Trump's world....

[concha]

4 hours ago, Warrior said:

 Biden’s World….

 

This happened just a minute or two from my son's apartment at UGA.

Just remember kids, don't blame the sanctuary and no walls party. They're serious about controlling the border.

 

[Warrior]

25 minutes ago, concha said:

 

This happened just a minute or two from my son's apartment at UGA.

Just remember kids, don't blame the sanctuary and no walls party. They're serious about controlling the border.

 

Two miles from my daughter’s apartment. 

[concha]

15 minutes ago, Warrior said:

Two miles from my daughter’s apartment. 

 

Reportedly the first homicide at UGA in 20 years.

Vote Dem.

 

[GoBigBlack]

Dementia Donny Wins South Carolina!

[I AM IRONMAN]

8 hours ago, GoBigBlack said:

Dementia Donny Wins South Carolina!

Saw where he knew where to exit the stage, didn’t mumble then whisper incoherently, need help and guidance from his wife … AND….didn't give the sign language person convulsions 🤣🤣🤣

[GoBigBlack]

2 minutes ago, I AM IRONMAN said:

Saw where he knew where to exit the stage, didn’t mumble then whisper incoherently, need help and guidance from his wife … AND….didn't give the sign language person convulsions 🤣🤣🤣

Defending dementia in a guy who can’t remember his kids… you must keep those goal posts on wheels.

[I AM IRONMAN]

4 minutes ago, GoBigBlack said:

Defending dementia in a guy who can’t remember his kids… you must keep those goal posts on wheels.

Well took a few days off from here, but that  didn’t take long!  Great reply!🤣

[I AM IRONMAN]

44 minutes ago, GoBigBlack said:

Defending dementia in a guy who can’t remember his kids… you must keep those goal posts on wheels.

Bad swing, big miss.  Back to the bench 🫵

[concha]

Would be amusing if it were fiction.

 

"Full Measure" host Sharyl Attkisson checks a long list of receipts demonstrating media bias against President Trump:

 

SHARYL ATTKISSON: We’re now moving into the most heated phase of the 2024 presidential campaign. Few things are as important to the two top candidates, Biden and Trump, as getting positive coverage in the news. Donald Trump had a decided disadvantage in 2016 and 2020 when it comes to the traditional press and social media.

Here at Full Measure, we’ve documented the media’s uniquely harsh treatment of Trump since he first declared his run for the White House, including an explosion in the trend of false reporting by formerly well-respected national news outlets. We’ve also been tracking media mistakes under the Biden presidency to see if he’d fall victim to the same syndrome.

In other words, is the media making an unprecedented number of sloppy but innocent errors, or is their behavior part of a calculated strategy? Today’s cover story: what the record shows.

When President Biden spent last Christmas on vacation with family, he continued the longest string in two decades of a U.S. president not visiting the troops during the holiday. But there was no criticism in the press like there had been of his predecessor, President Trump. With Trump, the media was eager to blare negative headlines, even when false.

In 2018, NBC incorrectly reported that Trump stayed home at Christmastime, the first U.S. president since 2002 to skip visiting the troops. The news went global. But it wasn’t true. The media had jumped the gun. Trump and First Lady Melania left the White House Christmas Day to visit U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

On Thanksgiving, Newsweek made a similar error, falsely reporting that Trump was spending the holiday “golfing” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. But the reporter had fabricated the golf story. Trump flew to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving to again be with the troops, making Trump the only president in U.S. history to visit troops in a combat zone both on Thanksgiving and so close to Christmas — though the press never reported that.

Three years into the Biden presidency, it’s clear: Trump was treated with unique unfairness by error-riddled reports in the media, always cutting in a negative direction. There’s been no similar trend under Biden. But first, a reminder of just a few of the worst media mistakes about Trump.

CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was “not happy” her father’s song was played at Trump’s inauguration. But Nancy Sinatra responded, “That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?”

TIME falsely claimed Trump removed the bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office.

TMZ reported Trump changed “Black History Month” to “African American History Month.” But Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton had all called it African American History Month.

BBC, The Guardian, and others reported that Trump wasn’t bothering to listen to a speech by Italy’s prime minister, since he wasn’t wearing translation headphones. Turns out he was wearing a translation earpiece.

