Jacob Wohl is the Carter Page of Jim Hofts. Bless his heart!
Wohl also appears to have set up a company, Potomac Intelligence, to use in the scheme, complete with fake LinkedIn pages. Minutes after I called him and Burkman, the website was taken down, the LI pages deleted, and both its phone numbers disconnected https://t.co/9RDYOe5aAw
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 30, 2019
From The Daily Beast (emphasis mine):
A pair of right-wing provocateurs are being accused of attempting to recruit young Republican men to level false allegations of sexual assault against Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
The details of the operatives’ attempt emerged as one man suddenly surfaced with a vague and uncorroborated allegation that Buttigieg had assaulted him. The claim was retracted hours later on a Facebook page appearing to belong to the man.
A Republican source told The Daily Beast that lobbyist Jack Burkman and internet troll Jacob Wohl approached him last week to try to convince him to falsely accuse Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, of engaging him sexually while he was too drunk to consent.
The source who spoke to The Daily Beast said Burkman and Wohl made clear that their goal was to kneecap Buttigieg’s momentum in the 2020 presidential race. The man asked to remain anonymous out of a concern that the resulting publicity might imperil his employment, and because he said Wohl and Burkman have a reputation for vindictiveness.
But the source provided The Daily Beast with a surreptitious audio recording of the meeting, which corroborates his account. In it, Wohl appears to refer to Buttigieg as a “terminal threat” to President Donald Trump’s reelection next year.On Monday, a separate individual using the name of Hunter Kelly published a post on the site Medium in which he alleged that Buttigieg sexually assaulted him in February. That post was tweeted out by David Wohl, Jacob’s father, and quickly re-written by the site Big League Politics, which is known as a landing ground for right wing conspiracy theories.
Back in March I wrote that the 2020 election cycle was going to be an information war. I’m going to add something to that assessment, which holds up pretty well as every one of the five lines of attack have been hit since the attack on the synagogue on Saturday. Specifically, every single Democratic campaign, the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, and the various organizations and groups – from think tanks to unions to advocacy organizations – all need to establish counter-influence operations teams ASAP!!!! A failure to do so should be seen as malpractice.
Open thread
NotMax
Truth and Wohl do not occupy the same dimension.
Keith P.
He probably feels pretty confident that Trump would pick it up and blare it all over Twitter, no matter how , forcing several nights of wall-to-wall coverage I would assume he thinks he’d get pardoned for his trouble, and that wouldn’t be a stretch. There has to be at least a dozen operatives out there who will commit *any* dirty trick in hopes of a Machiavelli pardon. But lots of people will still go to jail for it….Jacob Wohl will not fare well there
SiubhanDuinne
ROFL!!
zhena gogolia
Interesting that they think Buttigieg is such a threat.
clay
How is this mother fucker not in jail yet?
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve also got this one saved for when I need it:
Mike in NC
I have a sneaking suspicion — don’t ask me why! — that the Right Wing Smear Merchants will be ginning up bullshit about all of the Democratic candidates very soon, and for the next year. But Bernie can relax.
Adam L Silverman
@clay: Dad’s an attorney in LA.
TenguPhule
@Mike in NC:
Unlike Sharks, Republicans don’t practice professional courtesy.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
(best Paul Lynde voice) Don’t quit your day job.
;)
TenguPhule
@clay:
White. Republican. Male.
SATSQ.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@zhena gogolia: One of the big reasons is that he is a boring gay Christian (other than being a competent democratic party member). He can speak in, I don’t know the exact term, Christian dialect, and is a tremendous threat to the religious right, primarily with the “all Christians are good people Christians”, but who don’t think about politics that much.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike in NC: Bernie’s people have created their own problem.
The Russians/GRU, the Chinese, the DPRK, and the Israelis will be inside this system and watching everything within 72 hours.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
More at the link.
Gin & Tonic
How do you make it from one day to the next being this fucking stupid?
