHickerson

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 9:02 PM PST

2006/11/15 · 21:02

I was sorting through my post-campaign emails and I found in the section 249-301 a letter from a dear friend who I met in the early days of the Howard Dean campaign. She's a brilliant and urbane woman whose demeanor of not panicking under pressure of course put her in the enviable position every time there was an event here in the greater LA area of being the go-to lady who ran the operation behind the scenes. I never see enough of her and now she's in London dammit but that's another story. But lo and behold, the answer to all this Carville vs Dean kerfluffle:

HOWARD DEAN HAS BEEN HIRED BY THE LABOUR PARTY TO ADVISE ON HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY WIN AN ELECTION.
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A positive impeachment strategy ( why Pelosi is right)

MikeHickerson

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 2:30 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 14:30

I know everyone here worked HARD, very hard to get the Democrats back in power. As I dialed number after number for DFA and MoveOn, one of the motivating things for me was this image:

and this one:

and, dare I dream:

And I was LIVID at the prospect of Pelosi's statement about "impeachment-not going to happen."
But after a weekend of serious thought in between several celebratory bacchanalias, it occured to me that she was right.

But not like you're thinking..... Read More

Rumsfeld redux: WW2 Appeasers were RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS

MikeHickerson

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Saturday September 02, 2006 · 7:20 PM PDT

2006/09/02 · 19:20

With all he well-deserved outrage over Rumsfeld's ridiculous comparison of those against the Bush Administration's Iraq quagmire (non)policy to the appeasers of Hitler in the runup to World War Two, I was really surprised I saw little mention of the fact that those who sought to appease Hitler, and in many cases ally with him in the fascist cause, were actually RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS.

Seems logical once you realize what was at play then.
more post flippus maximus.
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Door to Door: Take heart, disheartened.

MikeHickerson

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Saturday July 29, 2006 · 3:23 PM PDT

2006/07/29 · 15:23

I've read many comments today about the state of things, particularly Zenbowl's excellent and thoughtful diary. In the process of responding to this this diary emereged.

Yeah, you guys, things seem disorganized and unfocused. That's because they ARE.

But you have to look at this very organic process from a step away, then things look a might more hopeful.
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Breaking---Ken Lay fakes death, dies in shootout at border

MikeHickerson

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 12:59 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 12:59

Nogales, AZ (PFC)

Ken Lay's bloated and bullet-riddled corpse lay rotting in the Nogales sun today as Federal authorities tried to piece together evidence and disassemble the explosive device Lay had with him when he met his end in a fusillade of bullets in response to Lay's opening fire with a gold-plated assault weapon once given to him by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Read More

To the Leftists, with all due respect

MikeHickerson

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 12:20 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 12:20

It may surprise some of you here that you are NOT really leftists; no, we have bought into this well manufactured mythos, we are, from a spectrum standpoint, centrists, and those to the right of us are, respectfully, right wing. Even if you are a registered Democrat, if you espouse certain right wing notions, like War and corporatism, you are right wing. Those to the left or outside the Democratic Party are referred to, respectfully, as "leftists" for purposes of this polemic. Read More

Today's WSJ Editorial Page: No Consensus on Global Warming -lying liars edition

MikeHickerson

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Monday June 26, 2006 · 1:39 PM PDT

2006/06/26 · 13:39

I saw An Inconvenient Truth on Saturday night. This weekend was awash with various Global Warming news features and specials it seemed. I thought that maybe after Al Gore's recent appearances on MSM shows together with the obvious impact of the movie's message, the argument was done.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Today's Wall Street Journal puts up another in a series of articles written by professional Global Warming skeptic Richard Linzen, who has major creds- he's the "Alfred P Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT" Oh by the way, in case you don't remember the Name, Alfred P. Sloan was a gazillionaire in 1934 and President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. Read More

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