Newsweek and others reported Poland’s First Lady refused to shake Trump’s hand — but later had to admit she did.

CNN edited Trump’s remarks to make it seem as though he didn’t realize Japan builds cars in the U.S. But the full statement made clear that he does.

Trump: You’ve been creating jobs for our country for a long, long time. Several Japanese automobile industry firms have been really doing a job.

CNN also edited a video to make it seem like Trump impatiently dumped fish food in the water at Japan’s palace. But he’d followed the lead of Japan’s prime minister.

Newsweek claimed Ivanka Trump “plagiarized” one of her own speeches, which is impossible, since plagiarizing is stealing someone else’s work.

The UK Telegraph apologized for at least eight mistakes in an article criticizing Melania Trump.

The New York Times, AP, CNN, and others excerpted a Trump comment as if he’d called all illegal immigrants "animals."

Trump: These aren’t people; these are animals.

Later corrections noted he’d been referring to members of the murderous MS-13 criminal gang.

The New York Times Magazine and CNN shared a story showing children illegally brought into the U.S., supposedly in cages. But the article and photos were actually from the Obama administration.

Agence France-Presse mistakenly reported that more than 100,000 children brought in by illegal immigrants were being held in detention. That was actually the total number in 2015 under Obama.

Time and others showed a crying Honduran child to illustrate Trump separating illegal immigrant parents from children. But the child hadn’t been separated from her parents in the U.S.

MSNBC falsely claimed Trump “banned” the Red Cross from visiting the immigrant children. The Red Cross said that wasn’t true.

MSNBC also falsely claimed that Trump had talked about “exterminating Latinos,” but later corrected that and apologized.

NBC News misidentified the focus of Trump’s praise in a speech as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Actually, Trump was talking about Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

Trump: And his name was Grant, General Grant.

The Washington Post and others falsely reported that Trump-supporting pro-life Catholic high school students were the aggressors in a confrontation in Washington, D.C.

Several news outlets featured an empty podium at Trump’s Fourth of July celebration in 2019 and said he didn’t draw crowds. But the photo was taken before the event. The actual crowd was huge.

The New York Times and others implied Trump hadn’t paid income taxes for 18 years. But the record shows he’d paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama.

Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported Special Counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed Trump’s bank records. That wasn’t true.

Politico falsely reported that Trump owed the Bank of China tens of millions of dollars in a loan coming due, as he dealt with China on coronavirus. Not true.

MSNBC falsely reported that Trump had loans with Russian co-signers.

Slate.com falsely claimed a Russian bank server had been illicitly communicating with Trump Tower.

And the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and many others falsely reported that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal story was “unsubstantiated” or “Russian disinformation.”

The New York Times reported that “Trump seized on [hydroxychloroquine] as a miracle cure.” Trump never said that.

Trump: It may work, and it may not work. But if it doesn’t work, it’s nothing lost by doing it. Nothing.

CNN and others criticized Trump for tweeting that Alabama would likely be affected by Hurricane Dorian. But official advisories had put Alabama in a projected impacted area.

Vox.com tweeted that Trump suggested he’d been a “9/11 First Responder.” He’d said the opposite.

Trump: And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder.

Multiple media falsely claimed Trump was golfing during a U.S. raid that captured the head of ISIS in Syria, and that a White House photo of Trump had been “staged.” But Trump was at the White House.

ABC aired video showing what it called a “slaughter” against Kurds by Turkey after Trump withdrew U.S. troops. But the video was file tape of a training show in the U.S.

And USA Today connected the eagle on a Trump campaign T-shirt with a Nazi eagle — later admitting “the eagle is a longtime U.S. symbol, too.”

After Biden was sworn in, what did we find? The media made fewer major mistakes. And the ones they did make still cut against Trump — or somehow favored Biden and his agenda. Here are just a few examples.

The New York Times published a fabricated claim that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by “pro-Trump supporters” who “struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher.” However, Sicknick died from a stroke.

The Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact, the Washington Post, and others falsely said the idea of Covid coming from a lab was a debunked “conspiracy theory.”

