The Trump Presidency Nein: Leistung, Korruption und Lugen

But the constitution!

 

You* don't vote like gay men of color, or gay women, either.

Identity is multifaceted and relational. In some contexts gay white men are vulnerable because of social bigotry and lack of legal protections. In other contexts their gender and/or race. Does that really need to be explained?

*"You" in the aggregate, obviously.

 

I assume this is a bit hyperbole-ly, since the demographic on this board is aware of them but probably don't watch them. And I'd say quite a bit of the more left leaning Dems are that way, too, if they even know of Diamond and Silk.

 

Back in the day, when they first hit, I got a couple of youtube videos, probably because of something about politics/Colbert/Noah or something like that.

 

I'm actually more aware of historical study rather than voting data, so you kinda/sorta got me there. I probably shouldn't have said "vote" when I'm talking more broadly.

To be honest, I've always assumed that the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud are disproportionately White, but I'll have to do some digging to prove that.

 

This is actually a good point about the parscale myth. The media has accepted the trope that Cambridge was snake oil and Parscale is a digital marketing genius

But CA was embedded in san Antonio and actually ticks the boxes for a real digital operation. I.e. data, experienced staff, track record of similar projects.... and especially the whole Mercer Breitbart Bannon stuff built up over multiple years

Yet not even mentioned?

I suspect most political reporters are all-in on the trope that CA was hype and snake oil, a mere Facebook privacy scandal, fines issued, shut down, case closed, old news. Never mind a criminal conviction in UK and the pending ICO report on seized servers. https://t.co/HTLbmJvQBs

— David Carroll 🦣 (@profcarroll) September 11, 2019

 

I think analysis of parscales grift misses the point that he is a key crime family captain who works for the trumps rather than a consultant

The whole operation is a way for the trumps to steal fundraising $ and control the GOP fund raising machine for trumps own benefit

Parscale has made one strategic move that could help him stay in the job longer than most: In addition to his close ties with Jared Kushner, his firm employs both Lara Trump, the President's daughter-in-law, & Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ex-Fox News personality who is dating Don Jr.

— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) September 9, 2019

 

I suspect what journalists miss about Cambridge "snake oil" is that even if the firm has no real competitive edge, that would leave them as able to deliver industry standard results. All this stuff really matters on the margins. So you would use FB custom audiences and behavioural micro-targetting, to try to get some % points better ROI vs not using it.

Given a large part of the social media operation appears to have been fundraising (same as Obama 2012) there is no reason to think CA didn't deliver results in this area especially once they had access to the RNC data vault which could be uploaded to FB as a custom audience.

My feeling in 2019 remains the same as in 2017

Project Alamo was simply the place where 3 highly sophisticated digital operations collaborated.

The Mercers already ran a sophisticated content operation (the Breitbart/whackjob ad stack) whose whole point was building data profiles of their audience. Cambridge was their frankenstein, and Bannon instrumental. Mercers just happened to be Trump's main backer. It's is said CA's only job was to analyse the RNC and campaign data. I don't believe this. I think they combined it with their own data - they were already several years into their project and already had a purpose built content network to target people.

Since 2012, GOP built its own massive Data vault and Reince brought this treasure to the table in 2016. It was onboarded to FB as a custom audience. This audience could be improved with other data - e.g the Mercer data.

Add to this a few contracted digital marketing agencies and you have a digital op. Obviously this is very last minute .com but at least believable. If the data is decent, they would certainly get results. e.g. from Fundraising.

Lastly co-ordination with the troll bot farm etc. Was it run from here? My guess is yes.

Did any of this provide the killer app to win the election? Unlikely IMO. Without Comey Clinton wins.

Where i think it was significant is in terms of a multiyear disinfo campaign. In other words I believe the Mercers and Russia did a lot to corrupt the digital discourse. e.g. Wikileaks/Snowden were by themselves hugely corrosive, years before all this blew up. But later you have comet etc etc

Indeed it is fascinating to remember how we marvelled at the pure wingnut stuff turning up online - remember Hilary's guillotines?

We now know lots of that propaganda was organised.

 

This can’t continue... https://t.co/fX6TpUQY4T

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) September 12, 2019

 

I find it hard to keep up with whether deficits matter