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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:17 PM Mar 2022

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

As Russia's support of Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein showed, Russia will also support progressives, as well as conservatives, who parrot its talking points. What is interesting is how willing Republicans are to make this deal with the devil in order gain some Russian sock puppet support. On the progressive side, you only have Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein who are kind of on the fringe among Democrats and progressives.

Yet, on the Republican side, you have Trump himself, members of his administration, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, etc., who are all-in on Putin and are willing to try push divisive content to divide the U.S., as well as parrot Russian propaganda. This is all the more amazing when you consider how in 1980s, Reagan was able to sell Republicans as being stronger on National Security by virtue of be willing to stand up to Russia. Now, Republicans are actively cheerleading a Russian invasion as it encroaches upon NATO countries.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166

Two days before the 2016 presidential election, an Instagram account called @woke_blacks posted a message in support of long-shot Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

“The excuse that a lost Black vote for Hillary is a Trump win is bs,” it read. “It could be late, but y’all might want to support Jill Stein instead.”

According to a report commissioned by the Senate, the account was a fake, part of the Russian campaign to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.

The report was one of two that leaked this week saying the Russian effort to disrupt the election specifically targeted black voters and harnessed America’s top social media platforms. But the reports contained another finding that was largely overlooked — the Russians also focused on boosting Stein’s candidacy through social media posts like the one from @woke_blacks.
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Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say (Original Post) TomCADem Mar 2022 OP
K&R, I'm 100% sure the message flood GZP is able to do is from outside help on all SM channels uponit7771 Mar 2022 #1
No SHIT! & We had to put up Cha Mar 2022 #2
So Many People W/Russian Connections Me. Mar 2022 #3
Yes.. the RF & Magat at the Cha Mar 2022 #4
One Hundred Million + Me. Mar 2022 #5
Yep. Nina Turner. calimary Mar 2022 #6
Right? ismnotwasm Mar 2022 #7
UP close and personal. Aloha, ismnotwasm! Cha Mar 2022 #10
Russia is calling up all its useful idiots/assets. nt SunSeeker Mar 2022 #8
Ikr.. crawling out of the woodwork. Cha Mar 2022 #11
So Russia's social media giants are BlueIdaho Mar 2022 #9
Black voters were targeted, more successful with young than old, as all anti-Democratic betsuni Mar 2022 #12
KnR Hekate Mar 2022 #13

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)
1. K&R, I'm 100% sure the message flood GZP is able to do is from outside help on all SM channels
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:19 PM
Mar 2022

... and live.

Russia money is a hellava drug, ... so far

Cha

(297,652 posts)
2. No SHIT! & We had to put up
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:37 PM
Mar 2022

with That Russian jill RF Stein Shit.


Stein & Grabber Gabbard are NOT DMES Or Progressive.. They're RF.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
3. So Many People W/Russian Connections
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:44 PM
Mar 2022

didn't we just hear something about Nina Turner?

BTW...Flynn was at the same dinner table with Putin and Jill in Russia.

Cha

(297,652 posts)
4. Yes.. the RF & Magat at the
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:53 PM
Mar 2022

head table.. there was a Lot of Twisting by those Trying to Explain that.

They have so much Fucking Blood on their greasy $$$$ money Grubbing hands

💙💛

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
9. So Russia's social media giants are
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 12:51 AM
Mar 2022

Jill Stein, Tulsi Gabbard, Fucker Carlson, and Nina Turner? Poor dumb bastards.

betsuni

(25,614 posts)
12. Black voters were targeted, more successful with young than old, as all anti-Democratic
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 01:04 AM
Mar 2022

propaganda is.

Russia especially used the 1994 Crime Bill as somehow evidence Hillary put everyone in prison because racist, and others who'd actually voted for that bill and called gang members "sociopaths" told their supporters Hillary was racist and totally put everyone in prison and destroyed manufacturing because there were trade deals in the nineties, responsible for the Iraq War and pretty much anything bad in America for decades blah blah blah corrupt establishment Wall Street.

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