Web MD, USA Today, and others incorrectly dubbed the 2020 Sturgis, South Dakota Motorcycle Rally a Covid “Super Spreader” event. Data showed the rally had way below the national average of cases.

Associated Press falsely stated that 70% of recent calls to Mississippi Poison Control were from people who’d taken ivermectin for Covid. The actual number was reportedly 2%.

USA Today falsely claimed President Biden only checked his watch after the return of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan. In fact, Biden repeatedly checked his watch during the ceremony, as families of the fallen soldiers claimed.

Mediaite falsely declared that Joe Biden had not referred to baseball great Satchel Paige as a "Negro." In fact, he’d done just that.

Biden: You know I’ve adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time... his name was Satchel Paige.

And the Washington Post claimed Sen. Tom Cotton was wrong to say murderers like the Boston Marathon bomber would qualify for Covid stimulus checks under Biden. Turns out the convicted killer did receive a stimulus check in prison.

Trump sued CNN for $475 million for calling his challenges to the 2020 election ‘the Big Lie.’ He argued it defamed him because The Big Lie is a Nazi term. The judge threw out the case, saying CNN was using the term as an opinion, and it didn’t necessarily link Trump to Hitler or genocide of Jews.

[I AM IRONMAN]

57 minutes ago, concha said:

Would be amusing if it were fiction.

 

"Full Measure" host Sharyl Attkisson checks a long list of receipts demonstrating media bias against President Trump:

 

SHARYL ATTKISSON: We’re now moving into the most heated phase of the 2024 presidential campaign. Few things are as important to the two top candidates, Biden and Trump, as getting positive coverage in the news. Donald Trump had a decided disadvantage in 2016 and 2020 when it comes to the traditional press and social media.

Here at Full Measure, we’ve documented the media’s uniquely harsh treatment of Trump since he first declared his run for the White House, including an explosion in the trend of false reporting by formerly well-respected national news outlets. We’ve also been tracking media mistakes under the Biden presidency to see if he’d fall victim to the same syndrome.

In other words, is the media making an unprecedented number of sloppy but innocent errors, or is their behavior part of a calculated strategy? Today’s cover story: what the record shows.

When President Biden spent last Christmas on vacation with family, he continued the longest string in two decades of a U.S. president not visiting the troops during the holiday. But there was no criticism in the press like there had been of his predecessor, President Trump. With Trump, the media was eager to blare negative headlines, even when false.

In 2018, NBC incorrectly reported that Trump stayed home at Christmastime, the first U.S. president since 2002 to skip visiting the troops. The news went global. But it wasn’t true. The media had jumped the gun. Trump and First Lady Melania left the White House Christmas Day to visit U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

On Thanksgiving, Newsweek made a similar error, falsely reporting that Trump was spending the holiday “golfing” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. But the reporter had fabricated the golf story. Trump flew to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving to again be with the troops, making Trump the only president in U.S. history to visit troops in a combat zone both on Thanksgiving and so close to Christmas — though the press never reported that.

Three years into the Biden presidency, it’s clear: Trump was treated with unique unfairness by error-riddled reports in the media, always cutting in a negative direction. There’s been no similar trend under Biden. But first, a reminder of just a few of the worst media mistakes about Trump.

CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was “not happy” her father’s song was played at Trump’s inauguration. But Nancy Sinatra responded, “That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?”

TIME falsely claimed Trump removed the bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office.

TMZ reported Trump changed “Black History Month” to “African American History Month.” But Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton had all called it African American History Month.

BBC, The Guardian, and others reported that Trump wasn’t bothering to listen to a speech by Italy’s prime minister, since he wasn’t wearing translation headphones. Turns out he was wearing a translation earpiece.

Newsweek and others reported Poland’s First Lady refused to shake Trump’s hand — but later had to admit she did.

CNN edited Trump’s remarks to make it seem as though he didn’t realize Japan builds cars in the U.S. But the full statement made clear that he does.

Trump: You’ve been creating jobs for our country for a long, long time. Several Japanese automobile industry firms have been really doing a job.

CNN also edited a video to make it seem like Trump impatiently dumped fish food in the water at Japan’s palace. But he’d followed the lead of Japan’s prime minister.

