DNC / CTR online Astroturfing in full effect!

[Highway Star]

We're within the 60 day election window and the DNC sponsored CTR efforts to astroturf forums and comment sections is visibly in effect. Here's an article about Trump pushing back against the left's Puerto Rico "muh 3,000 deaths" distortion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -FAKE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily Mail is strongly right leaning and the comment section is usually 60-75% Trump supporters in political articles. This article is also directly linked off Drudge Report. So what do the comments look like? About 80%+ are one sentence "Trump is a Dummy", "Trump is evil", Trump bad!", etc. Transparently obvious astroturfing of the article.

[XtremeJibber2001]

We're within the 60 day election window and the DNC sponsored CTR efforts to astroturf forums and comment sections is visibly in effect. Here's an article about Trump pushing back against the left's Puerto Rico "muh 3,000 deaths" distortion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -FAKE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily Mail is strongly right leaning and the comment section is usually 60-75% Trump supporters in political articles. This article is also directly linked off Drudge Report. So what do the comments look like? About 80%+ are one sentence "Trump is a Dummy", "Trump is evil", Trump bad!", etc. Transparently obvious astroturfing of the article.

How do you know it's CTR and not because the article is linked by some liberal news outlets? How do you know this article is not aberration ... your sample size is awfully small.

[Highway Star]

We're within the 60 day election window and the DNC sponsored CTR efforts to astroturf forums and comment sections is visibly in effect. Here's an article about Trump pushing back against the left's Puerto Rico "muh 3,000 deaths" distortion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -FAKE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily Mail is strongly right leaning and the comment section is usually 60-75% Trump supporters in political articles. This article is also directly linked off Drudge Report. So what do the comments look like? About 80%+ are one sentence "Trump is a Dummy", "Trump is evil", Trump bad!", etc. Transparently obvious astroturfing of the article.

How do you know it's CTR and not because the article is linked by some conservative outlets? How do you know this article is not aberration ... your sample size is awfully small.

It's EXTREMELY out of character for the Daily Mail comment section, especially while being linked to from the pro-Trump Drudge.

[XtremeJibber2001]

We're within the 60 day election window and the DNC sponsored CTR efforts to astroturf forums and comment sections is visibly in effect. Here's an article about Trump pushing back against the left's Puerto Rico "muh 3,000 deaths" distortion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -FAKE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily Mail is strongly right leaning and the comment section is usually 60-75% Trump supporters in political articles. This article is also directly linked off Drudge Report. So what do the comments look like? About 80%+ are one sentence "Trump is a Dummy", "Trump is evil", Trump bad!", etc. Transparently obvious astroturfing of the article.

How do you know it's CTR and not because the article is linked by some conservative outlets? How do you know this article is not aberration ... your sample size is awfully small.

It's EXTREMELY out of character for the Daily Mail comment section, while being linked to from the pro-Trump Drudge.

Isn't it extremely out of character for the POTUS to question the number of reported deaths from a natural disaster? Maybe this has something to do with it? What's next ... denying the holocaust?

[Kpdemello]

You actually believe the Puerto Rico death toll is distorted?? Wow, you Trumpettes will believe anything the man says!

[Highway Star]

We're within the 60 day election window and the DNC sponsored CTR efforts to astroturf forums and comment sections is visibly in effect. Here's an article about Trump pushing back against the left's Puerto Rico "muh 3,000 deaths" distortion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -FAKE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily Mail is strongly right leaning and the comment section is usually 60-75% Trump supporters in political articles. This article is also directly linked off Drudge Report. So what do the comments look like? About 80%+ are one sentence "Trump is a Dummy", "Trump is evil", Trump bad!", etc. Transparently obvious astroturfing of the article.

How do you know it's CTR and not because the article is linked by some conservative outlets? How do you know this article is not aberration ... your sample size is awfully small.

It's EXTREMELY out of character for the Daily Mail comment section, while being linked to from the pro-Trump Drudge.

Isn't it extremely out of character for the POTUS to question the number of reported deaths from a natural disaster? Maybe this has something to do with it? What's next ... denying the holocaust?

It's extremely out of character for you to use any sort of critical thinking. Trump has FEMA, DHS, and the CDC reporting to him. They clock 64 deaths due to the hurricane - that's the only true official death toll.

You don't get to claim some sh*t estimate for the people who died due to being "disadvantaged" from the hurricane. That's called political grandstanding by the government of PR. Especially when your territory has an established track record of being run like sh*t.

[XtremeJibber2001]

It's extremely out of character for you to use any sort of critical thinking. Trump has FEMA and DHS reporting to him. They clock 64 deaths due to the hurricane - that's the only true official death toll.

