Very much so, on your President Troll in Chief observation.
I was just listening to On The Media today (episode title, "Emergency Mode"), where a guest suggested that the biggest tool the media pros have developed to vet and continue to question candidates include so-called "gotcha" questions and pointing out "gaffes". Both of these terms don't work with Trump at all; nothing gets him, everything he says is potentially a gaffe, and neither tools faze either him or his base. Which leaves reporters flummoxed and stymied… and ultimately ineffective against him. Meanwhile, of course, these tools work against his opponent.
The Independent Lens show had one significant element: they interviewed the person in charge of internet memes for the 2016 campaigns. That's right: Not Brad Parscale, who headed social media and online advertising, $100 million on F@c&Book alone; but another guy, who's job it was to troll (in the original sense of the term, as in to fish with lures, as opposed to lurk under bridges) for memes that might help Trump troll his opponents (in the second sense). PR Trolling Pro would make suggestions, and if he liked them, Trump would reinforce with retweeting.
That means that it was not just the NEET InCels playing meme-y chaos magick in Mom's basement that got him elected; it was said crowd being directed and corralled by PR professionals that got the job done. Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the (probably) billions directed to the most targeted ad campaign ever that helped thwart even detection of this coordinated effort by the pollster number crunchers. When X-Rays (traditional polls) can only detect mega pixel tumors, no one can see the massive effort of tiny surgeries (micro-targeted ads) at the pixel level.
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I was just listening to On The Media today (episode title, "Emergency Mode"), where a guest suggested that the biggest tool the media pros have developed to vet and continue to question candidates include so-called "gotcha" questions and pointing out "gaffes". Both of these terms don't work with Trump at all; nothing gets him, everything he says is potentially a gaffe, and neither tools faze either him or his base. Which leaves reporters flummoxed and stymied… and ultimately ineffective against him. Meanwhile, of course, these tools work against his opponent.
The Independent Lens show had one significant element: they interviewed the person in charge of internet memes for the 2016 campaigns. That's right: Not Brad Parscale, who headed social media and online advertising, $100 million on F@c&Book alone; but another guy, who's job it was to troll (in the original sense of the term, as in to fish with lures, as opposed to lurk under bridges) for memes that might help Trump troll his opponents (in the second sense). PR Trolling Pro would make suggestions, and if he liked them, Trump would reinforce with retweeting.
That means that it was not just the NEET InCels playing meme-y chaos magick in Mom's basement that got him elected; it was said crowd being directed and corralled by PR professionals that got the job done. Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the (probably) billions directed to the most targeted ad campaign ever that helped thwart even detection of this coordinated effort by the pollster number crunchers. When X-Rays (traditional polls) can only detect mega pixel tumors, no one can see the massive effort of tiny surgeries (micro-targeted ads) at the pixel level.
Things got majorly shorted out, indeed.