White House Troll Farm
Russia’s St. Petersburg troll operation moved to Washington DC, as Trump’s trolls use memetic warfare to establish a post-truth, post-fact information space, fulfilling one of Putin’s key objectives
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“Each post is a new episode in Reality TV Fascism, a show we are forced to watch 24/7 even though we never signed up for the service.”
Let’s puncture another reality distortion field: the current occupant of the White House is not running an administration, he’s running a troll farm.
Like Yevgeny Prigozhin — who was the figurehead of both the Wagner mercenary group and the St. Petersburg’s International Research Agency, an Orwellian euphemism for the department of the Russian war machine that targets nations with psychological operations through the internet — Donald Trump is the figurehead for the White House Troll Farm.
We are a decade into autocrats trying to control the world through memetic warfare, and Trump’s troll team is out in full force each day, delivering weapon’s grade clickbait fascism. If you view Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Stephen and Katie Miller, Kash Patel, Robert Kennedy Jr, Kristi Noem, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s sons, and the rest of the lot, as internet trolls, adding in the staffers like Steven Cheung who write Trump’s posts and technofascists/4chan trolls like Elon Musk, it’s simply a variation of what the Russians did to America in 2016.
Using memetic warfare, Trump’s trolls are trying to establish a post-truth, post-fact information space, among the Russian aims for the US in this 2019 NATO slide:
The thing is, they know they’re lying, we know they’re lying, but the point is to exhaust rational thinking, to make us sick, emotionally and physically.
I spent years investigating and proving ties between those in Trump’s orbit and the operations run by Russian military intelligence to attack America with hybrid warfare.
Now, they work in concert with the Russians openly.
There’s no cloak and dagger anymore.
Russian trolls work in lockstep with Trump trolls to carpet bomb the world with their digital poison.
Each post is a new episode in Reality TV Fascism, a show we are forced to watch 24/7 even though we never signed up for the service.
Study up on how Russian political technologists work to destroy reality.
As Peter Pomerantsev wrote:
“We live in a world of mass persuasion run amok, where the means of manipulation have gone forth and multiplied, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, deep fakes, fake news, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump…”—Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda
I was going to put together a montage of screenshots, examples of Trump Inc.’s troll work. But I thought about it, and decided against it. By showing you what they do, the cruel and demented AI videos, the racist digital altering of an ICE victim’s face, the Hitlerian white supremacy memes from official government accounts, I then become an accomplice by trafficking the psychologically destabilizing payload.
Instead, I’m going to have you envision a montage of the real leaders of the free world — Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, Kaja Kallas, Ursula von der Leyen…
I invite you to envision a future without Trump, Putin, Musk and their like, a future ruled by the good and the decent, where trolls are banished back under bridges, never to be seen or heard from again.
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