You don't get to claim some sh*t estimate for the people who died due to being "disadvantaged" from the hurricane. That's called political grandstanding by the government of PR.

Wow. So if someone’s getting daily dialysis treatment at the local hospital and now they can’t because hospitals are knocked out from the hurricane ... this persons death is not attributable to the hurricane?

[Highway Star]

It's extremely out of character for you to use any sort of critical thinking. Trump has FEMA and DHS reporting to him. They clock 64 deaths due to the hurricane - that's the only true official death toll.

You don't get to claim some sh*t estimate for the people who died due to being "disadvantaged" from the hurricane. That's called political grandstanding by the government of PR.

Wow. So if someone’s getting daily dialysis treatment at the local hospital and now they can’t because hospitals are knocked out from the hurricane ... this persons death is not attributable to the hurricane?

NOPE!

Now if a tree falls on them that was BLOWN DOWN BY THE HURRICANE while receiving dialysis, or if they drown in a river FLOODED BY THE HURRICANE while driving to dialysis, you can count it.

I love the left's pretzel logic. Endlessly amusing.

[Kpdemello]

It's extremely out of character for you to use any sort of critical thinking. Trump has FEMA, DHS, and the CDC reporting to him. They clock 64 deaths due to the hurricane - that's the only true official death toll.

Except it's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane ... ontroversy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Apparently it's been kind of a hotly disputed thing for months and has nothing to do with Democrats. Now if Trump had bothered to ask a few questions before pressing the Tweet button, maybe he could have avoided all the

But this is all a clever distraction from the main issue - the relief effort has been a disaster - maybe worse than Katrina, which Obama was soundly criticized for. One thing you have to give Trump credit for is the clever way that he's able to distract people away from his primary failure into something else entirely like how to calculate a death toll properly.

[MarieM]

It's extremely out of character for you to use any sort of critical thinking. Trump has FEMA and DHS reporting to him. They clock 64 deaths due to the hurricane - that's the only true official death toll.

You don't get to claim some sh*t estimate for the people who died due to being "disadvantaged" from the hurricane. That's called political grandstanding by the government of PR.

Wow. So if someone’s getting daily dialysis treatment at the local hospital and now they can’t because hospitals are knocked out from the hurricane ... this persons death is not attributable to the hurricane?

NOPE!

Now if a tree falls on them that was BLOWN DOWN BY THE HURRICANE while receiving dialysis, or if they drown in a river FLOODED BY THE HURRICANE while driving to dialysis, you can count it.

I love the left's pretzel logic. Endlessly amusing.

You're referring to XJ2001 as a member of the left?!? LOL

[daytripper]

So lets take hurricane katrina for an example, If somebody died in a construction accident rebuilding a damaged house a month after the storm, was that included in the death toll for the storm? I dont know the answer to it but I would assume no. When it comes to Puerto Rico I have to believe that the death toll is somewhere in the middle of 64-3000. I dont see how you can call somebody that died rebuilding after the storm as being part of the storm death toll. The actual number is probably around 1500. Unfortunately like everything else in politics the truth has little to do with it from either side.

[XtremeJibber2001]

But this is all a clever distraction from the main issue - the relief effort has been a disaster - maybe worse than Katrina, which Obama was soundly criticized for. One thing you have to give Trump credit for is the clever way that he's able to distract people away from his primary failure into something else entirely like how to calculate a death toll properly.

Katrina was GWB, but yes ... Trump is a wizard of distraction.

You're referring to XJ2001 as a member of the left?!? LOL

Right? That's how far right the right has moved. I'm now considered a liberal.

[Kpdemello]

Oop, my bad, I must have been reading too many right wing blogs blaming Obama for everything

[MarieM]

You're referring to XJ2001 as a member of the left?!? LOL

Right? That's how far right the right has moved. I'm now considered a liberal.

Honestly, what I thought when I read that was "Now anyone with a heart is a lefty liberal." :(

[Highway Star]

So lets take hurricane katrina for an example, If somebody died in a construction accident rebuilding a damaged house a month after the storm, was that included in the death toll for the storm? I dont know the answer to it but I would assume no. When it comes to Puerto Rico I have to believe that the death toll is somewhere in the middle of 64-3000. I dont see how you can call somebody that died rebuilding after the storm as being part of the storm death toll. The actual number is probably around 1500. Unfortunately like everything else in politics the truth has little to do with it from either side.

I'd be willing to believe a couple hundred directly caused deaths.

It's also important to put the numbers in context. PR's population was about 4M prior to the hurricane, probably about 3M now. National death rate is 844 per 100K, applied to PR that's 33,760 people per year. If you claim a 20% rise in death rates for 6 months, that's your 3k "hurricane fatalities" right there.

Again, being "disadvantaged" by the hurricane doesn't count.