Newsweek claimed Ivanka Trump “plagiarized” one of her own speeches, which is impossible, since plagiarizing is stealing someone else’s work.

The UK Telegraph apologized for at least eight mistakes in an article criticizing Melania Trump.

The New York Times, AP, CNN, and others excerpted a Trump comment as if he’d called all illegal immigrants "animals."

Trump: These aren’t people; these are animals.

Later corrections noted he’d been referring to members of the murderous MS-13 criminal gang.

The New York Times Magazine and CNN shared a story showing children illegally brought into the U.S., supposedly in cages. But the article and photos were actually from the Obama administration.

Agence France-Presse mistakenly reported that more than 100,000 children brought in by illegal immigrants were being held in detention. That was actually the total number in 2015 under Obama.

Time and others showed a crying Honduran child to illustrate Trump separating illegal immigrant parents from children. But the child hadn’t been separated from her parents in the U.S.

MSNBC falsely claimed Trump “banned” the Red Cross from visiting the immigrant children. The Red Cross said that wasn’t true.

MSNBC also falsely claimed that Trump had talked about “exterminating Latinos,” but later corrected that and apologized.

NBC News misidentified the focus of Trump’s praise in a speech as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Actually, Trump was talking about Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

Trump: And his name was Grant, General Grant.

The Washington Post and others falsely reported that Trump-supporting pro-life Catholic high school students were the aggressors in a confrontation in Washington, D.C.

Several news outlets featured an empty podium at Trump’s Fourth of July celebration in 2019 and said he didn’t draw crowds. But the photo was taken before the event. The actual crowd was huge.

The New York Times and others implied Trump hadn’t paid income taxes for 18 years. But the record shows he’d paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama.

Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported Special Counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed Trump’s bank records. That wasn’t true.

Politico falsely reported that Trump owed the Bank of China tens of millions of dollars in a loan coming due, as he dealt with China on coronavirus. Not true.

MSNBC falsely reported that Trump had loans with Russian co-signers.

Slate.com falsely claimed a Russian bank server had been illicitly communicating with Trump Tower.

And the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and many others falsely reported that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal story was “unsubstantiated” or “Russian disinformation.”

The New York Times reported that “Trump seized on [hydroxychloroquine] as a miracle cure.” Trump never said that.

Trump: It may work, and it may not work. But if it doesn’t work, it’s nothing lost by doing it. Nothing.

CNN and others criticized Trump for tweeting that Alabama would likely be affected by Hurricane Dorian. But official advisories had put Alabama in a projected impacted area.

Vox.com tweeted that Trump suggested he’d been a “9/11 First Responder.” He’d said the opposite.

Trump: And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder.

Multiple media falsely claimed Trump was golfing during a U.S. raid that captured the head of ISIS in Syria, and that a White House photo of Trump had been “staged.” But Trump was at the White House.

ABC aired video showing what it called a “slaughter” against Kurds by Turkey after Trump withdrew U.S. troops. But the video was file tape of a training show in the U.S.

And USA Today connected the eagle on a Trump campaign T-shirt with a Nazi eagle — later admitting “the eagle is a longtime U.S. symbol, too.”

After Biden was sworn in, what did we find? The media made fewer major mistakes. And the ones they did make still cut against Trump — or somehow favored Biden and his agenda. Here are just a few examples.

The New York Times published a fabricated claim that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by “pro-Trump supporters” who “struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher.” However, Sicknick died from a stroke.

The Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact, the Washington Post, and others falsely said the idea of Covid coming from a lab was a debunked “conspiracy theory.”

Web MD, USA Today, and others incorrectly dubbed the 2020 Sturgis, South Dakota Motorcycle Rally a Covid “Super Spreader” event. Data showed the rally had way below the national average of cases.

Associated Press falsely stated that 70% of recent calls to Mississippi Poison Control were from people who’d taken ivermectin for Covid. The actual number was reportedly 2%.

USA Today falsely claimed President Biden only checked his watch after the return of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan. In fact, Biden repeatedly checked his watch during the ceremony, as families of the fallen soldiers claimed.