SiubhanDuinne
It is astonishing, and disgusting, and not at all surprising, that Jacob Wohl and the rest of the RWNJatariat are able and willing to conflate gayness with predatory behaviour. Fuck him. Piece of shit.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Also very excellent!
Kay
Why do people even get involved with this stuff? It’s just poison.
CarolDuhart2
Wohl is an example of Republicans huffing their own supply. Stunts like these don’t work on
Democrats these days. They are unaware of how things have changed since Obama, let alone post-Trump. Who is this stunt aimed at?
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Autonomic nervous system. Also, he lives at home with his parents, so his mom looks after him. It isn’t quite Darwinian survival of the fittest, but it’ll do till he pulls this crap on the wrong person and either gets arrested and incarcerated or perforated and rapidly assumes ambient temperature.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Peel the BERN. There’s asking for trouble and then there’s begging, pleading, imploring for trouble.
Adam L Silverman
I’d like to report a murder:
Mary G
Buttigieg should sue, even though as a public figure, he can’t win. Also, too, Jacob Wohl is the most incompetent Roger Stone yet.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
These are people who give the limbic system a bad rep.
CarolDuhart2
It’s asking for trouble having a system where names can be added to a list without knowledge and consent. House parties are one thing: but adding a neighbor can be a problem.
eemom
They’re silent about St. Bernard because they’ve got a Library of Congress-sized stash of TRUE shit about him in an underground bunker being guarded by three headed dogs, waiting to be unleashed if their collective wet dream of him being the candidate comes true. Just like in, you know, 2016.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: What they’re going to facilitate is identity theft, Information Operations, influence ops, and Psychological Operations against their own supporters and everyone connected to them. This is basically shooting your own troops and blowing up your own vehicles and tanks.
zhena gogolia
@eemom:
Yep.
SiubhanDuinne
BTW, “The Truth, the Wohl Truth, …” is crazy genius!
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Almost – almost – worth it to sign up everyone with a certain last name which rhymes chump.
Ruviana
@Gin & Tonic: This is what I was wondering. How does this guy get his pants on in the morning?
Barbara
I believe that Jacob Wohl currently has the distinction of being the youngest person ever banned for life from the securities industry. Not content to make it to the finals of the Grifter Academy Awards, financial services category, he wants a shot in the category for political stunt men. In case you missed it he was one of the duo who tried to fabricate a charge of rape against Robert Mueller, while his cohort attended the press conference with his fly open the whole time. I keep waiting for Alan Funt to pop out, but they keep not making sense all on their own time. No matter how briefly that post was public, Buttigieg should sue them.
Icedfire
Wohly Moly, that’s a steaming pile of crap right there.
On an aside, is there any semblance of choice regarding the ads on the site? I can no longer access BJ on mobile due to invasive pop-up redirect ads, and it’s not a whole lot of fun tracking down which of the side banner ads suddenly goes Linda Blair and blares cheesy music every 90 seconds or so.
Barbara
@Mary G: He can win. This was totally fabricated.
Jay
@Mary G:
The people “used” by Wohl can sue, but they would probably need a legal assist.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: If I had been that stupid, my mother would have changed the locks while I was out.
NotMax
@Icedfire
Ad blockers are your friend.
Mr Stagger Lee
@clay: Because he has White Skin, AHHHHHH to be blessed, with such an advantage!
Peale
i really have no word. Has there been campaign by the mayor of Minneapolis and its police thug union to make wohl pay for that false alarm? Some crapola DA going to a grand jury to get him a longer sentence than Paul Manafort? White people crying yet about the sanctity of the boys in blue and their precious time?
Kay
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Wait, wait, don’t tell me, he weighs 400 pounds, right?
wasabi gasp
but russians
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: Based on the pictures, maybe 120 lbs soaking wet. In lead underwear. But next to his itty bitty wee bodyguard, he looks Yuuge!
plato
(In)Famous last words.
