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Great reporting, Judd! It is about the Benjamins, isnt it? All about making the quick buck off of idiots in the MAGAT community with the FB page in this case. Of Patriotic BS like that Trump spewed at the UN yesterday to stir their stupid perception of him. As my Daddy used to say, "A fool and his money soon part, and there are plenty of fools around."
Yesterday people in VA got a tax rebate if $120 voted on by the Gen. Assembly and Gov. NORTHRAM ol black face himself, signed it.
The MAGATs in my community credited it coming from Trump on FB and cheered him on even after someone posted the link about and the fact it was the state issued check.
Yes. The problem is our 31% who back him, are that damn dumb. Stupidity, like chocolate milk comes from brown cows, is what we cannot defeat...
Finally the MSM is catching up and reporting on this more widely. I hope they are collaborating with you and will eventually credit you for your work and ideally, relieve you of some of this tedious, painstaking part of the work you've been doing.
The NY Times had an excellent article about the uselessness of Facebook's tools for analyzing data. It's a travesty how arrogant and cavalier they are about such important things. They are becoming, in my mind, as responsible as Fox News for the shredding of democracy and all the terrible consequences of that. (Not to be dramatic!)
Thank you once again for your outstanding work. Here's link to NYT article in case anyone is interested.
Back in the day - 5 years ago - I ordered a case for the folded flag from my FIL casket. That got me on every extreme right mailing list. Every email, after horrendous content, ended with a pitch for a product that “the gov’t doesn’t want you to know about “. For only $—-, you could cure cancer, restore virility, make $1M in your spare time, et al. I didn’t delete them. It showed me how the world works. Thanks for great reporting here.
Great reporting, Judd! It is about the Benjamins, isnt it? All about making the quick buck off of idiots in the MAGAT community with the FB page in this case. Of Patriotic BS like that Trump spewed at the UN yesterday to stir their stupid perception of him. As my Daddy used to say, "A fool and his money soon part, and there are plenty of fools around."
Yesterday people in VA got a tax rebate if $120 voted on by the Gen. Assembly and Gov. NORTHRAM ol black face himself, signed it.
The MAGATs in my community credited it coming from Trump on FB and cheered him on even after someone posted the link about and the fact it was the state issued check.
Yes. The problem is our 31% who back him, are that damn dumb. Stupidity, like chocolate milk comes from brown cows, is what we cannot defeat...
Rant over
Finally the MSM is catching up and reporting on this more widely. I hope they are collaborating with you and will eventually credit you for your work and ideally, relieve you of some of this tedious, painstaking part of the work you've been doing.
The NY Times had an excellent article about the uselessness of Facebook's tools for analyzing data. It's a travesty how arrogant and cavalier they are about such important things. They are becoming, in my mind, as responsible as Fox News for the shredding of democracy and all the terrible consequences of that. (Not to be dramatic!)
Thank you once again for your outstanding work. Here's link to NYT article in case anyone is interested.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/technology/facebook-disinformation.html
Back in the day - 5 years ago - I ordered a case for the folded flag from my FIL casket. That got me on every extreme right mailing list. Every email, after horrendous content, ended with a pitch for a product that “the gov’t doesn’t want you to know about “. For only $—-, you could cure cancer, restore virility, make $1M in your spare time, et al. I didn’t delete them. It showed me how the world works. Thanks for great reporting here.