Mediaite falsely declared that Joe Biden had not referred to baseball great Satchel Paige as a "Negro." In fact, he’d done just that.

Biden: You know I’ve adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time... his name was Satchel Paige.

And the Washington Post claimed Sen. Tom Cotton was wrong to say murderers like the Boston Marathon bomber would qualify for Covid stimulus checks under Biden. Turns out the convicted killer did receive a stimulus check in prison.

Trump sued CNN for $475 million for calling his challenges to the 2020 election ‘the Big Lie.’ He argued it defamed him because The Big Lie is a Nazi term. The judge threw out the case, saying CNN was using the term as an opinion, and it didn’t necessarily link Trump to Hitler or genocide of Jews.

Sadly, not shocking at all.  Expect 🦗from the 🐑

[DBP66]

[Atticus Finch]

On 2/24/2024 at 9:11 PM, concha said:

Or for those of us who have demonstrated that we can read charts properly, the number of border encounters plummeted during COVID and then *skyrocketed* again after reaching an all-time high in the middle of Trump's term.

So after reaching an all-time high there were some "new DHS tools" established. I wonder what that was about?

Fast forward to today, and the President's party negotiated "tools" to address the issue and the toady who claims to care about said issue cheers when those tools are rejected by his party.

A morally normal person would be ashamed.

But not concha.

[DBP66]

We saw mother Russian help Trump get elected the first time (and you wonder why Trump loves Putin) and it looks like they're all in for this election too....and seem to be winning right now as the House Republicons won's fund Ukraine.....what a sad sack of "fake" Americans they are....😪

Russia’s 2024 election interference has already begun

Dan De Luce and Kevin Collier

Mon, February 26, 2024 at 7:00 AM EST·9 min read

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Russia is already spreading disinformation in advance of the 2024 election, using fake online accounts and bots to damage President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, according to former U.S. officials and cyber experts.

The dissemination of attacks on Biden is part of a continuing effort by Moscow to undercut American military aid to Ukraine and U.S. support for and solidarity with NATO, experts said.

A similar effort is underway in Europe. France, Germany and Poland said this month that Russia has launched a barrage of propaganda to try to influence European parliamentary elections in June.

 

With Donald Trump opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine and claiming that he once warned a NATO leader that he would "encourage" Russia to attack a NATO ally if it didn't pay its share in defense spending, the potential rewards for Russian President Vladimir Putin are high, according to Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund.

“Not that they didn’t have an incentive to interfere in the last two presidential elections,” said Schafer, who tracks disinformation efforts by Russia and other regimes. “But I would say that the incentive to interfere is heightened right now.”

Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that there’s “plenty of reason to be concerned” about Russia’s trying to interfere in the 2024 election but that he couldn’t discuss evidence related to it. He added: “We’re going to be vigilant about that.”

U.S. officials and experts are most concerned that Russia could try to interfere in the election through a “deepfake” audio or video using artificial intelligence tools or through a “hack and leak,” such as the politically damaging theft of internal Democratic Party emails by Russian military intelligence operatives in 2016.

The type of pro-Russia online propaganda campaigns that thrived on Twitter and Facebook ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now routine on every major social media platform, though it’s rare for individual accounts to go as viral now as they once did.

Those influence operations often create matching accounts on multiple sites, which vary drastically in their moderation policies. Accounts from one pro-Russia campaign that Meta, the owner of Facebook, cracked down on late last year, an English-language news influencer persona called “People Say,” are still live on other platforms, though some are dormant.

 

US-NEWS-SC-PRIMARY-CROSSOVER-VOTERS-1-MB (Jason Lee / The Sun News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

A “People Say” account on X is still visible, but it has only 51 followers and hasn’t posted in almost a year. Its counterpart on Telegram, which has become a home for some Americans on the far right, is still actively posting divisive content and has almost 5,000 subscribers.

A perfect storm

Moscow and its proxies have long sought to exploit divisions in American society. But experts and former U.S. officials said Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, the country's deepening political polarization and sharp cuts in disinformation and election integrity teams at X and other platforms provide fertile ground to spread confusion, division and chaos.