What an asskissing asshole.
burnspbesq
@Keith P.:
Wohl should be worrying about civil liability. Mayor Pete is a public figure, but Wohl is the poster boy for reckless disregard for truth.
Adam L Silverman
Speaking of shondas:
SFAW
@clay:
Jail? How has that motherfucker not had the shit beaten out of him, repeatedly?
I was about to try to figure out whether he was more vile than Jimmy O’Keefe, or vice versa. Then I realized: what the fuck does it matter? They’re both vile, mendacious motherfuckers, who should be kicked to the curb — literally — for all the evil they’ve foisted on this country.
Peale
@Kay: well they put two “Brooks Brothers Rioters” on the Supreme Court for life. The least they can do is put some dishonest gay man in charge of the Post Office or something.
Adam L Silverman
Speaking of shondas and itty bitty wee people:
Kay
@plato:
It’s awful. Embarrassing to read. At the least the rest of them had the decency to just slink away quietly into the private sector. He has to pen this ridiculous self-aggrandizing, Trump ass-kissing sermon and then publish it.
BruceFromOhio
@eemom: Cue the harp. Or tiny violins.
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
Now now. Let’s not skinny-shame.
BruceFromOhio
@Kay: Sheesh, no negotiating? Might as well promise getting boiled in oil.
eemom
@Barbara:
OT: gave my notice today. Happy as a clam.
Sherparick
@Gin & Tonic: It helps you if you are white, rich, & Male. After all, you have never been accountable for anything your whole life.
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: That’s not kosher.
(((CassandraLeo)))
I mean, this certainly makes it look like the RW sees Buttigieg as a serious threat… which makes me that much likelier to take him seriously as a candidate. So maybe they didn’t think their cunning plan through.
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: Right. He speaks the evangelicals’ dialect very fluently. As (among other things) a lapsed Lutheran I have a passing familiarity with it… enough to know that he speaks it much better than I ever have. He’s a very significant threat to them in this respect in a way that I think most of our other candidates might not be – he has the potential to cause fissures in the evangelical movement that I don’t actually see any other Democratic candidate currently running possessing. To be clear, I’m still Team Warren or Harris, but I don’t think we should underestimate Mayor Buttigieg precisely for that reason, and I can see a very strong argument for making him our VP.
I’ll admit, though, that something like half of this is just that I want to see him wipe the floor with Mike Pence in a debate. I’d just be afraid of overdosing on schadenfreude.
Barbara
@eemom: Keep me in the loop!
Kay
@BruceFromOhio:
I was pleased they think Pete is a “terminal threat” to Trump, then I remembered they’re morons, so they’re probably wrong.
Redshift
I dunno, I’d say the Carter Page of James O’Keefes, personally.
zhena gogolia
@(((CassandraLeo))):
I don’t hear him as “evangelical,” just middle-of-the-road Christian. He sounds like someone in my church.
NotMax
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
Hey there. Good to virtually see you.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@eemom: Congratulations!
Redshift
@Kay: Yeah. They’re not very bright. They see Mayor Pete as a threat because he was a media darling, not because they have any special insight.
Barbara
@(((CassandraLeo))): No, really, these guys are clueless. I wouldn’t draw any rational conclusion from this pair of misfits.
BruceFromOhio
@(((CassandraLeo))): This is not to be taken lightly. The deity-botherers in my realm have cast their lots with the two-bit ratfuck soulless criminals because of language. If there was a magic bullet to putting the GOP down once and for ever, it’s splitting the evangelical vote. If the grifters sense a threat, we do well to take note.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@zhena gogolia: To be clear, he doesn’t come across to me as “evangelical” specifically (and I actually don’t know whether my old church would’ve qualified as evangelical; possibly not). I just mean he speaks their language extremely well – well enough that he’s already causing fissures among American Christians. Moreover, he’s exposing some of their leaders (looking at you, Franklin Graham) as the horrifying bigots they are. So yeah, definitely glad to have him in the race, and that’s not even getting into the barriers he’s shattering for queer people in America.
