Funny you should mention the pleasures of sipping cocktails while reading The Bulwark. At this very moment I am enjoying a Campari soda. I find the bitterness perfectly complements today's topic. Ciao, Joe!
What are campaigns to do? Potential voters are too lazy to do any research into the candidates. they won't read a news story. They just watch videos all day, fake or not fake. How to reach them without the influencers? (of all the horrible job titles) And influencers want to get paid. It should be revealed of course. But we are in the enshittification stage of our democracy.
Didn’t we learn about influencers receiving thousands of dollars from Russia to ‘influence’ possible voters not to vote for Democrats but to vote for Republicans. How people were shocked, shocked, shocked over this. Oh well. That was so yesterday! Why bring it up now?/s
Off topic but in case you haven't heard the grifter in chief just endorsed Paxton in TX, the most corrupt candidate in the country. Come on TX, there is so much to despise about this man, put James Talarico in the senate.
This was true of the last 2024 too. There were a bunch of paid Biden supporters saying some really nasty stuff about Bulwark people when they were calling for Biden to step aside for Kamala who suddenly went quiet when he actually did.
re the influencers and content, I'm sure all will be well if we just "do our research."
(Truly terrifying times we're in. But, thank you very much for the Lagerfeld dessert to slightly lessen the sour, bitter, awful flavor of the main course!)
Funny you should mention the pleasures of sipping cocktails while reading The Bulwark. At this very moment I am enjoying a Campari soda. I find the bitterness perfectly complements today's topic. Ciao, Joe!
What are campaigns to do? Potential voters are too lazy to do any research into the candidates. they won't read a news story. They just watch videos all day, fake or not fake. How to reach them without the influencers? (of all the horrible job titles) And influencers want to get paid. It should be revealed of course. But we are in the enshittification stage of our democracy.
That must be a Burmese cat. A very wealthy Burmese cat.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/choupette-karl-lagerfelds-belovedbirman-became-worlds-famous/
Didn’t we learn about influencers receiving thousands of dollars from Russia to ‘influence’ possible voters not to vote for Democrats but to vote for Republicans. How people were shocked, shocked, shocked over this. Oh well. That was so yesterday! Why bring it up now?/s
Off topic but in case you haven't heard the grifter in chief just endorsed Paxton in TX, the most corrupt candidate in the country. Come on TX, there is so much to despise about this man, put James Talarico in the senate.
I wonder if the far right will still use influencers paid by Vladimir Putin.......Probably.
"I would also say that used to happen offline, too."
There was a joke (sort of joke anyway) about 25 years ago about many new laws being "This already illegal thing, but online."
This was true of the last 2024 too. There were a bunch of paid Biden supporters saying some really nasty stuff about Bulwark people when they were calling for Biden to step aside for Kamala who suddenly went quiet when he actually did.
re the influencers and content, I'm sure all will be well if we just "do our research."
(Truly terrifying times we're in. But, thank you very much for the Lagerfeld dessert to slightly lessen the sour, bitter, awful flavor of the main course!)
Let's have a theme for today's comments. How about "Joe Perticone hates pets?"
j/k