“In many ways it’s a perfect storm of opportunity for them,” said Paul Kolbe, who worked for 25 years in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and is now a fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. “I think, for a lot of reasons, we will see the same approach, but amplified and, I think, with some of the constraints that you might have seen taken off."

In the 2022 midterm elections, Russia primarily targeted the Democratic Party to weaken U.S. support for Ukraine, as it most likely blames Biden for forging a unified Western alliance backing Kyiv, according to a recently released U.S. intelligence assessment.

In what appears to be an effort to deepen divisions, Russia has amplified the political dispute between the Biden administration and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over security at the Texas border over the past month. Russian politicians, bloggers, state media and bots have promoted the idea that America is headed to a new “civil war.”

It was a quintessential move by a Russian regime with a long tradition of trying to manipulate existing political rifts, like immigration, to its advantage, experts said.

But there’s so far no sign that Russia’s disinformation operation in Texas has had any significant impact, said Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council.

“So far, Russian operations targeting the U.S. have been opportunistic. They see whatever narrative is rising to the top, and they try to push it,” Brooking said. “Disinformation isn’t created in a vacuum. The more polarized a country is, the easier it is for foreign actors to infiltrate and hijack its political processes.”

The artificial intelligence threat

The bigger Russian threat to the 2024 election, Brooking and other experts said, could prove to be artificial intelligence-created fake audio.

An orchestrated deepfake or leak may not unfold on the national stage; instead, it could target a particularly crucial swing state or district, experts said. It might aim to discourage some voters from going to the polls or sow distrust about the accuracy of ballot counting.

The most likely disinformation scenario will be “hyper-personalized, localized attacks,” said Miles Taylor, a senior Trump administration homeland security official who has warned of the risks of another Trump presidency.

Deepfake audio, which is easy to create and difficult to detect, has been used in recent elections in multiple countries. In the U.S. last month, a fake Joe Biden robocall told New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in the state's primary. In the United Kingdom in November, a fake audio of London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for pro-Palestinian marches.

And two days before Slovakia’s parliamentary elections in September, a fake audio clip purported to show the leader of a pro-Western political party discussing how to rig the election. The audio was eventually debunked, and it’s unclear what effect it had on the election. But a pro-Russia party opposing aid to Ukraine won the most votes.

While an emerging cottage industry claims that software can identify whether audio or video is authentic or a deepfake, such programs are often wrong.

Past Russian efforts

Alleged Russian information operations against Ukraine over the past two years open a window into some of the Kremlin’s tactics.

A study published Wednesday by the Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET found that a pro-Russia campaign has been spamming Ukrainians with false and dispiriting emails about the war with claims of heating and food shortages.

In a coordinated effort near the start of Russia’s invasion in 2022, cyberattacks temporarily knocked key Ukrainian websites offline, while residents received spam texts telling them that ATMs in the country were down.

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in United States (Ukrainian Presidency / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Other apparent Russian efforts to sow division are much simpler.

Last year, celebrities who sell personalized videos on the website Cameo, including Priscilla Presley, Mike Tyson and Elijah Wood, were tricked into inadvertently recording messages that denigrated two major enemies of the Kremlin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Moldovan President Maia Sandu.

The messages were overlaid with text falsely claiming that the celebrities were calling for those leaders to step down. Representatives for Wood and Presley said the celebrities recorded the videos thinking they were helping a fan with addiction. A representative for Tyson said the videos of him were fake.

In the American mainstream

In the U.S., though, Russia’s propaganda themes are now often echoed in comments from some Republican lawmakers and pro-Trump commentators, including the portrayal of Ukraine’s government as deeply corrupt.

The adoption of Russian state rhetoric in America’s political debate is a victory for Moscow, experts said. Putin’s goal is to spread doubt and division among Americans.

“An equally nice outcome for them is just what we had last time, where a third of the country doesn’t believe the vote,” Schafer said. “Democracy is questioned; the system gets questioned. So they don’t necessarily need to see their guy win to have it be a good outcome for them.”

It remains extraordinarily difficult for a remote cyberattack to take over voting systems in the U.S. and change vote counts. The American intelligence assessment of the 2022 midterms found no indication that Russia had tried to hack into election systems or ballot counting that year.