@Barbara: Jacob Wohl is undeniably a moron, but these two aren’t the only GOP personalities that seem scared of Buttigieg, so there’s that!
Barbara
@Kay: Yeah, maybe it is a decoy operation to get all of us to support him — more likely it is the manifestation of the gay panic that affects the Republican base.
Tokyokie
@Mary G:
Actually, these idiots’ behavior would seem to have cleared the obstacle of absolute malice, the standard public figures suing on a defamation claim must meet. And absolute malice is publication of material that the defendant either knew was false or showed reckless as to the material’s veracity.
Dr Ronnie James DO
@Adam L Silverman: On that note, have you seen this? Maybe the strongest take on Netanyahu I’ve seen in some time:
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2019/04/25/the-most-pro-israel-president-ever/
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@(((CassandraLeo))): A Warren/Buttgieg or a Harris/Buttgieg ticket would be near-optimal in my eyes. The VP debate would be epic. Although there MIGHT be a vice presidential debate, unfortunately, I’d put $5 down that there will not be a presidential debate next year.
@NotMax: *Waves from Albuquerque*
Kay
@Redshift:
The thing I like most about having all the candidates is we get to hear from someone else besides the giant, loudmouth douchebag. Mayor Pete can have all the media he wants. It’s an improvement over a steady diet of Donald Trump talking, talking, talking for 3 years.
Redshift
@Adam L Silverman:
In addition to the obvious problems, it seems like the main point of this project is for BernieWorld to have their own separate voter database they can refuse to share with the Democrats if they are ungrateful enough not to nominate him, no?
dimmsdale
Adam, what would a ‘counter-influence team’ do, exactly? In a weird kind of way, it sounds like fun, although the more I try to imagine it, the less I can figure out what you mean exactly. Something slightly clandestine, entrapping scammers and fraud artists trying to put one over on your candidate? Seriously, though, say more!
Adam L Silverman
@Dr Ronnie James DO: I have not. Thanks. I have that new biography of him in the queue to read.
Sherparick
@Adam L Silverman: Dermer is both a right-wing operative for Likud & the Republican Party. He knows this a calumny. Although one does find some ironic amusement at the way Dermer calls Stephens, Weiss, & Friedman’s employer, Sulzberger owned NYT, anti-semitic.
Adam L Silverman
@Redshift: I think that’s what they think they’re creating plus something similar to what Cambridge Analytica had to work with with all the Facebook data they stole.
BruceFromOhio
@Dr Ronnie James DO: Just for the record, I think you have the best nym ever seen in these parts. Nicely done!
BruceFromOhio
@dimmsdale: Gaia, sign me up! When do we get started?
Adam L Silverman
@dimmsdale: I’ll do a full post on it later (tomorrow or the next day), but basically you have a group of people who understand:
1) Information Operations
2) Influence Operations
3) Psychological Operations
4) Red Teaming (analyzing everything as if you’re the opponent/adversary)
And they are cyber enabled. Meaning they have some tech folks tasked to work with them. This allows you to both try to anticipate (Red Teaming) what your opponents/adversaries are going to do, how they’ll respond, etc and to counter message – proactively, in real time response, and, if necessary (something was missed), retroactively – to combat the information, influence, and psychological operations directed against you. This includes getting some machine learning guys to design some search programs that allow one to have automated information scraping using preset parameters, as well as real time keyword requests to build as comprehensive a picture as possible of the operational environment, including the information environment. These types of teams should also be advising and assisting on all lines of messaging – from the candidate to the surrogates to the TV, radio, print, and online advertising, to social media messaging.
debbie
There need to be lawsuits, if only on principle.
Jay
@Redshift:
@Adam L Silverman:
It’s also a saleable asset, if it survives enemy action and penetration.
I want the QAnon lists,…..
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
And Real Time doxxing
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
Autonomous breathing and hunger pains.
