{"id":16290,"date":"2017-01-20T18:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16290"},"modified":"2017-01-20T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:43:44","slug":"bad-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/01\/20\/bad-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"bad advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/trump-resistance-playbook\/2017\/01\/18\/18803329\/the-trump-resistance-playbook\">One line of Strategy from the &#8220;Trump Resistance&#8221; that is stupid, dishonest, and will not be all that successful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an internet troll, you can help, too\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby using your formerly evil powers to influence Trump supporters. Maybe get a fake Twitter account, pretend you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a booster for Trump, and sow seeds of discontent among his followers with stuff like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Man, I really wanted change! Where are those jobs I was promised?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The trolls aren&#8217;t going to be all that convincing, the aping of Trumpian talking points from a point of caricature until they find a breaking point to bring in some anti-Trump line won&#8217;t be terribly graceful.<\/p>\n<p>This is good and all, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Educate yourself and support good reporting\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut when you see clickbait, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t click on it. Be skeptical about what you read in the news and demand verification\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyes, even if it seems to make Trump look like shit. Especially then.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re failing a tad with the whole &#8220;Russian Pee Pee Party&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Or for that matter the one about making up sock puppets to trump up trump than dump on trump, which lies in the same arena of &#8220;fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now mull the line on&#8230; <em>DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T TURN AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em>(Sigh).\u00c2\u00a0 The two party system is always going to leave you flat-footed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One line of Strategy from the &#8220;Trump Resistance&#8221; that is stupid, dishonest, and will not be all that successful. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an internet troll, you can help, too\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby using your formerly evil powers to influence Trump supporters. Maybe get a fake Twitter account, pretend you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a booster for Trump, and sow seeds of discontent among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}