But Kolbe, the former CIA directorate of operations official, said the Kremlin would most likely see trying to penetrate U.S. voting systems as a low-risk undertaking.

“I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t,” he said. “You’d be hard-pressed to find where they would see the risk part of the equation. It gets close to zero.”

Such interference could come with plausible deniability. On the day of the 2022 midterm elections, the Mississippi secretary of state’s website, which hosts the official polling place finder for voters in Mississippi, was knocked offline most of the day after pro-Kremlin hacktivists on Telegram called for supporters to join in a low-level cyberattack against it.

Still, U.S. officials and disinformation analysts say Russia’s ability to manipulate voters shouldn’t be overstated. When it comes to spreading disinformation and fueling distrust in election authorities and election results, the biggest threat comes from within America’s fractured, polarized society, not from the outside.

“I am very skeptical, whether it’s 2016 or 2024, that the United States political and media culture needs any push from Russia,” said Gavin Wilde, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who specializes in Russia and information warfare.

“The Kremlin has every interest in seeing an American public, or American leadership, that’s less inclined to support Ukraine, that’s less inclined to punish Russia. Those incentives are certainly there,” he said. “But we’re already doing a pretty good job of that at home. I don’t know how much of a nudge the Kremlin thinks it needs to lend it.”

[Atticus Finch]

But this reminds me of one of the all-time moments in board history when Blueliner claimed that border apprehensions were both up *and* down by 61%.

And both were positive things!

[concha]

36 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

Or for those of us who have demonstrated that we can read charts properly, the number of border apprehensions plummeted during COVID and then *skyrocketed* again after reaching an all-time high in the middle of Trump's term.

So after reaching an all-time high there were some "new DHS tools" established. I wonder what that was about?

Fast forward to today, and the President's party negotiated "tools" to address the issue and the toady who claims to care about said issue cheers when those tools are rejected by his party.

A morally normal person would be ashamed.

But not concha.

 

For those not paying attention,  here are a few things left out by Andy:

• The establishment and expansion and advertisement of sanctuary states/counties/cities by the left early in Trump's presidency.  
• The building of a wall to aid in border control under Trump. Construction was halted early in the Biden presidency by executive order.
• Trump actually strong-arming the government of Mexico to start helping to control the flow of illegal immigrants.

 

As regards reading charts, apparently Andy is too stupid to realize that Covid first appeared in the US in early 2020. NOT 2019 🤡 :

• Apprehensions grew early in Trump's presidency, <<shockingly>> just as the left began advertising their sanctuaries to the world.
• The number of apprehensions generally GREW (significantly) under Covid. 
• The "skyrocketing" happened right when Biden announced the deportation halt.

 

The facts are that:

• Trump worked to control the border:  ex. border wall, leaning on Mexico, Remain in Mexico policy
• The left has worked AGAINST border control: ex. establishment and advertisement of "sanctuaries", halting the wall, removal of Remain in Mexico policy
• The worst numbers in our history have ALL occurred under the current administration, the one representing the party of "sanctuaries" and that stopped border wall construction. Oh, and that is willing to go after states trying get the border under control where the federal government has effectively been guilty of dereliction of its legal and constitutional duty.

 

[Atticus Finch]

1 minute ago, concha said:

For those not paying attention,  here are a few things left out by Andy:

Your chart provided all the context. I merely know how to read charts and you don't. This has been demonstrated time and time again.

Your toady behavior has been well documented on this.

[DBP66]

1 minute ago, concha said:

 

For those not paying attention,  here are a few things left out by Andy:

• The establishment and expansion and advertisement of sanctuary states/counties/cities by the left early in Trump's presidency.  
• The building of a wall to aid in border control under Trump. Construction was halted early in the Biden presidency by executive order.
• Trump actually strong-arming the government of Mexico to start helping to control the flow of illegal immigrants.

 

As regards reading charts, apparently Andy is too stupid to realize that Covis first appeared in the US in early 2020. NOT 2019 🤡 :

• Apprehensions grew early in Trump's presidency, <<shockingly>> just as the left began advertising their sanctuaries to the world.
• The number of apprehensions generally GREW (significantly) under Covid. 
• The "skyrocketing" happened right when Biden announced the deportation halt.