Was just thinking that the right has to stoop to this level because they have nothing else. None of their “ideas” are any deeper than steal everything not tied down and cover their tracks with bullshit. At least they are no longer trying to hide it. And that may be the level of moron left. And most of the MSM still defends them. Not a good look for them.
I also wonder if Vlad recruits only morons so everyone will think how stupid they are or if morons are the only ones stupid enough to fall for this level of charm.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Or, as it is referred to among our little local group o’ friends, Facesieve.
O. Felix Culpa
Young Mr. Wohl strikes me a very sick puppy. He needs help, and better parents. Otherwise he’ll waste his life in hapless malevolence.
opiejeanne
@Adam L Silverman: I thought Mrs Wohl had washed her hands of both her husband and her idiot son not long after the stupidity regarding Mueller and trying to find a woman to accuse Mueller of improper behavior. .
Dan B
@Keith P.: It is logical that trump would broadcast the Pete Butt preys on young boys with liquor and candy. But.. It’s bern picked up and repeated by Wilmerites and, most depressingly, by some Harris supporters. There is talk that some feel Pete is a threat to her campaign. I’ve been saying that attacking Dems like Pete, garnering attention as a shiny new story generator, but probably limited in appeal by a lot of things people won’t tell pollsters, is likely to do nothing more than divide the Dems. It’s fair to question political aproaches but we’ve got to watch out because moderately informed voters are likely to hear only the loudest talking points.
I’ve already heard that Kamala was a mean boss. Maybe it’s true but I really need a lot more corroboration and reasons why this means diddly squat. But the label Dems Divided is a tool for suppressing enthusiasm and turnout. I believe Pete can bring back some christians and some white midwesterners and Kamala can be carried on with that little extra push but not if her supporters fall for the latest outrage.
We’ve got real, and seriously damaging, policy that Biden has promoted. The innuendo is a distraction.
Rant over..
Adam L Silverman
@Dr Ronnie James DO: Thanks, it is a good column.
mrmoshpotato
STOP IT WEEKLY WORLD NEWS! JUST STOP IT!
I’m not sure what Wohl and Burkman should be beaten with, but there’s definitely something.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
Wohl has a concealed carry permit.
eemom
@Barbara:
Will do!
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
Thank you!
@Adam L Silverman:
Why? I’m not a top secret security dude.
mrmoshpotato
@BruceFromOhio: You don’t happen to watch the Russell Howard Hour, do you?
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: Doubtful. It is almost impossible to get a conceal carry permit in California. Especially in LA County.
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: Clams, clams are not kosher.
rikyrah
1.why is he not in jail?
2. This shyt ain’t funny. Black men have died for less.???
--bd
@Icedfire: firefox add on U Block Origin is working wonders for me on an android phone.
randy khan
@Adam L Silverman:
The BERN seems ripe for, ah, people testing the limits of the system.
rikyrah
@Adam L Silverman:
I hope that you will be doing a front page post about this abomination ??
randy khan
@Mary G:
As a public figure, you absolutely can win a defamation suit if the party responsible for the lie knew it wasn’t true. It’s only when the falsehood was made without knowledge that you have a problem.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: It’s on the list, which gets longer by the day.
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
IF you were so inclined to want to use something on him other than official handcuffs and say, 10 yrs at the gray bar hotel, I’d bet that the front bumper of a semi truck going 60 would suffice. Not that I would drive the truck, I’ve already been hit by a smaller truck, just an example of a large enough thing, applied with enough force to actually achieve a reasonable end result.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
@Adam L Silverman: Cersei
The Mountain
Tywin
Walter Frey….
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
https://www.change.org/p/california-attorney-general-xavier-becerra-and-orange-county-sheriff-don-barnes-jacob-wohl-should-not-be-able-to-keep-his-concealed-weapon-permit
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Then Jesus from The Big Lebowski can take care of it.
“Jesus.”
“You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
plato
I will give him this. He sure knows how weak and corrupt the entire US legal system is. That goes for the so called ‘institutions’ also.
plato
@Kay:
The corrupt asshole was painted as a savior who was protecting mueller.
