Speaking of manipulation - 2020: a release of more than 100,000 documents showed how Cambridge Analytica worked in 68 countries. A global infrastructure designed to manipulate voters on an "industrial scale." theconversation.com/how-the-nige... - ThreadSky

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Speaking of manipulation -

2020: a release of more than 100,000 documents showed how Cambridge Analytica worked in 68 countries. A global infrastructure designed to manipulate voters on an "industrial scale."

https://theconversation.com/how-the-nigerian-and-kenyan-media-handled-cambridge-analytica-128473

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gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Paul Manafort got his start in GOP politics under Ronald Reagan, helping implement the Southern Strategy - an appeal to white conservatives through racially coded messaging. He later became Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, pushing similar divisive tactics to court white nationalist support.

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://skeletonattic.substack.com/p/manafort-how-did-he-get-this-way

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Roy Cohn was a ruthless lawyer known for unethical & often illegal tactics. He helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, led McCarthy’s anti-communist witch hunts, defended mob bosses, evaded taxes, forged document & was disbarred for dishonesty & fraud in 1986.

He was also Trump's mentor.

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, I am aware of Trump's being raised in mob circles, being curious about the man who is trying to drag us all back to the 1800's.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for sharing this article! I hadn't seen it before.

Roy Cohn, a political fixer & Trump mentor, had ties to mob boss John "Buster" Ardito - Genovese crime family. FBI wiretaps caught Cohn speaking with Ardito, reflecting how Cohn blurred lines between politics, law & organized crime.

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reading it again nowt: "a reported $900,000 fee - of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos - who was credibly accused of having stolen the vote. 'Marcos ruled the country as a dictator under martial law from 1972 to 1981'."

Sounds familiar to what he's probably advising Trump now.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I ended up in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to Paul Manafort’s lobbying & his influence over George HW Bush. Manafort was tied to Somalia’s brutal dictator, Siad Barre. After Barre was ousted, the country collapsed into civil war, triggering the humanitarian crisis that led to US intervention in 1992.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was a young Marine on Presidential Duty (Marine One) when Reagan was president. I thought he was great at the time. I also know a hell of a lot more now, than I did then! 😎

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

Muhammad Ali

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

I shudder to think of staying the same all my life, never growing or learning or curious. It must be a miserable (and boring) way to live.

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wrote a little about Paul on Substack. I'm familiar.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Paul Manafort & Roger Stone co-founded one of D.C.’s first mega-lobbying firms, representing dictators & shady clients. Decades later, they helped elect Trump, who ran on “draining the swamp” while empowering the very men who built it.

Manafort & Stone were convicted of felonies & later pardoned.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

In 2016, Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to help Trump’s campaign micro-target voters with tailored ads. Funded by Robert Mercer, the firm also worked with a pro-Trump super PAC, raising legal concerns over unlawful coordination between the campaign and PAC.

kay4bluetexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes. They were single-handedly responsible for a lot of the conspiracy theories and lies being bandied around during that election too.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

2. Robert and Rebekah Mercer funded Breitbart News, investing $10M and backing Steve Bannon as it became a platform for alt-right nationalism. Bannon led its expansion, with Mercer money driving its rise in far-right politics and anti-establishment messaging.

gnosticalan.bsky.social•1 day ago

1. Robert Mercer, billionaire Trump donor, reportedly claimed the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and that Black Americans were better off before it. He downplayed systemic racism, blaming “Black racists” and calling U.S. racism “exaggerated.”

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