 

The facts are that:

• Trump worked to control the border:  ex. border wall, leaning on Mexico
• The left has worked AGAINST border control: ex. establishment and advertisement of "sanctuaries", halting the wall
• The worst numbers in our history have ALL occurred under the current administration, the one representing the party of "sanctuaries" and that stopped border wall construction. Oh, and that is willing to go after states trying get the border under control where the federal government has effectively been guilty of dereliction of its legal and constitutional duty.

 

LOL..and then...the left with the help of righty Senators had a great plan to secure the border....but Donny said no....so in the end....you clowns dropped the ball...because you were told to by Trump....and our county suffers now and for the future thanks to the spineless house republican clowns....😪

[concha]

3 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

Your chart provided all the context. I merely know how to read charts and you don't. This has been demonstrated time and time again.

Your toady behavior has been well documented on this.

 

You literally were just exposed as a liar and fool (again).

It's almost like you enjoy it.

🤣  🤡

 

[Atticus Finch]

2 minutes ago, concha said:

•  The building of a wall to aid in border control under Trump. Construction was halted early in the Biden presidency by executive order.

Proof that you don't actually care about and don't actually *know* what the issue is. You just want to demagogue.

The issue is the vast number of people seeking asylum at ports of entry.

The wall is a red herring. It's just a meme at this point. No serious person actually considers it a solution to anything.

[Atticus Finch]

8 minutes ago, concha said:

• Trump actually strong-arming the government of Mexico to start helping to control the flow of illegal immigrants.

This is an ongoing process between two countries. Trump didn't do jack shit differently in this regard.

Again, you're not a serious person.

Biden, Mexico's president agree more border enforcement needed

[concha]

1 minute ago, Atticus Finch said:

Proof that you don't actually care about and don't actually *know* what the issue is. You just want to demagogue.

The issue is the vast number of people seeking asylum at ports of entry.

The wall is a red herring. It's just a meme at this point. No serious person actually considers it a solution to anything.

 

If I had focused solely on the wall you might have had a point. Instad, you're just proving that you have been exposed and are flailing around trying to recover.

 

 

[Atticus Finch]

9 minutes ago, concha said:

The facts are that:

• Trump worked to control the border:  ex. border wall, leaning on Mexico

My favorite concha is the one that strenuously makes claims without any evidence.

So for instance, Trump "working to control the border" is him talking about building a wall (that wouldn't actually do anything) and "leaning on Mexico" to control border crossings.

Both totally meaningless and amounting to nothing more than virtue signaling.

Yet, Biden agrees to the strongest immigration bill in decades and is called the leader of a "sanctuary" and "no walls" party.

It reminds me of when he claimed that Trump was great for black people because he signed a bill that gave money to HBCU's one time.

Totally unserious person who merely virtue signals.

[concha]

1 minute ago, Atticus Finch said:

This is an ongoing process between two countries. Trump didn't do jack shit differently in this regard.

Again, you're not a serious person.

Biden, Mexico's president agree more border enforcement needed

 

🤣  🤡

So Trump threatened Mexico with sanctions and got results. Puddin' Brain is talking to Mexico three years into his presidency and after things have gotten so bad that people even in his own party are howling to get things under control. Even to the point that wall construction has resumed.

https://rollcall.com/2023/10/05/biden-administration-resumes-border-wall-construction/

Biden administration resumes border wall construction

Mayorkas: There is 'an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers'

🤡

 

YOU

ARE

A

FOOL

 

[Atticus Finch]

13 minutes ago, concha said:

• The left has worked AGAINST border control: ex.

The "left" party negotiated for the strongest immigration bill in decades.

You know, actual substance.

You cheered the bait-and-switch that the "right" party did to defeat it.

You're not a serious person. Nobody here takes you seriously. You're a joke at this point.

[Atticus Finch]

15 minutes ago, concha said:

• Oh, and that is willing to go after states trying get the border under control where the federal government has effectively been guilty of dereliction of its legal and constitutional duty.

The federal government under the current President asked Congress to send him the toughest immigration bill in decades to sign.

The majority party (Republicans) refused.

All you have is rhetoric and empty words.

No action.

All posturing.