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: I never said it would be me giving him a beat down.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
@plato:
I do believe Mr Rothkopf is a VSP
dimmsdale
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks, Adam, I’ll be very much looking forward to the post. I have no idea (but I’ve been wondering lately) exactly what sorts of cyber skulduggery are being waged and weaponized, both to influence voters and to change public narrative on social media. I also think there’s a need for a voter-education project involving how to tell when you’re being influenced honestly (like it used to be before social media), or suckered dishonestly by paid info/influence professionals.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: I’ve never read any book by George RR Martin, nor have I watched any of the series on HBO.
Dr Ronnie James DO
@Adam L Silverman: Glad you liked it. That blogger occasionally hits one out. It’s so rare to see somebody forcefully make a case for anything non-Likudnik these days.
Jay
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
Walder Frey
Dr Ronnie James DO
@BruceFromOhio: Thanks, man! I hoped it would shine for somebody…like a rainbow in the dark.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: Great, there’s a petition, is there actual proof he has a conceal carry permit?
randy khan
@Tokyokie:
Come to think of it, the really fun lawsuit would be if the guy who they said was sexually assaulted sued them, since he’s not a public figure.
Adam L Silverman
@Dr Ronnie James DO: Here’s his bio:
Adam L Silverman
@randy khan: He is now.
dimmsdale
@Jay: Hey, everybody, a petition to lift Wohl’s CCW permit! I signed, anyone care to join in?
sm*t cl*de
@Ruviana:
“Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. “
Raoul
Here’s a choice detail from the Advocate article. Kelly tells the reporter “I woke up at 11am and spent my whole day saying I did not want this to happen,” he says. “My sister and her armed husband came and got me.”
I hope Kelly presses charges of identity theft. And who is this Burkman asshole? I knew about idiot Wohl, in no small part because I live in Minneapolis where he filed the false police report and we had a bit of field day with his moronic “its sooo dangerous here” bullshit.
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
Jacob Wohl claims he has one, showed a gun to a reporter, of course, at a Hipster Coffee Shop, and Concealed Carry holder records in California are to a certain point, public, ( but not web searchable),
Given Change.Org’s reputation, I would believe they did their homework.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jay: Unless he showed the reporter his concealed carry permit, he didn’t prove he has one by showing a firearm. This guy’s dumb enough to carry illegally.
Since Adam noted that his dad is a member of the bar, his dad might have one. Attorney’s have an easier path to get a concealed permit than the rest of the public.
lgerard
@Raoul:
He actually has 3 holes. 2 of them courtesy of his co–conspirator in the Seth Rich scam
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/jack-burkmans-ex-employee-kevin-doherty
cwmoss
@Tokyokie: “Actual malice” is the standard, not “absolute malice.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_malice
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
Please, no. Doxing is a neutral method for neutralizing/destroying people, or even harming/killing them in some venues.
(My rule is to never ever dox. If an identity falls into my mind, which it sometimes does because people are often more obvious than they think (or are dropping hints), it stays there. I suppose an exception could be made for repeat doxxing offenders. And it can sometimes be courteous to let friendlies know that they’re too identifiable; I’ve been on the receiving end of similar courtesies a few times.)
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Given Change.Org’s reputation, I would believe they did their homework.
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
ooooooh. Thanks.
Jay
@Bill Arnold:
Real time doxxing in Information Warfare is “outing” a Social Media account, for example, as a Russian front, foreign influence, a Bot, or a “anonamous” account held by a ReThug operative.
It has to be carefully managed, but for example, when somebody identity thieves social media accounts to clone a real person to make rape allegations, it needs to get “out there” real quick, that the accounts are fake and if possible, trace them back to the ratfuckers.
When an Op-Ed comes out, sans Bio or with a sanitized Bio, like they commonly do, the full Bio needs to get out there quick, to show that the Op-Ed is the “property” of a Ratfucker and to beat the Media about the head with the fact they deliberately tried to hide the slant.
When a quote is selectively edited, or twisted out of context, there needs be immediate push back exposing the venality of the “author”, and the publisher.
plato
Of course, the right wingers world over are lying pos assholes.
danielx
And here it’s only 2019: wonder how many more plots like this will crawl out like maggots between now and November of 2020??
Cue Wohl whinging that HE is the real victim in all this in 3…2…1…
ETA: at least some political pranksters were competent. Wohl, O’Keefe and their ilk? It’s like watching Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail as performed by Monty Python.
Villago Delenda Est
So, why hasn’t Dorsey done something about these to jackholes and their Twitter accounts?
I answer my own question: Dorsey is Rethuglican shit.
Jay
@Villago Delenda Est:
Nope, pro-Nazi.
Raoul
@Villago Delenda Est: Wohl has been permanently banned. As Rick Wilson reminds us this evening.
Jay
@Raoul:
Burkman still has his social media accounts,
So does Jacob’s dad, and he uses his accounts to push Jacob’s ratfucking.
The Book of Faces, Instagram, You Tube and Twitter all still allow the Yellow Vests Canada and United We Roll accounts that call for the murder of our Prime Minister and a genocide against Muslims.
Raoul
@Jay: No doubt, Jack and Zuck and all those folks are awful at dealing with disinfo and smear merchants. Like, society-tearing awful.
Anne Laurie
@Mary G:
Jay
@Raoul:
That’s their goal.
Anne Laurie
@Barbara:
I am a cynic, so I assume that the Repubs most panicked about Buttigieg are the ones afraid he, or his campaign team, will eventually ‘out’ those same panicked Repubs.
No, *I* don’t think Buttigieg or his team would do this, but Repubs by this point are all true believers when it comes to ratfvcking. Our cats have zero interest in honey-nut cheerios, but our dogs still growl defensively when the cats get too close to the delicious sugary treats they’ve purloined!
Anne Laurie
@Jay:
I’d worry about him shooting some innocent bystander, but he’s such a clown, he’s much more liable to shoot himself in some late-night-comical body part.
Or, even more likely, to get mishandled when some Repub politician’s security team mistakes him for a stalker!
Anne Laurie
@Jay: To be fair to Jack Dorsey, it seems to me he’s less ‘pro-Nazi’ than ‘pro-anything-that-allows-oligarchs-like-JD-to-thrive’. It’s incidental, his supporters would argue, that kleptocratic regimes like Myanmar and the current American GOP are more Dorsey-sympathetic than mere democracies like the EU or us Democrats!
Anne Laurie
Darkrose
@eemom: Grats! I remember feeling so good four years ago when I did that.
Steve in the ATL
@plato:
You just defamed about 40% of the juicetariat!
Not that you’re wrong….
Anne Laurie
Millard Filmore
About that Bernie app …
https://mobile.twitter.com/madisonvking/status/1122968474677141505
“The BERN app was so poorly designed that for a couple hours today the personal voter IDs of 150m+ Americans was available freely and easily …:
Sab
@Millard Filmore: How did that happen? There cannot be 150 million BernieBros. Who else had their identity sucked in?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: I guess he wants to get crossed off the Nerd Prom guest list.
Steve in the ATL
@Sab: Russian bots, aka Bernie’s base
Miss Bianca
@Jay:
Given their ‘reputation’ for allowing people to post false, libelous information on their ‘petitions’ with NO vetting and NO pushback whatsoever, I would say Change.org is the LAST organization to do any “homework” – because all they exist for is to get suckers and rubes to sign these bullshit petitions to harvest their email addresses to sell to other left-wing grifting organizations. Ask me how I know! Oh, wait, I’ll tell you for free – a friend of mine is STILL dealing with death threats and other bullshit that came from just such a false and libelous “petition”. A petition she had to go to fucking COURT and SUE the assholes to finally take down. Change.org SUCKS.